Aiming at the problems in traditional development of airborne electronic equipment such as ambiguous structure parameters,long product development cycle,and difficult failure recovery in later use.This paper incorporates the digital simulation tools to perform topology optimization design and dynamical and thermal finite element analysis in multiple stages of structural design.The digital prototype is modified by relevant test method,and the experiment is carried out according to relevant standards to verify the design scheme which provides the basis for further structure optimization.By these methods,some problems in the product are rapidly exposed and solved,and the reliability and digitalization level of the product are effectively improved.


FW Platt. 194 pages. Boston: Little, Brown; 1995. $24.95. ISBN 0316 710 825. Order phone 800-759-0190. The art of effective physicianpatient interaction is better learned by observing experienced clinicians than through pedantic lectures or textbooks. Long-term apprenticeships are a thing of the past, and today's exposure to widely varied attending physicians rarely offers the opportunity to learn the subtleties of gratifying interaction. Conversation Repair allows the reader to observe the ways in which one experienced clinician deals with various troublesome challenges. Learning to deal comfortably with difficult patients is the goal of Conversation Repair. During his more than 20 years of clinical and teaching experience, the author has had his share of frustrating encounters. In this book, he has honestly and thoughtfully confronted his shortcomings and those of the students and residents he teaches, and he offers his perspectives on overcoming interpersonal obstacles. Fifty-three cases compose the heart of the book. Each vignette focuses on a difficulty in the clinician-patient relationship (or, in a few instances, on difficulties between clinicians). A brief recreation of the physicianpatient dialogue highlights the problem; the reader is then asked to formulate a way to repair the problem before the author offers his approach. The spectrum of interpersonal problems discussed includes patients who are talkative, angry, unfocused, unwilling to get well, or just plain mysterious. Not every issue has a definitive answer; in fact, the author admits that some difficulties between clinician and patient have no really satisfactory solution. But many obstacles do yield to better gathering of data, stepping back from a conflict to gain a new perspective (including the patient's point of view), searching for a hidden agenda, empowering the patient, identifying the clinician's vulnerabilities and shortcomings, and seeking new ways to communicate. The author's theme is that difficult patients are often reflections of failed communication. Although at times the author tends to pontificate, his style is generally lucid and entertaining. A list of references offers suggestions for exploring topics. Unfortunately, the index is totally inadequateit is simply the table of contents in alphabetical order, making it impossible to return to a case or search a topic. For practitioners who have mastered effective communication skills, matching wits with the author will be fun. For clinicians who acknowledge their interactional shortcomings, new approaches will be suggested.


Manufacturing enterprises face competitive pressure. High Speed Cutting (HSC) offers the most appropriate opportunity for reduction of run times. Knowledge and experience are necessary to manage machine tools, and special cutting strategies are required for HSC. Tool wear estimation aids tool automatic management, product quality improvement and process chain optimisation. This paper presents an algorithm to predict tool wear before cutting and discusses the mechanism of wear formation calculation. The simulation model of continuous chips is presented to calculate chip sections that contain key parameters of wear prediction. An improved algorithm is also presented for better calculation efficiency.


Khrushchev's Secret Speech about Stalinist crimes in February evoked heated public responses in many parts of the USSR. In stark contrast, the momentous changes of 1956 evoked little controversy among inhabitants of Soviet Kazakhstan. De-Stalinization has mostly been studied as a state-led attempt to breathe a new life into communism, or a process in which the regime and its citizens negotiated the meanings of Soviet utopia after the traumas of Stalinism. But the Kazakhstani case suggests that state–society dynamics in 1956 were often shaped not so much by the revolutionary state and the practices of 'searching for socialism', but rather by the limited reach of utopian ideas, the weakness of Soviet structures in the provinces, and deep social and ethnic fragmentation.


Some perspective is provided on the scenario in which an aircraft crashes on the other side of an international border and an "alert phase" (ALERFA) is put in place in order to begin the process of searching for the missing aircraft and any possible survivors. This article aims to answer questions, such as What would happen in the event of a crash landing in the remote wilderness?; Who would search for those aboard?; and How would the responders know where to look? Coordination is the key to success, as discussed here.


This study evaluates the physical properties of freeze dried tropical (guava, sapota, and papaya) fruit powders. Thermal stability and weight loss were evaluated using TGA-DSC and IR, which showed pectin as the main solid constituent. LCR meter measured electrical conductivity, dielectric constant, and dielectric loss factor. Functional groups assessed by FTIR showed presence of chlorides, and O–H and N–H bonds in guava, chloride and C–H bond in papaya, and chlorides, and C=O and C–H bonds in sapota. Particle size and type of starch were evaluated by X-ray diffraction and microstructure through scanning electronic microscopy. A semicrystalline profile and average particle size of the fruit powders were evidenced by X-ray diffraction and lamellar/spherical morphologies by SEM. Presence of A-type starch was observed in all three fruits. Dependence of electric and dielectric properties on frequency and temperature was observed.


This paper discusses the utilitarian aspects of employing Microsoft MSDOS compatible single board computers (SBCs) in medical systems and instrumentation. Several computer companies manufacture SBCs using a variety of microprocessors, busses and operating software; however, relatively few produce systems compatible with both Intel 80x86 code and the Microsoft MS/DOS operating system. The author has successfully used noncompatible SBCs based on the Motorola 68HC11 CPU for years in various embedded medical computer applications. However, a recent project involving machine vision and control of an artificial eye required more computing power than the old systems provide (Figure 1). A miniature CCD board camera acts as an artificial retina mounted in a four-degrees-of-freedom orbit model; one SBC was needed to control the orbit actuators and handle incoming video data. This project was part of a five processor android control network. In it, one 68HCll SBC (containing the Forth programming language in its ROM) acts as the "cerebellum" to control the four 68HC11 "extremity" processors. A complex hand-arm model was included in the design. The new MSDOS-compatible SBC replaced the previous cerebellum computer. This 4.2 by 3.6 inch board contains an extended 8086 NEC controller, the V25. The SBC has two flash ROM "disk drives" and an MSDOS 3.3 lookalike file system. A modified F83 Forth interpreter (called Flash-Forth) was included. Although most PC languages will work with this type of SBC, the author preferred to use Forth. Flash-Forth is 23 Kbytes in size and includes a multitasker, debugger, decompiler and an 8086 assembler. Programs were developed on the V25 board, then saved as an autostart file which would automatically execute from flash drive B: on powerup. 2 Some programs were developed on a PC, then the .COM files were uploaded to the SBC via the XModem file transfer protocol. Since there are important hardware differences between the PC and the SBC, the author created a PC-safe debugging version of Flash-Forth for PC-only programming. All I/O for this PC-safe Forth was revectored to harmlessly write data to Forth variables instead of attempting to poke values into the PC's hardware or software locations. To go further, the author next set up a plug-in PC ISA bus card having three programmable parallel ports, rewriting the Forth routines to revector the U0 out the appropriate PC card port, thus even more closely simulating the V25 SBC's operation. The Forth language's plasticity made it possible to use the same high-level source code without changes in all three versions lash-Forth, yet getting the correct results in each situation. Using the SBC's Intel 80x86 and MSDOS compatibility, with the Forth programming language, enabled rapid extension of the author's android control network to include the new artificial eye/ machine vision functions. Figure 1. Mark I J I Artificial Eye / Orbit Experiment


This study aimed to investigate the relationship be tween enthusiasm and dependence on physical activit y for male and female athlete students of Islamic Azad Univers ity, Tehran. The sample community was composed of s tudents of Faculty of Physical Education in Islamic Azad Unive rsity of Tehran. the sample of research was carried out via cluster and random sampling with 168 male and femal e athlete students (all with physical activity record) who completed Valrand and colleagues questionnaire of f emale and male athletes' enthusiasm to life(2003) v oluntarily including 14 questions and 2 sub-scales of consiste nt enthusiasm (balanced) (7 questions), longing (7 questions), and physical activity dependence questionnaire of H asen Blas and colleagues (2004) consists of 26 ques tions and six subscales. Data analysis was performed using de scriptive statistics (indexes of central tendency and dispersion) and KS test, independent T test, Pearson correlatio n coefficient and multiple linear regression at a 0.05 significance level through statistical software SPS S. In summary, the results of analysis of data show ed that there is a significant relationship between enthusiasm and d ependence on physical activity of male and female a thlete students of Islamic Azad University And conflicts a nd dissatisfaction variable, excessive exercise, em otional problems, emotional problems and behavioral persist ence combined with the enthusiasm of athlete studen ts showed a significant relationship (p ≤ 0.05) from among dependency components on the phys ical activity. It has been recommended to use some programs in order to recogn ize enthusiasm components and effective factors on them to get tendency for activity, dependency on activity a nd enjoying the countless advantages of activities.


380 Background: Despite increasing use of breast cancer (BRCA) gene and homologous recombination deficiency/ homologous recombination repair gene mutation(s) (HRD/HRRm) testing, barriers to uniform adoption of these tests to inform patient management remain. The purpose of this study was to identify potential barriers to BRCA, HRD, and HRRm testing from the physician's perspective. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was sent to a US representative sample of primary care providers, medical oncologists, urologists, and surgeons, including both users and non-users of the tests. Physician demographics, practice characteristics, barriers (reimbursement, knowledge, logistical), and strategies to alleviate barriers were collected. Descriptive analysis was conducted via SASv9.4. Results: Three hundred physicians participated in this survey (49.7 years of age and 17.9 years in clinical practice on average). Most respondents (94.3%) reported at least 1 barrier to test use (BRCA 94.0%, HRD 91.3%, HRRm 90.3%). The most common barrier was the challenge in obtaining prior authorizations (BRCA 74.0%, HRD 80.0%, HRRm 83.5%). Other commonly reported barriers included test not being covered by insurance (BRCA 64.8%, HRD 61.8%, HRRm 67.6%), insurance policies restricting certain genomic tests to a particular lab/test provider (BRCA 64.0%, HRD 66.5%, HRRm 67.4%), and unclear/inconsistent payer policies for test coverage (BRCA 63.6%, HRD 63.6%, HRRm 66.7%). Physicians were more likely to report barriers to HRD/HRRm testing compared to BRCA testing. More reimbursement-related barriers were reported by primary care providers vs. other physicians. Physician/patient education, collaboration with specialists, standardization in test guidelines, and improvement in test interpretation were reported as key strategies to improving further test adoption in patient management. Conclusions: The results highlight that physicians have concerns about reimbursement-related, knowledge-related, and logistical barriers that may impact clinical optimization. Addressing these barriers to improve oncology care is of utmost importance.[Table: see text]


The human growth hormone gene cluster is composed of five closely related genes. The 5′-most gene in the cluster,hGH-N, is expressed exclusively in somatotropes and lactosomatotropes of the anterior pituitary. Although thehGH-N promoter contains functional binding sites for multiple transcription factors, including Sp1, Zn-15, and Pit-1, predictable and developmentally appropriate expression ofhGH-N transgenes in the mouse pituitary requires the presence of a previously characterized locus control region (LCR) composed of multiple chromatin DNase I hypersensitive sites (HS). LCR determinant(s) necessary for hGH-N transgene activation are largely conferred by two closely spaced HS (HS I,II) located 14.5 kilobase pairs upstream of the hGH-N gene. The region sufficient to mediate this activity has recently been sublocalized to a 404-base pair segment of HS I,II (F14 segment). In the present study, we identified multiple binding sites for the pituitary POU domain transcription factor Pit-1 within this segment. Using a transgenic founder assay, these sites were shown to be required for high level, position-independent, and somatotrope-specific expression of a linkedhGH-N transgene. Because the Pit-1 sites in thehGH-N gene promoter are insufficient for such gene activation in vivo, these data suggested a unique chromatin-mediated developmental role for Pit-1 in the hGH LCR.


This study looked into changes in catches of anchovy and production of sea mustard(Undaria pinnatifida) in Southern part of East Sea in Korea from 1990 to 2007 out of the fishing industry production statistics of Korea from 1969 to 2007, and then examined the relationship between the productions and the sea temperature. The production of sea mustard(Undaria pinnatifida) decreased when the sea surface temperature was high, as it adversely affected its production, while its production increased when the sea surface temperature was low, as this facilitated its growth.


Objective To investigate the neuromuscular blockade produced by a loading dose and increments of rocuronium bromide in patients with terminal stage renal failure. Methods Twelve ASA Ⅲ patients (7 male, 5 female) with terminal stage renal failure undergoing renal transplantation were studied. Age ranged from 20-48 years and body weight 48-70kg. Another twelve ASA Ⅰ -Ⅱ patients (6 male, 6 female) with normal renal function aged 21-50 yr, weighing 49-72 kg undergoing elective lower abdominal surgery were included in this study as control group. The patients were unpremedicated. Anesthesia was induced with midazolam 0.02 mg·kg-1 , fentanyl 1μg·kg-1 and propofol 1.5-2.0 mg·kg-1 . Intubation was facilitated with a loading dose of rocuronium 0.6mg·kg-1 given intravenously (iv) within 10 seconds. Anesthesia was maintained with 50% N2O in O2 and intennittent iv boluses of fentanyl. Muscle relaxation was maintained with increments of rocuronium 0.15 mg·kg-1 when T1 returned to 25% of control. Neuromuscular blockade was assessed with Myograph 2000. A train-of-four (TOF) stimulation was used to measure force of thumb adduction. The first twitch (T1 ) measured before rocuronium was used as control (Tc) and compared with T, after rocuronium (T1 / Tc). Onset time (time from end of injection to T1 = 0), no response time ( duration of T1 = 0), time of 25 % recovery of T1 (time from end of injection to 25% recovery of T1), time of 75% recovery and recovery index (T1 from 25%-75% ) were recorded after loading doses and incremental doses. At the end of surgery residual paralysis was reversed with neostigmine 2.5 mg and glycopyrrolate 0.5 mg in six patients in each group. Results There was no significant difference in onset time, no response time and time of 25 % recovery of T1 after loading dose between the two groups. No response time and time of 25 % recovery of T1 were increasing with increasing numbers of incremental doses. The duration of action was relatively longer in women than in men. Neostigmine significantly shortened the time of 75 % recovery of T1 . Conclusion There is no significant difference in the duration of action after loading dose or incremental dose between patients with normal renal function and terminal stage renal failure. The duration or action is increasing with increasing numbers of incremental dose. The duration of action is longer in women than in men.


Determining the intelligibilities of filtered speech with various spectrum regions is of great significance for communication research and applications. The importance of different spectral components upon the speech intelligibility for western languages has been studied extensively, but not for Chinese. The current study investigated the relative spectral contributions of Chinese Mandarin sentences to speech intelligibility. Sentences were low-pass, high-pass or bandpass filtered and restricted to different frequency regions. Listening experiments demonstrated that the frequency regions below 1100 Hz contained more important cues for the intelligibility of Mandarin Chinese sentences than higher frequencies. The low and middle frequencies (<2100 Hz) provided greater benefit for intelligibilities of Mandarin sentences than monosyllables. While compared to the English sentences, it can be seen that intelligibility redundancy in Chinese was much lower than that in English. And the first two formant frequencies made important contributions to the sentence intelligibility for both Chinese and English.


ASTROP3 (Aeroelastic Stability and Response of Propulsion Systems) is a FORTRAN computer code developed for calculating the performance and dynamic stability (classical flutter) of single rotation propfans. Three-dimensional, subsonic aerodynamics with constant pressure panel discretization and MSC/NASTRAN finite element analysis of the blade are used to calculate the steady and unsteady aerodynamic forces. The flutter analysis is a modal based technique using motion dependent aerodynamic forces based on in-vacuum frequencies and normal modes of the individual propfan blades. The execution of ASTROP3 is illustrated through the calculation of blade performance and blade aeroelastic stability for the SR7L rotor. These calculations are representative of applications for ASTROP3. All input and output files necessary for program execution are discussed, as well as other appropriate information to aid the user in applying the program.


Objective To observe the effect of Dachengqi decoction's external application on Shenque point to promote the recovery of intestinal function after surgery.Methods A total of 80 patients after abdominal surgery were divided into the intervention group and the control group,with 40 cases in each group.The control group received the traditional surgical nursing,the intervention group received the Dachengqi decoction continuous external application on Shenque point within the 6 hours after surgery additional to the traditional nursing.The time of first evacuation after surgery,length and expenses of hospitalization of the two groups were compared.Results Compared to the control group,the first evacuation was sooner,and the average length of hospitalization was significantly shorter,and hospitalization expenses were less in the intervention group(P0.01 or P0.05).Conclusion The Dachengqi decoction can effectively promote the recovery of intestinal function after abdominal surgery,decrease the length of hospitalization and reduce the hospitalization expenses.


The concept of human dignity has always been at the center of attention of scholars and philosophers throughout the history of human life. This concept has been emphasized in all religions and in fact, has been the endeavor of all religious leaders to defend and preserve the inherent dignity of man. The preservation of human dignity is one of the basic principles of human rights. The World Health Organization (WHO), in its 1994 declaration, considered the importance of dignity to be an important factor in improving the health of patients and considered the right to give an informed consent, access to health services, the confidentiality of information, and privacy as important (1(.


Through programmed temperature experiment and analyses with the experimental device of coal spontaneous combustion, the conclusion can be drawn that this coal mine's main index gas for coal self ignition fire hazard forecast is determined; and that the critical temperature is 65- 75℃ ; Through calculation, the law of concentration changes for CO, CO2 etc and the relation of oxygen consumption velocity to coal temperature was achieved.


Kidney transplantation is the optimal treatment for end stage renal disease. However, there are risks both from early complications directly related to the surgical procedure, and from longer-term complications resulting from the effects of immunosuppression. This chapter describes the transplant process from the evaluation of patients with renal failure for suitability for transplantation, through the surgical procedure itself, the early and late management of recipients, and the management of the complications that can arise, including acute and chronic graft dysfunction, infection, malignancy, and cardiovascular disease. It also covers the short- and long-term outcomes of kidney transplantation. Since live kidney donors have become an increasingly important source of kidneys for renal transplantation, it also describes the work-up process for potential live donors and the long-term outcomes following donation. Finally, combined kidney/pancreas transplantation is included separately and includes a discussion around the selection and evaluation recipients, the surgical procedure, short- and long-term complications, and the outcomes.


Increased attention to dissociation has resulted in the study of a number of clinical subpopulations. This pilot study measured dissociation using the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) in a grou...


Antrorhinolith is an uncommon nasal mineralized mass of nasal cavity invading into maxillary sinus. Most antrorhinoliths are small and asymptomatic, caused by calcification of a nidus and are detected incidentally on radiological examination. Sometimes they present symptoms like pain and foul smelling nasal discharge. Here, we are presenting two cases of antro rhinoliths. One was found after endoscopic sinus surgery and second one was seen in patient with prolonged use of topiramate medication. In all these two cases, radiological examination revealed a discrete bony density in the nasal cavity and maxillary sinus which was blocking the ostiomeatal complex. The bony mass was removed endoscopically from the nasal cavity and maxillary sinus with drainage of discharge and debris from the sinuses. Histopathological examination revealed an antrolith with bony nidus and calcium deposited around it.


Objective: To explore therapeutic effects of modified BanXia BaiZhu TianMa Tang cooperated with betahistine hydrochloride for vertebrobasilar artery insufficiency vertigo. Method: All 65 patients were randomized into 35 cases in the treatment group and 30 cases in the control group. The treatment group accepted modified BanXia BaiZhu TianMa Tang and betahistine hydrochloride, the control group betahistine hydrochloride, average blood flow rates of vertebrobasilar artery were observed in both groups before and after treating. Result: There were 13 cases cured, 19 cases effective, three cases ineffective and total effective rate 91.43% in the treatment group; three cases cured, 18 cases effective, nine cases ineffective and total effective rate 70.00%. The treatment group was superior to the control group in curative effects(P0.05). The treatment group was higher than the control group in average blood flow rates of vertebrobasilar artery(P0.01). Conclusion: Modified BanXia BaiZhu TianMa Tang cooperated with betahistine hydrochloride are superior to Western Medicine for vertebrobasilar artery insufficiency vertigo.


The cloud computing paradigm attracts increasing amount of efforts to move high performance parallel applications to run in remote data centres. How to balance the performance requirements of parallel applications and the data centre utilization is essential to the move. Existing parallel scheduling mechanisms normally do not consider workload consolidation for improving server utilization. In this paper, we propose a two-tier architecture to organize virtual machines for workload consolidation. The two-tier virtual machines have different CPU priorities. We give a parallel job scheduling algorithm called Two EASY, which extends EASY algorithm, to take care of the job responsiveness in such an architecture. Our extensive experiments show that TwoEASY significantly outperforms the commonly used EASY algorithm in a datacentre setting. The method is practical and effective for consolidating parallel workload in datacentres.


We report a case of pulmonary hypertension linked to the scimitar syndrome. This is a rare pulmonary vascular malformation. This syndrome, well known of the pediatrics have also an adult form. Its clinical presentation is an insidious dyspnea associated with signs of right heart failure due to a moderate pulmonary hypertension or atrial septal defect. An awareness of this syndrome is important because its prognosis is good and its treatment is medical for most adult patients.


The Wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe microwave background data suggest that the primordial spectrum of scalar curvature fluctuations is suppressed at small wavenumbers. We propose a UV/IR mixing effect in small field inflationary models that can explain the observable deviation in WMAP data from the concordance model. Specifically, in inflationary models where the inflaton couples to an asymptotically free gauge theory, the radiative corrections to the effective inflaton potential can be anomalously large. This occurs for small values of the inflaton field which are of the order of the gauge theory strong coupling scale. Radiative corrections cause the inflaton potential to blow up at small values of the inflaton field. As a result, these corrections can violate the slow roll condition at the initial stage of the inflation and suppress the production of scalar density perturbations.


We present a fixed mobile convergence topology for analog intermediate frequency over fiber (A-IFoF)/millimeter-wave (mmWave) transmission, benefiting from the reuse of the deployed passive optical network (PON) infrastructure, towards future mobile fronthaul architectures. Powerful fully programmable gate array boards located inside the access nodes convert the Ethernet-based traffic to orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)-modulated intermediate frequency (IF) waveforms, supporting the A-IFoF propagation through the optical legacy infrastructure. Coexistence of the 5G traffic with the residential legacy traffic for the field propagation is achieved through utilization of unused C-band channels and wavelength-division multiplexing. To this extent, we experimentally demonstrate the downlink operation of a converged A-IFoF/mmWave link, over Telecom Italia's legacy infrastructure located at Turin. Four-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)-OFDM and 16QAM-OFDM IF signals with ${\sim}{200}\;{\rm MHz}$∼200MHz and 400 MHz bandwidth [considered within the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) New Radio specifications] were generated through a radio frequency system-on-chip platform and optically multiplexed with the legacy fiber-to-the-home services. After propagation to the field, the A-IFoF stream was directly fed to a directional wireless link operating at 60 GHz. Successful PON/over-the-air transmission with error vector magnitude (EVM) values well below the 3GPP (${\lt} 12.5 \%$<12.5%) requirements for 5G New Radio was demonstrated, with a 10.5% EVM for 16QAM-OFDM modulated with 400 MHz bandwidth.


As researchers, one of our common goals is to expand our reach and our capabilities as human beings through the development of new technologies and new ideas. Often we use immense resources to explore this new territory. However, an unfortunate side effect of this essential activity is that the number of individuals that can participate in this search becomes smaller and smaller as the resources become greater and greater. My primary motivation in research is to develop and demonstrate new techniques that substantially increase the practicality and accessibility of technology putting it within reach of more researchers, developers, and end users. My work solves real world problems of applying research concepts by simplifying implementation and reducing system cost. This does two things: first, it enables more researchers to explore the domain advancing the state of research; second, it results in a more practical commercialization increasing distribution, adoption, and overall impact. While I have worked on a wide range of topics, I have been successful in this goal of increasing the practicality and reachability of advanced technology concepts throughout my research. To illustrate, I will describe three examples of my projects and how they have achieved this goal beginning with my dissertation work.


This paper presents the world's first implementation of the upcoming MPEG standard for video-based point cloud compression (V-PCC) on today's mobile hardware. As V-PCC offloads most of the computational burden on existing video coding solutions, real-time decoding can be achieved on essentially every single media device on the market. Furthermore, as the infrastructure for 2D video distribution is well established, distribution and storage of V-PCC content can already be achieved on today's networks.


Stream hydrology and water quality in headwater streams are important components of ecosystem health. The Dry Creek Long-Term Watershed Study is designed to evaluate the effects of upland forestry operations and stream management zone (SMZ) thinning on stream hydrology, water quality, benthic macroinvertebrates, and other biologic indicators. The study also tests the effectiveness of Georgia Best Management Practices (BMP). The study was established in the Spring of 2001 and monitors four adjacent first-order stream watersheds that range in size from 26 to 48 ha. Monthly grab samples and stormflow samples were taken and analyzed for nitrate/nitrite (NO 3 -/NO 2 -), ammonium (NH 4 +), total nitrogen (TN), ortho-phosphate (O-PO4 - ), total phosphorus (TP), and total suspended solids (TSS). Preliminary water quality analysis indicated that nutrient concentrations fluctuate seasonally with similar trends among watersheds. However, nutrient concen- trations during storm events are highly variable with very few consistent trends.


The range of host instar-age categories accepted by Microplitis croceipcs (Cresson), Microplitis demoliror Wilkinson, Colesia kazak (Tclenga), and Hyposoter didynwlor (Thunberg) was invest.igated. Heliothis uirescens (F.) was the host used. To study host instar-age acceptance, females of each species were exposed in the laboratory to 1st instal' larvae, 24 and 48 h old. 2nd instal' larvae, 72 and 9G hold, 3rd instnr Inrvne, 120 and 144 h old, 4th instal' larvae. 168 lind 192 h old. and 5th instal' larvae, 216 and 240 h old. A host larva \"'05 considered to be accepted by a female if she laid an egg in Ihe larva. The full range of host instar-age llccepllHlcc was Lsi inslar·24 h old to 5th inslfIr-240 h old for M. croceipes, 1st instar·24 h old to 5th instar·2L6 hold I'or M. demolilor, 1st inslar·24 h old to 4th instar-192 h old for C. kazah. and 1st instar-24 h old to 4th instar·192 h old for 11. didy"U1lor. Mean development. times for male and female progeny and the mean percent mortality were also determined fol' each parasitoid specics for each insjar-a~c category.


A distributed lock management method based on a storage area network SAN belongs to the network storage field. The distributed lock management method is characterized in that all node servers of a cluster form multiple master-slave mode sub-clusters, namely, Quorum; one node in the sub-clusters is used as the master server and the other nodes are slave servers; the multiple sub-clusters include one State Quorum and a plurality of Lock Quorums, which are respectively in charge of the management of the birth-death state of the system nodes and the management of a read-write visit lock in a name space; the State Quorum is formed by all the nodes and the Lock Quorum is formed by nodes of arbitrary number, the sizes and the structures of the State Quorum and the Lock Quorum can be flexibly configured by the client; both the State Quorum and the Lock Quorum follow the sub-cluster detection protocol, and all the nodes can select the only master server in the Quorum through the protocol to configure a normal Quorum; all the Lock Quorums respectively manages the different sections of the name space, are not overlapped and are respectively vested with different weights according to different service capacities; all the Lock Quorums independently count the load conditions, therefore when the lock management task charged by one Lock Quorum is too heavy, the load balancing process is triggered to distribute part task of the Lock Quorum to the other Lock Quorums. The invention is easy for flexible configuration and has good properties, high extensibility and high reliability.


In this year, the Annual Meeting of the German Rheological Society (DRG) was devoted to "Recent Trends in Fundamental and Applied Rheology." Around 70 scientists working in the field of rheology and processing joined the conference which took place at the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin on March 31 and April 1. The President of the DRG, Professor Norbert Willenbacher (KIT Karlsruhe), opened the conference with a welcome. Then Professor Matthias Ballauff (Helmholtz-Center for Materials and Energy, Berlin) presented new results on start-up experiments of a concentrated, non-crystallizing suspension of thermosensitive colloids. The results of these experiments were compared with predictions of the mode-coupling theory and simulations. The viscoelastic and structural properties of colloidal systems were the topics of two lectures of Günter Auernhammer and Marcel Roth (Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Re search Mainz). The microrheological experiments (e.g., nanoindentation tests) give much insight into the structural and dynamical response on different length scales. Claude Oelschlaeger (KIT Karlsruhe) investigated the viscoelastic properties of mixed wormlike micelles of cationic surfactants. The Quartz-rheo meter-technique allows one to perform shear oscillations up to the MHz range. The application of this technique to the determination of the entanglement relaxation time was discussed by Robert Vogt (Freiburg Materials Research Center, University of Freiburg i. Br.). Michael Kempf (KIT Karlsruhe) established correlations between flow properties and molecular architecture. He showed how Fourier transformation rheology can be applied in order to establish such structure-properties relations. New insights into rheology and processing of polypropylene were presented by Saeid Kheirandish (Borealis Polyolefine GmbH, Linz). The afternoon session of the DRG conference was dedicated to Professor Joachim Meißner (ETH Zürich) who passed away on January 7, 2011. Professor Manfred Wagner mentioned in an obituary the scientific stations and contributions to the field of rheology by Professor Meißner. An invited lecture was given by Professor Ole Hassager (Technical University of Denmark). He thoroughly discussed the extensional rheology of polymer melts using the technique of filament stretching rheometry. An important issue of experimental elongational rheometry is the homogeneity of deformation. This question and recent approaches were discussed by Teodor Burghelea (University of Nantes). The viscoelastic and electrical properties of polycarbonate composites which were filled with carbon nanotubes were the subject of the lecture of Ulrich Handge (Polymer Engineering, University of Bayreuth). The addition of carbon nanotubes to polycarbonate strongly reduces the recoverable deformation in melt extension. Theoretical and experimental investigations on the enhancement of strain-hardening by thermo-oxidative treatment of low-density polyethylene were carried out by Victor Rolón-Garrido (Tech nical University of Berlin). He applied the molecular stress function model which is in close agreement with experimental data. The rheological properties in elongation are also relevant for polymer solutions. CaBER experiments allow one to study these systems in detail which was shown by Oliver Arnolds (KIT Karlsruhe) for, e.g., polyethyleneoxide solutions and different polydimethylsiloxane grades. The award of the German Rheological Society is bestowed every two years. In this year, Ute Keßner (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, now BASF Coatings, Münster) received this award. In her lecture, she presented the main results of her PhD dissertation which was devoted to the influence of molecular architecture and long chain branching on the thermorheological behaviour of polyolefins. In the beginning of the second day of the conference, Professor Corneliu Balan (University Poli teh nica of Bucharest) presented his methods for the rheological characterization of yields stress fluGerman Society of Rheology


Moire appears when two patterns with slightly different pitches are put together. If there is a gap between these two overlapping patterns, the moire will then have a binocular parallax, which allows the viewer to experience a depth (floating above the surface or sinking). We explain how we, by overlapping moire and an ordinary two-dimensional image, produced a prototype "pseudoscopic 3D display" in which the moire had depth before and behind the 2D image. We also quantitatively analyzed the relationships between the moire pitch and depth reproduction. The analysis results closely matched the results of a subjective evaluation test. Furthermore, to verify the effectiveness of our system, we produced two types of pseudoscopic 3D display (print type and full-color moving image display type) , and verified that a pseudoscopic 3D display with moire has visually adequate depth.


BACKGROUND: Dentin hypersensitivity is a common painful clinical condition affecting
72.5-98% of periodontal patients. It has been observed in approximately half of the
patients following scaling and root planing. The current opinion based on Brannstrom
hydrodynamic theory suggests dentin tubule occlusion as a logical treatment for dentin
hypersensitivity.
AIM: To compare the dentinal tubule occluding ability of Pro-Argin based dentifrice and
Carbon Dioxide Laser in the treatment of dentinal hypersensitivity.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty single rooted human teeth extracted due to advanced
periodontal disease were used in this study. The teeth were scaled and root planed. Thirty
dentin discs were prepared and randomly divided into three groups. In group I, the
specimens were stored in Distilled Water (DW); in group II, the specimens were brushed
with Pro-Argin based dentifrice (PA); in group III, the specimens were irradiated with
Carbon Dioxide Laser (CDL). All the specimens were fixed and observed under scanning
electron microscope.
RESULTS: The Carbon Dioxide Laser group showed the maximum number of completely
occluded tubules followed by Pro-Argin and Distilled Water group. Pro-Argin group
showed more number of partially occluded tubules than the other two groups. The
reduction in tubule diameter was also highest in carbon dioxide laser group.
CONCLUSION: The Carbon dioxide laser proved to be most efficient in the occlusion of
patent dentinal tubules. The partial tubule occlusion achieved by Pro-Argin is also valuable
as decrease in the tubule diameter causes decrease in the pain due to dentinal
hypersensitivity.


Correct interaction of asynchronous hardware protocols requires verification. Performance and power of asynchronous hardware circuits and protocols can be vastly improved by modifying them with judicious application of timing constraints. A methodology is presented for verifying larger asynchronous protocols through compositional model checking with symbolic methods. This approach uses Relative timing constraints for modeling timed asynchronous hardware protocols and hence is generic for timed and untimed protocols. This paper illustrates the modeling technique for interleaving and simultaneous models with relative timing, which helps in pruning state space. Properties which are verified for ensuring correctness of composed models are explained. Case studies of a linear pipeline controller and CElement are discussed by applying BDD and SAT methods. The simultaneous model yields better execution times when compared to interleaving for large number of compositions. In the simultaneous model, SAT methods tend to find a counter example in lesser time than BDD methods. Automatic model and property generation, leading to push button solution will enable verification of larger control planes.


With active hardware development, the number of software machine learning-based systems has increased dramatically in all areas of human activity, in particular, in medicine. The use of machine learning elements in software systems requires the organization of a pipeline process of software development, testing


ABSTRACT Ti-6Al-4V is widely used in aerospace, biomedical applications and in many corrosive environments. However, titanium alloy has low hardness and poor wear resistance. This paper introduces a machining method of SiC abrasive-mixed electrical discharge machining (EDM) with magnetic stirring. Structural features and chemical composition were analyzed by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Micro-hardness distribution on the cross section was measured with an FM800 micro-hardness tester. The influence of pulse width and pulse peak current on the formation of the surface hardening layer is analyzed. The results show that a continuous strengthened layer was formed during the SiC abrasive-mixed EDM process. The hardness of the formed layer was significantly improved because of the formation of TiC and TiSi2 phases on the machined surface. With the increase of pulse width, the thickness of the strengthened layer increases and the quality becomes better.


It has been recognized that immunosuppression is often involved in the action of many 'natural' and synthetic chemicals, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, aromatic amines, organometallics, pesticides, oestrogenic agents, mycotoxins and N-nitroso compounds. A relationship between immunity and cancer was suggested by Burnet' and by Berenbaud in the 1960s, but it did not seem generally applicable at that time." The spread of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in latter years has focused attention on the importance of immunosuppression. A possible role of N-nitroso compounds in AIDS has been suggested, when it was pointed out that such compounds could be formed from semen constituents by faecal microflora following intrarectal n-Butyl and other alkyl nitrites, known as 'poppers', have been used as sex stimulants and for relaxation of anal-sphincter tone, mainly by the gay community; these are effective nitrosating agents. However, intrarectal intercourse is not necessarily confined to homosexuals; it has also been advocated for heterosexual intercourse in order to prevent conception. Recently, it was recognized that relatively large doses of N-nitroso compounds (of the order LD,,,) produce a significant immun~suppression.~ This can lead to acute and subacute death from lung (and other organs) bacterial, protozoal or viral infections. Such infections result from atrophy of the lymphoid system, thymus, spleen, bone marrow, etc.4 Experimental animals that survive the acute phase of infection usually develop tumours, which can include lymphomas and tumours of the brain. This effect can be produced even after a single dose, especially when treated with the versatile and effective N-alkyl-N-nitrosamides (Fig. 1) .6 Though the involvement of other toxic agents cannot be excluded, it may be significant that the outbreak of AIDS (and the neoplasias associated with AIDS) occurred in the late 1970s, and the use of alkyl nitrites was estimated to have become widespread in about 1974.8 When used as 'poppers', relatively large quantities of alkyl nitrites are inhaled. These nitrites are readily metabolized to fat-soluble oxides of nitrogen, which in turn might affect the release of physiological nitric oxide, which recently has been recognized as the endothelium-derived relaxing factor.' In addition, nbutyl nitrite has been suggested to be involved in the causation of Kaposi's sarcoma (of the nose, head etc."'), especially of the type found among the homosexuals in the United States.


Several recent case histories illustrate the process of conferring public-utility status on nonconventional activities. Munn v. Illinois established grain storage as a public utility because grain-elevator operators have a virtual monopoly. Other utility-like status was conferred upon American Cyanamid Company's waste treatment facility in New Jersey, Apartment Metering Plan's (AMP of Texas) services to apartment complexes, United Illuminating Company's joint ownership with Prulease Inc. and Southern California Edison's joint venture in a coal-gasification combined-cycle demonstration project. Decisions in the rulings were based on the company's structure, its position as owner or lessor, and the degree of public interest and public use involved. (DCK)


The film The Stanford Prison Experiment is a prototype of a true psychological experiment. It discusses the relationships of power, humanity, and personality in the category of social behavior. This essay focuses on the narrative strategy, narrative style, and aesthetic significance of the film and includes a methodology of narrative theory.


The analysis of the Doppler reactivity coefficients and spectral components of the density and void reactivity effects of a fast space reactor for a lunar or Martian nuclear power plant is carried out. It is proposed to use tablet fuel made by sintering micrograins of mixed mononitride and metallic uranium nanopowder. Variants of different enrichment of nanopowder by uranium-235 are considered. It is proposed to use a eutectic alloy of sodium, potassium and cesium as a coolant. It is assumed that the fuel and coolant contain long-lived radioactive waste from nuclear energy that must be disposed of. From the point of view of maximizing power and ensuring the safety of the reactor, the most interesting is the fuel, in which the share of nuclide divisions in the composition of mixed mononitride and uranium nanopowder is the same.


The foreseen operating scenario for ITER is the type-I ELMy H-mode [1]. Nevertheless, the energy load onto plasma facing components, caused by type-I ELMs is too high [1], calling for methods for controlling them, while maintaining adequate confinement. Several control mechanisms have been proposed and recently explored on JET, including ELM mitigation by resonant magnetic perturbations using the Error Field Correction Coils (EFCCs) [2], ELM pacing with shallow pellet injection [3], ELM magnetic pacing by fast movements of the plasma column with imposed radial electric fields ('vertical kicks') [4]. In this work, the magnetic perturbation spectra of ELMs during EFCCs control experiments on JET are compared with those of spontaneous type-I ELMs. The toroidal mode numbers of ELMs is extracted from the phase of the magnetic perturbations measured by edge Mirnov coils, on the low field side, toroidally separated by 10 degrees (maximum n=11) [5]. The method, based on the combination of wavelet functions and a two-point correlation analysis, allows the reconstruction of the power spectral density P(n,f) over short time windows before and during the ELM crash [6]. For each ELM, P(n,f) has been computed over time steps of 100 μs during a 10 ms window centred at the time of the crash. The n grid is constructed over unitary steps, n=1, in such a way that all wavenumber values (phase shift divided by coil separation) that fall between n±0.5 are associated to n.


In the article is analysed concepts which expose essence of innovative education: «innovation», «educational innovation», «pedagogical innovation», «innovative process», «innovative education», «innovative studies», «innovative technology», «innovative maintenance», «innovative thought», «innovative culture», «innovative activity». Much from them already entered in everyday life, other are innovative or debatable, as set new vision of scientific and practical experience. The presented concepts complement each other, exposing the different aspects of innovative education.


This study examined the effects of in-service training with performance feedback on preschool teachers' use of classroom preventive practices. Three practices designed to prevent challenging behavior were selected: transition preparations, rule reminders, and social-emotional teaching strategies. Following a brief training on each practice, teaching teams received email feedback on their use of the practice and the effects on child behavior. A multiple baseline design across practices replicated across two teaching teams was used. There were increases in all three preventive practices following training and feedback for both teaching teams. The effects on child behavior were mixed.


Nonintelligent factors play an important role in intelligence development andcultivation of creative personnel. Development of nonintelligent factors is tobe carried out through the whole process of teaching. It is closely associatedwith teachers' personality and teaching art, students' humanistic training, renew of teaching approach and curriculum, improvement of teaching environment, and special psychological health education and culture.


A general and operationally simple method is developed for the synthesis of a broad spectrum of biologically interesting triazole units.


The overall technology model is outlined and the objectives and descriptions of the primary and secondary propulsion drives presented. The primary propulsion driver missions are the geostationary platform; the coherent optical system of modular imaging collectors (COSMIC); the 100 meter thinned aperature telescope; and the orbiting deep space relay station (ODSRS). The secondary propulsion driver missions are space platform alpha, the space station, and the automated planetary station.


MYC rearrangement can occur in various Bcell lymphomas, plasma cell neoplasm, rarely B or T cell lymphoblastic leukaemia, and blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm.1– 6 However, the occurrence and significance of MYC rearrangement in other myeloid neoplasms have not been thoroughly investigated.7– 13 Here, we assessed a cohort of 40 patients with 8q24/MYCrearranged myeloid neoplasms diagnosed from January 2009 through December 2020. The study cohort included 23 men and 17 women with a median age of 62 years (range, 18– 83 years) (Table 1, Table S1). At initial presentation, 25 patients were diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), 13 with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and two with myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) including one chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and one MPNunclassifiable (MPNU). 8q24/ MYC rearrangement was detected at initial presentation in 19 patients and acquired during disease progression in 13 patients after a median interval of 18.9 months (range, 1.4– 53.5 months). In the remaining eight patients, the exact time that 8q24/MYC rearrangement emerged was unknown either because karyotyping and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) analyses were not performed at initial diagnosis or because the results were not available. As expected, patients with 8q24/MYCrearranged AML showed a higher leukocyte count (p = 0.04), PB blast count (p = 0.003), and BM blast count (p < 0.001) as well as higher BM cellularity (p = 0.006) than patients with MDS (Table 1, Table S2). Multilineage dysplasia was observed in all 34 cases with slides available for morphological review when 8q24/ MYC rearrangement was detected (Figure 1A). The blasts in most AML patients displayed a nonspecific myeloid immunophenotype, positive for CD4, CD13, CD33, CD34, CD38, CD117, CD123, HLADR, and MPO, and in a minority of patients, positive for CD2, CD5, CD7, CD14, CD56, and CD64. By immunohistochemistry, almost all blasts in 8q24/MYCrearranged biopsies showed MYC overexpression in all 12 tested cases. Additionally, MYC was variably expressed in a subset of blasts and myeloid precursors in the initial biopsies prior to 8q24/MYC rearrangement. Karyotype analyses were performed in all 40 cases. MYC rearrangement was confirmed by FISH analysis in all 27 tested cases (Figure S1, Table S3). At the time of 8q24/MYC rearrangement detection, 23 patients had a complex karyotype. Besides 8q24/MYC rearrangement, the most common additional cytogenetic abnormality was 3q26.2/MECOM rearrangement (n = 21), followed by monosomy 7/del(7q) (n = 19), monosomy 5/del(5q) (n = 8), and monosomy 17/ del(17p) (n = 7). 8q24/MYC had a wide array of fusion partners, with MECOM being the most common (n = 19), while all other partners were observed in only one or two patients. Nextgeneration sequencing (NGS) analysis was performed in 26 patients using various gene panels, and limited molecular testing for specific genes performed in additional 11 patients when NGS analysis was not available (Figure 1B, Table S3). The most frequently mutated gene was TP53 (10/26, 39%). All patients with TP53 mutation had a complex karyotype, and five had biallelic TP53 abnormalities with TP53 mutation on one locus and TP53 deletion on the other locus. Other genes with a mutation frequency > 10% included ASXL1 (6/25), TET2 (5/25), SRSF2 (3/14), BCOR (2/14), BCORL1 (2/14), TERT (2/14), PTPN11 (3/26), NRAS (4/37), and DNMT3A (3/28). Thirtysix patients had followup information available (Table 1, Table S1). All 36 patients received various chemotherapy regimens with or without targeted and/or immunomodulatory therapy. Additionally, eight patients received allogeneic stem cell transplantation (alloSCT). The median followup time was 15.7 months for the entire cohort (range, 1.1– 147.8 months). Ten of 13 MDS patients developed AML after a median interval of 17.7 months, a risk similar to that of the highrisk MDS group defined by the revised International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSSR) or the WHO Prognostic Scoring System including age (WPSSA).14 One patient progressed to MDSEB2 5.5 months after initial diagnosis of MDSEB1. The CML patient developed myeloid blast crisis 18 months after the initial diagnosis of CML; the MPNU patient developed accelerated phase of disease 24.1 months after initial diagnosis (Figure S2). At the last followup, 36 had patients died, including 23 with an initial diagnosis of AML, 11 with MDS, and two with MPN (Table 1, Table S1). The 23 AML patients died from refractory disease (n = 17), sepsis after alloSCT (n = 2), or with unknown disease status (n = 4). The 11 MDS patients died from transformed AML (n = 10) or graftversushost disease after alloSCT for progressing MDS (n = 1). The two MPN patients died from accelerated phase or blast crisis, Received: 22 March 2022 | Accepted: 10 May 2022


Ab initio MP2 method has been employed to study the Criegee reaction mechanism of ethylene with ozone at 6311++G** base sets level, to optimize the geometric configurations of reactants, products, intermediates, and transition states. Energies of various reaction compounds have been calculated using QCISD(T) method at 6311++G** base sets level, and vibrational analysis has been performed. The results show that the Criegee reaction mechanism of ethylene with ozone is reliable, but CH2CH2+O3→M1→TS1→H2COO+H2CO→H2CO2+H2CO→M4→TS4→P reaction channel is not explained. Although possibility of the latter is very small, it exists. Some supplements are given to the Criegee reaction mechanism of ethylene with ozone by our study results. And we also find that the activation energy of the controlling step during the reaction between ethylene and ozone is not high. That is to say, the reaction between ethylene and ozone has a strong activity and the ethylene may deplete ozone.


A Student's Question Some years ago I chatted with a student at Bluffton University about the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective. This student and several of her friends were asking why the article on peace in the Confession appeared so far down in the outline—number 22 of 24 articles. To these students, this location of the […]


Objective To analyze the influence factors of complications in CT-guided percutaneous pulmonary biopsy,and to explore the optimal methods of operation.Methods Totally 410 patients who underwent CT-guided percutaneous pulmonary biopsy were retrospectively analyzed,and the complications of biopsy were observed.Results Pulmo-related complications occurred in 54 patients(54/410,13.17%),including pneumothorax in 18 patients(18/410,4.39%),1 of them had pneumothorax and pulmonary bleeding around the needles in 35 patients(35/410,8.54%),15 of which with haemoptysis(15/410,3.66%),and 1 patient had acute pleura reaction.No severe complications such as infection,excessive bleeding,hemothorax,aeroembolism,needle track implantation metastasis occurred.Conclusion Accurate and skillful CT-guiding techniques and appropriate operation methods are important to improve the success rate and to reduce complications of CT-guided percutaneous pulmonary biopsy.


We investigate the spectrum of the Dirichlet Laplacian on broken strips. It is shown that there is exactly one eigenvalue below the bottom of the essential spectrum for any angle corresponding to the broken strip.


Received: 9 July 2019 Accepted: 16 September 2019 The social network can be viewed as a chromatic graph of relations and entities. Thus, the community discovery in social network is essentially a problem of chromatic correlation clustering. This paper aims to develop metrics to measure the performance of community discovery algorithms in view of nonoverlapping strong communities. Three performance metrics, namely, chromatic density (CD), chromatic cut ratio (CCR) and chromatic conductance (CC), were proposed for thorough analysis on the output quality of chromatic clustering algorithms. In addition, synthetic graph generator was developed to generate sparse networks with few dense and strong communities. Five algorithms for chromatic correlation clustering, i.e. CB, ICB, LCB, OCB and RECB, were evaluated by the proposed metrics. The evaluation shows that the RECB is the most suitable algorithm for the discovery of strong communities in social network. The research results shed important new light on the detection of communities in social network.


s from every manuscript submitted for publication serves as the basis of comparison for this research. Again, the intent is to determine expertise of reviewers against the topical content of manuscripts submitted. If the title of the abstract is vague or insufficient to determine the topic covered, content analysis of the complete manuscript will be utilized. Content analysis serves as an appropriate technique for this part of the research because as Babbie states, "Content analysis methods may be applied to virtually any form of communication. Among the possible artifacts for study are books, magazines, poems, newspapers, songs, paintings, speeches, letters, laws, and constitutions" (Babbie 1995 p. 307). Additionally, content analysis is economical both in terms of time and money-clearly a concern given academic time constraints (Babbie 1995 p. 320).


This paper examines those challenges that affect the implementation of office technology and management programme in achieving its main objectives. Achieving programme objectives becomes a mirage if the implementation is faulty due to shortcomings and other inadequacies which have been the bane of most of the educational programmes in Nigeria. Office Technology and Management is a new academic programme that replaces the erstwhile secretarial studies in Nigeria which seeks to equip its recipients with the relevant knowledge and skills that are needed in this dynamic world of ours. The study covers Ekiti State in Nigeria. Relevant literatures were reviewed. The data collected were analyzed with mean ratings and standard deviation. It was found out that the curriculum of Office Technology and Management, if well implemented, will, to a great extent, address most of the issues and fears raised by stakeholders. Based on this, it was recommended among others that all stakeholders and management of institutions running Office Technology and Management programme in Nigeria should fund the programme adequately so as to ensure the availability of functional equipment and other resources that are needed in order to overcome the seemingly challenges that arise in the course of implementing the programme as stipulated in the curriculum.


Increasingly, genomic analysis is being utilized to diagnose children with developmental delay or dysmorphic facial features suggestive of a congenital disorder. Genetic testing has rapidly evolved, and the genome-wide tests that we use today are significantly different from the more targeted single-gene tests of the last decade. Chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) is now a first line test for children with multiple birth defects, children with intellectual impairment (including autism), and children with an unusual constellation of symptoms that do not fit with a known disease. There are three types of CMA that are currently clinically available. CMA by oligonucleotide array-based comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) compares the hybridization signal from the patient's DNA to that of a reference DNA sample for each oligonucleotide on the array. Depending on the specific array, this can range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of oligonucleotides.


Carrier recombination in silicon is analyzed as a function of doping density. Two mechanisms are identified: one for the low concentration range and one, of the Auger type, for the high concentration range. Disagreements with the theoretical predictions for the Auger process are discussed and empirical laws connecting lifetime to dopant concentration are determined.


Minimum spanning tree (MST) clustering sequentially inserts the nearest points in the R$^{d}$ space into a list which is then divided into clusters by using desired criteria. This insertion order, however, can be relaxed provided approximately nearby points in a condensed area are adjacently inserted into a list before distant points in other areas. Based on this observation, we propose an approximate clustering method in which a new Approximate MST (AMST) is repeatedly built in the maximum (d+1) iterations from two sources: a new Hilbert curve created from carefully shifted N data points, and a previous AMST which holds cumulative vicinity information derived from earlier iterations. Although the final AMST may not completely match to a true MST built from an $O(N^{2})$ algorithm, most mismatches occur locally within individual data groups which are unimportant for clustering. Our experiments on synthetic datasets and animal motion vectors extracted from surveillance videos show that high-quality clusters can be efficiently obtained from this approximation method.


What is the role of Wages Councils? Is their function as a means of protection for the lowest‐paid now outdated? On the basis of research into a number of food shops, the author argues that the operation of the Wages Council system can be both simplified and made more effective, primarily by fixing one minimum rate of pay which is recognised to be the very lowest considered desirable.


Practically, most systems possess characteristics of both viscous damping and Coulomb damping. A model of combined viscous and Coulomb damping is analysed while taking into account the different nature of materials. Different material contact surfaces exhibit distinct coefficients of friction which has an effect on the displacement response of a vibratory system. The study involves analysis of a linear spring-mass damper system by varying its material parameters, taking frictional force into account. The response in terms of maximum displacement amplitude is examined while varying the values of coefficient of friction. Material parameters such as natural frequency (varied by mass and stiffness each), damping ratio and coefficient of friction are studied. The research is conducted using theory of combined viscous and dry friction damping and graphical observations are made to study the response in view of different surface contacts.


People who overdose are not coping, and doctors who intervene to manipulate the environment are reinforcing this. They are saying, in effect: "you are not coping; I, someone stronger, wiJl have to cope for you." The disrupted family has repairs forced upon it, and remembers the incident as a disaster. Allowed to repair itself the family unit can applaud itself on its strength. As a rough guide, if the overdosing can be understood easily in terms of family conflict, and if the overdosing has altered the situation favourably, the patient can be safely discharged from hospital.


The key aspects and features of the new welfare quarantining policy of the Australian government are discussed. The advantages and disadvantages of such a policy are also highlighted.


In this paper, we present a novel method for 3D segmentation of the nerve channels in the human mandible that contain the nervus alveolaris inferior. The technique utilizes geodesic active surfaces that are implemented with level sets. The method consists of two steps: (i) After defining two points, which denote the entry and exit of the nerve channel, a connecting path of minimal action inside the channel is calculated. This calculation is driven by the gray values in proximity to the two defined points inside the channel, (ii) Using this path as an initial configuration, an active surface evolves until the inner borders of the channel are reached. Since this initial configuration is located very close to the borders of the channel, a propagation term is not necessary in this model.


A new algorithm for generating a list of all 2-ary Huffman sequences of a given length n is presented,which can output Huffman sequences in reverse lexicographic order.The algorithm is simple and easy to implement.


High power AlGaN/GaN HEMTs on free-standing GaN substrates with excellent stability have been demonstrated for the first time. When operated at a drain bias of 50V, devices without a field plate showed a record CW output power density of 10.0W/mm at 10GHz with an associated power-added efficiency of 45%. The efficiency reaches a maximum of 58% with an output power density of 5.5W/mm under a drain bias of 25V at 10GHz. Long-term stability of device RF operation was also examined. Under ambient conditions, devices biased at 25V and driven at 3dB gain compression remained stable at least up to 1,000 hours, degrading only by 0.35dB in output power. Such results clearly demonstrate the feasibility of GaN-on-GaN HEMT as an alternative device technology to the GaN-on-SiC HEMT in supporting reliable, high performance microwave power applications.


Aksum was the capital of a powerful kingdom that emerged in the late first millennium BC in northern Ethiopia. At its peak it reportedly controlled territories as far as southern Arabia across the ...


It has been over a decade since librarians first began offering chat reference services to their users. Over the years, librarians have explored a variety of options for providing live online reference. There are chat services that are designed to help users from just one library and others that are intended to help users from a group of libraries. Some libraries restrict questions to ready reference, while others take all questions. There are librarians who monitor the service from reference desks, librarians who only do chat from staff offices, and even some that monitor accounts from a centralized reference center. Librarians have also employed many different technologies which allow them to exchange text-based messages with library users in real time: MOOs, MUDs, IRC, chat rooms, instant messaging, commercial Web-based chat software, VoIP software, and video software with chat components (Francoeur 2001; Sloan 2006). In short, the last ten years have been an era of experimentation and innovation for chat reference services. Currently, the majority of academic libraries that provide chat reference have set up their services along one of these three models: • the library has its own subscription to Web-based chat software (such as OCLC's QuestionPoint, Docutek's VRL, or LivePerson), does not participate in a chat reference cooperative, and offers limited hours of service • the library has set up its own screen names in one or more commercial instant messaging services (such as AOL IM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger), monitors only those screen names, and offers limited hours of service • the library shares a subscription to a Web-based chat software, participates in a chat reference cooperative, and offers lengthy or round-the-clock hours of service In the late 1990s, there were a considerable number of Internet technologies used to offer chat reference; by the early 2000s, that number had shrunk notably. From recent developments, it appears that the coming years are likely to mark another era of expanding technology choices for how chat reference services can be provided. Those who try to predict such developments accurately, though, do so at their peril, as the pace of technological change has quickened considerably and we begin to enter an environment of ubiquitous computing so well described by Morville in Ambient Findability (2005). The ways in which we can offer a chat service are constrained by the technology available. As the technology changes, so too will our services. This chapter analyzes current technology trends and maps how those changes will shape chat reference services in the near future. Before delving into the trends themselves, it is worth taking a moment to sketch the history of chat services. Sloan's research into the history of virtual reference services suggests that the first library-based chat reference service was The IM Cometh: The Future of Chat Reference


On-line partial discharge (PD) measuring has become a powerful tool for condition assessment of insulation system of large rotating machines. Monitoring the trend in PD over time is usually used for interpretation of data but since the PD activity could be affected by operational and environmental factors it is strongly recommended that the periodic PD tests should be performed in the same conditions in order to achieve a valid trending. Operational conditions of machines (voltage, load, etc.) could be controlled more effectively than environmental factors (e.g. humidity). This paper shows the result of an investigation on how humidity affects the partial discharge activity on different insulating systems. Laboratory experiments were performed on 3 different bars/coils in two different ambient conditions and the results are compared to reference data gained from tests in standard room conditions.


We speculate about the space–time description due to the presence of Lorentzian worm-holes (handles in space–time joining two distant regions or other universes) in quantum gravity. The semiclassical rate of production of these Lorentzian wormholes in Reissner–Nordstrom space–times is calculated as a result of the spontaneous decay of vacuum due to a real tunneling configuration. In the magnetic case it only depends on the value of the field theoretical fine structure constant. We predict that the quantum probability corresponding to the nucleation of such geodesically complete space–times should be acutally negligible in our physical Universe.


A series of triaxial compression tests on dry and saturated limestone (soaked in water solutions of Na2SO4 and CaCl2 at 0.1 mol / L ionic strengths with varying pH, and distilled water for 240 days) have been carried out. The corresponding complete stress-strain curves are obtained. The influences of chemical solution on rock mechanical behaviors are studied. Results from these tests indicate that: 1) Dry limestone samples have obvious brittle feature. Even if the confining pressure reaching 20MPa, the sample is still ruptured suddenly. After soaked in chemical solutions for 240 days, the deformation and failure behaviours were changed from brittle manner to more ductile. 2) Chemical corrosion is an important reason for the strength deterioration. With the same saturated time and confining pressure, the strength degradation level depends on ionic components and pH value of chemical solutions. Acidic solutions have the most significant influence on samples' mechanical properties. The study has a good reference to researches of deep rock mechanics, and water-rock interaction.


Art History, Italy and France, 15th to 19th centuries. 5. Marshall, David R. (ed.), Art, Site and Spectacle. Studies in Early Modern Visual Culture, Melbourne: Fine Arts Network, 2007, with contributions by Hugh Hudson, Piers-Baker-Bates, Robert W. Gaston, Lisa Beaven, Christina Strunck, Arno Witte, Karin Wolfe, Katrina Grant, Mark W. Shepheard, David R. Marshall, Ted Gott..


The analysis for negotiation results in a prescriptive negotiation procedure that improves the decision making process by increasing the understanding of the decision situation and by the explaining rationale for decision. This prescriptive procedure is used for the evaluation of stakeholders who negotiate, for guidance when there are tensions between various stakeholders, and for the change in the stakeholders` perceptions when considering the creation of additional value and possible agreement(s). The procedure is divided into five specific steps, based on the standard acquisition procedure. The procedure is applied to the case of acquiring Armored Wheeled Vehicles 8x8 (AWV) for the Croatian Armed Forces (CAF), according to the Croatian procurement regulations.


The four papers presented in this session represent the diversity of the applications of computer science possible in public health and epidemiology. Although related in subject matter, each of the papers stresses a different aspect.


Children born with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) have a higher prevalence of developmental defects of enamel and dental anomalies, and are at an increased risk of developing dental caries. The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence of dental anomalies and developmental defects of enamel in children born with CLP, and to assess compliance with dental prevention. Data were collected retrospectively for children who attended the five-year-old dental review clinic at the South Thames cleft service over a four-year period. Records of 162 children were analysed. Unilateral CLP was the most common type of cleft. Two-thirds (65%) of the children in this service evaluation had developmental defects of enamel affecting the upper incisors. A third (32%) had enamel hypomineralisation. Between 90% and 100% of children over the four-year study period were registered with a dentist. Regular fluoride varnish application was received by 64% to 81% of children and toothpaste with an appropriate concentration of fluoride was used by 72% to 91% of children. Improvements in shared care arrangements between primary dental care clinicians and specialist paediatric dentists are needed to ensure that caries risk is reduced in children born with CLP. This allows the specialist dental services to focus on the complex dental issues that are seen more frequently in CLP and often require a multidisciplinary approach.


72 native maize resources were collected from the Three Gorge Areas in 1996,they are respectively crossed with each of two inbreds derived from the improved Reid and Lancaster germplasm next year.The grain yield and its component characters were evaluated by grey correlative degree analysis.The result showed that 16 of these resources could have potential value for us.Among 16 resources,6 showed better heterosis,when they crossed with the improved Reid germplasm,another 6 crossed with the improved Lancaster germplasm showed better heterosis,and the rest 4 resources showed much better heterosis which crossed with both of the two improved maize germplasm.


A path modification method using the Bézier curve is proposed to enhance pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) information. The proposed method utilizes the encounter information between multiagents. The PDR information of an individual agent contains errors due to integration drift of the inertial sensors, and the encounter locations of multiple agents may not match. Therefore, path modification of each agent using the encounter information is required. In this study, the trajectory of a pedestrian is represented with a geometric curve, and the shape of the curve is optimized for path modification. The benefit of the proposed method lies in the ability to fuse various types of information into the algorithm to improve the performance. The optimized curve always satisfies the encounter condition, and various types of information can be considered in the optimization process. In this study, PDR information, anchor information, relative information, and heuristic information are used. The performance of the proposed method is demonstrated by simulation using indoor navigation experimental data.


It remains empirically inconclusive that fewer South African black doctoral graduates enter academia, and that fewer of those who enter progressed to professorship. This paper uses literature and document review, small-scale survey and key informant interviews (KIIs) to gather data. Twenty nine (n = 29) doctoral graduates were purposively sampled through snowballing to obtain primary data. This paper established that the majority of doctoral graduates would already be old at graduation, and already have had better paying formal employment away from academia and therefore never entered academia. Conditions and requirements for progression to professorship are difficult for the majority doctoral graduates. The South African university education has to be reformed and remodelled to reflect the Dutch and Turkish models in order to fast-track entry and completion of doctoral studies and progression to professorship.


Many previous studies have shown how people with pro-environmental attitudes tend to fly more than the general population. This study examines the minority who have reduced their flying for environmental reasons. It used an online questionnaire distributed via environmental organisations based in the UK, followed up with in-depth interviews with a subsample. These 'reducers' are mainly educated, professional, middle-aged and white. The main alternative to flying is rail, although the respondents report several barriers to international rail travel, which they have had to overcome. Their main motivations are ethical; most have developed strong counter-identities based around sustainable transport. The main barriers they face relate to unsympathetic social norms; this is an area where environmental organisations could and should do more to lead by example


In this paper,application of high-voltage frequency conversion technology in the Second Sino-foreign Joint Venture in Hefei Power Plant is expounded,and in view of the existing equipment and requirements the original induced draft logic is changed and new frequency conversion control scheme design is added.The implementation of automatic control and the changes of furnace pressure control logic after induced draft fan transformation frequency are introduced.The application level of Hefei No.2 Power Plant transformation and the result of reduce energy cost are analyzed.


The present research deals with the assessment of onset of effective monsoon (OEM), dry spells and withdrawal of monsoon 21 years (1998 to 2018) daily rainfall data of thirteen talukas in Buldhana district and sixteen talukas from districts adjoining to Buldhana district were analyzed. For the determination of onset of monsoon and critical dry spells Ashok Raj criteria was used. The spatial maps were prepared by using Arc-GIS software.


We investigate the extent to which resonances between an oscillating background of ultra-light axion and a binary Keplerian system can affect the motion of the latter. These resonances lead to perturbations in the instantaneous time-of-arrivals, and to secular variations in the period of the binary. While the secular changes at exact resonance have recently been explored, the instantaneous effects have been overlooked. In this paper, we examine the latter using N-body simulations including the external oscillatory forcing induced by the axion background. While the secular effects are restricted to a narrow width near the resonance, the instantaneous changes, albeit strongest close to resonances, are apparent for wide range of configurations. We compute the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) as a function of semi-major axis for a detection of axion oscillations through the RØmer delay. The latter can be extracted from the time-of-arrivals of binary pulsars. The SNR broadly increases with increasing binary eccentricity as expected from secular expectations. However, we find that it differs significantly from the scaling a5/2 around the lowest orders of resonance. Future observations could probe these effects away from resonances and, therefore, constrain a much broader range of axion masses provided that binary pulsar systems are found near the central region of our Galaxy, and that the time-or-arrival measurement accuracy reaches ≲ 10 ns.


According to the research status of spray and drainage technology at home and abroad, based on the basic design of the ejector, this paper designs the ejector geometry, and do numerical simulation and analysis for ejection and combination flow field inside the ejector by using computational fluid dynamics method, building structure design of ejectors with pressure-gain for low-pressure gas wells. Verified by numerical simulation and field tests, the results showed that ejector design method is reliable. The operation of the device at the scene is safe and stable, achieving such goals as using energy from high-pressure wells to drive the low-pressure wells to work stably; delaying pressurization and exploitation for gas wells, reducing the cost of production and management. Field experiment is very effective, providing a new channel for us to increase the pressure of low-pressure gas wells and exploit them.


In this article has carried out X-ray phase analysis of the samples obtained using direct laser deposition. Two groups of samples were studied: the first one was obtained with oscillation of laser radiation, the second one – without. The investigations have shown that in the process of direct laser deposition, the α+β phase is formed from a Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy with oscillation of laser radiation.


An original method of higher order curve detection using the straight-line Hough transform (HT) is presented. This scheme is possible because curves in an image can be approximated by small straight-line segments. By combining the straight-line HT mapping
scheme with an associative memory (AM), the method can discrimmate and identify between different curvies. Curves such as circles, ellipses, and parabolas have been studied. This method is computationally very efficient and may yield to hardware implementation, thus making it possible to use the HT in fast real-time applications. The system consists of a parallel analog mapping from image plane to parameter plane and an AM pattern classifier.


Based on drift‐diffusion equations, we show a large enhancement of the charge neutrality in fine particle clouds analytically and confirm it by numerical solutions, in both cases of microgravity and gravity. This observation enables us to construct simple models of fine particle clouds in both cases. Combined with the analysis of the Helmholtz free energy of inhomogeneous systems, our results give a formulation to obtain microscopic structures of fine particles in fine particle clouds.


This paper has introduced the background,origin,management and utilization of Google library digitalization that action has brought copyright conflicts and culture invasion problems.It also presents the reason to establish digital library in Europe and puts forwards to suggestions on library digitalization in China.


This essay seeks to analyze through a comparative approach the current situation regarding the phenomenon of "terrorism" launched by the consequences in the public sphere and in civil liberties. To begin, an analysis and an attempt to determine and define the phenomenon of terrorism is made, within the situation of the conditions of the new politics and moral on a more global level. Conversely, the great complexity of this phenomenon requires the analysis of different perspectives in a more inclusive way. In this context, this study relies on both theoretical and practical approaches to Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida. Support of these two authors in contemporary thought allows us to conduct a fuller and deeper treatment as based on two different perspectives. Habermas seeks initially to conclude that the phenomenon of terrorism in today"s time is displayed as a separate phenomenon and a very specific one, given the size that it reaches and the causes that inspire it. He outlines a comparison between Western and Eastern culture, taking into account the specifics of political systems and optics of religion, to discern the differences and the reasons later on. His basic thesis is that terrorism constitutes a threat to freedom in public space and occurs as a result of a blockage or a gap in a communicative situation between two culture or different actors. For this reason, he wants to develop a new ethos of tolerance and a greater apperception of public space to make possible freedom as both a personal concept and public concept. Meanwhile, Derrida"s approach walks in the footsteps of postmodernism where he wants to use the deconstructivist method regarding the analysis and the phenomenon of terrorism. From this perspective unfolds the thought that terrorism in today"s time is a crisis of autoimmunity that has been produced, somewhat indirectly, by the West. Consequently, another worldview should be used to reappraise and revise the concepts of civil liberties and the concept of territory. Derrida sees the phenomenon of "terrorism" in a systemic form that emanates from the crisis of the Cold War that has been transformed into a new form of the phenomenon of globalization today, outlining somewhat of a threat to freedom as a collective and public concept. Keywords: terrorism, communication distortion, a symptom of an autoimmune crisis, violence, tolerance.


The Northeast is the area which resource cities relatively concentrate in China,with the escalation of resource exploitation,the survival and development of the resource type city faces the serious threat.To achieve sustainable development,the resource cities should give full play to the basic function in the allocation of resources,support of the policy system including finance and tax..The problems exist in such aspects as financial compensation,support connection industry development,financial transfer payment,corporate income tax,resource tax,resource environmental protection tax in the current finance and tax system,unfavorable to sustainable development of the resource cities of the Northeast.The thesis suggests to establish government supports the mechanism,increase the dynamics of transfer payments,widen financing channel,optimize enterprise income tax,reform resource tax,give value-added preferential policies to resource cities in Northeast,take the lead to begin the social security tax in the Northeast and so on,to support resource cities in Northeast achieve sustainable development.


When the architecture is the art of designing a spa ce for certain purposes; the architectural design of the museum is the ability to create a spe cial and inspiring envelop, which provides its visitors with different experiences, according to its cultural message. It became the main place for preserving artworks, inventions, and huma n achievements. The architectural design of museums has passed through many stages from the onset of the concept of creating a space to preserve artifacts, until it became now th e main cultural and educational beacon for communities, which made it from the most important building types. It was developed over centuries until it became a separate building with special architectural characteristics. This paper discusses the evolution of the museum archite cture from the B. C till now, in order to study its evolving circumstances, which had managed its esign concept and the new design technologies, which is affecting its design nowaday s.


OBERHAUSER A. (1987) Labour, production and the state: decentralization of the French automobile industry, Reg. Studies 21, 445–458. This paper analyses the influence of the production process and state intervention on the spatial organization of the automobile industry in France since 1950. During this period, the state intervened in industrial production and labour relations to maintain economic acitivity in domestic regions. The production process occurred in two phases, Fordism and neo-Fordism, and is linked with the changing wage relation between labour and capital. Under Fordism, the automobile industry decentralized to peripheral French regions in compliance with its expanding production and shifting labour requirements. Under neo-Fordism, production was modified in response to the increasing internationalization of capital and the new division of labour. This transformation led to the spatial reorganization of the French automobile industry whereby investment increasingly shifted from domestic to ...


The basic performances of SYNCUROL MAX were studied in comparison with SANDOLIX BUP when applied on sheep wet blue leather.The results showed that MAX possessed excellent emulsifying stability,good resistance to acid,chrome salt and waxberry extract,etc.And the physical properties of MAX fatliquored leather such as tensile strength,tear strength and elongation strength were superior to that of fatliquored leather with BUP.The fatliquored leather with MAX possessed light and fine grain.So,it was shown that MAX was a perfect fatliqouring agent in leather making.


THE WORLD OF lEAN ANOUILH, by Leonard Cabell Pronko, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1961, 264 pp., notes, text of translated quotations, bibliography. Price $4.50. On their leading playwright the French have not as yet produced a major critical work. The only volume-length studies are those by Hubert Gignoux (1946), Jean Didier (1946), Robert de Luppe (1959)-all short, impressionistic essays among which Gignoux's is doubtless the most worthwhile. In English, however, we have the excellent book Edward Owen Marsh wrote in 1953 to introduce Jean Anouilh to the English public and now the more thorough, scholarly study by Leonard Pronko. The World of lean Anouilh is a definition and demonstration first of the playwright's themes and second of the "dramatic values" discernible in his work. That is to say, after presenting the various aspects of the human condition which constitute Anouilh's basic preoccupation-the futility of all man's striving, the inescapable "obscenity" of his existence, his loneliness, etc.-Professor Pronko considers the means by which the dramatist conveys his message. To this end he examines modes of realism, the use of myth, significance of characters, and the device of presenting life in terms of a play. Although one might at first glance think that Professor Pronko's division is the conventional one of themes and techniques, it is not really this. Under modes of realism, he discusses fantasy and fact, appearance and reality, the instability of the ego. Under characters: social types, family relations. Under myth: the use to which Anouilh puts classic lore compared with what other playwrights ancient and modem have done. In other words, technique is not discussed for itself, but as an indirect approach to theme. We can read on the dust jacket: "Throughout, Professor Pronko has sought to illuminate Anouilh's vision of man." With the second part leading us back to the first and the first part, of necessity, already implying what the second will state, we have somewhat the impression of turning around and around the same subject. Professor Pronko is aware of this, for he declares in his introduction, "As in the classics, the structure, the characters, and the style are so closely bound up with the themes that it is impossible to discuss one without the others." I am not convinced, however, that it is not preferable to try at least to isolate the components of an art more completely. Ideally, it seems to me, an analytical study moves in a straight line, without circles or returI1&-leaving restatement for the conclusion. But Professor Pronko's method has the advantage of strong emphasis and persuasiveness. The picture he paints of Anouilh's universe is so vivid and complete that it unquestionably constitutes the major work on the subject to date. Moreover, by its scholarly discretion it runs little risk of being invalidated even though Anouilh may have many more years of productivity before him. There are no impassioned utterances or prognostications like the one Gignoux makes by way of a flourish to end his book-that now (1946) Anouilh has arrived before a wall and can escape only through comedy or religionl In regard to the possible evolution of Anouilh's thought, Professor Pronko's sober assertion that his basic views seem never to have changed appreciably will probably stand the test of time. For him, the differences in the plays merely indicate different focusing. Man's struggle against his past is the theme of the first group; the refusal of reality dominates


Studies on the development of new canned based on Сucumaria japonica and chicken gizzards. The results of the study showed that Сucumaria japonica and chicken gizzards are characterized by a high content of collagen. Sterilization leads to increased protein assimilation caused collapse of the collagen molecules under the influence of high temperature resulting from the disaggregation of triple helices at its components more affordable. The compounding and technology of the new canned by the Сucumaria japonica, chicken gizzards, carrots, onions and flavoring additives. Sterilized canned is a combined products suitable for use in hot form as a main dish or as a starter. 100 g of product contains 1.23 g of amino acids for the formation of collagen, which will meet the daily needs of the human body is 24.7 %. Canned foods as a functional purpose are recommended for persons with reduced power regeneration function of the skin and the bones and joints and the elderly.


Abstract:This article positions Walter Scott's Waverley novels as formative attempts to analyze Britain's transition to coal-based power. Situating the novels in relation to Scotland's drive to transition from peat to coal, the article argues that Scott's investment in coal is reflected, not only in his representation of fuel types, but also in the Waverley novels' narrative form. The novels' preference for passive protagonists and energetic secondary characters reflects an energy politics that valorizes disembodied, coal-associated agencies over those tied to the body. In their narrative form and conflicted politics, Scott's novels register the contested, incomplete nature of so-called energy transitions.


The performance of a charged particle beam blanker in a high resolution lithography system is determined primarily by spurious deflection during beam switching. To achieve an optimum blanker design, therefore, it is necessary to calculate spurious deflection as a function of the design parameters. The spurious deflection of a beam blanker which is composed of two pairs of blanking plates centred about a knife edge is evaluated using analytical methods. The results derived from these analytical methods explain all the important characteristics of such a beam blanker. Despite the rough approximations, the analytical results agree well with more accurate numerical calculations.


Objective To evaluate the inhibitory effect of volatile oils extracted from Alpinia officinarum Hance on proliferation of various carcinoma cell lines in vitro.Methods The volatile oils of Alpinia officinarum Hance was extracted by steam distillation,the proliferations and half inhibition concentration(IC50) were observed by MTT assay in hepatocellular carcinoma cell HepG2,colorectal carcinoma cell HT29,nasopharyngeal carcinoma cell CNE-2Z,thyroid carcinoma SW579 and cervical carcinoma cell Hela,which treated with different concentrations of volatile oils.Results The extraction efficiency of volatile oils extracted from Alpinia officinarum Hance was 1.2%,and the volatile oils inhibited the proliferation of HepG2,HT29,CNE-2Z,SW579 and Hela cells in concentration-dependent manner.The IC50 values of volatile oil against HT29,Hela,CNE-2Z,HepG2 and SW579 cells were 2 352,717,458,431,329 μg/mL respectively.Conclusion The volatile oil components from Alpinia officinarum Hance can inhibit the proliferation of various kinds of carcinoma cell lines to a certain degree.