An oscillatory, zero-net-mass flux actuator system, Jet and Vortex Actuator (JaVA), is implemented on the step wall of a backward facing step. JaVA can energize the boundary layer by creating jets or vortices thus it may delay flow separation when used properly. The main part of JaVA is a rectangular cavity with a moving actuator plate. The actuator plate is mounted asymmetrically inside the cavity of the JaVA box, such that there are one narrow and one wide gap between the plate and the box. The main governing parameters are the actuator plate's width (b), the amplitude (a) and the operating frequency (f). The main target of the control with active jets on the step wall is to influence directly the main recirculation zone, thus as the actuator plate or the step's vertical wall moves periodically in horizontal direction, a jet emerges into the recirculation zone. Non-dimensional numbers such as the scaled amplitude (Sa = 2πa/b) and the jet Reynolds number (ReJ = 4abf/ν) as well as the cross flow parameter characterize the JaVA-induced flow types and the effects on the recirculation zone. One period consists of one blowing and one suction phase into the recirculation zone. Boundary layer profiles extracted from time-averaged flow fields of the not actuated (f = 0) and actuated cases at various operating frequencies indicate the effect of active flow control. The interaction between JaVA-induced flow regimes and the boundary layer is investigated numerically in an open channel with a BFS. The computational domain consists of a moving zone along the channel and the motion of the actuator plate is generated by a moving grid imposing appropriate boundary conditions with User-Defined-Functions and the calculations are carried out by a commercial finite-volume-based unsteady, laminar, incompressible Navier-Stokes solver. Numerical simulations and comparisons reveal the JaVA-boundary layer interaction for various governing parameters. Reynolds numbers based on the step height for the shallow open channel flow are Reh = 225 and 450. The proposed control method based on suction and blowing with an oscillating vertical step seems to be effective in shortening the recirculation zone length and delaying the flow separation downstream of the backward facing step.© 2012 ASME


The current curriculum for elementary education in the Czech Republic allows inclusion of pupils with special educational needs in mainstream schools. In spite of the fact that today the right of all persons to education is generally accepted, the inclusive form of education frequently raises various doubts in both the lay and professional community. Various concerns stem from inaccurate ideas of this form of education and insufficient information, particularly in relation to successful delivery of inclusion. In some countries, such as in Great Britain or Finland, the experience with the inclusive form of education is much longer and is mostly positive, in our country however, the concept of inclusion is gaining ground relatively slowly. The quality of educating both the healthy population and pupils with special educational needs is influenced by a number of factors. One of the most significant roles in the educational process is taken by the educator. The educator's role is irreplaceable and is decisive for the degree of success of the development of a child personality. All changes in the educational approaches are related not only to a well thought-out theoretical background but particularly to comprehensive readiness of the principal educational actors, i.e. the teachers. To accomplish this task however, the highest possible amount of information is required. To acquire this information was one of the aims of a research study carried out in the previous year 2014.     Keywords: Czech Republic; inclusive form; education


Objective To explore the guiding role of invasive intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring in the treatment of posttraumatic acute bilateral hemispheric diffuse brain swelling,and to analyze the relationship between ICP and the prognosis.Methods A total of 59 patients with acute posttranmatic bilateral hemisphere diffuse brain swelling,treated under the monitoring of invasive intracranial pressure between Feb.2010 and Oct.2011,in our department were chosen for the study.ICP values at admission,before,and after decompressive craniectomy of all 59 patients were collected.The 59 patients were divided into a group of good recovery (GOS 4 ~ 5) and a group of bad recovery (GOS 1 ~ 3) based on the Glasgow outcome scale (COS) 6 months after craniocerebral trauma.The relationship between prognosis and ICP at admission,ICP before and after decompressive craniectomy was analyzed.Results The good recovery rate was 69% (41/59) and the bad recovery rate was 31% (18/59),while the death rate was 15% (9/59).No mortality or plant survival occurred in patients whose GCS ≥ 9 at admission,and all patients,whose GCS were between 13 ~ 14,came back to work or study (GOS =5).Twenty-nine patients accepted decompressive cranieetomy under continuous invasive ICP monitoring; for those with good recoveries,ICP at admission,ICP before and after decompressive craniectomy were respectively (22.2 ± 7.9)mmHg,(31.9±9.5) mm Hg,and (123 ±2.9) mm Hg; for those with bad recoveries,these indexes were respectively (33.4 ±18.9) mm Hg,(43.7 ± 14.6) mm Hg,and (13.0 ±5.6)mm Hg.There were significant statistic differences between the two groups for the indexes of patients' ICP at admission and ICP before decompressive craniectomy (P< 0.05).However,there were no significant statistical differences of ICP after decompressive craniectomy (P> 0.05).Conclusion Continuous invasive ICP monitoring has an important role in guiding the treatments for patients of posttraumatic bilateral hemispheric acute diffuse brain swelling,whose prognosis were related to ICP at admission and ICP before decompressive craniectomy.

Key words:
Craniocerebral trauma;  Diffuse brain swelling;  ICP monitoring;  Prognosis


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ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Sarah Elzinga is first author on 'Sex differences in insulin resistance, but not peripheral neuropathy, in a diet-induced prediabetes mouse model', published in DMM. Sarah is a postdoc in the lab of Eva Feldman at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, investigating immune-mediated mechanisms that promote neurodegeneration in obesity, metabolic syndrome, prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.


Aiming at the pebble removal system upgrading of the Huaneng Qingbei Power Plant Phase I project and based on digestion and absorption of advanced foreign technologies,dry sealed hydro pebble removal system is developed,research on key system parameter selection and development of key equipment and parts are performed to make localization from system design to equipment manufacturing.Results from running tests show that the system meets design and operating requirements and has good economic and social benefits.


The invention relates to the use of empty liposomes of defined lipid composition or mixtures of empty liposomes of defined lipid composition and to the use of other lipid bilayers or monolayers of defined lipid composition for the treatment and prevention of bacterial infections. It has been found that such liposomes, in particular a two-and a four- component mixture of liposomes comprising cholesterol and sphingomyelin, liposomes consisting of sphingomyelin, liposomes comprising sphingomyelin and phosphatidylcholine, and liposomes comprising cholesterol and phosphatidylcholine efficiently sequestrate a variety of toxins secreted by bacteria, thus preventing binding of bacterial toxins to target cells and toxin-induced lysis of the target cells. Injected intravenously, liposome mixtures prevented death of laboratory mice infected with lethal doses of Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pneumoniae.


The prevalence of anxiety experienced by pregnant women during the Covid-19 pandemic could not be overlooked. This study aims to discover the various causes of anxiety experienced by pregnant women during the pandemic. After explaining the research objectives and obtaining informed consent, author interviewed seven pregnant women. All informant were married, majority of them were working, and all husbands of the interviewees also had permanent jobs. The data analyzed using an interpretive phenomenological approach. The study results show that four main themes cause anxiety in pregnant women amid a pandemic, namely immediate changes, health concerns, access to health services, and social isolation. This study highlights the prevalence of anxiety among pregnant women during covid-19 pandemic. It also emphasizes the importance of taking into consideration factors such as immediate changes, health concerns, access to health care, and social isolation while implementing intervention to reduce this issue. Furthermore, policymakers should prioritize these four main themes in arranging covid-19 mitigation guidelines or protocol specifically for pregnant women.


There has been debate in the literature about the ability of antigen tests to detect the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant including indication on the US Food and Drug administration website that antigen tests may have lower sensitivity for the Omicron variant without provision of data or the potential scale of the issue (see https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/sars-cov-2-viral-mutations-impact-covid-19-tests - omicronvariantimpact, accessed 1/27/2022). Here we determined the limit of detection (LoD) for the Omicron variant compared with the WA1 strain used for LoD studies described in the Instructions for Use for all Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)-approved antigen tests. Using live virus (to avoid artifactual findings potentially obtained with gamma-irradiated or heat-killed virus) quantified by plaque forming units (PFU), we examined the analytical sensitivity of three antigen tests widely used in the United States: the Abbott Binax Now, the AccessBio CareStart , and LumiraDx antigen tests. We found that the 95% detection threshold (LoD) for antigen tests was at least as good for Omicron as for the WA1 strain. Furthermore, the relationship of genome copies to plaque forming units for Omicron and WA1 overlap. Therefore, the LoD equivalency also applies if the quantitative comparator is genome copies determined from live virus preparations. Taken together, our data support the continued ability of the antigen tests examined to detect the Omicron variant.


We study quantum transport in HgTe/HgCdTe quantum wells under the condition that the chemical potential is located outside of the band gap. We first analyze symmetry properties of the effective Bernevig–Hughes–Zhang Hamiltonian and the relevant symmetry‐breaking perturbations. Based on this analysis, we overview possible patterns of symmetry breaking that govern the quantum interference (weak localization or weak antilocalization) correction to the conductivity in two‐dimensional HgTe/HgCdTe samples. Further, we perform a microscopic calculation of the quantum correction beyond the diffusion approximation. Finally, the interference correction and the low‐field magnetoresistance in a quasi‐one‐dimensional geometry are analyzed.


The invention discloses a method for preparing a direct thermal carbon nanotube gas sensor and a sensitive membrane, which takes a direct thermal interdigital electrode for picking up and as a heating wire. The direct thermal interdigital electrode can pick up the output signals of the sensitive membrane and adopts an electrode parallel structure when picking up the signals. The direct thermal interdigital electrode can also be used as the heating wire, leads the heating current to flow each digital band and form a series circuit, and heats the sensitive membrane area on thereof. The direct thermal interdigital electrode has simple process, does not need to specially design a heating layer, has good direct heating effect and low power consumption. The method directly heats the sensitive membrane for improving the temperature of the sensitive membrane without going through the substrate, thereby not requiring the substrate to have good thermal conductivity and being adapted to wider ranges of substrate materials.


The paper presents the results of cavitation erosion tests performed on two types of samples. The materials of the samples are frequently used for manufacturing and repairs of the hydro turbines components submitted to cavitation. The first sample was made by welding of an austenitic stainless steel on austenito-feritic base material. The second sample was made similarly with the first but with a martensitic base material. After the welding processes, on both samples was applied a hardening treatment by surface peening. The cavitation erosion tests were performed on vibratory equipment using the indirect method with stationary specimen. The results show a good cavitation erosion resistance on both samples.


Depression is one of the main problems affecting the health of people living in temporary accommodation, according to a report by Shelter, a UK organisation dedicated to tackling homelessness and bad housing.

The report is based on a survey conducted by Shelter of 2000 homeless households (single people and families). A total of 417 households, from nine local authorities in London, the South East, South West, North, and Midlands, replied to the survey. Of the 375 households who responded to the specific section on health 78% reported at least one specific health problem.

Fifty six per cent of the 375 respondents reported feeling depressed. Around half of the parents with children and 71% of childless people reported feeling depressed.

In its report Shelter said that there were many reasons for the respondents' depression, including the current …


Millions of patients sufferfrom hearing loss worldwide, caused by damage of sensory hair cells and consequent degeneration of the auditory nerve in the cochlea. The underlying reasons for hair cell loss are highly diverse, ranging from genetic disposition, drug side effects, noise ex- posure, and inflammation to the aging process. Nowadays, hearing aids, as well as cochlear implants, can help resolve hearing loss. Hearing aids amplify sound and require intact inner hair cells. Cochlear implants directly stimulate the auditory nerve fibers and can be helpful for patients with damaged outer and inner hair cells. Despite their successes, hearing aids and cochlear implants are not perfect. Recent scientific achievements in cochlear regenerative medicine promise more complete solutions to patients with hearing loss and their families. Until recently, it has been assumed that mammalian cochlear hair cells can never be replaced or regenerated, such that cumulative damage to the cochlea causes progressive and perma- nent deafness. However, non-mammalian vertebrates are capable of replacing lost hair cells, which has recently led to efforts to understand the molecular and cellular basis of regenerative responses in different vertebrate species with the eventual goal of human cochlear regenera- tion. In this review, I survey progress in understanding the limits to mammalian cochlear hair cell regeneration and recent efforts in cochlear regenerative medicine.


gas for cooking purposes, and the Bight of a specially attractive catalogue from Messrs. James Slater and Co., of ?High Holborn, impels again a few words on this subjeot. The illustrations before us are chiefly of stoves and coppers on a large scale. Hot closets and heating apparatus of all kinds are to be seen at Messrs. Slaters', and a very good general idea of them can be obtained from a careful study of these drawings, printed on separate sheets and enclosed in a particularly neat portfolio. There can be no doubt that gas as a cooking agent will be increasingly used every year. Its superior claims on the Bcore of cleanliness, and the easier regulation of heat, to say nothing of economy, are sure to advance its popularity, and as its management is better and better understood there will be less chance of objections being raised on account of possible dangers or disagreeables from smell or otherwise. Where it is not feasible for the whole of the cooking to be done by this means, a small apparatus fixed at the side of the ordinary kitchen range will be found of great use. We recommend all who are considering the advisability of adopting gas in their kitchens, either wholly or in part, to apply to Messrs. Slater for their illustrated descriptions of


We have demonstrated the ability of MOC to solve transmission line problems, with space and time varying parameters. As a practical application, we developed a computer code for obtaining the response of a long cable subject to a ¿-environment when the far end of the cable is terminated either in a pure resistive load or in an impulse-response impedance. For cables without air gaps the current drive and the distributed conductance induced by the ¿-radiation are both proportional to the incident ¿-intensity. For cables with a small air gap next to the metal shield, the current drive induced by the ¿-radiation is affected by the induced air conductivity such that io(x,t) is proportional to the incident ¿-intensity or its time derivative according to dePlomb's criteria. The effect of air gap tends to reduce the peak value of short-circuit current response at x = o. When the resultant distributed conductance G of the cable, with or without an air gap, induced by the ¿-radiation is of the order of 10-4 mho/m or smaller, the cable acts as a linear network and a Norton (Thevenin) equivalent circuit can be employed at the input terminal.


Single crystal gallium arsenide (GaAs) specimens were loaded to failure. Scanning electron microscope examination of fracture surfaces showed that GaAs fails in a brittle manner on {110} planes. Features on these fracture surfaces were used to identify preexisting (crit ical) flaws that potentially initiated fracture when loaded by tensile stresses. Critical flaws in each specimen were identified by comparison to an intentionally damaged control. The size and shape of critical defects were consistent with existing failure models.


It is well established that an imbalance of intracellular Ca homeostasis contributes to the disease progression of neurodegenerative illnesses related to aging, such as Alzheimer's (AD) and Parkinson's (PD) diseases. Therefore, regulation of intracellular Ca homeostasis may represent a new strategy for treatment of these diseases. Our recent discovery of the involvement of the crosstalk (or interaction) between signalling pathways mediated by the intracellular second messengers Ca and cAMP (Ca/cAMP signaling interaction) in the neurotransmission and neuroprotection has contributed to the understanding of pathophysiology and pharmacology of diseases associated to neurodegeneration because of aging. Interestingly, this discovery emerged from many medical reports performed since 1975 that reported that L-type Ca channel blockers (CCBs) prescribed in antihypertensive pharmacotherapy decreased arterial pressure, but produced typical symptoms of increase of sympathetic activity such as tachycardia and increment of catecholamine plasma levels. Although these off-label effects of CCBs have been initially credited to adjust reflex of arterial pressure, this mysterious phenomenon remained uncertain for forty years. In 2013, we revealed that this increase of sympathetic activity resulted from the increase of transmitter release from sympathetic neurons and adrenal chromaffin cells stimulated by CCBs due to its direct action on the Ca/cAMP signaling interaction. In addition, we discovered that this modulatory action of CCBs increases the intracellular levels of cAMP, attenuating neuronal death caused by cytosolic Ca overload due probably to the activation of cellular survival pathways mediated by cAMP-response element binding protein (CREB). Then, our discovery of the role of the Ca/cAMP signaling interaction in the neurotransmission and neuroprotection may open a large avenue for the progress of a new pharmacological strategy more effective and safer for treating neurodegenerative diseases related to aging (AD and PD).


The utility model relates to a fresh-keeping storing bag for vegetables, which comprises an inner bag body with the characteristics of ventilation and no water penetration and an outer bag body with an impermeable layer. Both the inner bag body and the outer bag body are in rectangular shapes, wherein, peripheries of the three sides of the inner bag body and the outer bag body are jointed by lathing seams or are fused by fusing and sealing lines. The top edges are provided with bag mouths, and the box mouths of the inner bag body and the outer bag body are respectively provided with an opened sealing mechanism. At least one edge of the inner bag body is fused and connected with the periphery of the inner side of the outer bag body, and the inner bag body is connected with the outer bag body as a whole. Fresh fruits and vegetables are stored in the inner bag body, the dryness of the fruits and the vegetables is kept, and leaves are avoided from cankering. The outer bag body can restrain the fibrosis of the fruits and vegetables, and the palatability and crispness preservation time is long. An ethylene absorbent is arranged in the bag body and is matched with the bag body, the ethylene emitted by the fresh fruits and vegetables in the inner bag body is absorbed and eliminated by the ethylene absorbent through the ventilating inner bag layer, and the effects that the phenomena of rapid aging, softening, yellowing or withering of the fruits and vegetables are restrained, the fresh quality is kept for a long time, and the storing time is prolonged by times are achieved.


This dissertation contributes to the design and analysis of bunch phase feedback systems in a heavy-ion synchrotron which is operated with a dual-harmonic cavity system.
Due to the ring structure of the synchrotron the particles are focused in transverse and longitudinal direction forming particle bunches, which may be subject to various disturbances. Depending on the disturbance, bunch oscillations may occur, which lower the beam quality and may also lead to particle loss. This compromises the efforts which are constantly taken to increase the beam intensity, energy and quality. Thus, control measures are taken to stabilize the beam, which are usually based on the linearized single particle dynamics. In the present case, however, the accelerating voltage is supplied by two cavities running with different frequencies, introducing an additional nonlinearity, and simple linearization of the voltage is no longer possible.
The problem of modeling and damping of rigid dipole oscillations in case of a dual-harmonic cavity system is treated here by deriving a simple linear model based on central moments, which is accurate enough to serve as a base for various control design approaches. Beside the feedback already existing at GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH for single-harmonic operation based on a finite impulse response filter, which is transferred here to the dual-harmonic case, an alternative filter design for the feedback is presented, along with different output controllers based on pole placement and a state feedback combined with an observer.
The effectiveness of the feedback with a finite impulse response filter was demonstrated in two beam experiments, which are also presented in this dissertation.


Aim of the study: comprehensive assessment of the rate of aging of the main physiological systems of the body and analysis of the relationships between them.
Materials and methods. 188 practically healthy people of various ages (73 men and 115 women) were examined. Methods: anthropometry, echocardiography with Doppler, spirography, ECG with heart rhythm variability analysis, dual X-ray absorptiometry, clinical laboratory biochemical tests.
Results. The method of stepwise multiple regression with systematic error correction was used to calculate the formulas of biological age (BA) of the cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal systems, autonomic regulation, and metabolic age. The obtained formulas make it possible to estimate the rate of aging of the body's physiological systems with high accuracy (error of 4–5 years). An original method of calculating the integral BA based on the BA of separate body systems is proposed.
Conclusion. By calculating the BA of many body systems, it is possible to estimate the rate of aging of these systems and build a human aging profile. This makes it possible to predict the risk of developing one or another age-related pathology and purposefully apply the necessary treatment and preventive measures. A comprehensive assessment of the rate of aging of the body's physiological systems made it possible to study the heterochrony of aging, the main trajectories of the body's aging. The connections between the aging of different body systems revealed in our research are important for the development of a strategy for antiaging effects and prevention of age-related pathology.
Keywords: biological age, physiological systems, aging profile


The paper describes the details of some five road bridges in Maharashtra which were required to be repaired or rectified on account of various reasons. The bridge across Godavari River at Toka was required to be strengthened by way of providing bed protection to prevent scour around wells, grouting superstructure, replacement of some bearings, etc. The superstructure of Ram and Bhogawati bridges is raised by lifting the existing decking by about 3-4 metre and strengthening the substructure since the present levels of the existing bridges would come under submergence of a dam on the downstream. For Undhol bridge, the centering of the superstructure after casting of the beams without the slab had been removed before monsoon and, therefore, this grid of beams was pushed up by jacks to relieve the excessive locked up dead load stresses before concreting of this slab on the top. In Katepurna Bridge, the prestressed concrete girder which had developed a through crack during stressing was repaired by cutting the section of affected concrete, reconcreting that portion and restressing cables. /TRRL/


Defatted coconut flour was blended with wheat flour at different levels to prepare nutritive biscuits. Nutritional, sensory and microbial quality was assessed to find out the most appropriate level of defatted coconut flour incorporation. On the basis of sensory analysis three different compositions of biscuit samples were selected along with the control treatment. Acceptability of enriched biscuits was affected with progressive storage, however the product remained in high acceptability range for up to 12 weeks. The biscuits were stored safely in metalized polypropylene. Microbiological study depicted that microbial count was far below the permissible limits up to three months of storage of biscuits. From this research, the 40% defatted coconut flour added biscuit has the highest scoring in all aspects compared to other tested combinations. There is no remarkable changes in organoleptic characters were observed in biscuits packed in metalized polypropylene for a period up to 12 weeks of storage in ambient conditions of temperature 30oC and the RH of 75–80% indicating that the 40% defatted coconut flour added biscuits could be stored for 12 weeks without any significant changes in quality.


The article describes some approaches to evaluating the company's competitive ability in the New Economy in terms of building an effective competitive strategy. The types of competition (functional, species, subject), aspects of the analysis of external factors of competitive ability using model of M. Porter, the model of pentagram, the problem of constructing positional mapping and the method of "constructing the contrary" analyzed in the article.


A theorem relating the integrated square of the impulse and step response of a two terminal-pair network to its input impedance is developed; this theorem is in a sense the time domain equivalent to the gain-bandwidth relationship in steady state. As an application, a simple method is presented for evaluating the integrated square, \int_{0}^{\infty} [r(t)-r_{ss}]^2 dt , of the difference between a signal r(t) and its steady state value r_{ss} ; the method is based on Darlington's procedure for determining a reactive network from its transfer function.


On the basis of comparative retrospective analysis the author conducts a research of the problem in reference to interrelations between state power and MM in prerevolutionary and Soviet Tajikistan. He elicits a common tendency of augmenting the role of mass-media and their influence under state management, i.e., utilization of MM in statal informational policy. The author speaks about the model of interaction between power and MM, complete monitoring of the state over mass media. It is noted that the forms of these interrelations are built differently in different countries. In different counries they organize numerous mechanisms, councils and departments controlling MM. Pointing to the development of mass communication in Tajikistan Republic of the Siviet period the author asserts: state power bodies and mass media interact on the basis of three models: conflicting, consensual and conflicting-concencual.


A high porous three-dimensional structure of ternary NiPC alloy (3D-NiPC) was prepared with a simple, cheap, and efficient method called dynamic hydrogen bubble template (DHBT) and characterized by means of microstructural and electrochemical techniques with regard to its catalytic effect toward the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in an alkaline solution. The electrochemical efficiency of the alloy has been evaluated on the basis of electrochemical data obtained from the steady-state polarization Tafel curves and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in a 1 M NaOH solution at 298 K. The results showed that the three-dimensional structure of NiPC alloy effectively increased its catalytic activity toward the HER. The 3D-NiPC alloy is characterized by low overpotential at practical high current densities, large real surface area, and double-layer capacitance. Also, the 3D-NiPC showed very good physical and electrochemical stability. A high roughness factor (three orders of magnitude; Rf=3550), low overpotential at 250 mAcm-2 (η250=173.3 mV), and low charge transfer resistance (Rct=100 Ωcm2) were obtained in the best conditions, in 1 M NaOH at 298 K.


Using a Foucauldian-influenced approach to discourse and power, this thesis analyzes the production of nonsexualities, such as the lack of sexual desire, in the contemporary United States. In psychiatric discourse, the distressed nonsexual subject is produced as the patient with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD). This discursive formation was put to use in the debate surrounding pharmaceutical drug flibanserin (Addyi) in order to secure its approval by the FDA in 2015. I posit that, by emphasizing the distress of the HSDD patient experience, the rhetoric of pro-flibanserin advocacy succeeded in producing an ethical exigency, arguing that it would be cruel for the FDA to reject the drug. Centrally, its support for this claim relies upon the construction of an ideal (hetero)sexual marriage and problematizing nonsexuality as a threat to love. Flibanserin's rhetorical support depended, then, upon casting nonsexuality in the role of a destructive enemy force. As a counter-discourse, the discourse of the asexual community—which produces "asexuality" as a sexual orientation—codifies a point of resistance to these claims. Sexually "Broken": The Rhetorical Production of The Distressed Nonsexual in The Flibanserin


Social tagging systems provide an open platform for users to share and annotate their resources such as photos and URLs. Due to their open nature, however, these systems present a security problem. Malicious users may try to distort the systems behavior by inserting false user profiles. This paper addresses the problem of security and robustness of social tagging systems. We outline a framework to model the navigation of a tagging system. Using our framework we classify attack models and identify different kinds of potential attacks to a social tagging system. We implement two of our attack models and study the impact of attacks on existing algorithms used by tagging


In this paper a truncated corner rectangular microstrip antenna (TCRMA) is analyzed in the presence of carbon fiber composite (CFC) material. Simplified carbon fiber composite models are proposed and the analyses are performed by the electromagnetic simulator Computer Simulation Technologies (CST). Theoretical and experimental results of return loss, axial ratio, input impedance and radiation pattern for the antenna located on the aluminum and CFC plates are presented and compared. The results show that the proposed models can be used as a good approximation of the CFC sample and that the CFC material is a feasible alternative instead of aluminum for antenna applications on complex structures such as ships or airplanes.


This paper established the B/S frame mathematical model, combined with VB programming algorithm, carries on the design of the sports teaching information platform, finally a new physical education teaching ranking method is obtained, and this algorithm is used to realize correlation analysis of student achievement. This paper designs teachers end, students end and the central processing end of sports teaching information management platform, and uses central processing unit, memory and I/O export functions to design the platform, finally the multi-function sports teaching management platform is obtained. Using sports information management platform, this paper designs the relevance of teaching achievements, which provides technical support for the research on the teaching of physical education.


Abiraterone, a standard treatment for metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), slows disease progression by abrogating androgen synthesis and antagonizing the androgen receptor (AR). We report that inhibitors of the mitotic kinase Plk1, including the clinically active third-generation Plk1 inhibitor onvansertib, when co-administered with abiraterone, synergistically kill cancer cells from a wide variety of tumor types in an androgen-independent manner, both in vitro and in vivo. Abiraterone treatment alone results in defects in mitotic spindle orientation, failure of complete chromosome condensation, and upregulation of mitosis and mitotic-spindle related gene sets independently of its effects on AR signaling. These effects, while mild following abiraterone monotherapy, result in profound sensitization to the anti-mitotic effects of Plk1 inhibition, leading to spindle assembly checkpoint-dependent mitotic cell death and entosis. In a murine PDX model of mCRPC, combined onvansertib and abiraterone resulted in enhanced mitotic arrest and dramatic inhibition of tumor cell growth compared to either agent alone. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE A phase 2 clinical trial is underway (NCT03414034) testing combined Plk1 inhibitor onvansertib and abiraterone in mCRPC patients with nascent abiraterone resistance. Our work establishes a mechanistic basis for that trial and indicates that combined abiraterone and onvansertib co-treatment may have broad utility for cancer treatment beyond mCRPC.


In 2008 the Secretary of Agriculture (Argentina) celebrated 110 years. A Gazette- Conmemorative Edition – was elaborated on the occasion of this anniversary. The objective was to gather news, information about library and patrons and curious facts, extracted from institutional publications since 1898 to 2008.

First, publications edited by the Secretary were searched in the library catalogue to analyze any content change. Then, selection criterion and the characteristics of the Gazette (design, periodicity, recipients, type of content) were established. The selected materials were ordered by subject categories and chronological evolution. Finally, each gazette edition was compiled and posted on the web site of the Secretary of Agriculture.


Combining analysis of 3S (RS, GIS and GPS) and historical materials (historical records, ancient map and academic and literary writings) allows mapping of the Keriya Paleoriver of Southern Xinjiang, NW China. Keriya Paleoriver, one of the ancient Four Green Corridors which passes through the Taklimakan Desert from south to north in the Tarim Basin, recorded changes of the climate-environment in the ancient Silk Road of the region. According to the archaeological data, historical materials and paleoclimates information, its eco-environment and climate have had great changes since the 1.09Ma B.P., especially during the last 2,000 years, which has led to many famous ancient cities to be abandoned and the route of the ancient Silk Road to be moved southward. Using RS (optical and radar imagery), GIS (mapping and spatial analysis) and GPS (study area investigation), we mapped a major paleodrainage system of Keriya River, which have linked the Kunlun Mountains to the Tienshan Mountains through the Taklimakan Desert, possibly as far back as the early Pleistocene. This study illustrates the capability of the 3S and historical materials, in mapping the Keriya Paleoriver drainage networks and archaeological study on the ancient Silk Road.


The relationship between the temperature-sensitivity of the release of an entrapped drug from liposome as well as the type of drug or liposome is discussed. The drug release from DPPC liposome (dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine liposome) has been confirmed to increase abruptly near its phase-transition temperature for both low-molecular-weight compouds (such as calcein) and high-molecular-weight compounds (such as dextran). The amount of temperature-sensitive calcein released from the liposomes was dependent on the method of liposome preparation: that is, the release from REV (reverse phase evaporated vesicle) was the highest; next was that from LUV (large unilamellar vesicle prepered by detergent removal method), and lowest was from SUV (small unilamellar vesicle prepared by an ultrasonication method). In order to examine the size effect of liposomes on temperature-sensitive drug release, REV was fractionated into three groups according to their average sizes and calcein release for each group was investiga...


Objectives To measure pregnancy outcome following attendance at a recurrent miscarriage service and identify factors that influence outcome. Design Prospective, observational electronic cohort study. Setting Participants attending a specialist recurrent miscarriage clinic, with a history of two or more pregnancy losses. 857 new patients attended over a 30-month period and were invited to participate. Participant data were recorded on a bespoke study database, 'Tommy's Net'. Participants 777 women consented to participate (90.7% of new patients). 639 (82%) women continued within the cohort, and 138 were lost to follow-up. Mean age of active participants was 34 years for women and 37 years for partners, with a mean of 3.5 (1–19) previous pregnancy losses. Rates of obesity (maternal: 23.8%, paternal: 22.4%), smoking (maternal:7.4%, paternal: 19.4%) and alcohol consumption (maternal: 50%, paternal: 79.2%) were high and 55% of participants were not taking folic acid. Outcome measures Biannual collection of pregnancy outcomes, either through prompted self-reporting, or existing hospital systems. Results 639 (82%) women were followed up. 404 (83.4%) reported conception and 106 (16.6%) reported no pregnancy, at least 6 months following registration. Of those that conceived, 72.8% (294/404) had a viable pregnancy. Maternal smoking and body mass index (BMI) over 30 were significantly higher in those who did not conceive (p=0.001) Conclusions Tommy's Net provides a secure electronic repository on data for couples with recurrent pregnancy loss and associated outcomes. The study identified that subfertility, as well as repeated miscarriage, maternal BMI and smoking status, contributed to failure to achieve live birth. Study findings may enable comparison of clinic outcomes and inform the development of a personalised holistic care package.


Objective: To perform a literature review focus on clinical and histopathologic features that can help professionals to characterize and differentiate OLP from OLR. Material and Methods: Scientific papers were selected in Portuguese and English languages, which were performed in humans, since 2013 until the present day, in the databases of the Medical Literature Analysis (PubMed / MEDLINE) and in Health Virtual Library (HVL). Results: It was obtained 404 published papers and 16 were selected, 11 were focused on clinical and histopathologic features simultaneously; two on clinical features; and three on histopathologic features. Conclusion: Clinical and histopathological features of OLP and OLR are quite similar but minor differences can help professionals to differentiate them.


Objective: To clone cDNA of human transcription factor Skn-1a(related to epidermal differentiation and HPV gene expression) gene from cervical carcinoma tissue and construct the eukaryotic expression vector of the Skn-1a cDNA.Methods: The Skn-1a cDNA fragment was amplified by RT-PCR from total RNA that was extracted from cervical carcinoma tissue,the PCR product was cloned into pMD18-T vector and the nucleotide sequence was analyzed,subsequently,the eukaryotic expression vector of the Skn-1a cDNA was constructed,and transfected Hela cells,the expression of Skn-1a was examined.Results: A cDNA fragment about 1300 bp was amplified by RT-PCR,the result of sequencing showed the fragment was(1 308) bp in length,containing a cDNA coding human Skn-1a.The nucleotide sequence homology to the previously published sequence of human Skn-1a was 99.85%,there was one conversion in nucleic acid sequences,but the conversion didn't induce the change of coding amino acid;the eukaryotic expression vector of Skn-1a can express correctly after traosfecting Hela cells.Conclusions: The results suggested that Skn-1a gene expresses at some level in the cervical carcinoma tissue,and Skn-1a cDNA can express in vitro culture Hela cells.The research provide basis for further exploring the relationship between Skn1a and cervical carcinoma.


The work by Dr. Chaudry's group in this issue of The American Journal of Pathology answers that question. We have long appreciated estrogen's ability to modify a host's response to a chronic process (genomic effects). However, the exciting prospect that estrogen may modify the acute response to injury through nongenomic pathways has only recently been appreciated (Figure 1). Indeed, the acute modification of the host's response to injury by estrogen through the rapid signaling mechanisms of novel nongenomic pathways is clearly presented by the authors. From a clinical standpoint, this breakthrough is important. The ability to acutely change the outcome after severe injury has eluded investigators for at least a century. Understanding the signaling mechanisms that allow estrogen to accomplish rapid and dramatic effects will allow the development of refined therapeutics that may or may not require the broad ranging effects of a sex steroid such as estrogen. The important discoveries presented by Dr. Chaudry's group in this issue of the AJP, and discussed in this commentary, confirm the notion that the discovery of the G-proteincoupled receptor (GPR)30-mediated estrogen effect considerably broadens the potential biological roles of estrogen. Through a series of complex mechanistic studies [involving both in vivo and in vitro work, small interferring RNA (siRNA) to suppress GPR30 and estrogen receptor (ER)expression, two forms of estrogen, and protein kinase A (PKA) inhibition], the authors demonstrate that estrogen rapidly protects hepatocytes when given after trauma and hemorrhage, during resuscitation. The combined use of bovine serum albumin-bound estrogen and GPR30 siRNA provides an elegant demonstration of the GPR30's rapid effects while simultaneously differentiating its effects from those of the classic steroid hormone receptors in the membrane. They also demonstrate that the target kinase in this regard is PKA. In this single report, the authors 1) demonstrate that estrogen has rapid nongenomic effects; 2) show that these effects are biologically relevant in terms of the timing of a protective response after injury; 3) confirm the notion that nongenomic effects of estrogen considerably broaden its potential biological and therapeutic effects; 4) show that the cell surface receptor effect is mediated by GPR30 and not ER; and 5) clearly demonstrate the estrogento-GPR30-to-PKA protective link that may potentially yield the development of refined therapeutics.


Examined longitudinally the relations among measures of peer sociometric status and social behavior in preschool and teacher ratings in kindergarten for a group of children originally selected from three diverse day-care settings. The results demonstrated that social preference and alternative status were significantly related to social behavior and were predictive of teacher ratings obtained during kindergarten. Social behavior also strongly predicted kindergarten teacher ratings.


The paper describes the implementation of the Kalman filter for control of object moving in the plane. The object is described through system of non-linear equations. The system is put under a feedback linearization in the case that managing influences are constants during the period of discretization. As result is obtained an extended Kalman filter that increases the precision of the object managing, through the inaccuracies of its mathematical description and the disturbances in the observation.


Background: Premarital counseling equips couples with information about all aspects of sexuality and the related health issues. This study was aimed to assess the quality of premarital counseling services in health care centers in Tabriz. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 236 randomly selected women from premarital counseling centers in Tabriz was carried out and a self-structured instrument including items on demographic characteristics, the quality of counseling condition and providers, family planning, genetic and thalassemia counseling and sexual health was used for data gathering. Results: The results showed that the viewpoint of clients about relationship with health care provider and condition of consultation was suitable in 75.8% and 85.2% of women, respectively. It was found that in 72.5%, 38.1% and 49.6% of clients the counseling areas were in moderate level respectively for counseling about importance of family planning, genetic counseling and thalassemia. It was indicated that 58.5% of participants expressed the sexual health aspect of the premarital classes as poor or completely poor. Conclusions: Our study results can provide suitable information for health policy providers to improve the quality of premarital counseling classes. In order to develop a relatively stable behavior in young couples, it is recommended that the quality of the classes would be overemphasized.


A wireless embedded Web server is built with ARM S3C2410,Ethernet controller chip RTL8019AS and wireless transceiver chip nRF905.The main hardware structure and software flow chart of the system are introduced.The scheme can eliminate the limits of the wiring and the structural layout of the traditional Web server,which makes it more convenient to connect to the Internet.


Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is the largest and perhaps the most structurally complex member of the family of human herpesviruses. It is the prototypic virus of the β‐herpesvirus subfamily. As with other cytomegaloviruses, HCMV is exquisitely species specific and undergoes lytic replication only in cells of human origin. In addition, its replication is limited almost entirely to primary cells and a limited number of transformed cell lines. Together with its prolonged replicative cycle of ∼48 hr, the propagation and quantification of HCMV can present technical challenges. In this brief set of protocols, the propagation of laboratory strains of HCMV and their quantitation is described. In a third series of protocols, the concentration and gradient purification of HCMV for more specialized downstream applications is described. Curr. Protoc. Microbiol. 18:14E.3.1‐14E.3.17. © 2010 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


In this paper a classification algorithm for Parkinson's Disease screening is proposed. Code executes the processing of specific voice signals recorded by healthy and ill subjects. In the direction of a future implementation and validation in a home telemonitoring system, the algorithm has been built with the objective to serve as a screening tool for the precocious directing of subjects with high risk of neurological diseases to instrumental exams. In fact, in several neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease, motor impairments of vocal apparatus arise earlier than postural and ambulatory symptoms. In a home telemonitoring system, in which hardware would consist in a voice recorder (that could be a simple smartphone) and a server for the web platform, data would be acquired and instantly stored on a platform for their processing through machine learning algorithms and to be viewed by specialists. For this purpose, a fully automatic process is needed. Therefore, in this work, audio-preprocessing and features computation are completely performed automatically, using Matlab. Final models have been trained in Matlab environments from Weka's libraries. The family of developed models are trained with different type of phonations, from simple vowels to complex sounds, for a wider and more efficient analysis of vocal apparatus motor impairments. Moreover, dataset was 612 observation large, that is significantly above the mean size of similar works using simple phonations only. For a deeper analysis, different groups of parameters have been tested and cepstral features have been found to be optimal for classification and made up the big part of final algorithm. Developed models are part of the K-Nearest Neighbor family, thus, available for implementation in web platform. Finally, obtained models have shown high accuracies on the whole dataset, reaching values comparable with the literature but with more stability (standard deviation less than 1%). These results have been confirmed in the last validation session in which models have been exported and validated with 25% of data, reaching a best performance with a true positive rate of 98% and a true negative rate of 87%.


This article is a personal memoir, a tale of East meeting a West-German multinational family firm daring reunification and transition. It is a sharing of experiences from a family-business member who was involved with the purchase of East German enterprises.


Photograph of the Sinclair #1 Oil Well, near Gladewater, Texas. The oil well caught fire on April 28, 1931 and killed nine men.


We have developed a framework for flood mitigation risk analysis that applies generally to floods, and have applied it in this study of flood mitigation risk analysis for the Raritan Basin in New Jersey, USA. The framework we have developed involves a conceptual model of the relation among meteorological activity, hydrological models, infrastructure intervention, fine-grained topography, and economic impact. We have developed a hydrological model of the Raritan Basin. We used the calibrated model to compute the reduction in stream gage height (water level) over time as a result of implementing sufficient Green Infrastructure to reduce runoff depth by 1 inch throughout a relevant Watershed Management Area. Three scenarios of sufficient GI implementation and their associated costs were evaluated. In an econometric effort, we have developed a non-linear, threshold-based model that relates the cumulated or integrated amount of river activity above flood level to the FEMA insurance payouts, using historical data on both. This model was tested for four communities, and it achieves excellent predictive behavior against historical data, and can be used to relate the hydrological model results directly to FEMA payout records. Many possible water-related explanatory variables for FEMA insurance payouts were considered, and the most effective was found to be the aggregated quantity of water above flood level during the time directly associated to the flooding event that caused the claims and payouts. We applied this risk mitigation analysis framework to one community, Manville. The estimated cost savings due to the one inch reduction in runoff depth from Green Infrastructure in the region affecting Manville is about 6.1 million US dollars for a 68% reduction in FEMA payouts. Our effort has demonstrated that linking of meteorology, hydrology, non-linear econometric modeling and sophisticated elicitation can provide a very powerful tool for informing and guiding discussion among all stakeholders.


In everyday life, million liters of water are getting wasted by overflowing and also heavy usage. To reduce this ,we have to implement some overflow control techniques to minimize the heavy wastage of water. For this purpose, we propose the Smart water level management system. This system uses an ultrasonic sensor to detect the water level and it is based on the sound made from flow of water it calculates the level of water in percentage and returns the value to the LCD display. It will calculate the level of water up to 100% by the intervals of 10%. After each interval it reaches the value is displayed on the LCD screen. This system is connected with relay switch which will automatically turn OFF and ON based on level of water. When the water level reaches 0% it will automatically turned ON and if it reaches 100% it will automatically turned OFF. We can also control the system online using a WiFi module which connects the system with web application we created. By also using PH sensor we can check the purity of the water. The result of this will be displayed on our web application.


Context. We previously suggested that variable red- and blueshifted absorption features observed in the Ca II K line towards the A- type shell star φ Leo are likely due to solid, comet-like bodies in the circumstellar (CS) environment. Aims. Our aim is to expand our observational study of φ Leo to other characteristic spectral lines of A-type photospheres as well as to lines arising in their CS shells. Methods. We obtained more than 500 high-resolution optical spectra collected at different telescopes over 37 nights in several observ- ing runs from December 2015 to January 2019. Consecutive time-series spectra were taken, covering intervals of up to ∼ 9h on some nights. We analysed some photospheric lines, in particular Ca I 4226Å and Mg II 4481Å, as well as the circumstellar shell lines Ca II H and K, the Ca II IR triplet, Fe II 4924, 5018, and 5169Å, Ti II 3685, 3759, and 3761Å, and the Balmer lines H α and H β . Results. Our observational study reveals that φ Leo is a variable δ Scuti star whose spectra show remarkable dumps and bumps superimposed on the photospheric line profiles, which vary in strength and sharpness, propagate from blue- to more redshifted radial velocities, and persist for a few hours. Similarly to other δ Scuti stars, these features are likely produced by non-radial pulsations. At the same time, all shell lines present emission at ∼ 3kms − 1 centred at the core of the CS features, and two variable absorption minima at both sides of the emission; those absorption minima occur at almost the same velocity for each line, that is, no apparent dynamical evolution is observed. The variations observed in the Ca II H and K, Fe II , and Ti II lines occur on a range of timescales from minutes to days and between observing runs, but without any clear correlation or recognisable temporal pattern among the different lines. In the case of H α , the CS contribution is also variable in just one of the observing runs. Conclusions. We suggest that φ Leo is a rapidly rotating δ Scuti star surrounded by a variable, (nearly) edge-on CS disk possibly re-supplied by the δ Scuti pulsations. The behaviour of the CS shell lines is reminiscent of that of rapidly rotating Be shell stars with an edge-on CS disk, and is clear evidence that the variations observed in the CS features of φ Leo are highly unlikely to be produced by exocomets. In addition, the observational results presented in this work, together with some recent results concerning the shell star HR 10, highlight the need for critical revision of the Ca II K features, which have been attributed to exocomets in other shell stars. stars: individual: φ Leo – stars: early-type – stars: variables: δ Scuti – stars: emission-line, Be – circumstellar matter – comets: general


Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the current rhetoric of predictability in investment theory. After making the case for unpredictability, a new rhetoric for investment theory is proposed. Design/methodology/approach – McCloskey's project of the rhetoric of economics provides the background and approach for the author's investigation. In particular the author will use the notions of metaphor, prediction, discourse analysis, and virtue ethics. Findings – The current rhetoric equals the original rhetoric in the seminal work of Markowitz. The current rhetoric is based on predictability and rational behaviour. The proposed new rhetoric for investment theory denies predictability. The new rhetoric aims to cope with statistics by stressing that statistics is supportive but not decisive: handling investment theory is about judgements, combining virtues with historical and theoretical insights. Practical implications – The investigation of the rhetoric of investment theory has practical relevance ...


Simple Summary The biological processes responsible for the high infiltration and recurrence rate of glioblastoma multiforme, the most frequent and aggressive primary brain tumor (GBM), are still under investigation. By the original analysis of cavitating ultrasound aspirator fluid as the biological specimen, the present study aimed to preliminarily explore and compare the protein profiles of the tumor core and tumor periphery, as defined by 5-aminolevulinic acid fluorescence, in newly diagnosed and recurrent glioblastoma sampled pools. The results showed distinguished protein elements in the different tumor and peritumoral zones, as well as in the two tumor states (newly diagnosed vs recurrent), and suggested the presence of pathological aspects in the fluorescent negative periphery, possibly contributing to the comprehension of the molecular mechanisms underlying this tumor's onset and development, opening to potential clinical applications. Abstract The present investigation aimed to characterize the protein profile of cavitating ultrasound aspirator fluid of newly diagnosed and recurrent glioblastoma comparing diverse zones of collection, i.e., tumor core and tumor periphery, with the aid of 5-aminolevulinic acid fluorescence. The samples were pooled and analyzed in triplicate by LC-MS following the shotgun proteomic approach. The identified proteins were then grouped to disclose elements exclusive and common to the tumor state or tumor zones and submitted to gene ontology classification and pathway overrepresentation analysis. The proteins common to the distinct zones were further investigated by relative quantitation, following a label free approach, to disclose possible differences of expression. Nine proteins, i.e., tubulin 2B chain, CD59, far upstream element-binding, CD44, histone H1.4, caldesmon, osteopontin, tropomyosin chain and metallothionein-2, marked the core of newly diagnosed glioblastoma with respect to tumor periphery. Considering the tumor zone, including the core and the fluorescence positive periphery, the serine glycine biosynthesis, pentose phosphate, 5-hydroxytryptamine degredation, de novo purine biosynthesis and huntington disease pathways resulted statistically significantly overrepresented with respect to the human genome of reference. The fluorescence negative zone shared several protein elements with the tumor zone, possibly indicating the presence of pathological aspects of glioblastoma rather than of normal brain parenchyma. On the other hand, its exclusive protein elements were considered to represent the healthy zone and, accordingly, exhibiting no pathways overrepresentation. On the contrary to newly diagnosed glioblastoma, pathway overrepresentation was recognized only in the healthy zone of recurrent glioblastoma. The TGFβ signaling pathway, exclusively classified in the fluorescence negative periphery in newly diagnosed glioblastoma, was instead the exclusive pathway classified in the tumor core of recurrent glioblastoma. These results, preliminary obtained on sample pools, demonstrated the potential of cavitron ultrasonic surgical aspirate fluid for proteomic profiling of glioblastoma able to distinguish molecular features specific of the diverse tumor zones and tumor states, possibly contributing to the understanding of the highly infiltrative capability and recurrent rate of this aggressive brain tumor and opening to potential clinical applications to be further investigated.


Disclosed is a method for detecting a wide variety of compounds each interacting with a target molecule located on a cell membrane in a simple manner and at low cost, which can use a living cell without the need of separating a cell membrane or the like from the cell. Also disclosed is a kit for achieving the method. The method for detecting a compound interacting with a molecule located on a cell membrane comprises the steps of: reacting a cell with a compound having a moiety capable of binding selectively to the molecule located on the cell membrane and a radicalization-promoting moiety; further reacting the cell with a compound having a group capable of being radicalized by the radicalization-promoting moiety and a labeling group; and identifying a compound to which the compound radicalized by the radicalization-promoting moiety is bound.


There is strong evidence that a fundamental requirement of the next generation of visual and experiential computing (VEC) applications will be the efficient analysis and manipulation of large repositories of visual data (images, videos, RGBD, point clouds, etc.). For example, highly publicized recent advances in image understanding [24] stem not only from improved deep-learning techniques, but also from the ability to execute these techniques on internet-scale, human-annotated image collections [11, 28, 1, 45]. Analysis of visual data collections is also a major component of other advanced VEC applications such as computational photography, high-level image and video manipulation [19, 26, 25], and 3D scene reconstruction [36] and understanding [14]. Further, with image sensors rapidly becoming ubiquitous in all environments (in public spaces, on vehicles, the body, etc.), we anticipate the emergence of entirely new ecosystems of applications made possible by large-scale mining of streams of visual sensor data. These applications may range from consumer-centric personal assistants, to management of critical infrastructure for transportation and smart cities, and even include data-analysis for fundamental science.


In this paper, a 2-D distributed hydrology numerical model,which based on the law of conservation of mass and the law of conservation of energy and the specialty of conflux in woody sloping field, was developed to describe the unsaturated-saturated groundwater flow in woody sloping field.The finite element method was uesd to simulate the process of the rainfall infiltration and the flow in soil.With the result,the specialty of flow produce and infiltration was analyzed.


In Living with Leon,' Professor Donald Dripps powerfully criticizes virtually every line of the Court's opinion in United States v. Leon,' and its "good faith" exception to the exclusionary rule. He persuades me that Leon is one of the weakest of the Court's criminal procedure opinions. But he also opines that Leon "poses only a minor risk of encouraging speculative search warrants"3 and that, properly interpreted, the "result" of Leon is not only defensible but consistent with the Fourth Amendment law that preceded it. Here we part. Professor Dripps' revision of Leon is even less defensible and more pernicious than the Court's own holding. Professor Dripps contends that the high "costs of the warrant process," in the form of lost police time, are themselves sufficient to ensure that the police have probable cause to search.4 So long as these costs are maintained, a "good faith" exception will have no bite: There will be probable cause in all but an insignificant number of warrant searches and thus no need to consider the good faith of the police in executing an invalid warrant.5 He even posits that police effort in seeking the warrant should be treated not as evidence of "good faith," as the Court in Leon may have implied, but as evidence of probable cause itself.' By this sleight of hand, the "good faith exception" vanishes and the exclusionary rule remains in


Axel Andersson is a Swedish writer and art critic, currently editor-in-chief at Kritiklabbet in Stockholm. He earned his doctorate in history at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, in 2007. He is the author of A Hero for the Atomic Age: Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Expedition (2010), and has since contributed writings on cultural history, media theory, and cinema to a number of scholarly anthologies and journals. He the author most recently of Den koloniala simskolan (The Colonial School of Swimming) (2016), which traces the disappearance and return, via colonial locales, of the crawl swimming technique. His work often investigates the performative dimension of media and its intersection with narrations of identity. In 2015 he began a collaboration with Scott Magelssen to try to frame and understand how the Nordic identity has been performed as an Atlantic story of interactions and connections.


This study is conducted on companies in Indonesia during 2012-2015. This research is conducted to test whether manager performs earnings management to avoid negative earnings. This study also examines the effect of industrial specialist auditor and the mechanism of audit committee on earnings management, in addition to test the effect of prudence in strengthening the negative effect of the mechanism of audit committee on earnings management. This study provides empirical evidence that manager performs earnings management to avoid negative earnings by increasing production costs and minimizing the discretionary expenses. This study also provides empirical evidence that the industrial specialist auditor have negative effect on earnings management, while the mechanism of audit committee which consist of the size, the expertise, as well as the audit committee meeting has no effect on earnings management. This study provides empirical evidence that prudence strengthen the negative effect of the size and the expertise of audit committee on earnings management.


The conventional least-mean-square (LMS) algorithm is compared with the ideal LMS/Newton (ILMSN) algorithm. It is shown that, although under certain conditions, for similar misadjustment, the output mean-square error (MSE) of the ILMSN algorithm may converge much faster than the MSE of the LMS algorithm, the difference between the two algorithms may not be that great if misalignments of the adaptive filter tap gains are compared. Analytical results are presented, with computer simulations that support their validity. >


FIELD: construction; transportation. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to elevators for residential, public and industrial buildings and structures, particularly to handling systems for maintenance of buildings, including located on external building wall rail or mast guides, equipped with teeth and hoist with drive. Drive comprises motor with reduction gear and gear wheel fitted on drive shaft reduction gear to engage with said teeth guide so that gear said elevator can move along guides. System has control means configured to control engine. According to invention rail or mast guides have shape following shape of building, and attached to building by means of brackets, passing through building facade and fixed on bearing structures of building, and elevator includes a platform, each edge of which is pivotally mounted on frame, which connects two carriages, each of which is system of guiding thrust rollers resting on rail or mast guides. EFFECT: wider field of use of system due to possibility of its use on facades of buildings of irregular shape. 7 cl, 5 dwg


The role of final state interactions (FSIs) in the inclusive quasielastic disintegration of the deuteron is investigated treating the two-nucleon final state within the exact continuum solutions of the nonrelativistic Schr\"odinger equation, as well as within the Glauber multiple-scattering approach. It is shown that for values of the Bjorken scaling variable ${x}_{\mathrm{Bj}}\ensuremath{\simeq}1$ both approaches provide similar results, except for the case ${x}_{\mathrm{Bj}}\ensuremath{\gtrsim}1,$ where they appreciably disagree. It is demonstrated that present experimental data, which are mostly limited to a region of four-momentum transfer $[{Q}^{2}\ensuremath{\lesssim}4 (\mathrm{GeV}{/c)}^{2}]$ where the center-of-mass energy of the final state is below the pion threshold production, can be satisfactorily reproduced by an approach based on an exact solution of the Schr\"odinger equation and not by the Glauber approach.


In analysing the reaction of the local workforce to the management style introduced by Lafarge in its cement division subsidiary in China, we came up against a general question that puzzles companies rooted in the West but with subsidiaries in that country. These firms seem to face a key dilemma: should they adapt themselves to "Chinese" management? Or should they – and can they – practise management in conformity with the orientations taken by the parent company? Or yet again, should they look to implement some sort of synthesis taking into account both Chinese and "Western" practises (with all the ambiguity implied by the latter)?


Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religious and secular activity in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation.


The article presents the results of experimental studies of a soil-cultivating vibratory roller, as a result of which adequate mathematical models were obtained from the standpoint of compliance with the reference values of the structural composition of the soil. According to the results of the research, it was revealed that the quality of rolling by the developed vibratory roller is 23.9% better than that of the serially produced roller KKZ-6. The optimal speed of movement of the unit and the frequency of rotation of unbalancers are also determined.


Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta9-THC) inhibited the activity of lysolecithin acyl transferase, a membrane-bound lymphocyte enzyme, at concentrations above 1.3 muM. Stimulation of acyl transferase activity by concanavalin A, an early response in lymphocyte activation, was entirely abolished in the presence of delta9-THC.


Coronary artery perforation is an uncommon, but potentially devastating, complication of PCI, and is observed most frequently in complex procedures. Clinical outcomes, including periprocedural and long‐term mortality, are markedly worse with increasing degree of perforation. Perforation required covered stent usage predicts a high in‐hospital and overall mortality, although no difference is noted between covered stent type.


Prasiko G * , Jha A K * , Dong J B * , Srivastava R P * Brachytherapy is primarily a treatment of a malignant disease with the use of radioactive isotope placed near or inside the target tissue. This technique plays an important role in the treatment of cancer of uterine cervix. This is a very new technique in Nepal and the department of radiation oncology of BPKMCH is the only place practicing brachytherapy procedure. The aim of the study was to analyze the cases that have undergone brachytherapy in the first year of initiation of this service. Total 232 patients, out of whom two hundred patients completed treatment. Total 657 applications were held during this period. Peak age group was in fifth decade followed by sixth decade. Good number of procedures was performed compared to other institutes abroad.


The Thesis entitled, TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR DEVELOPING APPLICATION INTELLIGENCE AND MUSICAL kinesthetic IN CHILDREN OF BASIC EDUCATION SCHOOL ING. ALEX JORGE SERRANO CANTON THE GUABO, PROVINCE OF GOLD, PERIOD 2014 - 2015, the study is important because it will allow to analyze the influence of the development of leisure to improve gross motor skills in the teaching-learning process activities.


The Neotropical genus Ernocornutia Razowski is compared with Pseudomeritastis Obraztsov, 1966, Seticosta Razowski, 1986, Ernocornutina Razowski, 1988, and Eristparcula Razowski & Becker, 2001. Seven new species of Ernocornutia from Ecuador are described and illustrated: E. firna, sp. n., E. paracatopta, sp. n., E. chiribogana, sp. n., E. termasiana, sp. n., E. sangayan , sp. n., E. pilaloana, sp. n., and E. pululahuana, sp. n. The new species bring to 12 the number of species currently included in the genus.


Recording and processing both the converted shear waves and the compressional waves from multicomponent ocean bottom seismic (OBS) data provide additional opportunities to understand the subsurface. The converted waves are generally used to provide complementary images and velocity information to support the conventional seismic model. However, they also provide a new opportunity to measure and understand shear-wave azimuthal anisotropy. This paper describes the results from an azimuthal anisotropy study on 3D 4C OBS data from Valhall Field.


Continuous students' preparation for active life in an appropriate institutional framework is an essential factor for their easy insertion after graduation, to reduce unemployment to the young generation and to create an education system adapted to the requirements and demands of the labor market. In adult education, internship/practice programs aim to build relevant skills for higher education institutions' students. Competence is a fusion of organic and functional knowledge, attitudes and skills that appear in this order of priority and are addressed simultaneously in learning. This paper present some theoretical consideration on practice programs developed in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).


The graph matching task and other binary constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) can be solved by non-learning neural nets, i.e. some kind of associative memories with xed weights. The stable states of the nets correspond to solutions of the CSP. The basic problem of this transfer of tasks to nets is to choose the parameters of the nets, for example the initial activations of the nodes, the weights and the update algorithm. Wysotzki (see [Wys90, Wys91]) describes a way of mapping a graph matching task on a feedback net. This paper analyses this mapping and provides some estimates and bounds of the appropriate parameter settings of such a net.


our accreditation process. While we won't have " official word " until spring of 2010, the visitors did have a closing meeting with us and their words were music to our ears! They said that they would report that we were in full compliance and would not receive any recommendations or concerns—a perfect score! They also highlighted some of our accomplishments, which we often overlook as we go about our day to day work. They complimented all of us on clearly working as a team – communicating openly, participating actively and fully supporting our joint vision. They remarked on how incredible our students are, and said that the students told them that they were taught by talented and dedicated teachers. The overall academic program was described as outstanding, and the scholarly productivity of the faculty as incredible, particularly in light of the difficult year we had just experienced. They pointed out that our research activity was amazing, especially given our size. Finally, they confirmed that we hold a very high profile across campus, noting that the College of Nursing was described as the best innovators, best educators and most dedicated to true interpro-fessional collaboration.


Domain names are essential for surfing the web. Name registration is subject to specific rules and domain names are managed worldwide by a private international organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Num¬bers (ICANN). Ever since it was first formed in 1998 and up until 2013, ICANN's policy on domain-name supply has been highly Malthusian and has led to a situation in which the ".com" extension is very much predominant because firms looking to be present on the Web simply cannot do without it. This dominant position has also led to the emergence of an economic rent for the VeriSign corporation that has the monopoly of managing the ".com" extension. After much criticism, ICANN decided in 2008 to open up the possibilities for creating new extensions. One of the main arguments ICANN made was that the increased competition further to the creation of multiple exten-sions would diversify supply and reduce the market power of ".com" and VeriSign. We shall show that the "pro-competition" effects of this surge in supply are probably overestimated while the costs for domain-name users are underestimated. The actual introduction of new extensions dates from the end of 2013 and we analyse actor strat-egies to cope with the far-reaching change in the basic conditions of the market.


Abstract : Just as flight simulators enable pilots to safely practice responses to emergencies, the challenge now is to develop virtual environment technology for the training together of small teams on foot military squads, Coast Guard boarding parties, police, EMTs, emergency room trauma teams, hazmat teams, etc. Such training allows repeated, varied practice. The goal is you are there; you learn by doing with feedback; you jell as a team by doing together. First, we must clearly envision what is wanted. This we will call the Immersive Team Trainer (ITT). The successes of flight and ship bridge simulators encourage us. Their use for training mounted teams is a well understood and trusted accomplishment. Decades of development have brought flight simulators to mature excellence; simulators for training other vehicle crews are rapidly approaching this maturity. Such simulators have been proven to be not only more cost-effective per hour than live vehicle training, but more effective as well, since VEs can provide a higher density of experiences and the chance to practice rare and dangerous scenarios safely. The vision is to extend VEs for training dismounted teams effectively and cost effectively. This has not been done yet because it is technically much more difficult than immersive training for vehicle crews.


The crosshead bearing in large two-stroke diesel engines operates under severe lubrication conditions, because it oscillates within a small angle at a low speed and is subject o a high specific load The crosshead bearing has several axial oil-grooves on the loaded surface to promote oil film replenishment during bearing oscillation. Because the development of a thick oil film by hydrodynamic action is impaired by these oil-grooves, the bearing is more prone to damage by iribological failure. The continuing trend towards more compact engines with increased output raises the bearing specific load, leading to more severe operating conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to find a means to detect incipient seizure andpreventit [1] [5]. A technique to monitor vibration using an accelerometer has already been adopted to detect the tribological degradation on many surfaces such as rolling bearings and gears [6]. For crosshead bearings, however, there are very few reports on monitoring techniques to detect the early stages of severe metal-to-metal contact prior to complete seizure. If careful measures against seizure could be carried out immediately after detecting incipient abnommal vibration, the surface damage would be reduced. Detection of abnormal vibration could therefore be an effective means of preventing seizure, and thereby improving the reliability of crossheadbearings. 2. Test Method


High power circular accelerators and storage rings have both stringent beam loss requirements and significant space charge forces. It is therefore important to study the space charge dynamics in rings. To represent the space charge forces of the beam for arbitrary distributions in particle tracking calculations, we have developed a particle-in-cell (PIC) model. This has been accomplished by including space charge forces in the injection and tracking code, ACCSIM. Because PIC calculations can become extremely time consuming, we use a fast Fourier transform (FFT) evaluation scheme for the space charge forces. Application of this scheme is made for the calculation of halo generation, emittance growth, and tune shifts in similar doublet and FODO lattice configurations. Also, comparison of the results and computer timing of the PIC model calculations is made with those of a parametrically matched particle core model (PCM) and with calculations having no space charge effects.


AbstractMuch ink has been spilt over the last decade in discussion of the theories and practices of social enterprise — see especially Peattie and Morley2 for a comprehensive review of the field, including of other reviews.This brief paper is about a specific aspect of these theories and practices: the effort to establish social enterprises as distinctive from others in having at least a double bottom-line (or in some cases a triple bottom-line, or even some greater multiple of bottom-lines).The effort to establish this distinction does not fit comfortably with Freeman's ideas about stakeholders, as exemplified in his suggestion that 'all of those groups and individuals that can affect, or are affected by, the accomplishment of the business enterprise' should be taken into account by its managers.3The main feature of the multiple bottom-line is, on the contrary, that only some interests, not all, should be taken into account in decision making.I do not claim that the multiple bottom-line is the sole distinctive characteristic of organisations defined (by themselves or other) as social enterprises, but it is the only characteristic that concerns me in relation to stakeholder theory in this paper. I also do not claim that stakeholder theory consists only of a view about who should be taken into account by managers, but this is the only element of stakeholder theory that concerns me, in this paper, in relation to social enterprises; and all other aspects of social enterprise theory and practice, and all other aspects of stakeholder theory, will have to wait until another day.


A variety of modern signal processing applications like high resolution temporal/spatial spectral analysis and eigenvalue decomposition based data compression requires subspace estimation. In an unknown and possibly changing environment, adaptive algorithms which are computationally efficient, numerically stable, and easy to implement in hardware are highly desirable. In this paper, we first review some gradient-based adaptive algorithms for subspace tracking. We show that these algorithms, in comparison to other classical techniques, are not only competitive in tracking performance but also advantageous in both computational complexity and robustness. Then we present a novel systolic architecture for implementing these algorithms with a high processor utilization.


Based on water and sediment data for station No.4 of Dongdagang tidal channel,a discussion was made on the mechanism of suspended sediment transport in the channel by use of the mechanism decomposition method and spectral analysis method.The result shows that the advection is the main factor to affect the suspended sediment transport,and the tidal pumping effect also plays an important role.Meanwhile,the current velocity is an important dynamic factor on variation of sediment concentration in water body and suspended sediment transport.


Traditional empirical risk minimization (ERM) for semantic segmentation can disproportionately advantage or disadvantage certain target classes in favor of an (unfair but) improved overall performance. Inspired by the recently introduced tilted ERM (TERM), we propose tilted cross-entropy (TCE) loss and adapt it to the semantic segmentation set-ting to minimize performance disparity among target classes and promote fairness. Through quantitative and qualitative performance analyses, we demonstrate that the proposed Stochastic TCE for semantic segmentation can offer improved overall fairness by efficiently minimizing the performance disparity among the target classes of Cityscapes.


The authors present a detailed investigation of defects generated during catastrophic optical damage (COD) in high-power 650nm AlGaInP lasers using microphotoluminescence (μ-PL) mapping, focused ion beam (FIB) microscopy, and deep-etching techniques. High-resolution μ-PL images demonstrated that during COD, nonradiative dark line defects (DLDs) originate from the front mirror of the laser and propagate in several branches into the laser perpendicular to the output facet. Furthermore, FIB microscopy identified the epitaxial layers affected by COD, revealing that DLDs are confined to the active region. In addition, deep etching confirmed that these defects have a noncrystalline nature.


Paper entertains the development of state coat of arms of Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) accordance with general artistic transformation in the 20th century. There are mentioned some important artists who influenced this theme in painting, graphics, sculpture.


Due to the special geographical position,abundant strategic resources and energy of Central Asia,this area has become a strategic zone in the geopolitics competition of big powers.As one of the closest neighbors of Central Asia,China should draw up definite strategy on Central Asia to support its safety.As for the geographical strategy choices,China tries to embody the cooperation spirit of mutual development and benefits,and the diplomacy idea of "Seeking for Peace with Dissimilarity".China initiates the new Safe View,and tries to set up a peaceful,stable and advantageous environment in Central Asia.Moreover,relying on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and energy cooperation as a strategic point,China balances every influence in Central Asia,keep the flexibility of strategy,and provide a good exterior environment for the peaceful growing up of China.


técnica análise coletados. 84% 94% menopausa, menopausa, artralgias/mialgias qualidade atividade física, alimentação saudável evitar tabagismo. informação as mudanças climatério/menopausa, prevenindo/amenizando síndrome climatérica exercendo autocuidado. 59 years-of age participated in a reproductive health center in Natal/RN who answered a semi-structured interview. A content analysis technique was used to collect the data. As a result, 84% of women had heard about what the climateric is; and 94% about menopause, but they were confused about climateric and menopause, getting older and illness. The climateric was revealed as anxiety, artralgias/mialgias and hot waves. Important ways to reach the quality of life were considered: physical activity, healthy intake and avoid smoking. It is essential that women have access to health information to understand chan-ges of climateric/menopause, avoiding/easing the climateric syndrome and exercising self-care.


Current framework of special relativity is shown to transform the unique time of a frame to many self contradictory times in the other frame that cannot be associated with any real clock. So, we revisit relativity as a problem of observing motion under finite signal speed. Kishori's axioms are developed for avoiding undesirable effects of finite signal speed from creeping into cross-frame measurements. The self-contradictory transformed time and the relativity of simultaneity are shown as undesirable effects that creep into the current framework. The methodology is developed to directly test the simultaneity of relativity experimentally, which is most often deduced indirectly despite being directly testable. This study lays down the foundation of an alternative formulation of relativity that complies with Kishori's axioms in addition to the two famous postulates of relativity, reproduces the so far proven results, and also predicts new experimentally verifiable phenomena.


Committee 1, Basic Data, C. A. Holmquist, Chairman. In April, 1931, Mr. Holmquist presented a report showing which of the forty-eight states issue pamphlets containing statistics of the water systems in the state. He found that less than half of the states issue such pamphlets and that among these there is such variation in method employed that he found it inadvisable to try to make use of these pamphlets in the preparation of text for Basic Data especially in view of the fact that the available pamphlets fell far short of covering the whole country. At the request of Chairman Holmquist this committee was discharged. Committee 2, Surface Water Allocation. No chairman appointed. The Committee on Water Works Practice during 1931 followed the two cases involving interstate waters which were carried to the Supreme Court of the United States, that of Massachusetts and Connecticut in regard to tributaries of the Connecticut River and of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in regard to tributaries of the Delaware River. Papers on these two cases were published by the New England Water Works Association and reprints of these were obtained for the office of the Association for use by our committees and for future reference.


This article reviews the research situation and prospects about elicitors of plant diseases, especially emphasis on categories and mechanisms of elicitors. This paper comes up with the problems existing about the research and promises a bright future in modern agriculture field.


This paper presents an innovative technique of integrating silica nanowires to photoresist-derived carbon microelectromechanical systems (C-MEMS) on silicon substrate. The silica nanowires were synthesized through thermal treatment in a tube furnace at 1200 °C under a gaseous environment of N2 and H2. The stiff morphology and radicalized distribution around carbon posts of nanowires was observed, which was different from much of the previous studies. High-temperature annealing and meticulous-controlled pyrolying atmosphere could be the causes of the formation of unusual SiO2/C-MEMS integrated structures.


This study is intended to determine the feasiblity of establishing a high-quality, free-standing MR imaging center dedicated to the breast in or about the City of Redlands.


A valuable calculation model based on Green's theorem is constructed to tackle wave making problem in this paper. In the model, Rankine Sources and dipoles are placed on boundary surfaces and time-stepping scheme in time domain is used to simulate the wave making in water tank caused by submerged body. Theory reasoning and calculation process of this method is also introduced in detail, and proper parameters of the model are determined by means of many numerical tests. The influences of the adjustment of various parameters on wave making resistance of submerged body and wave pattern are discussed. The comparison between various numerical tests and real experiment data shows that this method is a feasible and reliable supporting model of 3-D numerical wave tank.


Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a wireless technology used to identify objects at distance using radio waves. RFID has wide area of applications such as inventory management, production process monitoring, assembly process control, access control and security, toll collection at highways, shipping operations at ports, wild animal tracking, livestock tracking, and improving safety at hazardous areas. This paper presents an overview of the state of art of the RFID system, its applications, architecture, and challenges in deployment in order to highlight its implementation and for further investigations.


A comparison has been made of the strength of one and two layer EEA stapled colonic anastomoses measured seven days after their construction in the dog. Bursting pressures were high in both groups and there was no detectable difference between the two groups. Similarly, the e were no obvious differences in the rate of wound infection, the incidence of fibrinous adhesions, and the stage of anastomotic healing as detected on histological examination.


In this paper, a concept for generating, implementing and operating a data-based system for quality oriented productive maintenance (QPM) will be presented. QPM directly connects tool and machine conditions with relevant product quality parameter via cause-and-effect coherences within the whole manufacturing process chain. To identify maintenance-critical conditions of machines and tools, existing data from a variety of data collecting systems (e.g. operating and machine data logging) can be used. This data can be complemented via additional available sensor and measurement technique. Methods of Data Mining are used to analyse the collected data and to discover quality-relevant cause-and-effect coherences. Based on the analysis results, a set of rules for the quality oriented implementation of maintenance activities can be derived.


The novel backstepping control schemes are proposed to deal with the formation control problem of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with input saturation constraint and model uncertainty. The trajectory tracking error model of the multiple UAVs formation is established. Then the standard ideal backstepping formation controller, which is applied to address the case with certain model and no input saturation constraint, is presented. After that, an adaptive backstepping controller associated with the designed command filter is developed to overcome input saturation constraint and model uncertainty. The controllers above enable the asymptotical Lyapunov stability of the closed-loop system. Numerical simulation results show that the proposed approaches are effective for the formation control of the UAV system.


ABSTRACT In recent years, the mass media (such as TV shows and movies) plays an important role in communication with the general public. In this paper, we investigate the impact of a recent movie from China, 'Dying to Survive', on the demand for commercial health insurance. To explore this impact, a fixed-effect model and instrumental variable estimation are utilized, and the causal effect of movie-based health risk communication on commercial health insurance demand is studied. The result shows that the cumulative box office value of a movie has a significantly positive impact on the income from commercial health insurance premium, with a one- or two-day lag. This movie has encouraged viewers to purchase short-term commercial health insurance rather than long-term insurance. In addition, the heterogeneity of the impact exists for movie arrangement rate, average family size, urbanization rate, medical resource level, and per capita disposable income. The results show that sufficient health risk communication can improve the social 'visibility' of health risk.


Abstract : ELECTRONIC FILE CHARACTERISTICS: 1 file; Adobe Acrobat (.PDF). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 CD-ROM; 4 3/4 in.; 678 MB. ABSTRACT: This report documents data collected during the THEMAS remote sensing experiments. THEMAS was an Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Coalition Warfare Program remote sensing campaign conducted jointly by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia in collaboration with a number of other institutions. THEMAS goals were to further develop and enhance methods for exploitation of hyperspectral imagery to support amphibious planning. To that end, the THEMAS team: (1) obtained high spatial resolution imagery from various phase angles and (2) collected information on beach sediments, atmospheric properties, and oceanographic properties. This allowed NRL to compare and merge in situ data with imagery to develop imagery-derived trafficability maps and shallow water bathymetric charts. The goal for THEMAS experiments involves the study of coastal environments using multi-angular spectral data, specifically to support the extraction of coastal characterization parameters from a variety of imaging geometries, as well as to take advantage of repeat-pass imaging at multiple geometries.


The mixed method of optical components which is nontransparent in visual spectral range during frame processing is discussed. Theproposed method requires the following: one lens surface is positioned under mechanical control method and another lens surface is positioned under optical control method (collimation method) in floating holder. The article presents the comparison of the mixed method with centration method by two Zabelin tubes, and relative decentering measurements of lenses in frames centered by means of these methods.


Measurements have been made of the thermal conductivity from 2 to 160 °K and the electrical conductivity from 1·4 to 293 °K of copper in strained and annealed states.