The study examines the role played by financial inclusion (FI) and
 macroprudential policy (MPP) to prevent financial crisis or reduce the
 severity of a financial crisis going forward using a panel of 138 countries
 covering the years 2004- 2017. To attain these objectives through robust
 experimentation and support policy formulation, we employ aggregated
 measures of FI and MPP and use advanced econometric models. Our findings
 show that, although FI initially decreases the likelihood of a crisis, the
 probability of a crisis increases after a certain level of inclusion is
 reached. In contrast, countries with MPP are less likely to have a crisis
 than countries without MPP. Furthermore, the FI-MPP interaction complements
 itself and plays a vital role in reducing the likelihood of a crisis. Our
 results are robust and could be useful for policymakers to formulate
 policies in order to prevent a crisis or reduce its severity going forward.


In his lectures [1], M. Kuranishi established the theory of the parametrization of the sets of submanifolds and proved the theorem concerning to the dependence on the initial values of the set of integral submanifolds of an exterior differential system ([1], g2.10, Theorem 2). It is based on the fact that his parametrization is well-adapted to the dependence on the initial values of the set of solutions of the system of first order partial differential equations of Cauchy-Kowalewski type ([2], g5, Theorem 6 and g1, Theorem 1 in this paper). In the present paper we consider the system of higher order partial differential equations of Cauchy-Kowalewski type and prove the theorem (g2, Theorem 2) which shows that Kuranishi's parametrization is also well-adapted in this case to the dependence on the initial values of the set of solutions. In section 1 we shall recall from [1] the notations and the results which are used in this paper. The reader is referred to [1, Chapte 1] for the details and the proofs. Further we shall prove a theorem (Theorem 1). In section 2 we shall state our intended theorem (Theorem 2) and reformulate this theorem in another form (Theorem 3). Section 3 is devoted to the proof of Theorerrt 3.


A straight metallic bar, of uniform section, maintained at a constant uniform temperature, has flowing through it at constant density a steady, continuous current of magnitude I. The electric equipotential surfaces are the plane sections of the bar, perpendicular to its edges.


The library bought Analyzer. The librarians went through training. Analyzer still isn't really being used. How do you bring Analyzer into the fold? This session will cover the transition from Access to Analyzer.
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•Working around the limitations of both Analyzer and your staff.


In recent years, the tribology field has expanded with the advent of nanolubrication. Nanolubricants are the name given to the dispersion of nanoparticles in a base oil, and has attracted researchers due to its potential application. In addition to being used in the tribology field, nanoparticles are also used for medical, space, and composites purposes. The addition of nanoparticles in base oils is promising because it enhances specific tribological characteristics including wear-resistance and friction, and the most important reason is that the majority of them are environmentally friendly. This paper reviews the tribological effect of various nanoparticles as lubricant additives. Parameters of nanoparticles that affect tribological performance, the technique to enhance stability, and lubrication mechanism that is currently believed to function will be delineated in detail. Moreover, this review facilitates an understanding of the role of various nanoparticles, which helps in developing and designing suitable nanolubricants for various applications.


The objective of this paper is to develop an object recognitlon system through the combination of 2-D tactile image array and visual sensors. A video camera is used to acquire a top view image of an object and two tactile sensing arrays mounted on a gripper are used to detect the tactile information about the lateral surfaces of the object. 3-D reference object models are established as a decision tree, and recognition of unknown objects is accomplished through measuring and comparing input object features hierarchically with these of the reference objects associated with the decision tree. The clustering process and recognition procedures are described. The recognition scheme has been implemented. The resulting decision tree is also presented.


With reference to the improvement of carbon steel for springs the hardenability of SUP 3 has been studied as follows:(1) Discussion on the effects of the chief chemical components and some hardness distributions, from the statistical data of quality control and other several investigations.(2) Tests on mechanical properties, hardenability and microstructure.From the study, it is urgently necessary to improve the hardenability of SUP 3, and is recognized that the practical mass effect is to be considered in every case.


In Senegal,
few studies have been devoted to non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. We conducted a retrospective
descriptive study of 73 cases treated at the Institut J. Curie Hospital
Aristide Le Dantec for non-Hodgkin's lymphomas from 2001 to 2007. The main objective was to determine the clinical and
therapeutic aspects. Our population consisted of 39 men and 34 women (sex
ratio: 1.14). The average age was 36 years with extremes of 5 and 76 years. The
most common locations were cervical (30.6%) and oropharynx (8.21%). Multiple
locations were found in 30.6% of cases. Only 54.4% have histological exam.
Patients were managed on cytology basis 42.6% of cases. Histology was performed
in 39 patients (54.4%). Among these patients, 69% had aggressive lymphoma, of
which 12.82% had a large B-cell lymphoma among indolent lymphomas (59%). The
small cleaved cell lymphoma was most often found with 78.26% of cases. The
patients were staged with insufficient tools. The protocol most often used was
CHOP (64.3%). The most common complications reported were gastrointestinal
(11%) followed by skin complications (8.2%). Radiotherapy was performed for 6
patients or 8.2% of cases. Therapeutic strategy was most often used as chemotherapy
alone (69.9%). The median duration of follow-up is 18 months.


A population‐based, case‐control study of pancreas cancer was undertaken in Opole, Poland, within the framework of the SEARCH Programme of the International Agency for Research on Cancer: this is the first aetiological study of pancreas cancer reported from Poland where the reported mortality rate has doubled since 1963. This study of pancreas cancer has provided some further supporting evidence of an association between increased pancreas risk with increasing levels of cigarette smoking. The risk rose with increasing lifetime cigarette consumption with a trend which was weakly significant (p=0.061). Findings regarding lifetime tea and coffee consumption were not consistent with intake of either beverage increasing the risk of this disease. There was a strongly significant trend of decreasing risk with increasing lifetime consumption of tea (p<0.001), which was also apparent when the analysis was restricted to subjects who were interviewed directly. For coffee consumption, which is low in Poland, there was also a negative association apparent in the data which was not statistically significant among the sub‐set of subjects who were directly interviewed. The findings regarding alcoholic beverages were overall null, although the weakly positive trend in risk with spirits consumption (p=0.71) may deserve further investigation in view of the special nature of the source of spirits (vodka) in Poland.


Increased globalization and widespread trade liberalization in developing countries since the 1980s has inspired considerable debate on the impact of globalization in general, and trade liberalization in particular, on growth, incomes and poverty. This chapter provides an overview of the issues and evidence in a selective literature review. After considering why trade is important and arguments for and against protection in the remainder of this section, we focus on three issues. Section 2.2 provides an overview of the literature on the relationship between trade and growth, noting that whilst a positive correlation is well established it is difficult to assert 'causality' (whether trade drives growth or growth leads to increased trade). Section 2.3 addresses the related issue of how trade liberalization (trade policy reforms reducing barriers to trade, especially on imports) affects growth, for which the evidence is less clear. Section 2.4 considers the broader issue of how trade relates to poverty, especially in low-income countries (LICs) or sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Section 2.5 provides a very brief conclusion. Economists disagree about many things, but one proposition that attracts widespread agreement is that high barriers to trade damage the economy, especially if there is considerable variation across sectors and products in the extent of barriers (as this induces prices distortions that generate inefficiency).


In this paper the observation process of stochastic discrete‐time nonlinear system is analyzed. The system to be observed is assumed to be uncertain, but fulfilling the global "quasi‐Lipschitz" condition and is subjected to stochastic input and output disturbances of a white noise type. The combination of a traditional Luenberger residual term with a discontinuous one is considered. The designing of the best observer gain matrices is realized by using the Robust Attractive Ellipsoid Method for the analysis of the averaged observation error. The construction of this attractive ellipsoid is based on the numerical solution of some matrix optimization problem under specific constraints of Bilinear and Linear Matrix Inequalities (BMI's and LMI's) type applied to improve the attractiveness zone estimation. Two numerical xamples illustrate the effectiveness of the suggested approach.


A 35-GHz wideband circularly polarized (CP) patch array of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2\times 2$ </tex-math></inline-formula> elements using low-temperature cofired ceramic technology is presented. The widened 3-dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth is achieved by constructing a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1 \times 2$ </tex-math></inline-formula> sequentially rotated CP patch array with small inner-element spacing in the antenna element. The antenna element consists of two close circular patches with diagonal perturbations, and the patches are rotated with respect to each other. The two patches are fed with equal amplitude and orthogonal phase difference using one probe, which has one vertical part and two different horizontal parts. The fabricated array with a dimension of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$15.3 \times 28.3\times 1.3$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm3 shows wide −10-dB <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mid S_{11} \mid $ </tex-math></inline-formula> and 3-dB AR bandwidths of over 29.6% and 26%, respectively. The measured maximum gain of the four-element array is 9.3 dBi with slight fluctuations over 31–39 GHz frequency range.


There is a growing interest in the healthcare community to focus on the healthcare needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or genderqueer (LGBTQ) patients, particularly transgender and gender diverse (TGD) patients. TGD individuals have historically experienced rejection and mistreatment by healthcare providers yet have significant health needs, highlighting the need for providing affirming care. Medication therapy for TGD individuals involves many nuances and special considerations for managing concomitant therapies and drug interactions. Additionally, approaches to caring for TGD patients involve both medical interventions as well as social and legal processes. Pharmacists can assist and facilitate the care for TGD patients through a variety of mechanisms. This narrative review describes strategies to recognize and address many aspects of the care for TGD individuals, including destigmatizing care, affirmation strategies, and an overview of therapeutic misconceptions and concerns. Ultimately, this manuscript serves as a guide for pharmacists to care holistically for TGD patients.


The results of photometry of disk stars in the galaxy IC 1613 are presented. The position of the red giant branch allowed us to measure the distance to the galaxy (m − M) = 24.53 ± 0.10, as well as metallicity ((Fe/H) = −1.75) and age (lgt � 10.1) of disk stars. The variation of the surface density of red giants depending on the distance from the center of the galaxy has been found. Rough estimate of the total number of red giants in the galaxy and total disk mass are presented.


Students' autonomous learning of English by means of multi-media equipment and network resources can extend their classroom learning and improve their language ability.Teachers should guide students to correctly deal with the relationship between autonomous learning and classroom learning and strengthen the guidance for learning materials and study methods.


Abstract Background This retrospective study investigated the prognosis of patients with pathological N1 (pN1) nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods We included patients with pN1 NSCLC who underwent lobectomy or pneumonectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection and achieved complete resection (R0) between January 2000 and December 2012. Patients who received neoadjuvant therapy were excluded. Results A total of 249 patients were included. The mean age was 63.2 years, and 172 patients were males. Of the 249 patients, 200, 20, and 29 underwent lobectomy, bilobectomy, and pneumonectomy, respectively. The median observation period was 5.5 years. The 5-year overall survival (OS) rate was 64.6% (95% confidence interval: 58.3–70.4). Five-year OS rates were 79.8% for positive lymph nodes at station 13 or 14 (n = 57), 59.6% at station 12 (n = 72), 62.7% at station 11 (n = 69), and 56.9% at station 10 (n = 51) (log-rank test; p = 0.016); furthermore, the 5-year OS rate was 75.2% for patients with positive lymph nodes at a single station (n = 160) and 45.4% for patients with positive lymph nodes at multiple stations (n = 89) (log-rank test; p < 0.001). Five-year cumulative incidences of recurrence were equivalent between patients who received adjuvant chemotherapy and patients who did not (45.9 vs. 55.1%; Gray's test; p = 0.366). Distant recurrence was the most frequent mode of recurrence in both groups (70.8 and 67.3%). Conclusion The locations and the number of stations of the positive lymph nodes were identified as prognostic factors in patients with pN1 NSCLC. The primary mode of recurrence was distant recurrence irrespective of postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy.


The purpose of this article is to share some of my experiences of performing, how to actually prepare and practise for a specific concert, competition or examination and how to deal with the dreaded 'nerves' that we all suffer from, to various degrees of course.


In the present study, the dose-dependent effect of the alkaloid vincanine on the contractile activity of rat heart papillary muscle was investigated and it was found to increase the force of muscle contraction at all concentrations. The half-maximal inotropic effect concentration (ED50) of vincanine was 21.8 μM, respectively. Studies of the effect of this alkaloid on the cardiomyocyte Na+-channel in the presence of its blocker lidocaine showed that the positive inotropic effect of vincanine does not involve the Na+-channel. When studying the effect of vincanine on Сa2+L-channels in the presence of nifedipine (IC50=0.01 μM), the positive inotropic effect of vincanine (50 μM) alkaloid was partially reduced. In general, it was found that the positive inotropic effect of vincanine on the force of papillary muscle contraction is partially mediated by Сa2+L-channels and mainly Na+/Сa2+ exchange.


This paper advances the view that risks identified, managed and reported by South Africa's higher education institutions would provide a picture as to how those charged with overseeing South Africa's higher education institutions, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders, formulate potential events that could impact their operations. As such, the main aim of this paper was to explore the nature of risks identified, managed and disclosed by South Africa's higher education institutions through the process that applies the content analysis methodology. Obtained results indicate that in all analysed categories, there was less than 50% disclosure of information relating to the risks identified and managed by South Africa's public higher education institutions. Due to the fact that most higher education institutions indicated that they only disclosed their top risks in the annual reports/ integrated reports, it is conceivable that some of these risks were identified and were being managed by the higher education institution concerned. However, because they were not prioritised as top risks, they did not appear in the annual/ integrated reports. If this assumption holds, the manner in which risks are identified, including scenarios that are considered to get to potential risks is questionable. This is because risk is a long term concept, therefore; risks for instance, that relate to revenue growth and streams should already, in the period that was reviewed had been viewed as significant in light of the ongoing campaigns that seek to eliminate university fees in South Africa.


Despite recent therapeutic advances, prostate adenocarcinoma (PC) progression to lethal castration-resistant PC (CRPC) remains a major clinical problem, creating an unmet need for innovative treatment approaches. Targeted therapies for PC have mostly focused on the androgen receptor (AR) axis, while several other PC drivers, such as GATA2, c-Myc, FOXM1, CENPF, and EZH2, remain undruggable in the clinic so far. We and others have previously reported several critical functions of GATA2 in AR signaling in PC: GATA2 induces AR expression; serves as a pioneer factor for AR binding to chromatin; and also post-translationally promotes transcriptional activity of both full-length and splice-variant AR. GATA2 is often elevated in CRPC. Here, we investigated the role of GATA2 in PC cells beyond the AR signaling axis, and characterized the pharmacological potency of the GATA2 small molecule inhibitor (SMI) K-11706 against PC cells. Chromatin immunoprecipitation and RNA sequencing analysis revealed that GATA2 is a key modulator of cMyc expression, which induces the expression of FOXM1 and EZH2. We extensively profiled five CRPC cell lines following treatment with K-11706, which inhibited the proliferation and invasive behavior of PC cells, and dramatically reduced the genome-wide transcriptional activity of GATA2, AR, and cMyc, leading to downregulation of several PC drivers and AR/cMyc effector genes, notably FOXM1, EZH2, and CENPF. Transcriptional profiling and functional pathway analysis of the K-11706 transcriptomic footprint against curated databases delineated a biological network composed of genes involved in cell cycle/proliferation, stemness, metastasis and DNA repair. In vivo, K-11706 suppressed the growth of multiple cell-derived and patient-derived xenograft PC models. We propose that GATA2 is a master regulator of multiple PC drivers and a promising actionable therapeutic target in CRPC. Pharmacologic inhibition of GATA2, via a potent second-generation small molecule inhibitor is feasible and effective in PC models both in vitro and in vivo. Citation Format: Salma Kaochar, Kimal Rajapakshe, Matthew J. Robertson, Yongcheng Song, Coarfa Cristian, Nicholas Mitsiades. K-11706 exerts potent anti-cancer activity via suppression of GATA2/AR/cMyc signaling axis in castration resistant prostate cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics; 2019 Oct 26-30; Boston, MA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Mol Cancer Ther 2019;18(12 Suppl):Abstract nr B128. doi:10.1158/1535-7163.TARG-19-B128


In this work, we introduce a study on a new generalization for hyponormal op-erators, which is (h, M)- hyponormal operator. Also, we given some properties for this concept, as well as, we solve the - commuting operator equation for (h, M)- hyponormal operators


Objective:To detect the changes of pulmonary function and blood gas analysis in model guinea pigswith Lung Qi-deficiency Syndrome(LQDS). Method:To simulate model guinea pigs with LQDS on the basis of modifying the asthma model formation method by OVA,then detect the changes in two groups,normal control Group(control Group)and LQDS model Group(model Group). Result:Compared with control Group, Respiratory resistance (Re)and Inspiratory resistance (Ri)of model Group were significantly higher. The forced expiratory volume after 0.3 second(FEV0.3)and lung compliance(Cldyn) decreased markedly.And partial pressure of oxygen(p_ o_2),oxygen saturation (SaO_2)and acid-base scale (pH) also decreased,but partial pressure of carbon dioxide (p_ co_2)increased.Conclusion:Lung function of model Group is harmed, accompanying with hypoxia and hypercarbia.


The article discusses the features of the unified customs and tariff regulation of the Eurasian Economic Union in modern conditions. The author has established that it is advisable to consider the mechanisms of state regulation as systems for organizing the interaction of subjects and objects, and the place of the proposed mechanism among other existing mechanisms of state regulation has been determined. Within the framework of the study, special attention is paid to the current conditions of the development of customs and tariff regulation, the procedure for sending proposals on measures of customs and tariff regulation by the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union to the Eurasian Economic Commission, as well as the essence and structure of the mechanism of the unified customs and tariff regulation of the Eurasian Economic Union. The author presents promising directions for further research of the proposed mechanism.


Aneurysmal bone cysts (ABCs) are uncommon benign lesions of unknown cause first described by Jaffe and Lichtenstein in 1942. Although they radiologically resemble true cysts, ABCs actually represent pools of extravasated blood encased in reactive fibrous connective tissue without an epithelial lining. Typically, these lesions are solitary, well circumscribed, and expansile. Although the expanding mass often disrupts the normal bony architecture with erosion of the cortex, the tumor usually is covered by a thin band of periosteal new bone without extension into the adjacent soft tissues.


Many authors discussed the kolmogorov n -width of Besov type function classes in the metric L q(T)(1≤p≤∞,T=). The anthors discussed the Gel′fand n -width and linear n -width of a generalized Besov classes in L q(T). The weak asymptotic behavior was established for the corresponding quantities.


The article studies the main directions of modern education which expands cultural horizons of young people in all possible ways. It is underlined in the paper that it is important to bring up a modern cultured person through his/her interest to national culture, intercultural forms of communication and preservation of national originality.


Double outlet right ventricle is a very rare association in a patient with tricuspid atresia. The anomaly has been documented in a young boy with illustrative echocardiogram, angiographic images and cardiac computed tomographic imaging. The images describing the rare anomaly would be good to understand the importance of segmental analysis in a complex heart disease.


In this paper,the pathogen,symptom,epidemiology and treatment for benedeniasis in fish culture are described.With formaldehyde treatment for 8 days,bendeniasises parasitized were cleared away from the fish body.Bendeniasis,infected by Benedenia seriolae,usually results in feeding decrease and death in cultured fish.Formaldehyde solution bath is suitable for the prevention and cure in aquaculture in a large scale.


The fast development of virtual network functions (VNFs) brings new challenges to providing reliability. The widely adopted approach of deploying backups incurs financial costs and environmental impacts. On the other hand, the recent trend of incorporating renewable energy into computing systems provides great potentials, yet the volatility of renewable energy generation presents significant operational challenges. In this paper, we optimize availability of VNFs under a limited backup budget and renewable energy using a dynamic strategy GVB. GVB applies a novel online algorithm to solve the VNF reliability optimization problem with non-stationary energy generation and VNF failures. Both theoretical bound and extensive simulation results highlight that GVB provides higher reliability compared with existing baselines.


In 1986, Congress passed the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA), which required reporting of physician malpractice payments, medical board sanctions, and certain professional review actions. The very same year, the federal government publicly released hospital-specific mortality information, and Pennsylvania mandated the publication of provider-specific quality data. Twenty-five years later, both HCQIA-mandated National Practitioner Data Bank reporting and public quality reporting remain important tools for quality improvement, but they have quite distinct functions. This essay traces the development of each of these tools, and then discusses three ways that they might be used together to further promote health care quality: public reporting of Data Bank information, the integration of Data Bank data into research on health care quality, and the use of provider-specific quality information alongside Data Bank data as part of the professional oversight process.


A metric that identified labial and coronal place of articulation in English nasal consonants with over 80% accuracy had been developed by correlating distinctive patterns of rapid energy change at the nasal release with each place of articulation [K. M. Kurowski and S. E. Blumstein, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 81, 1917–1927 (1987); K. M. Kurowski, unpublished dissertation, Brown Univ. (1990)]. This study attempted to address two questions. (1) Could the same metric be successfully applied across manner to classify place of articulation in homorganic voiced stops? (2) In the event that the metric failed here, to what extent did the burst onset alter the patterns of rapid energy change predicted by the metric? The same three speakers used in the nasal study (1990) produced CV syllables, consisting of [b,d] followed by [i,e,a,o,u]. The results showed that the classification scores across speakers for the voiced stops (labial = 64%; coronal = 83%) were lower than those for nasals (labial = 79%; coronal = 87%). Still...


surveyed to gain special training in management skills. This latter point was emphasised by the Work ing Party on Management Training (1985) and they further emphasised that Consultant Appointments Committees should be asked to evaluate the training experience of applicants. Enabling future consultants to understand their management role within the network of relationships that make up a clinical team will enable them to act effectively as leaders, where it is relevant, and also to respond to other members' appropriate managerial


We assessed the relative efficacy of two training procedures on children's acquisition and retention of fire emergency skills and ascertained their effectiveness in reducing children's fear of fire. Forty-eight second and third graders were assigned randomly to one of the four groups: fire safety, fire safety/fear reduction, attention control, and wait-list control. We assessed behavioral and cognitive performance on three occasions (pretest, posttest, and 5-month follow-up). Results showed significant gains in behavioral performance at posttest for the fire safety and fire safety/fear reduction groups. The fire safety/fear reduction group performed at a significantly higher level than did the other three groups at the 5-month follow-up. Nonsignificant drops were found in the level of fear in all four groups. We discuss the potential role of self-instructional strategies in producing maintenance and fear reduction among young children.


Objective:To investigate the corrosion resistance property of the modified surfaces of pure titanium by means of plasma ion implantation technique. Method:Nitrogen was implanted the surface of pure titanium.Electrochemical technique was used to measure potential of corrosion(Ecorr),current density of corrosion(Icorr)and polarization resistance (Rp)in different concentrations of fluoride-containing solution.Scanning electron microscope(SEM)was used to investigate the surface change of test samples. Result:The results showed that the corrosion ressitance property had significant differences(p〈0.05)between nitrided titanium and pure titanium in the same solution,and had significant differences(p〈0.05)in the different concentrations of fluoride-containing solution. Scanning electron microscope showed that pure titanium had significant corrosive marks than nitrided titanium.Pure titanium had corroded more heavily in the 0.2% NaF solution. Conclusion:Plasma ion implantation improved the anticorrosive of pure titanium.The corrosion resistance of pure titaum decreased evidently in the 0.2% NaF solution.


Many real-world scheduling problems are suited to a mixed-integer formulation. The solution of these problems involves the determination of the scheduling period. The solution procedure requires simultaneous consideration of these two types of variables. In recent years researchers have focused much attention on developing new hybrid approaches using modern heuristic and traditional exact methods. This paper proposes the development of a variety of hybrid approaches that combines heuristics and mathematical programming within a genetic algorithm (GA) framework for a real-world mixed integer scheduling problem, namely the generation levels for each generator in a power system for each scheduling interval. This paper investigates how the optimum or near optimum solution for the GS problem promising and show that the hybrid approach offers an effective alternative for solving the GS problem within a realistic timeframe.


Kv3.1, a voltage‐dependent potassium channel, has two forms, ‐a and ‐b, which differ in expression during development and at the onset of function in the auditory system. To determine whether cochlear nerve input could affect the expression of these two forms, cultures of the developing cochlear nucleus were explanted in the absence of the cochlear nerve at the beginning of cell migration (Hamburger‐Hamilton stage 28–30), while neuroblasts continued to migrate onto the culture substrate. After 8, 15, and 22 days in vitro (three survival groups), cultures were immunostained with antibodies recognizing either both forms of Kv3.1 or only the ‐b form. Only young and newly migrated nerve cells were sampled. In the three survival groups, all nerve cells expressed Kv3.1, among which only 50% or less expressed the ‐b form. Some of the more differentiated multipolar cells expressed the ‐b form, but most were labeled with the antibody that recognizes both forms. Thus, in the absence of peripheral input, both forms of Kv3.1 appear at stages very early in development, although not all cells necessarily coexpress both forms. These results agree with other observations in the chick embryo in situ. They are consistent with previous work implicating Kv3.1 in cell migration during early development. J. Neurosci. Res. 65:121–128, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Educational narrative research is first developed in the western education research field,which attracted much attention of the scholars in our county at the end of the 90s.Researchers in our country focus on the key issues such as connotation,characteristics,types,academic base,research procedure and path of educational narrative research.Furthermore,there are also some reflections in the process of research and arguments.


There has been much discussion and some confusion over the issue of the various diagnostic names attached to patients who have deletions of chromosome 22q11. This discussion has appeared on the pages of several medical journals, but more often than not, it is the subject of questions from patients who have been given a diagnosis from one source only to be given another by a different professional. In 1995, I wrote an explanatory article for CHASER News, an excellent publication for parents of children with congenital heart disease (CHASER is an acronym for Congenital Heart Anomalies Support, Education, and Resources, Inc.). My article had been prompted after I had seen several CHASER Newsletters with pictures of many children with VCFS who had not been diagnosed previously, or who had been given the label of DiGeorge syndrome. Because the "name game" issue has appeared in print in a number of places, I thought it was about time that it appeared in this Newsletter which is the official publication of the VCFS Educational Foundation. In clinical genetics, syndromes are named in a number of different ways. In some cases, syndromes are named after those who first described them in honor of their scientific contribution. Sometimes syndromes are described symptomatically, by the use of several key findings which appear frequently in affected patients. Some syndromes have been named using acronyms, using the first letters of clinical features associated with the syndrome. In syndromes which are caused by chromosome rearrangements, syndromes may be named by the type of rearrangement and the chromosome involved. There have been a small number of syndromes which have been named in other ways, including using the name or initial of the first known patient, after the place or institution where it was first described, or by a specific metabolic defect associated with the syndrome. There is no general consensus on the best naming system, and as a result, some syndromes are known by more than one name or system. For example, Down syndrome is named after John H. Langdon Down, a British physician in the 19 century who described children with th


The article presents the results of a multicenter randomized placebo-controlled study of the effectiveness of the drug «Forvet»®.
Purpose of research. To determine the effectiveness of the drug «Forvet»® in the complex therapy of infectious rhinotracheitis (herpes virus infection FHV-1) in cats.
Materials and methods. The effectiveness of the drug was investigated in a multicenter randomized placebo-controlled study, which was conducted in two veterinary clinics of the Heliet network (Saint Petersburg) in the period from 09.01.2019 to 31.12.2019.
The experiment included 120 cats aged 5 to 6 months, weight 1.5... 2 kg, with a diagnosis of «infectious cat rhinotracheitis», based on the results of diagnostic studies (anamnesis, PCR, clinical blood test, body temperature, discharge from the eyes and nasal cavity, the presence of lesions on the mucous membranes). PCR and clinical blood tests were performed on the day of the animal's treatment (to confirm the diagnosis), on the 5th and 10th days of treatment. During the study, the animals were examined by a veterinary specialist with documented clinical signs on the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 10th days of treatment.
The treatment regimen was the same for all animals and included the use of an antibacterial drug (sinulox) for 10 days according to the instructions; eye treatment with lotion (chamomile), eye ointment (tetracycline 1 %) ― 2 times a day,7 days. Group 1 (placebo) was administered an isotonic solution of sodium chloride, group 2 (experimental) was administered the drug «Forvet»®― in a dose of 1 ml, once a day, hypodermically for 10 days. Animals in a serious condition were additionally injected with a 5 % glucose solution ― 50 ml intravenously, once or twice a day, until the appearance of appetite.
Results. Based on the analysis of the results of a multicenter randomized placebo-controlled study, the clinical effectiveness of the drug «Forvet»® ― a polysaccharide complex of the class of hexose glycosides as part of the complex therapy of cat herpesvirus infection (FHV pathogen) was established. In the treatment of rhinotracheitis in the group of animals that were used «Forvet»® observed faster elimination of the virus, the return of blood parameters to the limits of the physiological norm, a decrease in the severity of clinical signs of the disease by the fifth day and almost complete clinical recovery by the seventh day of treat


We present full six-dimensional calculations of the bound states of the HF dimer for total angular momentum J=0,1 and of the quasibound states for J=0 that correspond with vibrational excitation of one of the HF monomers, either the donor or the acceptor in the hydrogen bond. Transition frequencies and rotational constants were calculated for all four molecular symmetry blocks. A contracted discrete variable representation basis was used for the dimer and monomer stretch coordinates R,rA,rB; the generation of the monomer basis in the dimer potential leads to significantly better convergence of the energies. We employed two different potential energy surfaces: the SQSBDE potential of Quack and Suhm and the SO-3 potential of Klopper, Quack, and Suhm. The frequencies calculated with the SO-3 potential agree very well with experimental data and are significantly better than those from the SQSBDE potential.


During a series of experiments in which I was lately engaged, for the purpose of determining the law of the polarisation of light, by successive reflexions from plates of parallel glass, I observed that all the images of the luminous body which were formed by more than one reflexion, were crossed by parallel fringes of coloured light, when the two plates had a small inclination to each other; and that these fringes suffered considerable changes, by varying the position of the plate with regard to the incident ray.


1 Widespread concern about global climate change has drawn attention to tropical forests, both as sources of atmospheric heat-trapping gases when they are degraded or destroyed and as sinks for these same compounds when they are well-managed or restored. Although it is encouraging that improved forest management is being considered by international policy-makers as a way to mitigate climate change, there are some concerns about how carbon-based policies will be implemented. With the objective of informing the policy-making process, this paper describes some of the avoidable pitfalls after first highlighting some of the ways improved forest management can mitigate climate change by reducing the emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) while simultaneously promoting biodiversity protection and enhancing social welfare.


© BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2021. No commercial reuse. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. DESCRIPTION Perineural extension of fungal infection is a rare complication that had been observed in postCOVID-19 immunocompetent mucormycosis patients during this pandemic. Rhinoorbitocerebral mucormycosis is an opportunistic fungal infection caused by members of family Mucoraceae. Mucormycosis proved to be the lethal disease in untreated patients with diabetes or patients on immunosuppressive therapy with the same pattern of spread and severity. 2 Rhinoorbitocerebral mucormycosis has been declared endemic by the Indian government recently. Due to the aggressive pattern of spreading in this disease, it rapidly involves the surrounding structures. Cerebral extension of the organism occurs either by direct extension, haematogenous route or perineural spread. Over 2 months, we have observed nine patients with perineural spread involving cranial nerves during this endemic. The peculiar imaging findings in a perineural spread include thickened nerves with abnormal enhancement and perineural fat stranding. Initially, the enhancement in the affected nerve represents neuritis. However, it can progress into a fullblown abscess. The trigeminal nerve is a large cranial nerve with a unique course that enables us to easily demonstrate this evolution line. MRI stands to be the best diagnostic and noninvasive imaging technology that produces threedimensional detailed anatomical images that help determine disease spreading with treatment. This article highlights the role of MRI in the diagnosis of perineural complications observed in rhinoorbitocerebral mucormycosis. Here, we present two representative cases of a 55yearold woman and a 60yearold man who presented to our hospital with facial pain, facial numbness and highgrade fever. On initial examination, periorbital soft tissue swelling and facial redness were found with a history of hospitalisation for COVID-19 pneumonitis in the recent past. The patients were administered steroids during the previous hospital stay. On relevant laboratory investigations, both the patients had deranged blood glucose levels. The patients underwent an MRI of the paranasal sinuses and brain, revealing orbital cellulitis, pansinusitis, abnormal signals in the premaxillary skin, retroantral fat and masticator space extending to the right cavernous sinus (figure 1A). The inferior turbinates and paranasal sinuses also had nonenhancing areas on postcontrast MRI, representing necrosis. In the first patient, the mandibular division of the right trigeminal nerve was thickened and showed heterogeneous signals on all MRI sequences (figure 1B). The diffusionweighted image (DWI) image showed diffusion restriction in the abscess in the nerve (figure 1C). On postcontrast, T1 fatsuppressed images, the nerve revealed peripheral enhancement with central liquefied nonenhancing collection, represented an abscess (figure 1D). Figure 1 (A) T1weighted fatsaturated (T1W FS) postcontrast, axial image shows heterogenous enhancement in the right ethmoid sinus (white arrow), orbital apex (black arrow), extending to right cavernous sinus (thick white arrow) and then till fifth nerve nucleus (thick black arrow). (B) Short tau inversion recovery) image in the coronal plane shows abnormally increased signals along the right mandibular nerve (white arrows). (C) Diffusionweighted image in the axial plane depicts restricted diffusion in the mandibular nerve (white arrow). (D) T1W FS postcontrast image in coronal plane demonstrates peripheral enhancement (white arrows) with central liquefied nonenhancing collection (black arrow) along mandibular nerve passing through foramen ovale. Figure 2 (A) T1weighted fatsaturated postcontrast, axial image shows contiguous involvement of the preseptal soft tissue, eye globe and optic nerve up to the optic chiasma on the right side (white arrow). (B) The path of spread can also be evaluated on a diffusionweighted image (white arrow).


"Civil society" is a concept that dates back to the late eighteenth century, as Silvio Ferrari points out in these pages, and it entered the vocabulary of political philosophy largely through Hegel and Marx. But it became newly fashionable following the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. It emphasizes the importance to freedom of autonomous social groups and institutions below the state and not controlled by it. More recently, it has become controversial and the original meaning diluted by being adopted as the mantle for groups that are sometimes funded and supported by governments and international organizations. This is a significant potential pitfall when confronting problems of church and state.


This paper examines the feasibility of a novel laser-based optical position sensing technique. The method utilizes a laser light sheet to sense spatial position in one dimension, which could be applied to a machining head assembly or a robot arm link. The image of the light sheet is viewed on a flat diffusely reflective screen and is detected by a high resolution video camera and associated image acquiring hardware/software. Position information is obtained by processing the video image. The basic principles of the technique are demonstrated with a simplified experimental test setup for a single (position) degree of freedom. The method offers the advantages of being very simple, extremely inexpensive and highly accurate. The investigation involved a detailed experimental and theoretical evaluation of the potential of the measuring technique. The basic application of the necessary line sensing hardware/software, and a theoretical and experimental evaluation of the repeatability and potential overall accuracy of the method are discussed in this paper.


A device that is capable of creating a series of equally spaced,i denticalp ulses from a inglep ulse is presented. It is useful for studying the time development of transient phenomena.


The central role of primary care providers in the home setting is acknowledged as a key component to improving access to palliative care. It is important to build on the capacity of primary care providers to deliver effective care but it cannot be assumed that care can be shifted without attention to models of care that support appropriate palliative home care.


To define the most acceptable treatment policy in patients with microcarcinoma of the cervix uteri, 218 case histories of this condition were retrospectively analyzed, by taking into account the specific features of a treatment policy and the efficiency of therapy. The patients' age at the moment of disease detection ranged from 22 to 78 years (mean age 45.2±12.7 years). The basic treatment in patients with microcarcinoma of the cervix uteri was surgical a total of 210 patients with this condition were operated on; organ-preserving operations were performed in 51 patients. Seventeen patients underwent radical operation via laparoscopic access, namely, total laparoscopic hysterectomy, ovarian transposition being additional made in young women. Radiotherapy was performed in 23 patients, 17 of them had combined therapy after surgery, remote, contact, application, intracavitary, intratissue gammaor neutron-therapies were used in some cases. The longest postoperative follow-up of patients with microcarcinoma of the cervix uteri is currently 22 years, 7 years after laparoscopic operations; the patients had no signs of progression of the disease. Distant metastases were noted in none case.


This article summed the calculation of the strength of the circular head in the graphite chemical equipment, introduced a new method for strength calculation checking.


The ascidians of the Bermuda islands have already been described by Van Name (1902) and a revision published by the same author in 1921 under the title "The Ascidian Fauna of the West Indies." In view of this the present paper is confined to a brief account of the fauna as a whole, a description of several new species, and a few notes upon certain other forms. The ascidians of the Bermudas are almost identical, species for species, with those of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, and there is little doubt that, together with the bulk of the Bermuda fauna, they have been carried there from those regions by the west Atlantic drift. Like ascidians throughout the world, their habitat is determined as a compromise between two factors, their ability to withstand waveaction and exposure, and their need for a good flow of well oxygenated water. They may accordingly be divided into three groups, those to be found only under stones, those attached to the upper surfaces of stones, or to various corals and sea-fans, and those found beyond the outer reefs.


Integral cross sections and product velocity distributions were measured for reaction of acetaldehyde cation with methanol over a center-of-mass collision energy range from 0.1 to 2.2 eV. Reactivity is dominated by exoergic proton transfer (PT), which is strongly suppressed by collision energy, and mildly suppressed by CH3CHO+ vibrational excitation. PT is complex-mediated at low energies, switching to a direct stripping mechanism at high energies. Of the two possible PT channels, it appears that transfer of the aldehyde proton dominates. Hydrogen abstraction (HA) is a minor channel at low collision energies, also complex-mediated. Abstraction is observed from both hydroxyl and methyl sites on methanol, and the two channels have different, and counterintuitive collision energy dependence. Despite being exoergic, with no barriers, the HA channel shows apparent threshold behavior, attributed to competition with the dominant PT channel. The competition indicates that different intermediate complexes must int...


The main topic of this paper deals with the stress analyses—tests dialogue in composite structures considering the influence of the manufacturing conditions of composite material within the structure. The scientific interest of embedded instrumentation exploited through a multiscale approach featuring optical fibers with Bragg gratings is discussed. The multiscale material requests multiscale data for calculation. The addressable scales are thus macro (or structural) scale and meso (ply) scale concerning specimens representative of aeronautical structures (whether instrumented or not). Discrepancies on both meso and macro scales obtained between the measurements and the calculations are evaluated regarding the variability of the numerical input data (i.e., elastic characteristics on average of the composite material).


Deuterium is a stable isotope of hydrogen.It is colorless,inodorous,nontoxic and inflammable at room temperature.Deuterium gas is used in nuclear power,fusion power,lasers,lighting and so on.As the development of science and technology,it will be used more widely,and study on the preparation and separation of deuterium gas will be more important.This paper summarizes the methods of preparation of deuterium gas,which include liquid hydrogen rectify,heavy water electrolysis,Pd/alloy film(metal hydride),gas chromatography,lasers separation,and then there is a brief introduction of present situation of heavy water electrolysis for high purity deuterium gas.The paper also looks into the research and application perspective of deuterium gas.


This article1 presents a feminist critique of the Brazilian film industry through the analysis of the representation of black women in the highest-grossing movies released over the last years. Our effort is divided into three parts: first, we review the literature on gender and race in Brazilian film, showing that the interplay between these categories have been seldom explored and the few works that do it suffer from methodological flaws; then we make a descriptive quantitative analysis on the profile of the topgrossing movies produced in Brazil; and, finally, we propose a typology of stereotypes associated with black and brown female protagonists. The results allow us to conclude that black women are still severely underrepresented and predominantly represented by negative stereotypes that convey oversexualization, mischievousness, and domesticity.


The OpenOrbiter spacecraft aims to demonstrate the efficacy of the Open Prototype for Educational Nanosats (OPEN) framework. Software is an important part of this framework. This paper discusses the operating software for the spacecraft (which runs on top of the Linux operating system to command spacecraft operations). It presents an overview of this software and then pays particular attention to the aspects of software design that enable onboard autonomy. It also discusses the messaging scheme that is used onboard and the testing and validation plan. Finally, it discusses system extensibility, before concluding.


Antisolvent precipitation aided by polymeric additives has increasingly been explored as a method to produce micron-sized/submicron particles of active pharmaceutical ingredients with low aqueous solubility—so as to enhance their dissolution rate and absorption efficiency. This work is aimed toward understanding the role of these additives in mediating crystal nucleation and the growth process. Nucleation kinetics of naproxen, a poorly water-soluble drug, from an ethanol–water solvent mixture at various solute concentrations and in the presence of additives such as polyvinylpyrolidone (PVP) and hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose (HPMC) was investigated. At a given supersaturation, the crystal nucleation rate was calculated from probability distribution of the induction times measured in stirred, small-volume batch solutions. The analysis revealed that PVP additive significantly promotes the nucleation kinetics in the entire range of supersaturation examined, whereas the effect of HPMC on the nucleation kineti...


Let $G$ be a (multi) graph on the vertex set $V=\{0,1,\ldots ,n\}$ with root $0$. The $G$-parking function ideal $\mathcal{M}_G$ is a monomial ideal in the polynomial ring $R=\mathbb{K}[x_1,\ldots ,x_n]$ over a field $\mathbb{K}$ such that $\dim_{\mathbb K}\left(\frac{R}{\mathcal{M}_G}\right)=\det\left(\widetilde{L}_G\right)$, where $\widetilde{L}_G$ is the truncated Laplace matrix of $G$ and $\det\left(\widetilde L_G\right)$ is the determinant of $\widetilde L_G$. In other words, standard monomials of the Artinian quotient $\frac{R}{\mathcal{M}_G}$ correspond bijectively with the spanning trees of $G$. For $0\leq k\leq n-1$, the $k$-skeleton ideal $\mathcal{M}_G^{(k)}$ of $G$ is the monomial subideal $\mathcal{M}_G^{(k)}=\left\langle m_A:\emptyset\neq A\subseteq[n]\text{ and }|A|\leq k+1\right\rangle$ of the $G$-parking function ideal $\mathcal{M}_G=\left\langle m_A : \emptyset \neq A\subseteq[n]\right\rangle\subseteq R$. For a simple graph $G$, Dochtermann conjectured that $\dim_{\mathbb K}\left(\frac{R}{\mathcal{M}_G^{(1)}}\right)\geq\det\left(\widetilde{Q}_G\right)$, where $\widetilde Q_G$ is the truncated signless Laplace matrix of $G$. We show that Dochtermann conjecture holds for any (simple or multi) graph $G$ on $V$.


This presentation is a review of the timeline for Apollo's approach to Planetary Protection, then known as "Planetary Quarantine." Return of samples from Apollo 11, 12 and 14 represented NASA's first attempts into conducting what is now known as "Restricted Earth Return," where return of samples is undertaken by the Agency with the utmost care for the impact that the samples may have on Earth's environment due to the potential presence of microbial or other life forms that originate from the parent body (in this case, Earth's Moon).


This paper presents a generic recursive algorithm for fault-tolerant computing. The algorithm uses recursive majority voting to achieve fault tolerance on a multiprocessor system. Both space and time redundancy are employed dynamically in the algorithm. By defining different parameters, the algorithm can be applied to different situations. The correctness and performance analysis of the algorithm are also described.<<ETX>>


Using two very simple coin-toss games, we demonstrate how the laws of probability affect wealth distribution. Even in a group of people who are identical in every way and are only subject to random costs (such as that incurred from severe weather, major illness, and bad accidents) or random benefits (such as those derived from lucky breaks), the distribution of wealth will be nudged towards taking the shape of the normal distribution's cousin, the probit, with its very unequal allocation. The larger these random costs and benefits are and the more frequently they occur, the more severe inequality will become. Moreover, the inequality will tend to be most extreme at the very top and very bottom of the wealth distribution, reflecting the asymptotic curls at either end of the probit curve.


Ultrasonic pen and white board digitizing systems are a rapidly growing market for PVDF transducers, utilizing an ultrasonic transmitter in the pen tip and two stationary ultrasonic receivers. The transmitter is constructed of piezoelectric PVDF welded into a cylindrical shape. Radius vibration (breathing mode) creates an 80‐kHz airborne acoustic wave. The initial cycle is used to determine the time of flight, used to calculate the pen position by triangulation. An ideal cylindrical transmitter would have a uniform 360 horizontal radiation pattern. However, practical devices have a 65% to 85% minimum/maximum ratio for the initial pressure peak. A novel acoustic probe was devised to investigate this nonuniformity. The probe tip is a needle with 0.5‐mm through hole, and the acoustic wave propagates through the needle to a conventional reference microphone. The probe was positioned using a precision XYZ stage. Investigations with this probe revealed the details of the nonuniformity in horizontal radiated pre...


Constniction of the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) systems might help Croatia to meet the Kyoto targets in the next decade already. There are various reservoir formations in the southern Pannonian Basin and in the Adriatic off-shore that could be prepared for this permanent, geological storage. Not only favourable natural conditions exist, but also the pipeline transport system and potential of the developed upstream part of the oil industry. Depleted oil and gas pools might be used in the beginning, particularly in the initiated EOR operations, but by far the largest potential is seen in the regionally extending deep saline aquifers.


Objective:To investigate medical students' evaluation of occupational reputation of medical doctors.Methods:970 undergraduates were asked to finish self-designed scale of occupational reputation of doctors.Results:①Their evaluation of occupational reputation of doctors was relatively high.②Significant differences existed in occupational reputation among different speciality doctors.Reputation of surgery,gynecology,ophthalmology were the highest;and pharmaceutics,clinical laboratory,and prevention medicine were the lowest.③There were differences in the evaluation of occupational reputation among majors,sex,and grades.Evaluation of female,clinical majors and lower grades undergraduates on occupational reputation was significantly higher than male,nursing and higher grades undergraduates.④The five following occupations that the college students like best by descending were:surgery,gynecology,cardiology,cardiogical surgery and ophthalmology.⑤Main related factors of the evaluation of occupational reputation were professional skills,respectation,social contribution,knowledge,and income.Conclusion:Occupational reputation of doctors was relatively high in the occupational reputation hierarchy.


The near isogenic line (NIL) with a new gene Xa23 for resistance to bacterial blight (BB) was developed and designated as CBB23 in 1993-1998. A susceptible indica variety JG30 with improved plant type was used as a recurrent parent. The progenies derived from the cross JG30/H 4 harboring the gene Xa23 were developed by back cross until BC 5, and selfing for 4 times. Evaluation of the resistance gene Xa23 with specific strain P6 and selection of plant type successively were carried out till the line showing stable resistance and agronomic characters similar to the recurrent parent. Comparison of reaction for resistance spectrum to 20 strains including 10 Philippine races, 3 Japanese races, and 7 Chinese pathotypes between CBB23(carrying Xa23 )and IRBB21(carrying Xa21) was made. Xa23 is resistant to all 20 strains, and Xa21 is resistant to 19 strains and highly susceptible to the Philippine race 10. The NIL CBB23 was used to establish segregation populations of JG30/CBB23 for mapping the gene Xa23. The gene was located on rice chromosome 11 in the preliminary tagging by screening SSR. Three AFLP markers screened are closely linked with Xa23. The genetic distance between APKj23 and Xa23 is about 1.0 cM. The NIL is also valuable in rice breeding.


Self-care does not only empower patients, it also empowers the healthcare assistant (HCA). At Culm Integrated Centre for Health, self-care means educating patients to feel they can care for themselves at home. We want patients to feel confident enough to self care for coughs, colds, headaches, sprains, and sore throats, without feeling like they need to see a doctor.


Improvement of Fault-ride through (FRT) capability of grid integrated Doubly Fed Induction Generators (DFIGs) in wind energy system is an major issue of the power industry. In this paper a Novel Active Crowbar Protection (NACB_P) system is proposed and designed to enhance the Fault-ride through (FRT) capability of DFIG so as to improve the system stability. The importance of NACB_P is to maintain the connection of DFIG with the grid during fault condition to provide uninterruptable power supply to the loads. The major function of the capacitor used in the protection circuit is to eliminate the ripples generated in the rotor current and to protect the converter as well as the DC-link capacitor. The main objectives of the proposed approach are: minimisation of magnitude of rotor fault currents, maintaining constant DC-link voltage and the reactive power profile of the system. The proposed scheme is validated through a 1.7 MVA DFIG based WECS with different fault conditions in MATLAB/Simulation. An Experimental analysis is presented in this paper taking three phase grid fault into consideration.


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The eating habits and prevalences of overweight and obesity in 6-15 years-old school children living in the Villages of Mu?la center
The aim of this study is to determine the eating habits and prevalence of overweight and obesity in the 6-15 age group school children attending primary school in the villages of Mu?la Center and compare it with studies of other countries.
In this study, eating habits and obesity prevalence in 1170 (564 girls, 606 boys) children, aged 6-15 years living in the villages of Mu?la (Center) were studied. With this purpose, the weight, height, age, sex and eating habits of 1170 (78.2% of the whole group) out of 1497 students in 9 village primary schools, were determined by a questionnaire.
Results showed that, of all the students, 17.1% were overweight and that 7.1% were obese. It was determi-ned that 18.1% of all girl students were overweight, 6.6% of all girl students were obese; of the boy students, 16.0% were overweight and 7.6% were obese. An important relation was observed between watching TV and snacking (p0.05). The highest obesity rate in boy students was observed in 10 year-old group (26.1%). The highest obesity rate in girl students was observed in 11 year-old group (24.3%). There was a positive relationship between parents' and children's obesity. In terms of eating habits, statistically significant difference was found between those who ate honey and vegetable meal without meat at breakfast, lunch and dinner those who didn't (p


Diatomite porous ceramics of good quality were made from diatomite,some other additives and pore-forming agent by balling machine in this experiment.With the change of the amount of pore-forming agent and firing schedule,the main characters of the porous ceramics are change as follow: porosity from 53% to 72%,density from 1.3 g/cm3 to 0.78 g/cm3,and compressive strength from 13 MPa to 6.8 MPa.Further more,the reason that dolomite could improve the performance of porous ceramics was discussed.


Abstract In 2012, the Joint Commission issued a mandate that accredited hospitals must take into consideration the needs of patients with complex communication needs. Stemming from this mandate cam...


Pulse generator for a device for production data acquisition, transmission arrangement with an encoder, tachographs arrangement and method for generating an output signal for a device for data acquisition in a vehicle The invention relates to a pulse generator (1) for a device for data acquisition in a vehicle comprising a rotatable magnetic field generator (13), a sensor head (2) with at least one magnetic field sensor (3) and an evaluation unit (4). The encoder is characterized by a trained as a further magnetic field sensor reference sensor (10), the magnetic field generated outside of the magnetic field generator (13) is arranged, wherein the evaluation unit (4) is adapted to generate an output signal (18) a) For example, a sensor signal (5) as well as a (by the reference sensor 10) generated reference signal (16) and / or the b a (from the sensor signal 5) and the reference signal comprises) (16) derived variable and / or a (from the sensor signal 5) and the reference signal (16) generated resultant signal.


The effect of edible coating of gelatin (1, 2 and 3%) containing aqueous extract of rosemary (1% and 2%) on physiochemical (pH, total volatile nitrogen, peroxide values and water holding capacity) and microbiological (psychrotrophic) properties of duck fillet were evaluated. The pH of coated samples were significantly (plessthan0.05) lower than that of untreated sample. TVN (total volatile nitrogen) value increased with storage period in all the samples but coatings significantly decreased production of TVN compared to the control. Also the coatings decreased lipid oxidation of the meat as rosemary postponed primary oxidation of fillet, while this parameter in control group was sharply increased by time. WHC (water holding capacity) increased significantly (plessthan0.05) with storage period and level coatings. Coating had a significant reducing effect on growth of psychrotrophic bacteria during 9 days at 4°C. In conclusion, gelatin edible coating enriched with rosemary could retard chemical and microbial reactions related to spoilage of meat during refrigerated storage.


Annealing effect of granular ZnO has been studied by Doppler broadened electron positron annihilated γ-ray (0.511 MeV) line shape measurement. Ratio curve analysis shows that granular ZnO samples contain both Zn and O vacancies. Such defects exist as agglomerates of several vacancies and start to recover above 400 °C annealing. It has also been observed that due to annealing temperature difference of 125 °C (from 325 °C to 450 °C), huge change occurs in low temperature photoluminescence (PL) of ZnO. Significant reduction of free to bound (FB) transition ~3.315 eV is observed for increasing the annealing temperature. It has been conjectured that ~3.315 eV PL in ZnO is related to particular decoration (unknown) of both Zn and O vacancies. The methodology of revealing defect-property correlation as employed here can also be applied to other types of semiconductors.


Political polarization is a growing phenomenon in numerous countries around the world. In many cases, this polarization is leading to a divergence between the positions of elected decision makers, creating a loss of middle-ground and compromise, which is in turn causing the democratic process to grind to a halt. The causes of this polarization are both contentious and numerous, with many sociologists, political scientists, economists, and historians weighing in on the matter. Although computer science cannot comment on the causes, we may be able to develop group decision making algorithms and tools to help ameliorate the situation. In this paper we outline some general research proposals on the possibility of combining machine learning techniques with results from computational social choice to mitigate the polarization. Specifically, we focus on the design of multi-winner voting rules that are both efficiently computable and have provable guarantees on desirable properties such as proportionality and representation. We hope that research advances in these areas can have concrete impact on fighting political polarization.


Magnetic field direction often has a great influence on material properties, such as critical current densities of tape-shaped superconductors. To determine the influence, an object is usually rotated in a fixed magnetic field. This method, however, is not always effective. We are developing a superconducting magnet that can change its field direction continuously in a two-dimensional plane. Two sets of split-pair coils are placed perpendicularly to each other, and the perpendicular magnetic fields generated by each split-pair coil are superimposed. By independently controlling the operating current of each split-pair coil, the direction of the superimposed magnetic field can be changed continuously. The coils are wound with Ni-Ti conductors. The variable field-direction magnet is designed to rotate a field of 1 T. The field homogeneity is estimated to be less than 1% in a 10-mm diameter sphere volume. This is a conduction-cooled superconducting magnet with 4K-GM refrigerators. Predictions derived by numerical calculations show that the electromagnetic forces among coils are quite large.


The equipment maintenance is defined. Equipment maintenance modes are classified, analyzed and compared, which virtues and demerits are pointed out. At last, an equipment maintenance modes selection decision-making frame is advanced, and steps to select and perform equipment maintenance are given.


The study aims to delineate the Groundwater Potential Zones (GPZ) of Vaippar Basin. Groundwater potential zone identification can be done using advanced as well as recently developed geospatial technology such as Remote Sensing and GIS. The groundwater potential zone analysis done by using spatial layers like geology, geomorphology, rainfall, lineament, land use/land cover, drainage density, soil texture, soil depth etc. Suitable weightage and ranks are assigned to these layers based on its influence on groundwater occurrence. The weighted layers are integrated in GIS Environment and which demarcates the actual zones of groundwater potential zones. These results can be helpful for identifying intensity of groundwater potential zone. Groundwater Potential Zone Index (GWPI) in this index calculated the area of all these using thematic layers. This index mentioned about the spatial layer coverage area and percentages area in sq.km of Vaippar basin. Groundwater potential zones are divided into four zones such as very high, high, low, and very low.


This small book is actually a thesis and as such represents some clinical research conducted by the author. He observed 26 patients with chronic simple glaucoma over a long period of time and discusses the glaucoma problem mainly as he observed it in these patients. Although his findings and conclusions do not offer anything new, nevertheless, this book does have a useful purpose. The real meat of this thesis is not so much the clinical history of these 26 patients but the general discussion that follows. In this discussion the author combines skillfully the views of the so-called mechanistic school with the teachings of the neuro-vascular theory as expressed by Duke-Elder. By combining the "best of both worlds" the author presents a logical and convincing viewpoint concerning the mechanism of action and natural history of chronic simple glaucoma. Some of the conclusions of this thesis are startling, eg, the statement


The PH-Pfaffian topological order has been proposed as a candidate order for the $\nu=5/2$ quantum Hall effect. The PH-Pfaffian liquid is known to be the ground state in several coupled wire and coupled stripe constructions. No translationally and rotationally invariant models with the PH-Pfaffian ground state have been identified so far. By employing anyon condensation on top of a topological order, allowed in an isotropic system, we argue that the PH-Pfaffian order is possible in the presence of rotational and translational symmetries.


Introduction: Surgery has been the mainstay of macular hole treatment since the first description of its success. Different techniques are, however, described. Our case report looks into the use of the inverted flap technique for managing patients with posttraumatic full thickness macular holes with a single day supervised face down positioning and air tamponade. Case Report: A 32-year-old young man sustained blunt ocular trauma to his left eye while under training seven months prior to presentation with reduced central vision and metamorphopsia. On examination visual acuities were best corrected 6/6 in the right and 6/60 in the left, anterior segments were normal. Fundoscopy revealed flat retinae, and extensive linear chorioretina scars in the posterior pole suggestive of healed choroidal ruptures and a posttraumatic stage 4 full thickness macular hole (FTMH) in the left. The FTMH measured 877 μm on optical coherence tomography (OCT). The patient had a macular hole surgery using the inverted flap technique with one-day face down positioning and air tamponade. Significant hole closure was seen in the first postoperative week and by six weeks after surgery, the macular hole was fully closed and vision improved to 6/6 best corrected. The inverted flap technique with air tamponade and one day face down positioning can offer another option to retina surgeons treating complex macular holes. Early visual recovery and ability to undertake air travel immediately after surgery is an Olufemi Oderinlo, FRCS(Ed), FWACS, DROCOphth1, Adekunle Olubola Hassan, FRCS, FRCOphth, FWACS1, Ogugua Okonkwo, FRCSEd, FWACS, DROCOphth1 Affiliation: 1Eye Foundation Hospital, 27 Isaac John Street, GRA Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. Corresponding Author: Olufemi Oderinlo, Eye Foundation Hospital, Institution, 27 Isaac John Street, GRA Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria; Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Received: 30 April 2020 Accepted: 08 June 2020 Published: 18 June 2020 PEER REVIEWED | OPEN A CE S additional advantage. Conclusion: Using the inverted flap technique for surgery provides surgeons with another option for repair of complex FTMHs, like those secondary to trauma that have been known to respond poorly to initial standard repair.


Nonlinear interactions that occur in an optical amplifier between the carrier density and multiple optical signals, are described using a small-signal analysis. In multifrequency lightwave systems with channel separations less than 1 GHz, the ratio of the signal power to the total intermodulation interference may be less than 25 dB, for total output intensities 10 dB below the amplifier saturation intensity.


In this work we measure two important phenomenological parameters of corona (and hot accretion flow) in black hole X-ray binaries: the photon index Γ and the electron temperature . Thanks to the capability of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array in hard X-rays, we measure these two parameters over six orders of magnitude in the 0.1–100 keV X-ray luminosity , from ∼5 × 1038 down to as low as ∼5 × 1032 . We confirm the existence of a "V"-shaped correlation between Γ and . Surprisingly, we observe a "Λ"-shaped correlation between and . The "cooler when brighter" branch in the high-luminosity regime ( ≳ 3 × 1036 ) agrees with previous results and can be understood under the existing model of Compton scattering in the corona. On the other hand, the apparent "cooler when fainter" (positive – correlation) branch in the low-luminosity regime ( ≲ 3 × 1036 ) is unexpected, thus it puts a new challenge to existing models of hot accretion flow/corona.


Code clone management has been shown to have several benefits for software developers. When source code evolves, clone management requires a mechanism to efficiently and incrementally detect code clones in the new revision. This paper introduces an incremental clone detection tool, called ClemanX. Our tool represents code fragments as subtrees of Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs), measures their similarity levels based on their characteristic vectors of structural features, and solves the task of incrementally detecting similar code as an incremental distance-based clustering problem. Our empirical evaluation on large-scale software projects shows the usefulness and good performance of ClemanX.


Do you know the warning signs of life threatening purpura? Dr. Roderick Hay outlines what you need to know about potentially life-threatening conditions involving purpura.


In this paper we present a novel global optimization method for solving continuous nonlinear optimization problems. This method is based on an exact quadratic regularization (EQR). It allows the given problems to convert to equivalent problem maximization the norm of a vector on a convex set. Such problems are easier to solve than general nonlinear optimization problems. For the solution of these problems we use only primal-dual interior point method and a dichotomy search. The comparative numerical experiments have proved that EQR method to be very efficient.


Authors Diptimayee Mallik, Bhavna Sriramka, Sudeep Mohapatra, Megha Khetan* Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, IMS and SUM hospital, Siksha "O" Anusandhan University (Deemed to be), K8, Kalinga nagar, Bhubaneswar-751003, Odisha, India *Correspondence Author Megha Khetan Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, IMS and SUM hospital, Siksha "O" Anusandhan University (Deemed to be), K8, Kalinga nagar, Bhubaneswar-751003, Odisha, India Abstract Utilization of pneumatic tourniquet is a normal practice in most appendage medical procedures for orthopedic, plastic/reconstructive surgery to acquire a bloodless field. this study to analyze the end tidal CO2 and hemodynamic changes following tourniquet release in lower limb surgeries under General anaesthesia. A total of 150 patients of ASA physical status Class I and II, of either sex in the age group of 18 to 55 years who underwent elective surgery on the lower limbs using pneumatic tourniquet , under General anaesthesia were considered, Data collected 4 times during General anaesthesia, 15 minutes after induction of anaesthesia, 30 minutes after inflation of tourniquet, 5minutes after deflation and 15 minutes after deflation of tourniquet. Heart rate during the period of tourniquet inflation it is remains same or slightly increased to a mean of 103.05 ± 15.50 beats/min. But after the tourniquet deflation the heart rate showed a progressive rise. The peak increase was seen immediately after the tourniquet release (after 5 minutes) by 123±16.04 beats/min. During 30 minutes after tourniquet the MAP remains same or may increase slightly to 95.489±2.44 mm Hg which is statistically significant. Then 5 minutes after tourniquet deflation there is sudden and gross decrease in MAP to 85.37±4.88 mmHg. the EtCO2 30 minutes after tourniquet inflation was more or less equal that is 31.316±1.38 mmHg. Then at tourniquet deflation after 5 minutes there is rise of EtCO2 to 41.317±1.913mmHg then it gradually comes to baseline. Heart rate, ETCO2 , and mean arterial pressure showed minimal change during inflation phase while there occurs significant change after deflation.


Suppose I am holding an apple and raising it to my mouth. How far does the province of my agency extend? Does it extend to an act of will, which causes my body to move? Or does it extend to a bodily movement, which causes the apple to rise? Or does it, perhaps, go all the way out, coming to fruition in the movement of the apple? The central question I mean to pose can be given a more systematic expression. Traditionally, a power is defined by appeal to its act, and an act by appeal to its object. Vision, for example, is a power defined by seeing, where the object of sight is a feature of the surrounding natural world. And agency, like vision, is a certain kind of power. What, then, is its definitive act, and what is the relevant object? To this traditional question there are three principled answers. According to the first, the definitive act is willing, where the object is nothing apart from the will: one changes one's mind—or 'makes it up'—disposing it in a particular way. According to the second answer, the definitive act of agency is willfully moving oneself, where what one changes is not one's mind, but rather one's own body. And according to the third answer, the definitive act is willfully moving another, where the object of change is not oneself—neither one's body nor one's mind—but some external object or bit of foreign matter.


This article analyses the ability of a regional labour market to absorb growing flows of immigrant workers with declining levels of skills in relatively high unemployment times. In the short-run, unemployment increases with larger immigration flows, however, in the longer run, unemployment is permanently lowered. The level as well as the composition of skills of immigrant workers matter. Increasing the discrepancy between the skill distribution of immigrants and that of the existing workforce is desirable to mitigate some of the adverse effects on unemployment in the short run as both types of labour appear to be complement. Strengthening the existing screening system for immigrant candidates is then a possibility.


The taxonomy of prokaryotes is facing a fascinating period in where the high-speed of molecular approaches and bioinformatic tools contrast with the apparent stagnation on the activities in classifying taxa. It is remarkable that the current sequencing capabilities and in silico data analysis allow the determination of single species genomes, in form of metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) containing taxonomic information of almost the same quality as many published genomes of pure cultures [1]. Since the mid 1960's genome comparisons had influenced how species are circumscribed, and phenotyping has been left as a residual, often non-informative part of the taxonomic classification [3]. These facts have brought taxonomists and molecular ecologists to advocate for a unified genome-based nomenclatural system, and therefore embracing both cultured and yet uncultured taxa by allowing DNA to become type material. This proposal was finally denied by the ICSP in April 1 st [2]. We argue that a stable classification of prokaryotes with independence of pure cultures is feasible. We also argue that the genomic information retrieved from MAGs and Single Amplified Genomes (SAGs) is enough to classify cultivated and uncultured prokaryotes at the genus and species level. However, we believe that yet the most robust phylogenetic framework to classify especially higher taxa is that


Conditions of the water environment in the region of the Zhaling and Eling lakes, which are located in the frozen earth zone on the Qingzang plateau, are unique. The equilibrium of the water quantity of the two lakes is maladjustment under the condition of a dry and cold climate in which evaporation is greater than precipitation. The Zhaling and Eling lakes have been atrophying, leaving three lake terraces and star-studded lagoons around the two lakes since Holocene. When these lagoons were separated from the original lakes, they became cut-lake basins, and were transformed from fresh water lakes into salt water lakes, salt lakes or salt playas owing to strong evaporation. This kind of evolutionary process will continue in the future.


The evolution of the quasar luminosity function (QLF) is fundamental to understanding the cosmic evolution of black holes (BHs) through their accretion phases. In the era of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Euclid, and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, their unprecedented detection sensitivity and wide survey area can unveil the low-luminosity quasar and low-mass BH population, and provide new insights into quasar host galaxies. We present a theoretical model describing BH growth from initial seeding at $z>20$ to $z\sim 4$,incorporating the duration of accretion episodes, the distribution of Eddington ratios, and the mass dependency of BH accretion rates. By constraining the model parameters with the observed QLFs at $4\leq z\leq6$ across a wide UV luminosity range ($-29<M_{\rm 1450}<-24$), we find that the high-redshift BH population grows rapidly at $z\gtrsim6$, and decelerates the pace in subsequent epochs. Toward lower redshifts ($z<6$), mass-dependent accretion inhibits the growth of high-mass BHs with $M_{\bullet}>10^8~M_\odot$, leading to mass saturation at $M_\bullet\gtrsim 10^{10}~M_\odot$. We predict the BH mass function down to $M_{\bullet}\sim 10^6~M_\odot$ for both unobscured and obscured quasar populations at $4\leq z \leq 11$, offering a benchmark for future observational tests. Our model accounts for the presence of both bright and faint quasars at $z>4$, including those discovered by JWST. Furthermore, our findings suggest two distinct pathways for the early assembly of the BH-galaxy mass correlation: the population with a BH-to-stellar mass ratio near the local value of $M_\bullet/M_{\star}\simeq5\times10^{-3}$ maintains a proximity to the relation through its evolution via moderate growth, while the population that begins to grow above the local relation accretes mass rapidly and becomes as overmassive as $M_\bullet/M_\star \sim 0.01-0.1$ by $z\sim 6$.


A micro-refrigerator for the heat radiation of computer chip, which is characterized in that: a compressor is connected with a condenser, the condenser is connected with a capillary and an evaporator via a drying filter, the evaporator is connected with a compressor via a separatory barrel to form a refrigerating loop; the evaporator is a single-stage or multi-stage type on the pipe connected between the drying filter and the separatory barrel in parallel/series or hybrid mode, the capillary is connected on the pipe in the front of each evaporator; the compressor can be a steam compression refrigerator, an absorption type refrigerator, a steam jet type refrigerator, a compressed air refrigerator, an eddy refrigerator or a Stirling refrigerator, a Vuilleumier refrigerating or a GM refrigerator, etc. The refrigerating capacity is 10-2000W, with the input power 10-400W; based on the mechanical refrigerating principle, the utility model adopts the active cooling for a plurality of heating elements in the computer, and is applicable for the upgrading of computer. The whole system has small volume, low energy consumption, high temperature drop, high reliability, and easy operation.


Frequency selective rasorber is a concept combining absorber and radome, which is often used to absorb undesired out-of-band electromagnetic (EM) waves, while maintaining transparency in the required frequencies. Many rasorbers have been designed in a planar structure for easily fabrication. However, a curved rasorber is often desired for many practical applications. Moreover, it is important to design a rasorber that can be integrated with antenna systems.


Abstract. There is a major downward bias in the trend of most existing estimates of the periphery's nineteenth-century terms of trade. By using prices from the North Atlantic core as proxies for prices in the peripheral countries themselves, historians ignore the dramatic price convergence that took place during the nineteenth century. Measured correctly, the periphery's nineteenth-century terms-of-trade boom would appear considerably longer, greater, and more widespread than Jeffrey Williamson (2008, 2011) supposes, greatly reinforcing his grand narrative about the relation between globalization and the "great divergence." Many of the details of his narrative, however, must be revised. This is illustrated by the case of India.


BackgroundFractional flow reserve (FFR) is an invasive method to assess the functional significance of coronary stenoses. The value of FFR in diabetic patients is controversial because of microvascular dysfunction. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of diabetes mellitus (DM) on FFR measurements. MethodsOne hundred and twenty-one patients with an intermediate lesion who had undergone FFR measurement were included in the study. Lesion severity was determined by quantitative coronary angiography. The patients were divided into groups according to the presence (group 1) or absence (group 2) of DM. The patients were further categorized according to the degree of luminal narrowing caused by the lesion (40–50, 51–60, and >60%) and reference vessel diameter (≥2.8 and <2.8 mm). FFR measurements were compared in each category. ResultsThere was no difference between the FFR values of diabetic and nondiabetic patients who had coronary lesions with similar degree of luminal narrowing (0.87±0.08 vs. 0. 0.85±0.07; 0.81±0.08 vs. 0.82±0.10; 0.81±0.10 vs. 0.83±0.09, P = 0.957). In the analysis comparing FFR measurements in the categories set according to reference vessel diameter, we did not find a difference either (0.82±0.09 vs. 0.83±0.09; 0.84±0.09 vs. 0.82±0.09, P = 0.878). The ΔFFR value, which is the difference between FFR values before and after adenosine administration, was also similar in diabetic and nondiabetic patients (8.4±6.0 vs. 8.4±5.5, P = 0.997). ConclusionThe presence of DM does not have a significant impact on FFR values in coronary stenoses of intermediate severity.


In situ product recovery(ISPR)technology is nowadays regarded to be able to alleviate efficiently the inhibition of ethanol on yeast cell viability in the process of fermentation.Besides,ISPR technology has the advantage of low energy consumption in comparison with the traditional distillation method for the recovery of bio-ethanol from its fermentation broth.This paper is focused on the methodologies based on the ISPR of bio-ethanol coupled with adsorption separation process.The commonly used adsorbents(zeolite,silicalite,activated carbon,resin,biosorbent,et al.),desorption methods(thermal desorption,microwave irradiation desorption)and coupling modes(in situ internal coupling,external recycling coupling)used in the production of bio-ethanol are summarized and reviewed.More attention should be focused on developing desirable adsorbents and choosing appropriate desorption methods in the future.


Systems of human rights protection both universal and regional have something in common and that is that its genesis lies in the violation of human rights carried out by States. Ironically and oddly, systems and protection mechanisms have been created primarily to protect people from the actions of the States, who in their historical rack seem to fulfill its essential purpose: the protection of persons in their rights, but rather, violation thereof. The human being is the source and reason for the legal and everything surrounding it, including the state as a collective, virtual and fictional, however, the legal system is established twodimensional from the structure pyramidal and regulations established by the Vienna school and reinforced by the principle of legality in the continental system, it has lost its relevance and legal systems are no longer anthropocentric and has to be passed normocentristas, changes by asking to international law in order leading change and restructuring conceptual humanized becoming legal pyramid by a human or social.


The human resource is one who makes possible the development of all processes in organizations and it is in this resource where the company must make its largest investment, encouraging them to grow not only professionally, but personally. Therefore, the ability of an organization to engage people with the mission, vision, values and corporate goals as well as the ability to recognize their strengths and weaknesses in order to develop the potential in each of them, make that makes a difference and highlight the importance of management in personnel management, providing great potential to the overall company strategy.


Abstract THE SHADOW UNIVERSITY: THE BETRAYAL OF LIBERTY ON AMERICA'S CAMPUSES, by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silver-glate. New York, The Free Press, 1998. 415 pages. Reviewed by Gerald Amada.


Background and Motivation The current revival of efforts to reach the Moon by orbiting spacecraft and to perform scientific investigations from orbit clearly reflect the importance of the Moon as scientific as well as technologic target. Such undertakings have been planned in detail since the late 1950s and the current strategies of ESA and NASA aim at building lunar manned outposts until the mid 2020s [1]. Until recently, a multitude of spacecraft mission led by NASA (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS)), ESA (SMART-1), JAXA (Kaguya/Selene), the Indian ISRO (Chandrayaan-1) and the Chinese CNSA (Chang'e) space agencies were, are or will soon be in orbit above the Moon. Some of them have already collected a wealth of new instrument data that will become available in the next months.


THE INVENTION CONCERNS A COLOR FILTER SUBTRACTIVE DIFFRACTION OPERATING IN WHITE LIGHT, METHOD OF USE AND AUTHENTICATION DEVICE USING THE FILTER. INCLUDES THE FILTER MEDIA OPTICAL 100a HAVING VARIABLE REFRACTIVE INDEX CERTAIN MINIMUM VALUES THICKNESS T AND FREQUENCY OF VIS-A-VIS THE WAVELENGTH OF iNCIDENT LIGHT. FILTER SATISFIED CERTAIN LIMITATIONS REGARDING SPECIAL: 1) VALUES RELATIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX OF ITS INTERNAL STRUCTURE AND ITS ENVIRONMENT 114, 116, 2) VALUES FOR THE WAVELENGTH OF INCIDENT LIGHT AND FREQUENCY AND 3) THE RELATIVE VALUES rEFRACTIVE INDEX OPTICAL ENVIRONMENT AND ITS ENVIRONMENT. THE FILTER EFFECT OF PRODUCING REFLECTION SPECTRA BY WITHDRAWAL AND COLOR SPECTRA TRANSMISSION SUBTRACT COLOR THAT DEPEND ON BOTH THE ANGLE OF IMPACT IN FUNCTION OF ITS PARAMETERS MATERIALS. CES FILTER MAY BE USED AS DEVICES FOR AUTHENTICATION ELEMENTS authenticated FORM LEAVES SUCH AS BANK NOTES AND BAGS DISK.


Litopenaeus schmitti is one of the most commercially exploited penaeids on the southeastern and southern Atlantic coast of Brazil. Information about juvenile recruitment and growth patterns of individuals is important for management programs. The present study estimated the growth parameters, longevity, and recruitment of L. schmitti in the region of Ubatuba, Sao Paulo State. The growth parameters of individuals were estimated by the Bertalanffy growth model, and longevity was estimated with the inverted Bertalanffy equation. The growth parameters were, for females and males respectively: CL ∞ = 53.10 mm and 43.23 mm, k = 1.82 year -1 and 2.19 years -1 , t 0 = 1.10 and 0.69. Longevity was calculated to be 2.27 years for females and 2.10 years for males. Juvenile recruitment occurred seasonally from December to April during the first year of sampling and from November to May in the second year. Although the large peak in juveniles seen in March 2007 in the estuarine regions coincided with the closed season, the reopening of the fishery in June may promote the capture of large numbers of newly grown adults who have not yet reproduced.


Abstract: The production of plastic is increasing at a faster rate. It is very difficult to dispose this plastic waste as it creates environmental pollution. Plastic bottles usually take thousands of years to degrade and produce toxic fumes when incinerated. For solving this problem, construction industry can take a step to utilize this plastic waste as a substitute for aggregates. By replacing coarse aggregate as well as fine aggregate with waste plastic known as green innovation. As the years go by, waste plastic increases day by day, since most of the plastic used by human is non-bio-degradable. The idea behind this review is to identify research done by the researchers who uses recyclable material such as plastic obtained mostly from waste plastic that the people had generated around the world by utilisation of waste plastic in becoming of construction materials in order to overcome the environment problem that the society are facing. This paper aim to review the using of waste plastic to replace fine and coarse aggregate and stated the mechanical properties of the concrete. With different percentage replacement of aggregates will affect the different properties such as slump, compressive strength and ultimate strength of the concrete and compare with the control sample in order to find the suitable percentage of the waste plastic to replacement of aggregates for the concrete used. It was found that plastic as replacement for fine and coarse aggregate both have has lower compressive quality of the concrete, almost the same or lower slump test value for ordinary concrete and waste plastic concrete and lower density for the waste plastic concrete compare to the ordinary concrete.


In 2003 the French Institut Geographique National (IGN) and Service Hydrographique et Oceanographique de la Marine (SHOM) have been tasked by the Prime Minister to join efforts to produce together a seamless, modern, precise topographic and bathymetric model, including possibly the tides, of the entire French coasts. The area envisaged should extend from the 10 metres contour line inland to the distance of 10 kilometres seaward, or 6 nautical miles from the coastal baselines. This project was created to meet hundred or more requirements expressed by coastal managers concerned by the protection and exploitation of the littoral and by users of geo-referenced data; it should become the core of all future integrated coastal management projects. The preliminary study conducted in the Golfe du Morbihan, Southern Brittany, has already proven that France should be spared the strenuous geodetic problems met elsewhere. Thanks to the Napoleonic tradition of keeping common geodetic references inland and at sea, the historical database "Histolitt" could be assembled fairly quickly, leaving in the poorly surveyed areas gaps that could be filled efficiently by modern technologies (laser bathymetry and topography, MBES, RTK, aerial orthophotos, permanent digital tide gauges), allowing metric accuracy on the plane and decimetric precision of heights and depths. A first lidar survey has already been planned in the summer of 2005 in the Golfe du Morbihan to conduct further tests and generate a precise Digital Terrain Model (DTM) at different resolutions (2 /spl times/ 2 m and 4 /spl times/ 4 m). The survey strategy comprises three different approaches, depending on the bathymetric interest, the near shore seabed complexity and the Rapid Environment Assessment military program requirements.