PURPOSE: A method for offering a customized service using customer information is provided to maximize customer satisfaction by offering only the information needed from a customer, and manage a car best by offer an expiration service, a repair time informing service, and a total car information offering service to the customer. CONSTITUTION: A salesman connects to a server by using a client through the Internet(S100). After login, the salesman inputs the detail information for the customers of the salesman(S300). The salesman information and the customer information are stored in a salesman database and a customer database(S400). It is confirmed that the salesman performs a customer information offering service(S500). If the salesman wants to offer the information, the customized information for the customer's car is offered by using the customer database(S600). The additional customized information is offered to the customer receiving the car information by using the customer database(S700).


The choice of a suitable semantic representation is crucial in many natural language processing applications. Since sentences of a corpus often have a large number of interpretations according to the syntax-semantics interface, it is a sensible choice to avoid the enumeration of all the possible readings by using a concise representation leaving interpretations unspecified, in a first step. Among these underspecification approaches, different formalisms coexist. Dominance Constraints refers to a family of logical languages that describe trees via constraints. It enjoys the visually intuitive instance of dominance graphs, as well as an efficient solving algorithm for a linguistically relevant fragment. Glue Semantics is a semantic formalism whose meaning construction process is akin to a proof. Underspecification is implicit in Glue Semantics, and is induced by the multiplicity of proofs from given hypotheses. Translations between underspecification formalisms are important to make the underspecification mechanisms in each more apparent, and to allow each one to benefit from the advantages of the others. This thesis defines a translation between Glue Semantics and Dominance Constraints, and proves it sound. It thereby reveals the implicit underspecification of semantic representation in Glue Semantics, and implies the existence of an efficient solving algorithm for a fragment of Glue Semantics. It thus fills a gap between the two formalisms.


Choosing CHKD database and CBMdisc database as retrieval resources,the paper carries out bibliometrics analysis on the published scientific papers situation in domestic magazines among 3 general hospitals affiliated to Sun Yat-Sen University from 2001 to 2005,so as to not only put forward that scientific research and intelligence information should be highly respected for encouraging doctors to make full use of information resources in university and hospital libraries,but also raise the overall level of scientific research and promote sustainable development of hospitals.


In this article, Johnson argues that simplification is sometimes used as a cover for terrible tax policy. A flat tax, for instance, will increase harm by shifting the burden of tax from Uncle Scrooge, who can bear tax on a dollar without much loss in value, to the Little Match Girl, who cannot. Flat tax does not accomplish substantial simplification. An add-on VAT is not a simplification, but another level of complication. So too, expensing of inventory, repeal of net operating loss carryover limitations, and repeal of straddle rules are not are not well illuminated by calling them simplification and are not justified by simplification. Johnson recommends 10 proposals to simplify the law while improving its efficiency and fairness. He suggests repealing all qualified pension plans, and that withholding would depend on the amount paid. Johnson also recommends simplifying partnership tax law and that partnership tax should be computed and collected at the entity level. He further suggests disallowing deductions for the cost of tax planning, and would require tax liens to be filed via the internet. Moreover, he would require capitalizing prepayments, and he recommends ways to reduce valuation disputes in both charitable deductions and estate tax cases.


We have analyzed the domain structure of the mouse glucocorticoid receptor by expression of in vitro mutated receptor in COS-7 cells. The receptor consists of a core domain rich in Cys, Lys, and Arg amino acids which can bind specific DNA sequences (glucocorticoid response elements) and activate transcription. The activity of this centrally located domain is modulated by the activity of the other two domains. The N-terminal domain of the receptor plays a role in decreasing nonspecific DNA binding and may therefore improve the ability of the protein to discriminate between specific and nonspecific DNA binding sites. This activity maps to a small, highly acidic region of the N-terminal domain. The C-terminal domain of the receptor contains the glucocorticoid binding site and in addition represses the transcriptional activity of the receptor in the absence of hormone. Hormone binding relieves the repression allowing transcription activation. The C-terminal domain contains a short sequence conserved among steroid receptors; its deletion yields a receptor that activates transcription in the absence of hormone.


Nitromethane and nitroethane have been photolyzed in the liquid and gaseous phases in order to distinguish the various possible primary processes occurring for each compound.

In the case of nitromethane, a free radical split has been postulated to account for the products as

For nitroethane, there are at least two primary processes occurring, namely

Various secondary reactions are discussed for both compounds.


Background. The Global Vascular Guidelines (2019) proposed the term "critical limb-threatening ischemia", which leads to death or amputation within 12 months. Only half of the patients undergo limb revascularization; the rest receive conservative treatment, the effectiveness of which is extremely low. In this regard, it is necessary to develop alternative methods of surgical treatment based on the use of cellular technologies. Aim. To evaluate the clinical efficacy of revascularizing automyelotransplantation in the complex treatment of patients with chronic wounds associated with diabetic angiopathy of the lower extremities. Material and methods. The study included 100 patients suffering from diabetic angiopathy of the lower extremities and diabetes mellitus type 2. Chronic wounds of the lower extremities were detected in 25 patients of the main group and 32 patients in the comparison group. The size of chronic wounds in the main group before the start of treatment ranged from 0.5 to 3.5 cm2 (median (Me) 2.1 [1.5; 2.5] cm2), in the comparison group it varied from 0.7 to 3.5 cm2 (Me 2.1 [1.7; 2.6] cm2). There were no statistical differences between the groups (pMann-Whitney=1.0). Results. In the main group, chronic wounds healed in 12 patients (48%), decreased in size in three cases and remained without dynamics in one case. In six patients the purulent-necrotic process progressed, which led to amputation of the limb at the hip level. Three patients died. Among 32 patients with chronic wounds in the comparison group healing of chronic wounds or reduction in their size were not observed. In 10 people, the size of the defects did not change; in seven cases the purulent-necrotic process progressed, which led to the amputation of the limb. In two patients chronic wounds occurred after hospitalization. Fifteen patients died. The article presents descriptions of clinical cases. Conclusion. The use of revascularizing automyelotransplantation in the complex treatment of patients with diabetic angiopathy of the lower extremities has a positive effect on the dynamics of the wound process in chronic wounds.


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When an electromagnetic signal transmits through a coaxial cable, it propagates at speed determined by the dielectrics of insulator between the cooper core wire and the metallic shield. However, we demonstrate here that, once the shielding layer of the coaxial cable is cut into two parts leaving a small gap, while the copper core wire is still perfectly connected, a remarkable transmission delay immediately appears in the system. We have revealed by both computational simulation and experiments that, when the gap spacing between two parts of the shielding layer is small, this delay is mostly determined by the overall geometrical parameters of the conductive boundary which connects two parts of the cut shielding layer. A reduced analytic formula for the transmission delay related with geometrical parameters, which is based on an inductive model of the transmission system, matches well with the fitted formula of the simulated delay. This above structure is analog to the situation that an interconnect is between two inter-modules in a circuit. The results suggest that for high speed circuits and systems, parasitic inductance should be taken into full consideration, and compact conductive packaging is favorable for reducing transmission delay of inter-modules, therefore enhancing the performance of the system.


High strength hollow glass microspheres with diameter no more than 1 mm are attractive for hydrogen storage and transport.Microspheres were made by drop tower techniques with 150—250 μm diameter and 0.9—4.0 μm membrane thickness.By immersion in high pressure hydrogen for a period of time at an elevated temperature the microspheres could be filled with hydrogen.The hydrogen pressure was equal to that of gas-filled chamber at 350℃ for 6—10 h.With the help of Fick's first law and the ideal gas law the pressure in the microsphere could be calculated.Based on the Arrhenius expression,permeability coefficient decreased as temperature dropped.The half-life time for hydrogen retention in hollow glass microspheres was about 40—50 d at room temperature.The maximum hydrogen pressure could reach 20—25 MPa in the hollow glass microspheres with 200 μm diameter and 2 μm membrane thickness.The hydrogen mass fraction was 13% to 16%.


Advanced autonomous robotsmay someday be required to negotiate environments and situations that their designers had not anticipated. The future designers of these robots may not have adequate expertise to provide appropriate control algorithms in the case that an unforeseen situation is encountered in a remote environment in which a robot cannot be accessed. It is not always practical or even possible to define every aspect of an autonomous robot's environment, or to give a tractable dynamical systems-level description of the task the robot is to perform. The robot must have the ability to learn control without human supervision.


Study design: A literature review regarding the correlation between a kyphotic neck and its clinical outcomes. Objectives: This review examines normal cervical alignment, methods for assessing alignment, a specific correlation between kyphotic neck and clinical outcomes, and indications and methods of surgical treatment. Summary of Literature Review: Cervical kyphotic deformity is problematic in terms of HRQOL due to nerve damage or loss of horizontal gaze. Materials and Methods: Review of the literature. Results: Cervical kyphosis can be caused by postlaminectomy, degenerative disc disease, and trauma, and the symptoms exhibit diverse clinical progression including compensatory mechanisms, adjacent segment disease, changes in quality of life, and cervical myelopathy. Given the serious complications of cervical surgery, we need a deep understanding of spine anatomy, preoperative planning, and correction methods. Conclusions: It is vital to investigate cervical sagittal alignment and to perform intensive treatment and corrective surgery to achieve better clinical outcomes.


Software defects will lead to software running error and system crashes. In order to detect software defect as early as possible at early stage of software development, a series of machine learning approaches have been studied and applied to predict defects in software modules. Unfortunately, the imbalanceof software defect datasets brings great challenge to software defect prediction model training. In this paper, a new manifold learning based subspace learning algorithm, Discriminative Locality Alignment(DLA), is introduced into software defects prediction. Experimental results demonstrate that DLA is consistently superior to LDA (Linear Discriminant Analysis) and PCA (Principal Component Analysis) in terms of discriminate information extraction and prediction performance. In addition, DLA reveals some attractive intrinsic properties for numeric calculation, e.g. it can overcome the matrix singular problem and small sample size problem in software defect prediction.


The goal of the present article is to comment and to potentially expand some of the arguments developed in Cresswell's (2011) Being faithful: Bakhtin and a potential postmodern psychology of self, ...


Abstract. Achieving valley pseudospin with large polarization is crucial in the implementation of quantum information applications. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) with different phase structures provide an ideal platform for valley modulation. The valley splitting has been achieved in hybrid phase WSe2, while its valley polarization remains unstudied. Magnetic field controllable valley polarization is explored in WSe2 with coexistence of H and T phases by an all-optical route. A record high valley polarization of 58.3% is acquired with a 19.9% T phase concentration under a 4-T magnetic field and nonresonant excitation. The enhanced valley polarization is dependent on the phase component and shows various increasing slopes, owing to the synergy between the T phase WSe2 and the magnetic field. The magnetic field controlled local magnetic momentums are revealed as the mechanism for the large valley polarization in H  /  T-WSe2. This speculation is also verified by theoretical simulations of the nonequilibrium spin density. These results display a considerable valley magnetic response in phase-engineered TMDC and provide a large-scale scheme for valley polarization applications.


Data on the incidence and outcomes of ischemic stroke in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in the current era are limited. The goal of this study was to examine contemporary trends, predictors, and outcomes of ischemic stroke following CABG in a large nationally representative database over a 12‐year‐period.


In December 2019, a new virus strain of coronavirus-SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) has been reported. One prevention that can be done is to increase immune systems by using essential oils. This study aims to analyze the essential oils used during a pandemic. A Qualitative descriptive method with a random sampling technique was used in this study. The questionnaire was distributed through social media with a sample size of 261 people in the West Nusa Tenggara region. Data on the percentage of use of essential oils such as eucalyptus oil 82.6%;lemon oil 14.8%;lemongrass oil 13.9%;lavender oil 9.6%. 72.2% answered that the technique for using this oil is by rubbing and 5.76% by inhaling the oil. The expected benefits by users are to be healthy 58.9%;fresh 23.2%, and 11.6% answered to avoid COVID-19. Meanwhile, there were 96.85% respondents used the oils before the pandemic, and 5.3% used the oils since March to April. 50.4% respondents attained the information from social media and 49.6% from friends/family. The data shows the awareness to improve health and immunity through the use of essential oils and it is advisable to give more attention to social media aspects in using medicinal plants containing essential oils.


In this work, we report encouraging results on all-optical quantitative determinations in binary mixtures of chemical substances using porous silicon technology. Measuring the resonance peak shifts of porous silicon microcavities, after exposure to vapors of several liquid mixtures (iso-propanol/ethanol, iso-propanol/methanol, xylene/methanol), we are able to quantify the liquid volume percentage of both component. (© 2004 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)


We study the linear Vlasov equation with a given electric field $E \in \mathcal{S}$, where $\mathcal{S}$ is the space of Schwartz functions. The associated damped partial differential equation has a unique tempered solution, which fixes the needed Cauchy datum. This tempered solution then converges to the causal solution of the linear Vlasov equation when the damping parameter goes to zero. This result allows us to define the plasma conductivity operator $\sigma$, which gives the current density $j = \sigma (E)$ induced by the electric field $E$. We prove that $\sigma$ is continuous from $\mathcal{S}$ to its dual $\mathcal{S}^\prime$. We can treat rigorously the case of uniform non-magnetized non-relativistic plasma (linear Landau damping) and the case of uniform magnetized relativistic plasma (cyclotron damping). In both cases, we demonstrate that the main part of the conductivity operator is a pseudo-differential operator and we give its expression rigorously. This matches the formal results widely used in the theoretical physics community.


Triggered by the efforts which are under way for defining the servicing vehicle of the International Space Station, space tourism is evolving to an attractive application. In the first generation suborbital flights with smaller vehicles and a li mited number of passengers seem to be possible. Starting at a rather small scale with some individual space tourists on-board of Soyuz capsules and the Space Shuttle, an increasing number of potential passengers is asking for affordable space transportation opportunities. Dedicated space tourism studies have confirmed this public interest and have evaluated the impact of low-cost space access on launcher demand. Since the mid- and long-term space tourism market is growing, several companies are in charge of de-fining and providing viable vehicle concepts. Meanwhile the first Rutan Concept was flown responding to the Xvehicle competition. For sub-orbital missions, studies were performed also at EADS-ST ('Bremen Engineering Operations Science' = BEOS). The aerodynamic con-figuration was upscaled from an earlier test vehicle design, but with LOX/Kerosene main engine. The preliminary space-tourism vehicle de-sign is capable to transport up to eight passengers along a sub -orbital trajectory. The fuselage is 12.3 m in length and 2.1 m in width, the wing span is 7.4 m. The gross take-off mass is 19 Mg including the passengers and their luggage. The vehicle shall be launched piggy-back from a conventional subsonic carrier airplane, thus extending the possible flight envelope. Then its performance allows acceleration to Mach 7.7 and up to 95 km altitude along the ballistic trajectory. For the space-tourism missions a dedicated safety concept with redundant subsystems was implemented. In parallel to the conceptual approach also operational, commercial and legal aspects were investigated in some detail. In particular questions of legal delimitation were looked at. The principle difference between space and aircraft applicable laws is decisive . Its border is at around 100 km altitude. There are also notable differences with respect to the respective launch state in terms of vehicle certification and operation..


A federal jury finds a defendant innocent and judgment is rendered. Under generally accepted principles of double jeopardy the government may not bring a new action against him for the same crime. Another defendant is convicted of the same charge. On appeal his conviction is reversed for insufficient evidence, the appellate court deciding that the defendant should have been acquitted. One would expect that the same principles which protected the first defendant from further prosecution would apply equally to the second. Surprisingly, however, the Supreme Court has held that the principles which protect the first defendant do not protect the second.' This comment undertakes to examine critically the waiver theory by which the Court reached this conclusion and proposes a new approach for an analysis of the double jeopardy implications of a new trial after appellate reversal which avoids this anomaly. The Supreme Court was first confronted by the question of the constitutionality of a remand for a new trial after a reversal for insufficient evidence in Bryan v. United States.2 The Court after extensive discussion found no statutory objection to a new trial. Then, in one short paragraph, Mr. Justice Minton rejected the contention that a new trial would place the defendant in double jeopardy. "He sought and obtained the reversal of his conviction, assigning a number of alleged errors on appeal, including denial of his motion for judgment of acquittal. . .. [W]here the accused successfully seeks review of a conviction, there is no double jeopardy upon a new trial. ' 3 The cursory treatment given the double jeopardy problem in the Bryan case reveals the Court's feeling that no new, significant double jeopardy question had been presented. The Court's quotation from Francis v. Resweber that "where the accused successfully seeks review of a conviction, there is no double jeopardy upon a new trial" 4 was dictum. Resweber relied on United States v. Ball.5 But there the reversal was for a defective indictment rather than insufficient evidence. Trono v. United


Functional glass is the glass exhibiting special physical and chemical performances for various advanced applications. Today many scientists are developing and studying new generations of functional glasses, e.g. photonic, magnetic, conductive, biological glasses. Most of these studies focus on design of glass compositions or post-treatment of glasses under various conditions. However, there are many promising possibilities for glass to be used as an active component in other types of functional materials. This aspect is attracting the attention of scientists. Here we describe this aspect by using some of our recent studies as examples. cementations cement lime part clinker. the both pozzolanity and compressive strength of cement are dental cement consisting of glass powder and polymer with respect to its fracture toughness and bioactivity during setting It is found that the fracture toughness of the dental cement changes non-monotonically with setting time. Such a change is governed by the interface structure between glass and polymer. Using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and Nuclear Magnetic resonance we found the fracture toughness and reactivity of the cement phase separation, and post-treatment of glass powder.


At the Institute of Building Materials, Concrete Construction and Fire Protection (IBMB), TU Braunschweig the development of shotcrete mixture compositions suitable for digital fabrication is in process. Currently, the rheological properties of representative mortars are investigated by rheometer experiments. Based on the results, mortar compositions will be optimized under consideration of further demands resulting from pumping and shotcrete processes, i.e. setting and hardening properties.


29 Isolation and Identification of Fungi Associated with Raw Groundnut Seeds Sold at Four major markets in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Rivers State Tobin-West, M. D.1 Dimkpa, S. O. N.1 Osakwe, J. A.1 1.Department of Crop/Soil, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, P.M.B 5080, Rivers State, Nigeria 2.Department of Plant Science and Biotechnology, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, P.M.B 5080, Rivers State, Nigeria


The HEAO 1 data has been searched for evidence of X-ray emission from 105 bright late-type stars of luminosity classes IV and V, selected on the basis of indirect optical evidence of the presence of a hot corona. Six of the target stars were detected at the 3-standard deviation level and 15 were coincident with 2-standard deviation X-ray sources. On a statistical basis no more than 5 of these 21 sources are spurious, and the probability that the identification with the class of active chromosphere stars is spurious is less than 0.00001. The sources lie near a line of X-ray/bolometric luminosity ratio = 0.0001, similar to a solar plage, and it is concluded that the most active coronae of late-type stars which are not members of close binary systems are being observed. The RS CVn systems discovered to date seem to form a distinct class of coronal X-ray sources, but the lowest X-ray luminosity members of the group, of which Capella may be the prototype, appear to overlap the domain of these single stars with active coronae. The data do not fit the coronal model of Gorenstein and Tucker (1976), but they are consistent with the coronal loop model of Rosner et al. (1978) as extended by Walter et al. (1980).


gart und Tubingen, 1825. 8vo. Pp. 124. Observations on the History and Treatment of Venereal Complaints. By Dr V. A.. Hubek. Stuttgart und Tubingen, 1825. 3. Ueber die Lustseuchc und Hire Heilung ohne Quicksilber. Von. G. F. Handshuch, &c. Wurzburg, 1826. On Syphilis and its Treatment without Quicksilver. By R. Fkedebic Handshuch, Doctor of Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, Regimental Physician of the Royal Bavarian Artillery, &c. Wurzburg, 1826. 4. A Treatise on Syphilis ; in which the History, Symptoms,


The provision of quality of service (QoS) to multimedia applications is very important in future generation wireless networks. We propose a deterministic QoS guarantees method which is based on a mathematical framework that accurately characterizes multimedia traffic streams in conjunction with efficient scheduling and dropping algorithms. The uniqueness of this scheme is that it can deterministically provide bounded loss and bounded delay. We performed a set of evaluation experiments that demonstrate that our proposed framework can significantly support more connections than a system which do not allow any packet loss under the same required deterministic QoS. We also show that the proposed algorithms are able to out-perform statistical scheduling algorithms adopted in state-of-the-art wireless MAC protocols when the worst-case traffic is being used.


A composition for personal cleansing foam producing normally clear and which is essentially free of amides of diethanolamine comprising: (a) water; (B) sodium lauryl sulfate; (C) an amphoteric cleansing agent; (D) an agent that lowers the cloud point temperature comprising ammonium chloride; (E) at least one preservative; and optionally one or more of the following ingredients: (i) a protein or protein derivative; (Ii) a colorant; (Iii) a fragrance; and (iv) a pH adjuster.


Are bankrupt consumers excluded from the unsecured credit market? Using a unique data set of credit card mailings, we directly explore the supply of unsecured credit to consumers with the most conspicuous default risk—those with a bankruptcy history. On average, over one-fifth of bankrupt consumers receive at least one offer in a given month, with the likelihood being even higher for those who filed for bankruptcy within the previous two years. However, offers to bankrupt consumers carry substantially less favorable terms than those to comparable non-bankrupt consumers, with higher interest rates, lower credit limits, a greater likelihood of having an annual fee, and a smaller likelihood of having rewards or promotions. In addition, our analysis of credit terms typically disclosed only in the fine print suggests that offers to filers tend to include more "hidden" costs. JEL Classifications: J22, K35


Domestic treatment facilities for acid mine drainage (AMD) mostly used a passive treatment process. But some passive treatment facility discharged high manganese concentrations because it is required high pH (>9) for abiotic oxidation of Mn(II) to Mn(IV). This study was focused on the feasibility of biological manganese treatment using the manganese-oxidizing bacteria (Pseudomonas sp. MN5) from AMD and economical application method of it. To investigate the various conditions of water quality the most part of the experiments were based on batch test. And result of it showed that maximum manganese oxidation rate were 10.4 mg/L・h at the pH7. We also performed small column tests in which MOB were attached to the functional polyurethane (FPU) media containing alkaline chemicals. Manganese concentration decreased 42 mg/L to below 6 mg/L. But anaerobic condition formed by excessive bacterial respiration in column resulted in increasing effluent manganese concentration.


The successful launch of the European Monetary Union (EMU) raised an already ever growing interest in the economics of monetary integration and the formation of monetary unions around the world. Following the EMU experience, countries have considered forming a monetary union amongst themselves. The East African Community (EAC), comprising the three original member countries Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and now including Burundi and Rwanda, is an example of such a group of countries that seek to form a monetary union. This study aims to identify the current level of fmancial integration amongst the East African countries. In order to do so the study examines whether the pass-through of monetary policy in the five countries has become similar over time. This is to provide an indication of the extent to which the nominal convergence criteria amongst the member countries have been met. The results of the study provide an indication of whether the formation of a monetary union in East Africa is possible. The empirical analysis used in this study included stationarity tests, four tests of co integration and an asynunetric error correction model to investigate whether the pass-through of monetary policy transmission in the five countries has become more similar over the ten year sample period from 1999 to 2008. The analysis uses three interest rates and 6-year rolling windows to identify the extent of macroeconomic convergence that prevails within the EAC, and consequently whether the formation of a monetary union is possible. The results suggest that the magnitude of the convergence amongst the countries remain low and there are significant rigidities in the deposit and lending rates over time, however the passthrough has improved with respect to the lending rate but not the deposit rate. The overall conclusion of the study suggests that an EAC wide monetary union is currently not possible based on the evidence provided from the pass-through analysis.


With the fast growth of nanotechnology, the usage of nuclear materials is becoming increasingly widespread, and the exposure of people, plants, and fauna to nanomaterials has become unavoidable. As scaffolds of biomaterials, nanomaterials are widely used in tissue engineering because of their good biocompatibility, noncytotoxicity, and noninflammatory reaction. In this paper, the tissue engineering properties of nanomaterials and their performance evaluation for repairing sports ligament injuries in dance sports were investigated. Sports ligament injury is a common sports disease, and ligament injury has a very serious impact on sports performance and sports life of athletes. In this paper, we takes football as an example, establishes a human body model of tendon-bone repair after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, evaluated the effect of injectable rhBMP-2 nanocontrolled release capsule on ligament bone tunnel interface repair, and evaluated from the scientific and biomechanical point of view. In addition, human ligament research and rabbit ligament supplementary experiment were carried out. In the study of human ligament, we selected 30 patients with unilateral polyarticular ligament injury caused by sports dance as the research subjects and randomly divided them into control group, experimental group, and blank group. The experimental group underwent the repair and reconstruction of rhBMP-2 nanocontrolled release capsule ligament. The results of human ligament study showed that the injectable rhBMP-2 nanocontrolled release capsules showed positive staining and uniform staining for ligament repair. The stiffness of the tender bony temple junction was 11.73%, 15.65%, and 50.59% greater in the test group than in the control group at 2, 4, and 8 weeks postoperatively, respectively.


Aviation manufacturing is at the leading edge of technology with materials, designs and processes where automation is not only integral; but complex systems require more advanced systems to produce and verify processes. Critical Infrastructure theory is now used to protect systems and equipment from external software infections and cybersecurity techniques add an extra layer of protection. In this research, it is argued that Artificial Intelligence can reduce these risks and allow complex processes to be less exposed to the threat of external problems, internal errors or mistakes in operation.


The technology industry especially mobile technology, continues to experience tremendous rapid development, including in Indonesia. The increasing of mobile technology also influences the performance of companies involved in the technology industry, especially its operational performance. This study aims to analyze the operational performance of PT Erajaya Swasembada Tbk, one of the largest retail and distributor of gadget companies in Indonesia. The analysis is carried out by trend analysis and comparison of financial performance in the second quarterly period of 2015 until 2018. The results of the analysis show that management is successful in managing so that the company's performance in second quarter of 2018 can increase rapidly from the previous years. The implication of the research is that the company continues to maintain good corporate performance and investors are expected to be able to utilized the information regarding investment decision making towards PT Erajaya Swasembada Tbk.


In this speech, Richard Lambert, member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee, discusses the importance of good communications to modern central banks. Effective communication is very relevant at times like the present, when inflation is subdued and nominal interest rates are low. He argues that the way in which a central bank seeks to influence public expectations is determined by its history and its structure. Considering various suggestions that have been put forward for changes to the Bank of England's communications policy, he discusses the recent messages the Bank has been sending to the public. He concludes that there might be room for the Bank to build yet more public support for price stability by seeking to communicate to a broader range of audiences.


A GIS-based fire alarm response system is designed in this paper which includes three parts:ArcGIS,analogue speech telephone card and database.The new system removes some limitation of previous systems.The system uses the voice card to get the phones information including the phone number,the call time,and the sound information,etc.,and at the same time transfers the information to the corresponding databases.It uses ArcGIS to display the accident site on the map and statistical information in time. The database can be used to record the important information of the alarm phones.In this way,the operator not only can easily deal with many call phones simultaneously,but also can get useful information within a short time.


We present a versatile MOPA system at 1053nm in the few nanoseconds regime. Thanks to temporal shaping, more than 1.5 mJ pulse energy at 1 kHz is obtained in a single-mode 40 μm core flexible fiber.


This paper is intended to establish an objective evaluation system of safety performance indicators based on the entire flight process for the airline dispatchers. As is well known, the dispatchers play an important role in securing the safety flight operation in organizing the aircraft operation and management in an airline transportation. In proceeding with our research, we have first of all come up with the safety performance indicators through repetitive evaluation necessary for guaranteeing and improving the safety performance level of all the airline dispatchers. Based on the entire-process evaluation idea in mind,we have done careful analysis of the tasks of dispatchers and divided the tasks involved into three levels(A-C).With lev-el B including the three types of indicators: the process indicators,the results indicators and the trend indicators.At the same time, level C includes 18 indicators with each of the B indicators subdivided into 6 sub-indexes. While calculating the weights of 18 specific indicators likely to be the affecting factors by the methods of the analytic hierarchy process(AHP), we have established a risk evaluation model by using the method of fuzzy mathematics theory. And, then,we have made an effort in applying the safety performance evaluation fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model based on AHP to the dispatcher's safety performance evaluation.The results of the application tests prove that the actual dispatcher' s levels in safety performance that can be tested are consistent with the" security model" illustrated.Thus, the model can be taken as credible in evaluating the actual safety performance of the airline dispatchers. In addition, the results also reflect that it is necessary for the air flight company managers to pay more attention to the daily observation of the duty sense of the dispatchers so as to timely find the dispatchers' safety duty-sense changes in their working posts. Apart from that, what we should be aware that no safety performance evaluation systems or methods are perfect. No methods can be the best; there is only the right, and the better. And, it can also be said that the most suitable is the best.Therefore, it can also be said that the system of the safety performance evaluation indicators should and can be made and improved in close accordance with their own actual situation through the research of the ways of how to improve the evaluation system constantly in a gradual and continuous process.


Refrigeration of the optics of a spectroradiometer equipped with a low background detector can greatly improve the radiometric sensitivity of the radiometer when observing optically thin or other weak sources. The well known advantages of multiplex spectroscopy, for example by use of a Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) of the Michelson type, in general still apply. Because of the nature of the sianals from the FTS, the existing data base for low background detectors has however only limited applicability in predicting the performance in an FTS for low background conditions. A discussion of the various noise and error sources that affect performance and some practical solutions minimizing their effect (applicable to a Michelson Interferometer operating at a useful resolution and scan rates) will be presented. Results obtained with a number of cryogenic Michelson interferometers in a variety of applications will also be presented.


Exposure to a hydrogen plasma at 250 °C of p‐type GaN (Ca) prepared by either Ca+ or Ca+ plus P+ co‐implantation leads to a reduction in sheet carrier density of approximately an order of magnitude (1.6×1012 cm−2 to 1.8×1011 cm−2), and an accompanying increase in hole mobility (6 cm2/V s to 18 cm2/V s). The passivation process can be reversed by posthydrogenation annealing at 400–500 °C under a N2 ambient. This reactivation of the acceptors is characteristic of the formation of neutral (Ca–H) complexes in the GaN. The thermal stability of the passivation is similar to that of Mg–H complexes in material prepared in the same manner (implantation) with similar initial doping levels. Hydrogen passivation of acceptor dopants in GaN appears to be a ubiquitous phenomenon, as it is in other p‐type semiconductors.


Since the receiving antenna scans in range of 1 to 4 m to get the maximal interference there is no way how to make a correction to the effect of the ground plane. In this manner, error of antenna height variation and error of antenna directivity have to be included into the EMI measurement uncertainty. Based on choice of proper antenna models and numerical technique we investigated mentioned errors in this paper. We focus not only on their values but also how they vary with frequency of the received electromagnetic interference.


Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods are employed to study heavy-ion collisions at intermediate collision energies, where high baryon density and moderate temperature QCD matter is produced. The experimental measurements of various conventional observables such as collective flow, particle number fluctuations, etc. are usually compared with expensive model calculations to infer the physics governing the evolution of the matter produced in the collisions. Various experimental effects and processing algorithms can greatly affect the sensitivity of these observables. AI methods are used to bridge this gap between theory and experiments of heavy-ion collisions. The problems with conventional methods of analyzing experimental data are illustrated in a comparative study of the Glauber MC model and the UrQMD transport model. It is found that the centrality determination and the estimated fluctuations of the number of participant nucleons suffer from strong model dependencies for Au-Au collisions at 1.23 AGeV. This can bias the results of the experimental analysis if the number of participant nucleons used is not consistent throughout the analysis and in the final model-to-data comparison. The measurable consequences of this model dependence of the number of participant nucleons are also discussed. In this context, PointNet-based AI models are developed to accurately reconstruct the impact parameter or the number of participant nucleons in a collision event from the hits and/or reconstructed track of particles in 10 AGeV Au-Au collisions at the CBM experiment. In the last part of the thesis, different AI methods to study the equation of state (EoS) at high baryon densities are discussed. First, a Bayesian inference is performed to constrain the density dependence of the EoS from the available experimental measurements of elliptical flow and mean transverse kinetic energy of mid rapidity protons in intermediate energy collisions. The UrQMD model was augmented to include arbitrary potentials (or equivalently the EoSs) in the QMD part to provide a consistent treatment of the EoS throughout the evolution of the system. The experimental data constrain the posterior constructed for the EoS for densities up to four times saturation density. However, beyond three times saturation density, the shape of the posterior depends on the choice of observables used. There is a tension in the measurements at a collision energy of about 4 GeV. This could indicate large uncertainties in the measurements, or alternatively the inability of the underlying model to describe the observables with a given input EoS. Tighter constraints and fully conclusive statements on the EoS require accurate, high statistics data in the whole beam energy range of 2-10 GeV, which will hopefully be provided by the beam energy scan programme of STAR-FXT at RHIC, the upcoming CBM experiment at FAIR, and future experiments at HIAF and NICA. Finally, it is shown that the PointNet-based models can also be used to identify the equation of state in the CBM experiment. Despite the uncertainties due to limited detector acceptance and biases in the reconstruction algorithms, the PointNet-based models are able to learn the features that can accurately identify the underlying physics of the collision. The PointNet-based models are an ideal AI tool to study heavy-ion collisions, not only to identify the geometric event features, such as the impact parameter or the number of participant nucleons, but also to extract abstract physical features, such as the EoS, directly from the detector outputs.


The present invention provides a method for fabricating a fluoride phosphor. A first solution is formed by dissolving potassium fluoride (KF) and either K2MnF6 or KMnO4 in a hydrofluoric acid solution (a). A second solution is formed by mixing a surfactant and a silane (b). The first solution and the second solution are mixed to form a precipitate (c). The precipitate is collected after the first solution and the second solution are mixed (d). The steps (a, b, and c) are carried out at the room temperature. The present invention also provides a fluoride phosphor fabricated by the above method, and a light-emitting apparatus and backlight module employing the same.


Isothermal section of the Al2O3–TiO2–Nd2O3 phase diagram at 1400 °C is constructed for the first time. It is the part of systematic investigations of Al2O3–TiO2–Ln2O3 (Ln=lanthanides,Y) systems. The 1400°C was taken as the temperature, at which no liquid is expected in the system. Samples were prepared by a chemical method. Samples were annealed in air at 1400°С for 80 hours and cooled in the furnace. Phases in the samples were determined by XRD analysis. New phases and appreciable homogeneity regions based on components and binary compounds were not found. Isothermal section consists of seven narrow twophase and eight three-phase regions. Triangulation of the system is determined by the phase Nd 2 Ti 2 O 7 , which is in equilibrium with compounds Al 2 TiO 5 , NdAlO 3 and system components TiO 2 and Al 2 O 3 . Formation of phases Nd 4 Ti 9 O 24 , Nd 2 Ti 3 O 12 and Nd 2 TiO 5 in binary boundary system TiO 2 –Nd 2 O 3 causes the appearance of partially quasibinary sections Al 2 TiO 5 –Nd 4 Ti 9 O 24 , Al 2 TiO 5 –Nd 2 Ti 3 O 12 and NdAlO 3 –Nd 2 TiO 5 . The obtained results make a significant contribution to the understanding of interactions between the components in the system studied. The system includes binary compounds with high electro-optical, ferroelectric, piezoelectric, photocatalytic properties, mikrowave dielectric ceramic. In addition, in the system we expects the existence of new three-phase and two-phase eutectics, which can be obtained in the form of high-temperature structural materials by the directional solidification. This fact opens up the possibility to fi nd and establish the coordinates of new three-phase and two-phase eutectics for directional solidifi cation and to obtain new high-temperature structural materials in the Al 2 O 3 –TiO 2 –Nd 2 O 3 system.


Coat weight variations can be difficult to detect and their root causes hard to identify. It is important to solve them because they may cause unexplained problems elsewhere. With sizer nip load profile issues the cause-and-effect relationship is typically easier to detect, but many times difficult to solve. Root causes are identified and explained in this paper, as is a new novel technology for online load and profile measurement.


Last decades are marked with steady prevalence growth of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus type 2 and obesity getting a character of pandemia. The universal increase in quantity of patients with renal dysfunction is tightly connected with these diseases becoming a significant social and economic problem for public health services. The cardiorenometabolic syndrome is a new interdisciplinary concept uniting patients, suffering with the diseases named above, on the basis of community of risk factors and pathophysiological mechanisms of development, treatment and approaches to primary and secondary preventive maintenance.


Introduction The importance of assessing the relationship between technology determinism and institutional power is a recurring theme in William Melody's writings. Technology determinism is a perspective that views technical innovation as driving society. That is, the relationship between technology and society is regarded as linear and mono-directional. For instance, Melody (1973b) convincingly shows how technology determinism, functioning through the natural monopoly concept, supported a regulatory regime that insulated, preserved and extended the market power of AT&T, the dominant telecom carrier of the day in the United States. As he put it, 'acceptance of the concept of technology determinism ... has had a devastating effect on the approach to regulation adopted by regulatory authorities... . It has narrowed the scope of analysis of public policy makers to encompass only changes within the established institutional structure' (Melody 1973b: 170). Similarly, he demonstrated how the rampant technology determinism that infuses information society policy statements of national governments, international organisations and corporations, privileges regulatory strategies and resource commitments that would benefit major telecom supplier firms and countries (Melody 1996c).


Mitchell's abiding interest in history and prehistory was a concomitant of his overarching commitment to human rights. This chapter studies the impulse underlying his dedication to the Diffusionist school of history, which most importantly served as a moral prop for his belief in human goodness. The four full-length history books that he published span his writing career and testify to the continuity of his ideological preoccupations, expressly with the welfare of the ordinary people and with the responsibilities of mankind with regard to safeguarding the rights of ethnic peoples and respecting the natural environment. His anti-imperialist sensibility is evident in his promotion of the rights of the peasant. This runs right through his biography of Mungo Park, with whom the author keenly empathises as son to a smallscale Scottish farmer, and his study of the pre-Columbian theocracies in his most academic treatise The Conquest of the Maya right up to his study of Fridtjof Nansen, which closes his final volume Nine Against the Unknown, hailed as the champion and embodiment of the most inspiring ethical, environmental, political and philosophical values.


The experiment was conducted by means of routine paraffin-embedded sectioning technique to offer some information for embryology and taxonomy of Plantaginaceae.The results were as follows:Mature megagametophyte was of Polygonum-type with 7 cells and 7 nuclei.Fertilization resulted in zygote and primary endosperm nucleus.Development of endosperm was of Cellular-type,as the first division of primary endosperm nucleus separated a micropylar and chalazal chamber.The micropylar chamber turned into 2-or 4-celled by one or two vertical division at right angle to each other,then a transverse division in each cell formed 4 or 8 cells arranged in two tiers.Each cell of the micropylar tier(2 or 4 cells) developed into a one-nucleated micropylar haustorium,and the other 2 or 4 cells of the lower tier gave rise to a endosperm proper surrounding embryo.Meanwhile the chalazal chamber developed into a binucleate haustorium by mitosis without division of cytoplasm.Haustorium absorbed and transformed nutrition from integument and chalaza to endosperm proper.The embryogeny conformed to Onagrad type,and mature seed developed from proembryo-heart-torpedo-cotyledon stage.Integument tapetum was well-developed.Relative nuclear DNA content of nuclei was measured by flow cytometry which showed that embryo was diploid and endosperm was triploid.


Recently, deep learning approaches have been getting more attention in many research fields. Medical imaging field has been attracting widely by deep learning techniques. An example of this field categories are images segmentations, images registration, images classification and retrieval of images database. This paper is presenting a number of experiments to classify rental images using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). These images of retinal could contain laser marks which left by the action of the laser on the surface of the retina. (CNN) is defined as trainable multi-stages architecture composed of multiple stages. The inputs and outputs of each stage are a set of arrays which called the feature maps. For the outputs, every feature map is representing a unique feature which extracted from all the regions which located on the input. Basically, every stage is consisted of three layers which are: a filter bank, a non linearity, and a layer of feature pooling. However, the classic (CNN) is normally consisting of three or less number of layers. The results accuracy were appropriate of more than 90%. As a summary of this paper, a number of considerations are listed for possible improvements and future developments.


reached. After completion of this course. it was considered that the main problem remaining was limitation of movement of the right elbow. and this was treated by local e..xcision of the keloid and grafting. a further course of the drug being given for two weeks before and two months after the procedure to prevent further keloid formation in either the graft or donor site. This procedure was successful.


The present study concerned the views regarding the acceptability of possible national policies related to slavery by people whose families were directly affected in the past. It was conducted in the island of Martinique (an overseas French department), and 298 descendants of slaves participated. Three qualitatively different personal positions were found; these positions were designated Skeptics (28% of the sample), Reparationists (35%) and Undetermined (37%). For people holding a Skeptic position, nothing meaningful can be done to repair the horrors of slavery. However a national policy that includes public acknowledgment of past wrongs can be considered as tolerable provided it is accompanied by material compensations. For people holding a Reparationist position, any national policy that involves public acknowledgment of past wrongs is considered as acceptable, whether or not it is accompanied by material compensation. Policies of amnesia and/or exaltation of the past or policies that involve only material compensations are viewed as not acceptable. In addition reparation policies are considered as more acceptable in cases where socio-economic integration of slave descendants has been achieved than in cases where it has not. For people holding an Undetermined position, slavery and the slave trade are part of the deep past; as a result, it is difficult to have strong views about it or about related policies. These three personal positions were related to educational level and religious involvement in a meaningful way. In particular, undetermined people were less educated and more religious than others.


Objective To investigate the effects of moxibustion according to opening points on time in eight methods of intelligent turtle on Serum SOD activity and expression of related gene. Methods 60 healthy and adult guinea pigs were randomly divided into 6 groups,a blank control group( groupⅠ),a control group of aging model( groupⅡ),a prevention group with eight method of intelligent turtle( groupⅢ),a prevention group with moxibustion at Shenque( RN8)( groupⅣ),a group of treatment group with eight methods of intelligent turtle( groupⅤ) and a treatment group with moxibustion at Shenque( RN8)( groupⅥ). There were 10 guinea pigs in every group. All groups used intraperitoneal injection of D-half lactose to make aging model except the blank control group. The prevention groups received the treatments both moxibustion according to opening points on time in eight methods of intelligent turtle and moxibustion at Shenque( RN8) during making model. The treatment groups received the treatments both moxibustion according to opening points on time in eight methods of intelligent turtle and moxibustion at Shenque( RN8) after finished making model. To observe groups of guinea pigs' life quality score,serum SOD activity,renal tissue superoxide dismutase genes( Cu'Zn-SODmRNA and Mn-SODmRNA) relative expression difference. Results After modeling,the guinea pigs from group I showed no symptoms of aging,as for the ones from moxibustion-while-modeling groups( group III and IV),only mild symptoms of aging were observed,and the serum SOD activity showed no significant change,comparing with group I there was no statistical meaning between them( P 0. 05); the groupⅡand the treatment groups showed sign of aging,serum SOD activity was significantly decreased; compared with the group I,there were significant differences( P 0. 01). After the experiment,for the serum SOD activity in group Ⅱ,there was no obvious change before and after modeling,two treatment group serum SOD activity increased,compared with that before modeling,there was no statistically significant( P 0. 05); compared with the group I,there was no statistically significant( P 0. 05),the prevention groups and treatment groups' renal tissue Cu / Zn-SODmRNA and the relative expression of Mn-SODmRNA was close to the group I,compared with the groupⅡ,there were significantly different( P 0. 01). However,two prevention groups' SOD activity and Cu / Zn-SODmRNA in renal tissue and the relative expression of Mn-SODmRNA the difference between groups was no statistically significant( P 0. 05); two treatment groups' activity of SOD and Cu / Zn-SODmRNA in renal tissue and the relative expression of Mn-SODmRNA groups had significant difference( P 0. 05). The efficacy of regular moxibustion with eightfold method of the sacred tortoise on aging models of guinea pigs was more pronounced than those receiving the moxibustion on Shenque( RN8). Conclusion The mechanism of defer-aging with the eight methods of intelligent turtle may be closely related to the SOD regulation and the expression of related gene. Moxibustion according to opening points on time in eight methods of intelligent turtle has obvious prevention and treatment effect on aging model guinea pigs,and it has a better therapeutic effect than moxibustion at Shenque( RN8).


The present invention is a pharmaceutical formulation comprising a combination of tiotropium and fluticasone propionate, and to the use in medicine (in particular the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases) of the formulation.


The present application discloses a semiconductor memory device and access method, including a memory transistor, a first control transistor, the second control transistor, wherein the source of the first transistor and the control gate of the first bit line, respectively, and the first word line connected to a drain and a gate of the second control transistor are respectively connected to the second word line and a second bit line, the drain of the memory transistor and the gate of the first control transistor is connected to the drain of the memory transistor and source of the second control transistor connected to the source of the memory transistor is connected to ground, and the memory transistor having a control gate memory properties. The semiconductor memory device increased integration and reducing the frequency of the refresh operation.


In this experiment, the use of the OTTLE for determining formal redox potentials, n values, and spectra of redox couples is illustrated by measurements on solutions of ferricyanide and o-tolidine using a variety of electrochemical techniques.


The use of micro- and nanofluidic systems in modern analytical instruments allow you to implement a number of unique opportunities and achieve ultra-high measurement sensitivity. The possibility of manipulation of the individual biological objects (cells, bacteria, viruses, proteins, nucleic acids) in a liquid medium caused the development of devices on microchip platform for methods: chromatographic and electrophoretic analyzes; polymerase chain reaction; sequencing of nucleic acids; immunoassay; cytometric studies. Development of micro and nano fabrication technologies, materials science, surface chemistry, analytical chemistry, cell engineering have led to the creation of a unique systems such as "lab-on-a-chip", "human-on-a-chip" and other. This article discusses common in microfluidics materials and methods of making functional structures. Examples of integration of nanoscale structures in microfluidic devices for the implementation of new features and improve the technical characteristics of devices and systems are shown.


Dialect nominations of female boggarts in different regions of Russia were investigated. In the Russian dialect worldview, female boggarts are very important. However, little has been known about them, because boggarts are nowadays commonly associated with mythological creatures of the male gender. As a result of the study, the semantic portrait of a female boggart was made using a specific set of semes revealed by the analysis of the internal forms of lexical units (according to W. von Humboldt, A.A. Potebnya, and N.F. Alefirenko). The internal form of the word is seen as the closest etymological meaning of the word and its denotation. Recordings of Russian dialect speakers were carried out with the help of the continuous sampling method. The following three most interesting lexical-semantic groups of names of female boggarts in terms of motivation were considered: place of living, typical actions and behavior, appearance (color, hair, etc.). Special attention was paid to national gender stereotypification of the studied dialect expressions (A.V. Kirilina, L.V. Markina). A number of examples were provided to demonstrate non-typical national ideas about boggarts with regard to the gender semantics of female boggart nominations.


The paper presents generating units protection of duplex configuration in Lijiaxia hydropower plant,then analyses and compares the fail-operation and false-operation phenomenon of two sets of protections in the course of actual operation,and puts forward solutions.


In this paper we have proposed a dynamic linear state feedback for a retarded state description. The aim of the dynamic linear state feedback is to compensate the unknown delays in the real field, and to assign poles. Guaranteed internal stability is also an aim.


Event detection through sensors data recording human activities is an aspect to learn human behaviors. In this paper, counted numbers from a sensor installed on a building entrance recording the number of people entering the building, will be processed to find the anomaly time interval when there are more people going through the entrance, which is viewed as event. An approach is adopted having two steps: first, the counted numbers over time is processed by Fourier Transformation and we get the parameter of a vector (ReX[k], ImX[k]) representing kth point in the data set; second, the vectors of (ReX[k], ImX[k]) are classified by KNN algorithm in two dimensions, categorizing the data in the same time interval in 70 days and the data in 48 intervals in one day. The results show that the proposed method works well.


Konjak (Amorphophallus konjac) plants showing necrosis in leaflets and stunting of petiole have been found in Gunma Prefecture since around 1960. The causal virus was transmissible by aphids and by mechanical inoculation, but not through corms and cormlets of konjak. The virus was identified to be cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) by immunodiffusion tests. Five CMV isolates obtained from different konjak fields were compared serologically, and three of them were indistinguishable from CMV-Y whereas the other two were identical to CMV-P. All these isolates caused similar symptoms on konjak plants to those observed in the fields. We propose the name of the disease, konjak necrotic stunt disease.


The use of a range/passive-IR histogram as an approach to pixel-level fusion for cued target detection is discussed. Target detection algorithms for laser radar range imagery often use a number of computationally-intensive operations to locate targets in an image. These steps may include performing global geometric transforms, locating the ground plane, or applying size filters with associated rules. Each pixel in the image is processed multiple times, a time- consuming chore. An alternative to examining every pixel is to cue such detailed algorithms directly to an image location which is likely to contain a target. Cueing reduces the burden of searching or processing the entire image for regions of interest, greatly decreasing the number of computations needed for target detection. Cueing can be accomplished by combining registered laser radar range and passive-IR data. Since these data are taken simultaneously and are co-registered by Lincoln Laboratory's airborne laser radar, it is possible to combine them to form a powerful set of discriminants. There are two possible approaches to fusing the range and passive-IR data: (1) the domains can be processed for detections in two parallel streams and the resulting detection maps combined, or (2) the domains can be fused first and then processed as a single stream for detections. In the first method, sometimes called 'image-level' fusion, the processing algorithm for each domain can be optimized to obtain the best combination of detection and false alarm statistics. In the second method, the domains are combined at the pixel level, and the result is processed directly for target detection. The latter approach also reduces the number of computations since only data of interest to both domains is processed further. In this article, the multi-dimensional laser radar sensor and ongoing efforts to develop an automatic target recognition (ATR) system are described. The processing of pixel-registered laser radar range and passive-IR imagery for cued target detection using the range/passive-IR histogram is discussed. The authors present results for IR imagery with positive passive-IR target-to-background contrast to study the performance of the algorithm in real-world scenarios. These results are compared with a more typical detection method.


The effects of different pH value and heavy metal concentration on rooting of Alternanthera philoxeroides were studied.The results showed that the adaptability of Alternanthera philoxeroides was very strong,it could be takes root when the pH value was between 2 and 13.Generally speaking,the basicity solution was better than the acerbic solution to root of Alternanthera philoxeroides.And the best pH value condition was 8.85,under that condition the root length was 26.2 mm,roots numbers were above 60.With the increasing of heavy metal ion concentration,the inhibiting effects to root of Alternanthera philoxeroides enhanced,but differention had different performances.When the Pb2+ concentration was about 10 mg/L,the growth of Alternanthera philoxeroides was best with the root length of 22.3 mm and root numbers of 37;When the Cr3+ concentration was below 5 mg/L,the growth of Alternanthera philoxeroides was best with the root length of 39.0 mm and root numbers of 40.


This article deals with a successful approach to computer optimization of brass wind instruments. The fundamental physical and acoustical relationships, the numerical calculation of transmission characteristics and how those are related to musical performance quantities is described. Several different optimization methods are compared. An optimization program which can be used by instrument makers to improve existing instruments or to design new ones according to a certain performance specification is presented. Computer optimization as a means to solve the "inverse problem" is proposed. Successful bore reconstruction of a "virtual" trumpet proves the feasibility of this concept. A reconstruction of a simple structure from real measurements is promising, and makes clear that accurate impedance measurements and loss models are required.


Meningitis is a medical condition caused by inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae are the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in infants and young children. The main objective of this study is to predict the function of hypothetical unique proteins which are present in the pathogenic islands of Neisseria meningitidis MC58 and Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4. The proteins present in the pathogenicity islands (PAI) of the two organisms were analyzed and unique proteins were identified. Then the functions of hypothetical unique proteins present in PAI regions of both the strains were predicted. Further analysis of the functions of unique proteins may help in mutational studies. By mutating specific genes which are responsible for pathogenicity of meningitis, the severity of meningitis can be reduced.


Abstract : The Seattle District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing to widen and deepen the navigation channel in Grays Harbor, Washington. The objectives of this report are (1) to evaluate the existing water characteristics of Grays Harbor, (2) to summarize these data, (3) to evaluate the possible impacts the proposed dredging project may have upon the water characteristics and (4) to evaluate mathematical models for use as predictive tools in describing the distribution of dissolved oxygen (DO). Grays Harbor is a dynamic body with the water moving in response to the tides. Frequently during periods of low river flow a 'DO sag' occurs from Hoquiam to Cosmopolis. The amount of DO in Grays Harbor has increased from 1975 to date because of improved methods of waste treatment practices by industry and municipalities. Three mathematical models designed to predict the distribution of DO in Grays Harbor were examined. After careful review, the EPA model developed by Region X, Seattle office, was implemented. Output from the model did not reproduce the migratory nature of the 'DO sag' nor the tidal periodicity observed in DO at a given location. Hence the results from this model are not suitable for use in applied problems. It is the conclusion of the authors that the proposed widening and deepening of the navigation channel in Grays Harbor will have no significant impact upon the water characteristics of Grays Harbor.


Realization of on-chip scalable quantum optical circuits comprising single photon source array with each source integrated with light manipulating units to enable photon interference from distinct sources is a key goal towards photonic quantum information processing. To this end we have proposed a new approach that exploits the recently demonstrated spatially-regular and spectrally uniform array of mesa-top single quantum dots (MTSQDs) as on-chip single photon sources integrated with subwavelength-sized dielectric building block (DBB) based light manipulating units (LMUs) that exploit a single collective Mie resonance to implement the needed light manipulating functions [1]. In this work we present simulations of the performance of light manipulating units (LMUs) that provide all five required functions: enhancement of the quantum dot spontaneous emission rate and directing the emission (a local nanoantenna effect) into a waveguide for state-preserving propagation, bifurcating the propagating photon path (beam-splitting), and combining photons from differing sources to enable and control on-chip photon interference. As all the functions are provided by the same spectral mode in differing spatial regions of the LMU, there is no issue of impedance matching, unlike approaches that view each function arising from a distinct entity (cavity, waveguide, beam-splitter, etc.). We present the findings of a systematic investigation of such optical circuit and discuss the single photon interference from distinct SQDs underlying quantum information processing. The approach is equally applicable to any class of solid-state single photon source array.


One of the key premises in Multimodal Coaching and Rational Emotive Behavioural Coaching (REBC) is unconditional self-acceptance (Dryden & Yankura, 1992; Dryden & Ellis, 1997; Lazarus, 1977; Palmer, 2009; and Wilding & Palmer, 2010). Unlike in Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) where the emphasis is more on identifying and improving low self-esteem, in REBC the emphasis focuses on self and other acceptance.


Abstract French colonization of Indian territory in the south‐eastern United States during the eighteenth century included the building of both fortresses and trading posts. Fort Toulouse in central Alabama, one of the most important garrisons for the implementation of French policy in the region, was in actuality an early French embassy to the Creek Indian Nation. Archaeological explorations of Fort Toulouse in 1972 and 1973 revealed in kind and quality the items which the French utilized for the Indian trade. In some instances the poor quality of trade goods suggests that French frontiersmen (and perhaps European manufacturers), the middlemen between the Crown and the Creek Indian chiefs, were inadequate choices for the implementation of French foreign policy through trade.


: Background: Pulmonary & gastrointestinal malignancy are life threatening problem. If we can detect those earlier by cell block preparation of astice fluid & pleural fluid cytology accurately then treatment will be started earlier, mortality & morbidity will be reduced. Objective: In India pulmonary & gastrointestinal malignancy are increasing day by day. Our aim is to assess the role of cell block preparation to detect malignancy in suspected pleural effusion & astice fluid sample. Materials & Methods: This is a cross sectional, observational study performed from February 2012 to July 2013 in sskm Hospital, Kolkata. We collected pleural and ascetic fluids from patients attending sskm hospital with clinical suspicion of malignancy. Results: Out of 48 cases 7 cases are diagnosed as malignant by both conventional smear and cell block methods,31 cases are diagnosed benign by both the methods ,10 cases which are diagnosed benign by conventional smear, diagnosed malignant by cell block method. Out of 9 cases of malignant pleural effusions primary was known in 7 cases .In analysis of 8 cases of malignant ascitic fluid primary was detected in 5 cases. Conclusion: Combined approach of conventional smears and cell block technique helps to get an additional diagnostic yield for malignancy in suspected pleural effusion and ascetic fluid samples.


Foreword by Prof. David R. Jarraway Acknowledgements Introduction: Pysche's Entryway into His "World of the Imagination": An Approach to Wallace Stevens 1. Re-Mythologizing the Poet Figure: Wallace Stevens Poetry as Psychic Infection 2. Puer, Senex, and the Monkey in the Middle: Clothing the Poet-in-the-Bones 3. Traversing the Inner Landscapes of the Mind: The Mythic Journey in Walt Whitman's "The Sleepers" and Wallace Stevens's "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery 4. The Poetics of Hesitancy: Liminally Erecting Soul, Self, and Imagination in Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, and Stevens 5. Dying to Be Reborn: The Transformation Drive in William Carlos Williams's "Spring and All," Wallace Stevens's "Metamorphosis," and Thomas Pynchon's "The Aqyn's Song" Conclusion: "Penetrating Again Toward the Less Apparent" Bibliography Index.


In this study, modeling of nonlinear power electronic circuit elements such as inductance and capacitance using transmission line model (TLM) has been studied. Due to the nonlinear characteristics of these elements, there are problems with the switching instants in the power electronic circuits. For this reason, it is very important to determine the nonlinear behavior of these circuit elements. TLM solutions for nonlinear inductance and capacitance are compared with analytical solutions and the proposed technique seems to approach analytical solutions even at low sampling frequencies.


Solid horn is an important component in ultrasonic vibration system,often used in high power ultrasound applications.New advances in various design methods of ultrasonic solid horn is reviewed,for example,conventional analytical method,methods of equivalent circuit,mechanical impedance,transfer matrix,finite element,and apparent elastic modules,etc.Characteristics of different methods are compared,and problems that need further studies are pointed out such as seeking a unified expression for performance factors of solid horns with common shape functions.


Cell cycle progression is prevented by signal transduction pathways known as checkpoints which are activated in response to replication interference and DNA damage. We cloned a G2/M cell cycle phase‐related checkpoint gene from a neonatal mouse testis cDNA library which was identified as mouse claspin, a proposed adaptor protein for Chk1. As part of a study on germ cell differentiation we examined the expression of the checkpoint gene, Chk1, and claspin at 12.5 and 14.5 days post coitum (dpc) and in the post‐natal phase. Chk1 mRNA expression increased from 12.5 to 14.5 dpc in female gonads and was strong in males at both time points. Claspin however, was not detected until 14.5 dpc. This suggests there may be some dissociation of claspin expression from Chk1 in fetal germ cell development. Chk1 and claspin expression was also studied in testis over the first 3 days following birth, when apoptosis regulates germ stem cell number. We modulated checkpoint‐related gene expression in testis using the anti‐metabolite, 5‐fluorouracil, resulting in increased apoptosis and upregulation of Chk1 (P < 0.0001) and Cdc2 (P < 0.02) mRNA. Although we do not fully understand the role checkpoint gene expression has during mammalian germ cell development this report is the first to show the expression of checkpoint‐related genes in early mammalian germ cells. Mol. Reprod. Dev. 74: 531–538, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Lack of uniform heating and peak temperatures lower than 55°C reduce the utility of beef cattle mortality composting. In a previous study, beef cattle mortalities were placed on a 40-cm straw base and covered with 160-cm manure, and compost reached 50°C with 20% reduction in bovine mitochondrial DNA (a 171-bp fragment; Mt171) at 160-cm depth after 147 d of static composting. Two modifications from the previous study's methodology were made: (1) carcasses were raised to 100-cm depth by placing them on an additional 60-cm layer of manure and (2) feedlot manure with 60% moisture content at construction was used. Temperature profiles at depths of 40, 100, and 160 cm all reached 55°C after 7 d, and remained above 55°C for at least 70 d. The bovine Mt171 fragment was degraded 75% by d 112 and 86% by d 230 at 100-cm depth. Carcass soft tissues were almost completely decomposed, with a 99% reduction in genomic DNA and a 92% decrease in Mt171 fragment after 230 d. Levels of coliform bacteria were below 10 CFU g−1 dry wt at all depths on d 230. The modified cattle mortality composting system was characterized by higher peak temperature, longer uniform heating, and faster bovine tissue degradation compared to the previous study. This biocontained composting system could offer effective containment and control of a disease outbreak in which the infectious agent is sensitive to temperatures between 55-62°C.


In order to investigate effect of the internal dynamics of hybrid rocket motor post-chamber to low frequency instability, visualization technique was applied. Hybrid rocket motor post-chamber was visualized for both stable and unstable cases. Proper Orthogonal Decomposition(POD) technique was applied to the visualization images to analyze the flame structure inside the post-chamber. Time coefficient and reconstruction of primary modes confirmed that local heat release exhibiting similar behavior to local pressure oscillation measured in post-chamber. Also, influence of vortex shedding on such relationship is confirmed by the large-scale structure.


Although the relation between suicidality and early-life trauma in the form of child abuse is well established in young adult women, little research is


This paper discusses the features of provincial specialization and the dynamics of regional division of labor patterns in China.Since 1990,regional specialization level gradually increases;specialized sections develop fast due to utilizing comparative advantages,while the strength of specialized sections diverse among different regions;the technological level of specialized sections also increase by these years;the vertical pattern of division of labor still holds its main status,which goes against reducing the regional income disparity.Thus the setup of new type of regional division of labor pattern,and the upgrade of regional specialized department should be put into practice soon.


If racism is learned, can it, be unlearned? What environmental factors, such as class status and geographical place, contribute tad the individual's racist tendencies? These are two Kaye's questions relevant to a cooperative analysis of director Tony Kaye's 1998 film American History X and Toni Morrison's 1977 novel Song of Solomon, as both texts' protagonists, Derek Vinyard (played by Edward Norton) and Milkman Dead, respectively, must confront the socially-deterministic values of family and urbanity in their quest to understand and eventually overcome their conditioned identities. For Derek, a white-supremacist skinhead imprisoned for the voluntary manslaughter of two young black thieves, that confrontation involves coming to terms with the death of his fireman-father at the hands of black crack-addicts and the very conflicting formative educations he receives first from an African-American high-school, teacher/principal and then later from an older neo-Nazi leader, Cameron, who goes on to influence Derek's younger brother Danny in the rhetoric of hate and racial divisiveness. For Milkman, conversely, a young black man growing up in the ghettoized wasteland of an industrial Northern city, the dilemma means facing his own family members' immediate and ancestral history of racism directed against them (including the murder of his grandfather by white landowners), as well as the effect of his best friend Guitar Baines' vigilante killing of whites in a suicidal enactment of racial vengeance. Both texts' main characters thus must ultimately attempt to transcend their social groups' cyclical patterns of racism, white-on-black and black-on white, respectively, and to forge more individualized identities against the seemingly deterministic forces bent on destroying them. Following its release in 1998 (and in a cut version that director Tony Kay disavowed), American History X was greeted with very mixed reviews. While most critics praised its intent as a cautionary tale about the racial antagonism inherent in contemporary American society, they also went on to critisize the film's unmotivated portrayal of Derek's psychological "conversion" from venomous racist to, following his three-year incarceration, a purported savior of his younger brother from the grasps of the same hate-filled subculture that had infected his prior life. For example, sociologist Bernard Beck believes that "the case for the bad guys [.e., the skinheads] is presented more effectively [in the film] than the explanation for the protagonist's change of mind," and Newsweek reviewer David Ansen quips that "Derek's conversions--we see him flip-flop from thoughtful student to racist--seem more dramatically convenient than psychologically coherent." But, of course, this problem--of attempting to portray the psychology of a character--has been endemic to the writers and producers of dramatic productions from Sophocles on. Short of having the protagonist deliver a soliloquy, as did Shakespeare, for instance, or using a voice-over to explain a character's past and present motivations, as does this film in places, notably in a framing device involving Danny, not' Derek--and these are both quite artificial strategies--there is no "convincingly realistic way of depicting what a dramatic figure is thinking, when, and why. The dramatist/script-writer/producer doesn't have the luxury of the novelist, who can reflect a fictional character's thought-process through techniques such as a third-person limited or even a first-person, "stream-of-consciousness" point-of-view. As viewers of the play/film, then, we are often left with only the character's present words and actions to piece-together his or her psychological state; think, for instance, of her frenetic piano-playing at the end of Ibsen's play as a visible and aural symbol of Hedda Gabler's psychic breakdown. And there are some both obvious and more subtle signs presented in American History X that can account, if not altogether and precisely explain, I think, why Derek undergoes such a radical transformation in personality. …


The title compound Ag3PSe4 was synthesized by the reaction of Ag powder, P2Se5 and Se in a molar ratio of 1:1:1 at 500 ℃ and structurally characterized by X-ray crystallography.The crystal belongs to orthorhombic, space group Pmn21 with cell parameters: a = 7.689(4), b =6.660(3), c = 6.379(4) A, V= 326.7(3) A3, Z = 2, Dc = 6.816 g/cm3, Mr = 670.42, F(000) = 584, μ =31.302 mm-1, R = 0.0606, wR = 0.1289 and S = 1.012. The 3-D structure can be regarded as constructed from the stacking of puckered Ag-P-Se honeycomb-like sheets along the c direction,in which the Ag, P and Se atoms are bonded to each other to form a chair-like six-membered ring,and the rings then build the sheets by sharing edges.


Speaking is important to be learnt because speaking is the way to communicate with otherpeople in order to deliver opinion and express idea. That means there must be at least two people in speaking, otherwise it is not called speaking. Speaking is the primary aspect of learning a language because the final goal of language learning is communication. This study is Classroom Action Research in which the writer employs debate technique in teaching speaking. The teaching process was carried out in two cycles. The data consist of observation sheet and test. The data from the observation that have been taken from every cycle are analyzed descriptively, while the data from test are analyzed quantitatively. The result of this study shows that using debate technique can improve students' speaking skill. This is proven by students' test score that improved in each test. In the pre-test, the students' average score is 66.2. While in the formative test cycle I, the students' average score is 67.6, and in the post-test cycle II, the students' average score is 76.3. That means the debate technique can improve the students' speaking skill significantly.


In view that the present situation of evaluation of enterprise railway shunting plan is still not perfect,the AHP(analytic hierarchy process)shunting plan evaluation method is established combined with fuzzy comprehensive evaluation.The AHP is used to determine the weight of each evaluation index of shunting plan,and comprehensive fuzzy evaluation method is used to analyze the evaluation information,finally the evaluation results are obtained to verify the analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation of the combination of rationality and reliability of shunting plan evaluation.


Traditional methods of human activity recognition usually require a large amount of strictly labeled data for training classifiers. However, it is hard for one to keep a fixed activity when collecting desired activity data by wearable sensors, and the weakly labeled data inevitably occurs in the process of data collection. For now, human activity recognition methods have seldom been researched according to weakly labeled data, which deserves deep investigation. In this paper, we proposed a novel attention-based human activity recognition method to process the weakly labeled activity data. The traditional convolutional neural network (CNN)-based human activity recognition is modified by attention mechanism, which computes the compatibility between the global features extracted at the final fully connected layers and the local features extracted at a given convolutional layer. The attention-based CNN architecture can amplify the salient activity information and suppress the irrelevant and potentially confusing information by weighing up their compatibility. Our methods are compared with two state-of-the-art methods, CNN and DeepConvLSTM. The experimental results show that our model is comparably well on the traditional UCI HAR dataset and outperforms them on the weakly labeled dataset in accuracy. Our method can greatly facilitate the process of sensor data annotation and makes data collection easier.


India's fast rate of economic growth of over 7% since 2003-04 % has been globally acknowledged though there are signs of the waning of this growth momentum in 2011 on account of the high and persistent inflation domestically and the slowdown in growth rates of developed countries. With an HDI value of 0.519 in 2010, India ranked 119 among 169 countries indicating a less than commensurate performance on human development. High inequalities are reflected with India losing over 30% of its HDI value when adjusted for inequalities on account of unequal access to income, health and education. Acknowledging that the benefits of growth have not reached the persistently excluded, the Planning Commission, Government of India had inclusive growth as the main objective of the ongoing XI Five Year Plan (2007-12). Equally, it remains the thrust of the XII Plan as reflected in the just released draft Approach Paper to the Twelfth Five Year Plan which has 'more faster, sustainable and inclusive growth' as its main goal.


Abstract A new species of bryozoan, Bicellariella fragilis n. sp. is reported from Jejudo Island, Korea. It was collected at Munseom I. and Supseom I. off Seogwipo city by the fishing net and SCUBA diving from 1978 to 2009. The new species has characteristics of four to five dorso‐distal spines and two proximal spines, whereas ten to twelve spines of B. sinica are not separated into two groups of the distal and proximal ones. And this species shows the difference from B. levinseni in having no avicularium.


Knowledge of ultrasound pressure fields of ultrasound inside the human body is essential to confirm the safety of medical ultrasound equipment. Typically, pressure waveforms in the body are estimated by correction of those measured in water considering typical attenuation in biological tissues. However, the correction of frequency-dependent attenuation of a wide band pulse is difficult because biological tissues have a non-linear transmission characteristic. In this study, acoustic fields of pulsed ultrasound propagating in a transparent medium with ultrasound attenuation were visualized using focused shadowgraphy (Kudo, Ultrasound Med. Biol. 41, 2071-2081, 2015). Pressure waveforms of the pulsed ultrasound were also measured using a membrane hydrophone. Brightness curves and their 1st-order integrations derived from the visualized field images were compared with the pressure waves. Experimental results obtained by using castor oil demonstrated that the 1st-order integrations of brightness curves are in b...


According to the principle of electronegativity equilibrium,we revised the formula for gradual sum even way to calculate electronegativities of groups,and calculated some often-used electronegativities of groups by the revised formula in this paper.The calculated results not only conform very much to the several scales of group electronegativities which are widely accepted,but also can distinguish electronegativities of symmetrical groups(-XY and-YX),indicating regular changes.


SUMMARY By considering the effects of soil-structure interaction, the coupled lateral and torsional response of asymmetric structures placed on a soil layer under seismic excitation is studied. The system investigated consists in a torsionally coupled single oscillator with embedded foundation in a soft stratum over an elastic half-space, subjected to SH waves with different angles of incidence. Both the inertial and kinematic interaction effects are considered. Numerical solutions are calculated for a large number of system configurations, taking as control motion the great 1985 Michoacan earthquake recorded at three sites representative of the transition and soft zones in the Valley of Mexico. The dynamic amplifications of static eccentricity and the base shear ratio between the coupled and uncoupled shears are evaluated and compared with the current code provisions for building structures (Normas Tecnicas Complementarias para Diseno por Sismo del RCDF, Gaceta Oficial Del Distrito Federal, 1995). It is shown that, at least for linear behavior of the structure, the design provisions for torsion may underestimate the maximum structural response when the interaction effects are of extreme significance, as happens in Mexico City.


In this paper, the negative factors effecting the deposition of diamond films on steel substrates are introduced, and intermediate layers improving diamond films quality and adhesion on substrate are reviewed. The interlayer can be deposited directly on steel surface or be prepared by changing the surface layer of steel to a gradient interlayer. The interlayer can be in form of monolayer as well as multilayer. Different interlayers should be chosen with different steel substrates.


Objective Increasing interest has been paid to the real-time monitoring of relative blood volume(RBV) to improve hemodynamic stability during dialysis by altering ultrafiltration rate in response to the RBV changes. This study is devoted to investigate the variability in change of RBV, and the relationship between RBV and ultrafiltration volume (UV), blood pressure(BP) and heart rate (HR) in hypotension-prone patients and observe the predictive value of RBV to the occurrence of hypotension.Method Measurements of RBV, UV, BP and HR were performed at 60-minute intervals in 15 hypotension-prone patients on chronic hemodialysis. The number of hypotension episodes were recorded during a total of 149 hemodialysis sessions.Results The changes in RBV (△RBV) showed considerable inter-individual variability. The average change in RBV ranged from -1.31% to -7.94% at 60 min and from -5.36% to -28.19% at 300 min with CV 0.38 and 0.32 respectively. Intra-individual variability was also high (CV at 60 min 0.59; at 300 min 0.18). Inter-individual as well as intra-individual variability showed little reduction when RBV was corrected for UV. We found a significant correlation between △RBV and UV and HR at 300 min (r= -0.302 and -0.318 respectively, P0.01 for both). 59 episodes of hypotension occurred during the 149 hemodialysis sessions. The level of RBV reduction at which hypotension occurred was also highly variable. The inter-individual RBV at which hypotension occurred, varied markedly (-5.77% to -28.40%, P0.01, CV=0.33).Conclusion RBV changes during hemodialysis showed a considerable intra- and inter-individual variability that can not be fully explained by differences in UV. Heart rate was significantly correlated with △RBV. These data indicated unlikely that a single value of RBV would not reliably predict the occurrence of hypotension. Repeated measurements and individualized determination of critical RBV level are needed.


: Infection due to S.aureus imposes a high burden on health care resources. A growing concern is the emergence of Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. Methicillin resistance is a complex property, and more than one mechanism is involved. The prevalence in India has increased from 12% in 1992 to 80.83% in 1999. The early and accurate determination of Methicillin resistance is of key importance in the treatment of infections caused by Methicillin resistant S.aureus . Various methods are available for MRSA detection namely Cefoxitin disc diffusion, Chromogenic agar, Latex agglutination and Oxacillin E-test. Latex agglutination is a rapid agglutination assay detecting PBP2' (also called as PBP2a) in isolates of Staphylococcus , as an aid in identifying Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The purpose of present study is to study latex agglutination assay for the detection of MRSA. by latex agglutination assay.


: The soft set theory is a mathematical tool to represent uncertainty, imprecise, and vagueness is often employed in solving decision making problem. It has been widely used to identify irrelevant parameters and make reduction set of parameters for decision making in order to bring out the optimal choices. This manuscript is designed with the concept of neutrosophic soft graph structures. We introduce the domination number of neutrosophic soft graphs and elaborate them with suitable examples by using strength of path and strength of connectedness. Moreover, some remarkable properties of independent domination number, strong neighborhood domination, weights of a dominated graph and strong perfect domination of neutrosophic soft graph is investigated and the proposed concepts are described with suitable examples.


Temporal characteristics of band-edge photonic crystal are precisely analyzed using a high-resolution up-conversion system. The InGaAs/InP photonic crystal laser operates at room temperature at 1.55 μm and turn on times ranging from 17ps to 30ps are measured.


Yu, de Jong and Lee (2006) established asymptotic properties of quasi-maximum likelihood estimators for spatial dynamic panel data with …xed eects when both the number of individuals n and the number of time periods T are large. This paper covers a nonstationary case where there are unit roots in the data generating process. When not all the roots in the DGP are unit, the estimators'rates of convergence will be the same as the stationary case, and the estimators can be asymptotically normal. The presence of the nonstationary components however will make the estimators'asymptotic variance matrix singular. Consequently, a linear combination of the spatial and dynamic eects can converge at a higher rate. We also propose a bias correction for our estimator. When T grows faster than n 1=3 , the correction will


The anodes of IrxSi1-xO2/Ti (x= 0.2~1) were prepared by thermal decomposition of non-aqueous solution of iridium chloride (IrCl3) and tetraethoxysilane (TEOS). The microstructure and surface morphology of the IrxSi1-xO2 coatings were characterized by XRD and SEM. A large amount of fine crystallites aggregated on the surface of coatings to form a porous structure with a range of particle size of 15-18nm. The particle size decreased firstly and then increased with increase of silica content and received a minimum value at the Ir0.6Si0.4O2 coatings. The electrochemical characterization determined by cyclic voltammetry (CV) indicated that the IrxSi1-xO2 coating with x=0.6 showed a maximum surface charge (q). The experiments of electrochemical synthesis of N2O5 from N2O4 in nitric acid indicated that the Ir0.6Si0.4O2 coating had the best electrocatalytic performance.