Psychological evidence and casual intuition predict that sunny weather is associated with an upbeat mood.This paper examines the relationship between morning sunshine in the cities of Shanghai and Shenzhen and the daily market index returns from 1997-2002.Sunshine is strongly and significantly correlated to market returns.Substantial use of weather based strategies was optimal for a trader with very low transaction costs.These findings are difficult to reconcile with fully rational price setting.


Abstract : Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE) is a tactical communications system which provides mobile field radio, telephone, and record traffic for the U.S. Army at corps and division levels. This system went from contract award to materiel fielding in a period of less than two and a half years through the utilization of nondevelopmental item (NDI) acquisition. The accelerated acquisition cycle presented many challenges to the successful deployment of this tactical communications system. This thesis examines the nontraditional methods of materiel fielding which were employed to address the challenges posed by the NDI acquisition of MSE. These nontraditional methods include contractor total package fielding, contractor developed and implemented training, and contractor logistic support. This thesis identifies the implications of these methods as a source of information for those elements of the acquisition community involved in materiel fielding planning. A significant lesson learned is that contractor total package fielding, training, and logistic support are viable alternatives for accomplishing materiel fielding for NDI systems.


This paper discusses the text mining method to obtain the education web information rules. The method can be applied to words and parts of speech in texts to record the two-tier structure of automatic mining. On the basis of the initial discovery of the labeling rules, we put forward the linguistic features based on words to expand the application of the approaches. The web information retrieval mechanism is proposed based on web content segmentation. In addition, we build a rule matching method to improve performance of rule utilization, in terms of information of interest to the user and the extent to the interesting part. In conclusion, the use of automatic labeling rules can make part of the tagging accuracy rate reach a new height.


Introduction: Metal oxides play very important roles in petroleum refining processes either as catalysts or supporters. Their role and efficiency in the catalysis processes strongly depend on their stability, their atomic and electronic structures and properties. These important features are usually tuned by changing or alloying the metal cations. On the other hand, engineering the anions, such as blending F into the structure may greatly enhance the stability and tune the electronic structures and properties of materials. Due to the difficulties in synthesizing mixed anion compounds, it will be greatly helpful if we can know in advance the stability and the properties of the target compounds. In this project, we will apply the automatic structure search method based on DFT calculations and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to explore the stability and the structures of metal oxyfluorides and study their possible catalytic activities in oil refining. Our main goal is to systematically study the structure evolution and the corresponding property change with increasing fluorine or chlorine composition.


A topological modulation of magnetic thin films can induce a magnetic anisotropy of magnetostatic origin. In this letter, we report on the magnetic properties of NiFe layers deposited on wavy shaped Si substrates. Without any modulation, our films always present an intrinsic anisotropy. We show unambiguously that patterning the substrate can overcome this anisotropy and even impose a different easy axis of magnetization. This allows the definition of two orthogonal easy axes at different places on the same substrate. This control of anisotropy both in direction and intensity paves the way to the realization of high precision bidimensional magnetic sensors.


Glossary Cue The signal or information in a two-dimensional image that can be used to infer or reconstruct the spatial relations in a three-dimensional scene. Depth Refers to the distance between a viewer and an object as well to the distance between two objects that extend away from a viewer. This is the missing dimension when depicting a three-dimensional scene in a two-dimensional image, whether the image be a picture or the pattern of light projected onto the retina at the back of the eye. Fovea An area of the retina in the center of each eye in humans (as well as in the eyes of many other sighted animals) containing the most densely packed array of light-sensitive neurons. High-resolution vision is only possible when light from an object falls onto the fovea. Heuristic A method for solving a problem that begins by first making certain assumptions (e.g., a gradation of shading in an image that runs vertically from light to dark corresponds to a surface with convex curvature, but only on the assumption that light is shining from above the surface and the viewer). Image A two-dimensional projection of a threedimensional scene from a specific viewpoint. Retina(e) The array of light-sensitive neurons at the back of the eye. Light rays passing through the cornea and lens of the eye are focused on the retina and these retinal neurons convert the light into electrochemical signals. Retinal image The array of light projected onto the retina through the cornea and lens of the eye.


Post-publication a small error was found in Example 1, a typo which also lead to comparing the QSSA and constrained approximations to the wrong distribution. Below we represent this material with the amendments highlighted in red, along with a corrected Figure 1. This didn't overly affect the presentation of the example, but did underplay the accuracy of the constrained approach for this example.


In order to estimate the fundamental mechanical performance and effect of hooping strengthening arch rib,comparative analysis was performed to analyze the crack development regulation,failure process and characteristics,bearing capacity and the performance of young-old concrete interface.The test results show that crack distribution regulation,failure process and mode of the two specimens were identical-the deflection difference of failure state was 0.5 mm and the difference of failure load was 2.7%,which means that the structural mechanical performance of hooping strengthening arch rib is as same as that of the integrated pouring arch rib.In the loading process,the measuring maximum shear stress of the young-old concrete interface was much smaller than its bearing capacity,and the testing strain of midsection before cracking basically complied with the plane section assumption,which shows that the young-old concrete could work together.Through the analysis of comparative model test,it shows that hooping strengthening technique is reliable and effective for reinforcing arch rib.


We study the volume growth of hyperkaehler manifolds of type $A_{\infty}$ constructed by Anderson-Kronheimer-LeBrun and Goto. These are noncompact complete 4-dimensional hyperkaehler manifolds of infinite topological type. These manifolds have the same topology but the hyperkaehler metrics are depends on the choice of parameters. By taking a certain parameter, we show that there exists a hyperkaehler manifold of type $A_{\infty}$ whose volume growth is r^a for each 3


Brain metastasis is a major cause of death in patients with solid cancers. Breast cancer cells have high tendency to migrate towards brain. Cancer cells within brain are characterized by severe aggressiveness and inaccessibility. Currently, breast cancer and its metastasis are the second leading cause of death among women. Tumor microenvironment and blood brain barrier (BBB) represent great obstacles in targeting breast cancer and its metastasis. Chemotherapy is a safer treatment modality for brain metastasis compared with risky surgical resection and brain radiotherapy. Unfortunately, conventional chemotherapy lack penetration of BBB and suffer from multiple resistance mechanisms. Current treatment technologies for brain metastases of breast cancer have limited long-term success and numerous side effects, illustrating the urgent need for novel smart strategies. Various novel drug entities and nanosystems have been employed to improve diagnosis and targeted treatment of breast cancer and its metastasis. Immunotherapy agents and small tyrosine kinase inhibitors have been shown to reduce tumor size and increase survival in patients with breast cancer, but still poorly penetrate BBB. Tailored sized nanoparticles to some extent crossed brain tumor barrier and enhanced drug accumulation in tumors by taking advantage of enhanced permeability and retention. Furthermore, various active targeting strategies have been adopted to improve accessibility to brain malignancies. Therefore, to achieve enhanced antitumor therapy against breast cancer and its brain metastasis, multi-talented delivery systems are urgently needed for optimal treatment. This review focuses on the various active and passive targeting technologies for the treatment of breast cancer brain metastases in the past decade. A comprehensive summary and examples along with pros and cons of each system will be discussed. Different treatment modalities and nanotechnology facilities will be demonstrated to aid in designing the optimal smart, safe, targeted and effective systems to combat brain metastases of breast cancer.


465 ABSTRACT In patients with obstructive jaundice, when the endoscopic approach fails to achieve biliary drainage, percutaneous cannulation and combined endoscopic/ percutaneous endoprosthesis insertion can be performed simultaneously or in stages. This study compared these two approaches.Endoscopic retrograde biliary drainage (ERBD) and percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) are the two main non-surgical treatment options for obstructive jaundice in patients with HCC. ERBD is usually the first-line treatment because of its low hemorrhage risk. Mean stent patency time and mean survival range from 1.0 to 15.9 and 2.8 to 12.3 months, respectively. The dominant effect of biliary drainage suggests that successful jaundice therapy could enhance anti-cancer treatment by increasing life expectancy, decreasing mortality, or both. We present an overview of the efficacy of endoscopic and percutaneous drainage for obstructive jaundice in patients with HCC who are not candidates for surgical resection and summarize the current indications and outcomes of reported clinical use.


The interplay between gene flow and selection is examined in the chromatic lesser snow goose (Anser caerulescens caerulescens). A major component of this species nests in several large colonies (segments) in the Canadian Arctic and migrates to the gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana, where there is considerable mixing of birds from different segments. Pair formation occurs when birds from different nesting segments are mixing and frequently occurs between birds from different segments. Females usually return to their natal nesting segment, whereas males only do so if they pair with birds from their own natal segment. The consequence is considerable gene flow among the different nesting segments. Gene flow into the small nesting segment at La Pérouse Bay, Manitoba, is estimated to be around 50% per generation. Gene flow into the larger segments is expected to be somewhat less. With this amount of gene flow, one would expect little local adaptation within the various nesting segments. This conclusion is examined in view of the apparently stable differences in color frequencies among the nesting segments. It is argued that behavioral aspects of the breeding biology of the species, rather than natural selection, sufficiently account for both the massive gene flow and the color differentiation among nesting segments.


In recent years, Metamaterials is widely applied in the field of microwave, include in the field of antenna studies, but little of them come down to half wave antenna and antenna array. So a half wave dipole antenna and antenna array are simulated as a benchmark, antennas loading reflector, metal reflective plate and Metamaterials reflective plate are simulated respectively. The simulation results show that the Metamaterials can effectively increase the antenna's and array's gain, especially the side-fire antenna array's gain.


Abstract Aim. The aim of this study was to determine the occurrence of mobbing and its health impacts on nurses in the selected hospital. Method. The pilot study was performed from August to September 2020. The group consisted of 84 nurses (return was 56.0%), working in the acute care department in a selected medical facility. NAQ-R (Negative Acts Questionnaire-Revised) and GHQ-28 (General Health Questionnaire-28) tools were used. Results. In total 10.50% of nurses experienced mobbing. Mobbing was targeted at the work-oriented and nurse-related areas. The most common descriptive phenomenon of mobbing is the assignment of tasks below the level of competencies. Nurses describing the occurrence of mobbing in the workplace more often reported feelings of constant tension, nervousness and pressure. Conclusions. The occurrence of mobbing in the workplace can affect the health and cause mental and social problems of nurses.


Distinguishing agents of bone modification at paleoanthropological sites is at the root of much of the research directed at understanding early hominin exploitation of large animal resources and the effects those subsistence behaviors had on early hominin evolution. However, current methods, particularly in the area of fracture pattern analysis as a signal of marrow exploitation, have failed to overcome equifinality. Furthermore, researchers debate the replicability and validity of current and emerging methods for analyzing bone modifications. Here we present a new approach to fracture pattern analysis aimed at distinguishing bone fragments resulting from hominin bone breakage and those produced by carnivores. This new method uses 3D models of fragmentary bone to extract a much richer dataset that is more transparent and replicable than feature sets previously used in fracture pattern analysis. Supervised machine learning algorithms are properly used to classify bone fragments according to agent of breakage with average mean accuracy of 77% across tests.


The Dutch decision tree on leaching from soil has been re-designed to be more in line with EU guidelines on the assessment of the leaching potential of substances. The new decision tree explicitly defines reasonable worst-case conditions as the 90th percentile of the area to which a substance is applied. The spatially distributed model, GeoPEARL, is used to calculate the leaching. A report from RIVM, Alterra and TCB


In this paper we describe and verify a method, called SMIP, to circumvent the trade-off between motion blur and noise, specifically for scenes with predominantly two distinct linear motions (sparse motion). This is based on employing image stabilization hardware to track objects during exposure while capturing two images in quick succession. The two images are combined into a single sharp image without segmentation or local motion estimation. We provide a theoretical analysis and simulations to show that the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) increases up to 20 dB over conventional short-exposure photography. We demonstrate that the proposed method significantly improves the SNR compared to existing methods. Furthermore, we evaluate a proof-of-concept using modified off-the-shelf optical image stabilization hardware to verify the effectiveness of our method in practice, showing a good correspondence between the simulation and practical results.


High-resistance state instability (HRSI) is one of the major challenges that obstruct the application of resistive random access memory (RRAM) in commercial markets. In this letter, we studied the mechanism of HRSI of TaOx-based RRAM with a statistical methodology. During DC sweep, the model is able to calculate the defect numbers when the endurance degradation and short-term HRSI occur. Our result reveals that these two kinds of HRSI both have a strong connection with the change of defect numbers which play an important role in current conduction. According to our analysis, the endurance degradation is caused by the increase in fixed defect numbers, while short-term HRSI originates from the relaxation induced by reduction of defect numbers.


treatment of multiple myeloma has progressed significantly over the past years after the introduction of immunomodulation drugs and proteasome inhibitors, which lead to the overall survival improvement, but still disease has exacerbations (relapses) and remissions. All patients with multiple myeloma have relapses within different interval of time. the duration of achieved remission in patients with a relapse of multiple myeloma becomes shorter with each subsequent case. the choice of regimen for relapse of multiple myeloma is very difficult. it depends on a number of factors, including the previous induction regimen, the number of lines of the previous therapy, and the degree of aggression of relapse. the article is dedicated to the peculiarities of drug resistance development to the first line therapy in patients with multiple myeloma by assessing of genetic markers (deletion variants of Gstt1, GstM1 genes, Gstp1 (А313G), Mdr1 (c3435t)) and clinical-hematological, laboratory characteristics. the objective: to develop the predictive algorithm for the effectiveness of treatment in patients multiple myeloma by assessing of clinicalб genetic and laboratory parameters. Materials and methods. 68 clinical and laboratory indexes and genetic markers (deletion polymorphism of genes Gstt1, GstM1, polymorphism А313G, c3435t genes Gstp1, Mdr1) was studied in 130 patients with multiple myeloma. Results. it was determined that important predictors of development of refractory forms of multiple myeloma is allelic polymorphism of gene GstM1, higher level α 2-globulin and calcium in blood serum at the disease beginning. Conclusions. implementation of predicative algorithm based on assessment of GstM1polymorphism, level of α 2-globulin and calcium in blood serum before the beginning of treatment raises efficacy of evaluation of individual prognosis for response on treatment.


The effects of climate change on lake eutrophication were studied using a dynamic simulation model. The climate scenarios of the Finnish Research Programme on Climate Change (SILMU) were applied. As the model, a modified version of the Swedish PROBE was used. The description of water quality and growth of plankton was included in the model in Finland. There were three case study lakes: Lake Villikkalanjarvi in southern Finland and Lakes Kalliojarvi and Langelmavesi in central Finland. The model was successfully calibrated to all three lakes. According to the simulations the effects of climate change on the trophic status of the lakes will not be great. An increase in the spring peak of phytoplankton is expected, but the average biomasses will remain the same as at present. However, on the basis of the modelling results we can conclude that climate change may cause a risk for eutrophication in some lakes.


This paper compares 4 kinds of simple diversity schemes for an indoor scenario at 2.4 GHz: polarisation, dual antenna, antenna and polarisation, and triple antenna for an indoor scenario, all combined according to 5 different techniques. Useful parameters are extracted statistically. We conclude that the power combining method gives the best results, and that the extra complexity of the 3 antenna case is not always justified from a cost viewpoint.


2512 Background: The vast majority of carcinomas express either MUC-1 or CEA. Preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated that induction of T-cell responses directed against CEA and MUC-1 can lead to anti-tumor activity without toxicity. Two novel vaccines have been developed: (a) PANVAC-V (V) a recombinant vaccinia virus containing CEA and MUC-1 with modified agonist epitopes and 3 costimulatory molecule transgenes, and (b) PANVAC-F (F) a similar recombinant fowlpox virus.

METHODS
This pilot study enrolled 25 pts with metastatic carcinoma who had progressive disease after chemotherapy. Pts received V priming followed by F boosts every 2 weeks × 3 then monthly with restaging scans every 2 months while on study. All vaccines were given with sargramostim at the vaccine site. The primary endpoint was safety. Class I and class II immune responses to CEA were analyzed. Class I responses were assayed by ELISPOT, intracellular cytokine, and tetramer binding; and class II responses were assayed by ELISA using CEA protein and class II peptides.

RESULTS
Treatment was well tolerated with 135 cycles given. Only one grade 3 toxicity (syncope during a flu-like illness) was possibly related to vaccine. Apart from injection site reactions, only 9 cycles (7%) were associated with transient grade 2 toxicity (generally flu-like syndromes). Class I and class II immunologic responses were demonstrated. A pt with metastatic breast cancer and 5 large liver metastasis had a 24% decrease in unidimensional measurement of disease for 6 months. A pt with metastatic gastric cancer had stable disease for 5 months. Furthermore, a pt with metastatic clear cell ovarian cancer s/p chemotherapy had complete disappearance of large volume, symptomatic ascites accompanied by marked improvement in the appearance of mesenteric stranding and a CA-125 reduction from 281 U/mL to continued sustained normal values (< 20 U/mL).

CONCLUSIONS
This vaccine can be given safely and can generate therapy specific immunologic responses. In addition 1 pt with metastatic ovarian cancer had a dramatic clinical response. Based on this, we have initiated a pilot study specifically for ovarian cancer pts to gain more information on which to base a large clinical endpoint trial. No significant financial relationships to disclose.


Objective
To explore the effects of continuous nursing care based on theory of goal attainment on self-health management ability and quality of life in patients with stroke.

Methods
Totally 126 patients with stroke treated in a ClassⅢ Grade A hospital in Anhui Province from December 2017 to December 2018 were selected using convenient sampling and stratified into treatment (n=64) and control (n=62) groups. Patients in the control group received conventional nursing care, while patients in the treatment group received continuous care based on the theory of goal attainment. Self-Health Management Scale for Patients with Chronic Diseases (SHMSPCD) and Quality of Life Inventory (QLI) were used to assess the effects before and after intervention.

Results
Both the total self-health management ability and quality of life scores of the treatment group were higher than those of the control group 1, 3 and 6 month after intervention, and there were statistically significant differences between the two groups (P<0.05) .

Conclusions
Continuous nursing care based on the theory of goal attainment can improve the self-health management ability and quality of life of the patients with stroke.

Key words:
Quality of life; Stroke; Theory of goal attainment; Continuous nursing care; Self-health management ability


On May 14, 1973, Skylab was placed in earth orbit by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The major scientific payload of this experimental space station is the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) which houses six major telescope instruments. As a group, these instruments are capable of observing the sun's radiation from X-rays to visible light. The Skylab program consists of three manned observing periods; the first period having a twenty-eight day duration, the second and third each having fifty-six days duration. These three observing periods are separated by unmanned periods of approximately forty days duration. From the data collected in these three observing periods, solar physicists will try to answer some of the basic questions concerning solar flares, solar activity, the heating of the solar corona and the solar cycle. The purpose of this paper is to give a brief description of the hardware and performance of one of these instruments, the X-ray spectroheliograph. The conceptual design of this instrument and scientific details of the subsystems have been discussed in Reference 2 as part of a general discussion on "Imaging in X-Ray Astronomy". A more extensive presentation of the instrument as a whole in the context of the goals in the solar physics area is in preparation (Reference 3).


Stress-induced interface trap generation (/spl Delta/N/sub it/) in the mid-channel region of standard n-channel MOSFETs with ultrathin plasma-nitrided SiO/sub 2/ films (2.34 and 3.48 nm) were systematically studied under static and dynamic (both bipolar and unipolar) oxide field stresses over a wide frequency range from 1 to 10/sup 7/ Hz using a direct-current current-voltage measurement. At the bipolar stresses, /spl Delta/N/sub it/ increases with the stress frequency significantly when the frequency is larger than /spl sim/10/sup 4/ Hz while it saturates or decreases at the frequency larger than /spl sim/10/sup 7/ Hz. The frequency dependence of the /spl Delta/N/sub it/ enhancement can be attributed to a charge pumping current during the dynamic stress. Nitrogen incorporation increases not only /spl Delta/N/sub it/, but also the frequency dependence.


Taking 6 varieties of radish as experimental material, effects of Abscisic Acid(ABA), Cmoreholinchlorid(CCC), and Uniconazole(S3307) on bolting were studied. In this experiment, 3 growth regulators were sprayed on radish seedlings at trefoil stage. The results showed that the C/N, budding rate, and bolting rate decreased by application of exogenous growth regulators. The effects of S3307600 mg·L-1 was the most obvious for decreasing bolting rate of radish among three plant growth regulator treatments. The responding of different radish varieties to growth regulators was different in bolting. The treatment of S3307 decreased the C/N in leaf of radish 'Weiqing No.3','Qiaotouqing','Shuiluobu No.501' and 'Mantanghong'to 54.2%,37.14%, 34.62%, 62.20%, respectively. The inhibiting of budding rate and bolting rate were significantly.


This paper presents a new approach for distributed target detection in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Contrary to the conventional practice where every sensor uses an identical threshold for decision-making, an unequal and dynamic local sensor threshold selection scheme is proposed. This threshold selection scheme is based on a recently proposed statistical metric for multiple testing problems called the False Discovery Rate (FDR). Assuming a signal attenuation model, where the received signal power decays as the distance from the target increases, various performance indices like the system level probability of detection and the probability of false alarm are studied. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach.


With increasing longevity, the incidence of age‐associated functional decline and dementia is on the rise, with Alzheimer's disease, the third most common type of dementia, projected to affect 13.8 million people by 2050. Previous studies on aging populations have reported that while people chronologically age at the same rate, an individual's brain maturation/aging trajectory, which can be quantified by measuring the deviation of their brain's structure and function from normative data, can be predictive of more serious forms of cognitive decline. Software capable of accurately computing this trajectory based on commonly acquired clinical scans, such as BrainAGE R, could provide reliable biomarkers of pre‐clinical disease states thereby enhancing clinicians' ability to make early diagnosis of cognitive decline. In this study, we evaluate the relationship between resting‐state functional connectivity (rsFC) and BrainAGE measures in healthy older adults.


This article summarizes the toll that piracy has taken in 2011, describing numbers of hostages, deaths, hijackings, and ship attacks around the world. It champions the mariner's perspective, and discusses differences between this perspective and that of the International Maritime Organization's Maritime Safety Committee or the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia. Best management practices, professional armed security, and consistency of rules among the coastal states are all explored.


A major question in ecology is: Why are tropical forests so species diverse? A leading hypothesis is the Janzen-Connell model, which assumes that the activities of host specific seed/ seedling predators open up space surrounding parent trees and allow for the establishment of non-conspecifics. This model has been tested over 70 times since 1970 but results have been highly variable. Biologists hold divergent views on whether the model can explain the maintenance of tree species diversity.
Here I test the Janzen-Connell hypothesis for the first time in a montane forest in Nigeria, West Africa. Specifically I tested whether or not a) leaf herbivory decreases and b) seedling survival increases with distance from parent / conspecific adult trees. These two components were tested separately on naturally occurring and experimentally planted seedlings. I also tested whether or not conspecific adult trees showed clumped distributions by testing if conspecific nearest neighbours were observed more often than would be expected by chance alone.
Although results were variable this work aims to illustrate that many factors exist which cause variation in Janzen-Connell test results.


This paper through the MMW-1A friction wear testing machine of pin on disc friction wear properties, by changing the load of pin on disc wear to observe surface morphology analysis of wear mechanism, study of porous ceramic material hardness of the surface; pin disc wear volume and the load is related to it, the wear mechanism is the abrasive wear and pitting, the hardness of the ceramic porous to use scratch hardness is measured.


The effects of coherent vortices on turbulent energy transfer were examined in an acoustically excited two-dimensional parabolic jet. Production terms in the energy transport equation were evaluated based on the results of hotwire conditional measurements. Difference in vortex arrangement gave significant influence on the energy transport process among mean flow, coherent structure and incoherent turbulence. When the symmetrical vortex arrangement was excited, most of the mean flow energy directly dissipated into random incoherent turbulence. For the anti-symmetrical mode, large amounts of positive and negative turbulent energy fluxes were produced around strong large-scale coherent vortices. Fine-scale vortices between the streamwisely adjacent coherent vortices played important roles in the turbulent energy transport process for the anti-symmetrical vortex arrangement.


Loan Agreement-Northern Zone Agricultural Credit Development Project (with schedules and General Conditions Applicable to Loan and Guarantee Agreements of the Fund dated 19 September 1986). Signed at Rome on 14 March 1989


Background. Despite to PFAPA syndrome is considered a benign and self-limited condition in childhood its impact on patients and families can be remarkable in many cases. Currently, the therapeutic options for managing are non-specific and no consensus exists about the best treatment to use. Pidotimod has been suggested as a new potential treatment in PFAPA syndrome for its immunodulatory effects. We conducted a preliminary, prospective, controlled, open, cross-over trial to assess the efficacy and the safety of Pidotimod in the treatment of children with PFAPA syndrome. Methods. 22 children with PFAPA syndrome were randomly allocated to treatment with pidotimod (with 2 vials of 400mg daily) in combination with betamethasone 0.5-1 mg on need, based on parents/caregivers' decision (group A) or betamethasone 0.5-1mg on need, based on parents/caregivers' decision (group B). Each treatment period was for 3 months (Phase 1), after that patients were switched to the other arm for other 3 months (Phase 2). Efficacy was expressed in terms of number of episodes of fever, pharyngitis, or aphthous stomatitis, as well as the additional use of betamethasone on need. Safety and tolerability of the Pidotimod were evaluated on the basis of the number and type of adverse events (AEs) recorded during the treatment.Results. Patients receiving Pidotimod and use betametasone showed a significant decrease in frequency of fevers (p=0.002); number of episodes of pharyngitis (p=0.049); aphthous stomatitis (p=0.036) as well as the betamethasone use on need (p=0.007). Overall, 19/22 (86.4%) showed benefits from Pidotimod administration. The safety profile of Pidotimod was excellent as no serious adverse events have been reported in the treated groups.Conclusions. We firstly showed that high dosage of Pidotimod could be an effective and safe to reduce the PFAPA attacks in children.


This article deals with problems encountered be routing nurses through home health care services. It is difficult to assign patients to different care workers by taking into account their availability and their skills. If patients need several cares during a week, they may be treated by the same employee. We show that this problem is equivalent to a routing problem with some specific constraints. We propose an integer linear program for deciding (1) which human resource should be used and (2) when to execute the service during the planning horizon in order to satisfy the care plan for each patient served by the home health care providers.


It is, of course, not possible to answer questions about what works in probation without thinking first about the purposes of probation. To determine 'what works?' we need to first define what ends we are pursuing.1 Historically, probation services in most jurisdictions have been preoccupied with the pursuit of rehabilitation – although the forms and functions of rehabilitation have changed in probation's different eras and in the different places where it has developed.2 One important and helpful analytical distinction that we can make about rehabilitation concerns whether we think of it as an end in itself or as a means. The French expression 'retablir dans ses droits' well captures the notion of rehabilitation as moral end that we should pursue – the full restoration to the formerly errant citizen of all of his rights (and responsibilities).3 By contrast, contemporary penologists argue that in recent decades rehabilitation has been recast not as an end but as a means or a mechanism for reducing crime.4 One purpose of this paper is to argue that to pursue rehabilitation solely as a means of protecting the public is, paradoxically perhaps, counter-productive; to achieve safer communities we need better integrated citizens. Moreover, although clearly it can be argued that it is necessary for probation services to ask and answer the question of what works in reducing reoffending, it is not sufficient. Probation services are not merely crime reduction agencies; they are justice agencies. In view of this, I will argue that although our haste to control crime can sometimes lead to the neglect of questions of justice, due process and legitimacy, ultimately the pursuit of justice – social as well as criminal – is the only sure path to safer communities. In this respect it is important to recognise the vital role that probation services play both in enabling constructive reparation by offenders – enabling them to pay back for their crimes – and in advocating for offenders so that


Most existing space-time block code (STBC) schemes have been developed based on the assumption that the channels are independently identically distributed (i.i.d.) and show quasi-static fading (QSF). However, realistic wireless channels are either spatially correlated fading (SCF), determined by various physical parameters, e.g., antenna spacing, antenna arrangement, angle spread, angle of arrival, etc., or time-selective fading (TSF), caused by Doppler shifts. We propose a hybrid-model (HM), which combines a first-order autoregression model (ARM), to model the flat TSF Rayleigh channel, with an exponential correlation model (ECM), to model the SCF channel. Based on the HM and the decoder proposed by T.A. Tran and A.B. Sesay (see IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol.3, p.855-64, 2004), we derive the theoretical bit error probability (BEP) of the scheme. Finally, analytical and simulation results are presented to verify the validity of our HM and arrive at a useful conclusion: high SCF dominates the performance loss when the TSF is small, whereas large TSF contributes to the performance loss whatever degree SCF is.


Anesthesia decreases brain cognitive function, memory and pain, and also leads to the loss of consciousness. In this study, midazolam and propofol-sedated trauma patients undergoing lower limb surgery were evaluated for stress levels after neuraxial anesthesia.This double-blind randomized clinical trial was conducted on patients with lower extremity fractures due to trauma, who were candidates of elective lower extremity orthopedic surgery. Patients were randomly divided into two groups of propofol-sedated patients (n=110) and midazolam-sedated patients (n=110) after neuraxial anesthesia. Then, all patients underwent spinal anesthesia using 3 ml of 0.5% bupivacaine (3 mg/kg). Propofol (25-75 µg/kg/minute) was infused, and 1-2 mg of midazolam was injected PRN until patients reached the score of 3 on the Modified Observers' Assessment of Alertness/ Sedation Scale (MOAA/S).Preoperative sedation/alertness scores of patients in the two groups did not differ significantly from one another. Penetrating memories in the midazolam group was higher than the propofol group (P<0.05). Personal relationship problem was more significant in the midazolam group than the propofol group (P<0.05). Inability in controlling emotional feelings was higher in the midazolam group compared to the propofol group (P<0.001).Our findings indicated that a sub-hypnotic dose of propofol provided superior sedation and amnesia compared to midazolam. Aspects of stress, including penetrating memories, personal relationship problems, inability to control emotional feelings, and lack of depression during spinal anesthesia were better managed by propofol compared to midazolam.Propofol infusion was better in decreasing stress levels after surgery compared to midazolam.


Abstract Cerebral ischemia/reperfusion is known to induce the generation of reactive oxygen species and inflammatory responses. Numerous studies have demonstrated that naringin (NGIN) has anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. We previously reported that Citrus kawachiensis contains a large quantity of NGIN in its peel. In the present study, we orally (p.o.) administered dried peel powder of C. kawachiensis to mice of a transient global ischemia model and found in the hippocampus region that it 1) suppressed neuronal cell death, 2) reversed the reduction in the level of phosphorylated calcium-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, 3) had the tendency to reverse the reduction in the level of glutathione, and 4) blocked excessive activation of microglia and astrocytes. These results suggested that the dried peel powder of C. kawachiensis had a neuroprotective effect against ischemic brain via anti-oxidative and anti-inflammatory effects. We also showed that these effects of the dried peel powder were more powerful than those obtained with a comparable amount of NGIN alone. rONC-TFn had a dose-dependent cytotoxicity to the HepG2 and Hela cells and incubation of L02 cells with rONC-TFn did not result in any cytotoxicity even at very high concentrations.


The extant literature focusing on innovation capacity highlights the role of human capital formation and work design choices. Although this stream of literature is well developed, an emerging stream of literature has argued for the role of external business networks and the institutional ecosystems in fostering an organisation's innovative capacity. Central to this latter approach is the diffusion and integration of new learning and information sharing from an organisation's network partners to its ecosystem. Using qualitative case study evidence from four information technology (IT) enabled organisations in India, this study found that innovation capacity depends not only on human capital formation and work design choices but also on a firm's capabilities to acquire, develop, integrate, and exploit new knowledge and information. To this end, the study employs an integrated approach highlighting the strategic choices some firms make in developing their human resource and organisational capabilities to improve their innovative capacity. Implications for theory and practice are also discussed.


This study explores the determinants of disagreement in households' belief on future inflation. Households commonly show strong information rigidity as a consequence of stickiness in their information update (Mankiw and Reis, 2002, 2006). This paper contributes to the understanding of the formation of disagreement of the Indian households by investigating the effects of day to day purchasing experiences of the agents, the intensity of news about inflation in the media, and central bank transparency. We find the positive effects of their recent price experiences, media influence, and inflation targeting on lowering the disagreement. Female and Young people tend to exhibit stronger effects in comparison to their counterparts.


Data on the cardiac output and circulatory dynamics obtained by cardiac catheter studies in 51 subjects with chronic severe anemia are presented. Patients are divided into two groups: group A consists of 26 subjects with an average hemoglobin value of 3.0 Gm. per 100 ml. (range 1.5 to 3.8 Gm.); group B, 25 patients with a hemoglobin level of 4.0 to 6.5 Gm., average 4.5 Gm.Group A subjects have a somewhat faster heart rate (99 against 92 a minute), higher cardiac index (8.0 versus 6.3 liters per minute per square meter), and stroke index (88and 68 ml. per beat per square meter) than group B patients.The oxygen consumption values in both groups are normal (average 158 and 160 ml. per minute per square meter), while more oxygen is extracted by the tissue in group A subjects (61 and 53 per cent) whereas less oxygen is transported to the tissue (261 and 321 ml. per minute per square meter).The stroke volume seems to bear a closer relationship to the high cardiac output than such other parameters as heart rate, right heart filling pressure, and velocity of blood flow. Apparently the presence of slow heart rate does not negate high cardiac output.Data also suggest that systemic vascular resistance may play an important role in the high cardiac output as the two are inversely related, and by increasing the peripheral arterial pressure the output can be significantly reduced.Restudy data after the treatment of the anemia (hemoglobin 10.0 to 12.5 Gm. per 100 ml.) show appreciable reduction in the cardiac output and in the right heart filling pressure, increase in the peripheral vascular resistance and oxygen transport values, and widening of the arteriovenous oxygen differences with concomitant decrease in the oxygen extraction by the tissue.


Nowadays, it has become evident the need to seek sustainable development models that address challenges arising in a variety of contexts. The resilience concept appears connected to the ability of people to cope with adversities that inevitably arise due to context dynamics, at different spatial and temporal scales. This concept is related to the model known as Working With People (WWP), focused on rural development projects planning, management and evaluation, from the integration of three dimensions: technical-entrepreneurial, ethical-social and political-contextual. The research reported is part of the RETHINK European Project, whose overall aim is farm modernization and rural resilience. The resilience concept has been analyzed, in the scope of rural development projects management, and a relationship with the WWP model has been established. To this end, a thorough review of the scientific literature concerning this topic has been addressed, in order to develop the state of the art of the different concepts and models involved. A conceptual proposal for the integration of resilience in rural development projects sustainable management, through the three-dimensional WWP model is presented.


Intensive developments in land use microsimulation model have been made in the aspect to forecast the changes in detailed attributes and location of a household, the data of which is called micro-data in this study. However, less attention has been paid to the set of micro-data of the base year. The purpose of this study is to build a system to rationally estimate the set of micro-data of the base year for land use microsimulation. This system, throughout which Monte Carlo simulation is used, deals with both continuous and discrete attribute variables by agent; a household in this study. It utilizes sample data that contains full information of the micro-data to reflect the contingencies between attributes, and existing statistic data as the control total in each zone. In order to reproduce the correlation between continuous attribute variables, the independent variables that can be obtained by the principal component analysis of the original variables are introduced and employed as the intervening variables to the system. In addition, the system is composed of several iteration processes such that the data production satisfies the available control total by attribute. In order to make the system development rational and objective, an indicator to evaluate the goodness-of-fit between two sets of micro-data is proposed. In the other words, with the indicator, this study has contribution in developing not only an estimation system but also an approach of system development. Finally, the paper presents an application to the Person-Trip-Survey dataset in Sapporo Metropolitan Area in which the usefulness of the system and the approach has been confirmed.


Metabolites represent the end product of gene function and it reflects direct response of cells under certain conditions. Hence,
metabolite profiling has become a powerful tool in examination of plant cell's response under certain conditions either in
vitro or from tissue extract. This study aims to demonstrate how metabolite fingerprinting in microalgae in unfractionated
extract. The results revealed the identification of 55 metabolites in unfractionated Scenedesmus regularis extract by using 1HNMR
coupled with correlation spectroscopy (COSY).


As wireless broadband communication has been experiencing a tremendous growth in past few year, the demands for various new & advanced multiple access techniques is increasing consistently. We can experience many new multiple access techniques in 3G & 4G. Here in this article we propose the multiple access technique IDMA which was developed with the view of achieving something more in terms of speed and capacity then what we had in 3G. The most important in IDMA is turbo-code which has increased the efficiency of 4G to a larger extent. By using these turbo codes with interleave division multiple excess the data rates 4G technology has been increased significantly. The basic idea behind this article is to lead down how by using interleaver division multiple accesses we can achieve higher coding gain, capacity, high speed (both for uploading & downloading) by using turbo codes along with IDMA.


Abstract Copra is dried coconut pulp. This research focuses on the semantic field of analyzing data about the copra making based on the components of meaning, the definition and the meaning of each vocabularies, and the semantic function of vocabulary of copra making in Sungai Kakap District. The method used in this research is descriptive method with qualitative research form. Sources of data in this study is a speech of Malay dialect Pontianak spoken by the native speakers of Jeruju Besar village, Sungai Kakap District. Technique used in this research arelisten-involve-talk technique, record and taking note technique. Data collection tool in this research are interview, notebook and stationery, camera, and sound recorder. Based on the research conducted, researchers have collected 44 vocabularies of copra making in Malay Language Dialect Pontianak. The data consists of 21 tool vocabularies and 23 process vocabularies. Keywords: Vocabulary, Copra, Semantics.


Industry today sees an ever-increasing demand for power and energy. Due to the environmental, time and financial constraints of building new power generation and petrochemical processing facilities it has become feasible to run existing plant and equipment beyond their original design lives. Considering this and the demand to achieve greater production targets there is an increased requirement for plant and equipment inspection. The causes, identification and consequences of creep damage on equipment within the power and energy industries are examined. The Electricity Supply Boards (ESBs) current approach to Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) of creep damage, its advantages and disadvantages are presented. This project concentrates on using Barkhausen noise techniques for the NDE of creep damage in Cr-Mo-V steels, as used in the manufacture of power generation and chemical processing plant and equipment. The two main Barkhausen noise detection methodologies, Magneto-Acoustic Emission (MAE) and Magnetic Barkhausen Noise (MBN), and how they can be applied to creep damage detection will be discussed. Barkhausen noise techniques will be shown to offer an alternative NDE solution.


Background: Hypothyroidism is a clinical condition characterized by abnormally low thyroid hormone production. Hypothyroidism results in slowing down of metabolic processes. Subclinical hypothyroidism is associated with biochemical abnormalities including increased serum creatinine level. Objectives: This study was designed to estimate the serum creatinine level in subclinical hypothyroidism cases and to assess the correlation of serum creatinine with fT3, fT4, TSH. Material and methods: Study included 61 patients of subclinical hypothyroidism and 61 age, sex matched healthy controls. Venous blood was analyzed for testing creatinine and fT3, fT4, TSH levels. Statistical analysis was done using student 't' test. Pearson's correlation between the creatinine and thyroid parameters was performed to establish the relationship. Results: The serum creatinine level was significantly elevated in subclinical hypothyroidism cases in comparison to controls. Creatinine showed significant positive correlation with TSH and negative correlation with fT3, fT4 levels. Conclusion: Subclinical hypothyroidism is associated with elevated serum creatinine level.


In plasmonic systems, the response of nanoobjects under light illumination can produce complex optical maps. Such plasmonic or resonant systems have interesting characteristics such as sensitivity on parameters and initial conditions. In this paper, we show how these complex maps can be cryptographically improved and associated in order to design a secure pseudo random number generator.


The problem of identifying the factors of individual altruism in the socio-cultural context and at the intercountry level is posed and solved for the first time. Econometric analysis of panel data on 34 countries for 2010–2019 confirmed the results, obtained in local screenings for particular regions and population groups. Namely, such factors as social welfare, happiness and civic engagement showed statistical significance in the regression analysis of the sample under study. Furthermore, there are reasons to assume that some relations may be parabolic in nature and, thus, indicate the nonlinear development of the altruism phenomenon. In addition, the previously overlooked socio-economic determinants stipulated by the philosophy of collaboration were tested on empirical level. Through the inclusion of new variables, it was possible to identify the special role of the culture of tolerance in the generation of altruistic behavior. Also, econometric calculations revealed that the nature of some factors' impact depends on the level of economic development of a certain country. According to the results, primary positive determinants of altruism for developed countries are happiness and political activity, while for developing countries — social well-being. Hierarchical cluster analysis made it possible to identify and further study a subgroup of developed countries with a higher culture of tolerance. The findings showed the importance of determining the phenomenon of happiness, complexity of which presets the principle differentiation of altruism factors for different groups of countries. The results of this work can be used for further study of collaborative mechanisms, in particular, the study of motivation and effectiveness of international development assistance.


A Thesis, Faculty of English Languageand Cultural Studies University of Stikubank Semarang.  Supervisor's: Liliek Soepriatmadji, Drs,M.Pd  Key words: code switching, classroominteraction, conversation The thesis is entitled CODE SWITCHING ASA STRATEGY IN CLASSROOM INTERACTION A CASE STUDY AT ALFABANK ENGLISH COURSEACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013.  The writer chose the title since thereis a lot of code switching found in Alfabank English Course. This thesis hastwo objectives. First, it is aimed or purpose at establishing the meaning ofcode switching that exists in Alfabank English Course. The second is codeswitching patterns used in Alfabank English Course. In this representation, the writercollects the data by using observation documentary, record, and libraryresearch. After the data are collected, then they are analyzed using thefollowing steps, listening to the recording, transcribing, segmenting,identifying, categorizing, explaining, and construing. Documentation method was used to collectthe data. All of code switching found in Alfabank English Course was taken tobe the data. In finding out the realization of code switching and it is use,the writer recorded the conversation of tutor between students in classroom. Inanalyzing the data, the writer applied qualitative technique.


The scale–independence of the primordial curvature perturbation suggests that it comes from the vacuum fluctuation during inflation of a light scalar field. This field may be the inflaton, or a different 'curvaton' field. The observation of primordial non–gaussianity would be a smoking gun for the curvaton model, while the observation of gravitational waves originating during slow–roll inflation would rule out the model.


BACKGROUND AND AIM: In spite of different reforms and programs, the evidence indicates that Iran dental health sector has not been able to improve the dental situation and decrease the unmet needs. This study assessed the factors which affect the avoiding dental visit during one year ago because of its costs.METHODS: This cross-sectional study was performed on 1158 household heads which were selected through multi-stage sampling in Kerman, Iran, and questioned house by house using trained interviewers. The association of dichotomous outcome variables of "have you avoided or postponed dental visit during 1 years ago in spite of need because of its costs?" with 3 types of predictor variables of household heads including sex as binary predictor, age as continuous predictor, and income and education as categorical variables studied using regression logistics.RESULTS: The odds ratio (OR) of avoiding dental visit because of its costs in men was 1.4 times more than women (P = 0.035). The OR decreased by 0.01 with each year increase in age (P = 0.017). Furthermore, the OR is people with incomes 267-803, 803-1339 and > 1339 USD in comparison with the heads incomes under 267 USD was 0.31, 0.02, 0.01, respectively (P = 0.001), and in people with educational level < diploma, diploma, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Master of Science (MSc) and Doctor of Medicine (MD)/Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in comparison with illiterate/elementary decreased by 0.51, 0.13, 0.04, 0.01 and 0.02, respectively (P < 0.001).CONCLUSION: The factors of older ages, being a woman, increasing education and income level decrease the rate of avoiding a dental visit. In the absence of strong dental health insurance, these factors determine the utilization of the services which lead to horizontal inequality.


So the methods estimated of effective width of code for design of steel structures(GB50017-2003),technical code of cold-formed thin-wall steel structures(GB50018-2002),America specification(AISC: 2005),European specification(E3-1.5:2006),and Winter equation are introduced in this paper.The effective area of thin-webbed box members with different width-thickness ratio in web and flange are estimated using these codes.Comparison on these estimated results show that European specification(E3-1.5:2006) and Technical code of cold-formed thin-wall steel structures(GB50018-2002)is application for members with different width-thickness ratio of web and flange.So Technical code of cold-formed thin-wall steel structures(GB50018-2002) can be used to estimate the effective area of thin-webbed box members.


Objective To investigate the rescue method of shock in heatstroke. Methods Expose rabbit to hot condition, and cause shock. Then place it under room temperature. Rescue the rabbit by means of soaking in traditional cold water, peritoneal lavaging with colling normal saline solution (NSS) and colling peritoneal dialysis solution (PDS). The changes of body core temperature, the survival time in every groups and the K + concentration, pH, blood urea nitrogen and creatinine of the arterial blood in cooling PDS peritoneal lavage grou were observed.Results ①In cold water immersion(n=8), the rectal temperature (Tr) and esophageal temperature (Te) decreased slowly, and the mean survival time was 16.3±25.2 min.②In cooling normal saline solution (NSS) peritoneal lavage groups (n=10) and cooling PDS peritoneal lavage group (n=10), Te, Tr and the brain temperature (Tb) decreased promptly and arterial blood pressure increased. The mean survival time was prolonged to 83.2±47.8 min and 98.5±67.4 min.③In PDS peritoneal lavage groups, the K + concentration, creatinine and blood urea nitrogen increased, the pH of the arterial blood decreased and all blood biochemical parameters improved significantly after lavage expect creatinine and blood urea nitrogen. The mean survival time was prolonged compared with cooling NSS peritoneal lavage groups.Conclusion Cooling solution peritoneal lavage is an effective measure to rescue from shock in heatstroke, especially in cooling PDS peritoneal lavage groups, and they are able to win one golden hour for the further treatment of heatstroke. [


Objective:To summarize nursing experiences about electrode dislocation in transient pace-makers.Method:15 cases had been analyzed and rescued.Result:15 cases all survived and recovered after emergency rescue.Conclusion:We should keep observation over patients' condition after pace-maker were planted,nurses should have high resporsibility and professional ability.


Uncertainty quantification of a technical system can be done using density estimation. We usually start with a stochastic model, which is fitted to the technical system, and the density estimation is done using data from this stochastic model. However, in any application, such a stochastic model will not be perfect, and the estimation of the density should take into account the inadequacy of the stochastic model. In this paper, we show how observed data of the real system together with an imperfect simulation model can be used to derive confidence bands for the density of the technical system. Our main result is that the newly introduced confidence bands allow to derive lower and upper bounds on the probability of intervals in the technical system. Furthermore, we present an upper bound on the area of the confidence band in case of a smooth density. The results are illustrated by applying the estimates to simulated and real data.


Enzymes of the three sea snails,Lunella cornata coreensis (Recluz),Monodonta labio (Linne) and Purpura clavigera Kuster,have the obvious ability of decomposing the cell-walls of the three seaweeds,Monostroma angicava Kjellm,Porphyra yezoensis Ueda and Undaria pinnatifida (Harv.) Suringar.In decomposing cell-walls,the L.cornata coreensis is the best of all,with the M.labio and the P.clavigera ranking second and third.Seven structural polysaccharidases of seaweed,i.e.cellulases (Cx,C ),pectinase,carrageenanase,agarase,alginase and fucoidanase,determined in enzymes of the three sea snails are directly related to the decomposition of the cell-walls.When the alginase and fucoidanse of L.cornata coreensis are further studied,two components of each enzyme are discovered and referred to as alginase ************I and alginase **********II;fucoidanase A and fucoidanase B respectively.


Abstract This paper outlines the diversity of medical and healing systems indigenous to many regions of the world and their under-development and suppression during colonialism; describes briefly social and cultural changes that have taken place in the Global South after de-colonisation, resulting in varying degrees of a plurality (in terms of cultural style) of mental health systems currently available; summarizes important general principles of post-colonial development in the Global South; and, finally, points to ways of mental health and wellbeing development in the Global South by drawing on the example of Sri Lanka where the author was involved in a four-year research and capacity building project between 2007 and 2012. The paper takes a historical post-colonial approach to development on the principals of sustainability and cultural relevance and argues for a pragmatic approach in the short term while building up a body of knowledge about the countries concerned, their ground realities and their indigenous psychologies.


Text of the lecture delivered to the incoming students and the academic community of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy on September 1, 2018.


The book translated in this issue of the Journal of Russian and East European Psychology summarizes the main themes of Nikolai Nikolaevich Podd'iakov's lifelong research career in preschool psychology.


This chapter suggests that the division between ?alien pagan? and ?local Samaritan? is anachronistic for the Roman period, and looks at the evidence afresh, setting aside this assumption. After taking a closer look at the assumptions inherent in the study of the Samaritans, the chapter considers the literary sources for Gerizim, Neapolis and the Samaritans, and then moves on to the material remains of Neapolis itself. Samaritan studies were long obsessed with the search for the original schism between Jews and Samaritans. The Samaritan version differs at many points from the Masoretic Text, and at a few crucial passages it emphasises that the true cult of Yahweh should be centred on Mt Gerizim. Justin Martyr should be a central figure in any discussion of the Samaritans under Roman rule.Keywords: Jews; Justin Martyr; Mt Gerizim; Neapolis; Roman period; Samaritan


For the production of a preparation acting against neoplasms, which is particularly suitable for the control of neoplastic diseases in humans, the starting material used is an acidified, alkaline hydrolysate of peat having an ash content of 8 to 30%, a decomposition level of 30 to 70% and a pH of 3.5 to 7. The starting material, the acidified alkaline hydrolysate, is repeatedly subjected to alkaline and acidic hydrolysis. The product obtained in this way is extracted therefrom using hydrated ethanol, divided up using a mixture of ethanol and other organic solvents and chromatographed in columns, the retention of polysaccharides and certain mineral salts being guaranteed in the final product. Preferably, the selective removal of the excess of bases and acids is performed by ion exchange.


The film opens with kaleidoscopic shots of beautiful women posing for the camera. A man flips through the pages of a catalog resembling a catalog shopping for clothing. Looking at the booklet closely, one realizes that he is looking at the pictures of attractive women. Carefully examining these images, he is searching for a wife to take home. This is the opening scene of the 2003 documentary, In the name of love, directed by Shannon O'Rourke. The documentary tracks a number of women who are signed up with marriage agencies in Russia and rich American men searching for brides. O'Rourke examines commercialization of modern love and romance by looking at the lives of these women and the processes involved in this modern matchmaking business. There are approximately 200 mail-order bride agencies in the United States, with an estimate by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to be 4,000 to 6,000 American men finding wives through those agencies each year (www.uscis.gov). This multi-million-dollar mail-order bride industry continues to thrive rapidly at a global scale and scope, with mixed reports on whether marriages via this international match making arrangement result in positive outcomes or in domestic violence. This international marketing practice has long been unregulated until recently when the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act was signed into law in 2006. Although this Act aims at protecting women from potential abuses, it in effect legitimizes the industry, and the volume of transactions continues to rise. A closer look at the law also indicates a sexist language in such a statement as, "The seller must obtain the man's record from the National Sex Offenders Public Registry database." (www.govtrack.us) We believe that it is worthwhile investigating this phenomenon from the perspective of morality of market exchange (Prasad 1999). Advances in electronic commerce and internet technology accelerate speed, scope and scale of the mail order bride transactions on a global scale. Although these services represent a truly global consumption phenomenon, the mail order bride issue has not received sufficient attention from consumer researchers. This study aims at providing a better


Objective: To investigate the necessity and measures of the cultivation of learning interests in teaching of the course-"Outline of nursing". Method: To deliver home-made questionnaires to the students who take the course of "Outline of nursing". Results: Most students like the teaching form of media mix and do not like the teaching form of teachers' explaining all in the texbook. Conclusion: It is of necessity to cultivate the learning interests of students. And we should use this teaching form as more as possible to cultivate the learning interests of students and their thinking ability.


Introduction: Leprosy is a disease that carried the characteristic of incurable and disfiguring for years, causing the social segregation of patients before the family and society. Objective: To describe the repercussion of segregation in the lives of children separated by leprosy who lived in Oswaldo Cruz School. Method: This is an exploratory, descriptive study, with a qualitative approach and with the methodological framework Oral History of Life. Results: The sample consisted of 52 family members of former patients segregated in Hospital Sao Francisco of Assis Cologne Hospital, registered in the Reintegration Movement of People Affected by Leprosy in RN (MORHAN Potiguar). The network was structured from a zero point and consists of five collaborators. Data were collected through individual interviews, and through an instrument with open questions, which were recorded and transcribed. The texts were submitted to thematic content analysis, emerging four themes: broken ties; stigmatized; primary school; leprosy or Hansen's disease. Conclusion: It was evidenced that isolation has influenced the lives of the study participants. The historical records lived in the past are still present in the collaborators memory and directly reflected in thinking about leprosy today.


Objective: To investigate the effect of interferencing receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 1 (ROR1) gene expression on epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of osteosarcoma MG-63 cells. Methods: The specific siRNA targeting ROR1 gene (ROR1-siRNA) was transfected into osteosarcoma MG-63 cells with the relative high expression of ROR1 protein, then the down-regulation of ROR1 expression was confirmed by Western blotting. The migration and invasion abilities of MG-63 cells were examined by scratch wound healing assay and Transwell chamber assay. The morphological changes of MG-63 cells were observed under an inverted optical microscope. Finally, the expressions of EMT-associated E-cadherin and vimentin, and tumor metastasis-related zinc finger E-box binding homeobox protein 1 (ZEB1), matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP-2) and MMP-9 proteins in MG-63 cells were detected by Western blotting and immunofluoresence staining, respectively. Results: ROR1-siRNA transfection significantly inhibited the expression of ROR1 in MG-63 cells (P < 0.05). After down-regulating ROR1 gene expression by ROR1-siRNA transfection, the migration and invasion abilities of MG-63 cells were significantly reduced (both P < 0.05), the morphology of MG-63 cells conversed from mesenchymal phenotype to epithelial phenotype, and the expression level of E-cadherin was significantly up-regulated (P < 0.05), while the expression level of vimentin was significantly down-regulated (P < 0.05). Furthermore, the expressions of ZEB1, MMP-2 and MMP-9 in MG-63 cells transfected with ROR1-siRNA were decreased as compared with those in the untransfected group (all P < 0.05).  Conclusion: RNA interference of ROR1 gene expression can reduce the migration and invasion abilities of osteosarcoma MG-63 cells through inhibiting the occurrence of EMT. DOI:10.3781/j.issn.1000-7431.2018.11.743


In this paper, we focus on the special type of early/fast VLF event so-called long-recovery VLF event to study its generation mechanism. We identify many long-recovery VLF events by using UEC's VLF/LF transmitter signal receiving network. Electrical properties of causative lightning discharges of the long-recovery events are presented based on both the peak current and electrical charge moment changes by the ELF waveform observations.


Real-time and accurate traffic flow prediction is one of the key technologies of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). Traditional traffic flow prediction models cannot extract the spatio-temporal characteristics of road traffic flow well. To solve the problem, this paper proposes a short-term traffic flow prediction model based on Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm and Bi-directional Gated Recurrent Unit (BiGRU) network. The DWT algorithm is used to extract the spatial features of the traffic flow, and the extracted spatio-temporal feature matrix is input to BiGRU network for temporal features extraction. Experimental verification shows that the predicted root mean square error (RMSE) of the DTW-BiGRU model is 20.46% and 21.03% smaller than the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) network, respectively. The results show that the DTW-BiGRU model is an effective short-term traffic flow prediction model.


A series of blends of high molecular weight polyamide 11 (PA11) and three different polar molecules [i.e., N-butyl benzene sulfonamide (BBSA), δ-valerolactam, and ω-laurolactam] have been studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), Fourier transform infrared microscopy (FTIR), differential mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA), and wide- and small-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS and SAXS) experiments. FTIR analysis shows that the concentration of free NH groups in bulk or plasticized PA11 is lower than 15% up to 260°C and less than 1% at room temperature. DMTA data show a β relaxation for dry PA11 but not for dry PA6 and PA12. On the other hand, when ω-laurolactam, which allows trans conformation of amide groups, is added to PA11 the intensity of the α relaxation increases and a strong antiplasticizing effect is observed. This effect is associated with a decrease of the PA11 free volume by increasing the chains packing. On the contrary, when δ-valerolactam, which allows cis amide groups conformations, and BBSA are blended with PA11, the α relaxation temperature and β peak intensity decrease as a function of added molecules concentration. This is associated with a plasticizing effect. It is suggested to attribute the bulk β relaxation to segmental motions involving H-bonded CONH in a cis conformation in amorphous domains of the PA11. In turn, the α relaxation is related to segmental motions involving CONH groups in a trans conformation. Therefore, antiplasticizing and plasticizing effects depend upon the ability of the additive molecule to change the initial conformational structure of polyamide (i.e., the ratio cis over trans H-bonding of the amide group conformations). Overall, a point of interest to note seems to be the difference between the trans and cis conformations of the amide groups in term of bonding with each other in a PA11 chain and additives such as BBSA. In addition, the limited influence of BBSA on the crystalline microstructure of PA11 is explained by the fact that 85% of the PA11 amorphous phase is intraspherulitic and that a great part of the plasticizer is located in these domains. © 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


In this paper, we first define interpersonal trust and human capital accumulation, and analyze the promotion mechanism of interpersonal trust to human capital accumulation theoretically, and put forward the hypothesis that interpersonal trust promotes accumulation of human capital by the increase of the stocks and quality of human capital. In empirical analysis, we select data on interpersonal trust levels, education levels, openness, fertility rate, population density and GDP per capita of 50 typical countries in the world, and verify the hypothesis that interpersonal trust promotes human capital accumulation, and we make some suggestions to the our country according to the conclusion.


Objective To investigate the distribution and drug resistance of pathogens isolated from diabetic foot ulcer.Methods A retrospective study was carried out on the distribution and resistance rates in 129 strain pathogens,from 2003 to 2005,isolated from diabetic foot ulcer.Results The infections were increasing during 2003-2005,of the 129 strains,63.6% were Gram-negative bacteria,31.8% were Gram-positive,and 5.4% were candida infection.Candida albicans was the common pathogen.Other pathogens included Escheriohia coil(24.8%),Proteus spp(10.9%),Pseudomonas aeruginosa(17.0%),Stenotrophomonas maltophilia(3.1%),Enterobacter spp(7.8%),Staphylococcus aureus(17.8%),Coagulase-negative staphylococci(5.4%),and Enterococcus spp(7.8%).Imipenem and Cefoperazone-sulbactam were highly active against Enterobacteriaceae.Vancomycin-resistant staphylococci were not found.Conclusion The most common pathogens causing the infection are Gram-negative bacteria.Imipenem and vancomycin are highly active against them.Uninterruptedly monitor the pathogens and their drug resistance in diabetic foot ulcer infection may provide evidence for treating the ulcer infection.


To assess the role of transesophageal pacing (TP) at very high rates in the follow-up of patients with recurrent and sustained paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) on therapy, the authors studied 15 patients (10 women, 5 men; aged forty- four to seventy-seven years old). Of them only 1 had a mild mitral regurgita tion; none had hyperthyroidism or acute ischemic heart disease. They tested propafenone (P) at a dose of 1.4-2 mg/kg over ten minutes as an intravenous bolus and 0.5 mg/minute as intravenous maintenance for two hours and then 300 mg twice daily orally and chronically. Serial TPs at very rapid rates (up to 600 bpm) were performed to test the long-term efficacy of P to prevent paroxys mal AF. The mean follow-up was fifteen months (nine to twenty-four months). Results: Intravenous P converted AF in five to ninety minutes (mean twenty- one minutes) in 9/15 patients (conversion rate of 60%); in an additional 4 pa tients oral P converted AF in two to fifteen hours. In the other 2 patients P failed to convert AF. Three patients experienced recurrence of AF in the early follow- up. Of the 10 patients who completed the entire protocol, only 1, who had mild mitral prolapse regurgitation and AF induction by TP, experienced new epi sodes of AF during follow-up. No significant side effects were noted during P therapy. Conclusions: Propafenone appears safe and effective for controlling and pre venting recurrent and sustained AF. Transesophageal pacing is a valid tool for predicting the efficacy of long-term therapy in the follow-up of patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.


Although it is well established that committee assignments in the House are distributed by routine processes of accommodating members' requests, less attention has been given to the question of whether the policy results of the procedure are routine and unbiased. An analysis of contests among Democratic applicants for committees from 1961 to 1975 shows that it is rare for either more liberal or more conservative competitors to prevail consistently for seats on semiexclusive committees. Instead, the impact of the assignment process itself on the ideological composition of committees seldom differs from the results obtainable from a series of coin tosses. Change or inertia in the policy orientations of committees is then primarily due to change (or lack thereof) in the willingness of members to request assignments


A theory can be an explanation of a piece of the world. A theory of law is intended to be an explanation of that phenomenon of social communication which we call Law. But, Raffaele De Giorgi, perhaps the person responsible for the introduction of luhmannian theory in Argentina, (jointly with Torres Nafarrate in Mexico in translating Luhmann's work to Spanish), asked: What is a theory of society? What is the "Law of society"? and answered: Can we discuss this?, hands managed by hands, nothing different from a prostheses. According to De Giorgi we are sure that the themes that we use as objects or objects that we use as themes, are our construction, we think that we turn around ourselves, while we continue rotating around the vacuum. It is a paradox, or another paradox: ?Is it possible to get out or get rid of these paradoxes? Logic does not help us. Logic, according to Luhmann, can only see to the fact that some expressions, with unavailable truths, are in contradiction with other expressions, the problem cannot be resolved using logical operations. With the help of Gegenparadoxierungen (against-par- adox), systemic therapy is the alternative where the problem can be tolerated. And, according to Luhmann, the placement of the paradox should be conducted in a more or less skilled, successful, or useful way to break the logjam. A creative use of paradoxes, especially legal ones, allows us to observe how  Luhmann's theory  has  impacted  existing theories  in  Argentina. Themes such as the paradoxality of law, or its being without foundation (and without beginning, the vacuity of their principles and the opacity of its distinctions and operations), filtered theories (like Carlos Carcova or Ernesto Grun) and jurisprudential practices have started shifting things to what Bielefeld Professor has called "old European".


A fast method to solve contact problems when one of the mating bodies contains multiple heterogeneous inclusions is proposed, and numerical results are presented for soft or stiff inhomogeneities. The emphasis is put on the effects of spherical inclusions on the contact pressure distribution. The computing time and allocated memory are kept small, compared to the finite element method, by the use of analytical solution to account for the presence of inhomogeneities. The Eshelby's equivalent inclusion method is considered in the contact solver. An iterative process is implemented to determine the displacements and stress fields caused by the eigenstrains of all spherical inclusions. The proposed method can be seen as an enrichment technique for which the effect of heterogeneous inclusions is superimposed to the homogeneous solution in the contact algorithm. 3D and 2D FFT are utilized to improve the computation efficiency. Configurations such as stringer and cluster of spherical inclusions are analyzed. The effects of the Young modulus, Poisson ratio, size and location of the inhomogeneities are also investigated.Copyright © 2010 by ASME


DESPITE EXCELLENT FACILITIES for the crossmatching of recipient and donor bloods in the two largest cities in Alberta, there are numerous occasions on which it is necessary to administer unmatched group 0 (Rho positive or Rho negative) bloods in emergencies, either because of the urgent nature of the case, or because many smaller hospitals in country districts have inadequate laboratory facilities, and lack qualified technicians. The heavy demand for "universal donor" blood (transmitted to all hospitals unmatched, but verified as group 0 Rho positive or Rho negative beforehand) is readily understood when one considers that over 2,700 bottles were administered in this way during 1952, whereas an additional 24,900 bottles of all groups were administered after cross-matching in the two main Canadian Red Cross centres in this province. Since 10% of all blood transfusions administered in this area are with "universal donor" blood, any factors reducing the safety of these unmatched transfusions is of special interest, and we therefore present a further study of the influence of stapdard Armed Services' inoculations-presently TABTD (TAB, and tetanus and diphtheria prophylactics)-in so far as the natural antibodies are affected by these injections. Qualitative differences between the natural and "immune" form of anti-A and anti-B agglutinins are now being stressed with greater emphasis, and since the "immune" isoagglutinin is usually associated with a demonstrable haemolysin, Crawford et al.1 have suggested that the haemolytic property of the fresh donor's serum could form the basis of a screen test for "universal donor" blood. This group of workers have also demonstrated that TAB, and ATS antitetanic serum frequently contain traces of substance A capable of initiating an "immune" iso-antibody response in a high proportion of individuals thus inoculated. The members of the M.R.C. Blood Transfusion Research Unit, London (1952) found that of 14 Canad. M. A. J. Sept. 1954, vOl. 71


Numerical simulations are performed and validated with experimental data in order to compare the flow around sharp and rounded edges 25° Ahmed bodies. Three different turbulence models SAS, DDES and SBES are computed. With a good choice of the model and the mesh property, the flow detachments and reattachments are well captured on the rear slant.


Considerable development of non-traditional transmission has been planned and implemented in the Northeast, including ties interconnecting ISO/RTOs. This paper describes how ISO New England and the New York Independent System Operator both accommodate non-traditional transmission development. The paper also describes the planning, implementation, and operating experience with nontraditional transmission facilities that have been placed into service.


Purpose of review This review includes publications over the past 12 months that examine the relationship between depression and cardiovascular disease. Epidemiological data now firmly support the negative impact of depression on the development of ischemic heart disease and increased morbidity and mortality in cardiac patients with co-morbid depression. Recent findings Within this review period, the link between depression and heart disease has been further strengthened. In addition to the adverse effects of depression on the development of ischemic heart disease, there is now evidence of a similar negative impact on women with congestive heart failure. Platelet dysfunction, autonomic dysregulaton, and inflammatory processes have been measured in depressed cardiac patients and offer possible mechanisms for end-organ damage. Depression is underdiagnosed and undertreated in the unstable cardiac patient. There is now convincing data for the safety and efficacy of sertraline in patients with unstable angina and status post-myocardial infarction. Summary Depression remains an independent risk factor for the development of heart disease, specific pathophysiological mechanisms are emerging that may explain causality, and clinicians now have well-controlled multi-center data as a basis for pharmacological treatment.


Interleukin-17A (IL17A), a characteristic cytokine produced by the T helper 17 cells (Th17 cells), can form either a homodimer or a heterodimer with IL17F.It is produced not only by Th17 cells, but also by cytotoxic CD8+ T cells (Tc17 cells), ?d T cells, invariant natural killer T cells (iNKT cells), lymphoid tissue inducer cells (LTi cells), and other hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic cells. During development, these cells exhibit flexible or plastic features distinct from those of Th1 and Th2 cells. IL17A plays important roles in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases and in the host defenses against bacterial and fungal infections.Expression of IL17A and its related factors, as well as the infiltration of IL17A-producing cells into the tumor microenvironment, has been implicated in anti-tumor or pro-tumor effects in various cancers.


The incidence of rheumatic diseases has been constantly growing during the last 20 years, which necessitates regular assessment of the healthcare quality for these patients and identification of the most significant problems and ways to address them. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is one of the most frequent disabling rheumatic diseases in children. The incidence and prevalence of JIA allow us to use this disorder to evaluate the organization of rheumatology care in general in terms of its accessibility and quality, as well as measures to improve it. This article reviews JIA epidemiology, characteristics and problems of healthcare organization for children with rheumatic diseases in the Russian Federation and other countries. Key words: healthcare organization, rheumatic diseases, health care, juvenile idiopathic arthritis


Scanning tunneling microscopy and "molecule corrals" were used to measure the temperature dependence of the rate of molecular ordering in monolayer liquid crystal films. Molecule corrals are circular etch pits, 3.35 A deep on the basal surface of graphite formed by high-temperature oxidation. A strong negative relationship between temperature and nucleation rate was observed, consistent with a nucleation growth mechanism of molecular self-assembly. From a fit of classical nucleation theory the melting temperature of the film was found to be Tmelt = 318 ± 6 K, the thermodynamic driving force for nucleation ΔFn(Tmelt − T)/Tmelt = 1.1 ± 0.3 kcal mol-1, and the preexeponential factor A = (1.8 ± 0.8) × 108 A-2 s-1.


Based on the evolution of the field, medical billers have to adapt or they'll find themselves out of a job.


The superior off-axis crosspolarisation performance of Cassegrain antennas, compared with that of front-fed antennas, is emphasised for conventional primary feeds. This statement is supported by theory and by measurements on both configurations.


Motivated by a recent paper of Pierce, we consider the problem associated with coding for optical communications systems that use photon-counting techniques. Making certain realistic assumptions, we find that external noise sources are negligible, and that channel capacity (measured in nats per photon) is infinite. However, quantum effects made the design of an efficient system at rates above about 5 nats per photon very difficult.


The aim of this study was to isolate and select lipase-producing microorganisms originated from different substrates, as well as to optimize the production of microbial lipase by submerged fermentation under different nutrient conditions. Of the 40 microorganisms isolated, 39 showed a halo around the colonies and 4 were selected ( Burkholderia, Bacillus sp., Penicillium lanosum and Corynebac glutamyl ), where strains showing lipolytic halo Radius (R) / colony radius (r) ratio greater than 2.0 were selected. The results of submerged fermentation expressed as enzymatic activity revealed that the genera of microorganisms significantly influenced the enzymatic reaction, and lipase obtained from Burkholderia cepacia was the most promising, with activity of 0.0058 U.mL -1 . It was also observed in the optimization step of lipase production that the sodium nitrate content (NaNO 3 ) had a positive effect on enzyme production, and its increase was indicative of higher enzymatic activity. The addition of sources of organic nitrogen (corn steep liquor, p = 0.2398), carbon (soybean oil, p = 0.3379), magnesium MgSO 4 .7H 2 O (p = 0.4189) and potassium KH 2 PO 4 (p = 0.8562) had no significant effects on the lipase production and could result in decreased production of extracellular lipases. Keywords: Burkholderia cepacia, hydrolytic enzymes, residue, submerged fermentation African Journal of Biotechnology , Vol. 13(4), pp. 566-573, 22 January, 2014


Several national initiatives in the United States and reports on mental health and children's mental health have highlighted the mental health crisis in young people and the need to promote effective delivery of school-based approaches promoting mental health care and preventing disorder. Implementing successful school-based mental health and promoting effective academic, social and emotional learning of children hinges on changing the policies and practices of service systems and shifting relationships among mental health professionals, educators and other school serving professionals. There has been limited focus in school-based (and community-based) clinical practice on fostering collaborative relationships toward implementing empirically supported practice. In addition, there exists a gap between the development and dissemination of empirically supported practices and the training, supervision and supportive infrastructure necessary to implement these effective practices in schools. The emerging field of community science is proposed as a means of bridging this gap between research and practice. Community science is an interdisciplinary framework for strengthening communities by improving the quality of practice in treatment, prevention, health promotion and education. Using the community science framework, this paper outlines critical research-to-practice service delivery, training and technical assistance and policy issues related to the expansion of school-based mental health services and school improvement efforts in the state of Ohio.


Oxytetracycline (OTC) is extensively used in aquaculture worldwide for preventive and therapeutic purposes. Most of the drug, however, is discharged into the marine environment due to leaching from medicated feed and poor gastrointestinal (GI) absorption. Without exposure to sun light OTC has a long lifetime in the marine environment, therefore it is important to monitor and study its occurrence, distribution, fate and impact on the ecosystem. A portable tetracycline (TC) analyzer was developed in this laboratory for this purpose based on europium-sensitized luminescence. In this study, an assay method is developed for OTC analysis in water using this instrument. Water samples are filtered with glass wool; and solid phase extraction (SPE) is performed using Oasis HLB cartridges for OTC extraction and cleanup. Following reagent application, the samples are excited by 385 nm LED pulses; and time-resolved luminescence (TRL) is measured at 610 nm by a photomultiplier tube. A 0-3 ppm linear dynamic range (r2 = 0.9988) and a 0.021 ppb limit of detection were achieved with a typical <5% relative standard deviation.


The title complex catalyzes a photoreduction of methylviologen in methanol upon irradiation at λ >440 nm. The catalytic reaction is affected by ionic radius of the lanthanoid(III) ion of the complex.


Objective:To discuss the security,feasibility and clinical effects of minimally invasive total hip arthroplasty(THA) for the treatment of femoral neck fractures in the elderly.Methods:Sixty-three patients with femoral neck fractures in the elderly received minimally invasive THA.Comparisons between operation duration,incision size,amount of bleeding,postoperative hip function and other indicators were made with 56 patients who received traditional THA.Results: There was no remarkable difference between the two groups in the aspect of pre-operation diagnosis,age,weight,and Harris score(P0.05).But the comparison between the two groups showed that the minimally invasive surgical technique resulted in less blood loss,less pain,quicker return to function and fewer post-operation complications(P0.05).Conclusion: Minimally invasive THA has the advantages of less soft tissue damage,less blood loss and faster recovery,which has the same good effect as traditional approach,especially good for the elderly patients with femoral neck fractures.


President George W. Bush has named Charles E. McQueary to be undersecretary for science and technology in the Department of Homeland Security. McQueary retired as president of General Dynamics Advanced Technology Systems(ATS) in 2002. ATS—originally part of LucentTechnologies but purchased by General Dynamics in 1997—specializes in electro-optic undersea systems, networking and decision support systems, and signal processing and software solutions. When Lucent was part of AT&T's Bell Labs, McQueary was vice president of AT&T's Federal Systems Advanced Technology Division from 1987 to 1993. He became president of Lucent's ATS in 1994. He joined the Bell Labs technical staff in 1966 after earning a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from the University of Texas, Austin. In 1971, he became head of the labs' missile operations department, managing the Pentagon's Safeguard antiballistic missile test program, and two years later was selected to direct the labs' field operations department, which supported a Navy oc...


The author has been performing with GenJam, the Genetic Jammer, for nearly 20 years and has accumulated a wealth of experiences in performing live jazz with technology. This paper presents a discussion of the use of technology in jazz, both from the performer's and from the audience's perspective, and it proposes a classification scheme for live performance that is geared to mainstream performing situations.


This paper analyzes the impact of China's position in the international division of labor on the quality of employment of the two groups: college student and migrant workers.Those problems of six soft links,such as,product design,logistics,material purchase,order processing,wholesale business,retail terminal,result in the difficulty in college students job-hunting and the low-quality of employment;although the link of manufacturing provides a large number of jobs to migrant workers,the pressure of rising costs and fierce competition at home and abroad market reduce the quality of employment of migrant workers.


Water power is a type of power obtained from the force created by flowing water. Energy created from flowing water can be harnessed as a form of mechanical energy that can be utilized to generate electricity. Undershot water wheels have been extensively used to take advantage of the water flowing from rivers or waterfalls. This research was conducted by using water turbines with bowl-shaped blades made of iron and acrylic. The diameter of the turbines was 30 cm, and the diameter of the blades was 9 cm. Four, six, and eight blades were used in the three water turbines for this research. The blades were discharged and loaded to turn the turbine to generate force. The results of the study showed that the highest efficiency (η = 74.22%) was found in the six-blade turbine with a discharge of 0.01228 m3/s. It can be concluded that water turbines with bowl-shaped blades can be used as an alternative energy in small-scale electric generators.


Hope is one of the dimensions of character strength needed in individual personal development. Various instruments continue to be developed to measure a particular hope. The hope scale instrument must be adapted to each culture and country. However, in Indonesia, there has been no research on the development and validation of the hope scale. This study aimed to develop and validate the Indonesian Hope Scale (IHS) using Rasch's model analysis. Participants in this study are 323 students (99 male and 224 female) aged 13-25 years. This study consisted of junior high school students, senior high school students, college students, and postgraduate students. The results showed that Cronbach's Alpha was in the excellent category with a value is 0.82. The item reliability value is 0.99, and the person reliability value is 0.82. The results of Rasch's analysis show that the psychometric characteristics of the 20 items from the Indonesia Hope Scale can meet the requirements and can be used to measure expectations by professionals.


This paper presents the single-phase nine-level converter based STATCOM controlled with the fuzzy logic controller (FLC) and proportional integral (PI) controller. The FLC and PI controllers are used to control STATCOM for reactive power compensation and power factor correction. The STATCOM proposed in this paper can supply or absorb the reactive power to/from system. The absorbed/delivered reactive power improves the power factor of the point of common coupling (PCC). The obtained results show that, after STATCOM addition the power factor of the PCC is improved as compared to, the situation without STATCOM. There are two controllers implemented in STATCOM, one controller is for DC voltage regulation (which is used to generate the reference signals from the change in phase angle), and second controller is for reactive power regulation (which is used to generate the modulation index). The controllers output are fed in to the phase shift carrier sinusoidal pulse width modulation (PSPWM) to drive power converter switch. In last the results of FLC and PI controller are compared.