The title of this book is an index of its debt to a similarly titled 2004 article by Ken Jackson and Arthur Marotti, published in the journal Criticism, the ideological commitment of which is thinly veiled, and this might explain some of the aspects of this book that at first appear confusing. I was very pleased by the enthusiastic citing of John Coolidge's excellent volume (The Pauline Renaissance in England: Puritanism and the Bible [Oxford University Press, 1970]) but confused by many of the theological terms used in the introduction to this book, such as ''Pauline universalism,'' not to mention the insistent citing of the original Greek for key terminology. In fact, chapter 1 functions much better as an introduction: it makes clear that the book is using the reassessment of Paul by theologians in the ''New Perspective'' movement and by literary theorists such as Alain Badiou, Giorgi Agamben, and Slavoj Žižek, admitting that ''both are hostile to the version of Paul that the Reformation institutionalized'' (9). The ''New Perspective'' reading of Romans privileges chapters 9–11, which deal with the difficulties of maintaining Christian community during the delayed expectation of Christ's return, over an intensely individualized reading of chapters 6–8, which has informed many Reformed Protestant accounts of early modern religious poetry. Although this book sometimes looks like a historicist account (the images of contemporary legal texts in the discussion of Herbert are a good example) it is more often than not concerned with ideologically committed interpretation rather than historical context. Thus the reading of the ''old dints'' in Redcrosse's armor as stigmata is less convincing to a historicist reader than the interpretation of Herbert's ''Obedience'' in the light of early modern legal texts.


The study examined the effect of financial transparency on the performance of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria. To achieve the objective of the study, descriptive research design was adopted. The data were collected through primary source with the aid of wellstructured questionnaire. The sample of the study was 250 respondents purposively selected from five listed manufacturing firms located in South East Nigeria. The data collected from these respondents were analyzed using multiple regression analysis and the following findings were revealed; (i) Ownership structure, board of directors and timeliness of information have positive and significant effect on profitability of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria, (ii) Ownership structure, board of directors and timeliness of information have positive and significant effect on accountability of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria and (iii) Ownership structure, board of directors and timeliness of information have positive and significant effect on sales growth of listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study recommends Since the result showed that financial transparency has positive and significant effect on firm's profitability, it's prudent for listed companies to disclose as much information as possible and also ensure that the information disclosed are transparent so as to minimize the level of information asymmetry and consequently stimulate financial performance. The companies can also take the control of financial performance of the company through using high proficiency, experienced and independent managers with the necessary legal power as a potentially powerful mechanism and to be a cause of improvement in the accountability of the company. Keywords: Financial, Transparency, Ownership Structure, Board of Directors and Information.


arranged a system for position sensing and control for operation of arms (2) of mobile working machines (1) operating means (3) comprises at least one sensor (4) and a transmitting / receiving unit (5). The recording and reporting of position coordinates (x, y) and / or an inclination (φ) of the working device (3) between the at least one sensor (4) and the transmitting / receiving unit (5) is carried out without contact.


Virtual education, where a significant part of learning happens in a virtual mode, has been an interest area for organizations and universities. Virtual Classroom (VCR) is one of the ways of providing virtual education. In this article, we demonstrate that VCR can be effective, when compared to traditional classroom, by the right use of technology (like interwise), people (Subject Matter Expert), process (initial set-up and scheduling) and infrastructure (network, bandwidth). Significant efforts have been made to provide different technology based solutions. The virtual classroom (VCR) is one of them which is a learning environment in virtual space. It provides the advantages of classroom learning as well as virtual learning. It provides a better utilization of resources and time. This paper provides an analysis of VCR vs the traditional classroom taking the cost factor as ac attribute. Tradeoff between cost and quality has also been highlighted in this paper.


Objective To study the testosterone-like and estrogen-like effects of extract of Maca(Lepidium meyenii Walp.) in vivo.Methods Aqueous,ethanol and ethereal extracts of Maca were orally administered castrated mice for 22 days.The testosterone-like effects were measured by prostate seminal vesicle weight,and serum testosterone level.Infancy female mice were administered to ethanol extract of Maca for 10 days.The estrogen-like effects were measured by uterus and ovary weight,and the ratios of keratinocyte in vaginal smear.Results Maca extract significantly increased prostate seminal vesicle weight of castrated mice,while had no effect on the serum testosterone level.There was no remarkable effect on uterus and ovary weight,as well as on the ratios of keratinocyte of vaginal epithelial cell.Conclusion Maca has weak testosterone-like effect,but no estrogen-like effect on infancy female mice.


This Briefing Note argues that while in the 1960s and 1970s China performed well on both health system objectives, in the 1980s it faltered, and in the 1990s it slipped still further. China's increasingly weak performance is argued to reflect system-wide weaknesses in the health system. The cost of care has grown rapidly in recent years, deterring use of health services, and putting households who do use services at financial risk.


The invention discloses a sweetener for melons and fruits such as grapes. Through the use of the sweetener, the sugar degree of the grapes can be increased by 10%-30%; in addition, the sweetener can also promote the absorption of plant calcium and mineral substances, stimulates the immune system reaction of a plant, activates the reaction, regulates the growth of the plant, promotes the photosynthesis and enhances the disease resistance of the plant. For the formula, the sweetener comprises the following components in parts by weight: 1-5 parts of a boric fertilizer, 0.3-0.5 part of stevioside, 1-5 parts of amino acid or 0.5-1 part of glycine, 1-5 parts of silica fume, 0.1-0.3 part of chitosan oligosaccharide, 0.3-0.7 part of photosynthetic induction elements and 0.1-0.3 part of tea saponin. All of the powders are mixed with water in a proportion of 1 to (1000-1500) to and then are sprayed into the surfaces of leaves.


Carbonous nanomaterials are promising additives for composite coatings for 18 heat-dissipation materials because of their excellent thermal conductivity. Here, copper/carbonous 19 nanomaterial composite coatings were prepared using nanodiamond (ND) as the carbonous 20 nanomaterial. The copper/ND composite coatings were electrically deposited onto copper 21 substrates from a continuously stirred copper sulfate coating bath containing NDs. NDs were 22 dispersed by ultrasonic treatment, and the initial bath pH was adjusted by adding sodium 23 hydroxide solution or sulfuric acid solution before electrodeposition. The effects of various coating 24 conditions—the initial ND concentration, initial bath pH, stirring speed, electrical current density, 25 and the amount of electricity—on the ND content of the coatings were investigated. Furthermore, 26 the surface of the NDs was modified by hydrothermal treatment to improve ND incorporation. A 27 higher initial ND concentration and a higher stirring speed increased the ND content of the 28 coatings, whereas a higher initial bath pH and a greater amount of electricity decreased it. The 29 electrical current density showed a minimum ND content at approximately 5 A/dm2. 30 Hydrothermal treatment, which introduced carboxyl groups onto the ND surface, improved the 31 ND content of the coatings. A copper/ND composite coating with a maximum of 3.85 mass% ND 32 was obtained. 33


Facility Layout Problem (FLP) is logic based combinatorial optimization problem. It is a meta-heuristic solution approach that gained significant attention to obtained optimal facility layout. This paper examines the convergence analysis by changing the crossover and mutation probability in an optimal facility layout. This algorithm is based on appropriate techniques that include multipoint swapped crossover and swap mutation operators. Two test cases were used for the implementations of the said technique and evaluate the robustness of the proposed method compared to other approaches in the literature. Keywords—facility layout problem, genetic algorithm, material handling cost, meta-heuristics


This article explores the uses of video in Latin America during the 1980s and focuses on the cases of Chile and Uruguay through the analysis of Guerreros Pacifistas (Pacifist Warriors, directed by Gonzalo Justiniano, 1984) and Mam a era punk (Mum Was Punk, directed by Guillermo Casanova, 1988). Whereas the former was produced under the dictatorial regime of Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990), the latter was made in the aftermath of the Uruguayan dictatorship (1973–1985). Despite the different political contexts, both documentaries were recorded on video and focus on the influence of punk on the local youth to reflect upon the fear and repression promoted by these dictatorships. In fact, a parallel can be established between the shift generated by the incorporation of innovative aesthetics both on the broad cultural level—with the youths' adoption of the punk style— and on the specific audiovisual level—with the innovative use of video. This article argues that, in one regard, Guerreros Pacifistas enables the exploration of the oppositional potential behind a seemingly non-critical implantation of the punk movement in Chile in the midst of the fierce neoliberal policies implemented by Pinochet's dictatorship, while, in another regard, in the recently democratic Uruguay, Mam a era punk points more overtly to the critical re-appropriation of this alien movement to focus on the political agency of younger social actors. In both contexts, these videos were to challenge the dominant audiovisual production in their respective nations.


Africentric/Afrocentric psychology frames the interview findings on five African-American male leaders in a racial, ethnic, and culturally diverse counseling association. The consensual qualitative research method was used to extrapolate themes from the five interviews. Africentric cultural strengths suggested in the themes are (a) autogeny, (b) primacy of the person in the context of community, (c) consubstantiality of primordial substance, (d) perpetual evolution, and (e) living forever. Two themes related to counseling practice are (f) social justice and (g) cultural empathy. Common trends in statements across interviews are illustrated with rich quotations and summaries. Although the framework of continental African world view facilitated understanding a few African-American male counseling leaders, the study evidences a larger universal human dimension of individuals' pain, resilience, self-discovery of strengths, and leadership bound to a collective self-concept by which leadership can take place both individually and collectively.


Some think that in (a suitable version of) Newcomb's problem, it is rational to take only one box. These one-boxers think of the situation as a choice between a million and a thousand. They are convinced by indicative conditionals: if I take one box I will be a millionaire, but if I take both boxes I will not. Their conception of rationality may be called V-rationality; they deem it rational to maximize V, that being a kind of expected utility defined in entirely non-causal terms. Their decision ,theory is that of Jeffrey [2]. Others, and I for one, think it rational to take both boxes. We two-boxers think that whether the million already awaits us or not, we have no choice between taking it and leaving it. We are convinced by counterfactual conditionals: If I took only one box, I would be poorer by a thousand than I will be after taking both. (We distinguish nornal from back-tracking counterfactuals, perhaps as in [4], and are persuaded only by the former.) Our conception of rationality is U-rationality; we favor maximizing U, a kind of expected utility defined in terms of causal dependence as well as credence and value. Our decision theory is that of Gibbard and Harper [ 1 ], or something similar. The one-boxers sometimes taunt us: if you're so smart, why ain'cha rich? They have their millions and we have our thousands, and they think this goes to show the error of our ways. They think we are not rich because we have irrationally chosen not to have our millions. We reply that we never were given any choice about whether to have a million. When we made our choices, there were no millions to be had. The reason why we are not rich is that the riches were reserved for the irrational. In the words of Gibbard and Harper [1],


Tambov region territory was the area of complex inter-ethnic contacts for a long time. Recent researches provide a new look at the medieval history of the region. By using examples the author illustrates the complexity, drama of these processes and reveals a number of key factors influenced on region's history.


Starting his second term as Japanese prime minister in late 2012, Shinzo Abe regarded Japan's participation in TPP negotiations as one of the top priority foreign policy issues. Abe successfully acquired a concession from President Barack Obama in order to enter the TPP negotiations without prior commitment to the total elimination of tariffs. After entry into the negotiations, Japan found a way to offer a tariff elimination on the politically sensitive agricultural products. Although the Japanese negotiation team was a latecomer in the TPP negotiation, its members played an instrumental role in reaching an agreement by helping other negotiating partners in the process. In addition, other factors including Japan-Australia FTA, the break-up of the Japan-US cabinet level meeting, and the Chinese initiative in AIIB motivated the American negotiators to reach an agreement. Japan's role became even more important with the US withdrawal from the agreement, eventually contributing to a successful conclusion of the TPP agreement among 11 countries. Employing a two-level game framework, this study examines how Japan reached an important agreement with the United States in the original TPP negotiations, and then, after the American withdrawal, with other countries in the TPP 11 negotiations.


Most of the schools with English as one of the subjects improved various methods to create a good teaching English atmosphere and make the teaching learning process more interesting and fun. The thesis titled "IMPROVING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH INTRODUCTORY ENGLISHVIDEOS"(An experimental teaching in Al-Manar Islamic Boarding School Aceh Besar) was inspired by the English teaching learning process in Al-Manar that sometimes tends to be boring and not interesting. Moreover, the students' condition especially students of senior high school sometimes have less motivation in speaking English.They rarely practice their English since the learning Speaking skill might be boring to them. This thesis aimed to find out whether the use of Introductory English Videos can make students improve their speaking skill. The thesis mainly focused on speaking skill since they are lack of practicing their speaking skill. Most students have problem in introducing themselves in speaking skill, so the the writer focuses on the research on the first grade of senior high school while the introducing in English will be the first topic in English lesson. After doing teaching research in experimental class, the writer verified that Learning speaking English Through Introductory English videosis able to create more interesting English teaching learning process and it helps students to improve their motivation and mastery in learning English especially on speaking skill. It is proven by the result of the pre-test and post-test. In the pre test indicates that the writer found that the mean score between the two test was different. The mean score of pre-test was 73.32 while the mean score of post-test 85.025 which means that post-test score was higher than pre-test. Due to the result finding, the writer summarizes that that the use of English Introductory videos improved students speaking skills.


The satellite scheduling is a main content of the space resource management, and it is also a complex resource allocation problem. The constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) is a good method to it. The constraints on the scheduling problem of multi-satellites are analyzed based on the constraint satisfaction problem firstly, including task constraints, bundled constraints and exclusion constraints. On this basis, modeling is made. An example is given for the earth observation satellites at last.


By using the methods of literature review, questionnaire, visiting and statistics, this paper analyzed surface character, inner effective factors and outer restraints of scientific research on physical education in colleges and universities of Shandong province. It is proved that team of scientific research in sports tend to more stable, but the core authors are still in great demand relatively. Different colleges and universities are concentrative and not proportional in the amount of published papers, topics and award over government agency. Its structure of age and professional titles tend to more suitable. The ratio of teachers with master and doctor degree is still very low. The material award to sports scientific research is not enough, and the library resources are not enough in a lots of colleges and universities, and experiment apparatus are still needed badly.


For the be Economic policy debate in Australia is replete with references to equity. example, compulsory health insurance was supported on the grounds that healthy should subsidise the sick. People have argued education should publicly provided because that leads to equality, youth wages should be raised to adult levels to avoid exploitation and housing rents should be controlled to "protect" tenants.


Cylinders of carrot taproot secondary phloem were cultured on one of four media: 1) 2% sucrose + 1% agar (SA); 2) Heller's basal medium (NA); 3) NA + 10-5 g/liter 2,4-D (H4); and 4) NA + H4 + 15% coconut milk (HW). Samples were taken from the cultured explants at 3-day intervals. A morphological study of the cultured explants revealed no differences between callus-initiating e-xplants (cultured on HW medium) and noncallus-initiating explants (cultured on SA, NA, and H4 media) within the first 3 days of culture. All explants exhibited a typical wound response. Cell division ceased in the NA and SA explants after the sixth day in culture. Extensive cell division occurred in the subsurface layer of dividing cells in the HW explants and resulted in the formation of callus by the ninth day in culture. Histochemical staining revealed that the activity of NAD diaphorase, succinic dehydrogenase, and cytochrome oxidase were closely correlated with the wound response and with callus initiation in the cultured explants. The activity of these enzymes was high in the layer of dividing cells of all explants after 3 days of culture, but with longer periods of culture the activity of these enzymes was closely correlated with the extent of cell division. Acid phosphatase activity was associated with the dividing cell layers of all explants, but comparatively little acid phosphatase activity was observed in the NA, SA, and H4 explants as compared to the 1W explants, and acid phosphatase was strongly correlated with callus initiation by the HW explants. Using the nitroso reaction, "catechol tannins" were found in the surface layers of the NA, SA, and H4 explants, while no nitroso-reactionpositive substances were detected in the HW explants during the period of callus initiation.


Increased activity of magnetic micropulsations with periods of 5 to 30 seconds and magnetic flux densities of 20 to 320 mγ was found to accompany the η Aquarid, δ Aquarid, and Perseid meteor showers in 1958. Conflicting reports are discussed.


. This research intends to: First, develop the learning of early detection and disaster risk integrated into subjects in elementary schools in disaster areas. Second, design teaching and learning strategies through a fun learning approach to increase mental resilience and learning motivation students post the disaster. Third, develop simulation learning media (audiovisual) that are recreational for students in disaster areas. The research and development with a spiral model that adapts the five phases of instructional design. The population was all elementary school students in post-disaster areas in Palu City. The sample was taken through stratified random sampling that selected two elementary schools, each of which is located in areas with the potential for tectonic earthquakes in Palu City, namely SDN Balaroa and SDN Petobo, the red zone prone to earthquakes and have the potential to be affected by liquefaction. The results of the research have been able to develop learning tools as follows; (1) special practicum kits, (2) lesson plans, (3) student activity sheets (LKS), and (4) evaluation instruments. Students have examined these learning tools at SDN Balaroa and SDN Petobo. This is following the specific objectives of this research to produce fun learning based on learning modules and develop teaching and learning strategies with a fun learning approach, to increase mental resilience and learning motivation to post-disaster students, which is then accompanied by the realization of the research objectives, namely, developing the learning of early detection and disaster risk integrated into science subjects in primary schools in disaster areas.


In article are discussed problems of preparing the skilled personnel for machine building in the field of use applied computer technology. New methods of the estimation to efficiency scholastic computer aided design are offered and described.


Mauna, A. C., Franco, B. C., Baldoni, A., Acha, E. M., Lasta, M. L., and Iribarne, O. O. 2008. Cross-front variations in adult abundance and recruitment of Patagonian scallop (Zygochlamys patagonica) at the SW Atlantic Shelf Break Front. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65. We studied cross-front variations in adult abundance and recruitment of Patagonian scallop (Zygochlamys patagonica) and their relationship with the Shelf Break Front and satellite-derived chlorophyll a in the Southwest Atlantic between 388S and 39830 0 S. Integrated data from commercial fleets (CF, 1996 – 2005), research cruises (RC, 1998 –2005), sea surface temperature (SST; 1985 – 1997), and satellite-derived chlorophyll a (CSAT; 1998 –2004) were included in the analysis. One-way ANOVA was used to assess differences in recruitment and scallop abundance in a cross-front direction. The abundance of scallops was greatest (RC . 200 kg h 21 ) closer to the onshore side of the front or beneath it, and the East– West extension of scallop beds (40 km) matched the seasonal zonal displacement of the front (37 km). The highest CSAT gradients were west of or matched the position of the front. The annual mean position of the front correlated with the spatial variability in recruitment within areas where the species recruited successfully (RC . 2000 h 21 ). The spatial variability in adult abundance and recruitment of scallops is strongly related to the spatial variability in the position of the front and with the high CSAT concentrations associated with it.


This paper introduces the basic situation of interconnected grid and the necessary research of area power grid security protection technology in China.Based on the limitation of traditional relay protection,several issues on area power grid security protection are proposed.There are data warehouse,fault information system,fault analysis method and its protective control method.Development trend of power grid illustrates the important significance of area power grid security protection and its good application future.


Weather prediction is vital in sustaining human beings and all living objects. It's been years since humans have been forecasting weather for growing desired crops and migrating from region to region. With this era of advancement and automation, machine learning and deep learning have advanced in all domains, and innovations are taking place for the betterment of beings. The field of weather is no longer far away from its advancements. Precise and timely weather predictions can save crops from being demolished and alarm farmers to protect their fields from getting wasted. Classic numerical weather prediction (NWP) has faced numerous challenges recently. It has built an ambiguity in the systematic data. Still, with the advancement of IOT and machine learning techniques like motion detection, speech recognition, and computer vision, it has been seen that these techniques can predict change in an environment more precisely and effectively. Currently, several innovations in weather forecasting employ machine learning and artificial neural network techniques, and these researchers see precise benchmarks. In this paper, we study the different methods of deep learning, machine learning, and advanced IOT devices for better prediction of weather and their comparative analysis.


The article considers the influence of the randomness of traffic load on the fatigue of elements of steel bridge structures. The phenomenon occurs specifically in the case of bridges characterized by significant width, with many traffic lanes and a high vehicle velocity, especially in the case of heavy goods vehicles. It has been shown that underestimation of operational durability, including fatigue durability, can be up to 23%. Operational loads increase due to the overlapping of traffic loads, which leads to the increased fatigue of elements of steel bridge structures. In an effort to assess this influence and its value, elements of the problem of the randomness of road traffic loads were compiled and described, and a simulative analysis of the operational strength of various lengths (spans) of the main girders of bridges was carried out. The analyses showed that for the structures with spans length of up to 10.0 m, the influence of passing vehicles could be skipped in calculations, especially in the case of weak traffic.


Ab initio predictions at the SCF, CISD, and CCSD levels are reported for the title compounds using DZP and TZP basis sets. The calculated geometries, rotational constants, dipole moments, fundamental frequencies, isotopic frequency shifts, vibration–rotation interaction constants, centrifugal distortion constants, Coriolis coupling constants, and infrared band intensities are compared with experimental data (if available). The best agreement is usually found for the CCSD results. The experimentally derived cubic force field of F2O is reproduced well by our results so that the predicted cubic and quartic force fields of HOF and the predicted quartic force field of F2O are also expected to be realistic. On the basis of our theoretical anharmonic constants, a new interpretation is suggested for the anomalous isotopic frequency shift of ν3 in HOF and DOF. Finally, an experimentally derived re structure with R(O–F)=1.4356 A, r(O–H)=0.9664 A, and α(H–O–F)=97.72° is proposed for HOF on the basis of the TZP CCSD ...


Norms of personal dignity is praised as core value of modern constitution,assuring personal dignity is an evitable requirement of "normative constitution"as well as an important cornerstone of judging constitutional legitimacy.Normative constitution requires that the constitutional norms involved with personal dignity must be perfect and sufficient and actively adopt the specifications of dignity of human personality in the international treaty;the constitutional legitimacy can be expressed and certified by the way of subject universality,standard compound and manner diversity of assurance of dignity of human personality.


A vehicle network system used for LIM rail transit is designed.The paper describes the developed vehicle network system's architecture,equipment selection,development tools,and the design process and implementation of operation control logic,human-machine interface,safety-oriented fault diagnosis system.The running test verifies applicability and reliability of the developed vehicle network system.


While other major cities in the global real estate market experienced a stiff downturn after the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, the Seoul office market remained very stable. Focusing on steady rent growth, this paper examines the characteristics of seventy-three office buildings in the city. The result shows three distinct features: (1) the office market, especially the manufacturing sector, is more diversified than that in other global cities, (2) the office space is chiefly occupied by local companies with a small number of foreign financial firms concentrated in the city center, and (3) Chaebols, the large family-based industrial conglomerates, constitute the most notable portion of major office buildings.


Development and use of IoT devices have grown significantly in recent years. Many departments such as smart homes, smart healthcare, smart sports analysis, and different smart industries use IoT-based devices. In IoT devices, traffic is a very important part. IoT device traffic is distinct from traditional device traffic in various respects. In this study, 41 Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices were used. IoT devices provided 13 network traffic attributes to construct a multiclass classification model. Pre-processing techniques such as Normalization and Scaling of Dataset were used to pre-process the raw data acquired. Features can be extracted from text data using feature engineering algorithms. After stratification, the dataset contains 117,423 feature vectors utilized to develop the classification model further. Multiple performance metrics were used to demonstrate how well LogitBoost algorithms perform in this research. Using ensemble-based hybrid machine learning models to detect network anomalies in this research is an early step in developing an intrusion detection system (IDS). The main objective of this study is to detect attacks and anomalies in an IoT environment in a smart home. We have proposed a novel approach to developing LogitBoost algorithms, i.e., Logi-XGB, Logi-GBC, Logi-ABC, Logi-CBC, Logi-LGBM, and Logi-HGBC. After applying LogitBoost algorithms to the dataset for the classification, Logi-XGB scored 80.20% accuracy, and Logi-GBC scored 77.80% accuracy. Logi-ABC scored 80.33% accuracy. Logi-CBC scored the highest accuracy of 85.66%. Logi-LGBM and Logi-HGBC scored the same accuracy of 81.37%. Compared with previous LogitBoost algorithms implemented in previous studies, our proposed Logi-CBC has scored the highest accuracy on the given dataset.


Subcutaneous calcinosis consists of abnormal calcium deposition in soft tissues and is one of the complications of scleroderma, especially in limited systemic sclerosis. It is one of the criteria of CREST syndrome (calcinosis cutis, Raynaud phenomenon, esophageal dysfunction, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia). A 44-year-old woman with systemic scleroderma for 20 years was presented with pain in the elbow, fingers and toes, and extensive calcinosis in soft tissue. The patient was treated with immunosuppressive medications due to lung parenchymal involvement and received various drug and surgical treatments for soft tissue calcinosis. In situations of poor response to medication, surgical treatment could be the only option for treating symptomatic lesions.


[Objective]The aim was to study the pollen vitality and pollination of Pistacia vera L.so as to improve seed-setting rate of pistachio.[Method]Some affecting factors of pollen vitality of Pistacia vera L.like suitable collection period and the suitable conditions of storage,germination and growth were studied.[Result]In condition of long-term storage,picking pink inflorescences should mainly concern with opening up,and 50%-75% opening up was better.The way of drying pollen was appreciates of dry naturally.Pollen germination and growth was appreciates of 25 ℃,so in the artificial pollination should pay attention to the weather conditions and avoid the high temperature at noon and the low temperature at morning and evening.100 mg/L boric acid could promote pollen germination and growth,so artificial pollination should add with 100 mg/L boric acid.[Conclusion]The research provides theoretical basis for solving the problem of inadequate pollination which was brought in by the unreasonable allocation of male and female pistachio trees and the different periods of male and female flowers.


ACTH, both exogenously administered and endogenously produced, causes a retention of cortisol and its metabolites in blood, kidney, thymus and liver of adrenalectomized mice. Exogenous ACTH causes an inhibition of conjugation of corticoid metabolites. Following administration of cortisol-4-C14, these radioactive compounds were found in the livers of normal and adrenalectomized mice (ACTH-treated and non-treated): tetrahydrocortisol; tetrahydrocortisone; Reichstein's substance "E"; the 20α epimer of Reichstein's substance "E"; Reichstein's substance "U"; and cortisone. Remaining unidentified were several compounds other than those listed whose structures were established.


The system of arrestment is essential to the crime control and assurance of human rights.While the arrestment proof standards is a core problem in arrest system.In the author's opinion,the main problems of arrestment proof standards in our country are ambiguous in the expression and loose proof standards.All these are closely related to the situation of arrest system.In this paper,the author suggests that,during current circumstances,a better way to solve those problems is raising the standards to correspond with detention standards.In the mean time,the author put forwards her own ideas about improvement of the arrestment proof standards.


Daniel, Douglass K. Harry Reasoner: A Life in the News. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.213 pp. $29.95. When CBS News correspondent Harry Reasoner died in 1991, "60 Minutes" colleague Andy Rooney expressed both sadness and anger: Sadness because he had lost a friend and colleague who he thought was the "smartest man I have ever known." But, as Douglass K. Daniel writes in his new biography, Rooney was angry, too, because Reasoner had continued smoking, despite having a lung removed four years earlier, and thus showed he "was so careless with our affection for him." Rooney was not alone in having mixed feelings about Reasoner, who was beloved by his friends yet managed to frustrate many of them with his drinking and laziness. He was a gifted writer, yet preferred to have others write his scripts. Surveys consistendy showed viewers held him in high regard (second only to Walter Cronkite). Nevertheless, he was a shy, private man, his on-air friendliness merely masking a distant and complex personality. If viewers thought they knew him, Rooney told them, they were wrong: "No matter what you thought he was like, I can promise you he wasn't like that." Such an enigmatic figure is likely to frighten away most biographers. Luckily, Daniel accepted the challenge, providing the first biography of this significant broadcast figure. Daniel, an editor for the Associated Press in Washington, D.C., drew much of his material from Reasoner s papers at the Center for American History at the University of Texas. However, he also conducted extensive interviews with his family members and former colleagues. Through family members he gained access to about 300 letters he wrote during World War II. The letters reveal a young man who did everything he could to stay out of combat and ended up a company clerk in Arkansas, where he had enough time to write a novel. From his unremarkable midwestern upbringing to the pinnacle of his broadcast career, Daniel meticulously reconstructs his personal and professional lives. Reasoner rose quickly to CBS News in New York, where he became known for his versatility. In addition to reporting and writing assignments, he anchored weekend newscasts and filled in for Cronkite, becoming a viewer favorite. However, he also was developing a reputation within CBS for laziness, taking long lunches and not taking full advantage of his writing abilities. "If Harry's critics were looking for tangible evidence of sloth," Daniel writes, "he gave it to them on election night in 1966. …


We describe a proactive recommendation approach for repositories of Learning Objects that adapts to the student profile. It comprises a strategy that lets include diversity in the proposals, and uses navigation-by-proposing, a simple conversational process that avoids posing direct questions and carries very little feedback overhead from the students' perspective


This paper describes a 7-bit 75MSPS analog- to-digital converter (ADC). The pipelining technique is used for conversion at low power levels without compromising with the conversion speed. The motivation behind this project is the increasing demand of portability and the applications like digital video broadcasting (handled) where low power and high speed is required. The ADC is based on pipeline architecture and is using 2 stages for conversion, first stage using 4 bits and second stage using 3 bits. The proposed pipelined ADC adopts an optimized stage resolution based on power consumption of sample & hold circuit and comparator. This optimization mainly depends on the number of sample and hold circuits and the number of comparators. The specification of each Opamp used in this project depends on the accuracy level required for given stage and the conversion Rate of ADC. The Opamp employed is 2 stage ompamp and the comparator used is pre amplifier based comparator. At the target sampling rate of 75MS/s, measured results show that the converter consumes 50 mW from a 1.8V power supply and 43.9 dB SNR .The software used for implementing the design is LT-SPICE (Linear Technologies Pvt Ltd.) using CMOS 180nm technology. The model of transistor used is : Low Power TSMC-180nm Technology. Transistor used are of level 49 (BSIM 3.3).


A phonocardiograph and microphone were used to record normal breath sounds in different lung zones at controlled lung volumes and flows and body positions. Breath sound intensity varied with lung volume, flow, body position, and the site of recording on the chest wall. At a given inspiratory flow, in various body positions, the maximal relative intensity of breath sounds was always recorded at low lung volumes over superior regions, but the maximum occurred over inferior regions of the lung at larger lung volumes. The results correlated well with the differences in regional distribution of ventilation found with radioactive gases.


of remission, especially in the early stages of Hodgkin's disease, and has reduced pressure symptoms, and so rendered the remaining span of life not only longer but more endurable. I have repeatedly seen a localized focus of lymphadenoma tissue completely disappear under X-ray treatment and pressure symptoms relieved. But in spite of local success, recurrences sooner or later occur in the same area or in other regions, and with each recurrence the interval of remission becomes shortel and the fresh glands more resistent to irradiation. The failure to maintain the early success in the later stages is most disappointing. However, the difficulties of the radiologist seem to me almost insuperable. The wide dissemination of the disease throughout the thoracic and abdominal cavities militates against a dosage adequate to cause regression of all the affected nodes. The greatest success has been in cases where the disease is caught in its early localized condition in the neck. Unfortunately, this stage is too rarely diagnosed; most of our cases have advanced well into the generalized stage before treatment has been instituted. Enlarged glands in any part of the body demand urgent and exact diagnosis, and their successful early recognition is of special importance in Hodgkin's disease, if the unfortunate patient's only hope is not to be sacrificed. Between the intervals of X-ray treatment, arsenic should be pushed, either in the form of Fowler's solution, sodium cacodylate, or nov-arseno-billon. To the knowledge of this disease first described by Hodgkin while working as a morbid anatomist, clinicians have added but little. It has gradually been isolated from a scrapheap of allied conditions, chiefly by the advance of pathological technique. To the pathologists we turn hopefully for further light on its causation, with a lively faith that the elucidation of this strange intermediate disease may be the stepping-stone to the solution of the infinitely more pressing problem of malignancy.


The article describes the methods of diagnostics, which allow evaluating effectiveness of the innovative educational modular immersion technology in teaching chemistry.


We present a novel system for performing real-time detection of diverse visual corruptions in videos, for validating the quality of graphics units in our company. The system is used for several types of content, including movies and 3D graphics, with strict constraints on low false alert rates and real-time processing of millions of video frames per day. These constraints required novel solutions involving both hardware and software, including new supervised and weakly-supervised methods we developed. Our deployed system has enabled a ~20X reduction of human effort and discovering new corruptions missed by humans and existing approaches.


Connectivism,as an important learning theory produced by the rapid development of Web2.0 and social media technologies and increasing knowledge update speed,has seen rapid development in the past 10 years,and becoming a relatively systematic theory.Although ideas of Connectivism are distributed on the Internet,there is no systematic review and summary,which makes it hard for us to get a deep understanding on the learning theory of Connectivism.This study tracked the research progress of Connectivism and summarized the ideas which are distributed in paper,books,blogs and artifacts.It is found in this study that there is difference betweentwo pioneer' s ideas of Connectivism.The idea of George Siemens is more academic,and easier to accept by others,while Stephen Downes' idea is freer,philosophical,and enlightening.The most famous eight principles of Connectivism give us a clear picture of how Connectivism has developed in the past 10 years.This paper also discussed nine perspectives of Connectivism and their logical relationships.The philosophical orientation of Connectivism not only helps us understand Connectivism deeper from philosophical perspective,and also provide a reference of how to evaluate and analysis the learning in Connectivism learning contexts.In Connectivism,knowledge is distributed and connected;learning is the process of connection and network building;courses are open;teachers are the facilitators of the learning,and they influence and build the network;learners are both self- and network— guided,and they are the knowledge creators;the learning environment focus on personal learning environment and personal learning network building;interaction is the key and core of Connectivist learning Based on our reviews,we conclude that the theory of Connectivism has been relatively mature and systematic,and its perspective of knowledge and learning has been guiding our perspectives of course,teacher,student,learning environment and interaction.There are three forms of practice related to Connectivism(Simple,Social and Complex),and we believe only the Complex Connectivism practice forms truly reflect the main idea of Connectivism.There are four big critics of the Connectivism theory(is it a learning theory or just a pedagogy? What is the difference between Connectivism and social constructivism? Are there some problemsin its core concept? What is the unique idea in Connectivism?).At the end of this paper,the authors proposed several critical questions which should be answered in the future research.


gic plans and their ability to execute them. Many try to implement tools known as scorecards to solve this problem. Unfortunately, in doing so they often put measures into place without establishing the cause-and-effect linkages between those measures and the daily activities that drive them. This paper explores ways to address this problem, ensuring a successful scorecard implementation. Strategy Management and the Balanced Scorecard white paper Performance Management


In the present article, a procedure for the simultaneous separation and preconcentration of trace amounts of cadmium and zinc is proposed. It is based on the adsorption of cadmium and zinc ions onto a column of Amberlite XAD-4 resin loaded with aluminon reagent. Cadmium and zinc ions are quantitatively retained on the column in the pH range from 6.5―7.5, at a flow rate of 2 mL min ―1 . The cadmium and zinc ions are eluted with 5.0 mL of 5 mol L ―1 HN0 3 solution. Cadmium and zinc are measured by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). In the present case, 0.1 μg of cadmium and 0.5 μg of zinc can be concentrated in the column from 1000 mL of aqueous sample, where their concentrations are as low as 0.1 and 0.5 ng mL ―1 , respectively. The relative standard deviations, for seven replicated determinations of 1.0 μg mL ―1 of cadmium and zinc, are 1.2 and 1.1%, respectively. The detection limits for cadmium and zinc in the original solution are 0.02 and 0.11 ng mL ―1 , respectively. The interference of a large number of anions and cations has been studied and the optimized conditions are utilized for the determination of trace amounts of cadmium and zinc in different environmental and standard samples.


A Dantesque theme of Justice is symbolized through a series of 21 frescoes of uomini famosi, including two donne illustri, which were painted, with surviving inscriptions and dates, for the Sala del Consiglio of the Palazzo del Commune of Lucignano in the course of the fifteenth century. From the beginning, the poet's view of the Law dominates the first triad of images commissioned for the legal chamber. Julius Caesar, Constantine the Great, and Noah appear as representatives of pagan antiquity, Christian history, and Hebrew history, respectively, but they were also selected for a more important reason: in late-medieval times, all three heroes were regarded as the founders of Rome. The Roman connection relates to the significance which Dante accorded Rome in terms of world history and world rule, while the figures' link with Janus, who precedes them, derives from Dante's larger appreciation of Italy as the fruit of the creation of Rome and the beginning of civiltas.


Language model pre-training has proven to be useful in many language understanding tasks. In this paper, we investigate whether it is still helpful to add the self-training method in the pre-training step and the fine-tuning step. Towards this goal, we propose a learning framework that making best use of the unlabel data on the low-resource and high-resource labeled dataset. In industry NLP applications, we have large amounts of data produced by users or customers. Our learning framework is based on this large amounts of unlabel data. First, We use the model fine-tuned on manually labeled dataset to predict pseudo labels for the user-generated unlabeled data. Then we use the pseudo labels to supervise the task-specific training on the large amounts of user-generated data. We consider this task-specific training step on pseudo labels as a pre-training step for the next fine-tuning step. At last, we fine-tune on the manually labeled dataset upon the pre-trained model. In this work, we first empirically show that our method is able to solidly improve the performance by 3.6%, when the manually labeled fine-tuning dataset is relatively small. Then we also show that our method still is able to improve the performance further by 0.2%, when the manually labeled fine-tuning dataset is relatively large enough. We argue that our method make the best use of the unlabel data, which is superior to either pre-training or self-training alone.


The study and prediction of emergence and development of occupational deformations is one of the urgent tasks in psychology. However, existing methods are questionnaires, and their results can be distorted due to self-reports by respondents. In this regard, the aim of the study was to develop a methodology for studying and assessing the severity of occupational deformations using unbiased indicators of oculomotor activity and the burnout syndrome example.
34 athlete-skaters took part in the experiment. As stimuli, texts of negative, positive and neutral content were used. The results identified a link between the severity of burnout symptoms such as "reduction of personal achievements" and "depersonalization" with eye movement parameters. In particular, the members of the "reduction of personal achievements" group, while reading texts with negative content, tried to focus less on negative words thereby avoiding them. Thus, using the parameters of eye movements, the authors conducted an unbiased assessment of text areas, to which the subjects' attention was directed. This allowed reliably identifying the behavioural strategies for subjects who suffer from burnout syndrome.


Summary form only given. A self-illustrating phenomenon is an image which exposes the science behind it. Some famous examples are pictures of iron filings aligned along magnetic lines of force, sand particles collecting at the stationary points of the standing waves of a violin, stress in a mechanical part revealed through birefringence, and particle tracks in a bubble chamber. Such images brilliantly combine experimental design, analysis, and visualization. Quoting J. Tukey, "the general purposes of conducting experiments and analyzing data match, point by point". We argue in this talk that computer tools for visual analysis should normally be conceived of as aids in constructing computational visual experiments; and that the resulting visualizations be consciously designed to help validate or invalidate the hypothesis being tested by the experiment.


[Objective]To explore the method of rehabilitation for serious open injury below knee.[Method]A fotal of 153 cases with serious open injury below knee were treated.In which 106 cases were primary repair,47cases were second repair,treated with 7 kinds of internal fixation methods,11 kinds of flap.[Result]A fotal of 132 cases were followed up from 6 months to 5 years after operation,the average time was 17 months,the postoperative satisfaction rate was 85.7%,the flap survival rate was good 25 cases with local necrosis,4 cases with non-union,8 cases with chronic infection,3 cases with osteomyelitis.[Conclusion]The improvement of the flaps enlarge the application and reduce the complication of the flaps.The study offer a reasonable method to repair serious open injury below knee.The proficiency microsurgical scissors and reasonable application of various tissue flaps was the key to repair the injury successfully.


Previous studies in parathyroid cells, which express the G protein-coupled, extracellular calcium-sensing receptor (CaR), showed that activation of protein kinase C (PKC) blunts high extracellular calcium (Ca2+ o )-evoked stimulation of phospholipase C and the associated increases in cytosolic calcium (Ca2+ i ), suggesting that PKC may directly modulate the coupling of the CaR to intracellular signaling systems. In this study, we examined the role of PKC in regulating the coupling of the CaR to Ca2+ i dynamics in fura-2-loaded human embryonic kidney cells (HEK293 cells) transiently transfected with the human parathyroid CaR. We demonstrate that several PKC activators exert inhibitory effects on CaR-mediated increases in Ca2+ i due to release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores. Consistent with the effect being mediated by activation of PKC, the inhibitory effect of PKC activators on Ca2+ release can be blocked by a PKC inhibitor. The use of site-directed mutagenesis reveals that threonine at amino acid position 888 is the major PKC site that mediates the inhibitory effect of PKC activators on Ca2+ mobilization. The effect of PKC activation can be maximally blocked by mutating three PKC sites (Thr888, Ser895, and Ser915) or all five PKC sites. In vitro phosphorylation shows that Thr888 is readily phosphorylated by PKC. Our results suggest that phosphorylation of the CaR is the molecular basis for the previously described effect of PKC activation on Ca2+ o -evoked changes in Ca2+ i dynamics in parathyroid cells.


The aim of the work is to present an application of methods for solving the /spl Lscr//sub 1/ design problem, based on the scaled-Q approach, to a high-order, nonminimum phase system. We start by describing the system which is an open-channel hydraulic system (e.g. an irrigation canal). From the linearization and discretization of the set of two partial-derivative equations, a state-space model of the system is generated. This model is a high-order MIMO system (five external perturbations w, five control inputs u, five controlled outputs z', five measured outputs y, 65 states x) and is nonminimum phase. A controller is then designed by minimizing the /spl Lscr//sub 1/ norm of the impulse response of the transfer matrix between the perturbation w and the output z=[z/sup '//z/sup "/], where the five additional variables z" are defined as z"=D/sub u/u. Considering this additional transfer (w to z") in the minimization problem leads to a better posed problem and provides much better robustness margins. Time-domain template constraints are added in order to force integrators into the controller. The numerical resolution of the problem proved to be efficient, despite the characteristics of the system. The obtained results are compared in the time-domain to classical PID and LQG controllers, both on linear and non-linear simulated plants. The results proved to be very good in terms of performance and robustness, in particular for the rejection of the worst-case perturbation.


With energy costs rising and government officials calling for more emphasis on renewable sources of power, Texas is making a bid to become the leader in US offshore wind. But significant hurdles - technological, financial and environmental - remain. OF Gulf of Mexico editor Russell McCulley looks at some of the Issues state leaders and energy companies are grappling with in the effort to bring wind power to the Gulf of Mexico.


Neutrophils have been implicated in the pathophysiology of vascular damage in man (Harlan 1987). They release a variety of substances which are capable of mediating vascular damage. These include the contents of neutrophil granules such as elastase and other proteases which can destroy the integrity of endothelial cells, vascular basement membranes and the subendothelial matrix (Harlan 1987). In addition, toxic oxygen radicals are released which can result in membrane lipid peroxidation, lysis of endothelial cells and increased vascular permeability and reactivity (Harlan 1987). White cell activation also lcads to the synthesis and release of leukotrienes which further increase vascular permeability, induce vasoconstriction and promote further neutrophil activation and adherence (Bray 1983). Neutrophil activation in-vivo is reflected by elevated levels of human neutrophil elastase (hNE). We have shown previously that elcvated levels of hNE are associated with pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) (Greer et al. 1989). As the pathological lesion seen in the uteroplacental bed in intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) is similar to that seen in PIH (Khong et al. 1986), the aim of this study was to determine whether neutrophil activation occurs in this disorder by measuring hNE in the peripheral plasma of women with small for gestational age (SGA) fetuses, and comparing this with hNE in uncomplicated pregnancies.


Microscopic observations of the freezing process of onion skin cells have been made using a directional solidification stage, in order to study the freezing mechanism of living tissue. Experiments conducted under low cooling rates show that intracellular ice formation occurs due to surface-catalyzed nucleation (SCN) at the plasma membrane and proceeds cell by cell because the membrane blocks the growth of ice crystals. Since the probability of SCN increases with increase in the surface area in contact with the external ice, the tissue freezes at higher temperatures when the cell has a larger area in contact with the adjacent frozen cells. Dehydration and cell shrinkage were also observed in experiments with physiological saline simulating the effects of the vascular system in the organs. It is confirmed that a decrease of the cooling rate raises the dehydration rate and reduces the fraction of frozen cells but increases the amount of extracellular freezing.


In this paper I review recent theoretical development on the direct CP violation parameter [var epsilon][prime]/[var epsilon] in the standard model and the accuracy of predictions for it.


Background/Context Teachers can help ensure trans and gender-creative students' opportunity for, and equal access to, education, yet the field of educational research has just begun to explore how teachers understand trans and gender-creative students' experiences and negotiate their responsibilities to protect these students' rights. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study This article aims to address this essential gap by exploring preservice teachers (PSTs') understandings of, and preparation for, creating supportive educational contexts for trans and gender-creative students, guided by the following research question: How do PSTs construct their responsibilities as future teachers to support trans and gender-creative students? Ultimately, this study aims to inform the development of effective teacher education curricula and related policy on trans and gender-creative identities. Participants Participants were 183 undergraduate preservice teachers enrolled in 10 sections of an educational equity course. Research Design We conducted a qualitative, inductive, thematic online discourse analysis. Using a queer, social justice teacher education framework, we qualitatively analyzed 549 online PST-authored posts. Findings/Results Three themes emerged: (1) PSTs voiced discomfort negotiating conflicting values and roles in supporting trans and gender-creative students, and PSTs suggested (2) individualized, differentiated interventions, and (3) community education approaches to promote comfort for trans and gender-creative students—strategies that may reinscribe normative, institutionalized views of gender identity. Conclusions/Recommendations Findings suggest the pressing need for innovative teacher education on gender identity and fluidity: PSTs need more opportunities to learn about supporting trans and gender-creative students, to critically consider constructs of gender and sexuality, and to explore how systemic gender oppression intersects with other forms of oppression through schooling practices.


No matter how complex a purchase order: The universally applicable Non-Linear Performance Pricing (NLPP) methodology helps purchasing departments to evaluate the price/performance ratio of components or suppliers. It creates price benchmarks and identifies savings potential in seller markets. With the help of an NLPP software tool, the methodology can be quickly and easily integrated into the daily work routine.


It is described Trypanosoma nupelianus sp. n. parasitizing Rhinelepis aspera taken from Parana river (Itaipu reservoir, Brazil). Morphometric characters such as body length, width of the body and nucleus dimensions show that T. nupelianus sp. n. is different from other trypanosomes described for fishes from tropical regions.


Frequently, minority groups within countries exhibit different smoking behavior from the majority. This discussion identifies reasons for this different behavior in New Zealand, suggesting educational platforms which may apply to minority groups in general. The first people to settle New Zealand were Polynesians about the 10th century A.D. Their descendants are known as Maoris. The 2nd migration wave started from Britain in the 19th century. Currently, some 90% of the population is of European descent; the dominant culture is Anglo Saxon. The Maoris were allegedly a fit and healthy people when Captain Cook arrived in New Zealand in 1769. Tribal wars were most likely the main cause of premature mortality. The Maori population of 250,000 in the early 1800s had diminished to perhaps 40,000 by 1890. In the early part of this century there was a marked improvement in Maori health. By 1945 there were 98,000 Maoris. By 1975 there were 275,000 and there will probably be close to 500,000 at the turn of the century. From the earliest contact with Europeans, tobacco smoking became popular among men and women. Cigarette smoking is more prevalent among Maoris than among other population groups. This high smoking incidence coincides with the incidence of lung cancer deaths. Maori women are believed to have one of the world's highest female rates. Possible reasons why so many Maoris smoke include: Maoris are social and live and work in groups, and tobacco smoking in many cultures has been a social pasttime; Maoris are mostly in the lower socioeconomic groups, and this class background places more value on short term rather than longterm gains; the Maoris suffer from low self esteem (high unemployment and women poorly treated by their husbands), and people with poor opinions of themselves are unlikely to worry about their future health; Maoris have had to adapt and become bicultural; and land is held communally with no concept of individual ownership. Until recently no differentiation was made on the basis of race or class in smoking education programs. Recently, the awareness of the high rate of smoking among Maoris, with its associated morbidity and mortality, has prompted many health educators to look for ways of focusing on Maoris as a target group. In a series of seminars recently held in Auckland, New Zealand on the delivery of health education to minorities, participants from minority groups made the following suggestions: the educator should be from the same cultural group to enhance communication, empathy, cultural understanding, and acceptance; changes should not be made too quickly; and oral communication is better than written.


The pressure dependence of reflection, absorption and resonant Raman spectra of single crystals of toluene sulphonate dicetylene polymer have been measured under hydrostatic conditions to 5 kbars. The peak of the reflection spectrum near 2 eV shifted to lower energies with increasing pressure at a rate of 7.3+or-0.3 meV per kbar. This result is shown to be in qualitative agreement with the prediction of molecular orbital calculations. The temperature and pressure dependence of the resonant Raman spectra are discussed using a simple point mass and anharmonic spring constant model.


K. Gowri Diagnosis of building envelope failures and design to overcome these problems require expertise and knowledge from many different disciplines. The present work is aimed at developing a systematic methodology to represent the knowledge required in the diagnosis and design processes to resol ve the rno; sture-induced probl ems. The symptoms, causes, effects, and remedial measures for commonly encountered problems are grouped for each building envelope component. Sample rules for diagnosis and design have been extracted from available literature and well-established methods. Information on most commonly used construction types, material propert i es, and bui 1 di ng code requi rements are al so made part of the knowl edge base. A data base of desi gn weather data is interfaced to the knowl edge base for estab 1 i shi ng the context of the problem. Psychrometry i nformat i on and the computat i on of temperatu re and vapor pressu re profil es are incorporated in the knowl edge base for verifyi ng the poss i bil ity of condensat i on due to vapor diffusion. This system will be a useful tool to novice designers, renovation contractors, building inspectors, and other professionals involved in the design and retrofitting of building envelope components.


Experimental teaching is of vital importance to train the technical talents of application nature with modern engineering awareness.The paper,based on the actual situation of the experimental teaching of the automobile specialty in Ningbo University of Technology,analyzes the existing problems and proposes ways to reform and innovate the experimental teaching mode.


Epidemiological studies in Korea on mental illness began about four decades ago by Choi and Yoo. This was followed by more than 25 papers. Interviews by psychiatrists were not randomly selected samples. Consistent diagnostic tools were not used except by Yeon et al. The definition of prevalence was not definite and, therefore, not comparable. The research was confined to major psychoses such as schizophrenia, manic depressive illnesses, mental retardation and epilepsy. Most of the studies were performed in rural areas only. The present study was designed to meet the above described criteria as well as testing the applicability of Diagnostic Interview Schedule‐III (DIS‐III) in Korea. In order to accomplish those goals the Korean version of DIS‐III was constructed and the lifetime prevalence of mental disorders was studied both in urban (Seoul) and rural areas.


The free fall triboelectrostatic separation is widely used for the selective sorting of plastics from granular industrial waste. The electric charge per mass ratio of the granules is a critical parameter influencing the purity of recycled plastics and the efficiency of the electrostatic separation process. The aim of the present study is to validate an experimental procedure for the optimization of the vibratory-type tribocharging device for granular plastics. This tribocharger is composed of a metal plate covered with a thin PET (polyethylene terephthalate) layer. The amplitude of the vibratory motion of the plate can be adjusted using a potentiometer. The length of the vibratory feeder, the flow rate, and the velocity, at which the granules move on its surface, are the variables that can be controlled in order to optimize the tribocharging process. As particle size is an important physical factor influencing the charging process, the study was focused on two size classes (1 to 2 mm and 2 to 5 mm) of ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) granules originating from the recycling process of waste electrical and electronic equipment. The optimum operating conditions, obtained by using the response surface modeling methodology, differ between the two size classes of granules. Both the length of the vibratory tray and the velocity of the granules on its surface have a significant effect on the outcome of the tribocharging process.


Abstract The assimilatory nitrate reductase was purified 60-fold from a newly isolated, nitrate assimilating strain of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas capsulata. The enzyme had a molecular weight of about 180 000 dalton and was typically prokaryotic in that it was not active with reduced pyridine nucleotides but rather with reduced flavins.


The primary purpose of this study was to determine if the thermal comfort of subjects working at a moderate level of activity (2.3 MET) was improved or adversely affected by air motion. A second purpose of the study was to compare experimental results with the predicted responses given by the Fanger thermal comfort model and the Azer thermal response model. Tests were conducted with subjects wearing 0.65 clo and 1.09 clo of clothing insulation and with relative air velocities of approximately 40 fpm (0.20 m/s) and 240 fpm (1.2 m/s). The air temperature was varied over a range selected to include the optimum comfort level. The results indicate that comfort is as good, if not better, with the higher air velocity. The experimental results showed a higher sensitivity to temperature than predicted by either model.


Compounds of the general formula R in which R1 and R2 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a saturated or partially unsaturated heterocyclic ring, 4, 5, 6 or 7 membered ring, optionally containing another heteroatom chosen from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur, said saturated heterocyclic ring or partly unsaturated is unsubstituted or substituted by one, two or three groups independently selected from alkyl C1-C8, halogen, halogenalkyl, hydroxy, hydroxy C1-C8, C1-C8 alkoxy, oxo , phenyl, benzyl, pyridyl and carbamoyl, or being condensed with a phenyl ring, said phenyl ring being unsubstituted or substituted by one, two or three groups independently selected from alkyl C1-C8, C1-C8 alkoxy and halogen; R3 is selected from the group consisting of hydroxy C1-C8 cyanoalkyl C1-C8, C1-C8, phenylsulfonyl wherein the phenyl ring may be unsubstituted or substituted by one or two groups independently selected from each other from C1-C8 alkyl, halogen, cyano, C1-C8 haloalkyl, C1-C8 alkoxy, C1-C8 haloalkoxy and hydroxy C1-C8 alkyl; phenyl unsubstituted or substituted by one or two groups independently selected from alkyl C1-8, halogen, C1-8 haloalkyl, cyano, C1-8 alkoxy, C1-8 haloalkoxy C1-8 and hydroxyalkyl; C1-8 phenylalkyl wherein the phenyl ring may be unsubstituted or substituted by one or two groups independently selected from alkyl C1-8, halogen, C1-8 haloalkyl, cyano, C1-8 alkoxy, C1-8 haloalkoxy and hydroxy C1- C8; and heteroaryl unsubstituted or substituted with one or two groups independently selected from alkyl C1-C8, C1-C8 alkoxy, halogen, C1-C8 haloalkyl, C1-C8 halogenoalkoxy, morpholino and cyano; R4 is hydrogen or halogen; G is wherein m is selected from C1-C8 alkyl, C1-C8 haloalkyl, cycloalkyl, halocycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl and phenylalkyl C1-C8 C1-C8; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.


Blockchain technology is currently being adopted in several domains and applications, including the energy domain and specifically in smart grids. One of the principal applications of blockchain technology is peer-to-peer energy trading among stakeholders of smart grids, providing trusted transactions without the need of third parties. Also, e-auctions are rapidly growing as a mean of e-commerce that allows direct product bidding through the internet. One of the major issues of e-auctions is the reliance on a third-party to host the e-auction platform which not only induces extra cost and complexity of transactions, but also the third-party should be trusted by buyers and sellers, as it handles all the e-auction processes. In addition, trust may also be undermined by potential malicious sellers or buyers. This paper introduces a blockchain-based energy trading framework based on a sealed bid auction type to offer a safe, trusted and privacy preserving energy exchange mechanism between EPES stakeholders of an islanded part of the grid that constitute an energy community, developed in context of the SDN-microSENSE. Furthermore, this framework utilises blockchain solutions for monitoring the security status of smart grid devices in order to confront any transactions involving malicious parties or parties with compromised equipment.


We would like to thank all of the reviewers who provided invaluable feedback on the articles in this special issue. In addition to Educational Psychologist's standard peer review process, several early career scholars volunteered to participate in a complementary Junior Scholar Review process. These early career scholars provided authors with feedback on their manuscripts and ensured that the articles were accessible for a wide range of audiences.


The bearings are the most important mechanical elements of rotating machinery. They are employed to support and rotate the shafts in rotating machinery. On the other hand, any fault in bearing can lead to losses on the level of production and equipments as well as creation an unsafe working environment for human. For these reasons, Condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of these bearings has become a fundamental axis of development and industrial research. This paper presents a bearing-fault detection method based on wavelet packet transform (WPT). The results show that the proposed method improves the bearing faults diagnosis compared to other common techniques. Keywords— Vibration Analysis; Bearing Fault Diagnosis; Fast Fourier Transform (FFT); Wavelet Packet Transform (WPT).


Investigations of the degradation of polyisobutylene were carried out by measuring the flow rate and viscosity at various temperature and stress. Compounds of polyisobutylene with inorganic additives such as talc, ZnO, and CaCO/ sub 3/ were investigated. (auth)


When the fibrovascular sheath which normally surrounds the fetal lens until the seventh month fails to disappear in the central part of its anterior portion, the condition is known as persistent pupillary membrane. When the posterior portion remains, the anomaly is referred to as persistent posterior fibrovascular sheath. The case presented is of interest for two reasons ; (1) faulty diagnosis, the eye having been removed for suspected glioma; (2) the congenital anomalies found are associated with definite inflammatory changes in the adjacent structures. Literature in proof of hereditary influence in the production of such congenital defects as colomboma of the iris, aniridia, cataract, ectopia lentis, etc., is not wanting, but possibly on account of the infrequency of occurrence, no such influence has been attributed to retained fibrovascular sheaths. M. T. MacKlin, in 1927, cited one interesting case in which the father had aniridia and his thirteen children all showed


Geoff Mann's book In the long run we are all dead: Keynesianism, political economy, and revolution is an inspiring intellectual project, primarily due to its captivating approach. We are not faced ...


Person re-identification is one of the most challenging issues in network-based surveillance. The difficulties mainly come from the great appearance variations induced by illumination, camera view and body pose changes. Maybe influenced by the research on face recognition and general object recognition, this problem is habitually treated as a verification or classification problem, and much effort has been put on optimizing standard recognition criteria. However, we found that in practical applications the users usually have different expectations. For example, in a real surveillance system, we may expect that a visual user interface can show us the relevant images in the first few (e.g. 20) candidates, but not necessarily before all the irrelevant ones. In other words, there is no problem to leave the final judgement to the users. Based on such an observation, this paper treats the re-identification problem as a ranking problem and directly optimizes a listwise ranking function named Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR), which is considered by us to be able to generate results closest to human expectations. Using a maximum-margin based structured learning model, we are able to show improved re-identification results on widely-used benchmark datasets


Automatic Control 3—3 en Hua Street, Shenyang, ChinaNortheast University of Technology, Department of Automatic Control1—i Wen Hua Street, Shenyang, ChinaABSTRACTIn order to study the radiation characteristics of a compound—cavity blackbody, a method forcalculating the integrated entisslivity is presented in this paper. With this method, firstly,the distribution of the effective emissivity of the sub—cavity of a compound—cavity is calculat—ed; secondly, froi the distribution of the effective emissivity, the integrated einissivity ofthe walls of the sub—cavity to the mouth of the sub—cavity can be obtained; and thirdly, the in—


The purpose of this work was to investigate the possibility that R-407C can replace R-22 in existing heat pump water heaters (HPWHs). Several tests, including baseline tests and system tests with a counter-cross-flow evaporator, were conducted to evaluate the performance of R-407C in HPWHs. The HPWH studied was originally designed for R-22 but was modified for R-407C operation. The baseline test results indicated that the R-407C HPWH had a much higher water heating capacity than that of the R-22 unit with the same designed capacity. However, the R407C unit also consumed more power, which resulted in lower COPs at higher water temperature region. However, when the HPWH was modified with a countercross-flow evaporator, the system performance improved. The COP increased by an average of almost 20% and heating capacity by 4% over the baseline case. The improved system COP is slightly higher than that of R-22. It is feasible that R407C can be used to replace R-22 with improvement in water heating capacity without sacrificing the system energy efficiency.


UK researchers have developed a robot fingertip that creates signals similar to the brain activity associated with human touch. Science fiction author, Gareth L. Powell, explores the possible implications of this technology.


We present a quick description of RIBRAS (Radioactive Ion beams in Brazil), which is a superconducting double solenoid system, installed at the Pelletron Laboratory of the University of São Paulo and extends the capabilities of the original Pelletron Tandem Accelerator of 8MV terminal voltage (8UD) by producing secondary beams of unstable nuclei. The experimental program of the RIBRAS covers the study of elastic and inelastic scattering with the objective to study the interaction potential and the reaction mechanisms between weakly bound (RIB) and halo (6He and 8B) projectiles on light, medium and heavy mass targets. With highly purified beams, the study of resonant elastic scattering and resonant transfer reactions, using inverse kinematics and thick targets, have also been included in our recent experimental program.


1. Earth, air and water 2. Materials from the Earth 3. Molecules and waves 4. Forces and energy 5. Living things 6. Currents and magnets


There were three major attempts to reform Australia's tax system in the recent past. Each of these tax packages were vigorously contested, and all of them involved considerable political risk. These attempts lead to the conclusion that the political process in Australia is inherently hostile to comprehensive tax reform. One of the reasons that tax reform is so politically difficult is that it is mainly about broadening tax bases - that is, taxing the various forms of income and consumption in a more consistent way rather than cutting tax rates.


Background Aplasia cutis congenita (ACC), also called congenital cutaneous hypoplasia, is a serious disease in newborns. Children with ACC often die due to wound infections and bleeding. How the incidence of ACC can be reduced is a question that needs to be solved urgently. Case report We reported a mother who had delivered two children with ACC, both of whom were diagnosed with ACC type VI, skin defects, limb deformities, and congenital heart malformations. One infant died a few days after birth, and another died in utero in the second trimester. Genetic testing in both children showed a heterozygous mutation in the ITGB4 gene [17q25 exon 8, c. 794 dupC, (p. Ala266fs) and exon 15, c. 1860G > A]. The mother later successfully gave birth to a healthy baby using Preimplantation Genetic Testing for Monogenic disorders(PGD-M). Conclusion The PGD-M technique is highly valuable in reducing the incidence of ACC and improving the prognoses of newborns.


The aim of the study was to analyze the development of children's adaptive expertise in computing sums and differences up to 100.We defined the adaptive nature of children's strategy choices on the basis of problem (addition, subtraction), achievement, and strategy performance (accuracy, speed). Sixty-nine 2nd graders of high, above-average, or below-average mathematical achievement level solved 4 types of additions and subtractions before and after regular classroom instruction in the topic. In both assessments, children answered the problems in a choice condition, in which they could choose between the jump strategy (45 + 28 = __; 45 + 20 = 65, 65 + 8 = 73) and the split strategy (45 + 28 = __; 40 + 20 = 60, 5 + 8 = 13, 60 + 13 = 73) on each problem, and in two no-choice conditions, where they had to solve all problems with either the jump or the split strategy. Our results revealed differences in children's strategy choices on both assessments. The choices of high achievers indicated that they fit their strategies to problem and strategy performance characteristics. In contrast, above-average and below-average achievers' choices were unrelated to those characteristics. These results are interpreted in terms of the viability of different instructional approaches to enhance the acquisition of adaptive expertise, specifically, conceptual and investigative approaches.


An investigation of the experience, opinions and perspectives of teachers and students regarding the amendments to the Oral Examination in Irish at Leaving C...


Verticillium wilt, a damaging disease of cauliflower, was successfully managed in a multiple-year field study by incorporating broccoli residues into infested soil. In a study conducted from 1993 to 1995 in the Salinas Valley, cauliflower disease incidence and severity were consistently and significantly reduced in the broccoli residue plots when compared with no broccoli. The commercial standard plots fumigated with methyl bromide + chloropicrin had the lowest disease incidence and severity. In both years of our tarping study, Verticillium wilt severity was lowest in the metham sodium treatment. The cauliflower-Verticillium host-pathogen system therefore can act as a model for controlling soil-borne diseases without the use of synthetic chemicals.


Influences induced by afforestation and desertification on Australian local climate and large-scale circulation,as well as monsoon rainfall in winter were studied by sensitive experiments of afforestation and desertification using CCM3.Results indicated change of land cover has distinct impact on regional climate.Afforestation in mid-west part of Australian land can result in remarkable decrease of air temperature in east of desertification,however desertification can result in notable increase of air temperature in centre Australian land,the change of which is influenced by surrounding ocean environment.Comparing with regional climate change induced by the decrease of local water vapor content in desertification experiment,more marked influence on regional climate induced by increase of water vapor content in afforestation experiment.The change of rainfall has relation with convection strength and production of deviation circulation.The local thermal and moist status can affect the cross-equator air flow and monsoon rainfall by transportation of general atmospheric circulation along longitude direction.Results also showed that afforestation make cross-equatorial flow stronger and increase the possibility of cold wave from Northern Hemisphere invading inland over Southern Hemisphere,whereas desertification will make the cross-equatorial flow weaker in range of 100°~110°E and 120°~130°E in lower troposphere,which will further influence Australian monsoon rainfall in winter.The afforestation resulted in strength of flow along northern inshore of Australian land,and monsoon trough moved to south,as well as the movement of rain-belt,and increase the change of precipitation.while in desertification experiment,the north flow weaker,along with the northern flow,which caused the less water vapor transmitted and less rainfall in monsoon trough.


Quotient sets have attracted the attention of mathematicians in the past three decades. The set of quotients of primes is dense in the positive real numbers and the set of all quotients of Gaussian primes is also dense in the complex plane. Sittinger has proved that the set of quotients of primes in an imaginary quadratic ring is dense in the complex plane and the set of quotients of primes in a real quadratic number ring is dense in R. An interesting open question is introduced by Sittinger: Is the set of quotients of Hurwitz primes dense in the quaternions? In this paper, we answer the question and prove that the set of all quotients of Hurwitz primes is dense in the quaternions.


Relativistic and substituent effects on 13C NMR chemical shifts in mercurimethanes and on 1H shifts in organomercury hydrides have been studied by density functional calculations, comparing quasirelativistic and nonrelativistic effective-core potentials for mercury. The positive shift increments in the 13C shifts as a function of HgCl or HgCN substituents in the mercurimethanes CHn(HgX)4−n (X = Cl, CN; n=0–4) are due to scalar relativistic effects. The relativistic effects for a given structure and the influence of the relativistic Hg–C bond contraction partly oppose each other, in contrast to results obtained recently for 17O shifts in oxo complexes. These differences are due to different types of metal orbitals involved in bonding, mainly of 6s-character for the mercury compounds but predominantly of 5d-character for the oxo complexes. Remaining discrepancies between computed and experimental 13C shifts of CH3HgX for more electropositive substituents X=CH3, SiH3 and particularly between computed and exp...


Osteoarthritis is one of the most common joint disease worldwide, affecting hundreds of millions of people. Predisposing factors for osteoarthritis include age, obesity, joint injuries and genetics. The identification of early osteoarthritis signs enables the development of targeted treatments, which will greatly simplify the current diagnostic process. In this thesis two methods for assessing varus-valgus malaligned knees were developed as part of a bigger project. The aim was to find out whether video imaging and/or inertial sensors can be used to estimate the malalignment, and further draw conclusions about the current state of the knee. Two systems for data collection were developed, video based and sensor based. The obtained data was compared to results from medical ultrasound imaging, and comparisons were made between the two systems. The impact of different examination protocols that may affect knee alignment were assessed. Knee malalignment was proven as a factor worth assessing when discriminating osteoarthritic knees, even with only video cameras. Appending the system with sensors cuts down processing time and gives more reliable results.


Background: COPD exacerbations were diagnosed based on the clinical parameters only. Till now we were unable to find out a reliable blood based biomarker. Serum IgE is one of the measurements of airway inflammation which is well established in asthma, it's role in COPD not studied adequately. Materials and Methods: This is a cross sectional study conducted in a tertiary care center. This study included 75 COPD patients who were admitted in our hospital for exacerbations. Exacerbations defined by the GOLD report 2018. Complete history & Total serum IgE levels were obtained from all patients during admission, pulmonary function test has been done at the time of discharge and results were analyzed. Results: In our study the mean value of serum IgE is 416.75 IU/L. Patients who had elevated serum IgE (>100 IU/L) levels were 55 (73.3%). FEV1/FVC ratio significantly high in elevated IgE group (0.58±0.09 in elevated IgE vs 0.49±0.10 in IgE not elevated, p<0.001). Post BD change in FEV1 was significantly more in elevated IgE group (13.7%+185ml in elevated IgE vs 6.4%+73ml in IgE not elevated, p=0.001). IgE elevated patients have seasonal variation history, Biomass exposure history. They had more Asthma COPD Overlap features than IgE not elevated group (p=0.001). Conclusion: COPD patients can have elevated serum IgE levels during exacerbations. IgE may play an important role in pathogenesis of COPD and can be used as a biomarker for COPD Exacerbations. Key message: Serum total IgE can be used as a biomarker in COPD exacerbations. This can be used as a new therapeutic target for the same. © 2020 Published by Innovative Publication. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)


In this paper, a Feedback-MOS (FB-MOS) structure with C-SenseFET (FMC-SenseFET) is proposed. The FB-MOS region is connected to the Sense terminal of the C-SenseFET by the gate-drain short (diode) connection, which provides negative bias for the G2 terminal. When the temperature changes, the positive temperature characteristic of FB-MOS provides negative feedback for the current drift caused by the J-FET region, while the negative bias will change the width of the depletion layer in the J-FET region, which could further suppress the current drift. Compared with normal structure, the M (Current drift coefficient with temperature) of the charging current in the saturated region can be reduced by 53.8%, besides that, the proposed structure can generate a zero current drifting point at various temperatures in the linear region where the sampling function is realized, which could improve the temperature stability of C-SenseFET in two operating modes.


ALTHOUGH the current depression officially dates from sometime late in I929,. its effects upon the public library had not been felt until relatively recently. Within the last twelve or fifteen months, however, articles in library periodicals, addresses at state and national conventions, conversations at informal meetings, have all emphasized the relationship which is seen clearly to exist between the library and the current economic distress. To judge from the more or less informal reports which are readily scanned in the contemporary literature, the library has become involved in at least two important respects. First, decreased revenues from taxation have resulted in smaller appropriations for library purposes. The immediate problem which the librarian must face is how to reconstruct his budget in the light of reduced income. Is he to cut salaries, services, or book purchases, or all three? Is he to postpone building and repairs until a restoration of former budget schedules makes such items possible? Or is he to effect fundamental economies in conventional library routines at the possible risk of injuring the library's established principles of service? Patently, these are practical questions; and the librarian, if faced with the reductions in income which general library opinion considers widespread, must come to grips with them. I This article was prepared by Douglas Waples, Leon Carnovsky, and William M. Randall from data collected by the Library quarterly.


Abstract : The single most important origin of today's AirLand Battle doctrine was the establishment of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) in 1973 and the writing of a wholly new Field Manual (FM) 100-5, "Operations," under the supervision of the first TRADOC commander, General William E. DePuy. Between 1973 and the manual's publication in 1976, DePuy gave the Army a mighty shove that rolled it out of its preoccupation with the Vietnam War and on the road to the 21st century. The 1976 edition of FM 100-5 was unlike any of its several predecessors. First, it represented a new role for military doctrine as a key integrating medium for an increasingly complex military bureaucracy. The manual attempted to present an over-arching concept of warfare that would rationalize everything the Army did, from training recruits to designing tanks, in terms of how the Army intended to fight. Central to this attempt was the hope that the manual would provide the convincing arguments the Army needed to preserve its investment in new weapons systems. Second, FM 100-5 heralded dramatic changes within the Army. Its authors intended that it play a major role in expunging the bitter Vietnam War experience; shift the Army's attention away from the problems inherent in establishing a volunteer army and onto the battlefield; address the twin issues of a renewed threat to NATO Europe and the increased lethality brought on by the spread of advanced weapons systems; and change the Army's focus from dismounted infantry operations to armored operations. Third, FM 100-5 was an attempt to demystify doctrine. It discarded the abstractions of earlier manuals in favor of specifics on "how to fight." Fourth, the manual was the personal project of General DePuy and his subordinate generals. But despite its importance and high-level authorship, FM 100-5 caused a controversy within the Army that quickly led to the manual's displacement, an event DePuy neither anticipated nor intended.


We examine various string distance measures for suitability in modeling dialect distance, especially its perception. We find measures superior which do not normalize for word length, but which are are sensitive to order. We likewise find evidence for the superiority of measures which incorporate a sensitivity to phonological context, realized in the form of n-grams--although we cannot identify which form of context (bigram, trigram, etc.) is best. However, we find no clear benefit in using gradual as opposed to binary segmental difference when calculating sequence distances.


Using of some basic geometrical knowledge,together with the physical meaning of the parameter, the Rutherford scattering formula is easily deduced.


Cost effective analysis are commonly used to evaluate the potential costs and benefits of health care services. They are often conducted under the assumption of no drug wastage which does not reflect the real world scenario. Cancer is a major health problem responsible for 9% deaths all over the world. Anti-cancer drugs are costlier than any other category drugs due to which the compliance to treatment is questionable. Cancer drug wastage occurs when a parenteral drug within a single-use vial is not fully administered to a patient because of body-weight or body surface-area based dose calculation in cancer chemotherapy. We conducted a prospective observational study in chemotherapy OPD where patients undergo I.V chemotherapy treatment. Data was collected for a period of three months on the drugs and its wastage. Analysis was done to find out drugs causing an increment in cost due to wastage.Our analysis showed that wastage incremented cost of treatment by an average of 3% which accounts for Rs 2,39,237.12 per annum without any added benefit. The drug with maximum cost of wastage was found to be oxaliplatin.9.43% increment in cost was due to oxaliplatin alone, the reason was concluded to be limited vial size.


The morbidity and mortality of premature newborns, as well as their subsequent physical and psychomotor development were analyzed in many studies. Significantly fewer studies focused on neurosonographic examination of healthy full-term babies and their neurological characteristics later in life. Objective. To assess the effectiveness of screening neurosonography performed immediately after birth in healthy, full-term newborns by subsequent evaluation of their neurological and psychomotor development at the age of two years. Patients and methods. This study included 121 healthy full-term newborns (body weight at birth ≥ 2500 g; gestational age 39–41 weeks) born in 2018 in Yerevan, Republic of Armenia. All study participants underwent neurosonography; their neurological development at the age of 2 years was evaluated by a pediatrician using the Bayley scale. Results. No cases of serious brain lesions and hemorrhages were registered in out cohort of healthy full-term newborns. The majority of them (79%) had normal neurosonography results. The most common findings included lenticulostriate vasculopathy (7.4%), hyperechogenicity in the trigone region (6.6%), subependymal pseudocysts (1.6%), vascular plexus cysts (3.0%), and asymmetry of the lateral ventricles (3.3%). Conclusion. By the age of 2 years, problems with motor development were detected in 2% of participants, intellectual disability in 2% of participants, and speech disorders in 11% participants. None of the children had severe disability. Key words: preterm newborns, brain lesions, neurosonography, neurological development


Objective To investigate stroke recurrence and its determinants among offshore oil workers.Methods A retrospective investigation was conducted in 596 stroke patients who worked in an offshore oil company.Results In the 596 stroke patients,419 were male,and 177 female.Among them,112 were recurrence cases,and the number of male and female cases was 82 and 30,respectively.The total recurrence rate was 18.8%,male recurrence rate 19.6% and female recurrence rate 17.0%,respectively.In the 112 recurrence cases,there were significantly more ischemic stroke patients than hemorrhagic stroke ones.54.5%(61 cases)recurred one time,and the highest time of recurrence was 7.Proportion of hypertension,diabetes,high blood lipid,TIA,blood hyperviscosity syndrome was higher in recurrence patients than in incidence patients.Conclusions There was a relatively high recurrence rate in stroke patients doing offshore oil work,especially in ischemic stroke patients.Therefore,we ought to take some measures to eliminate risk factors,so as to reduce stroke recurrence and lighten family and social burdens.