In order to study the accumulation of copper ion in shrimp of different aquaculture systems,we added a certain concentration of sulfate copper in aquaculture systems and kept in the same level during the experiment.After 92 d,the accumulation of copper ion in different tissues and systems were analyzed.The copper accumulation in different tissues both in recirculating aquaculture system(RAS) and static aquaculture system(SAS) had the same accumulation currence: hepatopancreas lamella carapacemuscle.The concentration of metallothionein(MT) in hepatopancreas had the same change with the copper accumulation.The accumulation of copper in hepatopancreas and carapace in different aquaculture systems had significant difference,while copper ion in lamella changed insignificantly.


The objective of this experiment was to study the effect of nitrogen levels (0, 40, 80, 160, 320 kg ha-1 N) and forage cutting intensities (none, one and two cuts) on nutrient uptake and nutritional efficiency of oats (Avena byzantina / Avena sativa). The potential mineral uptake by forage and grains and their cycling through their straw, were also evaluated. This experiment was conducted on a Hapludox soil, in a split-plot design with complete randomized blocks and four replications, using the Sao Carlos and UPF 3 oat cultivars. Increasing levels of N affected both, the extraction of S and N in the first forage cut of Sao Carlos, influenced the K assimilation of both cultivars in the second cut, and S uptake, in both cultivars and cuts. In addition P uptake by straw of both cultivars, and Zn, Cu and Mn by Sao Carlos, were altered. The K concentration and extraction decreased from the first to the second cut. Potassium uptake was higher when oats were used as forage, at a level of 145 kg ha-1. Straw assimiliation of K was about 60 kg ha-1, which returned to the soil, while grain uptake was about 6 kg ha-1. Potassium, N, Fe and Mn were the nutrients of highest demand by both cultivars, which had similar nutritional efficiency and produced the same amount of forage dry matter. For grain production and use of nutrients, UPF 3 was more efficient than Sao Carlos.


There have been several papers published for the calculation of the stability of a damaged ship, some of them lying on very rigorous line of calculation although they are rather complicated. A few years ago, Prof. Abell* published a method for approximate determination of the stability in non-intact condition and Prof. Welch also has explained another method in his contributed dis cussion for A'bell's paper, which is adopted in the Armstrong College, Newcastle.


(1 982) a detailed critique of our study of the association between cancer incidence and alcohol/cigarette consumption (Hinds et al., 1980) was presented. We believe many of the comments contained in the critique are inappropriate and the overall conclusions of its authors are unjustified. Herein, we enumerate their criticisms and comment upon each. First, the critique's authors stated that the conclusions in our paper (Hinds et al., 1980) depended on the arbitrary choice of a standard population for age adjustment. In fact, the choice of a population standard was not arbitrary. Rather, the World Standard Population (Doll & Cook, 1967) was chosen because it closely approximated the age distribution of the survey sample of 9920 Hawaii residents, and because we wished to publish a table of rates which could be compared easily with others adjusted by a common population standard. It is a simple matter to demonstrate that our findings would not have been altered if we had age-adjusted our incidence rates using the survey sample population as a standard, as suggested by Hernandez-Llamas & Kim-ball (1982). In Table I, we have conmpared the age-adjusted rates for two sites derived by using the 2 populations as standards, and the small differences in ethnic-sex-specific rates are readily apparent. More importantly, when we regressed these rates on the mean beer consumption levels of the 10 ethnic-sex groups, the regression coefficients (b) and the coefficients of determination (r2) were practically identical irrespective of the set of rates used. Specifically, for stomach cancer b = 1-4 and r2= 0-62 when the survey sample-adjusted rates were used, compared to b = 1-3 and r2=0 62 for the World Population-adjusted rates. Similarly, for pancreas cancer b=0-29 and r2=0 59 when the survey sample-adjusted rates were used, and b = 0-27 and r2 = 0 59 when the World Population-adjusted rates were used. Statistical significance of these beer-consumption cancer associations (all with P < 0 05) was not affected by the choice of standard population for age-adjustment. Moreover, in their own Table II, Hernandez-Llamas & Kimball (1982) demonstrated the persistence of most of the beer-cancer associations, irrespective of the standard population used for age-adjustment. In that table, they presented the results of regression analyses using covariance-adjusted consumption levels for beer and spirits and age-adjusted cancer rates derived by means of 3 different standard populations. This exercise revealed significant , (P < 0.05) associations of beer consumption with …


Based on shear strength reduction finite element method, the influence of width of heel plate and toe plate, uniform load, height of retaining wall, parameters of filling on stability of cantilever retaining wall have been analyzed. It is indicated that the fractured surface is the boundary of "protected" and "unprotected" filling soil, which is essentially different with the second fractured surface of planar retaining wall. The stability of retaining wall increased with width of heel plate or toe board or distance of uniform load increased, and decreased with height of retaining wall or value uniform load of increased. It is advised to fill the retaining wall by the soil with low weight, big cohesive strength and big internal friction angle.


This paper expatiates on the principles and processes of JPEG2000 compression,such as preprocessing,quantization,wavelet transform,etc,among which it emphasizes EBCOT algorithm used by JPEG2000.Lastly,the Jasper software is generally introduced.


Interpretation Benchmarks In Tables 7.23 and 7.24 we show the results for running the Abstract Interpretation programs in parallel, using private tables. These benchmarks are, in a sense, more representative of the typical tabled program's performance than the previous ones, because they use real programs that use amore standard mix of Prolog and different features of tabling. In Table 7.23 we show the results for private tables using Local scheduling under the Shared Completed Tables engine. Although not as good as the results from Prolog, they give a speedup that is nearly linear, up to eight processors, and much better than the ones from the Transitive Closure benchmarks. In Table 7.24 we show the results for scalability using private tables using Batched scheduling under the Concurrent Completion engine. A little surprisingly, these are even better than the ones for Local scheduling. We conclude that although a very intensive use of tabling may lead to some performance losses with the current engine, the results for parallelizing real applications with private tables should be, as far as the system is concerned, good, and overall dependent of the parallelism that the programmer can extract from the application.


The Organization of American States (OAS) brings together the countries of the Western Hemisphere in order to strengthen cooperation and advance their common interests. It is the region's premier forum for multilateral dialogue and concerted action. The OA


A magnetically continuous winding includes a first coil and at least one additional coil substantially fixed in place in at least one direction with respect to a position of the first coil. A core formed by a resin is applied to the first coil and the at least one additional coil to substantially bind the first coil and the at least one additional coil.


The chitosan from shell of crabs (Portunus sanginolentus L.) waste was produced from deproteinization, demineralization, depigmentation,and deacetylation steps. This process was obtained 22.66% chitosan which identified by FTIR spectrophotometry and had 65.47% degree ofdeacetylation. This chitosan was used to adsorb methylene blue dye which fit to the Langmuir isotherm with 0.0312 l mg -1 equilibriumconstant of adsorption (K) and 4.20 mg g -1 maximum capacity of adsorption (q m).


In order to solve target lost shortcomings of the traditional target tracking system because of target's rotation,transformation etc, a kind of new tracking method is proposed.This method uses Harris corner detection algorithm to draw several typical target corner features and then uses optic flow algorithm to match the corresponding corner point.In the end,the target displacement is computed by bary centre algorithm.The proposed method uses the property of corner extracting algorithm's high speed and representing target's shape and optic flow match's high resolution.It is proved by test that this method arrives at high tracking precision and has the robust feature to target's rotation,transformation,shelter,etc.


AbstractTheethanolic extract (EE)of the aerial partsof Haplophyllum tuberculatum (Forssk). A. Juss. was tested for its effect against the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus Say. The cumulative mortality of larvae, pupae and adults was concentration-dependent at 50–2000 ppm. Morphogenetic aberrations were exhibited in the larvae, pupae and adults when early 4th instar larvae were treated with H. tuberculatum (EE) suggesting a type of insect growth regulating (IGR) activity. No ovicidal effect was observed when zero-h old eggs of C. quinquefasciatus were treated with 50–1000 ppm of H. tuberculatum (EE) but substantial kill occurred in the newly hatched 1st instar larvae.


Public choice theory has become an increasingly significant aspect of public law scholarship. A more comprehensive knowledge of public institutions and their activities can illuminate our understanding of how legal rules shape the behavior of these institutions. This volume gathers together key papers highlighting the fundamental issues in the evolution of this subject.


Rate monotonic scheduling theory puts real-time software engineering on a sound analytical footing. The authors review the theory and its implications for Ada.<<ETX>>


This paper introduces the application of ultrasonic flaw-resilience method to the detection and evaluation of bridge damaged by fire.As an example,the article gives us a method of reinforcement applying carbon fibre sheets.It is confirmed that the method of reinforcement is valid by the static load experiment of the bridge.The idea of dealing with the bridge damaged by fire can provide us a good reference of repairing the similar bridge.


Background: The prevalence of depression has been shown to vary with age, but at all ages it contributes to poor health outcomes. Older individuals are at an increased risk for social isolation, ch ...


The larva of Acrobasis sp., which is the main pest of Avicennia marina var. austrasica, eats mesophyll of A. marina var. austrasica. Acrobasis sp. has 6~7 generations per year in mangrove forest at the Shenzhen Bay. 25~32 days are needed to complete one generation, 13~16 days for larvae, 5~6 days for pupae, 7~10 days for adults and 3~5 days for eggs. From the end of April to the middle of June, the second and third generations of Acrobasis sp. outbreak and cause great damage. Bt was used to control the second instar of Acrobasis sp. and study its effect on Acrobasis sp. indoors. The linear regression equation of lethal concentration(C)-mortality(Y) value was Y=4.66+1.78C, and the lethal concentration of 80% (LC80) was 4.60 IU/mL. The linear regression equation of lethal infected time (T)-mortality (Y) value was Y=4.305T-1.51, and the lethal infected time of 80%( LT80) was 50.86 hours. Ptyomaxia sp. was controlled with Bt at the concentration of 8~10 IU/mL in mangrove forest, and the average lethality was 90.61%. Fig 3, Tab 5, Ref 8


Honesty, transparency, and responsibility to the organisation depicts the integrity personality of an officer towards the organisation. Therefore, integrity is one of the components that could drive the development of the organisation to be more progressive and excellent in its specialisation. Various data could be assessed by the management to evaluate the integrity level of its staff, however it is quite difficult for the management to read through all the unstructured data and analyse them without missing any information. Accordingly, this study proposes the development of an analytical integrated technique to assess the integrity level of structured and unstructured data in the form of dashboard to make it easy for the management to analyse their staff's data. The primary objective of this study is to examine the roles of dashboard as an alternative to visualize integrity data of staff at one higher learning institution in Malaysia. This objective could be achieved by developing a dashboard framework for integrity and generating reports and visualisations in the form of dashboard based on the respective staff. The outcome of the study is the identification of the roles of dashboard and the reporting and visualisation in the form of dashboard for the organisation's purpose. The potential use of the dashboard system is wide, particularly for organisations that want an integrity framework for their staff information, as well as generating reports and interesting visualisations in the form of dashboard, in line with the needs of the organisation.


Silicone gels are gaining popularity as insulating materials in electrical applications, owing among others, to their good thermal stability, high elasticity, easy processing and good dielectric properties. In this paper results of dielectric strength measurements performed for a commercially available insulating RTV-2 silicone gel are discussed. Test cells with IEC-60243 compliant parallel plate arranged electrodes were cast in silicone gel and subjected to AC dielectric strength tests. The tests were carried out using a step-by-step voltage increase protocol, and the results are compared with those reported for other electrode configurations and obtained by means of the rapid-rise test protocol. Weibull statistical analysis of the measurement data is performed, and the impact of the test parameters, such as the electrode shape and size, the volume of the stressed material, the electric field distribution and the applied voltage rise protocol on the test results is discussed.


Welding operations may be subjected to different types of defects when the process is not properly controlled and most defect detection is done a posteriori. The mechanical variables that are at the origin of these imperfections are often not observable in situ. We propose an offline/online data assimilation approach that allows for joint parameter and state estimations based on local probabilistic surrogate models and thermal imaging in real-time. Offline, the surrogate models are built from a high-fidelity thermomechanical Finite Element parametric study of the weld. The online estimations are obtained by conditioning the local models by the observed temperature and known operational parameters, thus fusing high-fidelity simulation data and experimental measurements.


NEUTRON SCATTERING FACILITIES IN SERPONG. Description of seven neutron beam instruments installed at four (out of six) beam ports of the Multi Purpose Reactor GA Siwabessy in Serpong is presented. The instruments consist of three diffractometers, three spectrometers and one neutron radiography facility. These instruments were meant to utilize neutrons produced by the Reactor, especially for research and development in materials science and technology. The latest conditions after thirteen years of their existence are also described including various and different changes that have taken places and affecting the condition and capabilities of the instruments. Next development programs are also mentioned to open the possibilities for participation and contribution. These include a proposal for a new neutron beam instrument, a Neutron Reflectometer, which will be installed at the S3 (empty) beam port for extending and completing the coverage of research range in materials science as well as for improving the level of utilization of the reactor. The latest situation of the reactor and its operation mode are also described.


Nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) is a transcription factor family that plays a crucial role in physiological and immune processes, modulating intracellular and extracellular signaling pathways related with several diseases1,2. In this regard, it has been involved in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and in the development of cardiovascular (CV) disease3-5. Given that CV disease is one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with RA6, functional studies focused on the implication of NFAT in CV disease in RA are of potential interest.To study the role of the gene expression of two members of the NFAT family, NFATc1 and NFATc2, in the risk of developing CV disease in patients with RA.A total of 79 disease-modifying antirheumatic drug-naïve patients with early RA7 from Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla (Santander, Spain) were included in this study. The relative mRNA expression of NFATc1 and NFATc2 in peripheral blood was determined by qPCR. Carotid ultrasound data were used as surrogate markers of subclinical atherosclerosis. The association between NFATc1 and NFATc2 expression in RA patients and their clinical characteristics was evaluated. Results were adjusted by sex, age at the time of the study and traditional CV risk factors.A statistically significant increase of NFATc1 mRNA expression was found in women compared to men (fold change=+1.18, p=0.035). In addition, a higher NFATc1 mRNA expression was observed in patients with dyslipidemia compared to those with normal lipid profile (fold change=+1.18, p=0.006). With respect to this, we also disclosed a positive correlation between NFATc1 mRNA expression and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels (r=0.27, p=0.039). No significant associations were detected between NFATc2 mRNA expression and clinical characteristics of our RA patients. Carotid ultrasound findings were not related to NFATc1 and NFATc2 expression.Our study suggests that a higher expression of NFATc1 in peripheral blood is associated with abnormalities in the lipid profile and, consequently, with an increased risk of CV disease in patients with early RA.[1]Annu Rev Immunol.1997;15:707-747;[2]Nat Rev Immunol.2005;5:472-484;[3]Autoimmun Rev.2006;5:106-110;[4]Immunol Rev. 2010;233:286-300;[5]Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021;8:635172;[6]Arthritis Rheumatol. 2019;71:351-360;[7]Arthritis Rheum.2010;62:2569-2581.Study supported by NVAL 19/18 awarded to SR-M (IDIVAL) and partially supported by PI18/00043 (ISCIII). Personal funds, SR-M: RD16/0012/0009 (ISCIII-ERDF); VP-C: PREVAL18/01 (IDIVAL); RL-M: Miguel Servet type I CP16/00033 (ISCIII-ESF).Fernanda Genre: None declared, Verónica Pulito-Cueto: None declared, Alfonso Corrales: None declared, Virginia Portilla: None declared, Leticia Lera-Gómez: None declared, Belén Atienza-Mateo: None declared, Oreste Gualillo: None declared, Ricardo Blanco Speakers bureau: Abbvie, Pfizer, Roche, Bristol-Myers, Janssen and MSD, Consultant of: Abbvie, Pfizer, Roche, Bristol-Myers, Janssen and MSD, Grant/research support from: Abbvie, MSD and Roche, Iván Ferraz-Amaro: None declared, Santos Castañeda: None declared, Raquel López-Mejías: None declared, Miguel A González-Gay Speakers bureau: Abbvie, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi, Lilly, Celgene, MSD and GSK, Grant/research support from: Abbvie, MSD, Janssen, and Roche, Sara Remuzgo-Martínez: None declared


The EU transfers provided to the New Member States and candidate countries are generally viewed as having been efficiently used in promoting development in these economies. This paper examines the conditionality and institutional arrangements used to manage these transfers, and asks if there are lessons to be learned that could be applied to improve the absorptive capacity of assistance provided to developing countries.


Following great progress on the pathogenesis of lupus nephritis (LN) and publication of many high quality (prospective, randomized, multicenter) clinical trials of glucocorticoids-plus-immunosuppressive interventions, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR)/European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA), and Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) published or renewed in succession in 2012 special guidelines or recommendations for screening, case definition, treatment and management of LN.The paper introduces the key contents to provide reference for the clinical practice.

Key words:
Lupus nephritis; Guideline; Recommendation


Different pH values of sodium carbonate solution were used as catalyst for condensation of resorcinol and formaldehyde to obtain organic gels. After high temperature carbonization, the organic gels were transformed to carbon aerogels. The obtained materials were characterized by SEM, TEM and N2 adsorption desorption test. In addition, the electrochemical performance, such as cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic charging and discharging tests, was also conducted. SEM results show that the morphologies of carbon aerogels exhibit the transformation from sole macrosomia to sphere and eventually to sole macrosomia via elevating the pH value of precursor solution. It can be noted that different forms of carbon aerogels can be obtained via regulating the pH of the precursor solution. Especially, when the pH of sodium carbonate solution is 10.49, the prepared carbon aerogels exhibit spherical structure with uniform particle size. N2 adsorption and desorption tests show that the specific surface area of the spherical carbon can up to 526.1 m2/g. Cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic charging and discharging tests show that the uniformly spherical carbon aerogels expressed more superior electrochemical performance than that of resulted monolithic based carbon aerogels. The specific capacitance of the spherical carbon aerogels can reach 85.39 F/g. Meanwhile, the specific capacitance of spherical carbon aerogels based supercapacitor can get 76.72 F/g.


The invention relates to an additional toothed ring for an optical lens. The additional toothed ring consists of an annular body and teeth distributed at the outer side of the annular body along the radial direction; the shape of the inside diameter dimension of the toothed ring is matched with that of the outside diameter dimension of an adjusting ring of the optical lens; the additional toothed ring is movably connected to the outer side of the adjusting ring of the optical lens; the additional toothed ring for the optical lens can extend towards the front part of the lens to exceed the front end of the optical lens so as to stop parasitic light from intervening the imaging of the optical lens; numerical scale marks are graved or printed at the outer side of the additional ring for the optical lens; the positions of scales and the numerical values of the marks are matched with information of focal length, aperture and focal segment of the optical lens; and the outside diameter expanding front end of the additional toothed ring for the optical lens is movably connected with a cover; and the outline dimension of the cover is matched with the front end of the additional toothed ring.


journalist-but that it shows an extraordinary unity of thought. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that the author's comments were guided by a few fundamental principles which proved to be consistent. In an introductory chapter Miss Thompson masterfully outlines these basic convictions. Summarized, they read: The National Socialist revolution of Germany -essentially designed for export-would prove to be the most world-disturbing event affecting the whole of Europe and leading to a modification of the social order with serious repercussions on the world


The purpose of this study is to understand how and why success criteria evolve in the course of a digital transformation initiative. Evolving success criteria can cloud planning processes and lead to post-hoc rationalizations, an observation that is often made but the underlying processes are hardly researched. This exploratory study does so by employing a qualitative approach with six embedded case studies of different digital transformation initiatives (DTIs) within a large European airline company. Our findings show how traditional business case approval practices, the degree of involvement of different stakeholders -each using different metrics-, the closeness in collaboration between these stakeholders and lastly the degree to which key-users embrace the digital solution during a DTI, all contribute to evolving success criteria. A discussion of the findings and limitations, implications for practice and suggestions for future research conclude the article.


Computer simulation results of an induction magnetohydrodynamic pump designed for transportation of light non-ferrous metals is carried out. An original design of pump windings is proposed and justified by the simulation.


Coconut and coconut oil are important constituents in the Sri Lankan diet for many years as essential ingredients of many food recipes. Coconuts provide about 102 0 % of the total calories in the average Sri Lankan diet and is second only to rice in terms of contribution to consumption of energy. Coconut and coconut oil are the main source of dietary fat mainly for low-income groups in the country. Annually about 1,900 million coconuts are consumed locally as fresh nuts, oil, beverages and other forms.


Rate-distortion theory using the mean squared error criterion is often used to design digital image coding rules. The resulting distortion is, in theory, statistically equivalent to omitting components of the image from transmission. We compare a rate-distortion simulation using the discrete cosine transform to a method which is statistically equivalent to adding uncorrelated random noise to the image. This latter method is based on a PN (pseudo-noise) transform, which is generated from a Hadamard matrix whose core consists of the cyclic shifts of a binary maximum length linear shift register sequence. Visual comparisons of the two approaches are made at the same mean squared error. In all cases, the images encoded using the PN transform method showed superior definition of detail and less geometrical distortion at transform block boundaries than the images encoded using the discrete cosine method. The results of this experiment suggest that image appearance may be improved by designing transform coefficient quantization rules to approximate the effects of additive noise rather than to omit low energy image components, as dictated by conventional rate-distortion theory.


Cerebellar mutism (also known as posterior fossa syndrome) is a relatively common complication of posterior fossa surgery for primary brain tumors in children. Many children with cerebellar mutism experience long-term adverse neurological, cognitive, and psychological sequelae and require extensive interdisciplinary support. This study illustrates a typical case of cerebellar mutism in a child after resection of medulloblastoma, followed by a review of associated symptoms, clinical course, and modulating factors. Additionally, recommendations for providing educational support to children with cerebellar mutism are explored.


Brooklyn Parkinson Group (BPG) in collaboration with Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG), a renowned modern dance company, developed dance classes for persons with Parkinson's disease (PD), friends, and family. In 5 years, classes have increased from 2 to 9 participants once a month, to weekly classes of 20 to over 30 participants. Professional dancers teach the classes in a large dance studio with live piano accompaniment. This article explains the rationale of dance for PD, describes teaching methods, and includes participants' observations. Perceived benefits noted by 15 participants with PD to a validated questionnaire are discussed.


This article aims to look at the construction of Islamic education from the perspective of Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Nasr is an Islamic thinker whose capabilities are not in doubt in the study of Islamic philosophy, science, and ethics. The research approach used in this article is a literature review. Research problems are studied and analysed through the literature comprehensively. The results of this study include 1) Seyyed Hossein Nasr's conception of Islamic education which emphasizes human efforts to carry out their duties and obligations as caliphs on earth and servants of Allah; 2) the role of humans as caliphs and servants of Allah can only be obtained with the integrity of the building of science; 3) education construction is carried out through the Islamization of science (science) with a philosophical reformulation of Islamic education in the ontological, epistemological, and axiological domains 4) Islamic education reconstruction is directed at reviewing and rearranging educational goals, characteristics of Islamic educators, characteristics of Islamic students, educational tools, and educational environment.


With the development of the market economy, the competition for talents among enterprises has attracted more and more attention. Therefore, in recent years, enterprises have paid more and more attention to the optimal allocation of human resources. Aiming at the problem of human resources allocation in the process of enterprise management, this research establishes a corresponding mathematical model and solves the optimal allocation model of human resources based on particle swarm optimization algorithm. The calculation amount of the model is obviously reduced in the application process, the optimal solution is more ideal, and good results are achieved. However, the genetic algorithm itself has certain limitations, and the selection of initial chromosomes and the design of genetic operators put forward higher requirements. Starting from operability, based on system analysis and quantitative evaluation method, this paper establishes a model of human resources optimal allocation, provides a quantitative management method for optimal allocation of human resources, and designs an improved particle swarm optimization algorithm to solve this problem. The numerical simulation results show the effectiveness of the algorithm.


Using a series of poetry conversations, the authors give voice to their experiences of the doctoral process to illuminate the emotional and affective-political experience, and engage with the neo-liberal powers of the doctoral journey. They write poems to remember the body, and bring justice to the many bodies that have experienced the chill inside the "ivory tower."


Objective:To investigate mycoplasma infection of the urogenital tract and drug resistance for prevention of infection and to provide the experimental data for clinical medication.Methods: The samples from 875 NGU infected patients were collected and detected with mycoplasma kits according the instruction.Results: From 875 tested samples,the total positive percentage of Mycoplasma was 44.1%(386/875),among these patients Uu was found 36.2%(317/875),Mh 1.9%(17/875) and the mixed infection by Uu+Mh 6.0%(52/875).The positive percentage of Mycoplasma was found higher in women(49.7%) than men(33.0%),and the infection rate reached the peak value(52.8%) in the age of 31~40 years.Drug sensitivity test showed that:mycoplasma was highly susceptible to Doxycycline and Minocin,next to Josamycin,Clarithromycin,Azithromycin and Roxithromyein,but highly resistant to Ofloxacin,and then Levofloxacin and Sparfloxacin.Conclusion: The infection rate of Uu was higher than Mh,we should pay more attention to women,whose infection rate were higher than man.There was also a high infection rate in the people of sex active stage.According the drug sensitivity test,we suggested that patients with mycoplasma infection should be preferentially treated with Doxycycline and Minocin.


HISTORICALLY, the costs of hospital care for the poor and "medically indigent" (i.e., individuals not impoverished in the general sense but nonetheless unable to meet their medical expenses) were paid for from a variety of sources.1 State Medicaid programs, charitable gifts, charges to other payers and care provided by public hospitals all contributed to meeting the health care needs of those not in a position to pay for the medical goods and services they required. While at certain times and in certain locations this informal and fragmentary approach proved adequate in serving the less fortunate, in general this "system" was to blame for creating both serious gaps in acute care for this population and large deficits for those hospitals that refused to turn the poor away from their doors. Recent events, including large increases in hospital costs, have brought to a head the question of how and by whom the costs associated with treating the poor and uninsured should be covered. As Feder et al. have noted, "Events of the early 1980's-economic recession, declines in private insurance coverage, Medicaid cutbacks, and limits on the growth of government spending-have raised concern that the patchwork system of responsibility for care to the poor makes it too easy for people to fall through the cracks.'2 Moreover, the trend toward increased price competition in the health care sector will likely widen the gaps in services that currently exist. In response to mounting pressure to find a more stable way to finance hospital care for the poor and uninsured, the federal government and several states have begun to experiment with hospital reimbursement systems that


BOLIGON, Darcio. Management Scenario-dased and Rural Land. 2013. 41 folhas. Trabalho de conclusao de curso da Especializacao em Gestao Contabil e Financeira. Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Parana, Pato Branco, 2013. ABSTRACT: This paper's main objective is the management of a small farm, with the purpose to guide the rural entrepreneur in relation to decisions to be taken in accordance with the established. Containig scenarios in context knowledge related to strategy, analysis of scenarios, sustainability and rural properties, seeking to directly guide the owner regarding the best decision to be made, according to the scenario that will be performed in the future, aiming thereby increasing the profitability and sustainability of property, being developed scenarios and strategies to get the best out of it, helping administrators anticipate the decisions and reap the benefits of each scenario and products produced on their property. This paper's main objective is the management of a small farm, with the purpose to guide the rural entrepreneur in relation to decisions to be taken in accordance with the established. Containig scenarios in context knowledge related to strategy, analysis of scenarios, sustainability and rural properties, seeking to directly guide the owner regarding the best decision to be made, according to the scenario that will be performed in the future, aiming thereby increasing the profitability and sustainability of property, being developed scenarios and strategies to get the best out of it, helping administrators anticipate the decisions and reap the benefits of each scenario and products produced on their property.


While therapy with mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRA) is recommended for patients with chronic heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction and in post-infarction HF, it has not been studied well in acute HF (AHF) despite being commonly used in this setting. At high doses, MRA therapy in AHF may relieve congestion through its natriuretic properties and mitigate the effects of adverse neurohormonal activation associated with intravenous loop diuretics. The Aldosterone Targeted Neurohormonal Combined with Natriuresis Therapy in Heart Failure (ATHENA-HF) trial is a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled study of the safety and efficacy of 100 mg daily spironolactone vs. placebo (or continued low-dose spironolactone use in participants who are already receiving spironolactone at baseline) in 360 patients hospitalized for AHF. Patients are randomized within 24 hours of receiving the first dose of intravenous diuretics. The primary objective is to determine if high-dose spironolactone, when compared to standard care, will lead to greater reductions in N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels from randomization to 96 hours. The secondary endpoints include changes in the clinical congestion score, dyspnea relief, urine output, weight change, loop diuretic dose, and inhospital worsening HF. Index hospital length of stay and 30-day clinical outcomes will be assessed. Safety endpoints Address correspondence to: Javed Butler, MD, MPH, Cardiology Division, Stony Brook University, T-16, Room 080, Stony Brook, NY 11794. Telephone: (631) 444-1066 Fax: (631) 444-1054 firstname.lastname@example.com. Disclosures: None Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. HHS Public Access Author manuscript JACC Heart Fail. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 September 01. Published in final edited form as: JACC Heart Fail. 2016 September ; 4(9): 726–735. doi:10.1016/j.jchf.2016.06.003. A uhor M anscript


tween franchisor and franchisee or supplier and distributor establishing the price or price levels at which the franchisee (or distributor) will resell the franchisor's (or supplier's) products or services. The reasons suppliers seek to maintain resale prices are, as the Supreme Court has recognized, "in many, but not all, cases similar or identical" to the rationale for vertical nonprice restrictions.1


The routine use of screening tools at young ages has the potential to improve outcomes for young children with autism by expediting their diagnosis as well as their referral to appropriately specialized interventions. The selection of screening tools should be based on both the type of setting in which it will be used (e.g., primary care or referral settings) and the psychometric properties of the screener for that setting. Promising new models of screening that involve coordination across different levels of service delivery systems and employ combinations of Level 1 and Level 2 tools in sequence may overcome some of the challenges associated with screening while also improving recognition of early autism features across a range of community providers.

Keywords:

autism;
autism risk;
autism spectrum disorder;
early detection;
Level 1 screening;
Level 2 screening;
primary care setting;
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The aim of this paper is to compare the role of vehicle to grid (V2G) hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (HFCV) and battery electric vehicle (BEV) for increased integration of VRE in a low carbon neighbourhood. Microgrid model is developed for a hypothetical model community in Trondheim city of Norway to demonstrate the case. The model run minimises the total system cost and optimises the operation costs of the microgrid. The result shows that V2G BEV is the cheapest grid balancing source than V2G HFCV. Nevertheless, the contribution of the V2G BEV for residual demand and peak load reductions is limited to 2.9% and 5.4% respectively; it depends on the connection share of the V2G vehicles during parking. There is no power dispatch from the V2G HFCV in any of the scenarios. The role of the V2G BEV is threefold: (1) replaces fossil fuels in transportation, (2) provide flexibility to the VRE by balancing excess VRE production, and (3) reduces the peak load.


It is a substantial undertaking to curate an overview of contemporary fashion from a continent populated by over 1 billion people. Fashion Cities Africa daringly aimed to do so. The exhibition assembled and examined the multifaceted urban fashion scenes of four major African cities from the perspectives of designers, photographers, journalists, and bloggers who live and work inside and outside of Africa. It first opened at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery in 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK) before arriving at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam (part of the National Museum of World Cultures), where Daan van Dartel (Curator of Popular Culture and Fashion) and Annette Schmidt (Curator of Africa) challenged the notion that "fashion from Africa is 'tribal' this, 'safari' that" (Azieb Pool 2016). By displaying locally designed outfits from Casablanca, Lagos, Nairobi, and Johannesburg that range from haute couture to prêta-porter to street style, the curators confronted the stereotypical narratives surrounding fashion from Africa that have been shaped by international fashion media. Chamutal Leket is an Independent Scholar based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. email@example.com


This paper examines the extent to which the sustainable development disclosures of companies listed on the Johannesburg stock exchange (JSE) comply with independent external assurance. This is necessary to provide information to responsible investors and to assess the sustainable development commitment of firms in the JSE. A sample of firms within the JSE was taken from the Socially Responsible Index (SRI) group and the non-SRI group. Analysis indicates an increase in the number of firms vying for recognition as socially responsible firms in the JSE's SRI. Furthermore, a chi-square analysis shows that the SRI and non-SRI group of companies have a comparable rate of compliance with the independent external assurance of sustainable development disclosures. Overall findings indicate that the JSE's SRI initiative has been functional in driving the sustainable development initiatives of firms in the JSE. There is practical evidence of firms' commitment to carbon reduction, energy efficiency, waste management, black economic empowerment, water efficiency and other sustainable development initiatives. The paper concludes that stock exchanges may be a catalyst for driving sustainable development behaviour in firms located in emerging and developing countries, hence the paper recommends that stock exchanges in these countries may replicate the sustainable development initiative of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange as this may contribute to the sustainable economic development of emerging and developing countries. The paper offers opportunities for future research on the role of global stock exchanges in fostering sustainable development.


One of the most feared complications of cirrhosis is portal hypertension. Portal hypertension results from either increased resistance to blood flow or increased splanchnic flow or both. Although most forms of cirrhosis encompass aspects of each, in most cases of portal hypertension, increased intrahepatic resistance to flow is a key element. The level of increased intrahepatic resistance varies with specific forms of liver disease and may occur at presinusoidal, sinusoidal or postsinusoidal levels. Within the sinusoid, it has been proposed that an important potential contributing factor is the hepatic stellate cell (also known as an Ito cell or fat-storing cell), a perisinusoidal cell with prominent contractile features; in this scenario perisinusoidal stellate cell constriction regulates sinusoidal blood flow and intrahepatic resistance to flow. Although other factors contributing to altered blood flow patterns in cirrhosis include regenerative nodules, intrahepatic shunts and hepatocyte swelling, in the context of data highlighting stellate cell contractility, it has been proposed that both fixed (i.e. matrix, regenerative nodules) and modulable elements (i.e. stellate cells) contribute to the increased intrahepatic resistance typical of portal hypertension. Further, regulable elements represent an important potential target of therapeutic intervention. Because of the dynamic nature of stellate cell contractility, we have focused on agents that induce stellate cell contraction as well as those which cause relaxation. In this regard, the family of endothelins has emerged as the most potent stimulators of stellate cell contractility, while nitric oxide (NO) has been shown to be the most important relaxing agent. Importantly, we have also demonstrated that stellate cell contractility is greatest in the cirrhotic liver, at a time when smooth muscle proteins such as smooth muscle actin are upregulated. Further, the potent vasoconstrictor, endothelin-1, is overproduced in the cirrhotic liver, apparently due to dysregulation of the converting enzyme (endothelin converting enzyme1) that controls conversion of precursor endothelin-1 to the mature peptide. In contrast to the endothelin paradigm, endothelium-derived NO produced by the endothelial isoform of NO synthase (ecNOS) is reduced after liver injury. This occurs despite the fact that the level of ecNOS is unaltered after injury. This finding has important implications for the molecular regulation of ecNOS in sinusoidal endothelial cells after injury. Further, these data suggest that decreased production of NO by sinusoidal endothelial cells, particularly in the presence of overproduced vasoconstrictor compounds such as endothelin, is likely to contribute to increased intrahepatic resistance to blood flow. Thus, the dynamic nature of vascular homeostasis implies that interplay of vasoconstrictive (i.e., endothelin-1) and vasorelaxing (i.e., NO) compounds within the hepatic microcirculatory unit regulates intrahepatic vascular resistance. These data are compelling pathophysiologically and moreover provides critical information when considering therapeutic intervention in portal hypertension.


Combing numerical platforms MSC.SuperForge with MSC.Marc,the extrusion process and die load situation of a aluminum square tube of 30 mm × 30 mm was investigated.Comparing the change of stress and strain rate distribution in the extrusion process finds that where plastic deformation is large,the corresponding equivalent stress is large too.The die stress distribution is analyzed and the optimization design for the square tube die is presented.This numerical analysis method gives an effective reference for die design.


An analytical approach for acquiring the explicit expressions of the boundaries concerning the unconditional stability regions of a three-port network is presented. This approach begins with the expressions of the input reflection coefficients at the ports 1 and 2 with a terminating port 3 to give two stability circles in the terminating plane. One can graphically determine that the tangent point of these two stability circles is on the boundary of the unconditional stability region for the terminating port. Then, the explicit boundary expression for the port 3 is derived. This procedure may be followed for the other two ports in order to fully characterize the unconditional stability boundaries of a three-port network. Using the Agilent ADS software tool, the derived expressions are implemented. These expressions can not only enhance the computer-aided capability on the stability analysis of a three-port network but also provide useful information for the microwave circuit designers.


On the example of heroes of novels of Konstantin Fedin "The cities and years" and "Brothers" under a new angle are considered drama turns of destinies of the Petersburg intellectuals necessarily involved in event psycho-logical whirlpool of fundamental historic breakthrough, from World War I beginning before the end of war Civil. During a narration the Northern capital appears as the smithy of a new public order crushing under, so-called, "former", suddenly appeared in private with surrounding reality. Attempts of heroes to find the place in a windbreak of events of war and revolution come to an end with full breakdown, or hopeless humility. The author refer to the draws a parallel with the Pushkin masterpiece "Bronze Horseman" bringing to the forefront a problem "the small person", finds сonсeption proximity to A. Tolstoy´s novel "Purgatory" and dilogies of the best domestic symphonies of those years – the Heel and the Sixth N. Myaskovsky.


Taking into account the complexity and duration of creating the optimal shape of the flow part of the intake system, it is advisable to use mathematical models in its design and modernization. This not only reduces the cost and speeds up the creation of an optimal air path, but also provides conditions for automating the design process. The calculated determination of the flow coefficient using modern methods allows you to significantly reduce the amount of experimental research and solve the main problems by choosing the optimal combination of structural elements of the intake channels at the design and finishing stage of the engine. A method is proposed for calculating the flow rate through the intake system of an internal combustion engine (ICE) depending on the design features of the intake system elements: the flow resistance coefficient, the average speed of the piston, the cross-section area of the cylinder, the average effective flow of the valve slot, the number of valves, the value of the valve lift, the diameter of the neck. The influence of total losses from gas dynamic resistance is estimated.


To explore the resources and sedimentary environment of sediment in different areas of the Yalu River Estuary, 43 surface sediment samples obtained from different zone of the Yalu River Estuary were tested and analyzed. Through the computation of average grain size, sorting coefficient and other grain size parameters, distribution of grain size parameters of surface sediment was obtained and analyzed. The result showed that the sorts of surface sediment in the Yalu River Estuary are mainly sand, silty sand, sandy silt and a small amount of clayey silt, the distribution of sand is more widely than others. The resource of surface sediment has the properties of diversity and space difference. The sand transported by river is the primary source, together with the surface sediment's movement to land of the shallow sea. The sediment in the downstream of the Yalu River comes from the river transport, the sediment in the middle branch channel, western branch channel and Liaodong shoal of the Yalu River comes from the river's transport and the movement to land of the surface sediment in shallow sea. The sedimentary environment in different areas is diverse and it is influenced by the Yalu River's runoff and the tides and waves of seas. The result of this study can provide evidence for the investigation to the Yalu River Estuary's system evolutions.


This work investigate Bayesian compressive sensing in the spatial domain to achieve target localization and parameter estimation, specifically direction of arrival (DOA) and signal amplitude proportional to target RCS, using multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. We propose a sparse localization framework for MIMO array within which several techniques are further developed and tested. In the numerical results we show that, in the proposed framework, Bayesian compressive sensing recovery algorithms are capable of better performance than existing hybrid compressive MUSIC and convex simultaneous sparse approximation algorithms and are quite efficient in terms of computational complexity.


Zirconia-sulfate (ZrO2-SO2−4) aerogels were prepared in a one-step synthesis by the sol-gel method followed by supercritical drying. Sulfuric acid was mixed with zirconium n-propoxide in n-propanol and reacted with water and nitric acid to form a zirconia-sulfate cogel. Supercritical drying with carbon dioxide removed the alcohol solvent forming a high surface area aerogel. This preparation method combined the two steps of zirconia support formation and sulfate promotion. The effect of changing sulfate content and activation temperature was systematically studied by nitrogen adsorption, X-ray diffraction, n-butane isomerization, diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy, pyridine adsorption, and thermogravimetry. Sulfate ions, in an ionic, inactive low temperature state, were initially trapped in the bulk of the aerogel. Coincident with crystallization of the zirconia support, sulfate was expelled onto the surface and transformed into an "activated" covalent sulfate species which helped to form strong Bronsted acidity. A minimum density of sulfate groups was required to create this Bronsted acidity which was necessary for n-butane isomerization. Increasing sulfate content retarded the support crystallization and increased the activation temperature required to generate maximum catalytic activity. This aerogel synthesis permitted unique preparative flexibility allowing for sulfate to be introduced into the bulk and for crystallization to be retarded to high temperatures, thus establishing the relationship between crystallinity, sulfate structure and content, and the acidity and activity of the catalyst. This work demonstrated the importance of the preparative parameters on the formation of a solid superacid.


Typical engineering applications involving cohesive sediments in tidal water bodies including bays, estuarial navigation channels, small harbor basins, piers, and wharves have been cited. Reference has been made to problems in reservoirs and in the muddy coast environment. Techniques for prediction of estuarial sedimentation include field methods, physical and numerical modeling, and hybrid modeling which optimally combines physical and numerical modeling approaches. In many cases simple, zero‐dimensional modeling yields results of acceptable accuracy. Three‐dimensional numerical models have recently been developed for analyzing situations in which the complex structure of flows and associated sediment motion cannot be simplified. Further progress in improving the accuracy of prediction of sedimentation rates can be made by better understanding the basic laws governing cohesive sediment behavior, and by developing new strategies and instrumentation for data collection.


As one of the few analytical methods that offer atomic resolution, NMR spectroscopy is a valuable tool to study the interaction of proteins with their interaction partners, both biomolecules and synthetic ligands. In recent years, the focus in chemistry has kept expanding from targeting small binding pockets in proteins to recognizing patches on protein surfaces, mostly via supramolecular chemistry, with the goal to modulate protein–protein interactions. Here we present NMR methods that have been applied to characterize these molecular interactions and discuss the challenges of this endeavor.


The scholarship amount avalaible is one of the obstacles faced by schools when scholarships provided fewer than the number of scholarship applicants. Awarding scholarships to students who need to be right on target. Student grouping data into a clusters using K-Means algorithm where each cluster has a different level of importance can help the school in determining the eligible students were given scholarships. Ranking of student data each cluster using Simple Additive weighting method (SAW) also can help the school in reaching a decision, if the number of scholarship recipients provided fewer than the number of scholarship applicants. This system also reduces fraud in the process of providing scholarships so that the decision to grant scholarships are made right on the mark. Keyword: K-Means algorithm, Simple Additive Weighting (SAW)


The effects of urea levels on feed intake, digestibility and carcass traits of 27 confined cross bred steers weighing 303.25 ± 60.8kg, were evaluated. After weighing, castrating, vaccinating and a period of seven days, three steers were slaughtered at the beginning of the experiment and the remaining 24 were allotted in a completely randomized design to four isonitogenous experimental diets (12% of crude protein) and increasing level of urea on the dry matter-basis (0.0; 0.65; 1.30 and 1.65%) to replace soybean meal, so that the final content of the experimental diets were approximately 22, 37, 50 and 63% of crude protein in the form of NPN. Corn and elephant grass silages were supplied at a 70:30 ratio and the total diet had a 65:35, forage: concentrate ratio on a DM-basis. The urea level did not affect nutrient intake, except for rumen degradable protein (RDP) and total digestible nutrients (TDN) linearly increased in function of diet urea level. The nutrient digestibilities linearly increased except for ether extract and non fiber carbohydrate (NFC). A quadratic effect of diet urea level on daily weight gain and no effect of urea level on carcass traits were observed. Urea can totally replace soybean meal in diets for confined crossed dairy steers allowing gains of 1kg/day. Urea can enhance nutrient digestibility of diets.


Fish farmers are beginning to look more often to genetic improvement for gains in production. But improving the genetics of fish species can take a long time. With most fish, for example, it is difficult to keep track of individual males or females and thus the process of developing breeding stocks and improved lines could take a decade or more. At the same time fish managers are looking for ways to protect endangered species. Conservation programs require large populations to ensure biodiversity but for threatened and endangered species the numbers of fish are steadily decreasing. Cryopreservation can help in both of these situations. The availability of frozen sperm is a proven technique for developing, maintaining, and distributing genetic


This dissertation aims to investigate the permanence of students from Professional Technical Education at Secondary Level (EPTNM) integrated to high school and its relations with the Student Assistance Policy , having as a case study the Celso Suckow Federal Center for Technological Education da Fonseca (Cefet / RJ) - Maria da Graca campus. We established, as a temporary cut, the period between 2014 and 2017. The period marks the beginning and completion of the first level of professional secondary education on campus (four year course) and reflects the context of expansion of professional education and technology of the federal network and the implementation of the National Program of Student Assistance (PNAES). The text is structured in four chapters. In the first chapter we focus on the social and economic context for the development of professional and technological education in Brazil. In the second chapter, we discussed the place of Cefet / RJ in the expansion of the federal network and the constitution of integrated secondary education in the institution, as of Decree 5154/04. We also want to know who are the students who access the secondary technical education, in an integrated way, with a specific cut, the Cefet /RJ-Maria da Graca campus, within the framework of Law 12.711/12 (Law of Quotas). In the third chapter, we analyze the student assistance policy instituted at Cefet / RJ. For this, it was necessary to understand the logic of income transfer and / or financial transfer present in public policies in neoliberalism (as well as their particularities in "neodevelopment") and in the National Program of Student Assistance (PNAES). The debate about the public and the logic of monetization and financialisation of public issues was essential at the moment. In the fourth chapter, we analyzed the data on the permanence of the first Integrated High School class at the Maria da Graca campus. From the differentiated trajectories we constructed, for purposes of analysis in this discussion, five categories: effective stay, consented permanence, deprecated permanence, compulsory evasion and constrained evasion. We identified in these groups the socioeconomic profile, the insertion in the programs of student assistance and we tried to map the reasons that made the students follow differentiated trajectories. The research results show that, in this specific case, both the changes in the forms of access and the devices of aid to the students were essential for the increase of the access and the permanence of the students in the integrated average high school. However, they were not able, on their own, to break with the social inequality that reproduces in the school that privileges groups of students from the private school system, whites and with higher income. The study demonstrates that although income transfer programs and actions are very important for the promotion of school stay, especially for students with low socioeconomic status, this is only one of the strategies to ensure student stay. and expresses the need to rethink the type of student assistance policy that has been promoted in the context of current Brazilian social policy.


Along the way, as we get older, as T. S. Eliot writes in his poem, "The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated/Of dead and living." Lately, I have been spending more of my time at the farm. This is the farm that has belonged to my family for generations, since first being settled by my great-grandparents fleeing the potato famine in Ireland, and it is the farm of my birth and early years. Although it would be easy to think of the farm more in the past tense than in the present, I have come to know the place in present terms. Solace is found in this place, here and now. Even among the ruins, in a world becoming stranger, and a pattern more complicated.


In view of the actual measured data in typical aircraft environment using the channel sounder systems,the path loss characteristics in cabin environment at the center frequency 3.52 GHz are analyzed from the measured data of an aircraft.The parameters includ path-loss exponent,intercept and minimum mean square error in different measured positions.These results provids a reference to the establishment of the in-cabin wireless channel model.The power coverage in the distributed antennas systems(DAS)and the centralized antennas systems(CAS)is compared.It is proved that,with equal transmitting power,the DAS has a better uniform power coverage and better availability of the transmitting power than CAS in-cabin environment.


We present a vibrational analysis of the transverse {bold E}{parallel}{bold b}{prime} conductivity of semiconducting (TMTSF){sub 2}ReO{sub 4} and (TMTSF){sub 2}BF{sub 4} (where TMTSF is tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene). We also report the results of a normal-coordinate calculation of the vibrations of the deuterated (TMTSF){sup +} molecule, which was used to assist in the reported assignments. The data were supplemented with powder spectra, which showed predominantly the infrared-active {ital b}{sub 1{ital u}} modes. The {bold E}{bold b}{prime} spectra displayed the expected infrared-active {ital b}{sub 2{ital u}} modes, as well as several totally symmetric {ital a}{sub {ital g}} modes resulting from the general site symmetry of the molecule. Unusual strength is noticed in the two {ital b}{sub 2{ital u}} modes which are almost degenerate with the very intense {nu}{sub 4}({ital a}{sub {ital g}}) doublet observed in the {bold E}{bold a} spectra. In that polarization the strength is derived from electron-phonon coupling. There is, however, no such coupling observed in the {bold E}{bold b}{prime} polarization.


Constructing accurate constitutive equation from the optimal material constants is the basis for finite element numerical simulation. To accurately describe the creep ageing behavior of 2A12 aluminum alloy, the present work is tentatively to construct an elastic-plastic constitutive model for simulation based on the ANSYS environment. A time hardening model including two stages of primary and steady-state is physically derived firstly, and then determined by electronic creep tensile tests. The material constants within the creep constitutive equations are obtained. Furthermore, to verify the feasibility of the material model, the ANSYS based numerical scheme is established to simulate the creep tensile process by using the proposed material model. Results show that the creep constitutive equation can better describe the deformation characteristics of materials, and the numerical simulations and experimental test points are in good agreement.


In this short note, we study the existence of weak sharp minima in multicriteria linear programming. It is shown that weak sharp minimality holds for certain residual functions and gap functions.


Hay Fever Hay fever attacks that may occur after exposure to ragweed pollen can be blamed on a single agent hidden in the pollen dust. The agent, called Trifidin A, has been separated from extracts of giant ragweed pollens and has proved almost as active in producing symptoms of hay fever as the total extract, said Dr. A. K. Bhattacharya, an organic chemist of The Chicago Medical School. The substance sometimes is found in pollen -by itself, or it may be concealed in a conmplex mixture of other components.


Recent research has shown that it is possible to find genes involved in the pathogenesis of a particular condition on the basis of microarray experiments. Genes which are differentially expressed, for example between healthy and diseased tissues, are likely to be relevant to the disease under study. Some of the properties of microarray datasets make the task of finding these genes a challenging one. This paper proposes a gene-ranking algorithm whose main novelty is the use of bootstrapped P-values. We present an analysis of the algorithm, showing how it takes account of small-sample variability in observed values of the test statistic, in a way conventional statistical tests cannot. Experimental results show that our algorithm outperforms the widely-used two-sample t-test on challenging artificial data. Gene ranking is then performed on two well-known microarray datasets, with encouraging results. For example, a number of genes from one of the datasets, whose differential expression was subsequently confirmed by a more reliable biochemical analysis, are found to be ranked higher by the bootstrapped algorithm than by the conventional t-test, suggesting that the proposed algorithm may be better able to exploit the limited data available to infer biologically useful information.


The title compound, C 5 H 5 N 5 OS·H 5 O, crystallizes as the monohydrate. Disorder of the H atoms that participate in the hydrogen bonds implies that two different tautomers are present in the crystal structure, one of them with both acidic H atoms attached to the imidazole ring and the other with one acidic H atom on each ring.


OBJECTIVE
To explain an apparently paradoxical pattern wherein sufferers of restrictive anorexia nervosa exhibit both rigorous self-restraint and episodic impulsivity.

METHOD
The experimental, historical, and clinical literatures were examined for evidence of psychological and behavioral changes accompanying severe dietary constriction; such changes were noted and compared with those reported to occur in anorexics.

RESULTS
Increased impulsivity in association with dietary constriction is described in diverse literatures. A number of lines of evidence suggest that the serotonergic system mediates this change.

DISCUSSION
Many forms of impulsivity can be understood as having once constituted fitness-enhancing responses to resource scarcity. It is suggested that an evolved psychological mechanism calibrates the individual's sensitivity to risk in light of future prospects. Self-injurious behaviors are explicable as misfirings of such a mechanism. Similarly, excessive exercising by anorexics may reflect the misdirection of reward systems that normally encourage adaptive increases in ranging behavior under conditions of scarcity.


This paper proposes an exponential interpolation to merge a part-of-speech-based language model and a word-based <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$n$</tex-math></inline-formula>-gram language model to accomplish word prediction tasks. In order to find a set of mathematical equations to properly describe the language modeling, a model based on partial differential equations is proposed. With the appropriate initial conditions, it was found an interpolation model similar to the traditional maximum entropy language model. Improvements in keystroke saved and perplexity over the word-based <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$n$</tex-math></inline-formula>-gram language model and two other traditional interpolation models is obtained, considering three different languages. The proposed interpolation model also provides additional improvement in hit rate parameter.


The invention discloses a preparation method of a saline and alkali tolerant dispersing agent. The preparation method comprises steps as follows: (1), a naphthalene raw material and concentrated sulfuric acid react for 3-5 h, the reaction temperature is 125-140 DEG C, and the acidity degree after the reaction is 30%-35%, wherein the naphthalene raw material adopts methylnaphthalene or naphthalene; (2), after the step (1) is finished, water is added for a hydrolysis reaction, the reaction temperature is 70-90 DEG C, and the acidity degree after the reaction is 20%-24%; (3), the temperature is decreased to be lower than 50 DEG C after the step (2) is finished, formaldehyde is dropwise added, the temperature is increased to 90-100 DEG C, and the reaction time is 3-4 h; (4), after the step (3) is finished, a sodium hydroxide aqueous solution and dry calcium hydroxide powder are added to regulate the pH of the reaction system to be 7-8, and filtering is performed; (5); the filtrate is dried to prepare the saline and alkali tolerant dispersing agent. When the saline and alkali tolerant dispersing agent is used for commercialization of activated dyes, the activated dyes still have higher stability in a high-concentration saline solution or a high-concentration alkali solution and are prevented from precipitation.


ABSTRACT A physics-based model for the prediction of wildfire propagation, which combines the cellular automata concept with virtual Lagrangian fire particles, is further developed to include fire extinction actions. Deposition of water and firebreaks are included in the formulation. The fire propagation model is then coupled with a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm to optimize the allocation of fire extinction actions. Starting from an ignited fire, and fixing the amount of resources available for firefighting, the model suggests which series of actions minimizes the loss of wildland. The model has been assessed and validated with model fires and then applied to a realistic scenario. MCTS optimization is found to autonomously outperform human intuition for medium-scale fires and to successfully enhance human decision-making capabilities for large-scale fires with the use of convolution-based terrain re-sampling. This study opens up new possibilities for the development of decision-making tools to assist the real-time allocation of firefighting resources as well as to support the design of preventive measures to preserve the environment and reduce the potential impact of wildfires.


ABSTRACT Laboratory-reared juvenile mud crabs; Rhithropanopeus harrisii, were acclimated to temperature-salinity combinations of 20, 25, or 30°C and 5, 15, or 25 parts per thousand (‰) salinity. Subsequently, they were exposed for 10 days to phenanthrene concentrations of 0, 75, 150, or 300 µg/l (ppb). This gave a complete 3 × 3 × 4 factorial design of the factor combinations. On the tenth day of phenanthrene exposure the respiration rates of the crabs were determined both at steady state with the rearing salinity, and immediately following a move from either 15 ‰ to 5 ‰ salinity (hypoosmotic shock) or 15 ‰ to 25 ‰ salinity (hyperosmotic shock). To a certain extent, all the factors tested affected the respiration rates. An increase in temperature usually caused an increase in the respiration rate, although this was small. The juvenile crabs were tolerant both to a wide range of acclimation salinities, and to osmotic shock under control conditions. However, phenanthrene-exposed animals showed marked change...


A brief battery of functional assessments designed to detect crash risk among older drivers was developed and evaluated initially in 1999 in Maryland motor vehicle licensing sites following the routine vision screening exam. This battery contained a number of cognitive tests (e.g., UFOV® subtest 2, the closure subtest of the Motor Free Visual Perception Test (MVPT), Trails A and B, cued recall, delayed recall), and several physical measures (e.g., Rapid Pace Walk, Head and Neck Rotation, Foot Tap, Arm Reach). Older adults (N=4,173; mean age = 69 years) were approached by the staff after license renewal and asked to help evaluate the brief battery. Of the 4,173 older adults approached at the field sites, 2,114 individuals 55-96 years of age participated. Subsequently, the original sample of 2,114 participants was invited to come in once again, during their five-year license renewal cycle, and the functional tests were administered once again. To date, 939 individuals have completed the second screening evaluation. An examination of the crash data from the interval between assessments for these individuals indicates that the same cognitive measures are predictive of at-fault crashes. Furthermore, approximately 10% of those passing the assessment in 1999 are now failing the assessment in 2004. Performance-based cognitive measures are predictive of future at-fault motor vehicle collisions among older adults. Cognitive performance, in particular, is a salient predictor of subsequent crash involvement among older adults. High-risk older drivers can be identified through brief, performance-based measures administered in a DMV setting.


The method of chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) using slurry which was ultrasonic subtle atomized was researched, and the system of Ultrasonic Subtle Atomization—Chemical Mechanical Polishing was established. The effects of polish parameters on polishing were also investigated. The results show that the experimental system can fully realize the expected function of polishing, the use of slurry is about one-tenth of the amount of traditional CMP, material removal rate can reach 113.734nm/min and the surface roughness is similar to the surface roughness in the traditional way.


Multilayer ZnO/MgO was successfully deposited using sol-gel spin coating method at different MgO molar concentration. The electrical and dielectric properties of deposited multilayer films were investigated using two point probes I-V measurement and impedance spectroscopy respectively. The resistivity was calculated based on I-V curve obtained and the results show that there is increment in resistivity values from 1.04 x 105Ω.cm to 7.45 x 105Ω.cm as the MgO concentration varied from 0.2M to 1.0M. The growth of multilayer films was measured in term of their thickness using surface profiler. Moreover from the observation, the value of dielectric constant, k is decrease when the MgO concentrations increase due to non-uniform and porous structure in the films. This is proven by their surface morphology observed by field emission scanning electron microscopy, FESEM. There is also interesting view obtained in this work where the surface morphology of multilayer film with 0.2M and 0.4M MgO concentration produced nano-flower and nano-rod like structure respectively.


Objective:To study the clinical effects of Motherwort Palace Rehabilitation Particles on the treatment of poor uterine contraction after the induction delivery of middle and late-stage pregnancy.Methods:310 pregnant women who were unexpected pregnant for the induction delivery in our hospital from February 2006-2007 were selected as the subjects,and they were randomly divided into two groups:Motherwort Palace Rehabilitation Particles treatment group(158 cases) and control group(152 cases),the treatment group was treated with Motherwort Palace Rehabilitation Particles,and the control group was treated with oxytocin,antibiotics and haemostat,then the improvement of symptoms,stopping hemrrhage time and lochia disappearring time in the two groups were observed.Results:The improvement of symptoms,stopping hemrrhage time and lochia disappearring time of were significantly lower than those in control group(P0.05).Conlusion:Motherwort Palace Re-habilitation Particles showes a marked effect on treating the poor uterine contraction,postpartum hemorrhage and lochia after the induction delivery.


Objective To evaluate the influence of total occlusion coronary character to percutanenous coronary intervention.Methods Clinical and coronary angiographic data of 300 patients with Chronic total occlusion (CTO) who underwent Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) were retrospectively analyzed.Results Chi-square test revealed that a stump morphology, length of occlusion, ostial location and type of occlution were statistically signi?c-ant to PCI success (P0.05).Conclusions Type of occlusion, length of occlusion, ostial location and tapered morphology are factors on successful PCI.


This brief presents a sub-1-V 65-nm MOS threshold voltage monitoring-based voltage reference (VTH sensor) with current-mode second-order temperature compensation. By utilizing the different temperature properties of P+ diffusion and poly resistors, auxiliary nonlinear temperature compensation is implemented in the Brokaw MOS VTH circuit. By doing so, it attenuates the nonlinear temperature effect of gate-to-source voltage (VGS), thus lowering the temperature coefficient (T.C.). Fabricated in a UMC 65-nm CMOS process, the results show that the circuit can generate an average reference voltage of 474 mV. This is close to the extrapolated VTH for a low-threshold nMOS transistor at absolute zero temperature. In a range from -40 °C to 90 °C, the best T.C. achieved by the circuit is 24.5 ppm/°C and the average T.C. over 15 samples is 40 ppm/°C.


Background and Purpose: Though it's a frequent disabling symptom among Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients; the mechanism of fatigue in MS is not fully understood. The aim of this study is to identify the relationship between frontal white matter (WM) integrity and fatigue in patients with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS) using Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI). Methods: A case control study; that included 33 patients with RRMS and 13 healthy control subjects. Patients were subjected to medical and neuropsychological evaluation including: Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS), Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), and Beck's Depression Inventory. Patients were grouped according to FSS into fatigued (FSS ≥ 4; n=15) and non-fatigued (FSS < 4; n=18) subgroups. Using DTI, Fractional anisotropy (FA) was measured to determine frontal WM integrity. Results: FSS scores correlated significantly with FA values measured in right (p ˂0.001, r = – 0.581) and left (p ˂0.001, r = – 0.738) frontal WM. This correlation remained significant after controlling for age, sex, EDSS, and disease duration. FSS scores correlated with age (p < 0.025, r =0.391), and disease duration (p = 0.015, r = 0.418), but not with EDSS (p = 0.154, r =0.254). Compared with healthy controls, all MS patients showed lower FA values (p ˂0.001). Conclusion: Our results support the central mechanism hypothesis of MS related fatigue which is likely to be related to disruption of the complex frontal WM networks. MS related fatigue may be more severe in older patients and with longer disease duration.


Two kinds of CBGA (ceramic ball grid array) assemblies were made by reflow soldering process using two different Pb-free solders. Microstructural evolution and cracks induced by thermal cycling in CBGA assemblies were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and finite element method (FEM). Before thermal cycling, intermetallic compounds (IMCs) Cu6Sn5 and Ag3Sn were observed at the solder interface between Cu and Ag metallizations, respectively. After thermal cycling, another IMC Cu3Sn was observed near the Cu pad in both two assemblies and the layers of Cu6Sn5 and Ag3Sn became thicker. As a result of thermal cycling, cyclic stress and strain were accumulated in the solder joint leading to fatigue cracking. Both experiments and FEM revealed that cracks preferred to initiate at the corner of each solder joint. Multi-modes of the crack propagation were found in the two assemblies. Based on Coffin-Manson equation, the thermal fatigue life was calculated and the predicted life showed good agreement with the experimental results.


With the expansion of enrollment and scale in college and university,the difficulty of their management increases gradually,especially the human resources management can not keep up with the pace of their development.On the basis of analyzing existing problems,this article further puts out the optimal counter measures of human resources management.


Abstract : In this six month project, we have investigated the adhesion behavior between two solid contacting surfaces with the aim of producing both large bond strength, and under conditions of tangential motion weal bond strength, thus achieving reversible adhesion. For this purpose we have used a newly developed dynamic adhesion tester, nominally flat and spherical surfaces ranging in size from micron to millimeter. Based on the experiments, it was found that the faster the velocity in the horizontal (friction) direction, the lower the bond strength, which could be used for debonding. To achieve a strong bond, larger surface areas with a softer material (e.g., gold coating or polymer-based material) should be used. The bond strength also depends on the surface roughness, applied contact force and the presence of humidity. For example, a polymer-based coated sample gave a 167 X reduction in the bond strength under small tangential motions. These results clearly indicate that the bond strength between solid surfaces can be reversed in a controlled manner. This concept can be further advanced for specific military applications and environments and it has the potential to succeed as solid surfaces are very controllable and can be engineered for many different hostile environments.


We find one proof for one form of the change of variable in integration result with Lebesgue integrals. The main theorem We assume that N ∈ { 1 , 2 , 3 , . . . } is some number, and equip R N with Euclidean topology. We assume that U ⊂ R N and V ⊂ R N are open sets. We assume that ϕ : U → V is a bijective mapping that is continuously differentiable in its domain


A series of cement paste and mortar specimens containing waste ceramic insulator and blast- furnace slag was made. The compressive strength and the acid resistance of these materials are investigated here. Among 18 specimens of cement paste, only two showed a compressive strength less than the standard specified for the sulfuric acid-proof mortar. These tests show that the waste ceramic insulator powder can be added by approximately 0.4 parts by weight in the powder materials of cement paste, and the waste ceramic insulator aggregate can be added by two-thirds by weight in the materials of mortar. The acid resistance was tested by immersing the specimens in 5% sulfuric acid. The reaction layer formation of specimens is affected by the immersion time, temperature, and compounding ratio of the materials. The results show that adding the waste ceramic insulator controls the dilatability of the reaction layer of cement paste and mortar.


The pinacolisation of ketones is enhanced when a bivalent transition metal cation is present. This phenomenon is general and occurs with Cr2+, Mn2+, Fe2+, Co2+, Zn2+ but not with Ni2+. The cathodic reduction leads to α-glycols with a good yield, without any resin production, and at a less negative potential than that of the ketone itself. The distribution of all isolated compounds is dependent on the Lewis character-acidity and complexing power of the metallic cation. Thus, for the dimerization, the greatest specificity is generally observed when Fe2+ is present. For the chalcone, the better stereoselectivity is obtained with Zn2+. No evidence of initial carbonyl complex of the metal ion was shown.


In this paper, some insights to the design techniques of variable structure control are given. The main methods for solving variable structure controllers are reviewed and the relations among them are studied. A general method for designing variable structure controllers, i.e. the so-called reaching law method, is presented.<<ETX>>


A simple converter for resolving current or voltage into two orthogonal components-active and reactive-is suggested. It enables the direct measurement of reactive power as defined by Fryze. The converter can be easily extended to a three-phase system.


This paper examines the validity of Lotka's Law to authorship distribution and Zipf's Law of word occurrence in Doctoral Theses of Library and Information Science in the Universities of North East India. The data were collected during 2006-2015 and compiled systematically for analysis. A total number of 12707 citations were identified and tabulated in 8 different criteria to analyze and draw findings. The result suggests that author productivity distribution in Lotka's Law is not applicable to Doctoral Theses of Library and Information Science in the Universities of North East India.


The purpose of this study is to specify the relationship between the perception of classroom interaction and the level of soft skills. A cross-cutting, correlal observational study was conducted on a sample of 507 students from the seventh to tenth cycle of the branch's professional schools in Arequipa from a private Peruvian university, recruited electronically in 2020. The instruments applied were the Virtual Classroom Interaction Perception Scale and the Soft Skills Scale. The results show the existence of a positive weak relationship between the perception of virtual classroom interaction and soft skills. The correlation was .114, the size of the effect is medium, being 0.3376389. In terms of statistical power, the value exceeds 0.80, obtaining the value of 0.950. It is concluded that there is a significant and positive relationship between the variables, even though the relationship between the two variables is weak.


The platinum–platinum rhodium thin film thermocouples (TFTCs) were fabricated on the alumina substrate by the micromachining technology, which could operate at the temperature up to 1300°C. The thermoelectric output voltage was measured in the temperature range of 50–1300°C. The maximum thermoelectric voltage of the TFTC was 14.8 mV at 1300°C, which was in accordance with that of the standard wire thermocouple approximately. The voltage–temperature curves of the heating and cooling process overlapped very well without a hysteresis, which kept constant after the device underwent five heating–cooling cycles. The lifetime of the film sensor at 1300°C was up to 14 h. The sensitive films were characterised by scanning electron microscope and X-ray diffraction techniques.


The moment inequality for independent random variable sums is proved by using inductive method.By virtue of the important results,we establish complete convergence theorems for nondistribution random variable sequence,and obtain equivalent conditions for i.i.d random variable sequence.The results in this paper may improve and extend current classical results of complete convergence.


Background:  Restraint in the psychiatric unit is a common practice but it is very controversial and it has undergone a poor evaluation according to methodological investigations. Using restraint is a common problem and has a significant impact on patients, families and health care staff. Therefore, this systematic review will discuss the important reasons as to why restraint should be reduced. It will also explain several alternative treatments for aggressive patients in mental hospitals. Method:  The database searches were used to identify potential articles: Scopus and Proquest were the focus. The search was limited to those published in the range of the last 5 years from 2013 to 2018. The keywords that were used were 'restraint in the hospital', 'restraint reduction', 'the elimination of restraint' and 'physical restraint'. Result:  Only 15 articles met the inclusion criteria. The results suggest that restraint is considered to be a violation of human rights and that it traumatizes the patients. It is inhuman and degrading. Besides this, restraint can result in physical complications in the form of lacerations, asphyxia, thrombosis and death. Restraint is permitted when other methods fail and in emergency conditions. Conclusion:  Some of the ways to reduce the use of restraint are by constant monitoring and through the control of individual behavior, including verbal management and attitudes, reducing the environmental risks, and administering drugs. Some of the efforts to avoid restraint are the "Positive and Safe in Calderstones" program, sensory modulation and peer advice and support.


An integrated gheophysical and geological study has been carried out along a transverse extending from the Madrid Basin to the Iberian Range. Geological and seismic reflection data were used as background nodel for the gravity modeling. Mesozoic cover structure is characterized by thruss, E dipping associated with a decollement located in triassic beds. Gravity modeling shows that high-angle faults bound basement blocks. The faults control triassic sediment thickness.


It is implementing the strategy of strengthening the country by civil aviation in China. These require speeding up the construction of a modern air traffic service system. Air traffic control is responsible for controlling aircrafts, and it plays an important role in the air traffic service system. However, the current limited number of controllers in China, the relatively long period of training a qualified controller, and the treatment of controllers have caused greater mobility. While considering the safety of the flight safety, how to optimize the configuration of the controller's positions is an urgent problem to be solved. This paper analyzes and studies the current status of China's current control position allocation, and lays a foundation for the next study of the rational allocation of control positions.


Instrumentation and control systems significantly affect the safety and reliability of nuclear power plants. In this study, we analyze the cause of failure of the electronic card constituting the instrumentation and control system as it is the most typical reason for the failure of optocouplers. The lifetime of optocouplers must be predicted accurately to ensure high‐reliability nuclear power plants. While acceleration tests have been performed to predict the lifetime of optocouplers more efficiently, it is preferable to perform accelerated degradation tests rather than accelerated life tests. In this paper, accelerated degradation tests are performed on optocouplers at various temperatures and voltages. To derive the degradation curve model of the optocoupler using the results of accelerated degradation tests, we use the most suitable model from OriginLab. The parameter values of the proposed degradation curve model are calculated by applying the Arrhenius model and Weibull distribution, and the lifetime of the optocoupler is estimated by using the proposed degradation curve model.


Aim: The effect of thyroid antibody positivity on spontaneous abortion in pregnant women was evaluated by Meta-analysis. Methods: PubMed, The Cochrane Library, China Biology Medicine disc, Chinese sci-tech journal database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure full-text database, and Wanfang academic journal full-text database were searched. (Search until November 20, 2018) Literature on the effect of thyroid antibody positivity on spontaneous abortion in pregnant women was comprehensively searched, methodological quality of the included literature was evaluated, and RevMan 5.3 was used for statistical analysis. Result: A total of 9 articles were included. Meta-analysis results showed that the abortion rate of the experimental group (TPO antibody positive) with normal thyroid function and the control group (antibody negative) was 2.35, 95% CI (1.46, 3.77), with statistically significant difference. While the abortion rate with normal thyroid function and levothyroxine intervention was OR=1.27, 95% CI (0.70, 2.28), and there was no significant statistical difference. Conclusion: The abortion rate of pregnant women with positive TPO antibody was significantly higher than that of women with negative antibody. Levothyroxine intervention did not significantly reduce the risk of miscarriage.


This paper gives a brief description of the speech understanding effort under Development at the Univ. of Toronto. The main purpose so far has been to produce a base from which further research into the "higher levels" of speech understanding (semantics, pragmatics, user models, syntax) may build on.

Some features of interest in this system are the syllable based pattern recognition, the dynamic reclassification of the input signal according to expectations, interactive pattern formation, dictionary retrieval by sound characteristics and finally, the use of an Augmented Transition Network grammar with a co-routine parsing scheme which can be guided by prosodic and semantic information.

Most of the emphasis in the paper is placed on the co-routine parsing scheme which is illustrated with a detailed example.


The fuel oil consumption in a coal-fired power plant mainly results from the oil burning during boiler start-up and shutdown.Consequently,No.5 boiler in Jingmen Thermal Power Plant was reconstructed for small oil gun technique to save oil.The results show that the small oil gun can directly spark coal powder and enables mixed combustion of oil and coal,thus having notable effect in oil-saving.


1 Professor & HOD, Dept of Neurology Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar (India) 2 Ex Professor & HOD, Topiwala National Medical College & B.Y.L.Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra (India) Abstract Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder of childhood. Most of the cases are idiopathic. Some are benign, needs no treatment and self-remits in adulthood. Aims: To study the clinical profile, aetiological factors, correlation between seizure semiology, EEG, brain imaging and prognosis of childhood epileptic syndromes. Material & Methods: A total of 840 epilepsy patients seen over 1 year of study. Out of which 177 were between 1-14 years of age, but only 100 were included in the study according to inclusion criteria. Proper clinical history, surface EEG and brain imaging were performed. Results: Childhood epilepsy accounted for 21% of all epilepsy patients. The incidence of idiopathic localisation related epilepsy was 6.2%, Idiopathic generalised epilepsy accounted for 18%.The commonest seizure type among localisation related epilepsies was partial seizures evolving to secondarily generalized. Conclusion: Childhood epilepsies are a common neurological problems accounting for 21.1% of the total epilepsy patients. Benign epilepsy of childhood with centro temporal spike (BECTS) was the commonest idiopathic localization related epilepsy, whereas Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME) was the commonest idiopathic generalized epilepsy. A family history of epilepsy was more commonly noted in JME. Therapeutic response were better observed in idiopathic epilepsies.


To treat coronary artery disease, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is done worldwide (CAD). Before harvesting the radial artery for cardiac bypass surgery, Allen's test is frequently used to evaluate the hand's ulnar collateral blood supply. Using Doppler Ultrasonography as a gold standard, this study was created to evaluate the diagnostic precision of Allen's test for the ulnar collateral flow of the donor limb before radial arteryharvesting. This cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2015 to September 2017 at the Jinnah Hospital in Lahore's Cardiac Surgery department. The consecutive sampling/non-probability method was employed. A signed consent form was obtained, and specific demographic data (name, age, and gender) was gathered. SPSS version 21 was used to enter and analyze all of the data. The patients in our study had a mean age of 50.91±9.13 years. The ratio of men to women was 1.3:1. The sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV and diagnostic accuracy of Allen's test was 77.05%, 81.36%, 81.03%, 77.42% & 79.17% taking Doppler test as gold standard. Allen's test, which uses Doppler ultrasonography as the gold standard, is a reliable and valid screening test for the ulnar collateral flow of the donor limb before radial artery harvesting, according to the findings of our study.


The conducted researches have allowed to create the probiotic for use in poultry farming. 10 most perspective properties for a number of strains were selected in the study of culture-morphological and biochemical properties of lactobacilli (Lactobacillus amylovorus).


In this Online Appendix, we discuss in detail several extensions to the model described in the body of the text, and their implications.


The notion of distributed MEMS refers to the approach that consists in combining a large number of MEMS. The larger the number of MEMS, the more important the need for distributing the operations of the system (computation, control, etc.) over the individual MEMS. A similar problem is found in today's networks where a large number of communicating devices (most of the time with limited resources) are used to provide a service or to acquire and process measurement samples from the physical world. The goal of this paper is to compare these domains, because we believe that the techniques that are used for networks can be adapted/extended to distributed MEMS. By doing so, we hope to foster new research collaborations around topics of common interest between the supporting communities.


Highly-doped phosphate glasses provide significantly higher gain than regular silica doped glasses. We will discuss a novel design strategy for compact, high gain, double clad and photonic crystal fiber lasers and amplifiers. Modeling tools include higher order finite element-based vector modal solvers for passive and active single and multi-core devices, optical and thermal transport and mechanical stress calculations for high power laser operation.