Detailed information, including the incidence, onset, and duration of symptoms, as well as the management of irradiation-related sialadenitis, is not well defined in the literature. Between June 1967 and October 1993 126 patients received mantle irradiation in the treatment of Hodgkin's disease at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. All patients were treated with continuous course, once daily external beam radiotherapy (RT) using megavoltage equipment. The mantle fields extended from the level of the external acoustic meatus to the level of the insertion of the diaphragm. Seven of 126 patients (5.5%) treated with mantle irradiation developed clinical signs of parotitis during their RT treatments. Each patient described a painful sensation over the parotid gland. Palpable swelling over the parotid gland was appreciated in three patients. No systemic symptoms developed in any patient. All patients developed symptoms within the first week of treatment. Six patients were treated with aspirin and in each case the symptoms resolved within 48 hr. One patient did not receive medication and his symptoms persisted for 5 days. © 1995 Wiley-Liss, Inc.


This study is about the analysis of finding suffix and prefix in narrative text. The problem of this study are "What kinds of suffix are found in narrative text?" and "What kinds of prefix are found in narrative text?" This study attempts to find out kinds of suffix are found in narrative text and to find out kinds of prefix are found in narrative text. For acquiring the data, the students are tested. The subjects in this study is seventh grade SMP Sw. Puteri Sion Medan. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design to analyze suffix and prefix in narrative text. The finding of this research showed that the average score is 77,61. The students' classify of ability was found that the percentage  of 8 students with criteria as excellent was 38,09%, the percentage of 10 students with criteria very good was 47,61%,  the percentage of 3 students with criteria good was 14,28%.


The purpose of the present paper is to identify the major sources of job stress among PSPCL and PSTCLs employees. A sample of 249 PSPCL and PSTCLs employees was used in the study. Ten factors determined the model: working environment, performance assistance, personal growth, future perspective, control scale, job requirement, workload, responsibility, moment demand and satisfaction. Total of 34 variables were used for confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), to carry out many aspects of job stress. It was found that moment demand is the major contributing factor to job stress. Training needs, working conditions and less salary are the key variables to generate job stress. These variables can assist in maintaining job stress in PSPCL and PSTCL. The objective of this research paper is to examine, the sources of stress among officers and supervisors, under Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) and Punjab State Transmission Corporation Limited (PSTCL).


As a writer associated with Gothic tales of terror and obsession as well as with critical essays detailing, in an almost scientific way, how he creates his poetic "effects," Edgar Allan Poe has always had the reputation for being as much a romantic artist as a pragmatic craftsman. How is one to sort out such differing images of the author? Is Poe the dreamy, melancholy poet (perhaps as hypersensitive as some of his characters) caring only for supernal Beauty and Truth? Or is he more the clever manipulator of emotions, the "coldly-calculating literary hack" (Bergthaller 14), shaping his aesthetic commodities to gain as large a readership as possible? In his essay "Poe's Economies and 'The Fall of the House of Usher,"' Hannes Bergthaller argues that the "the striking contradictions that have always confounded scholars of Poe's work"-contradictions, as he sees it, between Poe's "aggressive commercialism and his haughty aestheticism" (14)-stem from "two distinct inflections of the notion of poetic economy," one oriented toward the literary marketplace and the other revolving around art as an approximation of "divine natural order" (15).1 Focusing on these "economies" in Poe's work, Bergthaller tries to show how "Poe's reflections on his craft bear traces of his struggle to make these two different sets of constraints congruent, to establish the economy of the work of art as a kind of common denominator between the commercial and the divine" (15). Bergthaller's prime example of Poe's ability to establish a sense of unity, of congruence, between the two economies is the Gothic tale "The Fall of the House of Usher," which Bergthaller analyzes toward the end of his essay.Obviously inspired by the historicist turn in Poe criticism and especially by Terence Whalen's Edgar Allan Poe and the Masses (1999), which reconnects the romantic Poe to his cultural-historical world and attempts to see Poe's writing within the context of the nineteenthcentury literary marketplace, Bergthaller makes use of "economy" as a term enabling him to draw together, and offer insight into, both the divine and commercial implications of Poe's aesthetics. Finding evidence of Poe's romantic idealism, of his divine economy, is not difficult, especially in Poe's "poetological essays" (18), where his theoretical remarks, taken at their face value, convey a view of literary art that is amoral and ahistorical and that mainly concerns the abstractions of Beauty and Truth. To detach the cultural-historical implications, the commercial aspects of Poe's art, from his purely aesthetic concerns, however, requires more maneuvering on Bergthaller's part. And in this regard his method is to demonstrate Poe's hoaxing nature, his making seemingly "ludicrous" (18), "quasi-scientific" (19) pronouncements about his "philosophy" of composition, as a vehicle for selling his science of writing. Furthermore, as Bergthaller asserts, Poe's artistic interest in "brevity" and "unity of impression" (18)-aesthetic principles articulated both in Poe's Hawthorne review and in "The Philosophy of Composition"-has mainly to do with capturing readers who could experience aesthetic pleasure with the least cost in terms of time spent away from their working schedules. That Bergthaller uses for this argument Poe's critical essays on poetry is a bit daring, given that Poe, as Whalen has pointed out, initially turned to writing tales rather than poetry for strictly commercial reasons, so as to reach a wider audience (Whalen 9). This does not of course negate some of the commercial implications of his "poetological" essays; but one wonders if the argument being made for Poe's commercial poetics becomes somewhat strained, and if it does not obscure the more crucial features of an aesthetics that, while profoundly mate- rialist, is not so thoroughly guided by the forces of the marketplace as one might believe.To understand Poe's scientific pronouncements, as Bergthaller does, as a kind of "intellectual grandstanding" (18) for the purpose of gaining commercial respectability is to overlook the fact that behind the posing is a serious aesthetic intention-one inclined less toward the spiritual or the cosmic (the second "economy" Bergthaller discusses) than toward empirical interests. …


Railway is superior to the other land transportation systems in aspects of environmental problems. Environmental problems are not considered during a preliminary feasibility study. Investment for railway is low because of low B/C(benefit/cost)ratio in the economical efficiency analysis during the preliminary feasibility study. The body of this paper studies the railway noise which can reflect environmental problems an assessment of environmental impact. The body of this paper studies the presumption of The Benefit Cost of railroad noise arresting it will be able to reflect the evaluation environmental matter of the effect which it gives to an environment.


The market is a place for socio-economic activities in the regional economic growth. The existence of the main market began to be disrupted since the September 30th, 2009 earthquake, resulting in damage to the buildings of Pasar Raya Padang. Rapid handling was made by the Padang City Government through the construction of emergency stalls in the form of stalls along Jalan Sandang Pangan. The construction of emergency kiosks was opposed by some traders because of declining income and lack of visitors. This condition triggered a prolonged conflict for five years (2009-2014). The length of this conflict process makes it important to be explored further with regard to the involvement of third parties in resolving the post-2009 earthquake market conflict. This study uses a qualitative approach with the type of descriptive research. Informants in this study were determined by intentional (purposive). Informants who contributed to this finding were 14 people with 5 women and 9 men. This research shows that the third party is the Regional Representative Council of the City of Padang and the National Commission on Human Rights (KOMNASHAM) of the Republic of Indonesia. The third party involvement carried out by the Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) was hearing to the traders of Pasar Raya Padang and involving their representatives at hearings, working meetings of DPRD which discussed issues related to commission II. The next role is the role as the guardian of the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction process and striving for the realization of the budgeting in the Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD) in accordance with the needs of traders. Whereas the KOMNASHAM has a position and commitment not in line with the conflicting parties, but its role as a human rights guard positions it structurally as a neutral mediator.


"Cell Ageing" means how the cells change due to their aging. The term contains 2 meanings, one how a cell changes when it is isolated from original animals such as in vitro cells in cell culture or tissue culture, while the other means how all the cells of an animal such as mice and rats changes in vivo due to the aging of the individual animal. Our group have been studying the latter changes from the viewpoint of the cell nutrients, the precursors for the macromolecular synthesis such as DNA, RNA, proteins, glucides and lipids, which are incorporated and synthesized into various cells, cell organelles both nuclei and cytoplasm of individual animals. Therefore, this article deals with only the cell aging of animal cells in vivo, how the metabolism, i.e., incorporations and syntheses of respective nutrient precursors in various kinds of cells change due to the ageing of individual experimental animals such as mice and rats by means of microscopic radioautography to localize the RI-labeled precursors. The incorporations and syntheses of various precursors for macromolecules such as DNA, RNA, proteins, glucides, lipids and others results obtained from visual on the numbers of mitochondria labeled with silver grains from 20 mononucleate hepatocytes of each animal labeled with 3 H-leucine demonstrating protein synthesis in 10 aging groups at perinatal stages, prenatal embryo day 19, postnatal day 1, 3, 9 and 14, month 1, 2, 6 and year 1 and 2, were counted. The labeling indices in respective aging stages were calculated from the numbers of labeled mitochondria and the numbers of total mitochondria per cell. The results showed that the numbers of labeled mitochondria with 3H-leucine showing protein synthesis increased from prenatal embryo day 19 (8.3/cell) to postnatal days 1 (9.6/cell), 3 (8.1/cell), 9 (8.9/cell), 14 (9.5/cell), and month 1 (11.2/cell), reaching the maximum, and then decreased to months 2 (9.1/cell), 6 (8.8/cell) to years 1 (6.7/cell) and 2 (2.2/cell), while the labeling indices increased from prenatal day 19 (20.1%) to postnatal days 1 (21.2%), 3 (21.6%), 9 (22.2%), 14 (23.1%), reaching the maximum, then decreased to month 1 (21.7%), 2 (17.4%), 6 (14.6%), and years 1 (12.4%) and 2 (4.4%). Stochastical analysis revealed that the increases and decreases of the numbers of labeled mitochondria as well as the labeling indices from the perinatal stage to the adult and senescent stages were significant (P<0.01). The results obtained from the numbers of mitochondria in binucleate hepatocytes showed an increase from the postnatal days 1 (66.2/cell), to 3 (66.4/cell), 14 (81.8/cell), to postnatal months 1 (89.9/cell),


To study the effect of the peculiar borehole created by reaming while drilling tools on the ratio of weight on bit(WOB),an experimental facility modeling the dynamic characteristic of the drill string with reaming while drilling tools was established based on the similarity principle.The experimental research on the ratio of WOB for the reaming while drilling tools was carried out.And the results show that the rock around the ladder borehole is apt to fall into pieces compared with the rock around the pilot hole.The actual ratio of WOB is smaller than that calculated by the geometry method,which agrees well with the result obtained by the theoretical method.


Uranium ore exploration and mining is attracting more and more attentions by governments because of the urgency to solve energy problems.Based on the chromogenic reaction of uranium and arsenazo Ⅲ,a new field optical method based on homemade solid reagent kit and portable optical spectrometer was developed in this contribution for the detection of trace uranium in ore powder samples.The results showed that a semiquantitative method could be developed by naked eyes based on the color changes of uranium-arsenazo Ⅲcomplexes when the total mass of the homemade solid reagent kit was 1.39 mg.And the developed field optical method could discriminate the ores with uranium and those without uranium successfully.What is more,the field optical method could detect the exact content of uranium in ore powder samples.Compared with the common methods,the present field optical method possesses the advantages of being simple and fast,and is suitable for field work,showing a great promise in uranium ore exploration and mining,trace uranium control in environments and foods.


A lawsuit has been settled between an HIV-negative plaintiff and Chubb Sovereign Life Insurance Company. The plaintiff, Jane Doe, and her husband, John Doe, sued the insurance company when it refused to sell Ms. Doe a policy because Mr. Doe is HIV-positive. The suit alleged that the insurer violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by denying insurance to an individual based on her association with a disabled person. The terms of the out-of-court settlement have not been announced.


Little is known about the simultaneous effects of drought stress and plant resistance on herbivorous insects. By subjecting the green peach aphid Myzus persicae Sulzer to well‐watered and drought‐stressed plants of both susceptible and resistant peach (Prunus persica), the effects of both stressors on aphid performance and proteomics are tested. Overall, the influence of the water treatment on aphid performance is less pronounced than the effect of host plant genetic resistance. On the susceptible cultivar, aphid survival, host acceptance and ability to colonize the plant do not depend on water treatment. On the resistant cultivar, aphid survival and ability to colonize are higher on drought‐stressed than on well‐watered plants. A study examining the pattern of protein expression aiming to explain the variation in aphid performance finds higher protein expression in aphids on the drought‐stressed susceptible cultivars compared with the well‐watered ones. In the susceptible cultivar, the regulated proteins are related to energy metabolism and exoskeleton functionality, whereas, in the resistant cultivar, the proteins are involved with the cytoskeleton. Comparison of the protein expression ratios for resistant versus susceptible plants reveals that four proteins are down‐regulated in well‐watered plants and 15 proteins are down‐regulated in drought‐stressed plants. Drought stress applied to the susceptible cultivar induces the regulation of proteins in M. persicae that enable physiological adaptation to maintain an almost unaltered aphid performance. By contrast, for aphids on the resistant cultivar subjected to drought stress, the down‐regulation of proteins responds to an induced host susceptibility effect.


It is well known that a ramified holomorphic covering of a closed unitary disc by another such a disc is given by a finite Blaschke product. The inverse is also true. In this note we give an explicit description of holomorphic ramified coverings of a disc by other bordered Riemann surfaces. The problem of covering a disc by an annulus arises e.g. in multidimensional complex analysis; we show that it may be effectively solved in terms of elliptic theta functions. The covering of a disc by a flat domain is discussed in a monograph by Goluzin. The machinery used here strongly resembles the description of magnetic configurations in submicron planar magnets.


An alloy of a golf club comprises 0.25 wt % to 1.0 wt % Si, 0.25 wt % to 1.5 wt % Mn, 2.0 wt % to 3.5 wt % Cu, 6.0 wt % to 8.0 wt % Ni, 15.5 wt % to 18.0 wt % Cr, balance iron and inevitable impurities, wherein the alloy of a golf club has austenite structures, ferrite structures, and martensite structures simultaneously. Thus, said alloy with a higher percent of nickel will have preferable shock-absorbing effect, such like striking on a soft iron in practical use, so as to be suitable for special strike proposes, bunkering for example, so as to improve striking effect of the golf club.


Howrah-711316 ABSTRACT: The extraction of the leaf of Derris indica, family Fabaceae was carried out using petroleum ether and chloroform in succession. The petroleum ether and choloform extracts showed the presence of phytosterols and saponins. The chloroform and ethanolic extracts showed the flavonoids and fixed oils the ethanolic and aqueous extracts showed the presence of carbohydrates. The extracts were evaluated for anti-fungal activity. The chloroform extract showed significant anti-fungal activity.


In this study, we present an application of extreme learning machine (ELM) and image processing techniques for identifying butterfly species as an alternative to conventional diagnostic methods. This paper evaluates the capability of butterfly species classification by using texture features of butterfly images. Two texture descriptors such as grey-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and local binary patterns (LBP) were used for comparison purpose. ELM is employed for classification in butterfly-feature space. A total of 190 butterfly images belonging to 19 different species of Pieridae family were used. The identification accuracy of the proposed method was 98.25% and 96.45% with GLCM and LBP butterfly-feature spaces, respectively. The methodology presented herein effectively detected and classified these butterflies. These findings suggested that the proposed GLCM, LBP texture features extraction techniques and ELM algorithm are feasible and excellent in identification and classification of butterfly species.


The currently prevalent COVID-19 infection, its line of treatment, resultant immunosuppression, and pre-existing comorbidities have made patients exposed to secondary infections including mucormycosis. Mucormycosis is a rare but in invasive fungal infection (IFI) due to several species of saprophytic fungi, occurring in patients with underlying co-morbidities which include diabetes mellitus, organ transplant, immunosuppressive corticosteroid therapy. The maxilla rarely undergoes necrosis due to its rich vascularity. Rare but not uncommon is the incidence of mucormycosis associated maxillary osteomyelitis occurring post COVID-19 infection. Fungal osteomyelitis is a life-threatening infection which may further spread from maxilla to the nose and paranasal sinuses within the orofacial region. It is an aggressive infection that needs to be addressed promptly to prevent fatal consequences.


Application of microwave in preparation and modification of catalysts or catalyst carriers were reviewed.Microwave showed its particular advantages in preparation of catalysts.The function of microwave in preparation of catalysts was mainly due to its quick and uniform thermal effects,but in some cases microwave showed some special non-thermal effect as well.


Based on the working flow of an automated robotic assembly line, a fuzzy expert system (FES) for fault diagnosis of the assembly line is developed, which contains a user interface, knowledge base, inference engine and history database. The FES adopts a fuzzy forward chaining rule-based reference strategy and can predict the severity of faults according to a certainty factor. In addition, fuzzy logic and linguistic terms are also introduced.


Traffic safety assurance is the main task on roads as well as railways. At the level crossings both infrastructures cross each other. Therefore the problem of assuring the traffic safety at the level crossings remains permanently actual and is often researched. Requirements for passing the level crossing are clearly defined in the road traffic rules for the road users and in the railway traffic rules for railway carriers. However, despite all these aspects, a level crossing is the place which causes many problems for the users of both infrastructures. Though a number of deaths at level crossings amount to only 2% of the total number of road deaths, it makes 20430% of the total deaths in railways. In this article the problems are described that occur during the use of the level crossings and are concerning the traffic safety assurance. The ways of increasing the traffic safety assurance are also discussed. This problem is actual because of the scientific research and discussions in various countries of the world. The article considers the traffic safety assurance in the level crossings of the Lithuanian roads and provides the context of the other European Union countries. The essential problems of the future are also provided and discussed. Inspections of the road sections were conducted before and behind the fifteen level crossings according to the description of procedures for inspection on road safety. The article consists of the following parts: analysis of problems at the level crossings, statistical analysis of accidents at level crossings in Lithuania and Europe, investigation results and conclusions.


Amorphous bimetallic coordination polymers have been prepared by a mild room temperature solution phase method and utilized as an OER electrocatalyst. Their excellent performance with an overpotential of 228 mV at 10 mA cm-2 and a Tafel slope of 30.3 mV dec-1 exhibits their great potential in the field of the OER.


Introduction: Pre-deployment training for nurses ensures readiness. Method: A quantitative descriptive research methodology was used to conduct an anonymous survey distributed to all registered nurses deployed in 2017 to Hurricane Maria with a hospital-supported team and a federal team. The project sought to improve the pre-deployment preparation experience of nurses to positively impact nurses' willingness to redeploy. The survey was administered for ten days in January 2021. Results: This quantitative descriptive study sought to understand nurses' perceptions of their readiness for deployment during a disaster response. Thirty-nine surveys were distributed with a 46% response rate (n = 18). Gender was not related to agreement with the role variable (p = 0.070). Marital status was significantly related to role (p = 0.015), as was age (p = 0.022). Single individuals and individuals >50 yo were more likely to agree that they understood their role during the disaster. Gender was not related to agreement with the preparedness variable (p = 0.465), nor was marital status (p = 0.067). Age was significantly related to perceptions of preparedness (p = 0.004). Individuals >50 yo were more likely to respond that they were prepared for their deployment. Gender was not related to perceptions of knowledge of providing clinical care during a disaster (p = 0.235), nor was marital status (p = 0.627) or age (p = 0.674). Conclusion: The results suggest that single nurses > 50 yo with more years of nursing experience who have previously deployed may understand the role better and feel more prepared to deploy. However, their responses do not indicate that they feel more knowledgeable about the type of nursing care they are expected to provide in a disaster response.


Soft mobile microrobots whose deformation can be directly controlled by an external field can adapt to move in different environments. This is the case for the light-driven microrobots based on liquid-crystal elastomers (LCEs). Here we show that the soft microrobots can move through an agarose hydrogel by means of light-controlled travelling-wave motions. This is achieved by exploiting the inherent rise of the LCE temperature above the melting temperature of the agarose gel, which facilitates penetration of the microrobot through the hydrogel. The locomotion performance is investigated as a function of the travelling-wave parameters, showing that effective propulsion can be obtained by adapting the generated motion to the specific environmental conditions.


In recent years, historians on both sides of the Atlantic have begun to reconsider the accident as an historical phenomenon. Whereas the historical treatment of accidents between the 1950s and 1980s tended to focus on how the accident contributed to a larger narrative of progress, the more recent literature has begun to focus on the accident's role in wider social, political, and cultural contexts. As the historiography has developed, however, there has been only limited theoretical debate across sub-disciplinary lines. The present paper does not represent an exhaustive examination of the recent historical literature on accidents in both Europe and North America. Instead, it focusses on bridging the gap between those historians who have studied the intellectual development of the accident as a concept and those who have studied the cultural intersection between the accident and power. It does this by focussing on the centrality of narrative in both historiographic trajectories and by suggesting that through a focus on narrative we can connect the epistemological assumptions inherent within the accident concept and the strategies employed to culturally manage the anxieties and stresses which violent technological disasters bring to the surface.


The effect of carbon codoping on boron distribution in implanted silicon has been investigated at the atomic scale using atom probe tomography. Whereas small boron-enriched clusters a few nm in size, containing about 2.4 at. % of boron atoms, are clearly visible in carbon-free B-implanted silicon after annealing at 800 °C for 30 min, no boron clustering is evidenced if C is coimplanted in the sample. C coimplantation is known to reduce the electrical deactivation of boron, but, in addition, this suggests that C addition induces a larger fraction of mobile boron near the peak of the B profile.


IT IS NOT EASY being a school administrator these days. Principals, supervisors, and superintendents work long and hard on such matters as supplies, equipment, buses, PTA, janitorial services, and so on. Increasingly, however, there is still another area of concern for the administrator, and it is taking up a disproportionate amount of time-time that could be better spent elsewhere. This pertains to requests of a personal nature from employees which are not clearly covered in the existing policies and regulations, and requests for instituting new procedures and programs in the name of innovation.


ABSTRACT Descriptive metadata is affected by the challenge of using language that is resilient to semantic transformation over time. Yet, part of this is directly related to a bibliographic rift between abstract and concrete elements. By exploring the materiality of information objects and how descriptive values are subsequently derived, ideological formations and their impact become apparent. An examination of the origins of abstract elements demonstrates their identitarian tendencies and the effect on conceptual organization. Alternatives offered by negative dialectics and critical realism are explored toward a different model of information organization and retrieval.


Risk assessment is an important step to be carried out for disaster management. It provides information for decision makers and communities in pre-disaster, during disaster and post disaster event. Nevertheless, risk assessment in Indonesia, especially on active volcanoes is still limited. This paper presents the risk assessment of Mt. Papandayan (2.665 m), the most active volcano in West Java. The unit of analysis in this study follows the administrative boundaries of village so that the identification can be applied at village level using GIS. Hazard analysis refers to the official hazard map produced by PVMBG while the vulnerability analysis is carried out in 3 sub-analysis, physical vulnerability (7 indicators), social vulnerability (7 indicators), and economic vulnerability. The hazard and vulnerability were overlayed in order to produce the risk which is subsequently made into risk map. The findings indicate that the villages located near and on the direction of the crater have relatively higher risk compared to other villages. The risk map can be incorporated as one of references for spatial planning that integrates disaster mitigation.


Sepsis is defined as an organic dysfunction resulting from a deregulated immune system response to an infectious process. It is characterized as a public health problem, has a high lethality rate and a high incidence in Intensive Care Units. The aim of this study was to describe the main preventive measures and treatment that are part of nursing care in cases of sepsis in the ICU. This is a descriptive bibliographic study carried out in 2020 in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo), Google Scholar and Virtual Health Library databases. We used 12 articles from 2014 to 2019 that met the inclusion criteria and objectives of the study. It was found that most of the studies highlighted the need for more effective treatment and care; however, little was said about the specific procedures to be implemented by nursing professionals. Based on the results obtained, it can be inferred that there is a need for more technical scientific knowledge on the part of the nursing team, which highlights the need for training and continuing education activities in the sectors.


The report contains: (1) wet-surface longitudinal and lateral shear-force data for 10 tires which differ in construction and/or state of treadwear; (2) rank difference correlations between tire traction quality rankings derived from tire testing and tire rankings derived from tire-vehicle system tests; (3) a comprehensive tire shear force model and a mathematical method for fitting tire data (these are included in Vol. II) and (4) results from analyses and simulation studies of tire-vehicle system performance in J-turns and locked-wheel diagonal braking stops. (Modified author abstract)


Importance of marketing in increasing of customers as well as customers' preference towards a brand has an undeniable role. Objective of this survey was to study the impact of services marketing mix on preferring a brand by customers. Therefore, marketing mix of services was used and impact of each one of its elements (seven elements) on degree of preference of Mellat Bank by customers was measured using t-test and in viewpoint of one-hundred thirty (130) customers as the statistical population of the survey. The survey was conducted using descriptive-field method. Tool of data collection was questionnaire containing 25 questions and its reliability was confirmed through Cronbach alpha coefficient (0.79). According to respondents, elements of marketing mix are effective on degree of preference of a brand by customers. Findings show as mutual significance level (0.020) is less than 5% it could be perceived that average value of this item has a significant difference with test value (equal to 3). On the other hand, because the calculated lower and upper limits are negative in the confidence interval 95% it could be concluded that average is less than test value equal to 3. Thus, test hypothesis is rejected and null hypothesis is accepted. In other words, aesthetic appearance of the bank is not effective on degree of preference of a brand by customers. Test results reveal employees' behavior with clients and ease of access to bank


In this note the zero-mode problem is analyzed from a new angle. It is shown that the finiteness of the range of integration over the collective coordinates dictates a correct treatment of quasisymmetries.


Efficient and stereoselective syntheses of pigmentosin A, talaroderxine A, and its diastereomer talaroderxine B are reported. The binaphthyl ring system is assembled by vanadium-catalyzed phenolic coupling of tricyclic precursors. These key intermediates were prepared by Michael-Dieckmann annulation of a protected orsellinate ester, with the requisite pyranones accessed by a new variant of Ghosez's sulfone-epoxide annulation. Preliminary biological experiments are reported for pigmentosin.


Confounding is a great problem when assessing the effects, both short and long term, of pregnancy in women with multiple sclerosis.1 The debate on parity and later disability is one example. When we performed the pregnancy in multiple sclerosis (PRIMS) study in the 1990s we were aware of the effects of the degree of disease severity in women making the decision to become pregnant.2 For that reason we did not have any matched control group of women who had decided not to become pregnant, since that decision (to conceive or not) relates considerably to the activity of their disease. The power of the PRIMS study was that we were able to prospectively recruit, from European neurologists, relatively large numbers of women with multiple sclerosis during their pregnancy and thus compare, with adequate power, the relapse rates within the three trimesters of pregnancy, the postpartum six months and the pre-pregnancy year.2 Although there was a significantly increased risk for relapse in the postpartum three months, only one quarter (28%) of women with multiple sclerosis relapsed in that period. Although women who had relapses in the prepregnancy year or during pregnancy were more likely to relapse in the postpartum period, we were unable to predict with any accuracy, in any one individual, the risk of having a postpartum relapse.3 The post-partum risk of relapse has recently been echoed by reports of increased disease activity following artificial reproductive technology.4–5 A protective effect of breastfeeding was postulated by the late John Whitaker in an editorial accompanying our paper in the New England Journal of Medicine.6 However, as indicated, this apparent effect of breastfeeding on relapse activity in the postpartum period is confounded by the intuitively correct observation that women with milder disease activity are both more likely to breastfeed and less likely to have a postpartum relapse.2,7 The problem with trying to prove that exclusive breastfeeding reduces or prevents relapses in the postpartum period is that one has difficulty in controlling for the heterogeneity of disease activity in multiple sclerosis. Women with relatively mild disease are more likely to exclusively breastfeed in the postpartum period. Similarly their peers with more active disease are less likely to consider exclusive breastfeeding. As is pointed out, any propensity to postpartum relapse will reduce the likelihood of breastfeeding (exclusive or not, as was indicated by the large study from Italy).7 It is likely that this debate will continue until the results of the prospective study out-lined by Annette Langer-Gould are available; hopefully it will be decisive either way.


This paper examines how the mass suicide of the Heike family in the Battle of Dannoura at the end of ancient times was accepted and altered in medieval and modern literature. The mass suicide of the Heike family, pictured in Heikemonogatari, is not a suicide of their own choosing, but rather a suicide that took place in an atmosphere of insistence on suicide. The presence of a gaze that condemns Munemori, who is unable to act out of fear of death, symbolizes that the suicide of the Heike family is a typical altruistic suicide.
Niinoama committed suicide by jumping into the sea with a sword while holding the young emperor. In particular, her songs express death as a journey.
Her Sasega transforms the death of Emperor Antoku into a voyage of allegiance to her subordinates, escorted by her subordinates, who depart for the Dragon Palace at sea. The suicide of the Emperor, who disappeared into the Dannoura waves, is transformed into a new narrative.
Tomomori commits an honorable suicide with his subordinates. Tomomori's remarks show the attitude that a general should take when he loses a fight. In Noh, Tomomori absorbed the images of Noritsune, Norimori, and Tsunemori.
Tomomori's image as the epitome of Samurai continued in Kabuki.


Driven by recent developments in Artificial Intelligence research, a promising new technology for building intelligent agents has evolved. The approach is termed Deep Reinforcement Learning and combines the classic field of Reinforcement Learning (RL) with the representational power of modern Deep Learning approaches. It is very well suited for single task learning but needs a long time to learn any new task. To speed up this process, we propose to extend the concept to multi-task learning by adapting Policy Reuse, a Transfer Learning approach from classic RL, to use with Deep Q-Networks.


A satellite basically any object that revolves around a planet in a circular or elliptical orbit path. Nano satellites are satellites that weigh less than 10Kg. These types of satellites are designed and developed to carry payloads that are much smaller and has a life span not more than 1 year generally. Sathyabama University has taken up a task of designing and developing a nano satellite for pollution monitoring. This nano satellite named "SATHYABAMA SATELLITE" is designed to detect the presence of green house gases in the atmosphere and to map them in the later stage. This paper gives a comprehensive view of the structural design and development of such a nano satellite.


We succeeded in growing a single crystal of the Eu-divalent compound EuAl4 with the BaAl4-type tetragonal structure by the Al self-flux method and measured the electrical resistivity, magnetic susceptibility, magnetization, specific heat, and thermoelectric power. EuAl4 orders antiferromagnetically below TN1 = 15.4 K, with three successive antiferromagnetic transitions at TN2 = 13.2 K, TN3 = 12.2 K, and TN4 = 10.0 K. The latter two transitions are of the first-order. The corresponding magnetization curve indicates three successive metamagnetic transitions with hystereses and saturates above 16 kOe. We observed a plausible characteristic feature of the charge density wave (CDW) below TCDW = 140 K. We also studied an effect of pressure on the electronic state by measuring the electrical resistivity and thermoelectric power. TCDW is found to decrease with increasing pressure at a rate of dTCDW/dP = −54.7 K/GPa and becomes zero at about 2.5 GPa. The present antiferromagnetic ordering is, however, found to be ...


Thin Cu metal layers were deposited on semicrystalline poly(ethylene terephthalate) PET films by thermal evaporation. RBS measurements revealed that, under our metallization conditions, the Cu layers are buried into the polymer bulk. This has also been confirmed by ToF-SIMS measurements which reveal that some PET remain at the top surface. Since the formation of a diffuse interface has important consequences on the adhesive properties, the Cu diffusion was investigated systematically by means of RBS. After metallization, the samples were annealed under vacuum for times varying between 0 and 120 hours at 80, 90, 100, 120 and 140 degreesC, slightly above the glass transition of the PET (67 degreesC). Since the diffusion profiles exhibit a behavior in accordance with Fick's laws, the diffusion coefficients were evaluated. The results are in agreement with a diffusion model based on the Brownian motion of particles in a viscous fluid.


Degranulation in mast cell is usually characterized by the release of tryptase. We developed a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) probe based on graphene oxide (GO) to detect tryptase released from mast cells. The GO based FRET probe is composed of GO and a self-assembled complex of tryptase-specific recognition peptide chains labeled with isothiocyanate fluorescein. The fluorescence intensity around the mast cells increased when the mast cells were stimulated with C48/80, a kind of reagent promoting degranulation. The fluorescence distribution is inhomogenous. The fluorescence intensity was dependent on the concentration of C48/80 and the stimulation time. These results demonstrate that GO-base FRET probe could be used to study degranulation in mast cells.


The paper targets to explore on the impact of BANKNIFTY derivatives transaction on spot market volatility in India. The scope is confined will equity future contracts. The period of study from 1 st April, 2010 to 31 st March, 2017, is chosen to observe the influence of trading the derivatives on volatility of spot market after global financial crisis. The data for stocks comprises of daily closing prices of near month contract and also equity market. The methods used are descriptive statistics, ADF test and GARCH model. The volatility is declined for BANKNIFTY stocks. But the diagnostic checking concludes that serial correlation and ARCH effects are desirable for the model.


We propose a simple model to predict the short-term indoor turbulent dispersion of the aerosol cloud produced by violent expiratory events. Once the air injection ceases, the turbulent jet transitions to a thermal puff that progressively decays due to viscous effects. According to recent literature, the expelled liquid droplets of saliva and sputum smaller than 20–30 μm in diameter stay afloat within this decaying turbulent puff. In contrast, droplets larger than 100 μm tend to leave the puff following quasi-ballistic trajectories and landing on the floor at relatively short times after release. The model presented here is capable of providing good estimates for the shape and dimensions of the cloud composed of the lighter fraction of droplets as a function of the intensity and the duration of the flow injection and the density difference between the exhaled and the ambient air. Predictions agree with Direct Numerical Simulations and experiments reported in the literature. This model can be used as an operational tool to determine the short-term spatial range of expelled droplets and provides realistic initial conditions for simulations of long-term dispersion of pathogen-laden clouds in indoor environments with forced and natural ventilation.


Objective: To compare the frequency of stress erosions and ulcers in critically ill adult patients treated with either sucralfate or placebo. Design: Prospective, randomized study. Setting: Intensive care unit in a university hospital. Patients: Twenty‐six adult patients. All patients were mechanically ventilated and were at risk of developing stress ulceration. Interventions: Patients were randomized to receive either sucralfate (2 g every 8 hrs) (group 1) via the nasogastric tube (flushed with 10 mL of sterile water) or 20 mL of sterile water every 8 hrs (group 2) via the nasogastric tube. Measurements and Main Results: At the time of intensive care unit admission, the frequency of stress (acute) erosions (as assessed with the endoscope) was 21.7%. No ulcers were detected. By day 3, the frequency had increased to 37.5% in group 1 and 88.9% in group 2. Mucosal deterioration was more likely in the patients treated with placebo (water) ( p < .05). In total, seven patients developed acute ulceration in group 2 compared with only one patient in group 1 ( p < .05). The frequency of gastric colonization with aerobic Gram‐negative bacilli was 25.6% in group 1 and 28.6% in group 2. Only one retrograde nosocomial pneumonia developed (group 1). Conclusion: Based on our findings, we strongly recommend the adoption of sucralfate as opposed to no prophylaxis in the prevention of acute upper gastrointestinal ulceration. (Crit Care Med 1994; 22:1949–1954)


The optimization of phase distortion spectral power density is proposed as an alternative to GDD minimization of ultrafast cavity mirrors. This criterion is shown to minimize the detuning of cavity resonances from a uniform comb.


Knowledge management is a brand-new kind of management pattern in the times of knowledge economy. Starting from the concept of knowledge management, this paper discusses the necessity of introducing the knowledge management into university library, and probes into the contents and paths of implementing knowledge management in university library.


This paper discusses the changes of traditional library brought about by information technology from the aspects of its collections, librarians, readers and buildings. And the corresponding developing strategies are put forward as to how the present library can adapt to the above changes.


The present study was conducted in Khandesh region of Maharashtra state on studies on livelihood status of bhil farmers of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra. Total 20 villages from four selected talukas were identified for the present study. Ex post facto research design was used and 200 sample size were selected for the study by using random sampling method. The data were collected by personal interview method. Twelve independent and one dependent variables were taken for the study. The collected data were analyzed by using appropriate method of analysis viz., multiple regression analysis and step down regression analysis. Percentage, mean, rank, standard deviation and correlation co-efficient.


Atherosclerosis is a widely distributed disease of the young as well as of the old. In males it has· been found in 40 per cent of cases in post-mortems of American soldiers averaging 22 years of age killed in Korea. It occurs in at least half of men at middle age and in 95 per cent of cases in those after the seventy-fifth year. In women it is rarer before the menopause, but nearly as frequent after the menopause, as in men. In fact this condition is so widely distributed that it has been popularly considered as a normal process of ageing. Clinically it varies in degree according to individuals and in general does not give rise to symptoms, but in a vast proportion of cases, particularly with advancing years, it gives rise to serious conditions angina pectoris and coronary thrombosis, cerebral thrombosis and haemorrhage, intestinal ischaemia and infarction, intermittent claudication and gangrene of the limbs. In fact in our days it is a great killer. From a nosological point of view the primary atherosclerosis, a disease in which atherosclerosis . dominates the clinico-anatomical picture, should be distinguished from the secondary atherosclerosis in which the clinicoanatomical atherosclerotic syndrome constitutes a part of other well delineated diseases hyperpiesia, diabetes, hypothyroidism, obesity, xanthomatosis. There is, of course, a Physiopathological and even, in part, a therapeutic link between these two classes, but skilled therapy demands a precise diagnostic diff eren tia tion. The object of the constitutional treatment of atherosclerosis is to maintain this condition into its silent phase and prevent, as long as possible, the passage into the severe ischaernic and thrombotic phase. In fact this constitutional treatment can be considered as the preventive treatment of angina pectoris and coronary thrombosis, cerebral thrombosis and haemorrhage and the other ischaemic and thrombotic manifestations and is based on recent work on the physiopathology and aetiology of atherosclerosis.


The Comarca Lagunera region is the most important area of maize forage in Mexico. In this region; which is shared by the Mexican States of Coahuila and Durango, are used a great amount of hybrids and varieties of maize imported from other countries. Generally, these genotypes are not completely adapted to the soil and/or climatic conditions of the region. These antecedents lead scientists to pursuit for genotypes with the best adaptation to such conditions. The present investigation was carried out with the aim to find the best hybrids from the crosses of ten self-pollinating landraces following a diallel mating design. The landraces were obtained from different institutions: a) the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), b) the "Antonio Narro" Agrarian Autonomist University (UAAAN), and c) the National Institute of Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock Research (INIFAP). The following variables were evaluated from the hybrids: whole plant fresh matter yield (FMY), whole plant dry matter (DMY), fresh fruit yield (FFY) fresh stem yield (FSY), and fresh foliar yield (FLY). All variables reported as t ha-1. The Griffing statistical analysis was used to determine the general combining ability (GCA), and the specific combining ability (SCA). The highest values of GCA were obtained for the landraces M7, M8, and M9. The hybrids with highest SCA were: M5xM7, M2xM7, M6x10, M4xM8, M5xM8, M8xM10, M2xM5, M1xM10 and M6xM9. Two of these hybrids (M5xM7 and M2xM7) also showed the highest values for FMY and DMY. In conclusion, there is enough variability on FMY and DMY to believe on the possibility to find the most appropriate hybrid for the targeted region, and also to extend the breeding program to other arid lands in Mexico


After implanting a permanent Jarvik 2000 Heart (Jarvik Heart, Inc) in a patient with end-stage heart failure (Figure 1), we simultaneously recorded ECG and Doppler flow velocity in the vascular graft that connects the blood pump and descending aorta. With the pump temporarily switched off, the graft blood flow reversed, passing from the descending aorta through the device to the left ventricle. The peak systolic flow velocity in the graft decreased from 120 to 15 cm/s, and diastolic regurgitant flow developed at 30 cm/s. These changes in graft flow …


The mission of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) to provide staff development in open and distance education within the Commonwealth countries is noted. The paper then draws upon selected findings from the COL Training Impact Study (a study of 114 training events provided by COL over a 10-year period) and discusses the respondents' views on the needs and forms of provision that can be employed in providing staff training in open and distance education.


Cardiorenal Translational Laboratory, Institute of Research i+12, University Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, CIBER-CV, University Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain, Department of Biochemistry, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN), Mexico City, Mexico, UMR-S1180, Université Paris-Saclay, Châtenay-Malabry, France, 5 La Paz University Hospital Health Research Institute, IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain, CIBER-CV, Alberto Sols Biomedical Research Institute, Madrid, Spain


In Gibbons (2006), I presented a counterexample to epistemic internalism, the view that justification supervenes on the internal. Andrew Moon has replied to this paper, asking what generates the intuition behind the counterexample. In this note, I try to answer that question. What is the epistemic significance of the line around the mind as that line has traditionally been drawn? According to epistemic internalism, justification supervenes on the internal properties of the believer, where internal properties are understood as those determined by your non-factive mental states, especially your beliefs and experiences. Facts about your liver may be internal to you in some sense, but not in the epistemically relevant sense. If you have any epistemic responsibilities that make a difference to justification, they too must be determined by your inner life. So according to the internalist, the traditional line around the mind has a great deal of epistemic significance. It determines the supervenience base for justification, and it sets an outer limit to things for which you may be held epistemically responsible.


The purpose of this study was to identity the mediating effect of emotional intelligence on the relationships between creative home environment and creative personality of young children. The subjects of the study were 225 young children from daycare center in Busan. The results of the study are as follow; first, creative home environment were significantly positively correlated to emotional or creative personality of young children. And emotional intelligence were significantly positively correlated to creative personality of young children. Second, emotional intelligence worked as a part mediation variable between creative home environment and creative personality of young children. According to, this study suggests that the creative home environment during early childhood predict their creative personality. Their emotional intelligence, especially is the impact factor that can mitigate effects of the creative home environment.


▪ Abstract Do people assimilate new information in an efficient and unbiased manner—that is, do they update prior beliefs in accordance with Bayes' rule? Or are they selective in the way that they gather and absorb new information? Although many classic studies in political science and psychology contend that people resist discordant information, more recent research has tended to call the selective perception hypothesis into question. We synthesize the literatures on biased assimilation and belief polarization using a formal model that encompasses both Bayesian and biased learning. The analysis reveals (a) the conditions under which these phenomena may be consistent with Bayesian learning, (b) the methodological inadequacy of certain research designs that fail to control for preferences or prior information, and (c) the limited support that exists for the more extreme variants of the selective perception hypothesis.


Sarawak Borneo has been long known for diverse culture and multi-ethnics which reflected in its arts and crafts. Pua Kumbu and Orang Ulu motifs are among the famous visual art which can be seen on many products of textile, furniture and painting. The purpose of this paper is to identify the perception, issues and challenges of cultural concept embedded in furniture design from the perspective of manufacturers and designers. In-depth interview, survey and observation are the three qualitative research methods applied in this study during MIFF 2018 and MIFF 2019. Finding shows that each group: manufacturers and designers have their own views and strategies, looking at different aspects on how to interpret cultural element in their furniture design, deterred by their interests and global market needs.


The detection of radioactive sources, intentionally or accidentally disposed in scrap metal, with enhanced sensitivity is an open challenge, pivotal for environmental safety in steel mills. In order to address this need, we present a novel and robust SiPM-based gamma-ray detector compatible with large magnetic fields, and thus compatible with operation inside the electromagnets lifting small volumes of scrap metal. Additional challenges are resilience to high temperature, mechanical shocks and short measurement time. Four SiPMs are placed at the corners of a cubic 5-cm NaI scintillator. Numerical simulations are used to identify the optimal geometry and trade-off between energetic resolution and number of detectors. The spectrometer is USB-powered and contains a transimpedance amplifier, peak stretcher, ADC, DC-DC converter and microcontroller. Future upgrades will include inertial and magnetic sensors as well as wireless transmission of digitized spectra. It features a resolution of 15% at 662 keV (at room temperature) and automatic stabilization of the SiPM gain versus temperature. The experimental validation of the spectrometer in the field is reported also. Two volumes and two types of scrap metal have been tested. For thin metal sheets, the background-subtracted counts of a test 137Cs source (0.2 MBq) are 20 cps under 50 cm of metal and 14 cps under 80 cm. For metal shavings, much more densely packed, they decrease to 3.3 cps under 40 cm and 1.4 cps under 70 cm. Considering a measurement time of 10 s, an alarm threshold can be set. Finally, the spectrometer has been positioned under a lifting electromagnet: its operation is not affected and the quality of the spectrum is not deteriorated by the magnetic field.


Griya Nia Hydroponics is a hydroponics tools shop, and still haven't digital media promotion. Based on the analysis, there are some deficities in business precesses. Not using a technology and still uses conventional promotion. Customers still goes to the shop to see the result of cropping and other supporting tools. This why researchers want to develop an e-commerce website and adding a hydroponics learning media. With this content this e-commerce website will give a difference with others. This system will be develop with CodeIgniter Framework, Using prototyping method with double evaluation. The result test will help customers to get the tools and get some learning point to croppings using hydroponics without come to Griya Nia Hydroponics.


Convolutional codes are discrete linear systems over a finite field and can be defined as \BbbF [d]-modules, where \BbbF [d] is the ring of polynomials with coefficient in a finite field \BbbF . In this paper we study the algebraic properties of periodic convolutional codes of period 2 and their representation by means of input-state-output representations. We show that they can be described as \BbbF [d2]-modules and present explicit representation of the set of equivalent encoders. We investigate their statespace representation and present two different but equivalent types of state-space realizations for these codes. These novel representations can be implemented by realizing two linear time-invariant systems separately and switching the input (or the output) that is entering (or leaving) the system. We investigate their minimality and provide necessary and also sufficient conditions in terms of the reachability and observability properties of the two linear systems involved. The ideas presented here can be easily generalized for codes with period larger than 2.


The gene products of 32 protein coding loci in two populations of Chiloglanis paratus and one population of C. pretoriae were examined by horizontal starch-gel electrophoresis. Genetic variability estimates were low in all three populations. The perce ntage of polymorphic loci using the 95% criterion ranged from 6.3% to 9.4% and observed ( HO) and expected heterozygosity (HE) values for the three populations ranged from H O = 0.022 to 0.031 and H E = 0.025 to 0.036 respectively. Fixed allele mobility differences between the two species were observed at 17 loci and deviations of genotypes from Hardy-Weinberg expectations occurred at six loci. Genetic distance and Wright's fixation index estimates were consistent with values expected for conspecific populations b ut indicated extensive genetic differentiation between the congeneric species.


Synergistic tumor suppression by combined inhibition of telomerase and CDKN1A" (2014). Tumor suppressor p53 plays an important role in mediating growth inhibition upon telomere dysfunction. Here, we show that loss of the p53 target gene cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1A (CDKN1A, also known as p21 WAF1/CIP1) increases apoptosis induction following telomerase inhibition in a variety of cancer cell lines and mouse xenografts. This effect is highly specific to p21, as loss of other checkpoint proteins and CDK inhibitors did not affect apoptosis. In telomerase, inhibited cell loss of p21 leads to E2F1-and p53-mediated transcriptional activation of p53-upregulated modulator of apoptosis, resulting in increased apoptosis. Combined genetic or pharmacological inhibition of telomerase and p21 synergistically suppresses tumor growth. Furthermore, we demonstrate that simultaneous inhibition of telomerase and p21 also suppresses growth of tumors containing mutant p53 following pharmacological restoration of p53 activity. Collectively, our results establish that inacti-vation of p21 leads to increased apoptosis upon telomerase inhibition and thus identify a genetic vulnerability that can be exploited to treat many human cancers containing either wild-type or mutant p53. A prominent feature that distinguishes cancer cells from their normal counterparts is the expression of telomerase. Telo-merase is a specialized ribonucleoprotein reverse transcriptase that synthesizes the telomeric DNA ends to maintain telomere length (1). During early tumorigenesis, telomerase expression is necessary to bypass replicative senescence, enabling immortali-zation of human cells (2). Notably, telomerase also represents an attractive target for cancer therapy because a large majority of cancer cells depend on telomerase expression for survival. Accordingly , genetic or pharmacological inhibition of telomerase has been shown to suppress growth of cancer cells (3). In fact, the telomerase inhibitor imetelstat, an oligonucleotide that inhibits telomerase activity by binding to the RNA component of human telomerase RNA (hTR), has advanced to the clinic for treatment of various hematological malignancies and solid tumors. To date, however, telomerase-based monotherapies have not been successful, underscoring the need to understand in greater detail how cancer cells respond to telomerase inhibition. Previous studies have shown that the tumor suppressor p53 pathway plays a central role in regulating the cellular response to telomerase inhibition and telomere shortening (4). Genetic deletion of p53 in mice or RNA interference (RNAi)-mediated inhibition of p53 counteracts the growth suppression that occurs following telomerase inhibition. Furthermore, p53 loss cooperates with telomerase dysfunction to promote tumorigenesis (4). CDKN1A (also known as p21 WAF1/CIP1) is a cyclin-dependent ki-nase inhibitor and …


In this paper, a novel method is proposed to predict the direction of Standard & Poor 500 (S&P500) index using the tweets in this regard as well as the index amount from the day before. At the beginning, using a dataset of all tweets and their corresponding posting times about S&P500 index, companies and securities are considered as features of the study. Next, these feature vectors are assigned three different labels based on the direction of the index change from the day before and whether the change is significant enough, creating a classification problem. Building a sentiment analysis tool based on T5 transformer which attempts to combine all the downstream tasks into a text-to-text format, sentiment feature is added to each tweet in the dataset. Lastly, after balancing the data and preprocessing the textual information through an NLP pipeline, a deep neural network is proposed to classify the processed data. It is shown that using the tweets and their corresponding sentiments, the proposed method for movement direction prediction of the S&P500 index outperformed other existing models.


1. In former times the danger of inducing fibrillation was present in pacemakers with an asymmetric output protection such as a Zener diode or a breakthrough of the substrate of the integrated circuits. If old electrosurgery machines with rectified but with voltages not smoothed by large capacitors were used, the 50 Hz or 60Hz component of the radio frequency (RF) current were demodulated by the asymmetric output, thus producing 50 or 60 Hz pulses. If these pulses were stronger than 2–3 V peak to peak, fibrillation threshold could be exceeded (by the way, this is also the mechanism of producing stimulating pulses in magnetic resonance imaging. Electrosurgical devices should have a direct current power supply (usual today) an no RF modulation in the low frequency range to avoid this effect. Best are completely unmodulated currents. 2. The breakthrough of the substrate could have a disastrous effect in older (mostly Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA) pacemakers. With battery resistances of > 6 k , the load to the battery diminished the voltage across the circuitry to a degree that it dropped to < 1.8 V. Such a low voltage was not sufficient to get the circuitry out of the RF induced low ohmic state, the battery was rapidly exhausted. The pacemaker, then, failed during electrosurgical operation and was afterwards correctly diagnosed as "exhausted." This breakthrough was also the reason for switching to "end of service" indication. 3. The dispersive plate (the neutral electrode) in monopolar electrosurgery should be in good contact with the skin and should be located where good perfusion is guaranteed.2 This is one of the reasons why the buttock is not the right place to position the neutral electrode. It should, therefore, always be avoided. 4. It is correct that the neutral electrode should be placed as far away as possible from the pacemaker system. However, it proved to be a very effective shielding method to have a metallic belt connected in parallel to the neutral electrode between the pacemaker system and the electrosurgical probe, for instance around the waist during transurethral resection of the prostrate. During a German annual meeting on cardiac pacing, an anesthesiologist reported that he would use such a shielding belt also to reduce effectively RF noise in the electrocardiogram.


This study was undertaken to review on how the autistic children change in sociality when the physical activity program is implemented for 10 children who are diagnosed with autism at C college hospital located in Cheongju-city, Chungcheongbuk-do and the results were analysed. First, the one-way ANOVA test was implemented to find out what changes are made from each category in certain inspection period based on the measurement results, then was a high level of difference in all categories and displayed the meaningful improvement of one stage higher or mare on group adaptability (F=8.751, p<.01), inter-personal relationship (F=15.581, p<.01), dependency on others (F=10.852, p<.001), compliance of instructions (F=12.142, p<.001), concentration (F=7.483, p<.01), voluntary imitation (F=9.889, p<.01), and collusion (F=11.389, p<.001). After implementing the post-verification to find our what difference does the difference in following the measurement period causes, the categories of dependency on others, compliance of instructions, and collusion would have the improvement in noticeable difference in all periods in the order of 1st < 2nd < 3rd, and the categories of group adaptability, inter-personal relationship, concentration and voluntary imitation showed noticeable difference and improvement in the order of 1st and 2nd < 3rd. Second, the one-way ANOVA test was implemented to find out what changes are made from each category in certain inspection period based on the measurement results, there was a noticeable statistical difference in all categories and displayed the meaningful improvement of one stage higher or more on group adaptability (F=23.059, p<.01), inter-personal relationship (F=6.820, p<.05), dependency on others (F=9.115, p<.01), compliance with instruction (F=10.137, p<.05), and concentration (F=5.127, p<.05), but there was no noticeable statistical difference in voluntary imitation (F=3.121) and collusion (F=.897).


Although generally a sporadic disease, a few cases of Guillain Barre syndrome clustered in families have been reported. We describe four siblings of a Pakistani family from a consanguineous marriage out of whom two developed definite GBS and two had probable GBS at different times. This suggests that there may be a genetic element in the pathogenesis of at least some forms of Guillain Barre syndrome.


Purpose – Social innovations are defined as innovative products or services motivated by the goal of meeting a social need, with the opportunity to create new social relationships or collaborations. Although developing social innovations has been the primary concern of non-profit organizations so far, there are signs of an increasing involvement in this type of innovations of for-profit firms, in an attempt to accomplish their corporate social responsibility strategies. This notwithstanding, there is very limited knowledge on how for-profit organizations can develop a capability to manage social innovation projects. The purpose of this paper is to provide exploratory evidence to fill this gap. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents and discusses a case study of a firm that has been involved in social innovation for years. It is Intesa Sanpaolo, a for-profit organization that leads the Italian banking sector. Findings – The case study points to the existence of three managerial antecedents of a s...


In this work we demonstrated that the simple substitution of the 1,2,4-triazole moiety in 5-(4H-1,2,4-triazol-4-yl)isophthalic acid (5-TIA) by the 1H-1,2,3-triazol-5-yl unit


[Objective]To evaluate the effectiveness of propaganda and education of occupational hazards and protection knowledge on welding operators in 2 mechanical steel structure enterprises in Shanghai City with BOHS method.[Methods]All welding operators were surveyed by welding health KAP questionnaires before and after propaganda and education of safety knowledge respectively.[Results] After propaganda and education,the average score of health and safety knowledge was significantly increased from(17.1±5.3) to(23.8±3.8)(P0.01),and the average score of health and safety practice was significantly increased from(5.1±1.9) to(7.9±1.8)(P0.01).Also the rates of awareness and scientific behaviors increased remarkably.[Conclusion]The propaganda and education of occupational hazard factors and protection knowledge for welding operates significantly improves workers' health and safety knowledge.


IN PREVIOUS WORK we have shown that the administration of estradiol bensoate produces a marked accumulation of trypan blue in the uteri of castrated rats and rabbits (1). This finding indicates that estrogen increases the permeability of the uterine capillaries and seems to account, in part, for the accumulation of uterine fluid produced by the hormone. The present work is a study of the action of estrogen on general capillary permeability, and includes an evaluation of the effect on capillary permeability of desoxycorticosterone acetate, testosterone dipropionate and progesterone. In this study particular attention has been given to the possibility that the salt and water-retaining activity shown by various steroids (2), including those tested in our studies, might be mediated by way of a generalised increase in capillary permeability. Changes in the permeability of the capillaries of various tissues, induced by the steroid hormones tested, were evaluated indirectly by ascertaining the degree of trypan b...


In reaction to the economic and ecological injustices perpetrated by neoliberal capitalism and corporate-led globalization, as well as the global pandemic and deepening climate crisis, a deeper shade of green politics is coming of age throughout the world (Bond and Dorsey 2010; MartinezAlier 2020). Peoples traditionally relegated to the political margins of society are challenging the wholesale depredation of their land, water, air, and community health. At the forefront of this new wave of activism are thousands of grassroots environmental justice (EJ) organizations working to reverse the disproportionate social and ecological hardships borne by Indigenous peoples, communities of color, ethnic minorities, peasants, women, rural communities and working class families. The importance of these struggles cannot be overstated. Now, more than ever, a truly massbased, international movement devoted to environmental justice and ecological socialism is needed to confront the global ecological crisis and existential threat to humanity that is climate change. There are many major challenges confronting activists as they try to forge such a movement. These challenges include the formation of a master "frame" that allows for activists to identify with the goals of the movement; the adoption of suitable organizational structures that will allow the movement to grow and prosper; as well as the utilization of effective political strategies and tactics necessary to bring about real transformation of dominative state structures, racial and gender oppression, class exploitation, and the global capitalist system. Forging a socialist EJ movement is a daunting task. Transnational coalition building requires that activists frame EJ issues in ways that resonate with those in both the global South and North, and experience shows that


A technique to synthesize algorithms for the adaptive spatial separation (ASS) of signals is suggested. For each output of an adaptive antenna array, the algorithms assure that the decrease in the signal-interference-noise ratio (SINR) from its ultimate value is less than a given margin. Minimax algorithms are synthesized, their performance is evaluated, and their application constraints are ascertained.


A high-temperature and high-pressure sample holder suitable for water under supercritical conditions was constructed for small-angle X-ray scattering experiments, which was designed to endure the temperature up to 750 K and the pressure up to 40 MPa. By use of the holder, preliminary experiments for supercritical water were carried out along the isotherm at 663 K with pressures from 22.5 to 29.5 MPa. Isothermal change of the correlation length obtained from the scattering data showed maximum near the critical isochore. The tendency is similar to other supercritical fluids, e.g., carbon dioxide, trifluorometane and ethylene.


While there is general agreement about many aspects of Gothic syllable structure, a number of important issues remain controversial. This paper offers an Optimality Theory analysis, with a focus on the syllabification of intervocalic consonants and consonant clusters. It is argued that Gothic syllabification generally results from the interaction of constraints requiring that syllables have onsets, that syllables may not have complex codas, or codas in general, and regulating the relationship between the input and the output. A family of constraints banning various types of complex onsets is also proposed. With this analysis of Gothic syllabification in hand, a new analysis of Sievers' Law, one of the classic problems of Gothic phonology, is developed. From this perspective, Sievers' Law is contingent on syllable structure and falls out from the interaction of the proposed constraints on syllable structure. It is also argued that the correct underlying representation of the segment affected by Sievers' Law is an archiphoneme, as this enables a better account of the Sievers' Law alternations, their morphological sensitivity, and the exceptions to Sievers' Law. Although alternative analyses are possible, the analysis presented here sidesteps some of the problems they face and is more philologically rigorous.This paper is a substantially revised version of a portion of my doctoral dissertation (Pierce 2002). For their assistance in the preparation of this revised version, I thank James Cathey, San Duanmu, Benjamin Fortson, Robert Kyes, Tomas Riad, Martti Sloan, and Bruce Spencer. I am especially grateful to the two anonymous JGL referees, who provided a number of helpful comments that caused me to rethink much of the analysis, and to Robert Murray for his assistance in his role as editor.


Abstract : This work is focused on developing an integrated device, called a programmable material, which mirrors the capabilities of natural co-fabricated controlled actuation systems such as muscle. While such a device may have the external appearance of a homogeneous material, it can possess unique properties not existing in any manufactured material. When actuation, sensing, and control capabilities are integrated within a closed-loop system, the mechanical properties of the system such as stiffness, viscosity, and inertia will arise from the dynamics of the feedback loop rather than from any inherent mechanical properties of the materials from which the device was fabricated. Moreover, these properties may be 'tuned' by altering the feedback parameters embedded in the material system. With this approach properties such as negative stiffness may be generated which do not exist in bulk materials.


Governments, industry, and the research community in Australia have acknowledged the need for a National Positioning Infrastructure that enables uniform, equitable and coordinated access to Australia's positioning assets. High accuracy GNSS service coverage is currently limited to coastal regions with higher population densities and inland regions where demand from primary industries is greater. This paper identifies technical methodologies and organisational business drivers that have led to inefficient investment and a subsequent lack of national access to high accuracy positioning services across Australia. Government and privately owned networks that offer comparable service accuracy, availability and network design, and may therefore contribute to and benefit from a NPI, are used to analyse the location and coverage of Continuously Operating Reference Station infrastructure. High accuracy service coverage is mapped against road transport corridors and regions of higher economic productivity, which provides insights into the marginal utility of positioning services and issues of duplication.


SIR,—Although the occurrence of algal limestones at the base of the Burdiehouse Limestone at several localities in the Central Coalfield of Scotland has been known for many years, curiously enough their presence has never been observed in the type district near Edinburgh. We therefore desire to record that this gap in our knowledge has now been filled. During a recent visit to the mine at Straiton, near Burdiehouse, we found large blocks of algal limestone on the waste-heap, and on inquiry we learned that they had lately been removed from the floor of the Burdiehouse bed during road repairs in the underground workings. The algal limestones here are in two layers, each being slightly less than one foot in thickness, and separated by a conspicuous sun-cracked bedding plane. The lower bed which rests on a yellowish sandstone, also exhibiting numerous sun-cracks, is made up of small round algal bodies resembling oolite grains, and associated with them are large sphaeroid masses showing the characteristic structure of Spongiostromids. The upper layer is a dark grey reef-like limestone displaying a similar concentric structure, and has a smooth or warty bulbous exterior, identical in appearance with that of the equivalent bed at Rosyth and other places in the coalfield. Dr. F. W. Anderson, who has kindly examined some of the specimens submitted by us, reports on them as follows :— " Similar algal concretions to the small oolite-like bodies are found in the Pennsylvanian of North America. They have been given the generic name of Osagia by Twenhofel. " The large spheroidal masses resemble very closely the algal genus Ottonosia Twenhofel, though here, as in other localities in Scotland, they show some features characteristic of the genus Callenia, Walcott." The specimens are now preserved in the collections of the Geological Survey in Edinburgh. W. Q. KENNEDY. J. PRINGLE. 16th January, 1946.


The goal of this thesis is to provide a method to obtain a User Equilibrium (UE) in a synchromodal transportation network in which we transport containers for multiple customers. We use the Space Time Network (STN), in which the travel time of modalities is fixed and independent of the occupancy of the network. We define the User Equilibrium solution as the solution wherein each customer can travel via their cheapest paths possible, and no customer is harmed by the route choice of other customers. We define the System Optimal (SO) solution as the solution in which the total costs of the network are minimized. We expand the goal of finding a UE on the STN to finding a solution where the solution is both SO as well as UE. The solving method we developed in this thesis, consists of finding SO solutions by solving the Minimum Cost Multi-Commodity Flow (MCMCF) problem on the STN to find an SO solution, and create tolls schemes to create a UE solution, while maintaining the SO solution. We investigate several types of tolls in order to obtain sufficient both SO and UE solutions.


Photovoltaicarrayswereused successfully to power thevarious instrumentsfortheMars Pathe nder.To identify the type of the solar cell most suitable for Mars surface missions in the future, the spectral content of Mars' s solar radiation must e rst be determined. The response of photovoltaic cells depends on the solar cell type and the wavelengths of the incident light. The suspended dust particles of Mars' s atmosphere affect the intensity and spectralcontent of the solarradiation reaching theplanet' s surface. ThePathe nderemployed fourbandpasse lters formeasuring theatmosphericoptical depth during the courseof themission that lasted for about80 sols (Martian days). Thecentral wavelengths of thesee lterswere 450, 670, 883, and 989 nm. This paper deals with theanalysis of theopticaldepthoftheMartian atmospherebased ontheMarsPathe ndermeasurementsand includes1 ) variation of the monochromatic optical depth with the time of the day, 2 ) variation of the monochromatic optical depth with sol for the duration of the mission, 3 ) variation of the optical depth with wavelength, 4 ) transmittance of the direct beam with wavelength, and 5 ) solar cell response on the Martian surface of the direct beam irradiance.


We have observed the phenomenon of thermal destruction of superconductivity by current in a force-cooled test model power transmission line of 20 m length at currents up to 9 kA and temperatures between 8 K and 14 K. This line, fabricated by soldering doubly-stabilized Nb 3 Sn tapes to each side of a bar of 0fhc copper (0.3cm × 1.58 cm), was enclosed in a German silver cryogen flow tube. The cryogen (He gas) was controlled at a flow rate of 0.5 to 0.7 gm/sec. Destruction was initiated by application of a short duration heating pulse to a small section of line. The velocity of N-S interface zone propagation was measured over 1.0 m test sections located downstream and upstream from the initial section. The upstream moving zone is always in a nearly-constant-temperature cryogenic environment. However, downstream portions contact an environment preheated by Joule heating in upstream normal N zones and thus transfer less heat and exhibit a much higher velocity. This qualitative explanation of the observed dramatic velocity asymmetry is to be supplemented by a more precise description of the physics of the moving N-S interface which must include a proper model for the heat conductance into the cryogen. Various models for heat conductance can be tested in velocity calculations.


Abstract Three new polycyclic polyprenylated acylphloroglucinol derivatives, hyperacmosins H-J (1–3), with four known compounds (4–7), were isolated from the air-dried aerial parts of Hypericum acmosepalum. Especially, compounds 1 and 2 were identified as methylated polycyclic polyprenylated acylphloroglucinol derivatives (mPPAPs). Their structures were established by NMR, HRESIMS and experimental electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra. The hepatoprotective activity of seven compounds were evaluated. Compounds 1 and 5 exhibited hepatoprotective activity against paracetamol-induced HepG2 cell damage.


The accuracy of many classification algorithms is known to suffer when the data are imbalanced (i.e., when the distribution of the examples across the classes is severely skewed). Many applications of binary text classification are of this type, with the positive examples of the class of interest far outnumbered by the negative examples. Oversampling (i.e., generating synthetic training examples of the minority class) is an often used strategy to counter this problem. We present a new oversampling method specifically designed for classifying data (such as text) for which the distributional hypothesis holds, according to which the meaning of a feature is somehow determined by its distribution in large corpora of data. Our Distributional Random Oversampling method generates new random minority-class synthetic documents by exploiting the distributional properties of the terms in the collection. We discuss results we have obtained on the Reuters-21578, OHSUMED-S, and RCV1-v2 datasets.


No ordinary musician, Bach was a composer whose works were deeply influenced by personal faith and who expressed his theology through music. Transcending denominationalism, his compositions have an ecumenicity belonging to Church Tradition and express the movement of the human spirit reaching for the divine. Its universal, mystical tenor was never fully appreciated by his own cultural age, even though he was considered a great organist. Overlooked and later rediscovered, Bach drew inspiration from past composers for whom music as art was an expression of the longing of the human spirit for the divine, in contrast to an emerging view of art and culture as having the human person as the measure of all. A source of inspiration for later composers, the music is that of a man of the Church responding to the call of biblical narratives reflecting the faith for which Luther stood and about which Arndt wrote a text that was read by some Russian saints. It is the Church calendar, its rhythm of holydays and remembrances, that structured Bach's life and work. Love for his theological music continues despite social and cultural upheavals.


A method based on Morlet wavelet is proposed to detect underwater acoustic signals by means of the laser interference,which can be used to determine the audible frequency of such signals.The frequency of Morlet mother wavelet is set to the fixed value.The ratio of Morlet mother wavelet to the scale factor changes with the scale factor.According to the ratio,the frequencies of underwater acoustic signals can be acquired.The experimental results prove that the method can be used to detect real-time underwater acoustic signals with a frequency between 1 kHz and 15 kHz.


Bacterial cellulose (BC) /Polypyrrole (PPy) /TiO2 composite membrane was successfully prepared by in situ chemical oxidation polymerization of pyrrole in TiO2 sol into BC membrane matrix with different concentration of TiO2. The results of the field emission scanning electron microscopy observation revealed that the TiO2 nanoparticles coated with PPy were well homogeneously dispersed in the BC matrix. The photocatalytic activity of composite membrane was measured by methyl orange reaction model. Furthermore, the chemical structure of composite membrane and the anatase-TiO2 crystal structure were characterized by FT-IR spectroscopy and XRD analysis, respectively. According to this study, the photocatalytic activity of composite membranes was improved significantly by the addition of TiO2 due to the synergistic reaction between TiO2 and PPy. Besides that, the membrane exhibited the striking flexibility and mechanical properties. This study provided a green and facile method to prepare the BC /PPy /TiO2 composite membrane which would have potential applications in wastewater treatment.


Background : Schizophrenia is an abnormality characterized by positive symptoms of delusion, abnormal perception (hallucination), unorganized speech and behavior also negative symptoms including social self-withdrawal, apathy and lack of speech. The basic treatment for schizophrenic patients is antipsychotic. Clozapine is the only approved antipsychotic for drug-resistant schizophrenic patients whose response rate is about 30% to 50%. Another positive influence of clozapine is used as a therapy for psychotic patients who have suicidal tendencies.
Objectives : This study is aimed to examine the pattern of clozapine antipsychotic usage including the dosage, frequency, and usage route also the therapy length for schizophrenic patients.
Methods : This study is an observational research using retrospective method on schizophrenic patients from October to December 2017 at Dr. Radjiman Wediodiningrat Mental Hospital, Lawang, Malang.
Results and Conclusions : Single use on Clozapine (1x25 mg and 2x25mg)PO is only given to 3 outpatients. For them (outpatients), the 3-combination mostly used are antipsychotic Clozapine (1x25mg)PO, Risperidone (2x2mg), and one anticholinergic trihexyphenidyl HCl (2x2mg)PO, in which it is given to 9 patients (12%). For hospitalized patients, the 2-combination mostly used are Clozapine (1x25mg)PO and Risperidone (2x2mg)PO for 4 patients (80%), also 4-combination of Clozapine (1x25mg)PO, Risperidone (2x2mg)PO, haloperidol (1x5mg/ml)IM and diazepam (1x5mg/ml)IM given to 4 patients (80%). The switch pattern usages on outpatients are 28 patterns, while on hospitalized patients is only 1 pattern.


From the points of new trend of management accounting development, listing the current situation of management accounting applied in enterprise, analyzes the reason from internal and external environment of enterprise and existing defection of management accounting itself. Aiming at the above problems puts forward some suggestions on application of management accounting in enterprise.


The invention discloses a method for realizing railway signal interlocking by software. The method comprises the following steps: (a) establishing station data; (b) establishing forming combination data; (c) establishing forming combination arrangement and types through a route searching method; (d) finishing line connection among forming combinations, and connecting all the forming combinations through connecting lines to form a station shaped simulation relay circuit; and (e) obtaining a result of interlocking operation through the simulation relay circuit, and formulating interlocking software so as to realize computer interlocking of railway signals. The interlocking method has the advantages of both the electrical interlocking method and the computer interlocking method, has proven interlocking logics, and has the advantages of simple realization and easy modification.


The study presents a comparative investigation of the composition and bioactivity of oil extracted from pomegranate seeds of sun-burned fruit (SB) and healthy fruit (HF) for the value-adding potential of pomegranate fruit waste. Seeds from SB and HF were independently freeze dried, sun dried, and oven dried before ultrasound-assisted oil extraction using petroleum ether. The extracted oil was analysed for yield, refractive index, ρ-anisidine value, total phenolic content (TPC), DPPH radical scavenging ability, antimicrobial activity, tyrosinase enzyme inhibition ability, and fatty acid composition. The results showed that oven dried seeds, regardless of fruit quality, yielded the highest oil (20.85–24.70%, dry weight). Regardless of the seed drying method, oil from the seeds of SB exhibited the highest TPC (1.48–2.84 mgGAE/g PSO) than oil from the seeds of HF. The oil from oven dried and freeze dried seeds of SB were more effective in scavenging the DPPH radicals with IC50 values of 34.77 and 39.97 µg/mL, respectively. All the oil samples showed good ability to inhibit tyrosinase enzyme regardless of fruit quality and seed drying method, with monophenolase and diphenolase IC50 ranging between 0.31 and 0.49 mg/mL and 0.64 and 2.43 mg/mL, respectively. Irrespective of the drying method, oil extracted from HF seeds exhibited greater antimicrobial potency against the tested bacteria. The fatty acid composition of the oil samples was neither affected by fruit quality and seed drying method. Generally, all oil samples exhibited high levels of punicic acid (81.21–82.68%) and low omega 6 to omega 3 ratios (0.19–0.37%), suggesting that the oil samples were healthy. Principal component analysis (PCA) established that freeze dried seeds of SB is an excellent source of oil with higher TPC, punicic acid, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and unsaturated fatty acid/saturated fatty acid ratio. It can be concluded that the seed from SB is a good raw material for oil that can be utilised in cosmetic products formulation.


transformation in -ddi, and the conjunctional koto transformation. Why is it, for instance, that (according to my information) api geddn giaamd ksesswa is unacceptable for' when we got home, we ate ', whereas api gedvn giaamay ksesewe is acceptable ? Or that salli tiunaamv eaa apen ilhndwa appears to have quite a different meaning from salli tieddi eaa apen ilhnvwa, and bat tiunaama paan kanv ekak nsem a somewhat different meaning from bat tieddi paan kans ekak nsese (though tiena koto would do in either sense here)? The negative imperative is considered in a category of its own. The final section, entitled ' Nominalizing transformations ', is something of a mixture. While the use of verbal adjectives is very reasonably included here (though more examples of them are desirable), it seems hardly necessary to include also a phrase such as honda pot ' good books ', when adjectives have been recognized from the start as a ' part of speech ', unless one is going to specify special cases where such transformations may be inapplicable. When we come to mahattea semerikaawe and semerikaawe mahattea (? read a'mmkaawe), there also seems little point in considering this transformationally at all without such further specification. The last paragraph of the book, which considers cases where the basic forms of verbs are inflected, is very brief and without detail ; it could also include the adverbial use of the ' non-past' basic form, e.g. taatta gahanswatd lamea amma gaaimto wela innawa ' in case father should beat him the child has got close to his mother '. The contemporaneous transformation form in -ddi is also sometimes found with a dative caseending.


Introduction The mesoporous oxides synthesized by a templating method has been studied intensively for high surface areas, narrowly distributed pore sizes and well ordered mesopore channels. The wall structure is, in most cases, amorphous and the local structures of central atoms, such as Si, Al, and transition metals, of these oxides have not studied well. Since mesoporous titania synthesized with a primary amine template has an extremely large surface area (> 1200 m·g) and an amorphous nature, the atomic structure can differ in many points from that in all the other known titanium oxides. We applied XAFS spectroscopies to investigating the local structure of Ti.


As is well known, the mixed problem for the entire class of Petrovskiĭ well-posed partial differential equations has not been studied. In this paper, a certain subclass of Petrovskiĭ well-posed equations for which it is possible to state and study mixed problems, is isolated. In the rectangle , consider the equation with boundary conditions for , where , , , , , is a continuous linear functional in , , and for , , and with initial conditions and .Well-posedness conditions are found for this problem.Bibliography: 9 titles.


Contents: 1. Introduction 2. From Keynes to Domar and Harrod: Considering the Capacity Effect of Investment and an Attempt at Dynamic Theory 3. Neoclassical DIstribution and Growth Theory: Old and New - and a Critique 4. Post-Keynesian Distribution and Growth Theories I: Kaldor, Pasinetti, Thirlwall and Robinson 5. Post-Keynesian Distribution and Growth Theories II: Kalecki and Steindl 6. The Basic Kaleckian Distribution and Growth Models 7. Extending Kaleckian Models I: Saving out of Wages and Open Economy Issues 8. Extending Kaleckian Models II: Technical Progress 9. Extending Kaleckian Models III: Interest and Credit 10. Extending Kaleckian Models IV: Finance-dominated Capitalism 11. The Kaleckian Models and Classical, Marxian and Harrodian Critique 12. Conclusions Appendix References Index


The paper reports on the results of a ground walking gamma- and gamma-spectrometric survey made in the impact zone of the accidental underground nuclear explosion "Kraton-3". Patterns of migration, 137Cs, 90Sr and Pu distribution in the soil-vegetable cover of the northern taiga on permafrost are considered. Radioeco- logical situation within the territory surveyed is noted as unfavorable.


(1977). PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY. AN EXPLORATION OF ESSENTIALS. By George S. Klein. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1976. 330 pp. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 319-343.


This book chapter describes the main issues to be considered when a sample of people (including groups of people such as households, families, etc) is designed for research purposes. Much of the discussion is about sampling for interview surveys, though important sampling issues for other data collection methods are also mentioned.


In the structure of the title salt, C6H16N2 2+·2NO3 −, the cations are connected to the anions through bifurcated N—H⋯(O,O) and weak C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, generating corrugated layers parallel to the (100) plane. The organic cation is centrosymmetric and the diprotonated piperazine ring adopts a chair conformation, with the methyl groups occupying equatorial positions.


With staring infrared sensors becoming more predominant, an increasing number of system Modulation Transfer Functions MTFs are being extracted from undersampled imagery. Contamination of the MTF measurement caused by aliasing must be avoided by using a su- perresolution technique. We compare differences in the utility of two of these techniques: the tilted edge technique, which is commonly used, and the tilted slit technique, which is not. While the tilted edge MTF measurement is taken for granted, the use of the tilted slit is both inno- vative and instructive. The differences between the two techniques are examined to determine their ability to successfully extract the MTF from an undersampled image without noise, with white noise, with fixed pat- tern noise, and with various angles of tilt. Ease of implementation is also considered. All things considered, the tilted edge technique is more eas- ily accomplished and gives superior results. The tilted slit technique, however, gives valuable insight into the nature of aliasing in the real world. It is shown to be an excellent tool by which the difficult concept of aliasing may be easily illustrated. © 2007 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation