Scientists studying the welfare of animals use approaches that best answer the research question. The research question, experimental approach, variables selected for measurement, and data interpretation can differ depending on the scientist's disciplinary training and his or her values framework. For example, a veterinary medical scientist may value measures of biological functioning over other measures of animal welfare, whereas an applied ethologist may place greater emphasis on behavioral measures. Animal care and husbandry recommendations, guidelines and standards, assessment strategies, and laws can reflect these differences with respect to the importance attached to the accommodation of different aspects of animal well-being.


The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has told a tabloid newspaper to 'grow up' following the publication of racy pictures featuring nurses.


With healthy young adults, healthy old adults(which was hereafter termed as elders) and tumor patients with no pathological changes in brain(which was hereafter designated as patients) as participants, this study compared the performance of the item recognition task with that of the location source retrieval using unfamiliar human faces as stimuli among these groups. The results showed that (1) except the non-target-old faces, both of healthy groups performed better for the item recognition task than they did at the source retrieval stage, and the accuracy of other faces was much lower for the elders compared with that of the younger adults, however, the difference of the corresponding reaction times for these types of faces did not reach significance between these two groups; and (2) except the non-target-new faces, the difference of the accuracy for other faces did not approach statistical significance between the patients and the elders, and the corresponding reaction times were much slower in the former group. These findings indicate that aging can influence both the item recognition and the source retrieval tasks obviously, and much stronger on the latter one. Compared with other symptoms due to brain damage or lesion, the disease of tumor in the present study shows no prominent effects on the accuracy of the source retrieval task. Keywords-item recognition; source retrieval; aging; tumor patients


In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, there are two natural bulk surfaces associated to a subregion of the CFT: the minimal area surface and the "causal information surface" [1]. While the area of the minimal area surface appears to compute the entanglement entropy of the subregion, it is not yet clear what CFT quantity the causal information surface computes. We investigate the properties of causal holographic information, focusing in particular on the universal coefficient of the logarithmically divergent term. We find that this coefficient contains a novel conformal invariant that cannot be written as an integral of local quantities. By considering higher curvature corrections in the bulk, we identify the coefficient of the a and c central charges in 4 dimensions. Finally, we speculate about which CFT quantity could correspond to causal holographic information.


The existence of methyl radicals in the photo-Kolbe reaction was confirmed by means of in situ measurements with flow electron spin resonance for deuterated acetic acid. From the dependence of the flow rate, two reaction paths were deduced for methyl radical formation. These were assigned to those caused by trapped holes and •OH radicals. It is suggested that the former path is dominant when platinum has not been loaded onto TiO2 powder.


The distinct shift in peripheral monocyte activation and infiltration of these cells into the respiratory tract observed in severe cases of COVID-19 suggests that like SARS-CoV-1, the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDs) observed in SARS-CoV-2 infections may result from damage to the respiratory epithelia by improperly activated macrophages (MPs). In this study, we examined the ability of non-neutralizing antibodies to sensitize MPs to killing by SARS-CoV-2, as well as the impact of these cells on downstream epithelial cells.

 Raw 264.7 cells were seeded into 96-well plates at a density of 1x104/well and incubated overnight in the presence or absence of heat-inactivated LPS derived from either E. coli (EC) or S. enteritidis (Sal). Cells were then treated with non-neutralizing antibodies or vehicle control at the time of infection with SARS-CoV-2. Viability was assessed 48 hours post-infection by luminescence following the addition of CellTiter-Glo® (Promega).

 While no decrease in cell viability was observed with SARS-CoV-2 alone, the presence of non-neutralizing antibodies against either the nucleocapsid or spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 decreased cell survival to 35.98% and 53.67% of the cell control, respectively (p< 0.0001 and p=0.0003). Activation of MPs with Sal-derived LPS sensitized MPs to viral killing, even in the absence of non-neutralizing antibody (20.12% viability, p< 0.0001). This was not observed in MPs activated by EC LPS. MP activation by both Sal and EC LPS further enhanced viral killing in the presence of anti-nucleocapsid, reducing cell viability to 12.21% (0.0001) and 6.46% (p< 0.0001). Finally, supernatants collected from naïve MPs subjected to ADE markedly increased the susceptibility of Vero E6 cells to SARS-CoV-2 nearly 9.8-fold (p< 0.0001).

 Here we demonstrate that naïve MPs, normally resistant to infection by SARS-CoV-2, are rendered susceptible to viral killing by activation and the presence of non-neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. Furthermore, MPs secrete an as yet, unknown factor that enhances the susceptibility of Vero E6 to SARS-CoV-2. Taken together, these data suggest that MPs play an important role in determining the severity of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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I wish to report three cases of coarctation of the aorta that presented an interesting variety of detail both clinically and at necropsy. REPORT OF CASES Case1.—A boy died twenty-one and one-half hours after birth. Delivery was normal. The baby was blue, and it did not breathe for ten minutes after birth. It remained blue up to the time of death. Birth was said to be five weeks premature although the weight was 7 pounds and 3 ounces (3,260.04 Gm.) and the body length was 20½ inches (52 cm.). A murmur was heard over the precordium which was thought to be systolic. The mother had five children living and well; her family history was irrelevant. At necropsy the face was very cyanotic. The lips were blue and dry. The conjunctivae were congested. When the thorax was opened the pericardium and its contents were found to occupy practically the entire


INTRODUCTION Based on a limited number of epidemiologic studies, the drug other than alcohol most often implicated in impaired driving is cannabis (1-2). For example, a comprehensive study in Ontario, Canada, included tests for over 90 psychoactive drugs in blood and urine from driver and pedestrian fatalities (3-4). As expected, alcohol was most frequently detected (55%). Evidence of cannabis use was found in 1 2% of the cases; "recent" cannabis use, defined as a measurable concentration of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in blood, was indicated in 3% of the cases. No other drug was detected as frequently as alcohol or cannabis. This paper highlights findings from a subsequent study that monitored the use of cannabis and alcohol among drivers and pedestrians fatally injured in traffic crashes in Ontario from March 1982 through July 1984 (5). The study served two general purposes. Firstly, the results would provide an indica tion of consequences that trends and changes related to cannabis use might have for health and safety (6). Secondly, the study offered an opportunity to advance knowledge about the relationship between cannabis use and traffic crashes (7).


The efficacy of treating solid tumors with chemotherapy is primarily hindered by dose-limiting toxicity due to off-target effects and the heterogeneous drug distribution caused by the dense extracellular matrix. The enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect within tumors restricts the circulation and diffusion of drugs. To overcome these obstacles, hydrogels formed in situ at the tumor site have been proposed to promote drug accumulation, retention, and long-lasting release. We developed a thiolated chitosan (CSSH) hydrogel with a gelation point of 37°C. Due to the pH-sensitive characteristics of disulfides, the prepared hydrogel facilitated drug release in the acidic tumor environment. A drug release system composed of hydrophilic doxorubicin (Dox) and hydrophobic liposome-encapsulated curcumin (Cur–Lip) was designed to enhance the long-lasting therapeutic impacts and reduce adverse side effects. These composite gels possess a suitable gelation time of approximately 8–12 min under physiological conditions. The cumulative release ratio was higher at pH = 5.5 than at pH = 7.4 over the first 24 h, during which approximately 10% of the Dox was released, and Cur was released slowly over the following 24–120 h. Cell assays indicated that the Cur–Lip/Dox/CSSH gels effectively inhibited the growth of cancer cells. These in situ-formed Cur–Lip/Dox gels with long-term drug release capabilities have potential applications for tumor suppression and tissue regeneration after surgical tumor resection.


Question answering is an important field in artificial intelligence researches. But there are some limitations in traditional QA systemsbased on pattern matching. This paper analyzes and applies natural language process algorithms based on HMM, chart parsing, word dictionary andsyntactic rules to extend dialogue management module, perform semantic analysis on users' sentences to implement semantic blocks recognition,theme recognition and information distillation. Those algorithms can improve system's process ability towards sentence analysis and overcome thedisadvantages of traditional methods. The QA system is implemented on Java platform.


I was born and raised in Oklahoma City and did my undergraduate at Oklahoma State (not OU!) I wandered down to Austin and UT in the fall of 2008, and started my research at FSEL this summer. Outside of school I enjoy golf, frisbee, camping and taking my 2 dogs to all the parks in Austin. Welcome To The Newsletter Inside this issue: September 1, 2009 Volume 1, Issue 1 T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A U S T I N S T R U C T U R A L E N G I N E E R I N G Ferguson Structural Engineering Lab Newsletter


The article contains a description of the range of G. Gazdanov's ideas that initiate Enlightenment, covering not only the connotations of Buddhist philosophy, but also a wide anthroposophical field. For this purpose, the images of the metahero and metaheroine in their development in novels with «Russian themes» are attracted. To analyze the unique modernist poetics of the writer's prose, a new textual term «meta-novel complex» is proposed, which allows us to see the cross-cutting semantic connections determined by the development of the author's word in their con/subtextual unity. Attention is paid to the Ossetian and ancient roots of G. Gazdanov's creativity in mythopoetic conjugation. The high archaic mode is contrasted with the degrading state of things of modernity and acts as a spiritual guide for the author and his autobiographical hero. The semantic connections solidarized by the meta-novel Enlightenment complex enable a holistic understanding of the formal and substantive aspects of the artistic world of G. Gazdanov.


This year Government introduced a bill of rights for health services known as the NHS Constitution (Department of Health (DH), 2009a). It sets out the underlying principles of the NHS, rights and responsibilities associated with health services for both people using health services as well as staff.


The application of ICTs to meet development objectives has increased dramatically in recent years. Nevertheless, there is a little overall evidence regarding the impact of these tools on the poor. Therefore, this article describes the creation and assessment of the Livestock Guru, an interactive multimedia program for poor livestock keepers in India and Bolivia. Learning outcomes were explored among 305 farmers in 17 communities across both nations. The study also compared the impact of the software with more conventional media such as videos and written extension material. The authors found that the uptake of new knowledge was highly related to the specific topic involved. Not surprisingly, the level of challenge to existing beliefs also affected learning. Nonetheless, by utilizing visual cues and referents that supported traditional knowledge frames, the software messages showed greater levels of knowledge than messages delivered by more traditional means.


The way of transmission of musical contents in the flamenco has occurred mainly by means of the observation, imitation and repetition in the binomial student-master. On the other hand, different authors and theories have questioned the possibility that the flamenco music could be transcribed. However, there are several proposals for transcription for the different musical instruments in flamenco including zapateado, however, so far, we have no record of a study that justifies the way to transcribe musically the zapateado. For this reason, this work tries to analyze three aspects present in the different musical transcriptions as: the compass, the right and left indications and the forms of blow to start from this analysis to make a proposal of notation that justifies these aspects in the musical transcription of the flamenco zapateado.


Ferro cement could be a combination of cement ,sand and reinforcement within the completely different layer of mesh. In bolstered cement concrete and Ferro cement, there's some comparison. Ferro cement is that the part employed in building structures like thin wall and it's used as repairing material. Ferro cement isn't any used properly within the whole country thanks to improper availableness style tips or code books. Ferro cement is below development material in the field of engineering. Ferro cement has been tried as a reliable, affordable strengthening half for concrete structure in trade. Ferro cement element area unit typically used as a plate or walling units or as a fire resisting unit. The review of this past result and present experimental studies and analysis studied so as to bring the feature, properties and new techniques of construction. This study conveyance the vital of Ferro cement employed in construction like a thin wall, summing pools, and water tanks by utilizing the prevailing properties technique and to beat difficulties in construction technique. Keywords— ferrocement, Reinforced cement concrete (RCC), plain cement concrete (PCC)


The goal of this paper is to extend the averaging technique to new classes of hysteresis operators and oscillating functions as well as to bring more consistency into the exposition. In the first part of the paper, making accent on polyhedral vector sweeping processes, we keep in mind possible applications to the queueing theory where these processes arise naturally. In the second part we concentrate on the systems with the classical Preisach nonlinearity.


The DREAM (DP, Retinoblastoma [Rb]-like, E2F, and MuvB) complex controls cellular quiescence by repressing cell cycle genes. Latorre et al. show that Caenorhabditis elegans DREAM targets have an unusual pattern of high gene body HTZ-1/H2A.Z. In mutants of lin-35, the sole p130/Rb-like gene in C. elegans, DREAM targets have reduced gene body HTZ-1/H2A.Z and increased expression. Consistent with a repressive role for gene body H2A.Z, many DREAM targets are up-regulated in htz-1/H2A.Z mutants.


There is a mutually beneficial relationship between user interfaces and common sense reasoning and acquisition. Common sense knowledge enables interfaces to better understand and to be more grounded in the world of the user, thus improving the user's overall experience with the interface. This would not be possible without large sources of common sense knowledge, which likewise benefit from intelligent interfaces designed to make the knowledge acquisition processes more productive and enjoyable for the contributor. These two complementary interface types and their interaction are explored in this workshop.


The purpose of this study was to compare the level of multidimensional trait anxiety between university and national level hockey players of Uttar Pradesh. For the purpose of this investigation 40 male subjects (20 university and 20 national level players) were recruited as subjects of the study. Their age was ranged from 17 to 25 years. To findout the level of anxiety of university and national level players the multidimensional trait anxiety Test developed by Martens (1977) was administered on the subjects. 't' test was employed to analyze the data. Results have revealed that there was no significant difference found between intervarsity and national level hockey players of Uttar Pradesh in regard to multidimensional trait anxiety at 0.05 level of confidence.


We demonstrate a real-time calibration of open-path ammonia sensing with an ethylene reference cell. Different harmonic WMS signals separate ethylene and ammonia so that ethylene signal varies within 1% under ambient ammonia concentration.


When supercomputers become reality and massive accelerators and microscopes probe the smallest objects on earth, tiny nanospacecraft - very small low-cost satellites or space vehicles - travelling at close to the speed of light will be bringing us information on the secrets of deep space and probe the interstellar void that separates our planet from the stars.


The problem posed was to determine the stress distribution and plastic flow in a two-dimensional pillar region in limit equilibrium. It is assumed that the equations of static equilibrium are satisfied in the failed rock region of the pillar and that the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion is the constitutive equation of the failed rock. An outline of the derivation of the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion for rock in limit equilibrium is first given. A second order nonlinear partial differential equation for the Airy stress function in a two-dimensional region in limit equilibrium is derived. The partial differential equation admits a similarity solution but the boundary conditions for the pillar cannot be expressed in terms of the similarity variables. It is suggested that the similarity transformation may be applicable in triangular wedge regions in limit equilibrium, such as near the corners where the pillar meets the floor and the roof.


An evaluation of a XeCl excimer laser for the laser processing of Si is reported. The annealing quality of ion-implantation damage, as measured by the crystalline perfection of the regrown layer and by p-n junction characteristics, is similar to that obtained with ruby or Nd:YAG lasers. However, the wide energy window between annealing and surface damage, the flat smooth surface obtained after laser irradiation, the capability of providing deep surface melting, and other features, indicate that XeCl and perhaps other excimer lasers is nearly ideal for semiconductor processing.


Appendix I: Model framework A. General formulation Consider a class of models in which revenue of firm2 jj in time tt is given by AAjjjjEEjjjj , where AAjjjj is a composite shock reflecting both technical efficiency and, potentially, demand shocks, EEjjjj is employment, and φφ < 1 reflects revenue function curvature arising from imperfect competition due to, for example, product differentiation (related arguments go through for decreasing returns to scale). Suppose the shock AAjjjj follows the process lnAAjjjj = ρρaa lnAAjjjj−1 + ηηjjjj. This setup is common to a wide range of models of firm dynamics and typically gives rise to an employment growth policy function given by: ggjjjj = ffjj�AAjjjj ,EEjjjj−1� (A1) where ggjjjj is employment growth from tt − 1 to tt; this is the same as equation (1) in the main text. It is commonly the case that ∂∂∂∂ ∂∂∂∂ > 0; that is, for any two firms with the same employment, the firm with higher AA has higher growth. For empirical purposes, (A1) leads to the following log-linear approximation: ggjjjj = ββ0 + ββ1aajjjj + ββ2eejjjj−1 + εεjjjj (A2) While (A1) and its empirical counterpart (A2) are quite general, it is useful to illustrate the employment growth function using a special case of a simple model that is free of frictions or distortions (which we will add below). In this case, the firm's first-order condition, in logs (indicated by lowercase), is given by:


ABSTRACT Facsimiles of musical autographs are typically thought to require photography, and to have a primary purpose of clarifying composers' intentions. But there was a robust culture of music facsimile prior to photography. Made by transfer lithography, these facsimiles served different purposes and reading habits. The activity of collecting handwriting samples was paramount, as was the idea that handwriting was a mirror of character. This article surveys ways of using and finding meaning in composer autographs in the 1820s to the 1840s, focusing especially on music facsimiles in Paris. Here, composers used facsimiles to help shape their public image, and publishers used them to entice consumers. When facsimiles reproduced documents of friendship, they crossed private and public expression in ways that could be advantageous or problematic, as seen through a look at the publication in facsimile of a Rossini waltz by the Revue et gazette musicale and the ensuing legal battles.


We have performed molecular dynamics simulation to study the fine structure of Al thin layer and Al reflow behavior in a temperature range of 300 K-1400 K. We have shown that at 300 K the Al atoms on the insulator surface do not migrate toward the via-hole. With increasing the temperature, the mobility of all the Al atoms increased and the via-hole was completely filled with the Al atoms at 1400 K. This acceleration of Al reflow behavior due to the rise of the temperature is in qualitatively good agreement with the experimental result. Furthermore, we clarified the dynamic transformation process of an Al thin-layer on SiO2 surface to an Al plug filling in the via-hole on an atomic scale. Hence, the effectiveness and the applicability of the molecular dynamics method to investigate the Al reflow behavior related to the fabrication of an electronic device were strongly confirmed.


THE success of the Medical ~ervice with an 'army in the field may fairly be judged by the incidence, of sickness, and by the'proportion of the sick who require to be evacuated to lines of c~mmunication. It is not . .within the, scope cif this article to discuss preveptive medicine generally. It is' sufficient to say that preve~tivemedicine, has an ellOrmou~ field to " , cover, and that it requires menof broad vision to envisage a war ,beforehand, an,d to adopt' measur~s calculated to deal with possible or probable difficulties. Prophylactic vaccination;,so conspicuously successful in pre\ v:enting,tbe enteric 'infections may, for instance, well be extended to deal with pulmonary and numerous ot,her diseases. The following table was compiled in 1917 from the returns of certain casualty clearing stations in France which tendered a monFhlysummary of their sick admissions, and the principal diseases'wbich led to suchadmissions. , ,


Economicconsiderations often limit the use of full-scale 3-phasetest lines fortheinvestigation of transmission-line corona effects. Testingof a large numberof different conductorconfigurations can be more conveniently andefficiently carriedout on comparativelyshortsectionsof conductors on single-phase test linesandin test cages. Techniques formeasuring thesingle-phase corona performance of conductorsare presented,alongwith a discussion of means bywhich theobserveddatacan be usedto determinethe corona performance of3-phasetransmission lines.


This piece of paper analyzes post-1991 Ethio-China political and economic relations by raising the following questions: What is the nature of the bilateral political and economic relations? What are the factors which enhanced the bilateral political and economic relations between Ethiopia and China? What are the arguments raised by different scholars about Ethiopia and China relations? There are a number of factors that contributed to the growth of bilateral relations. Ethiopia needs China for economic assistance; as an alternative source to the west and China's development is generally considered as a role model for Ethiopia to follow. China also supports Ethiopia on different international issues. On the part of China, there are also several factors egging China to look towards Ethiopia especially in terms of Ethiopia's strategic importance and market potential. Ethiopia could be a commercial launch pad for Chinese companies and China is also getting diplomatic support from Ethiopia for its policy on Taiwan among others. There are also common factors both from Ethiopia and China's side which enhanced the bilateral relations. However, there are many arguments raised following Chinese deep engagement to Ethiopia. Among others on the economic front the bilateral relations are imbalanced; dumping of low price export; underbidding local companies and ideological differences among others.Generally, the paper agues the ethio-Chinese relations motivated by political and economic factors.


The implementation and test of a flexible digital multi-frequency time division multiple access (MF-TDMA) modulator are presented. The modulator is able to work at several frequencies (frequency hopping) on a burst basis without preambles or guardtimes. After a brief review of some satellite concepts (e.g., MF-TDMA, onboard processor, and traffic efficiency), direct-in-band modulation is introduced as the technique selected for the digital design of this frequency hopping modulator. A mixed Si/GaAs technology has been chosen for the hardware implementation and some tests are presented to show the good performance of the device.<<ETX>>


Conversion Formulas between Various Concentration Units. Conversion Factors. U.S. EPA Approved Test Methods. Typical Bulk Density Values of Selected Soils and Rocks. Ranges of Porosity Values of Selected Soils and Rocks. Aqueous Solubility Data of Miscellaneous Organic Compounds. Henry's Law Constants of Inorganic and Organic Substances. Organic Compounds Detected in Water-Soluble Fractions of Regular Gasoline, Super Gasoline, Gasohol, and Four Middle Distillate Fuels. Concentrations of Organic Compounds Detected in Neat Diesel Fuels and Diesel-Powered Medium-Duty Truck Exhaust. Water Soluble Concentrations of Organic Compounds and Metals in New and Used Motor oil and Organic Compounds in Kerosene. Summary of Toxicity of Inorganic and Organic Chemicals to Various Species. Freundlich and Soil Absorption Coefficients of Miscellaneous Organic Chemicals and Metals.


Recirculating systems present several advantages in relation to the conventional production systems in aquaculture. Studies of the effect of stocking density on the growth of fat snook, Centropomus parallelus, were conducted in a recirculation aquaculture system in Ubatuba, northern coast of Sao Paulo State. Juveniles weighing 32.53 ± 6.54 g were stocked in densities of 7 and 20 fishes/m 3 and appraised for 75 days. The fish were fed with commercial diet with 40% of crude protein, supplied ad libitum four times a day. The environmental variables (water temperature, oxygen level, salinity, ammonia, nitrite and nitrate were within the parameter values deemed ideal for this species. Survival rates were not different (p>0.05) between the treatments. The mean final weights, final biomass, specific growth rate and earnings of daily gain weight indicate that the treatment of higher density was (p<0.05) superior to low density. The recirculating aquaculture system proposed in this study was shown to be appropriate for production of C. parallelus. The stocking density of 20 fish.m -3 proved to be more productive than that of 7 fish.m -3 ) and it should be recommended as reference in new studies in recirculation systems with this species.


This thesis attempts to bring out the three ideas—home, family, and livelihood—in William Wordsworth's Home at Grasmere so as to facilitate the reading of these ideas in terms of New Historist thinking as patterns of displacement. That is, putting the poem in both socio-historical and thematic context, I would like to approach Wordsworth's delineations of home, family, and livelihood in the poem as displacements. This thesis first argues that Wordsworth's home re-established in the natural vale, Grasmere, near his birthplace represents both a nostalgia for the paternal home he lost in his childhood and the demand for consolation due to the frustration resulting from the betrayals in 1790s. Imagining his home and his self as guarded by the mountains, Wordsworth tries to grasp the spreading joy, overflowing love, and safety provided by the vale to displace and to compensate for the senses of loss. Besides, Wordsworth's home consists of several members, and the most essential one is his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, who is described and annihilated as a silent listener in the poem. But scrutinizing their modus vivendi, their ways of life, I would like to speculate that Dorothy provides indispensable family affections, which are viewed as the ethos of nuclear family, to Wordsworth. Compared with Dorothy, Coleridge, who is accommodated in Wordsworth's family, stands for an ambiguous character through whom Wordsworth extends his family affections from the domestic to the public so as to displace his desire for the ethos of nuclear family. Furthermore, when depicting the local dwellers' ways of life, Wordsworth demonstrates his obsession with their self-sufficient and independent livelihood. But examining the paradoxical narration of the two family tales in the poem, I am inclined to study Wordsworth's descriptions of the self-sufficient life at Grasmere as displacements—a nostalgia for the loss of such a livelihood. Because of the nostalgia, Wordsworth himself attempts to practice the similar way of laboring in his poetical output. In order to maintain his own life as well as his family's life, Wordsworth has to accumulate poetical subject matters and to search for possible readers, which traps him into the dilemma of peddling—an act between pre-capitalist patronage and capitalist commodity-selling, and such a dilemma is displaced by his sonorous announcement of his plan of writing The Recluse, "On Man, on Nature, on Human Life"—almost everything in the vale but not reality. In this way, Wordsworth's concepts of home, family, and livelihood in Home at Grasmere are exquisitely displaced for his ideological reluctance to face the facts of loss—the loss of possible marriage with Annette Vallon, friendship with Coleridge, old self-ingratiating patronage, etc.


Non-augmentative surgical therapy of peri-implantitis is indicated for cases with primarily horizontal bone loss or wide defects with limited potential for bone regeneration and/or re-osseointegration. This treatment approach includes a variety of different techniques (e.g., open flap debridement, resection of peri-implant mucosa, apically positioned flaps, bone re-contouring, implantoplasty, etc.) and various relevant aspects should be considered during treatment planning. The present mini review provides an overview on what is known for the following components of non-augmentative surgical treatment of peri-implantitis and on potential future research challenges: (1) decontamination of the implant surface, (2) need of implantoplasty, (3) prescription of antibiotics, and (4) extent of resective measures.


The effects of thermophoresis and MHD mixed convection flow with heat and mass transfer over a porous wedge are presented here, taking into account the homogeneous chemical reac- tion of first order. The governing fundamental equa- tions are approximated by a system of nonlinear or- dinary differential equations and are solved numeri- cally by using the Runge Kutta Gill and shooting methods. The steady-state velocity, temperature and concentration profiles are shown graphically. It is observed that due to the presence of first-order chemical reaction, the concentration decreases with increasing values of the chemical reaction parame- ter. The results also showed that the particle deposi- tion rates were strongly influenced by thermophore- sis and the strength of the magnetic field in the pres- ence of buoyancy force, particularly for opposing flow and hot surfaces. Numerical results for the skin- friction coefficient, wall heat and mass transfer are obtained and reported graphically for various para- metric conditions to show interesting aspects of the solution.


Peer-To-Peer (P2P) traffic represents a significant proportion of the traffic today. However, currently widespread P2P systems take no account of the underlying network infrastructure. But by doing so, they would be able to perform a much more efficient peer selection. The P4P approach aims at allowing ISPs to cooperate with peers in order to improve their peer selection in the overlay. The objectives of this paper are to assess the benefits of P4P, both for the P2P system and the ISP, thanks to an experiment of a scale never achieved before, there by complementing the results obtained in previous work. The results show that P2P applications need more information than just the Internet domain, in order to improve their performance, and that the inter-domain P2P traffic can be reduced by at least 72%.


Objective:To evaluate the feasibility of using polyethyleneimine(PEI) coated magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles(polyMAG-1000) as gene vectors. Methods:The surface characteristies of the nanoparticles were observed with scan electronical microscope.The ability of the nanoparticles to combine and protect DNA were investigated at different PH after the polyMAG-1000 and DNA were combined at different ratio.The nanoparticles were tested as a gene vectors through transfection models in vitro. Results: Under scan electronical microscope, the diameter of the nanoparticles was about 100 nm. The nanoparticles could bind and condense DNA under acidic ,neutral and alkaline pH conditions. The nanoparticles could transfer gene into cell and express green fluorescent protein(GFP).The efficiency of transfection was the highest when the ratio of the nanoparticles and DNA was 1 ∶ 1(v ∶ w).The difference was marked in the transfection efficiency when magnetic field was added or not. Conclusion: The magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles coated with PEI may be potentially used as gene vectors.


This paper investigates the problem of collaborative robotic car-painting using a team of industrial manipulators that can be heterogeneous. Given the CAD model of the car, a collection of heterogeneous articulated robotic arms, and their corresponding fixed base positions on the factory floor/ceiling, the objective is to generate a collection of joint trajectories for each robot in a computationally efficient manner such that the car body can be painted by the nozzles attached to the arms while collisions during the painting process are avoided. Our solution to this computationally intensive collaborative coverage path planning relies on decoupling the collision avoidance from the coverage path planning by exploiting the inherent two-dimensional structure of the problem. In particular, our algorithm relies on partitioning the reachable space of the forearms of these robots, projecting the resulting volumes of intersection on the sides and the top of the car body, and performing the coverage planning on the resulting projected volumes. Simulation results on several industrial arms that are collaboratively painting a Ford Motor Company F-150 truck demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed solution.


Cataloguing Lean Project (Anne Wilcox); Lean Experiences – Shelving and Collections (Helen Faulds); Physical Access to Special Collections Material (Moira Mackenzie); A year in the life of Open Access support: choosing LEAN and continuous improvement (Jackie Proven)


In order to compare infection route between different virulence streptococcus strains, we have chosen Lactococcus garvieae originated from rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) as an infection model. After in vivo virulence test, we found high virulence strain R0726 and low virulence strain RT-2. Surface antigen analyzed by western blotting and cannot find significant difference between two strains. After infection L. garvieae into rainbow trout, both strains could be isolated from spleen 2h post-infection. We cannot isolate RT-2 after 18th day post-infection, but after the 24th day post-infection we still can isolate R0726. Phagocytosed RT-2 were killed while R0726 significantly surviving within phagosomes of Macrophages.


This study purpose was to investigate the influence of the sector type on the role of management information systems in the administrative decision-making process in River Nile State- Sudan. The study adopted the technique stratified random sampling to cover 200 employees in various positions in the public and same number of respondent in the private sector. Data were collected and analyzed using frequencies count, percentages and chi square test statistics. The four hypotheses generated were tested at 0.05 level of significance; the study revealed that there was no significant difference between the managers at all levels in the public and private sector in terms of the adoption of management information systems in administrative decision-making process, also there was no significant difference between the public sector and the private sector in terms of the existence of management information system will enhance the efficiency and the effectiveness of decision making process. Therefore, the study showed there was no significant difference between the public sector and the private sector in terms of that information systems help and guided the managers in policies and strategies formulations. Finally, the study revealed there was no significance difference in terms that there are some managerial and technological obstacles that limits the uses and implementations of Information Systems in the River Nile State between the public sector and the private sector.


Objective To construct a regional health service platform to provide health education and conduction for the residents.Methods Cloud computing was used to integrate and reconstruct the standardized components in the regional medical information systems to form the platform above mentioned,then the linkage of the platform to the medical administrations,public medical management and levels of medical facilities could realize the sharing and communication of health information.Results The patient could log in the platform for health consultation,follow-up and health promotion.Conclusion The platform enhances the utilization rate of medical resources,and thus is worth popularizing clinically.


It is introduced to adopt a unique process-"Hydrolyzation precipitation + Biofiltration + SBR biological contact oxidation + Precipitation filtration"-to dispose living sewage. The reactor works by using the kinetic energy and potential energy, which is generated in rising of living sewage and the lever meter to replace PLC program controlling once for all. Under that condition, the maintaining operation can be predigested, the running cost and investment is greatly decreased. It can be used widely as a complementarity to sewage treatment plant.


Over the past 20 years, emergency medicine has evolved as an independent medical speciality in Europe. This development was mainly driven by poor access to primary care for patients with acute conditions and a shortage of medical specialists to look after patients presenting to emergency departments out of hours. The introduction of emergency medicine has certainly improved access to care in countries where both factors hampered timely provision of emergency care. However, for countries in which emergency medical care is delivered in a longitudinal way by the acute and critical care specialties, namely anaesthesiology, surgery, neurology, internal medicine/cardiology and paediatrics, it is not yet clear how emergency medicine as a separate speciality would fit into existing advanced care pathways.


In 1904, Schur proved his famous result which says that if the central factor group of a given group [Formula: see text] is finite, then so is its derived subgroup. In 1994, Hegarty showed that if the absolute central factor group, [Formula: see text], is finite, then so is its autocommutator subgroup, [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we introduce the concept of left and right [Formula: see text]-commutator, [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is an automorphism of the group [Formula: see text]. Then under some condition, we prove that the finiteness of [Formula: see text] implies that [Formula: see text] is also finite. We also construct an upper bound for the order of [Formula: see text] in terms of the order of [Formula: see text].


This paper takes a cursory look at the problem of inadequate power supply in the rural healthcare centres of a developing country, specifically Nigeria, and proffers strategies to address this issue through the design of hybrid renewable energy systems combined with the existing unreliable grid in order to meet the healthcare load demand, thus ensuring higher reliability of available energy sources. The simulations, analysis and results presented in this paper are based on meteorological data and the load profiles of six selected locations in Nigeria, using which hybrid grid-connected systems integrating diesel, solar and wind energy sources are designed with configurations to give optimum output. The optimised design configurations in the considered case study, Ejioku, Okuru-Ama, Damare-Polo, Agbalaenyi, Kadassaka and Doso, produce very low energy costs of of 0.0791 $/kWh, 0.115 $/kWh, 0.0874 $/kWh, 0.0754 $/kWh, 0.0667 $/kWh and 0.0588 $/kWh, respectively, leveraging solar and wind energy sources which make higher percentage contributions at all sites. The load-following-dispatch strategy is adopted at all sites, ensuring that at every point in time, there is sufficient power to meet the needs of the healthcare centres. Further works on this topic could consider other strategies to optimise general energy usage on the demand side.


The thermal oxidation of polypropylene was probed, in situ, by a novel technique that simultaneously monitors chemically induced light emission (chemiluminescence) and changes in FTIR emission spectra of an oxidizing sample. The results obtained from this technique demonstrated that the chemiluminescence intensity (I-CL) was proportional to the accumulation of carbonyl species formed during oxidation, rather than the rate of oxidation, which is predicted from application of the steady-state approximation to classical chemiluminescence mechanisms associated with auto-oxidation. Two possible mechanisms were proposed to account for the results obtained. The first mechanism involved energy transfer from a triplet carbonyl, formed via a classical mechanism, to a more efficient emitter formed during oxidation. The second possible mechanism involved reaction of a peroxidic compound with an oxidation product.


The cause of the low productivity of mung beans is partly due to the inefficient use of production factors, which will theoretically affect the profit level of farming. This study specifically aims to analyze the allocation of the use of production inputs and to analyze the profit function of mung bean farming. Data collection used a survey method by interviewing 52 farmers in Central Malaka District, Malaka District, East Nusa Tenggara. Data analysis used a quantitative descriptive method, through the analysis of farm costs, and analysis of the Cobb-Douglass Unit Output Price profit function. The results showed that mung bean farming was profitable with a profit rate of around 7.66 million rupiah per hectare. The allocation of farming inputs that significantly affect production are land area, seeds, and pesticides, with coefficient values of 0.96, 0.56 and -0.49, respectively. Meanwhile, variable inputs that significantly affect profits are fertilizer prices, pesticide prices, and labor costs, with coefficient values of -0.43, 0.43, and -0.75, respectively. These results inform several aspects: (a) increasing the area of land and seeds increases production, conversely increasing the use of pesticides can reduce production and therefore it is necessary to adjust the correct dosage, (b) the use of fertilizers is not significant to production caused by the application dose is too low, ( c) the use of labor is not significant to production and its addition reduces profits, so it needs to be more efficient in its use by prioritizing the quality of the workforce.


The direct photolysis of 1,1-dicyano-3-phenylbut-1-ene (3-MDCN) was investigated at room temperature in solvents of different polarities (hexane, dichloromethane and acetonitrile). Cyclopropanes arising from both the di-p-methane and p-methane (1,2-H migration) processes were obtained as photoproducts. The structures of the products were elucidated by 1H-NMR, GC/MS, IR and chromatography. Relative quantum yield determination and GC analysis of sequential irradiations gave evidence that: i) no secondary reactions occur, even at high conversions; ii) the di-p-methane rearrangement is significantly more affected by the solvent variation than the p-methane reaction. Photosensitization with acetophenone or acetone did not yield any observable products. The existence of the simultaneous mechanisms and the observed effects were considered as evidence of a possible differentiation between localized and delocalized excitation on the excited state surface.


CASE PRESENTATION A 57‐year‐old man was referred to the emergency department of our hospital from an outpatient clinic because of low haemoglobin (Hb) and on/off palpitations for the past one month. He has a past medical history of hypertension and adolescent pulmonary tuberculosis, with no prior history of autoimmune or connective tissue disease. Initial blood workup revealed normocytic normochromic anaemia (Hb 4.9 g/dL, serum ferritin 1742 mcg/dL, serum transferrin 154 g/dL, total iron binding capacity 40 mcg/dL and iron saturation 83%), Figure 1: Anterior‐posterior chest radiograph.


Continuation of a study of formal functions (after Caplin) in named menuets by Mozart. A table of data and comprehensive musical examples cover the trios, string quartets, string quintets, quartets and quintets with other instrumentation, piano sonatas, and violin sonatas.


. The article deals with the actual trends and drivers of the electric power development worldwide and specifically in Ukraine. Deployment of new methods of the electric energy generation and transmission based on the renewable energy concept (primarily in the European Union countries) as well as the energy market liberalization have changed the power systems infrastructure significantly. The current power supply networks modernization is based on the "smart grids" concept involving the advanced digital processing technics and the modern information and communication technologies. The power supply networks and energy market structure in Ukraine should be modified to realize


A quality of lecturer is directed as a preparation of the profesional educational workers who have a broad knowledge, master on their field, able to manage and improve their profesionalisme, and able to administer the teaching skills. Ideally, a quality lecturer is able to implement three stages in teaching and learning process, they are : planning, implementation, and evaluation. The policy of Dean of STAIN Samarinda, to oblige the lecturers make a teaching plan in the form of course outline and lesson plan, is a real action to improve the quality of targetted teaching. A qualified lecturer should have a skill in planning a teaching process. A teaching plan can be developed based on the organization of teaching plan.


The medical industry requires new engineering technologies, to assess information objectively. While recent developments in medical engineering have been achieved by state-of-the-art of intelligent computing techniques including computer-aided diagnosis, computer-aided radiography, developments in computational techniques including soft computing (SC), information processing and data mining hold new premises in this field. SC methods are becoming indispensable for to sport modern medical practice. SC combines Fuzzy Logic (FL), Neural Networks (NN), and Genetic Algorithms (GAs) methodologies. The aim of this paper is to introduce briefly the various SC methodologies and to present various applications in medicine between the years 2000 and 2008. The recent published knowledge about use of SC in medicine is researched in MEDLINE. According to MEDLINE database searches, the rates of preference of SC methodologies in medicine were found as 68% of FL-NN, 27% of NN-GA and 5% of FL-GA.


Mitochondrial depolarization leads to vasodilation via activation of SR/ER Ca2+ release. Our objective was to determine the role of mitochondria in vasodilation of middle cerebral arteries (MCA) following ischemia‐reperfusion injury (I‐RI). Male Sprague Dawley rats were subjected to 90 minutes MCA occlusion followed by 48 hours reperfusion. Vasodilation in response to bradykinin (BK), nitroprusside (NTP) and mitochondrial depolarization by diazoxide (DZ, a mitochondrial KATP channel activator) was determined in isolated MCAs by videomicroscopy. Mitochondrial membrane potential (Ψm)was determined by fluorescence microscopy with specific fluoroprobe, TMRE. Western blots determined the expression of markers of mitochondrial biogenesis [Fusion: mitofusins 1 & 2 (MFNs) and Fission: dynamin‐related protein 1 (DRP1)], voltage‐dependent anion channels (VDAC), ER stress (phosphorylated eukaryotic initiation factor 2 α subunit (p‐eIF2α) and neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS). DZ induced vasodilation was enhanced on ipsilateral MCA (iMCA) compared to contralateral (cMCA) whereas BK and NTP responses were similar. Mitochondrial in iMCA displayed increased baseline Ψm and enhanced depolarization to DZ compared to cMCA. Expression of MFNs and VDAC were unchanged, DRP1 was decreased and nNOS and p‐eIF2α were increased in iMCA. Thus, MCAs respond to I‐RI by reduced mitochondrial fission and increasing Ψm leading to increased ROS response to depolarization, ER Ca2+ release and nNOS activation.


By founding multiphoton Janes-Cumming model of a two-level atom interacting with photon-added coherent light,the atomic inversion is studied with using the technique of numerical simulation when the photon-added number m changes(m≤2).And the squeezing effect of two quadrature components of the atomic dipole is discussed.The result shows that the revival-collapse phenomenon appearing in the evolution of atomic inversion presents periodicity with the number m increasing;and the squeezing phenomena of atomic dipole moment have been generated when m=1,2.


In 2020, the Release the Pressure Campaign, a joint public health campaign was started to address the high rates of heart disease, and particularly hypertension, experienced among Black women in the United States. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis of mass media contents related to the campaign, this study sought to answer how the campaign used race to re-center Black women's heart health. Three discourses were determined, focused on embodiment of racism, self-care and community care, and addressing ways Black women treat heart disease. The discourses indicate the campaign is culturally focused and theoretically set up for success as a race-conscious public health campaign that has been advocated for. Future research is also discussed.


On the discussing the difference of the forming and the performance of green belt between London and Beijing,the author analyses the institutional difference of planning power among social groups between London and Beijing.


We report a high-speed long distance FBG sensor interrogation using 1.3 µm FDML wavelength-swept laser. The static strain and dynamic strain response for long distance FBG interrogation system is achieved. The FDML laser could be operated if the scanning frequency of the Fabry-Perot tunable-filter matches with the fundamental frequency of the laser cavity.


Since the building site during the Ungjin period of Baekje is different from the Hanseong period pit-house building site in that it has an above-ground structure, it is very important data in understanding the form and changes of the Baekje building site and the changes in the cultural base. The shape of the building site can be examined focusing on Gongsanseong Castle, a royal castle during the Ungjin period, and the ruins of Jeongjisan Mountain, a national ceremonial site, and most of the building site shows the structure of a Byeokju-building site.
In order to analyze the structure of the building sites during the Ungjin period of Baekje, an attempt was made to analyze the floor plan, scale, entrance facilities, windows, pillar arrangement, walls, roof type, and living aspects of the building sites identified at the Gongsanseong Castle and Jeongjisan Mountain ruins.
The structure of the building site during the Ungjin period of Baekje shows a square and rectangular plane, and is judged to be a single-room building composed of a single room with a wall made of mixed mud & wood. The scale is about 6m in both length and width, and the concept of a compartment is believed to be expressed through side expansion, which is believed to be due to the development of wooden furniture technology and thus the stabilization of above-ground building site.
Therefore, the structural characteristics of building site during the Ungjin period of Baekje, can be understood as the above-ground of the living plane of the building site and the standardization of the scale, as well as the spatial composition of the building with compartments based on wooden structures.


Conclusion In cholesterol-fed rabbits, the intramuscular administration of d,l-alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) in olive oil or sesame oil augments appreciably the deposition of cholesterol in the aorta but increases only slightly the concentration of this lipid in whole blood and liver.


The activities of MoO/sub 2/ in the (Ti,Mo)O/sub 2/ solid solution were measured at seven different compositions, using an emf method involving calcia-stabilized zirconia as solid electrolyte. In the temperature range studied, 1350 to 1600 K, the activities of MoO/sub 2/ show a strong positive deviation from ideal behavior. In addition, the solvus of the TiO/sub 2/-MoO/sub 2/ system was determined with the equilibrium and quenching technique. The solvus maximum was found at T = 1420 +- 5 K and X(MoO/sub 2/) = 0.85 +- 0.05.


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Kostovasilis, Dimitrios, Thompson, David and Hussein, Mohammed (2016) A semi-analytical beam model for the vibration of railway tracks. Journal of Sound and Vibration (http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2016.12.033).


A uniform flow field is essential to increase the efficient performance of settling tank. This enables particles to settle at a constant velocity and in less time. The existence of circulation regions reduces the sedimentation of particles and has major influence on the hydraulic condition of flow field inside the settling tanks. According to this, the existence of large circulation regions will reduce tank performance. A common approach for decreasing settling tanks problems is to use baffles at inlet which can reduce effects of the unfavorable phenomena such as short circuiting between inlet and outlet and density currents in settling tanks. The aim of this study is to investigate the performance of rectangular settling tanks in drinking water treatment plants numerically and experimentally. A computational model has been mapped to the commercial FLUENT® solver. Applied to simulate the flow within a 3D rectangular water settling tank with different inlet configurations where the optimum inlet design is selected. Also, a continuous flow bench scale settling tank is used to experimentally investigate the effect of inlet on the performance of the settling tank by measuring the water turbidity along the flow direction in the tank. The practical results validates the results given by CFD simulation where the performance of the tank is enhances using inlet baffles.


The U.S./Canadian border is in the process of being renegotiated as a result of larger processes of redefining and reimagining sovereign territories in North America. New understandings of U.S. and Canadian state sovereignty are creating a conflated "other" of cross-border flows: an illegitimate migrant figure who is securitized, criminalized and disembodied. The contemporary "othering" of the migrant has serious human rights implications such as the restriction of access to refugee protection. U.S. and Canadian states share an agenda of migration control executed through the manipulation of geography and the figure of the migrant. On paper, the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) aims to enhance refugee protection and increase border security. In practice, STCA makes the U.S./Canadian border a battleground for obtaining access to asylum, thus eroding refugee protection in North America and threatening the security of asylum seekers, the U.S. and Canadian states. In order to evaluate STCA, I conducted field interviews during 2006 and 2007 with persons working in the U.S. and Canadian governments as well as outside the governments in both countries on STCA. Through my analysis of these discussions, official policy documents and relevant literature, I offer three different readings of STCA. This provides a context for STCA and uncovers the motivations for the signing of the policy. The U.S./Canadian STCA functions as an exclusionary measure in a broader field of exclusions: reconfigurations of the border, state sovereignty, territorial limits of the state and the figure of the migrant which aim to reduce the access to and the quality of asylum.


Teaching methods of food science professional English for postgraduates were explored and a student-centered teaching style was established.This new teaching method based on the conception that a class was an international conference,and all students were participants in it.By so doing,students were actively participated with enthusiasm and students' communication skills were enhanced,both in oral and in written.This novel style of teaching may provide a solid step for further improvement in this course.


A new approach for the partial eigenvalue and eigenstructure assignment of undamped vibrating systems is developed. This approach deals with the constant output feedback control with the collocated actuator and sensor configuration, and the output matrix is also considered as a design parameter. It only needs those few eigenpairs to be assigned as well as mass and stiffness matrices of the open-loop vibration system and is easy to implement. In addition, this approach preserves symmetry of the systems. Numerical example demonstrates the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed approach.


The article gives the review of the model of work with the wards of the Youth Correctional Institution Turopolje who have problem with drug consumation. Considering the increase of the number of wards with drug-related problems which are coming to the Institution, the authors of the article designed and conducted the Program of professional work with the drug addicts. The basic starting point was the need for providing the additional professional help for these wards in finding the more efficient ways for coping with their complex difficulties, beside the existing forms of activities in the Institution. The work with the wards the authors base on the principles of their basic education (psychology, social pedagogy) and Reality therapy, as well as the education at the Clinic for psychiatry, alcoholism and other addictions Sestre Milosrdnice, Zagreb. The program is being conducted under the supervision of prof. B. Galoic-Cigit, a therapist from that Clinic.


The west slope of Buzhaoba open coal has been affected by various factors,which result in a keeping growing deformation. It was a serious threat to the mine production. The slope cutting and unloading engineering has begun form 2010. Up to now,the 1 170 m level has been cleared to the boundary. Through the analysis to the present west slope in Buzhaoba open coal,including failure mode,limit equilibrium,monitoring data and so on,a conclusion has been drawn. The boundary of the main coal section deformation is the F7 fault. The main coal section below F7 fault is still in a state of low creep,but rapid landslide won't occur. The slope above F7 fault is in a stable state.


Rocket engine propellent injector development at NASA-Marshall includes experimental analysis using optical techniques, such as Raman, fluorescence, or Mie scattering. For the application of spontaneous Raman scattering to hydrocarbon-fueled flows a technique needs to be developed to remove the intert'ering polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon fluorescence from the relatively weak Raman signals. A current application of such a technique is to the analysis of the mixing and combustion performance of multijet, impinging-jet candidate fuel injectors lbr the baseline Mars ascent engine, which will burn methane and liquid oxygen produced in-situ on Mars to reduce the propellent mass transported to Mars for future manned Mars missions. The Raman technique takes advantage of the strongly polarized nature of Raman scattering. It is shown to be discernable from unpolarized fluorescence interference by subtracting one polarized image from another. Both of these polarized images are obtained from a single laser pulse by using a polarization-separating calcite rhomb mounted in the imaging spectrograph. A demonstration in a propane-air flame is presented, as well as a high pressure demonstration in the NASA-Marshall Modular Combustion Test Artice, using the liquid methane-liquid oxygen propellant system.


A server cluster system is always adopted to solve the performance bottleneck problem of the network service node,and the load balancing technology is the key factor to decide the whole cluster's efficiency and scalability.In this paper,the authors first analyze and compare the existing technologies,and then put forward a new kind of load balancing technology based on virtual router clusters.


The article characterises essential issues applicable to the evaluation of the transport services quality. While quoting appropriate literature, the article discusses the term of transport service quality and its influence on the social and economic development. The objective of the quality evaluation has been presented, from the point of view of the consumers and ordering parties, transport enterprises and independent evaluating entities (e.g. certifying bodies). The attention has been focused on the examples of the characteristics of quality in respect to the transport means, human as well as infrastructure resources. Some of the aspects of the process and mathematical modelling of the transport services quality evaluation, have been presented, pointing at the use of the artificial neural networks. The process approach in the quality assessment has been used to create mathematical model. To teach the neural network, the real data has been used, from the certification conducted at the Quality Systems and Management Department of the Military University of Technology. The summary of the article points at the scientific areas, where the presented aspects of the transport services quality evaluation, can be used.


The size and depth distributions of pores in silica-based intermetal-dielectric materials were studied using monoenergetic positron beams. Doppler broadening spectra of the annihilation radiation and lifetime spectra of positrons were measured for methyl-silsesquioxane (MSSQ) spin-on-glass films. The size distribution of pores in the MSSQ films fabricated with 8% porogen load was found to be bimodal, with the major peaks located at 3 and 8 nm3. Increasing the porogen load from 8% to 40% caused the smaller pores (3 nm3) to disappear and 30-nm3 ones to appear; these pores were considered to be interconnected, and this structure makes it possible for positronium (Ps) atoms to find paths towards the surface and to escape into vacuum. The 8%-porogen MSSQ films had low porosity near the Si substrate. From measurements of the temperature dependence of the self-annihilation rate of ortho-Ps, we discuss the relationship between o-Ps emission into vacuum and the pore structure.


The archive administration of higher education's research achievements is expected to adapt to the updated situations of higher education's fast-growing research development.To use piece as unit administration would not only strengthen the archive administration of research outputs,but also help to optimize archive administration process.Such attempt will improve the overall administrative efficiencies.


ABSTRACT The present study describes the screening of eight herbs namely Cosmos caudatus, Pluchea indica, Lawsonia inermis, Carica papaya, Piper betle, Andrographis paniculata, Pereskia bleo, and Melicope lunu based on their anti-obesity and antioxidant activities. Out of all tested herbs, Cosmos caudatus demonstrated excellent anti-obesity and antioxidant potential with pancreatic lipase inhibitory effect (21.7 ± 1.3%) and DPPH radical scavenging activity (IC50 value of 31.98 ± 1.22 µg/mL). Cosmos caudatus was selected for further studies and extracting solvent composition with best anti-obesity and antioxidant potential was identified. Hundred percent Cosmos caudatus ethanolic extract was found to be the most effective and showed highest anti-obesity and antioxidant activities. Moreover, metabolite profiling of Cosmos caudatus extract was also carried out using UHPLC-MS/MS. The analysis depicted the presence of quercetin-3-rhamnoside, catechin, kaempherol, kaempherol glucoside, quercetin, quercetin-3-glucoside, quercetin-O-pentoside, quercetin-rhamnosyl galactoside, quinic acid, 1-caffeyolquinic acid, monogalloyl glucose, and procyanidin B1. Results revealed Cosmos caudatus as promising medicinal plant for the development of new functional food with prodigious applications in obesity.


Handling exceptions, errors, and alternative flows are a critical part of defining good use cases and designing good software. Correct handling of esceptional conditions is not only necessary for correct realization of requirements and for system reliability, but is also an important factor in usability. This paper details a systematic approach to the design of exception handling in object-oriented


The agricultural economy in India is vulnerable to threat from many potential bio weapons mainly invasive pests species. Invasive pest species are exotic, introduced, foreign, non-indigenous or nonnative, is one that has been introduced by humans intentionally or otherwise through human agency or accidentally from one region to another. Invasive pest species have potential to rapidly established and spread in a new area cause major crop loss and can adversely affect food security. The spread of Invasive pest species is now recognized as one of the greatest threats to the biodiversity and economic well being of the country. The numbers of invasive insect pests species are introduced in India last 20th and 21st century by unintentionally or accidentally, recently, the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda have been reported in India. It was first noticed in mid-May 2018 in Shivamogga, Karnataka. The recent studies in India reported that the infestation of fall armyworm ranged from 2 to 35 per cent in maize. The new invasive pest has been spreading rapidly; the adult moths of FAW are highly migratory, capable of travelling up 500 km in a single season to find oviposition sites and capacity to fly over 100 km per night. It has potential threat to agriculture crop production as well as Indian economy.


A distributed power generation system driven by the fitness equipment with up and down reciprocating mechanism was introduced.The system can translate the bi-directional input into single directional output.Whether the substitution of the selected fixed pulley is rotating in forward direction or in backward direction,using the ratchet mechanism,the rotations can all be translated into single direction rotation;and by the gear set,the rotation speed can be raised to high enough to drive the generator to generate electricity.The power generation system can satisfy the requirement of energy conservation and emission reduction.The experiment shows that the average power of the generating system is 200W,and the minimum mass of the weight is 31.56kg.The cost of every device can be recovered for 1.68 years.The power generation system presented in this paper has high utility value.


This paper describes the design and testing of an indexing system for optical-beam steering. The cryogenic beam-steering mechanism is a 360-degree rotation device capable of discrete, high-precision alignment positions. It uses low-precision components for its rough alignment and kinematic design to meet its stringent repeatability and stability requirements (of about 5 arcsec). The principal advantages of this design include a decoupling of the low-precision, large angular motion from the high-precision alignment, and a power-off alignment position that potentially extends the life or hold time of cryogenic systems. An alternate design, which takes advantage of these attributes while reducing overall motion, is also presented. Preliminary test results show the kinematic mount capable of sub-arc second repeatability.


The building construction industry in the past was driven by rapid growth, resulting in an equally swift quantitative growth. As most appreciated values at the time were promptness and effectiveness, qualities looked for in the entrants of the industry were limited to those senses. However, a developing society and a diversified standard of value brought about changes to the industry and those trends can be summarized into the following three keywords: Convergence, Value Chain and Globalization. As a person with a firsthand experience in the building construction industry as an industry expert for many years, I intend to propose a directional sense in the way curriculum and education policy those are set in the universities by presenting phenomenon witnessed in each of the three keywords as well as some real problems that we face in the actual work environment. This is to ultimately bring about competiveness to the industry in general through a systematic and a realistic building engineering curriculum.


Objective In biomedicine, there is a wealth of information hidden in unstructured narratives such as research articles and clinical reports. To exploit these data properly, a word sense disambiguation (WSD) algorithm prevents downstream difficulties in the natural language processing applications pipeline. Supervised WSD algorithms largely outperform un‐ or semisupervised and knowledge‐based methods; however, they train 1 separate classifier for each ambiguous term, necessitating a large number of expert‐labeled training data, an unattainable goal in medical informatics. To alleviate this need, a single model that shares statistical strength across all instances and scales well with the vocabulary size is desirable. Materials and Methods Built on recent advances in deep learning, our deepBioWSD model leverages 1 single bidirectional long short‐term memory network that makes sense prediction for any ambiguous term. In the model, first, the Unified Medical Language System sense embeddings will be computed using their text definitions; and then, after initializing the network with these embeddings, it will be trained on all (available) training data collectively. This method also considers a novel technique for automatic collection of training data from PubMed to (pre)train the network in an unsupervised manner. Results We use the MSH WSD dataset to compare WSD algorithms, with macro and micro accuracies employed as evaluation metrics. deepBioWSD outperforms existing models in biomedical text WSD by achieving the state‐of‐the‐art performance of 96.82% for macro accuracy. Conclusions Apart from the disambiguation improvement and unsupervised training, deepBioWSD depends on considerably less number of expert‐labeled data as it learns the target and the context terms jointly. These merit deepBioWSD to be conveniently deployable in real‐time biomedical applications.


The article expounds the perfect course of the concept of the Sci-Tech novelty search, generalizes the main characteristics, summarizes the practical significance in management of science research, introduces the general technological progress, points out the related problem and puts forward some suggestions.


In this present work, we have taken a series of aliphatic alcohol derivatives and developed QSTR models with the help of topological descriptors.The values of topological descriptors are directly obtained by Dragon software. The first set contains amino alcohol derivatives and the correlation coefficient of this set is above 0.80. The second set contains acetylenic and diol derivatives. The correlation coefficient of this set is above 0.83. The third and fourth set contains saturated and unsaturated alcohols respectively. The correlation coefficient of these sets are above 0.80.


This reports a case of an industrial small enterprise of Mexico. In this company, a rubric was applied to assess maturity in its value chain processes. The major weaknesses were found in strategic processes (organizational management and strategic planning), the key process of customer service and support process related to infrastructure and work environment and process documentation. It was determined that the company is located in the maturity level II (Proactive), and projects were proposed to initiate a process of gradual change, developing strategies to strengthen the processes that showed a delay in their maturity level.


tribution, control government? If those institutions do in fact transform societal preferences into policy, one would also like to know precisely how they do that—which domains of policy they influence and in what ways. One would like to know what the institutions themselves contribute to the creation, maintenance, and extension of taxation and spending policies that reduce the degree of inequality in pretax, pretransfer incomes. In particular, one would like to know to what extent they result in extensive reliance on taxes on income that have a progressive incidence, as well as in extensive spending on social assistance programs that are explicitly redistributive. In addition, one would like to know to what extent they contribute to the creation, maintenance, and extension of policies—for example, active labor market policies, extensive public employment, policies that encourage active participation in the labor force including by women, and policies that contribute to high rates of employment and low rates of unemployment—that reduce the degree of inequality in market incomes. It is certainly understandable, given her focus on the interplay of values and institutions and the voluminous literature that exists on the welfare state, that Birchfield would choose not to consider the impact of institutions on taxation, spending, and employment policy and the impact of those policies on inequality. Nevertheless, at the end of the day, the ultimate test of her argument about values and institutions depends on the extent to which societal values with respect to redistribution, as mediated by institutions, do in fact contribute to taxation, spending, and employment policies that have an impact on the degree of inequality.


In November 2018, the British Journal of Psychotherapy published an Open Letter on the topic of Jung and 'Africans'. The Open Letter (not a petition) was signed by 35 Jungian clinicians and academics from diverse and international backgrounds. The signatories take responsibility for attending to the many difficulties arising from Jung's writings on 'race'. Rather than proceeding to castigate Jung, the signatories delineate actions which might be taken with regard to the 'decolonialisation' of Jungian psychology. The Open Letter is reprinted here in full. Notes explaining the context and providing examples of Jung's attitudes are provided by the author, one of the signatories to the Open Letter.


The 3D model of mastoid was reconstructed noninvasively based on the image of in-vivo mastoid reconstructed by computed tomography scan to observe the geometry and the measurements of the mastoid in this study. Then the finite element model was built by ANSYS. The finite element model included two phases. The first phase was to discuss the natural vibration frequencies and vibration mode of mastoid. The second phase was to investigate the harmonic response. The base center and central line were established in the external auditory meatus and the 0 degree direction, respectively. The amplitude force was applied along central line and ± 15 degrees direction with distance of 30 mm, 35 mm and 40mm from the center. The amplitude of the bone anchored hearing aids is approximately 550 g excited by the vibrator. The frequency responses and the characteristics of the BAHA vibrator on the mastoid at the frequencies of 125 Hz, 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 750 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 3 kHz, 4 kHz, 5 kHz, 6 kHz, 7 kHz, 8 kHz, with sound pressure 20 dB and 70 dB, were discussed. Based on the results of modal analysis of mastoid, the 9 natural frequencies, 125 Hz, 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 750 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 3 kHz, 4 kHz and 6 kHz, were similar to the pure-tone stimuli frequency for the clinical hearing test. Based on the results obtained by the harmonic analysis of mastoid, the performance of bone conduction at 35 mm of 15 degrees was better than those at 0 and -15 degrees. KeywordsMastoid; Vibration analysis; Finite element method; Computed tomography image


This article presents the solutions to two fundamental problems in the design of the insulation for a refrigerator. The first problem is how to incorporate the new generation of non-CFC materials in a composite layer that also contains polyurethane foam. The article shows how to select the thickness of each sublayer in the composite so that the total cost is minimized over the lifetime of the refrigerator. The second problem addresses the distribution of a given amount of insulation material around the refrigerator, for example, over the freezer and cooler sections. The article reports the optimal insulation thicknesses for the freezer and cooler sections so that the overall heat leak into the cold space is minimum.


Neurons in the hypothalamus of the brain which secrete the peptide kisspeptin are important regulators of reproduction, and normal reproductive development. Electrical activity, in the form of action potentials, or spikes, leads to secretion of peptides and neurotransmitters, influencing the activity of downstream neurons; in kisspeptin neurons, this activity is highly irregular, but the mechanism of this is not known. In this study, we show that irregularity depends on the presence of a particular type of potassium ion channel in the membrane, which opens transiently in response to electrical excitation. The results contribute to understanding how kisspeptin neurons generate and time their membrane potential spikes, and how reliable this process is. Improved understanding of the activity of kisspeptin neurons, and how it shapes their secretion of peptides, is expected to lead to better treatment for reproductive dysfunction and disorders of reproductive development.


We report here the draft genome sequence of Xanthomonas sp. strain CPBF 424, isolated from a diseased walnut tree. ABSTRACT We report here the draft genome sequence of Xanthomonas sp. strain CPBF 424, isolated from a diseased walnut tree. Multilocus sequence analysis showed that this walnut-pathogenic isolate is located between the nonpathogenic X. arboricola and X. prunicola clusters. These features make this strain a promising reference to disclose new genetic determinants of pathogenesis.


The LKH algorithm based on k-opt is an extremely efficient algorithm solving the TSP. Given a non-optimal tour in a graph, the idea of k-opt is to iteratively swap k edges of this tour in order to find a shorter tour. However, the optimality of a tour cannot be proved with this method. In that case, exact solving methods such as CP can be used. The CP model is based on a graph variable with mandatory and optional edges. Through branch-and-bound and filtering algorithms, the set of mandatory edges will be modified. In this paper, we introduce a new constraint to the CP model named mandatory Hamiltonian path constraint searching for k-opt in the mandatory Hamiltonian paths. Experiments have shown that the mandatory Hamiltonian path constraint allows us to gain on average a factor of 3 on the solving time. In addition, we have been able to solve some instances that remain unsolved with the state of the art CP solver with a 1 week time out. 2012 ACM Subject Classification Theory of computation → Constraint and logic programming


Cost effective and time saving solutions are available for all of our health concerns due to the rapid growth of Technology. But the rural areas of many countries continue to suffer due to the lack of good health services with doctors. Our model focuses on connecting the rural villages to quality doctors via cloud computing and wearable technology. The system could help to monitor and manage good health with doctor's interaction in emergence. It's a wearable jacket where health measuring sensors will be embedded. It sends all the vital stats in real time to the cloud where the authorised doctors can access the information after user's request. The records contain the patient's medical history. It's a user-friendly application holding the whole database of the patients securely in the cloud with real time updates. Patients can refer to the available Doctor anytime for treatments and diagnosis. The system alerts to the nearest doctor in risk case. This system if is put in use at the rural areas then there will be much benefit to the rural people in their health concerns. They can lead a healthier and more independent lifes.


In-situ superconducting c-axis oriented YBa2Cu307_ s (YBCO) thin films have been grown at Tsub = 775 °C on SrTiO3(100) and MgO(lOO) by r.f.-magnetron sputtering at an oxygen partial pressure, which not only lies below the stability line but is more than an order of magnitude lower than its empirically suggested limit. The effect of variation in partial pressure of oxygen (POl) on the film characteristics is analyzed by employing a.c.-magnetic susceptibility, resistance-temperature variation, Rutherford backscattering, atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction techniques. The oxygen deficiency, 5, is calculated employing a number of techniques. The higher c-axis lattice parameters of the films are supportive of antisite disorder in the cations. The AFM investigations have established that Stranski-Krastanov-type growth mechanism is operative in the present case. The variation in critical current density (JTM(T)) with temperature is reported for the first time in the low pressure sputtered films exhibiting a Jc (43 K) of «4 .6X 10 A cm".


A receiving device (1) for radio and / or television signals to a radio signal receiving unit (2), a signal reproducing unit, a control unit and record data memory (6) for the selective storage of program segments of the digitized radio and / or television signal has a ring memory (5) for constant intermediate storing of the received digital radio and / or television signal, said record data memory (6) to the ring data memory (5) is connected and controlled by the control unit such that cached in a storage of a program portion at least one received, in the ring memory (5) transfer part of the program portion in the recorded data memory (6) and are stored in the currently received radio and / or television signals of the subsequent part of the program portion in the recording data storage (6).


Polarised neutron reflection measurements are reported for Ag/Cr/Ag(001) sandwich structures. For a Cr layer equivalent to a coverage of 0.33 monolayers, the data suggest long-range ferromagnetic order with a magnetic moment per atom that is significantly greater than the bulk value. For a 3.3-monolayer-thick layer, no ferromagnetism is detected.


Objective:To make an epidemiological survey of intestinal acariasis in Shenzhen area and investigate pathogenic mite species.Methods:Case history,stool examination(saturated saline flotation method),and blood examination (differential leukocyte count) were served in this study.WTHZResults:Among 928 cases,59 cases were mite-positive with the methods of stool examination,and the positive rate was 6.36%.After identified,8 species had been found out,the species were Tyrophagus putrescentiae,Acarus siro,Carpoglyphus lactis,Glycyphagus domesticus,G.privatus,Dermatophagoides farinae,D.pteronyssinus and Tarsonemus granarus.28 intestinal acariasis cases were further examined for eosinophil,and had an average count of 0.6910~9/L(0.36-0.7410~9/L).The main clinical symptoms were abdominal pain and diarrhea.Conclusion:The incidence of intestinal acariasis was higher in children and personnel working at their specific vocation in Shenzhen area.Occupational health works need to be strengthen especially for those specific population.


The activation of slip and twinning deformation modes in Mg-3Al-1Zn alloy was investigated by means of both in-situ and ex-situ methods at ambient temperature using electron back scattering diffraction (EBSD). The results confirm the importance of non-basal slip and c-axis compression double twinning. During tensile deformation of rolled sheet, 63% of the observed slip traces were ascribed to prismatic slip, 33% to basal slip and 4% to slip. Prismatic slip was frequently observed in grain interiors. The density of twinning was quantified in samples tested along transverse, extrusion and rolling directions at failure. The values in the range of 0.02-0.18 twins per square micron were found depending on sample orientation. The results show the effect of twinning on failure.


Debt is used by many companies to leverage their capital and profit.
However, debt is not the only factors that effect to leverage capital and profit.
There are several factors that can affect the companies� profitability. This research
uses operational decision factor, macroeconomics factor, firm size factor, and
industry factors to help understand the effect of debt to profitability. Operational
decision factor is proxy by total assets turnover to explain how well the
companies able to utilize their assets to generate profit. Firm size factor is proxy
by assets to measure the companies� power to generate profit. While macro
economics factor is proxy by BI rate because it can represent the inflation effect
and the impact to the bank�s interest rate. The uniqueness of this research is to add
industry factor to compensate the other factors in determining the companies�
profitability.
There are 336 samples from 48 companies in eight industries observed
from 2003 to 2009 used in this research. The samples taken are determined by
listing the lowest and highest profitable companies on each different industry. The
test is made to the whole samples and to each different industry to examine the
general effect and the industry effect of debt, operational decision, firm size, and
macroeconomics to companies.
The result indicates that in uncategorized (not categorized into different
industries) data, debt, firm size, and operational decision effect positively
significant, and macroeconomics effect insignificantly towards profitability.
However, if the data is tested based on the industry, the result varies depend on
the industry. This indicates that industry factor do effect companies� profitability.


A rotating curved cutter stapler is provided to rearrange an end-effector without rearranging a shaft and a handle which are extended from a human body hole. A rotating curved cutter stapler includes an end-effector(16), a handle(12), a supporting shaft(20), and an articulate connection instrument. The handle and end-effector are selectively articulated to improve an access of a tissue to be treated and the use of a linear surgery stapler. The handle is located on a near-stepped unit. The end-effector is located on a far-stepped unit. The supporting shaft connects the handle to the end-effector. The articulate connection instrument is located between the supporting shaft and the end-effector, and allows a selective movement of the end-effector for the supporting shaft. The articulate connection instrument has a ball joint which connects the end-effector to the supporting shaft.


Integration processes in the Eurasian space are ambiguously assess both by officials and an expert community of the member countries. Thus, there is still a discussion in Kazakhstan and various narratives are being formed concerning the expediency of the country's presence in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), the advantages and challenges associated with this participation. The article deals with the main narratives that are presenting in Kazakhstan and describing the integration processes within the EAEU — official and expert (both critical about the EAEU and supporting Eurasian integration). The analysis conducted in the article is based on the understanding of the narrative as a "statement-result", defined by its structure (coherence between key concepts). The article shows that all narratives about the EAEU, present in the Kazakhstani discourse, have a similar structure, formed by the concepts of "independence", "integration", "politics" and "economics". The differences between the narratives are determined by the emphasis on either the "independencepolitics" or "integration-economics" constellations (linkages), and the proposed format of regionalization of Kazakhstan within Central Asia or Eurasia.


After cyclic extrusion and compression (CEC) deformation for 8 passes at 350℃,the microstructure of ZK60 alloy is obviously refined and uniformed,the average grain size is decreased from about 20μm to about 1.5μm,the initial fiber texture is disappeared and a {1013}〈3032〉+{1011}〈1543〉texture appeared.With microstructure refining and texture changing,the compression yield stress increased dramatically and the tension yield stress decreased slightly.As a result,the strength- differential effect (SDE) of tension-compression of the alloy is eliminated.At the same time,the ductility of the alloy is enhanced,especially under compression,the elongation is increased up to 38% from 15%.


New physical cancer treatment modality called Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) deliver low-intensity, intermediate frequency, alternating electric fields non-invasively to the tumor. TTFields is believed to inhibit mitosis as its primary mechanism of action. We previously showed that TTFields exposure decreased the expression of FANC/BRCA1 pathway genes, which play an essential role in DNA double strand break (DSB) repair. As a result, DNA DSB repair under IR exposure is downregulated, and most importantly, the TTFields alone increased gH2AX foci and chromatid aberrations as a function of TTFields time exposure. The length of newly replicated DNA decreased and R-loop formation increased after TTFields treatment, suggesting replication stress is induced by TTFields. Our research revealed that TTFields are involved in DNA damage and replication stress pathways besides mitosis, thus, we predicted that, by applying TTFields first, a conditional vulnerability environment would be created, rendering cells more susceptible to agents like radiation and chemotherapy. In accordance with our hypothesis, radiation susceptibility increased when cells were exposed to TTFields prior to IR treatment compared to IR treatment followed by TTFields. The combination of TTFields together with Radiation has been tested in-vivo with the newly designed Inovivo system. To measure tumor growth delay caused by TTFields treatment, three distinct syngenic tumor mouse models were utilized, namely LLC (Murine Lewis Lung Carcinoma), KPC63 (Pancreatic Cancer) and MC38 (Colon Cancer). Although TTField exposure decreased tumor volume in the three mouse models tested, there was no statistically significant difference in tumor growth between the heat and TTField groups. In IR combination experiments, the MC38 mouse model was chosen since TTFields induced a greater TGD effect in this model. In the first Inovivo experiment, we combined TTFields and radiation therapy, which delayed tumor growth significantly. Following that, we tested the combined efficacy of two rounds of TTFields and radiation treatment. The tumor growth delay was more pronounced after two rounds of TTFields treatment compared to one, which confirms the hypothesis that TTFields treatment induces conditional vulnerability. The results are consistent with observations made by the researchers in the clinic that high compliance patients (who have received more exposure to TTFields) have better prognosis compared to low compliance patients. Our inovivo experiment results not only confirm our earlier in vitro results, but also support the use of TTFields in IR combination therapies.
 Citation Format: Narasimha Kumar Karanam, Zengfu Shang, Michael D. Story, Debabrata Saha. Tumor Treating Fields in combination with radiation cause significant delay in tumor growth in in-vivo mice modelsignificant delay in tumor growth in in-vivo mice model [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 3316.


According to the seepage of liquid benzene diffusion which was simulated by using COMSOL software and analyzed by experiments. The results showed that diffusion amount of benzene in liquid reached the peak in horizontal and vertical direction after 25 days,then benzene infiltrated to groundwater saturated zone,the increasing amplitude of diffusion was larger in 10 days,the vertical diffusion amount was less than the lateral diffusion quantity,the diffusion volume growth decreased gradually after 15 days,diffusion of benzene in the same layer increased with the increase of temperature,the diffusion volume of benzene decreases when the humidity increases,and the diffusion amount by the inner layer to the outer layer reduced gradually with the rising proportion.


Everyday Mysticism: A Contemplative Community at Work in the Desert, by Ariel Gluckich. Yale University Press, 2017. 280pp., Hb. $45.00, ISBN-13: 9780300212099.


This soft cover book is a field guide to 20 outstanding wildflower trails on public lands in Georgia. All regions of the state are featured from the mountains through the piedmont to the coastal barrier islands. Trails were chosen that offer unusual habitats, easy to moderate walks (generally under 2 mi), and abundant wildflowers. No two trails are alike and habitats vary from limestone glades, sand dunes, pitcher plant bogs, mountain coves, and river bluffs. Detailed trail maps with accompanying text , as well as a scenic photo of the dominant habitat are presented. Directions to trailheads, mileage, and difficulty ratings are given. There are some trails where alternative or longer routes may be chosen and these are pointed out. A summary chart suggests the best months to visit for peak blooming periods. General descriptions of the habitats with conspicuous wildflowers highlighted are discussed sequentially as you would walk through them in the field. For each of the trails, a total of five typical wildflowers are given special treatment with descriptive notes and photos. This results in 100 color portraits and makes for an excellent beginner's guide to the more characteristic plants of each area. A useful and practical index features common names and scientific names, but for each scientific name there is a parenthetical common name. This is a user friendly way of presenting scientific names for those in need of identification accuracy. The plant descriptions avoid technical language for the most part, but occasionally some terms have crept into the descriptions – such as raceme. This reviewer feels that a few introductory pages on plant identification explaining basic flower parts, samples of leaf shapes, leaf arrangements, and inflorescence types perhaps making use of the inside of the front and back covers would make the book more useful. The authors recommend using other field guides for explanations of technical terms, concepts of family characters, and as the next step in becoming an expert in plant identification. This booklet was clearly written to enhance an appreciation of wildflowers and to fill a need to provide guidance on accessible places to do so. The authors have succeeded in this goal and provide a botanically sound little volume. I especially like the strong conservation ethics exhibited throughout the text – no trampling, stay on the trail, no picking, no digging. The need to preserve natural areas for future generations to enjoy is an underlying theme. I strongly recommend this guide as a primer for teachers and leaders of walks and for anyone interested in observing the wildflowers of Georgia. Along some of these trails, unusual and sometimes rare species may be encountered. The authors are steadfast in educating readers about the sensitivity of these sites and their fragility.