Directions: Answer the questions below the way you truly believe and feel you practice, not by what you believe might be the expected answer. Then, if you are really brave, ask the teachers that you work with to respond to the same set of questions the way they see you in practice! Use the scale 1 = Strongly Disagree; 2 = Disagree; 3 = Agree; 4 = Strongly Agree. 1. A leader must exercise control over those in his/her organization. 2. Good leaders exploit value conflicts within their followers. 3. One of a leader's main jobs is to motivate his/her followers. 4. The best leaders have a clear, specific plan of where they want the organization to go/what they want the organization to accomplish. 5. The best way for leaders to reach potential followers is directly, rather than indirectly. 6. Good leaders realize that goals are always surrounded by a thick, sticky coating of ambiguity. 7. A good leader identifies the school purpose through discussion and then, "puts it in writing." 8. School crises interfere with a school leader's pursuit of the school mission. 9. Mandates, policies, and requirements often distract a leader's attention from doing the important things. Directions: Find below a list of school improvement problems that you may have attempted to solve, only to have them reappear. Place a check mark by any you have experienced as recurring problems. 10. Low teacher morale. (1) 11. Begrudging, minimal performance or compliance. (1) 12. Uninspired teaching. (1) 13. Reluctance to change teaching behaviors. (2) 14. Sporadic teacher effort to improve pupil learning. (3) 15. Indifferent teacher effort to raise standardized test scores. (3) 16. Teachers "hanging back" and waiting for an external consultant to come in before they try anything new. (4) 17. Teachers working very hard and achieving relatively little in terms of student outcomes. (4) 18. You're having to repeat information to teachers over and over again. (5) 19. Teachers being confused about how to complete forms, when information is due, interpretations of new policies. (5) 20. Try as you will, your school is not goaldriven. (6) 21. Even though you have stressed and stressed the purposes of your school, it still seems to be adrift. (7) 22. You seem to continually be "putting out fires" and never get a chance to really lead. (8) 23. With all of the local district and state mandates, you feel you get little chance to do the things you know you should be doing. (9) (NOTE - the numbers in parentheses above correspond to the numbered paragraphs below) The first nine statements above were drawn from the works of Burns (1978), Fullan (1991), and Sergiovanni (1990). Each of these writers has made significant contributions to our understanding of leadership to decrease recurrent school improvement problems. Burns' work was a seminal book that identified key leadership themes from the major political leaders of the twentieth century. Sergiovanni's work was an adaptation of Burns to school settings. Fullan is the leading scholar in synthesizing our knowledge of school change. The last fourteen phrases are school improvement problems associated with misunderstanding of the leadership theory represented in the first nine statements. In other words, the problems identif ed in numbers 10-23 are linked to the misunderstandings of leadership theory reflected in numbers 1-9 indicated by the number in parentheses. These nine statements represent the most frequently missed questions from a 53-item questionnaire administered to students in a school leadership degree program at a large, regional university. Of the seventy-one students who responded to the questionnaire, 70% were female and 28% were minority. All but four were classroom teachers and were taking their first course in educational leadership. …


University technology transfer allows universities to extract benefits from their research. We examine how universities can create and capture value from their technology creation and technology commercialization efforts by embracing a dynamic capabilities perspective. Our longitudinal analysis involves 829 universities and 3908 university-year observations in 30 subnational regions (provinces) in China during a 6-year period. Our findings reveal (1) that universities create more ideas and capture more licensing value through dynamic management and active orchestration of assets, (2) that a developed factor market accelerates value creation and commercialization, and (3) that a developed institutional environment at the subnational level stimulates value creation but inhibits value capture. These interesting findings justify a dynamic capabilities perspective of the university technology transfer process while opening avenues for future research.


Wall-climbing welding robots (WCWRs) can replace workers in manufacturing and maintaining large unstructured equipment, such as ships. The adhesion mechanism is the key component of WCWRs. As it is directly related to the robot's ability in relation to adsorbing, moving flexibly and obstacle-passing. In this paper, a novel non-contact adjustably magnetic adhesion mechanism is proposed. The magnet suckers are mounted under the robot's axils and the sucker and wall are in non-contact. In order to pass obstacles, the sucker and the wheel unit can be pulled up and pushed down by a lifting mechanism. The magnetic adhesion force can be adjusted by changing the height of the gap between the sucker and the wall by the lifting mechanism. In order to increase the adhesion force, the value of the sucker's magnetic energy density (MED) is maximized by optimizing the magnet sucker's structure parameters with a finite element method. Experiments prove that the magnetic adhesion mechanism has enough adhesion force and that the WCWR can complete wall-climbing work within a large unstructured environment.


One or transmission for driving a plurality of power-operated devices from a single drive motor (12). The transmission comprises at least one output drive shaft (14), and at least one gear. Each gear is in constant driving engagement with at least one other gear, one gear is engaged with the motor (12). Each of the output shaft (14) is adapted to be coupled to at least one of the at least one and gear devices. The transmission also includes a plurality of clutches (18). Clutch each (18), one uniquely associated one of the one and the gear of the output drive shaft (14), each of which the gear corresponding output drive shaft of the clutch (18) (14 selectively binds to). The transmission may comprise a control system for the motor (12) and a clutch (18) is activated at a desired time interval.


Enterprises, which can survive and occupy the leading position in the changes environment, must pay attention to organizing ability for obtaining the competition advantage. It depends on business potential speciality. This not only relate to production and sale, but also to member's post held. The behavior of businesss performance can be comment as comprehensive responses of personal knowledge, technology, ability, or other characteristics.


Welding procedure qualification and site welding in long-distance pipeline were compared and analyzed by the following four welding technology standards, SY/T 4103-1995, API 1104-1999, AS 2285.2-1995 and EN 14163:2001. The result showed that the standard EN 14163:2001 was most comprehensive, reasonable and specific on the basic requirement of welding procedure qualification and site welding which included the requirement of repair welding. However the standard API 1104-1999 was most systemic, scientific and strict on the acceptance requirement of NDE.


Gongtan, a once prosperous 1,700-year-old river town near Chongqing, is famous for its well-preserved houses and beautiful scenery. But curious tourists should hurry if they want to see the old town; it will soon be flooded by the building of a new dam.


In this paper, the proposal of setting up a new "School of Engineering Education' has been presented. The paper discusses the prospective location, the possible degrees offered by this institution, the future prospects of the development of this concept as well as the reasons why Engineering Education needs to be handled in this new format of education. The article tries to support the new field by establishing the new school of Engineering Education. The mission of the establishment of this new school is also framed in the given proposal to show the usefulness of the establishing of this new school. The major design and structure of courses and degrees offered by the institution are also discussed in terms of their provided branches, mission and objectives and the career opportunities for the students. Also, the selection and improvement of faculty and teaching techniques has been discussed. Finally, the proposal paper will assist the students to know their future and get their attention in the field of Engineering Education.


This proceeding evaluates three existing models of human-robot trust by means of a macroergonomic framework to find strengths, weaknesses, areas for improvement, and suggestions for future research. The models of human-robot trust that are evaluated are Transparency, Feedback and Emotion Theory. These current models from the literature are examined individually, and strengths and limitations are identified when viewed from a sociotechnical macroergonomic view. A case example of an existing home-health robot, Willow Garage's PR2 robot, was then used to demonstrate the overlaps and gaps between the models' ability to represent human-robot trust. The analysis found that all of the models had some limitations and relative advantages when compared to a holistic approach of building trust in a human robot relationship through a sociotechnical system. Implications, limitations, and further research are also discussed.


Proper sizing of the pipe component of water distribution networks play an important role in the overall design of the any water supply system. Several approaches have been applied for the design of networks from an economical point of view. Traditional optimization techniques and population based stochastic algorithms are widely used to optimize the networks. But the use of these approaches is mostly found to be limited to the research level due to difficulties in understanding by the practicing engineers, design engineers and consulting firms. More over due to non-availability of commercial software related to the optimal design of water distribution system,it forces the practicing engineers to adopt either trial and error or experience-based design. This paper presents a simple approach based on power dissipation in each pipeline as a parameter to design the network economically, but not to the level of global minimum cost.


The possible detection of massive quasi-stable exotic particles at the high luminosity hadronic colliders is discussed. In this decade, the LHC, now under preparation, has the best opportunity to observe them at the TeV scale. The present design of the ATLAS detector, that has been almost irreversibly decided, may turn out to be flexible enough to allow the detection of this interesting class of exotic particles. The trigger acceptance, the track reconstruction and the particle identification are studied. The necessity of a good measurement of the ionization loss in the muon sector of the detectors is recommended.


1. A transmission apparatus used in a communication system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division comprising channel generating unit unicast configured to generate a unicast channel; channel generating unit multicast broadcast channel, operable to generate a multicast broadcast channel; a multiplexing unit configured to time division multiplex the unicast channel and the multicast broadcast channel in the same frequency band; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the transmitted symbols, time division multiplexed, wherein the guard interval length for the multicast broadcast channel longer than the duration of the guard interval for unicast channels. ! 2. The transmission apparatus of claim 1, wherein the radio frame comprises multiple subframes; and time division multiplexing is carried out so that the transmission channel between unicast and multicast transmission period of the broadcast channel within one radio frame are replaced by one or more times. ! 3. A transmitting device used in a communication system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division comprising channel generating unit unicast configured to generate a unicast channel; channel generating unit multicast broadcast configured


This article is based on a research study I performed in two state elementary schools in Israel. In the research study I examined the role and meaning of routine and regular rituals in the school agenda. The research findings indicate that the school arrangements, in other words, the repeating activities, are the main factor that shapes the school culture. I present the two rituals that were studied, and I examine the role that they fill in the assimilation of main messages and values of the Israeli national culture. In addition, I clarify the importance of the awareness of the educational staff, and at the head the school principal, of these rituals and their influence on the assimilation of the values of the national culture.


The meaning of pedagogical notions of "assistance" and "support" is disclosed; on the basis of the analysis of contemporary psychological and pedagogical research works on the problem studied, correlation and interdependence of these notions is revealed. The possibilities of the paradigm of support in the process of development of the subject's qualities, attitudes of a preschooler are discussed.


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY | In the tire industry, there are few manufacturers that have distinguished themselves sufficiently to create brand recognition, which could influence the consumer purchasing decision. A large percentage of tire purchase decisions are made by the retail salesman, not by the customer, which is unique in this industry. Given the general level of disinterest by consumers, product launches of new tires are often timed to coincide with more broad-reaching consumer events like automobile shows or motorsports exhibitions.After more than a hundred years of experience, consumer replacement tire purchasing remains a grudge purchase that takes place every two or three years (depending on vehicle and usage), and is thereafter promptly forgotten; despite the best efforts of billions of dollars of marketing by the world's tire manufacturers. The problem from a marketing standpoint is that tires are, to an untrained and disinterested eye, virtually indistinguishable from each other. In addition, creating a call to action is truly difficult, given the typical two to three year purchase cycle. Only upon close inspection can one determine the brand and model of a tire, apart from enthusiasts who might also recognize the tread pattern. Even then, there are few manufacturers that have distinguished themselves sufficiently to create brand recognition, which could be used to shape the consumer purchasing decision. This is the first challenge of new product launches in the replacement tire market. Few consumers are ready for a purchase at any given launch time, and even fewer of them will care about that purchase.The second challenge is making new out of something that rarely is new in the consumer's eyes. From the invention of the first pneumatic rubber tire in 1887 by John Boyd Dunlop, there have been only a few innovations that captured the interest of the widespread buying public. The development of synthetic rubber compounds by Bayer in the 1920s was certainly a critical advance in tire technology, but probably was as useful a sales-driver then as they are today. To be sure, there have been exceptions. Nokia claims the development of the first winter tire in 1934, which gave rise to an entire Winter Tire segment of development, sales, and advertising. 1946 was a particularly fertile year for tire development: Michelin invented the radial ply tire (the construction type that has all but monopolized modern tire building), and BF Goodrich invented the tubeless tire. BF Goodrich is also credited with introducing the first tire marketed as "all-season" in the late 1970s. There have also been fads along the way - whitewalls, white raised letters, colored wear indicators, and even flavored smoke for tires intended for burnouts and drifting. For the most part, these innovations impacted only the very smallest subsets of the buying public. New tires are as black and as round (ideally) as their predecessors, and the implicit performance improvements are largely left to retailers to convey to buyers. Thus, new product launches are events that generally impact distributors and retailers more directly than consumers.Although there are exceptions (Goodyear being the most notable in North America), few tire manufacturers make direct-to-consumer distribution a substantial element of their strategy. However, as in many other industries, distribution is channeled to large-scale distributors who in turn distribute to wholesalers, who in turn distribute to retail groups, who in turn distribute to merchants and ultimately consumers. Given the level of consumer apathy towards tire purchasing, tire manufacturers focus much of their marketing efforts engaging members further up the supply chain. And with good reason: "80% of tire purchase decisions are made by the salesman, not the customer" is somewhat unique in the tire business, and has been frequently corroborated. The goal for a new product introduction is therefore to create a package - the product and supporting marketing and distribution - that will ultimately appeal to retailers on all the right levels. …


Conductive core-shell particles were prepared by the deposition of polyaniline (PANI) and poly(sodium 4-styrenesulfonate) (PSS) multilayers onto polystyrene (PS) colloidal particles via the alternate electrostatic layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly technique. PSS was used as a polymeric counterion for multilayer formation as well as a stabilizer and codopant for PANI. Electrophoresis, FT-IR spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) confirmed the regular growth of PSS/PANI multilayers on PS colloidal particles. It was found that the PSS/PANI-coated particle is oxidatively more stable due to stabilization of the partially oxidized emeraldine salt by PSS. The conductivity of (PSS/PANI)5-coated PS particles was 0.003 S/cm and increased to 0.1 S/cm after additional dopant exposure with HCl vapor. Furthermore, hollow shells made up of PSS/PANI layers were produced by dissolution of the PS core from PSS/PANI-coated particles. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) showed that PSS/PANI multilayers maintained their oxi...


Tinnitus, the perception of sound in the absence of an obvious external source, is even more frequent, affecting around ten percent of adults in the United States. Tinnitus is defined as the sense of sound in the absence of an obvious external source. Tinnitus is typically accompanied by hearing loss, but this is not always the case. It is conceivable for it to occur either by itself or in conjunction with a loss of hearing of any type. Tinnitus and hearing loss are both caused by a wide variety of conditions, the most frequent of which is age-related hearing loss. Other, less common causes include malignancies of the brain and skull base. Hearing loss can be broken down into three basic categories: sensorineural, conductive, or mixed (where both conductive and sensorineural components are present). The perception of sound in the absence of external acoustic stimulation for an extended length of time (more than three months) is the hallmark of chronic tinnitus. Tinnitus is quite common, with an estimated incidence of 10–15% in the adult population; however, prevalence estimates can vary widely from study to study. Tinnitus is characterized by a buzzing or ringing sound in the ear. A minority of people may experience severe psychological distress as a direct result of the situation, despite the fact that the majority of people are able to adapt to the perception and report very mild emotional distress as a result of it. Tinnitus Questionnaire (abbreviated as TQ), Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (abbreviated as THI), and Tinnitus Functional Index (abbreviated as TFI) are the three self-report questionnaires that are used the most frequently for quantifying tinnitus-related suffering. The total scores of these measures properly capture both the suffering associated with tinnitus and the change that is attributable to treatments. In patients who have tinnitus and chronic hearing loss, the use of hearing aids is successful in suppressing the symptoms; however, the usage of the device must be carried out for at least six months in order for the treatment to take effect.


The Covid-19 pandemic has imposed strict regulations on social distancing, requiring constant monitoring of the occupancy level of spaces. In this work, we describe the prototype of a Smart Gate, an object created exactly for that goal. Characterized by a modular, flexible and portable design, the Smart Gate performs different functions useful to transform indoor and outdoor spaces in intelligent environments, such as people flow and occupancy level monitoring, environmental monitoring and demographic information estimation. We describe the design, the implementation and the experimental validation of the prototype, also discussing possible future application scenarios.


An approach evaluating the structural reliability using Supported Vector Machine(SVM) based on MATLAB is proposed in this paper when implicit limit state functions are normally encountered in the complicated structures.Random variables are sampled by average sampling method.SVM can be trained using the input-output pairs which are generated using samples from structural responses and random variables.The trained SVM can map the structural responses and random variables and the limit state functions of structures can be approximated using SVM.Then first order second moment reliability method(FORM) is used to calculate the reliability index of structures.Numerical examples are given.The results show that SVM can well approximate the limit state functions of structures.The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed approach in calculating the reliability index of structures are validated.


We present a generalized nonlinear Fokker–Planck equation, which describes the dynamics of rarefied monatomic gas mixture flows. The devised kinetic model leads to correct transfer of energy and momentum between gas species and to consistent evolution of molecular stresses and heat fluxes with respect to the generalized Boltzmann equation. Thus, the correct diffusion coefficient together with the mixture viscosity and mixture heat conductivity coefficients are obtained. The strength of the presented model lies on the computational efficiency, which is due to the fact that the resulting stochastic processes are continuous in time. Therefore, unlike in Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC), here simulated particles do not collide with each other, but move along independent continuous stochastic paths. Another aspect of the new Fokker-Planck model equation is that here the effect of collisions is described via drift and diffusion type processes. Accordingly, a scheme can be derived for which the time step size limitation of the corresponding numerical simulation becomes independent of the Knudsen number. Consequently, this leads to more efficient simulations, especially in low or intermediate Knudsen numbers. Results are presented for helium-argon mixture in a one dimensional geometry. The calculated mixture viscosity is found to be in accordance with experimental data, which reveals the accuracy and relevance of the approach.


According to the frequent fault conditions of the rhombic section insulators,this paper deeply analyzes the structure of section insulator and its fault characteristics which happen at the locomotor place,freight line,special line,locomotive serving line and so on,and puts forward the countermeasures for use,management and structure selection of the section insulators.


This paper wants to clarify the important design parameters of the 45 nm process like matching, flicker noise, and offset from an analog designers' point of view. This paper describes a continuous time DeltaSigma ADC for voice coding applications.


During the last decade almost all European tax systems have been subject to more than one change. However, these reforms have been rather limited in scope. In Italy a period of far-reaching reforms started at the end of the 1990s: the "Visco" reform in 1997 and the "Tremonti" reform in 2004. These two reforms are critically discussed with respect to their European counterparts. Moreover some suggestions are proposed to radically reform the present Italian tax system, both as a whole and with particular reference to the corporation tax and to the income tax.


Ethyl chloride spray can be used to lessen the discomfort associated with Botox injections. The spray is available in pharmacies or through medical suppliers. Because the spray is highly flammable, it should not be used near electrodesiccation. It can be stored at room temperature.


Aims: To understand the mask wearing behavior of people, to identify why people do not wear masks, what obstacles are present, and what suggestions people have to increase mask wearing.
Study Design:  It was a cross sectional study.
Place and Duration of Study: In the outpatient department of the government hospital, community clinics and expanded program for immunization centers in Sub district area Monohargonj Upazila (Sub district), Bangladesh from 21st November to 20th December 2020.
Methodology: Mask wearing was categorized as always wear mask in outside or not, reasons for not wearing mask, perception on prevention of COVID-19 and suggested punishment for not wearing mask. The researchers recruited people from 18 years and over from the Government Hospital, community clinics, and Expanded Immunization Program (EPI) centers in Monoharganj Upazila, Cumilla District, Bangladesh. The sample size of 384 assumed 50% mask wearing. However, 401 persons were participated in this study. A questionnaire was prepared in local language. Data were collected through face-to-face interview after obtaining verbal informed consent. Interviewers were doctors, nurses, health assistants and community health care     providers.
Results: Of the 401 survey participants, 51% of the males always wear mask. Mask wearing was highest among in-service holders (68%), Hindus (67%) and students (61%) and increased with educational level and income. While 73% said a mask can prevent COVID-19 only 48% wore a mask. Of the people who don't wear masks, 39% said it was uncomfortable, 5% felt it did not prevent COVID-19, and 8% thought it did not look nice. Most participants agreed to fine or jail people who don't wear masks.
Conclusion: Wearing masks is a reasonable and economical intervention to prevent COVID-19 transmission. In Bangladesh, many people don't wear masks because its uncomfortable, unattractive, and not protective. The government should encourage people to wear masks and enforce the infection prevention law on wearing masks.


Bishop and Phelps proved in [ l ] that every proper closed convex subset of a Banach space has "many" support points. (A support point of a convex set C in a real topological linear space £ is a point x of C for which there is a nonzero continuous linear functional ƒ on E with f(x) =supCGCƒ(£)•) At the end of their paper they asked whether "Banach space" can be replaced by "complete locally convex space" in the statement of this result. In [3], Klee settled this negatively by exhibiting a proper closed convex set in R^o with no support points. The set in Klee's example is unbounded, and at the end of [3] the question was raised whether a bounded closed convex subset of a complete locally convex space must have support points. (Note that a bounded closed convex subset of R*o is weakly compact and hence has support points. Indeed, if {Bi}£ml is any sequence of reflexive Banach spaces, every bounded closed convex subset of the product space H


Composite materials are basically applied to the structures, bridges, operational parts and buildings, such composites from the pure metals. ex: aluminum, which have less hardness comparatively and good tensile properties. In order to minimize and overcome this problem, in general, different materials at various percentages to the pure metals were added and their properties have been investigated. Thus, better hardness can be achieved in earlier studies. But, in this study, The materials like aluminum (7075-T6), the glass powder and the resin of different sizes are taken for making and preparation of the composite materials. Aluminum, used as a base metal and by varying the percentages of the known additives, a composite can be made and thus, to the made specimen material properties have been studied.


Through theoretical analysis on the mechanical properties of bolts based on the pile-soil load transfer model,a analytic solution of elastic deformation on surrounding rock while bolts under tensile load is obtained.Then,the relationship between valid anchorage length and disturbed-radius of surrounding rock and tensile force of bolts are discussed.In addition,according to the comparison of analytic solution and numerical calculation,it is concluded that analytic analysis on mechanical properties of bolts based on pile-soil load transfer model is feasible,and the analysis results can be applied to the bolts design.


The thermal diffusion of Al in ZnTe has been studied by using secondary ion mass spectroscopy. The relationships between the diffusion coefficient and the Al concentration were determined from Al depth profiles by a Boltzmann–Matano analysis. The diffusion coefficient depends on the Al concentration and it becomes large at the high doping level, probably due to the increase of Zn vacancy concentration attributed to the self‐compensation effect. As a result of decrease in the diffusion coefficient at low Al concentration, a rapid decrease in the Al concentration was observed at the diffusion front. This would lead to the formation of highly abrupt p–n junctions, resulting in the fabrication of ZnTe light emitting diode with better performance. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


—High-definition (Hi-Def) digital maps are an in- dispensable automated driving technology that is developing rapidly. There are various commercial or governmental map products in the market. It is notable that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) map tool allows the user to create MAP and Signal Phase and Timing (SPaT) messages with free access. However, an analysis of the accuracy of this map tool is currently lacking in the literature. This paper provides such an analysis. The analysis manually selects 39 feature points within about 200 meters of the verified point and 55 feature points over longer distances from the verified point. All feature locations are surveyed using GNSS and mapped using the USDOT tool. Different error sources are evaluated to allow assessment of the USDOT map accuracy. In this investigation, The USDOT map tool is demonstrated to achieve 17 centimeters horizontal accuracy, which meets the lane-level map requirement. The maximum horizontal map error is less than 30 centimeters.


The pipette, in use for the leucocyte count with the Thoma-Zeiss hematocytometer or its modifications, is filled in the usual manner, blood being drawn to the 0.5 mark and the melangeur filled to 11. For the dilution we use a solution of 2 per cent. sodium citrate and 1 per cent. of sodium chlorid in water. Of this diluted blood, 1 milligram is measured with an accurate hematocrit scale or a specially marked, fine pipette. This milligram is distributed over a warmed slide in fine drops deposited in a row. About eight droplets usually will use up this quantity of dilution. It is of the greatest importance to make the droplets as small as possible. The drop-films are allowed to dry well. They are next fixed with a mixture of 3 per cent. acetic acid in alcohol. No heat must be applied. When fixed


In this paper we will refer to the chaos theory to analyze the evolution of Lebanese GDP growth rate. We use macroeconomic series as GDP, household consumption expenditure and investment over the period of 1970-2017 to estimate the coefficients of the differential equations of the Lorenz system. We found that the evolution of the Lebanese GDP growth looks like a strange attractor generated by chaotic dynamic.


This article discusses the Web environment, how to use JSP and MYSQL information resource center for the Experiment Management System for the design and development, and gives detailed design and technical development focus on the JSP dynamic web site in a variety of advantages and disadvantages of seeking solutions JSP method of technical difficulties. Meanwhile, the website designed to facilitate use of CSS technology front, In this paper, a variety of CSS compatible browsers have done some research. Experimental Center of information resources management system adopted as the B/S architecture, with windows as server operating systems, MYSQL as the database platform, using JSP technology development, design in the foreground using CSS technology.


The Dutch theatre system knows four major, subsidised, national theatre companies, five medium-sized theatre companies, including Toneelgroep Maastricht, and a whole series of smaller companies. Toneelgroep Maastricht is based in Limburg, the southernmost province of the Netherlands, although it also tours the Netherlands and Flanders. When Toneelgroep Maastricht announced they were doing King Lear, this did not immediately cause a great stir, despite that King Lear is one of the most popular Shakespeare plays on the Dutch stage. Although Hamlet holds an almost untouchable number one position, having over sixty professional productions by Dutch theatre companies after World War II, King Lear ranks second, together with productions of Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Twelfth Night. What did cause a stir in the Netherlands was that the Dutch actor Huub Stapel would be taking on the title role. Stapel is ranked among the five best actors in the country, lauded for his natural way of acting, devoid of any grand gesturing. Although he had never yet taken on a Shakespeare role, his decision, at the age of sixty-three, to play Lear, arguably the most challenging of Shakespeare roles, caused quite a buzz in the Dutch media. Stapel himself admitted that the very idea seemed to cause him the occasional panic attack, as he wondered if he would be really up to it. He argued that for him the complexity of playing Lear was caused by the fact that he found it incredibly hard to fathom what really went on in the man's mind:


To determine incidence of renal stone disease among urinary tract infection patients and antimicrobial s susceptibility this cross sectional study was under taken at Ibb city of Yemen between December 2008 an d May 2009. The total study population was 70 patients that cho sen from free different hospitals (Alqadree hospita l, Alnasr hospital, and Clinical laboratory). Both male and f emale patients with age range of 40 years, with renal stones, urinary tract infection and antimicrobial susceptibility were included. The data was obtained and analyzed by filling a specially designed proforma for each p atient. In all 70 patients infection was present in 78.6% of cases. The age group that suffered most from infection re nal stones disease among the 20-40 year-old group w ith 67.1% (47/70), distributed between men and women as follo wing: 59.6% (28/47) for women and 40.4% (19/47 for men. The commonest organisms isolated according to cultu re report were E. Coli (71%), with 66.7%,(16/24) fo r women and 33.3% (8/24) for men, Klebsiella (12%), with 66.7% (2/3) for women ,and 33.3% (1/3) for men, P roteus (7%), with 66.7% (2/3) for men, 33.3% (1/3) for wom en. The frequency of renal stones disease in patien ts with urinary tract infection was 32.7 %. however, Oflox acin (OF) was more sensitivity for (24/41) E.coli w ith a ratio 58.5% , (8/9) Klebsiella with a ratio 88.9% and (5/ 8) Proteus with a ratio 62.5% , Ciprofloxacin (CL) for (21/41) E.coli with a ratio 51.2% ,(5/9) Klebsiella with a ratio 55.6% and (5/8) Proteus with a ratio 62.5% ,a nd Gentamycin (J) for (19/41) E.coli with a ratio 46.3% ,(8/9) Kl ebsiella with a ratio 88.9% and (5/8) Proteus with a a ratio 62.5%. With strong back ground we can colculsion that ren al stone disease makes an important group among uri nary stone diseases. Urinary tract infection with certain bact eria plays an important role in the synthesis of re nal stones. A high incidence can be prevented by adopting a varie ty of simple conservative measures


The geolocation and tracking of a moving transmitter using receivers mounted on stationary or moving platforms is considered. Two-step conventional methods measure time difference of arrivals (TDOA) and differential Doppler in the first step, and in the second step use these measurements for geolocation and tracking. We explore a particle filter that uses the received radio signal directly in order to determine the location and velocity of the transmitter. Two algorithms are derived for the case of unknown deterministic signals and for the case of unknown Gaussian signals. In addition we derive recursive performance bounds for the two cases. The proposed methods show better performance than two-step methods at low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values and achieve the performance bound at high SNR values.


This paper presents observations derived from 7 new examples of the cartilage analogue of fibromatosis and reviews 27 relevant cases from the literature. The present report further widens the scope of this entity, both in its site of occurrence and in terms of the age of affected individuals, and reaffirms the efficacy of conservative surgical procedures in its control. The hallmark of this particular variety of fibromatosis is regarded as the differentiation of peculiar chondroid conformations within the spindle‐cell stroma. Many of these complexes resemble fibrocartilage and recall the emergence of fibrocartilaginous transformation in tendons and aponeuroses in the vicinity of their attachments to skeletal structures. The predominant occurrence of this lesion in children and young adults and the observation of its development in the vicinity of a fracture in a 64‐year‐old man, coupled with its predilection to originate in paraskeletal tissues, suggests the possibility that the cartilage analogue of fibromastosis represents a proliferation of specialized mesenchymal elements related to the stimulatory effect of normal or reactive skeletal growth.


Abstract Frailty is a clinical syndrome of impaired homeostasis and decreased physiologic reserve and resilience resulting in diminished ability to recover from stressors. In the hospital setting, barriers to adoption of popular frailty assessments make them impractical for widespread use. Improving quality and costs associated with hospitalization has motivated using data from the electronic health record (EHR) to identify patients at risk for adverse outcomes such as early readmission. Patient-level factors such as frailty and comorbidity may signal high readmission risk. In this retrospective study and secondary analysis of EHR data, we investigated Frailty Risk Scores (FRS) in models that included sociodemographic, comorbidity, and laboratory data for early 3-, 7-, and 30-day unplanned readmission. Study data were collected from a health system in the Southeastern U.S. on adults >50 years with an inpatient stay of >24 hours, 2013-2017. Exclusions included planned readmission and in-hospital mortality. The FRS was constructed using ICD-10-CM codes mapped for symptoms, syndromes, and laboratory values. Cox and logistic regression were conducted to examine associations with readmission. Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) quantified accuracy. The sample was 53% female and 73% non-Hispanic White (N=55,778). About one-third took at least 7 prescribed medications (34%) and average length of stay was 4.3 days (max=103.6). FRS was a significant predictor of readmission for almost all models, independently of three comorbidity indices (range AUC=.850-.854 for 3-day, .809-.813 for 7-day, and .757 to .768 for 30-day). Frailty and comorbidity are independently associated with early rehospitalization.


ABSTRACT Understanding the developmental trajectories of big data analytics in the corporate context is highly relevant for information systems research and practice. This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of applications of big data analytics in enterprises. The sample for this study contained a total of 1727 articles from the Scopus database. The sample was analyzed with techniques such as bibliographic coupling, citation analysis, co-word analysis, and co-authorship analysis. Findings from the co-citation analysis identified four major thematic areas in the extant literature. The evolution of these thematic areas was documented with dynamic co-citation analysis.


THE INVENTION CONCERNS A DEVICE FOR TREATING A PIECE IN TEMPERATURES AND HIGH PRESSURE. THIS PRODUCT INCLUDES A PARALLEL AND EXTENDED PREGNANT RESISTANT PRESSURE IN WHICH A SOLE 6 REST 5. STAND ON AN OVEN ISOLATED CLOSELY AROUND THE BASE AND 5 IN WHICH WORK SPACE ONE PIECE IS PLACED 7. ORGAN 50 PULSE IS PLACED IN A ROOM NEAR THE BASE STAND 5 AND DONE AROUND THE AIR PRESSURE INSIDE THE BODY SCOPE. LINK OVENS PRESSURE GAS APPLIANCES iSOSTATIC COMPRESSION HOT, ETC.


The ordinary poly(ethylene vinyl acetate) (EVA) resin can't meet the requirements of encapsulating photovoltaic (PV) modules, so the service life of them has not been prolonged for 25 years. The chemical modifications of EVA were studied in this paper to improve the properties of PV encapsulants. It was found that the performance such as transmittance, volume resistivity, peel strength, and thermostability were increased after modifications.


The superconducting ${T}_{c}$ decreases similarly with disorder (as measured by resistivity $\ensuremath{\rho}$) for all systems with high ${T}_{c}$. We propose that this is a localization effect. For strong disorder, electron diffusion is slow and strongly scale dependent. This increases the effective Coulomb repulsion. Model calculations with realistic parameters describe well the experimental ${T}_{c}\ensuremath{-}\mathrm{vs}\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\rho}$ curves. Explanations are suggested for the relatively large critical conductance found.


Two-photon absorption in systems with parity permits access to states that cannot be directly prepared by one-photon absorption. Here we investigate ultrafast internal conversion (IC) dynamics of furan by using this strategy in combination with femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron imaging. The dark Rydberg S1 and bright valence S2 states are simultaneously excited by two photons of 405 nm, and then ionized by two photons of 800 nm. The IC from S2 to S1 is clearly observed and extracted from the time dependence of the higher photoelectron kinetic energy (PKE) component. More importantly, the internal conversions to hot S0 from directly-prepared S1 and secondarily-populated S1 are unambiguously identified by the time-dependence of the lower PKE component. The average lifetime of the S2 and S1 states is measured to be 29 fs. The internal conversions of S2 to S1, S1 to hot S0 occur on estimated timescales of 15.4 fs and 38 fs, respectively.


Based on the clinical examination of the hip joints of 8260 newborn babies the author discusses the diagnosis of the congenital dysplasia of the hip joint. He stresses the importance of Ortolani's sign. He discovered 13 cases, 12 girls and l boy. He prefers the treatment in Frejka's splint for 5–7 months.


An AICPA ethics ruling prohibits auditors from considering employment with a client during the audit engagement in order to minimize the concerns that financial statement users may have regarding the auditor's independence, in fact or appearance. The objective of this study is to examine auditors' reporting intentions when it is discovered that another auditor is considering employment with the client and has failed to comply with the ethics ruling. We test a model that predicts that auditors' reporting intentions will be influenced by their perceptions of the seriousness of the act, the personal costs of reporting, their responsibility for reporting, and their commitment to the accounting profession. The results indicate that auditors' reporting intentions are stronger when personal costs of reporting are perceived to be lower or personal responsibility for reporting is perceived to be higher. Implications of the findings for audit practice are discussed.


This research aims to develop learning media for Pantun Train based on Local Wisdom so that Grade 4 Elementary School students are able to understand rhyme material, can distinguish types of rhymes and their examples and as a form of effort to understand the wisdom of local communities and to find out the validity of learning media for students fourth grade Elementary School. This research was conducted at SDN 30 Gresik, Kebomas District, Gresik Regency. The model used is the 4-D model developed by Thiagarajan with modifications by researchers so that it becomes three stages including define, design, and develop. The results of the research given by the validator to the Train Pantun Learning Media based on Local Wisdom in Indonesian language subjects grade 4 at SDN 30 Gresik, namely the validation of media experts I and media experts II got an average score of 96% while in the validation of material experts I and material experts II obtained an average value of 97%. The results of this study are included in the very valid category for use in the learning process of 4th grade elementary school students.


Two feeding experiments were conducted to determine the suitable dietary protein and lipid levels for fingerlings of red sea bream by feeding them with various white fish meal-casein diets containing different levels of protein (CP: 37-52%) and lipid (CL: 5-20%). In Experiment I, the growth rate and feed efficiency increased with increasing CP content in diet, both values reaching a maximum at the diet level of 52%. In Experiment II, the growth rate and feed efficiency were higher for diets containing 52% CP, compared to 42% CP groups, irrespective of the lipid levels. On the other hand, with an increase in the amount of dietary n-3HUFA, the values for growth rate, feed efficiency, and protein efficiency ratio increased, recording high in diets combining 52% CP with 15 and 20% lipids. This result indicated that the growth of red sea bream fingerlings was influenced by not only di-etary protein and lipid levels but also n-3HUFA contents in diet. It is also suggested that the suitable CP and CL levels in diet for red sea bream fingerlings may be around 52% and 15%, respectively.


The history of the Association for Humanistic Counseling (AHC) can be traced back to 1931. Organization members documented the early development of the division and progress until the early 1980s in previous publications. In this article, AHC's dynamic history since the mid-1980s is illustrated. The humanistic perspective of the division as well as its creed, leadership history, membership, publications, governance structure, and future directions are discussed. ********** The Association for Humanistic Counseling (AHC) originated as a collaborative effort to respond to the needs of society (e.g., supporting the women's movement, civil rights, and social justice platform, which are discussed further in the Activism section). A long history of division involvement and metamorphoses has since transpired as the division evolved in relation to social changes (A. S. McGowan, personal communication, September 1, 2008). AHC members documented much of the division's progress from 1931 to the early 1980s (Sheeley, 1975; E. S. Wilson & Robinson, 1985). However, advancements made since the mid-1980s have gone unrecognized. The purpose of this article is to document the division's forward movement since the 1980s, including the timeline of leadership changes, membership trends, contributions to the professional literature, and future directions. AHC began in 1931 with the organization named the Teachers College Personnel Association (TCPA; Sheeley, 1975). In 1946, the organization's name changed to the Personnel Section of the American Association of Teachers Colleges. A few years later, in 1951, the name was updated to the Student Personnel Association for Teacher Education (SPATE; Allen, 1962). A year later, in 1952, SPATE collaborated with three other organizations to establish the American Personnel and Guidance Association, which was later renamed the American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD), and then renamed the American Counseling Association (ACA; Kaplan, 2002). SPATE remained one of the four founding divisions of ACA. While a division of ACA, the organization changed names three additional times. The first change occurred in 1974, to become the Association for Humanistic Education and Development (AHEAD); the second change occurred in 1998, to become the Counseling Association for Humanistic Education and Development (C-AHEAD); and the third change occurred in 2010, to become the Association for Humanistic Counseling (AHC). AHC FOUNDATIONS: HUMANISTIC PERSPECTIVE, COUNSELING, CREED, AND PURPOSES AHC considers itself the heart and conscience of the counseling profession (C-AHEAD, 2008b). Division leaders strive to stay on the forefront of critical issues affecting human beings, in general, and clients served, in particular (A. S. McGowan, personal communication, September 1, 2008). AHC members call attention to important issues in society and the counseling profession. As a division, members work to act as a buffer and defense against social injustices, and members hold fast to the belief that all persons are entitled to intrinsic respect. The division's stance on important issues has been a catalyst for change within society and the profession. AHC's humanistic perspective, counseling focus, creed, and purposes demarcate the division's path. The liberal and progressive perspective of humanism has remained a constant core of the division since its original creation (A. S. McGowan, personal communication, September 1, 2008). Humanism is the central aspect that inspired the creed and purposes and focuses the activism of the division. Humanism Humanism, as a philosophy guiding counseling and education practices, may be understood as having many diverse elements (Hansen, 2006; J. T. Hansen, personal communication, May 4, 2009). The principle uniting these diverse elements is the idea that humans are irreducible to other phenomena (Davidson, 2000). …


e21537 Background: OH2 is a herpes simplex virus type 2-derived oncolytic virus. It was engineered to selectively replicate within tumors and express granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) to enhance tumor-specific immune responses. We conducted a phase Ia/Ib clinical trial to evaluate the safety and preliminary efficacy in unresected stage IIIC to IV melanoma patients (pts). Methods: In this phase Ia/Ib trial, we enrolled pts aged between 18-75 with histologically confirmed unresectable stage III or distant metastatic melanoma failed with prior therapies. In phase Ia, nine pts were in the single-dose group, where 3 dose levels (106, 107, and 108 CCID50/mL) of OH2 were assessed. And six pts were in the multi-dose group testing multiple administration regimens. The recommended doses were then expanded in phase Ib. The primary objective was the safety and tolerability of OH2 injection as defined by the dose-limiting toxicities (DLTs) and the maximum-tolerated dose (MTD) in phase Ia. Antitumor activity was assessed per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST version 1.1) and immune-RECIST in phase Ib. The clinical trial information: NCT04386967. Results: 35 pts were enrolled between November, 2018 and December, 2021. Among this, 37.1% were stageIVM1b-M1c; 88.6% had received of previous treatments: In the phase Ia study, OH2 was well-tolerated, neither serious AEs (SAEs) nor death were reported. No patient experienced TEAE leading to early withdrawal. Most TRAEs were Grade 1 in severity. There were no Grade 3 or above TRAEs. No DLTs were recorded, and the most frequent TRAEs were pyrexia (80%), Skin depigmentation (26.7), Oedema peripheral (26.7%), which were similar in three different doses of the single-dose group. The one-year survival rate was 93.3 % with median overall survival (mOS) being 20.8 months (still ongoing). In the phase Ib study, five pts achieved immune-partial response/partial response. The overall response rate (ORR) was 25.0 % and the five pts had ongoing responses. Six pts experienced stable disease (SD) with a disease control rate (DCR) being 55 %. The durable response rate (partial or complete response for ≥ 6 months) was 60 %. There were seven III-IV1a pts prior treated with anti-PD-1 antibodies. Three of the seven pts achieved iPR/PR (42.9 %), with DCR being 85.7 %. Conclusions: OH2 oncolytic virotherapy showed a favorable safety profile with no DLTs. And exhibited durable antitumor activity in pts. It warrants further investigation for the treatment of pts with unresectable melanoma. Clinical trial information: NCT04386967.


Rice endosperm enzyme activity affects the qualities of cooked rice. In this study, we aimed to investigate the differential localization of various enzymes in the endosperm of milled rice. Using hydrolytic enzyme analysis, we confirmed the activities of amylase, protease, and lipase. We milled brown rice to yields of 30 _ 90%, at intervals of 10%, and then extracted enzymes from the milled rice. Total protein content was reduced by about 43% with 60% removal of the outer layer, resulting from the decrease in milling yield from 90 _ 30%. However, the watersoluble protein content was only approximately 0.3% in both the inner and outer layers. Moreover, the activities of esterase (C4), acidic and alkaline phosphatase, leucine allyl amidase, naphthol-AS-BI-phosphodiester hydrolase, αand β-galactosidases, N-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase, debranching enzyme, β-amylase, and α-glucosidase were similar between the inner and outer layers. In contrast, the activities of esterase lipase (C8), valine allyl amidase, cystine allyl amidase, trypsin, β-glucosidase, α-mannosidase, α-amylase, and polygalacturonase were greater in the outer layer. Thus, these results showed that measurement of rice endosperm enzyme activity could be used to assess enzyme localization.


The article considers administrative restrictions and limitations – the most rigid measures of legal regulation of public relations, which are used for improvement and regulation of public relations in the public law sphere. The author analyses the system of restrictions and limitations in the context of developing a new framework of administrative procedure; he determines its place in administrative procedure law. The aim of the article is a study of restrictions and limitations in public service in law enforcement agencies as measures to provide its effective functioning by means of regulating legal barriers in case of a possible abusive practice. The aim was achieved by solving the related objectives. The notion of restrictions and limitations in public service in law enforcement agencies was examined. Social guarantees of governmental employees in the law enforcement sphere were considered in the context of restrictions and limitations established for them. The system of restrictions and limitations in public service in law enforcement agencies of an executive authority was identified. The author used methods of system analysis, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, as well as dialectic, logical and comparative law methods. The research allowed the author to come to the following con-clusions. (1) Public service in law enforcement agencies as a legal category is a complex administrative fact related to the profession-al activity of people holding positions in state authorities. These people exercise functions of protection of rights and interests of citizens from unlawful encroachments; prevention of crimes; protection of public order; provision of personal and public security; execution of judgments on government actions. (2) Restrictions and limitations in public service in law enforcement agencies should be understood as rules of mandatory nature established by the legislation; non-compliance with them can cause public enforcement measures to public employees of law enforcement bodies. (3) Restrictions of rights and freedoms of public employees should be


This paper carries out studies on the Model-Free Implied Volatility (MF-IV) and other two competing volatility measurements including Black-Scholes Implied Volatility (BS-IV) and GARCH (1,1) with respect to forecasting error and information content. It is known that MF-IV is a volatility measurement independent of any option pricing model and it provides a direct test on market efficiency. The study introduces data of Hang Seng Index Call Options over two different forecasting horizons to compare the forecasting performance. The empirical results indicate that MF-IV contains richer information content than BS-IV over both monthly and bi-monthly forecasting horizons. However, MF-IV has better predictive accuracy in monthly forecasting horizon, while BS-IV performs better over bi-monthly forecasting horizon.


The invention relates to a preform for producing plastic containers in a two-stage stretch blow-moulding process, wherein the preform has an elongated preform body (2), the one longitudinal end of which is closed by a bottom (3), while the other longitudinal end adjoins a neck section (4) having threaded sections (5) or similar positive protrusions. The preform (1) is produced from a plastic material suited for the stretch blow-moulding process, said material having a refractive index of 1.3 to 1.6 at a temperature of 100 DEG C to 120 DEG C. The preform bottom (3) is designed such that the outer wall (18) thereof and the inner wall (17) thereof delimit a flat divergent lens. The outer wall (18) and the inner wall (17) of the preform bottom (3) designed as a divergent lens have radii of curvature (c, b) which are greater at least by a factor of 1.4 than the radii of curvature (s, r) of the associated outer wall (8) or inner wall (7) in the region of the preform body.


Abstract Enlisting in the military is a career choice that impacts the entire family unit. Many research studies have examined the effect of military life on spouses and children of military members; however little research to date has examined the experience of parents of adult children, especially for those of single Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members. Given that many military members are often younger and not yet in stable romantic relationships, parents are often a primary source of emotional and instrumental support. Building on military family research, the current study was conducted to gain a greater understanding of parents' experiences upon the enlistment of their adult children and adjustment to their military career. Parents of single CAF members' experiences were examined through a series of semi-structured interviews and focus groups in seven major Canadian cities. The study group consisted of 55 participants with a mean age of 56 years. Thematic analysis was employed to identify common themes across interviews and focus groups. Results suggest that parents often experience fear and worry over their children's wellbeing, loss of control, and uncertainty. They strive to maintain connection to their adult children and provide emotional, instrumental, and financial support. Over time, many parents are able to develop increased resilience and adjustment to their children's careers, in part due to the development of military connections, informal and formal support, and adaptive coping methods. The findings are discussed in relation to improving parental resilience and how the CAF may best support them.


Broadband Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (DOS) measurements performed on the forearm of ten subjects with varying lipid layer thicknesses are correlated with skin fold calipers values to show that DOS can be used independently to measure lipid layer thickness.


With a six‐year (2009–2014) summer climate simulation using the Weather Research and Forecasting model at convection‐permitting resolution (4‐km grid spacing), the effects of microphysics parameterization (MP) schemes on precipitation characteristics are investigated in this study. The convection‐permitting simulations employ three popular MP schemes, namely, Lin (single‐moment bulk MP), Weather Research and Forecasting Single‐Moment 5‐class (one‐moment and mixed‐phased MP), and Thompson (two‐moment and mixed‐phase MP) scheme. By evaluating the simulations against the CMORPH, rain gauge (Station), and ERA‐Interim data, it is found that the convection‐permitting model reproduce well the summer precipitation amount and the associated large‐scale atmospheric circulations, which are insensitive to the choice of MP schemes. The simulations with three MP schemes overestimate the precipitation amount, especially over the Yangtze‐Huaihe River Valley. The overestimations may be due to the systematic biases, and cannot be significantly reduced by using different MP schemes. Moreover, all simulations capture well the major features of precipitation diurnal variations and their transition characteristics, but they significantly overestimate the precipitation frequency while underestimate the precipitation intensity. The analysis on the microphysical hydrometeors shows that the model‐simulated precipitation amount is considerably affected by the vertical profiles of solid hydrometeors, especially the snow and graupel particles. The Thompson scheme creates more snow particles and less graupel than the other schemes, while produces the least precipitation amount that best matches the CMORPH.


A case with a pigmented skin lesion that was diagnosed as a blue naevus on clinical and dermoscopic grounds and histopathologically confirmed as a dermatofibroma is presented. By means of this case, we define dermatofibroma as a new exception for 'homogeneous blue pigmentation' on dermoscopy.


Between 1992 and 2004, 37.8 million Hormone Therapy prescriptions have been written (oral HT 26.0, topical HT 11.8, reaching 3.5 million per year) but in 2004, oral HT prescribing dropped to 1992 levels of 1.3 million per year. In 2001 there were well publicised high profile studies reporting increased breast cancer and cardiovascular risk (although overall mortality was not increased). There was a modest increase in topical HT in 2003?2004. (non-author abstract)


This paper focuses on statins safety and the use of statins in patients with chronic liver diseases,including an assess- ment of statins safety in the treatment of dyslipidemia by hepatologists,and efficacy and safety of statins in patients with persistently elevated liver enzymes,non-alcoholic fatty liver disease,chronic hepatic C,primary biliary cirrhosis,primary hepatocellular carcinoma and liver transplantation.


Torque and force irregularities of running reaction wheels were studied. In this first part of the study report results from noise measurements at constant wheel speeds on various types of current technology European reaction wheels, both with ball- and magnet bearings and with DC or AC drive motor, are presented. The measured noise in radial and axial force and in torque about the rotation axis at constant wheel speeds was statistically analysed and presented as spectral plots. Differences in noise characteristics between the irarious wheel types are indicated. As shown the larger part of the noise is wheel speed dependent, both in frequency and power. Major noise causes are DC motor commutation and ball bearing retainer movements.


This study presents an innovative approach for selecting high-strength materials for fatigue dimensioning parts, considering both fracture toughness and fatigue performance. Warm and hot forming processes enable the construction of high-strength parts above 1000 MPa with complex geometries, making them suitable for lightweight chassis in automotive and freight applications. This research reveals that high-strength steels can experience up to a 40% reduction in fatigue performance due to manufacturing defects introduced during punching and trimming. Fracture toughness has been proposed as a good indicator of notch sensitivity, with a strong correlation of 0.83 between fracture toughness and fatigue notch sensitivity. Therefore, by combining fracture toughness measurements and fatigue resistance obtained through the rapid fatigue test, it becomes possible to quickly identify the most fatigue-resistant materials to deal with defects. Among the nine materials analysed, warm-formed steels show promising characteristics for lightweight chassis construction, with high fatigue resistance and fracture toughness exceeding the proposed fracture threshold of 250 kJ/m2.


The HIV epidemic continues to disproportionately impact Latin‐American transgender women (TGW). We assessed factors associated with long‐term pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) engagement and adherence among TGW enrolled in the Implementation of PrEP (ImPrEP) study, the largest PrEP demonstration study in Latin America.


A multitude of cationic lipids have been synthesized since they were first proposed for use in gene therapy. Cationic lipids are able to efficiently transfect cells both in vitro and in vivo. Whereas most research groups have focused their investigations on the toxicity of these molecules, and on the location of expression of the DNA transferred by these vectors, little has been done to determine their biodistribution and elimination pathways. Our group has developed a family of cationic lipids termed phosphonolipids. Following a large in vitro screening experiment, we have selected several molecules for in vivo testing, with some of these phosphonolipids forming lipoplexes efficient in transfecting mouse lungs. It was thus of interest to study their fate after intravenous injection.


We investigated the relationship between freezing of gait (FOG) severity in Parkinson's disease (PD) and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) using single‐photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and evaluated the effect of selegiline therapy.


Are there substantial improvements associated with the use of long memory models in the computation of value-at-risk (VAR)? The performance of the GARCH and the ARFIMA models, the latter estimated using daily variance obtained from high-frequency data, are compared on various criteria. The results show that the long memory model provides a superior performance in terms of multi-step point forecasting. Allowing for time-varying variance of the realized variance process in the context of an ARFIMA-FIGARCH model also substantially improves VAR forecasting.


Recently, machine learning systems have gained prominence in real-time, critical decision-making domains, such as autonomous driving and industrial automation. Their implementations should avoid overconfident predictions through uncertainty estimation. Bayesian Neural Networks (BayNNs) are principled methods for estimating predictive uncertainty. However, their computational costs and power consumption hinder their widespread deployment in edge AI. Utilizing Dropout as an approximation of the posterior distribution, binarizing the parameters of BayNNs, and further to that implementing them in spintronics-based computation-in-memory (CiM) hardware arrays provide can be a viable solution. However, designing hardware Dropout modules for convolutional neural network (CNN) topologies is challenging and expensive, as they may require numerous Dropout modules and need to use spatial information to drop certain elements. In this paper, we introduce MC-SpatialDropout, a spatial dropout-based approximate BayNNs with spintronics emerging devices. Our method utilizes the inherent stochasticity of spintronic devices for efficient implementation of the spatial dropout module compared to existing implementations. Furthermore, the number of dropout modules per network layer is reduced by a factor of $9\times$ and energy consumption by a factor of $94.11\times$, while still achieving comparable predictive performance and uncertainty estimates compared to related works.


This paper analyses the factors that led women from urban areas of medium-sized cities of western Mexico to become the head of the household. The paper aims to discuss the reasons that led women to break with their partners as well as the paths they followed to become the head of the household. The paper presents the results of research on this subject carried out throughout 2007 in Colima, Mexico. The study aims to show that the formation of alternative forms of domestic and family life is a consequence of external phenomena such as globalization, cultural, historical and political factors.


This experiment is one in a series exploring human factors issues related to the Automated Highway System (AHS). The comfort level of the driver of the lead vehicle of a string of automated vehicles was determined (a) under normal AHS operating conditions, and (b) while a second vehicle was joining the string as the new lead vehicle. The experiment was conducted in the Iowa Driving Simulator. A generic AHS configuration was used--the left lane was reserved for automated vehicles, the center and right lanes contained unautomated vehicles, the center lane was not a dedicated transition lane, there were no barriers between the automated and unautomated lanes. Sixty drivers participated in the experiment--half male, half female; half between the ages of 25 and 34 years, half 65 or older. The experiment began with the simulator vehicle leading a string of vehicles in the automated lane--it was controlled by the AHS and traveling at the design velocity. A second vehicle entered the automated lane ahead of the simulator vehicle, traveling at 88.6 km/h (55 mi/h). It began to accelerate and the gap between it and the simulator vehicle decreased. It accelerated until its velocity matched the design velocity--then, it became the new leader of the string of vehicles. While the gap between the entering vehicle and the simulator vehicle was decreasing, the comfort level of the driver was monitored. The experiment determined the effect on the driver's comfort level of varying: the design velocity, the inter-string gap, the time at which the second vehicle entered the automated lane, and the age and gender of the driver. Results were as follows: (1) When the simulator vehicle led a string of automated vehicles operating normally, with a fixed inter-string distance between it and the string ahead, positive comfort levels were recorded on 89.9% of the trials; (2) When the simulator vehicle lead a string of vehicles operating normally, the comfort level varied with the gender of the driver--the mean comfort level was higher for male drivers than for female drivers; (3) When a second vehicle entered the automated lane ahead of the simulator vehicle, in 86.2% of the trials the comfort level of the drivers decreased, and in 71.6% of the trials it decreased to a negative comfort level; (4) When a second vehicle entered the automated lane, the comfort level varied with both gender and age--the mean comfort levels were -0.37 for younger males, -0.45 for younger females, -0.54 for older males, and -0.71 for older females; and (5) There were indications that the sharp decrease in comfort may have been triggered by time to collision estimates, although it does not provide a complete explanation.


A new fluorescence excitation and detection system is designed and implemented to measure phenylalanine concentration in this paper,which has the advantages of high sensitivity,low power consumption,low cost and small size.Using a high luminance ultraviolet LED for excitation source,and a "Y" type optical fiber for conduction of light,the system is used for neonatal phenylketonuria screening.We verified the design through experiment,the result of which showed that the system with low power consumption,low cost and small size is reasonable and stable,which meets the demand of instrument designing.


This article examines how a gendered discourse of taste was formulated in colonial Bengal by the Bengali Hindu middle classes, which in its turn facilitated the self-fashioning of Bengali bhadralok. This discourse of taste was articulated specifically through the culture of food. The middle-class Bengali Hindus constituted a new rhetoric of cuisine that enabled them to distance themselves from their 'others', especially the lower classes. Often this distancing was done through aestheticizing women's cooking that assimilated gender with class. Undoubtedly, women were the signpost of 'tradition' in the middle-class discourse. However, the same discourse also assigned them the responsibility for producing a 'modern' Bengali cuisine.


This paper integrates small perturbation method (SPM) with a ray-tracing (RT) algorithm to model a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) channel over a dielectric rough terrain. The effects of surface undulation height, surface correlation length, dielectric soil, transmitter and receiver heights, and interelement spacing of MIMO transceivers are examined on relative received power, intra-user spatial correlation, RMS delay spread, and the coherence bandwidth.


The 11th Asia-Pacific Drying Conference (ADC2023) was successfully organized by the Department of Food Process Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela (Odisha), India on February 18–19, 2023 at Hotel AAURIS, Kolkata, India. The ADC series of biennial conferences was established in 1999 by Prof. A. Kamaruddin of Bogor University, Indonesia and Prof. Arun S. Mujumdar of McGill University, Canada. It is modeled after the widely acclaimed biennial International Drying Symposium Series (IDSs), which was initiated in 1978. The conference venue has since moved to several locations, including Malaysia, Thailand, India, Hong Kong and P.R. China. ADC2023 was planned to be held in 2021, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions on global traveling, it was postponed and held in India in 2023. Dr. Parag Prakash Sutar of the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India served as the Chair of ADC2023, which was conducted under the theme "Innovation in Drying Technologies for Highvalue Products and Sustainability." ADC2023 brought together over 113 participants (75 onsite and 38 online) from the Asia-Pacific region, Africa, Europe and North America, representing academic institutions, industries and government agencies. The participants presented their research works on drying chemicals, food and agricultural products. The level of industry participation and their interest in innovative drying technologies were observed to be very high. The unique feature of this conference was the diverse gathering of academic and industry professionals, both online and offline, with a core focus on improving industry-academic collaborative research on drying. The commitments of the conference were noted to be:


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A linear stability analysis is presented for a stationary Burgers vortex layer in irrotational straining flow, to normal mode disturbances invariant in the direction of main flow vorticity. The whole neutral curve is calculated by combining numerical and asymptotic analysis. It is similar to that for free mixing layers which are always unstable, except that there is unconditional stability below a critical Reynolds number, in agreement with the long‐wave asymptotic result by Neu [J. Fluid Mech. 143, 253 (1984)]. The Reynolds number compares shear flow vorticity versus stretching rate and diffusion, so both latter factors are stabilizing if strong enough. Neutral disturbances represent standing waves.


The present invention relates to an air spring (100) for a motor vehicle chassis, comprising an air spring cover (103) and a piston (109), wherein the air spring cover (103) and a piston (109) by an air spring bellows (105a ) is connected, wherein the air spring cover (103) to receive a first clamping ring (104) and the second clamping ring clamping air spring bellows (105a) with (106) to the air spring bellows (105a) is fixed in the air spring cover (103), wherein the piston (109) and the air spring bellows (105a) having a common first volume of air (111) in the interior thereof, wherein (109) at the end of the piston on its side of the chassis receiving third clamping ring (108) so that a first volume of air (111) sealing the outer environment, wherein the air spring cover (103) having a second volume of air (112), wherein the air spring bellows (105a) is formed of an outer wall of a volume of air (111) and a second volume of air (112) such that the first volume of air (111) and a second volume of air (112) sealing the outer environment, wherein the second clamping ring (106) arranged to the first Gas volume (111) and a second volume of air (112) spatially separated, wherein the air spring cover (103) designed to receive a switching valve (101), the switching valve is designed to achieve in a first switching state a first air path (115) between a volume of air (111) and a second volume of air (112), such that the second volume of air (112) can be switched to a first volume of air (111).


Screw rotor is a vital factor affecting the working efficiency of twin screw air compressor. Therefore, a type of twin screw air compressor in coal mine production process is taken as the research object. Firstly, the working principle and process of female and male rotor was introduced and analyzed. Then, according to the principle of parameter selection of the female and male rotor, the relevant design parameters of the female and male rotor are given. Finally, the vector equation and the tooth surface equation of the segmented line are deduced and established respectively for the end face profile and end face tooth surface of the rotor, the area and volume of the tooth are also calculated. The equation of the tooth surface is set up by rotation of rotor's tooth direction, the inter-tooth area is composed of multi-section smooth curve and the top arc connected to form a circle, which can be obtained by means of analytical method. In order to better meet the requirements of the machining process, it is necessary to coordinate the female and male rotor profile on the coordinate axis when the end face of the rotor is non-symmetrical. This paper provides an important reference for selecting parameters of the rotor of the female and male and calculation of rotor profile.


Two‐dimensional finite difference calculations are carried out to study laminar flow in longitudinal and transverse convection rolls for three different geometries: a single rectangular cavity with high aspect ratio; a double cavity with a thin separation sheet; and a double cavity with a separation sheet and a honeycomb structure. The equations for the convection‐diffusion in the fluid and conduction in the solid region are solved simultaneously. Good agreement with experimental data is achieved for Rayleigh numbers not too high above the critical value for the onset of secondary convection rolls (Ra < 8500 for vertical and Ra < 2700 for horizontal cavities filled with air). Simulation fails for inclined cavities, where the flow structure is essentially three‐dimensional.


The mandible of the prawn Penaeus japonicus is provided with two points of articulation. One of them, upper joint, consists of a dorsal tip of the outside of the mandible and a cap-like covering which is a protector named in this experiment as the joint apparatus. The other is a lower joint which is separated into two combinations ; a fist-like process of the ventro^posterior rim of the epistomal plate, articulated with the receptor process of the frontal edge of the gnathal lobe of the mandible and its near part touched with the antero-superior edge of the gnathal lobe. Movement of the paired mandible is restricted to a single plane which lies perpendicular to the hinged line. The planes of movement for two mandibles are orientated at approximately 30° to the sagittal plane. Mandibular muscles can be divided into two groups ; adductors and abductors. Adductors are the major and minor muscle bundles. The major mandibular adductor has its origin on the endophragmal skeleton and attaches to the lateral carapace. The minor mandibular adductor connects the dorsal carapace with the posterior rim of the mandible on which an oar-like apodeme is prepared. The abductor is composed of four members. Each connects superior inside of the gnathal lobe with the lateral carapace. Innervation of mandibular muscles is as follows ; the major and minor mandibular adductors receive respective nerves derived from the circumoesophageal connective, and the mandibular abductors are innervated by two paired nerves derived from the commissural ganglion and circumoesophageal connective. Although several descriptions of macruran mandible musculature and innervation exist, that of the prawn, Penaeus japonicus, is as yet undescribed. The mandible, the most anterior of the crustacean mouth parts, is a feature common to mandibulate arthropod. The crustacean mandible has been the subject of some comparative studies. The mandibles of the nephropsideans, Astacus fluviatilisl)2\ Homarus americanus3) and Cambarus longulusA) have received some attention but only the foremost is de scribed in any detail. Recent progress of the prawn culture in Japan yields a number of basic studies related to the rearing technique of larvae or adults and nutritional demands as basic data to research for an ideal diet of the prawn. However a fundamental knowledge of the prawn itself is not as yet well obtained. This report on Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan. 82 Mem. Fac. Fish., Kagoshima Univ. Vol. 32 (1983)


Treatment of oxochloro complexes of the type [ReOCl3(L–L)](L–L = diphosphine) with sodium tetrahydroborate gave complexes of the type [ReH7(L–L)]. Treatment of [ReH7(dppen-PP′)]1a[dppen =cis-1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethylene =cis-Ph2PCHCHPPh2] with triphenylphosphine gave a mixture of the pentahydride [ReH5(dppen-PP′)(PPh3)] and the trihydride [ReH3(dppen-PP′)(PPh3)2]. However, treatment of 1a with dppm [bis(diphenylphosphino)methane, Ph2PCH2PPh2] in refluxing toluene, followed by slow crystallisation, gave [ReH5(dppen-PP′)(dppm-P)] which was isolated and characterised by variable-temperature NMR spectroscopy. Prolonged heating of 1a with dppm gave the trihydride [ReH3(dppen-PP′)(dppm-PP′)], the fluxionality of which was studied by NMR spectroscopy between +90 and –70 °C. Protonation of 1a with HBF4·Et2O, at –80 °C, gave a complex formulated as [ReH6(η2-H2)(dppen-PP′)]+ which, on warming to ambient temperature, was cleanly converted to a dirhenium multihydride species tentatively formulated as [(dppen-PP′)H3Re(µ-H)2ReH3(dppen-PP′)] on the basis of IR and NMR evidence.


University of Tampere International School of Social Sciences Department of Journalism and Mass Communication NABUNYA, CHRISTINE: The Role of Radio Talk Shows in the Transition to Multi-Party Politics and Democracy in Uganda. A Case Study Master's Thesis, 135 pages May 2009


Background and Aim:  Treatment of inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a major clinical problem. The only efficient treatment options are percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI), radiofrequency ablation (RF) and transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), but these therapies are only applicable to patients with limited tumor spread and sufficient liver function. For patients with advanced tumor and poor liver function a systemic therapy is required. Octreotide, a somatostatin analog with antimitotic activity, is a controversial treatment option.


Poisoning with carbon monoxide is a frequent means of suicide1 and has an estimated mortality of 30% . However, there have been few case reports of neuropsychiatric sequelae in survivors. We report the case of a young woman with parietal lobe signs 6 months after she had attempted suicide with a combination of barbiturate overdose and carbon monoxide poisoning. The purpose of this report is to call attention to these signs, which may be mistaken for signs of a psychiatric disorder, and to discuss the importance of the barbiturate overdose in this case.


This research work is based on the realization of a prototype of a mobile app for the learning of algorithms for university students applying the methodology of design thinking because nowadays, this methodology is becoming more popular and used by many companies for its iterative processes in which we seek to understand the user and redefine problems in an attempt to identify strategies and solutions alternatives that might not be instantly apparent with an initial level of understanding. Using this methodology, we identified and designed what users needed, focusing on UI and UX with the info we recollected from the many interviews and forms we made. The results of this research were the complete prototype for the subsequent development of the mobile app on future projects and much feedback that we will consider from the final users to improve the app. Thanks to this app, many students can practice and learn about different algorithms and expand their minds to generate solutions to one problem.


This thesis uses the palimpsest as an interpretative lens through which to consider various rewritings of Eugene Sue's Mysteres de Paris. The corpus date range reflects the extent of the mysteres urbains phenomenon, from 1842, when serial publication of Sue's novel began, to 1905, when serialization of Jules Lermina's Mystere-ville was completed, and after which the mysteres tended to adopt new settings and new preoccupations.

Chapters I and II provide introduction and contextualization. Chapter III analyses the paratextual matter used to 'package' the texts, specifically prefaces, footnotes and illustrations. Chapter IV considers issues of identity, namely the emergence of the detective character, the role played by secret societies, and the implications of rewriting gender roles. Chapter V deals with geographical and temporal transpositions and Chapter VI compares feuilleton and book versions, as well as examining theatre adaptations and parodies. By way of conclusion, Chapter VII underlines the enduring relevance of the mysteres urbains, as well as suggesting avenues for future research.

The characteristic common to these rewritings is an insistent self-consciousness. Paratexts impinge on texts and become, in an irreverent parody of their own conventions, complicit in the mystification of the reader. Extra-diegetic phenomena, such as the emergence of the detective character, the rise of an eclectic, indeterminate group of popular readers, and the conflation of reading and writing activities encouraged by the serial form, are reproduced en abyme within the novels. Similarly, geographical and temporal transpositions transcend their diegetic category, repeatedly proving themselves to have a meta-diegetic resonance. American-set mysteres reflect the Americanization of culture, while temporal transpositions cultivate confusion between Histoire and histoire. The reader's attention is deliberately diverted from the mysteries of the cities to the machinations of the text itself. This self-reflexivity is characteristic of literary modernity, but especially prominent in these mysteres urbains, where the relationship between text and context is a significant one. The city provides not only the subject matter of the mysteres, but also the forum for the production, consumption, reception and rewriting of the texts.


The tungsten refining plant in Toshiba Yokohama Metal & Components Works is our creative and original plant, which is composed of a fully automatic continuous refining process and rationalized furnaces for reduction. Our plant is made from our original empirical knowledge, added up while long manufacturing history. We have been providing our high quality material, which is manufactured by our plant, for all around the world. Recently we also began to make ultra high purified tungsten and molybdenum, used for semi-conducter.


It is great exciting news for our high pressure science community in Japan that the first pulsed neutron beams were delivered to J-PARC Materials & Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) on May 30th, 2008. We believe that the newly dedicated pulsed neutron beams will open a new window in the high-pressure science world. Over the past 7 years, we have prepared some projects to build a high pressure and high temperature material science beamline in the MLF. In this article, we will give a brief overview of the progress of those projects and also introduce a newly designed high-pressure cell and a neutron focusing mirror for in-situ neutron diffraction experiments at high pressure and high temperature.


List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Short Stories Novels 1. Literary Contexts Virginia Woolf The New Yorker Women's Magazine Fiction Women's Madness Narratives Ted Hughes 2. Plath's Poetry and Fiction Smith, 1954-55 Cambridge, 1956-57 Falcon Yard, 1957-58 Boston and Yaddo, 1958-59 The Bell Jar, 1961 Double Exposure, 1962-63 3. The Politics of Plath's Fiction Political Development Race Stories Cold War Stories Crazy About the Rosenbergs 'I Could Love a Russian Boy' Strange Love Growing Up in World War II 4. Gender and Society in The Bell Jar Sex Medicine Psychiatry Beauty Marriage 'Femininity' 5. Gender and Society in Plath's Short Stories Plath's Women's Magazine Fiction Home Is Where the Heart Is Feminine Identities Violence and Patriarchy Notes Bibliography Index.


This is a comment on the recent paper by G. S. Adkins and J. McDonnell ``Orbital precession due to central-force perturbations'' published in Phys. Rev. D75 (2007), 082001 [arXiv:gr-qc/0702015]. We show that the main result of this paper, the formula for the precession of Keplerian orbits induced by central-force perturbations, can be obtained very simply by the use of Hamilton's vector.


Drought is one of the nonbiologic stresses which influence soybean growth and cause drop in production especially in arid and semiarid areas.To boost the study on drought stress resistance of soybean and the production,this paper summarizes the research progress in the morphology characteristics,hysiological biochemical and the evaluation of drought stress resistance of soybean in recent years in China and the prosect is also made.


www.physicstoday.org formation. Indeed, all of Boyet and Carlson's terrestrial samples had the same 142Nd/144Nd ratio to within a few parts per million, the resolution of their measurement. But Nd has another radiogenic isotope, 143Nd, the daughter of the much longer-lived 147Sm. Since much of Earth's original 147Sm is still around, geological processes over the whole of Earth's history can and do separate 147Sm and 144Nd, yielding measurably different 143Nd/144Nd ratios over a much larger range of about one part per thousand. If Earth's composition were chondritic, then primitive, undifferentiated mantle material would have a 143Nd/144Nd ratio of about 0.5126, the same as that of the chondrites. But since, as Boyet and Carlson found, the accessible part of Earth formed with more 146Sm than the chondrites, it must also have had more 147Sm. The expected 143Nd/144Nd for primitive terrestrial mantle thus works out to between 0.5129 and 0.5131. As shown in the top panel of figure 2, the rocks from Baffin Island and from neighboring West Greenland do fall within the 0.5129–0.5131 range. When Stuart and colleagues measured those values in 2003, they inferred not that the samples were from a primitive reservoir but that they were mixtures of material from two different parts of the mantle, neither of which represented a primitive composition.


T humanist approaching educational accountability finds himself in a difficult spot. On the one hand he finds it necessary to resist the distortion produced by preoccupation with performance based criteria as educational outcomes. Behavioral objectives, however, have such apparent simplicity and straightforwardness and create such an illusion of business-like precision that the humanist finds himself regarded as soft, unscientific, fuzzy minded, and generally opposed to progress. On the other hand, the humanist finds himself unprepared to offer immediate or simple solutions to the processes of accountability because the problem as he sees it is: a) so large and so complex that behavioral objectives can deal only with the simplest, most primitive aspects of educational goals; b) humanistic goals do not readily lend themselves to traditional modes of assessment; and c) the humanist movement in education is still so young it has not yet developed sophisticated techniques for assessing outcomes in humanistic terms. As a consequence, the humanist position is often tough and lonely. The issue is one of overall goals. Methods of assessment have inevitable indirect as well as direct effects upon the educational settings m which they are employed. Such side effects cannot be ignored. They must be clearly perceived and taken into account in the design of accountability models lest the cure turn out to be worse than the diseas?? it was designed to correct. Mil ions are spent each year in the pha maceutical industry to test the side effects of drugs. In education we cannot do less and educational accountants must, themselves, be held accountable for the effects their techniques impose on our educational system.


This paper, converted from a presentation given at the 2017 PNLA Conference in Post Falls, Idaho, briefly examines four areas that library professionals, regardless of experience, education level, station or title, can begin cultivating in order to better hone leadership skills. The four topics of: communica-tion, accountability and expectations, failure, and initiative and creativity are by no means an all-inclusive list of areas needing to be examined when honing leadership skills. These areas were chosen as a base-set of common areas all aspiring—and established—leaders should focus on to begin trans-formational leadership change.The intent of this paper is to begin the following three things:* Bring awareness and understanding to one's personal leadership strategy within the four areas cov-ered;* Provide suggestions how to begin implementing change in one's leadership strategy in order to be-come a more effectual leader; and,* Act as a resource for identifying one's own strength and weaknesses in order to grow as a leader.


Aim\ To study the role of insulin receptor gene mutations in the pathogenesis of hypertension.\ Methods\ The polymorphism of exon 17 and 18 of insulin gene were detected in 46 hypertension patients and 39 normal controls using PCR and single strand conformation polymorphism.\ Results\ The mutations in exon 17 were found. The mutation frequency of exon 17 were 8.12% and 6.88% in patients and controls, respectively(χ 2=4.9082, P 0.05). Based on direct sequence analysis of exon 17, homozygous and heterozygous nonsense mutations were found silent polymorphism at position 1058(CAC→CAT). The mutations in exon 18 were not found. Conclusion\ The result suggests that codon 1058(CAC) may be a genetic marker of susceptibility for hypertension in Chinese.


We developed a compact Mach-Zehnder interferometer module to be used as a replacement of the objective lens in a conventional inverted microscope (Nikon, TS100-F) in order to make them quantitative phase microscopes. The module has a 90-degree-flipped U-shape; the dimensions of the module are 160 mm by 120 mm by 40 mm and the weight is 380 grams. The Mach-Zehnder interferometer equipped with the separate reference and sample arms was implemented in this U-shaped housing and the path-length difference between the two arms was manually adjustable. The sample under test was put on the stage of the microscope and a sample light went through it. Both arms had identical achromatic lenses for image formation and the lateral positions of them were also manually adjustable. Therefore, temporally and spatially low coherent illumination was applicable because the users were able to balance precisely the path length of the two arms and to overlap the two wavefronts. In the experiment, spectrally filtered LED light for illumination (wavelength = 633 nm and bandwidth = 3 nm) was input to the interferometer module via a 50 micrometer core optical fiber. We have successfully captured full-field interference images by a camera put on the trinocular tube of the microscope and constructed quantitative phase images of the cultured cells by means of the quarter-wavelength phase shifting algorithm. The resultant quantitative phase images were speckle-free and halo-free due to spectrally and spatially low coherent illumination.


The radiation pressure of next generation ultra-high intensity (>1023 W cm−2) lasers could efficiently accelerate ions to GeV energies. However, nonlinear quantum-electrodynamic effects play an important role in the interaction of these laser pulses with matter. Here we show that these effects may lead to the production of an extremely dense (∼1024 cm−3) pair-plasma which absorbs the laser pulse consequently reducing the accelerated ion energy and laser to ion conversion efficiency by up to 30%–50% and 50%–65%, respectively. Thus we identify the regimes of laser-matter interaction, where either ions are efficiently accelerated to high energy or dense pair-plasmas are produced as a guide for future experiments.