The electromagnet interference (EMI) effect resulting from using dental equipment near cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) is controversial based on in vitro and in vivo studies. We aimed to summarize the available evidence to investigate the safety of using dental equipment on patients with CIEDs.


We present time-resolved photoluminescence investigations of field-effect structures containing quantum dots (QDs). The high electrical field in those devices significantly influences carrier dynamics. Photoluminescence (PL) from the ground state occurs at an energy of 1.35 eV, but after strong excitation the PL band can reach up to 1.5 eV due to stale filling. After strong excitation, a few hundred picoseconds of slow PL decay are observed. Then the emission from the QDs performs a step-like quenching. The remaining luminescence has a long lifetime (about 1 ns) and its maximum occurs at about 1.35 eV. Numerical calculations suggest that the step-like PL quenching is caused by a decay of screening of the electrical field in the region with QDs.


Given that direct product experience is generally the optimal method for consumers to learn about products, marketers should strive for verisimilitude in marketing communications. This research explores how computer-mediated environments can engender virtual product experiences. The construct of telepresence, a sense of presence in a remote environment, is used to examine the process by which media characteristics influence consumer responses. Through two experimental studies, we evaluate the effect of two media characteristics—user control and media richness—on the creation of telepresence and assess the impact of telepresence on consumer beliefs about and attitudes toward the advertised product. Results show that user control and media richness both contribute to creating a sense of telepresence. Moreover, through telepresence, these media characteristics influence consumers' cognitive responses.


The stomatognathic system is a complicated structure, and patients usually adapt to their existing vertical dimension of occlusion (VDO). Therefore, prosthetic rehabilitation of decreased VDO should be considered only when dictated by esthetic or functional requirements. Successful rehabilitation of these patients may present us with a huge challenge of a lack of restorative space. Careful and comprehensive treatment planning is required for each individual patient. The important aspect is to find the most comfortable position for the patient. In this case a bite raising splint was used after the decision of increasing VD by anatomical landmark, facial and physiologic measurement. Once the compatibility of the new VD had been confirmed, interim fixed restoration and the permanent reconstruction was initiated. In this case report, a satisfactory clinical result was achieved by restoring the VD with an improvement in esthetics and function.


The present study was designed to investigate the anti-alzheimer's activity of Cyamopsis tetragonoloba fruit in mice. The two exteroceptive models, scopolamine (1mg/kg) and diazepam (1mg/kg) induced amnesia were used to study the anti-alzheimer's effect of ethanolic fruit extract of Cyamopsis tetragoloba (CTFE) at the oral dose of 200mg/kg and 400mg/kg in Wistar albino mice. Piracetam (400mg/kg) was used as a standard drug. After completion of the 10 days respective treatments, scopolamine induced amnesia model showed the better activity in all the three; Elevated plus maze, Radial arm maze and Y maze parameters. The CFE at a dose of 200mg/kg and 400mg/kg, improved memory in a dose dependent manner. In scopolamine and diazepam induced amnesia model, biochemical parameters like lipid hydroperoxide (P<0.05) and malondialdehyde (P<0.01) levels were significantly decreased with administration of CFE (400mg/kg) when compared to scopolamine control. Whereas, acetylcholinesterase (P<0.01) level was significantly increased when compared to scopolamine control on administration of CFE (400mg/kg). In-vivo antioxidants like superoxide dismutase, reduced glutathione and catalase were decreased on inducing amnesia by scopolamine and diazepam when compared to normal group. Treatment with 400mg/kg of CFE significantly increased the levels of superoxide dismutase (P<0.05), reduced glutathione (P<0.05) and catalase (P<0.05) when compared to negative controls. From the results it was concluded that the ethanolic fruit extract of Cyamopsis tetragonoloba elicits anti-alzheimer's activity in experimental animal models.


Coating mixtures of the resin B-H for the application to the desulfurization system of power plant were coated on carbon steels and cured at the temperature of . After being contacted with 70wt% solution of for several hours, their composition, Vicker's hardness and microstructures by SEM were examined. Corrosion resistance of the coating mixtures to solution was related to the content of in the coated specimens after corrosion test. The lower curing temperature and the shorter curing time the coated specimens went through, the higher corrosion resistance to acid they showed, but the more cracks were developed at higher temperature. It was realized that the corrosion resistance to sulfaric acid solution was increased on the condition of curing temperature above and curing time above 12 hours at least.


. In this paper, we consider the realization problem of amenable bicategories by using AFD-bimodules. As a corollary, we can realize an amenable standard lattice as that of an AFD II 1 -subfactor. This gives another proof of S. Popa's theorem. Weak amenability of fusion algebras is also discussed.


An ordered mesoporous carbon(OMC) material was synthesized via a template synthesis method.The composites of S/OMC with OMC as a matrix of sulfur were prepared by means of low temperature melting.The composites were investigated by transmission electron microscopy,Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method and X-ray powder diffraction.The results show that the channels of OMC is in an order,and the specific surface area of OMC is1 600m~2/g.The sulfur could be efficiently dispersed in OMC.The composites of S/OMC were determined by galvanostatic charge/discharge,cyclic voltammograms and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.It is indicated that the S/OMC has preferable electrochemical reversible,and the first discharge capacity reaches 1 430 mAh/g and stabilizes at 500mA·h/g after 60 cycles.It is essential for the improvement of the battery performance to possess the massive micropores with the greater surface area existed in the OMC.


Zmpste24 (also called FACE-1) is a metalloproteinase involved in the maturation of lamin A, an essential component of the nuclear envelope. Zmpste24-deficient mice exhibit multiple defects that phenocopy human accelerated aging processes such as Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome. In this work, we report that progeroid Zmpste24-/− mice present profound transcriptional alterations in genes that regulate the somatotroph axis, together with extremely high circulating levels of growth hormone (GH) and a drastic reduction in plasma insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1). We also show that recombinant IGF-1 treatment restores the proper balance between IGF-1 and GH in Zmpste24-/− mice, delays the onset of many progeroid features, and significantly extends the lifespan of these progeroid animals. Our findings highlight the importance of IGF/GH balance in longevity and may be of therapeutic interest for devastating human progeroid syndromes associated with nuclear envelope abnormalities.


The New NHS raises a lot of questions about employment and new responsibilities and duties for PNs. Christina Milne provides some answers.


This study aims to determine the profile of the fulfillment of national education standards and the results of national exams as well as learning media and the learning process in one of the senior high schools in the city of Kediri. The method used in this research is a survey method. Data collection techniques used were observation, questionnaires, and interviews. The results showed that the profile of the fulfillment of 8 National Education Standards in one of the public high schools in Kediri City with the highest gap in the standard process component of 2.38%, the standard of facilities and infrastructure of 1.43%, the standard of assessment of 1.43%, the standard of the content is 1.42% and the standard of education and teaching staff is 0.48%. The national exam score in one of the senior high schools in Kediri has an average of 5.14. Classroom learning activities are going well but not optimal with an average value of 79%. The value of fulfillment in the student's book, the value obtained is 63% and the value of deficiency is 37%. The value of fulfillment in the teacher's handbook obtained a value of 75% and a deficiency value of 25%. The results of national exams, media, and learning process activities provide information that can be used as a basis for conducting research activity.


This paper introduced the basic theory of digital ballast,and presented the design of power factor regulating circuit and start-up circuit.Both the circuits will bring about higher power factor and lower cost of production.


This study investigated the effects of dietary Arginine (Arg) on performance, intestinal antioxidant capacity, immunity, and gut microbiota in Chinese yellow-feathered chickens. One thousand and two hundred 1-day-old female Qingyuan partridge chickens were randomly assigned to 5 groups with 6 replicates of 40 birds each. Chickens were fed diets with 5 total Arg levels (8.5, 9.7, 10.9, 12.1 and 13.3 g/kg) without antibiotics for 30 D. Average daily feed intake, average daily gain, and feed conversion ratio were improved with dietary Arg levels (P < 0.05). Dietary Arg level had a linear (P < 0.05) or quadratic (P < 0.05) effect on the gene expression of glutathione peroxidase 1, hame oxygenase 1, nuclear factor erythroid 2, linearly and quadraticly increased activities of GSH-Px and total antioxidant capacity in the jejunum and ileum. In addition, relative expression of interleukin-1β and toll-like receptor 4 decreased linearly (P < 0.05) and quadratically (P < 0.05) in the ileum with increasing dietary Arg levels; secretory immunoglobulin A contents were increased. In addition, sequencing data of 16S rRNA indicated that dietary Arg increased the abundances of Firmicutes phylum, Romboutsia and Candidatus Arthromitus genus, while decreased that of Clostridium sensu stricto 1. A diet containing 12.1 g Arg/kg could promote growth performance, intestinal antioxidation, innate immunity and modulate gut microbiota in yellow feathered chickens.


Background:  A clinical evaluation of the L80 wave+ autorefractometer (Visionix Luneau, Chartres, France) was performed to evaluate its validity and repeatability compared with non‐cycloplegic subjective refraction. The L80 wave+ autorefractometer is a new instrument based on the Hartmann‐Shack principle that has a specific autorefraction function using the wavefront device and can also measure keratometry, topography of the cornea and higher‐order aberrations.


In order to realize single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) chiral selective growth, it is important to elucidate the mechanism of SWNT chirality (n,m) selectivity.


Though influenced by the impaction from center cities, the small towns on the fringe of cities have still been a relatively independent system for their development and strived to keep balance in the interior. So being the sensitivest districts, the small towns on the fringe of cities have the special meaning on the research into the small towns-' development. With the example of the Fuquan Town in Shaoxing of Zhejiang Province, the paper reviews a few problems such as the developmental orientation of small towns in the future and the important problems in their planning by the analysis of the characteristics of the present conditions and the developing motive mechanism, so that guides small towns to develop properly by liking with these small towns and center cities.


Gear hobbing, as any cutting process based on the rolling principle, is a signally multiparametric and complicated gear fabrication method. Although a variety of simulating methods has been proposed, each of them somehow reduces the actual three-dimensional (3D) process to planar models, primarily for simplification reasons. The paper describes an effective and factual simulation of gear hobbing, based on virtual kinematics of solid models representing the cutting tool and the work gear. The selected approach, in contrast to former modeling efforts, is primitively realistic, since the produced gear and chips geometry are normal results of successive penetrations and material removal of cutting teeth into a solid cutting piece. The algorithm has been developed and embedded in a commercial CAD environment, by exploiting its modeling and graphics capabilities. To generate the produced chip and gear volumes, the hobbing kinematics is directly applied in one 3D gear gap. The cutting surface of each generating position (successive cutting teeth) formulates a 3D spatial surface, which bounds its penetrating volume into the workpiece. This surface is produced combining the relative rotations and displacements of the two engaged parts (hob and work gear). Such 3D surface "paths" are used to split the subjected volume, creating concurrently the chip and the remaining work gear solid geometries. This algorithm is supported by a universal and modular code as well as by a user friendly graphical interface, for pre- and postprocessing user interactions. The resulting 3D data allow the effective utilization for further research such as prediction of the cutting forces course, tool stresses, and wear development as well as the optimization of the gear hobbing process.


(Au nanorod)-(metal sulfide) core-shell structures are synthesized by employing Au nanorods as the starting reactants and metal thiobenzoates as the metal sulfide precursors in the presence of Ag(+) ions. The gas-sensing property of the prepared (Au nanorod)-CdS sensor exhibit a significantly enhanced response and higher sensitivity in comparison with a CdS sensor.


Through surveying and researching,the storage of physical knowledge resources in Xi'an and the practical state of the transformation from physical knowledge resources to capital in this region are discussed It indicates that colorful physical knowledge resources have been found out in Xi'an,which results in the pattern of physical knowledge resources reserve,the vocational institute and department of physical education play the key role However,because of the restriction of the consciousness,system,mode and methed,etc,these resources haven't yet been effctively transformed to knowledge capital,neither have they been given free risen to thier value Thus,the assumption of the explitation of knowledge resources,in which the concept transformation and talented person's winning are stressed,is advanced


The extraordinary abundance of Bryozoa of the order Cheilostomata which occurs throughout the Cainozoic era,incomparison with their scarcity in earlier formations, has often been remarked. Interesting explanations of the suddenness of their appearance have, moreover, been offered by those who do not attach so much importance, as do some, to the imperfection of the geological record. Cheilostomata are not unknown from earlier deposits: the Cretaceous system has yielded a fair number, while even as early as the Silurian species have been found. Though doubts have been thrown on these early records, there seems no sufficient reason to discredit them. Even if Prof. Nicholson's Hippothoa inflata (Hall) should turn out to be a Stomntopora, which, if the figure be correct, is most unlikely, there remain many species in later Palæozoic deposits: such are those belonging to Prof. James Hall's genus Paleschara? which Mr. Ulrich accepts as Chilostomatons, though Prof, von Zittel includes it doubtfully with the Ptilodictyonidæ. Some of the specimens of Lichenalia, etc., figured by Hall, as well as the same author's Cystopora geniculata, may also belong to this order.


Abstract : EPOXI (Evolutionary Programming Over Explicit Interfaces) builds on the advanced mathematical foundation to enable the design and evolution of large-scale, heterogeneous, distributed, time-critical systems. The guiding philosophy of EPOXI is refinement of requirement specifications into code that is correct by construction. EPOXI emphasizes the support for design operations that establish or preserve required properties of the target system software. Refinement and coordination of changes to the software system were by means of formal change specifications, propagation of constraints through an architecture, gauges to measure component compliance and synthesis of glue-code to assure compliance/interoperability.


This paper presents a new multivariate spatial statistic developed to identify different interaction patterns between competing retail outlets. In order to define when two outlets are located relatively close to each other, a topological proximity criterion is suggested. Asymptotic properties of the new statistic are derived analytically and finite sample properties are obtained through Monte Carlo simulations. Various simulation experiments confirm that the statistic is robust and that it can distinguish pairwise categorical association from clustering in the joint population. To demonstrate its usefulness, the statistic is applied to competing retail chains in two retail sectors.


Motor vehicles have played a dominant role in deteriorating urban air quality in the world and a great deal has been learned about their implications for the local, regional and global environment. Vehicles are major sources of hydrocarbon (HC), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and sulfur dioxide (SO2), the precursors to both tropospheric ozone and acid rain; carbon monoxide (CO); and toxic air pollutants such as diesel particulate. Vehicles also consume large amount of fossil fuels such as gasoline and diesel, which cause carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted and become a concern of global warming. Over the past decades, as the vehicle population of Beijing exploding, transport sector has become a large source of CO, NOx and HC. In densely populated urban areas, vehicles can be a major source of particulates as well. In 1995, vehicles account for about 41% of NOx emission and 82.5% of CO emission in Beijing (DESE, 1997). In this paper, a Spreadsheet Model is developed to simulate the future impact of transport sectors on local, regional and global atmospheric environment in Beijing. The spreadsheet model can also be applied to any city in the world provided with the necessary input data. Based on different sets of scenarios, the models provide a year-by-year estimate of fuel consumption and emissions. The object of the model is to develop an effective mathematical tool for projecting the potential environmental impact of transport sector, evaluating the strategies and policies implemented now or in the future, and providing useful information for guiding the development of Beijing's transportation sector. This paper describes the application of this model in Beijing and analysis the outcome of the model.


During the evaluation of electromagnetic environment for high voltage power transmission projects nearby houses, the measurement of power frequency electric field on the house platform and be limited to 4 k V/m was often required. For this situation that the methods of measurement exist but no reference limit value, the experiments of human body direct feeling and transient shocks feeling which including insulated person touching the grounded metal and grounded person touching the insulated metal under different power frequency electric field values were conducted. Considering the direct feeling and possible transient shocks of human body under power frequency electric field, the limit of 7 k V/m at 1.5 m high from the bottom of the house platform where the residents didn't appear frequently was proposed. And the limit of 4 k V/m at 1.5 m high from the bottom of the house platform(include house balcony) where the residents appear frequently was also proposed, which is the same with the limit at the ground of first floor.


The post-global financial crisis outlook for the Indian information technology-enabled services (ITeS) sector is fraught with uncertainty. Several major information technology (IT) companies are in the process of corporate restructuring wherein their ITeS offshoots are being merged back with the parents. The motivation for this trend may be more strategic than financial in nature.Traditionally, enterprise valuation models are either asset-based, earnings-based, or a mixture of these. Assets-based valuation models focus on fixed assets or tangible assets as a source of value creation, while earnings-based valuation models focus on earnings/profitability and growth. For ITeS companies, however, human resources (intangible assets) would be expected to play a more important role in driving value than tangible assets.The present study proposes a model for enterprise value in the ITeS sector involving tangible assets, intangible assets (intellectual capital), and earnings/growth. In particular, the model would explain the relative impact of each of these factors on enterprise value.


FUEL MANUFACTURERS ARE FACing tough new environmental restrictions in the coming years. In addition to mandating reduced tailpipe emissions in 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency is requiring an order of magnitude reduction in sulfur content of transportation fuels by 2006. Less sulfur will not only reduce emissions of SO 2 , it will also improve the performance of pollution control equipment on vehicles designed to reduce the release of nitrogen oxides and particulate soot. At last month's American Chemical Society national meeting in New %rk City, desulfurization was—not surprisingly—the buzzword at some sessions of the Division of Fuel Chemistry. New catalysts and new processes to reduce sulfur levels in transportation fuels were heralded by attendees of the "Catalysts & Processes for Environmentally Cleaner Gasoline & Diesel Fuels" symposium, cosponsored by the Petroleum Chemistry Division. The new EPA rules call for 30 ppm by weight (ppmw) sulfur in gasoline and 15 ppmw in highway diesel, down ...


System for in-situ verification and calibration of mass flow control and regulating devices, comprising: a mass flow verification device; a first physical network layer to connect the mass flow control and regulation systems with the mass flow verification device; and a second physical network layer, which is connected to the mass flow verification device; wherein a control of the mass flow verification device is so programmed that it verifiert the mass flow control and regulating devices via the first network physical layer on the basis of a single command, which is supplied via the second network physical layer and, if necessary, calibrated.


This paper focuses on the performance of direct mail as a key marketing communication tool in customer retention and a loyalty building instrument during the financial crisis in Greek automotive sector. The major transnational car brand Toyota in Greece is selected to investigate the performance of direct mail in enticing customer loyalty during a financial crisis. Athens and Salonica, the two largest cities in Greece, were chosen as the study locations because they comprise the largest segment of the automotive market and have been the main stage for the conflicts and reactions to the crisis between 2010 and 2015. In partnership with a major research agency and Toyota Hellas, a questionnaire was distributed, and 383 completed questionnaires were returned. The results were analysed through analysis of variance with covariates (ANCOVA) and mediated regression analysis. It was found that direct mail has a direct effect on customer attitudinal loyalty, and behavioural loyalty is dependent on customer satisfaction related to direct mail. This paper provides new insights on the effect of direct mail on customer loyalty during economic crises. Showing the performance and role of direct mail in crisis environment is likely to help managers better understand their customers and enhance loyalty.


Building systems that have the ability to recognize human emotions has attracted much interest in recent years. Common approaches toward machine emotion recognition focus on detection of facial expressions and analysis of physiological signals. However, in situations where these features cannot be easily obtained, emotion recognition becomes a challenging problem. In this paper, we explore the possibility of emotion recognition through gait, which is one of the most common human behaviors. We first identify various motion features based on pose estimation from captured video frames. We then train several supervised learning models, including SVM, Multilayer Perceptron, Naive Bayes, Decision Tree, Random Forest and Logistic Regression, using selected features and compare their performances. The best model trained to classify five emotion labels has an accuracy of 64%. Finally, we implement a proof-of-concept mobile-server system for emotion recognition in real-life scenarios using smartphone cameras.


SUMMARY Epidural block for the relief of pain in normal labour still remains a relatively uncommon practice in this country. One of the reasons for its lukewarm acceptance may be the belief that its use commits the mother almost invariably to a forceps delivery. Records of over 800 deliveries attended by the writer from 1957 to 1969 show that, while the use of selective epidural analgesia has increased over the years, the frequency of forceps delivery has decreased. It is suggested that epidural block need be less of a cause of a high forceps rate than hitherto believed provided that: (1) the technique is employed in normal as well as in abnormal labours; (2) the strength of uterine contraction is augmented if necessary by an oxytocin infusion; (3) a selective technique is used involving minimal dosses of local anaesthetic directed at the nerve pathways by which the mother is feeling pain at the time of injection; (4) the attending obstetrician is willing to allow the mother time ans opportunity to deliver herself without unduly hasty intervention.


Optical characterization and sensitivity evaluation of an all-dielectric photonic crystal based guided resonance filter sensitive to index-of-refraction changes in aqueous solutions is presented. Measured quality factor values (Q=83, 181) correspond to detectable index-change of 2times10-3.


According to the current planting status of maize in Changzhi City,climatic conditions of the growth of maize were analyzed.Meanwhile, effective measures to prevent maize diseases and insect pests and frost were put forward.This paper had important significance for improving maize safety growth in normal and promoting yield and quality of maize.


This chapter describes cases of music teaching and learning from Pre-K-12 schools. As a trait of book, instead of focusing on how-to instruction and technical aspects of music teaching, the author puts a special emphasis on music learning in a social context. Both music and music education consist of social interaction among learners, teachers, and community members. This process is especially unique to music because we always learn from each other and perceive music in a shared sense. The author wishes you also learn from these cases and implement the idea of your practice for students to learn from each other.


This study seeks to define the current state of organizational systems and the level of community management of water in the Water Management Boards that provide drinking water to communities in the area of influence of Pesillo-Imbabura Project; and relate the level of organization and management of Water Management Boards with the quality and availability of water distributed through water systems.
To achieve the objectives of the study two files were developed to collect information in the study area: one to identify the organizational systems of Water Management Boards, and the second to identify administrative processes performed within JAAPs, by applying the records information related to the social and structural organization of water management boards, the tariff system, management of the money raised, number of system users, flow allowed for human consumption, documentation of meetings, protection of sources of water, and the division organizational and policy of the boards. After analyzing the data collected in the communities the Water Management Boards studied were ranked in three levels of community management of water: deficient, regular and good; this in order to compare levels of management and organization of Water Management Boards with water quality and availability of their systems, obtaining as outstanding result that the quantity and quality of water in the system does not depend entirely on community management of the Water Management Boards, that is not always a good management ensures that water is plentiful and of good quality, as it depends on other factors such as the type, quality and protection of sources of drinking water is taken. As an example you have to Water Management Board "El Abra" that despite having a poor management system has good water quality and sufficient to fully cover the demand for water system users every day of the year.
In the last chapter of this study a guide training is given to users and leaders of community water systems in the area of Pesillo-Imbabura project, providing guidelines of duties and tasks for leaders and models related documentation administration and financial
management boards, this information may serve as a basis for future training processes in communities by UPS or local and national authorities in the project area and in other areas where resource management water is given through community management.


The enhancement of intangible cultural heritage is a development tool, responsible for generating social, cultural and economic benefits of a current manifestation, in order to preserve an expression in the present and ensure its sustainability in the future, generating social processes - economic and fulfilling the long-awaited beginning of Good Living.

The valorization of traditional Children Passes management has three phases, the first; is the anthropological research phase in which each of the tangible and intangible cultural elements that has the manifestation is recorded, the history and origin, traditions present and cultural elements, the second phase is the analysis of the current situation, was performed by situational and ethnographic, formal diagnosis is finally phase is the plan development dedirectrices safeguarding intangible cultural heritage which was developed based on the methodological guide NCPI.

For this research the descriptive scientific method was applied, based on the documentation field the same as was done through consultation of primary and secondary sources, information was also collected in situ through interviews, observations depth and survey the same as those applied to those who participated in the organization, memory carriers and cultural actors.


We synthesized rutile TiO2 nanorods with high crystallinity, i.e., degree of crystallinity greater than ca. 90%, by using a hydrothermal method and studied the effect of the morphological change from rod shape to subsphere by the subsequent thermal treatment. The photocatalytic activity was estimated for O2 evolution from water oxidation because this reaction was hardly affected by the specific surface area of photocatalysts. Thermal desorption and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry measurements suggested the decomposition of residual glycolic acid in TiO2 nanorods at 272 and 590 °C. Observation with scanning electron microscopy and physical properties such as specific surface area and crystallite size indicated deformation of the rod shape to subsphere by the calcination above 600 °C. Time-resolved microwave conductivity measurements have revealed that the TiO2 nanorods possess the longest lifetime of photogenerated electrons among all samples. However, the O2 evolution rate of the TiO2 nanorods was mu...


Hyperlipidemia is commonly ascribed to obesity. In the current study, the association of anthropometric profile with hyperlipidemia after adjustment for important confounding variables such as smoking, alcohol intake, and diabetes in healthy male volunteers was analysed. Two hundred and forty five aircrew reporting for medical examination prior to renewal of aircrew license formed the study group. Anthropometric assessment included measurement of weight, height, waist and hip circumferences. Body fat (BF) was measured by electrical bioimpedance. Serum levels of total cholesterol (TC), High-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) and triglyceride (TG) were measured. Low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) was calculated by the Friedewald formula. Statistical analysis was done to examine the associations between anthropometric variables and lipids. Mean age of the study population was 41.2 ± 10.2 yrs (20 to 63 yr). Seventy two percent of the study population had BMI >25 kg/m2, with 63% having BF more than 25%. In 51.3% waist hip ratio (WHR) was more than 0.9 and 48% had waist circumference more than 90 cm. Hypertriglyceridemia (36%) was the commonest abnormality noted followed by low HDL-C levels (18%). Lipid sub fraction analysis revealed that elevated cholesterol and LDL-C correlated to BMI (r = 0.2, p = 0.002) and body fat % (r = 0.16, p = 0.015), while triglyceride and VLDL correlated with WHR (r = 0.15, p= 0.020). In older men, BMI correlated positively with elevated cholesterol (r = 0.36, p < 0.001) while WHR correlated positively with triglycerides (r = 0.42, p < 0.001). However, in the younger men, BF positively correlated with elevated cholesterol (r = 0.40, p < 0.001). Waist circumference did not correlate with dyslipidemia in any subgroup. Combination of anthropometric variables predicts dyslipidemia better in asymptomatic healthy males rather than any one particular variable. IJASM 2006 ; 50(2) : 32-37


An outbreak of unprecedented falciparum malaria was reported after 28 years absence from the Cuyuni-Mazaruni-Potaro among miners. The introduced cases were locally imported from the South Rupununi, following 'the gold and diamond rush'. Anopheles darlingi was found exclusively.


Objective To introduce a new method of minimally invasive operation of hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage disrupting into intraventricular system. Methods The hemorrhage in 93 cases was localized by establishment of X, Y and Z coordinates via CT. A hole was drilled and an F14 catheter was inserted for the purpose of evacuation and drainage of hemorrhage. The treating efficacy was compared with that of craniotomy. Results Among the 93 cases, the hemorrhage in 15 cases disappeared in 4 days, 53 cases in 5 days, 20 cases in 7 days and 5 in 10 days, and 6 cases died (taking up 6.5 %). Conclusion Application of minimally invasive CT-guided surgery in the treatment of hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage disrupting into intraventricular system is feasible.


Magnetic bubbles can move in steady state under the influence of rotating field gradients. In the experiments reported in this paper the rotating field gradient method, as described by Jones et al., was used. Some technical improvements were introduced and two garnet films with uniaxial anisotropy were studied. The observed bubble mobilities compare very well with the mobilities obtained by the conventional bubble translation technique. The present method appears to be very suitable for studying the dynamic behavior of the magnetic bubbles near critical drive fields.


Hermitian forms with complex random data arise in some areas of physics when one studies the effect of the noise in some frequency interval. In this context, a central-limit theorem is proved for independent Gaussian variables in the complex plane. The non-Gaussian case is also studied and the same result holds provided that the fourth-order moments are bounded. >


In world cheese production, goat cheese accounts for an average of 2.2%, the leaders are Sudan and France (about 100 thousand tons per year), Russia — 2 thousand tons, half of which are farmer's. The peculiarity of making cheese from goat's milk is associated with its lower ability to coagulate by enzymes and producing a less dense clot. Descriptive organoleptic assessment of the quality of goat's and cow's milk cheeses did not reveal any inconsistencies, and the samples received 95 points according to the point system. Goat's cheese is sharp and slightly spicy with a creamy consistency, but not salty enough. In goat cheese, deviations of physical and chemical parameters were detected: the moisture ppm content was 12.5% less than normal, and the moisture ppm content in the skimmed substance exceeded the norm by 9%. The cost of goat cheese is about 56% higher.


1. Lambs fed on skim milk containing either maize oil or cod-liver oil or both were observed for signs of muscular dystrophy, changes in serum enzymes and increases in the susceptibility of red cells to haemolysis by peroxide (peroxide haemolysis). 2. Four lambs fed on the milk containing cod-liver oil, and not receiving α-tocopheryl acetate injections, developed acute muscular dystrophy, but no abnormal changes occurred in peroxide haemolysis, packed cell volume or haemoglobin concentration in the blood. Marked increases occurred in the aspartate transaminase, alanine transaminase and glutamate dehydrogenase, and in lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme activities of the serum, presumably due to leakage from the degenerating tissues. One lamb given weekly injections of 100 mg α-tocopheryl acetate remained clinically normal and maintained normal serum enzyme levels. Treatment of dystrophic animals with 200 mg α-tocopheryl acetate by injection produced prompt clinical recovery and an exponential decline in the raised serum enzyme activities. 3. In the five lambs fed on the skim-milk containing maize oil, muscular dystrophy did not occur. Small but significant increases occurred, however, in serum aspartate transaminase and glutamate dehydrogenase activities. In all five animals peroxide haemolysis was greatly increased, but in only two did packed cell volume and haemoglobin values fall slightly below the lower limit of normal (mean − 2 × SD). Injections of 100–200 mg α-tocopheryl acetate neither prevented nor cured the abnormally high levels of serum enzymes and peroxide haemolysis, although a change in the diet was followed by a gradual return to normal. In one lamb given massive doses of α-tocopherol by mouth, peroxide haemolysis was not reduced. Large amounts of α-tocopherol added in vitro to erythrocytes from the lamb did, however, prevent peroxide haemolysis. 4. Peroxide haemolysis did not increase in any of three lambs fed on skim milk containing both maize oil and cod-liver oil, although two of them, which were given much larger amounts of cod-liver oil than the third, developed muscular dystrophy with elevated serum enzyme levels. 5. Peroxide haemolysis in lambs is evidently not a measure of vitamin E deficiency. It is suggested that increased peroxide haemolysis in lambs, like encephalomalacia in chicks, depends on the fatty acid composition of the unsaturated lipids in the diet.


The efficiency and mechanism in degradation of 2-methylisoborneol (MIB) as a taste and odour compound in drinking water were studied under the condition where γ-alumina catalysed ozonation. As a result, γ-alumina can show distinct activity in enhancing the efficiency of ozonation of MIB. Tert-butyl alcohol had a remarkable effect on the removal efficiency of catalytic ozonation of MIB. The surface charge status, surface hydroxyl group status of yalumina, and pH values of the solution can be linked together. When the pH value of the solution was near the pH zpc of γ-Al 2 O 3 , there was observable activity in the catalysed ozonation process. R ct , which denoted the relative concentration of hydroxyl radical (-OH), was much higher in the catalysed ozonation process than in the ozonation process. This result further illuminated that γ-Al 2 O 3 can promote ozone decomposition to produce OH. Finally, the effect of rp/, on catalysed ozone decomposition and ozone decomposition was investigated.


In April 1867, a fifteen-stanza poem by Frances R. Havergal entitled "Making Poetry" appeared in Good Words, accompanied by a full-page illustration by Arthur Boyd Houghton (fig. I).1 Houghton's picture gave readers access to an intimate domestic scene inside a comfortable middle-class home. Resting her head against the back of an upholstered armchair, a young woman gazes into space, her hands resting on the book open on her lap. The room is lit by a large window overlooking a treed expanse, but all the views in this carefully staged scene are directed inward. Positioned behind the foregrounded woman with the book, a young boy kneels on the window seat, absorbed in writing on a sheet of paper. Bringing the domestic activities of reading, writing, and contemplation into a single frame, Houghton's picture not only visualizes Havergal's accompanying verses, but also highlights some overarching themes about "making poetry" in Good Words. Turning to the poem that shares the picture's title is instructive, not least because the continuous reading experience is disrupted by the facing full-page image and subsequent page turn. Printed in double columns, the first three stanzas of Havergal's poem appear at the bottom of the printed page, below an essay "On Some New Forms of Industrial Co-operation."2 Directly facing Houghton's illustration, these stanzas initiate an exchange between mother and child: Little one, what are you doing, Sitting on the window-seat? Laughing to yourself, and writing, Some right merry thought inditing, Balancing with swinging feet. In response the child confesses, "'Tis some poetry I'm making," and formulates a life goal: "I should like to be a poet, Writing verses every day; Then to you I'd always bring them, You should make a tune and sing them; 'Twould be pleasanter than play." The twelve remaining stanzas are printed in double columns on the next page, immediately above an essay on "one of the most strange and unexpected phenomena that science has yet disclosed to the human mind," the discovery of a star on fired Spoken entirely in the voice of the mother, the verses teach son and reader together that poetic expression is as much a part of modern life as knowledge of economic cooperatives and stellar conflagrations. "Poetry is not a trifle, / Lightly thought and lightly made,' she explains, but rather "the essence of existence," wrought from the common human experiences of "Joy or Sorrow." Both deeply personal and intensely social, poetry is also, the verses insist, something manufactured and reproduced: its material form constitutes a "copy" or "transcript" of what is "Carved in letters deep and burning / On a heart that long endures." Taken together, poem, picture, and layout make an argument about the nature and purpose of poetry in Victorian periodicals. First, poetry is a made thing. Expressed in the physical relationships of letterpress, white space, and wood-engraved scene, its material form belongs to the age of mechanical reproduction, when human experience of all kinds is shared through the dissemination of inscribed letters and images impressed into multiple copies. Second, poetry is an essential part of everyday life. Neither a frivolous "trifle" in the capitalist world of getting and spending nor an elite form of high art remote from domestic experience, poetic expression is integral to what it means to be human in the modern world. The verses published in illustrated periodicals have much to tell us about Victorian poetry's intimate relationship with visual culture and the image, and its place in both domestic space and the public sphere. Popular rather than canonical, with many authors appearing anonymously or pseudonymously, these poems require us to shift our scholarly attention from authors to readers, and from aesthetic/poetic intentions to material effects. Taking Alexander Strahan's Good Words (1860-1911) as its case study, and arguing that the age of the image is inevitably the age of the reader, this paper examines a selection of pictured poems from the 1860s to show why illustration matters to periodical poetry studies. …


We perform a computational simulation of light emissions from two sonoluminescent bubbles in water. Our simulation includes the radii of two bubbles, radiation acoustic pressures, and light emission spectra by numerically solving the pulsing equations of a two-bubble system and the equations of gas dynamics, respectively. Simulation results demonstrate that the motion of each bubble in the two-bubble system is restrained because of the radiation acoustic pressures from the other pulsing bubble. The restrained oscillation of a bubble with small ambient radius is stronger than that of bubbles with large ambient radius under the same driving acoustic pressure. This effect increases with an decrease in the distance between two bubbles. When compared to single-bubble sonoluminescence, the interaction between two bubbles leads to the generation of different spectral characteristics.


A detailed design approach is given for a low-cost, large aperture laser reciever capable of detecting and recognizing short laser pulses of unknown frequency. The design results from development of three basic rules for detection of extraterrestrial signals. The paper looks at both frequency and time domain issues, and configures a specific design to accomplish detection and recognition. This design enables a large aperture system that costs orders of magnitude less than that of a diffraction-limited astronomical telescope of equivalent capability for detection of SETI laser pulses. Implementation of this design will enable the detection of laser signals, if present, that have previously been undetectable.


This paper quantitatively assesses the impact of the global financial crisis on China's exports and employment in the manufacturing industry. It starts with a quantitative analysis, using the empirical model to find out the determining factors of China's exports, and using economic forecast data from major trading partners to evaluate their impact on China's exports. Then it utilizes China's historical data on exports and employment to assess the impact of export changes on employment in the manufacturing industry, and finally makes some policy suggestions.


Environment is the surrounding around us that is li fe sustaining support of all living beings. Many factors are responsible for the destru ction of environment to create living conditions for human beings. Environmental awareness in the Indians is the utmost necessity for our upcoming generations. Drastic cha nge in the environmental conditions due to human interference in the nature has created a critical issue for environmental awareness in individuals. Environmental awareness and education when correlated they will give be able to provide us a better way to ove rcome the issues of environmental changes. Environmental Education is a key to the success of any overall environmental strategy, determined to help in the setting up of a Centre of Excellence in Environmental education. To have a probable level of environmental awareness in education, the study regarding the kno wledge for Environmental Awareness could be useful. Therefore this study was undertake n for the exploration into the level of environmental awareness measure in to the higher se condary school students of Ahmedabad District. For this study the survey metho d designed by Praveen Kumar Jha was followed. Obtained data were statistically anal yzed using mean, standard deviation and t-test.


A typical configuration of Visual Sensor Network (VSN) usually consists of a set of vision nodes, network motes, and a base station. The vision node is used to capture image data and transmit them to the nearest network mote. Then, the network motes will relay the data within the network until it reaches the base station. Since the vision node is usually small in size and battery-powered, it restricts the resources that can be incorporated onto it. In this chapter, a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation of a low-complexity and strip-based Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stage (MIPS) architecture is presented. In this case, the image data captured by the vision node is processed in a strip-by-strip manner to reduce the local memory requirement. This allows an image with higher resolution to be captured and processed with the limited resources. In addition, parallel access to the neighbourhood image data is incorporated to improve the accessing speed. Finally, the performance of visual saliency in using the proposed architecture is evaluated.


This paper expounds the position and function of enterprise ethics in modern enterprises, probes into the present situation and influence of our country's enterprise ethics construction, and puts forward some channels of exploring enterprise ethics construction in the course of deepening enterprise reform.


The optimal reporting frequency is an important issue in accounting. In many production settings, substitution effects across periods occur. This paper shows that the optimal reporting frequency depends on the strength of the substitution effect and on the information content of performance signals. For a subset of parameter combinations - the low-chance scenario - infrequent reporting is always efficient; for other parameter combinations – the high-chance scenario - infrequent reporting is efficient as long as first-period signals show high informativeness (and substitution effects are strong). Limited commitment by the principal does not influence results.


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By means of niche selection technology, saving best result strategy and eliminating near best result strategy, genetic algorithm by which many optimal solutions may be solved has been designed. The practical problem has been calculated by using the genetic algorithm designed, many optimal solution has been gained with satisfactory results.


Full-field optical coherence tomography (FFOCT) acquires image data in parallel. It has a big advantage in high-speed imaging because 2-dimensional mechanical raster scanning in the sample arm, which is essentially needed in a common fiber-based OCT system, does not exist anymore. Swept-source FFOCT (SSFFOCT) further makes the system free of depth scanning that significantly increases the operation speed. National Instrument's LabVIEW is a powerful tool to fast develop optical-electronic systems which have motion/vision units, signal processing functions and easy-to-generate Graphic User Interface (GUI). In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of Labview program prepared for an SSFFOCT system. Basically, there are four modules of Labview programming in such a system: 1. Wavelength sweeping control; 2. Synchronized image grabbing; 3. SSFFOCT signal processing; 4. 3-dimensional tomogram displaying mode selection. A general graphic user interface is used to input the parameters and monitor all necessary data and curves. The tomographic images can be displayed at any given cutting direction. More details and examples are provided and discussed.


An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a vital security component of modern computer networks. With the increasing amount of sensitive services that use computer network-based infrastructures, IDSs need to be more intelligent and autonomous. Aside from autonomy, another important feature for an IDS is its ability to detect zero-day attacks. To address these issues, in this paper, we propose an IDS which reduces the amount of manual interaction and needed expert knowledge and is able to yield acceptable performance under zero-day attacks. Our approach is to use three learning techniques in parallel: gated recurrent unit (GRU), convolutional neural network as deep techniques and random forest as an ensemble technique. These systems are trained in parallel and the results are combined under two logics: majority vote and "OR" logic. We use the NSL-KDD dataset to verify the proficiency of our proposed system. Simulation results show that the system has the potential to operate with a very low technician interaction under the zero-day attacks. We achieved 87.28% accuracy on the NSL-KDD's "KDDTest+" dataset and 76.61% accuracy on the challenging "KDDTest-21" with lower training time and lower needed computational resources.


In a method of making a pattern on a substrate, the method comprises the steps of printing a first pattern on the substrate; and, a second substantially similar pattern, combination of the first and second pattern substrate a step of printing what is offset relative to the first pattern so as to cause systematic variations in the final size of the image made the elements above.


Two chitin inhibiting compounds were tested against several species of stored product insects. Af-[((5-(4-Bro mophenyl)-6-methyl-2-pyrazinyl)amino)carbonyl]-2-chlorobenza mide (LY-127063) was effective in preventing development of the lesser grain borer Rhyzopertha dominica (F.), confused flour bee tle, Tribolium confus urn Jacquelin du Val, sawtoothed grain beetle, Oryzaephilus surinamensis (L.), Indian meal moth, Plodia inter punctella (H?bner), rice weevel, Sitophilus oryzae (L.), almond moth, Ephestia cautella (Walker), and Angoumois grain moth, Si totroga cerealella (Olivier) at 0.2-13.5 ppm in wheat. 2,6-Dime thoxy-jV-[5-(4-(2,2,3,3,3 ,-pentafluorethoxy)phenyl)-1,3,4-thiadi azol-2-yl]benzamide (LY-131215) was only about one-fifth as effective. Chitin synthesis inhibitors have potential for use as insecticides (Marx, 1977; Vincent, 1978). Most of these are benzamide derivatives. Previously we evaluated 8 such experimental compounds, applied to wheat, against several species of stored product insects (McGregor and Kramer, 1976; Kramer and McGregor, 1979). We report here the results obtained with two other compounds. Materials and Methods All insects were obtained from cultures that were maintained at the U.S. Grain Marketing Research Laboratory and had no prior history of exposure to insecticides. The 'Chanute' wheat used in the tests was obtained from a commercial source, and kernels were cleaned and tempered to a moisture of 12.5 ? 0.5% as determined by a Motomco? moisture meter (Motomco Inc., Clark, New Jersey). The chemicals (Fig. 1) evaluated were: I. 2,6 dimethoxy-7V[5-(4-(2,2,3,3,3 ,-pentafluorethoxy)phenyl)-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2 1 This paper reports the results of research only. Mention of a pesticide does not constitute a recommendation for use by the USDA nor does it imply registration under FIFRA as amend ed. Also, mention of a proprietary product does not constitute endorsement by the USDA. 2 Research chemist and research entomologist, respectively. Received for publication 27 August 1979. This content downloaded from 220.127.116.11 on Thu, 02 Mar 2017 04:15:15 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 628 JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY Table 1. Activity of LY-131215 (I) and LY-127063 (II) against development of coleopteran and lepidopteran insects exposed from egg stage in wheat. Species Compound no. Average no. Fj insects in untreated sample* ED95 (ppm)b 1. Lesser grain borer 2. Confused flour beetle 3. Sawtoothed grain beetle


Nanocrystalline diamonds were synthesised in cycled water suspension of fine graphite powders by a Nd:YAG pulsed laser with low energy density and long pulse width,but the productions have massive raw material remainded.For getting the nanodiamonds from the the mixed powder,the choice oxidation process with the hot air and the chemical oxidation process were used to refine the mix powder by pulsed-laser ablation.The results of the two oxidation processes by analysing hot weight loss curve and TEM were compared.The results indicated that the hot choice oxidation process can not effectively purify the nanocrystalline diamonds by pulsed-laser ablation;the nanocrystalline diamonds by pulsed-laser ablation are effectively purified with the pure perchloric acid as the oxydant.


Motivating customers' engagement can be a crucial differentiating factor for the dynamically changing landscape of online retailing. This study draws on service-dominant (S-D) logic and behavioral literature to propose a conceptual model that depicts how a firm's S-D orientation and strategic capabilities stimulate customer engagement, leading to enhanced performance. The model captures the underlying mechanism of value cocreation in an online retailing context. The authors test the model using an experimental research design: 872 participants navigated a quest toward a hypothetical purchase in nine versions of a mock e-commerce website specializing in cycling equipment, and which contained various cues representing different S-D orientations. Findings suggest that S-D orientation has a positive impact on customers' brand attitudes, affecting their engagement dispositions, purchase intentions, and ultimately (dis)engagement behaviors. In addition, relational, individuated, and developmental strategic capabilities appear to have a stronger impact on customer engagement in online retailing.


She received her Ph.D. from BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, in 2017. Her observations on college students' endeavors to pen down their ideas led her to choose Scaffolding Writing Skills for Indian College Students as her doctoral research topic. The work has contributed to understanding the importance of learning management systems to maximally impact classroom instruction of writing skills through a learner-centric, collaborative approach. After being awarded the institutional fellowship in 2011, She taught courses like Technical Communication, Technical Report Writing, and Effective Public Speaking at BITS Pilani to UG and PG students. Before this, She did M. Phil. in English Literature from MGS University, Bikaner, in 2009 and wrote a dissertation on the works of V S Naipaul from a Postcolonial perspective. She qualified for UGC NET (English - Language and Literature) in 2012. While doing a short-term course with RELO, US Embassy, in 2012, She was awarded Outstanding Achievement in Exploring Web 2.0: Tools for classroom teaching and professional development. During her Master (in English Literature), She received Prof. SBL Rawat Memorial Trust Award for achieving the second rank at the University level. She also wrote a dissertation on comparative analysis of G B Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra and William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in MA. Her research areas are Teaching of Writing Skills in Language Classrooms at Tertiary Level, Online Collaborative Language Learning, literary theories, and Contemporary Drama. She has also served as the co-convenor of Departmental seminars in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani in 2013-14. She was a member of the editorial committee of BITS CAN- a biannual BITS Pilani magazine, and the organizing committee for the International Conference Interfacing Language, Culture and Technology.


Obesity is associated with hyposalivation, development of xerostomia, increased viscosity of saliva. However, pathogenetic mechanisms of changes in salivary glands under the experimental obesity has not yet been completely elucidated and the ability to correct these changes with nanoceria. The aim of the study was to investigate the influence of nanoceria on the activity of α-amylase and ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) in the tissues of salivary glands in monosodium glutamate (MSG)-induced obese rats. The study was carried out on 48 rats of both genders. The animals were divided into four groups: I – intact control (4-month rats), group II – newborn rats subcutaneously in the volume of 4 mg/g MSG administered at 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 day of life, group III – intragastric administration of nanocrystal line cerium dioxide at a dose of 1 mg/kg volume of 2.9 ml/kg against the background of glutamate-induced obesity, the fourth group of animals treated with a solution of sodium citrate intragastrically in the volume of 2.9 ml/kg (solvent of nanocrystalline cerium). Introduction of nanocrystalline cerium dioxi de solution starting from 4 weeks after birth (after weaning from the mother) and continued in termittently two-week course in 2 weeks. The changes in a body weight were analyzed in rats of all groups during 4 months. Body mass index was calculated. Four-month-old animals were decapitated, removed and weighed visceral fat was measured. We determined α-amylase activity


Double balloon enteroscopy (DBE) is a new method that can identify and treat intestinal bowel diseases. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) can explore lesions of the different layers of the gastrointestinal tract. Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome (BRBNS) is a rare disorder with high morbidity and mortality. We describe a case of BRBNS that was diagnosed and treated with these two methods. A 13‐year‐old child presented to our department with a 9‐month history of chronic anemia. Eight months ago he was admitted to the emergency department with melena and upper endoscopy revealed two vascular lesions, one with active bleeding which was treated with sclerotherapy. The patient continued with anemia and intermittent melena. Other diagnostic tests were negative. Physical examination revealed one oral hemangioma. An initial DBE was performed and three small lesions in the antrum were found and treated. Two more jejunal lesions were observed and its vascular origin was confirmed with the aid of a 15 MHz miniprobe that was passed through the biopsy channel. Combined treatment was applied with polidocanol at 1.5% and argon plasma coagulation. Other lesions were found and treated. The control DBE did not show active hemangiomas. The patient was followed for 3 months and no more bleeding was seen and the anemia was corrected to a level of 11 g/dL. DBE with EUS can diagnose and effectively treat patients with vascular lesions, such as BRBNS. The combined treatment offered was safe and no complications were observed. The prognosis has been excellent.


During the mid-1980s, there were 31 stations in China that successfully participated in the Global Network of Isotopes in Precipitation. However, most observations were suspended after the mid-1990s. The discontinuous data hindered the application of precipitation isotopes, which are strongly affected in China by the Asian monsoon and are thus of intrinsic interest for palaeoclimatologists. Therefore, to continuously observe precipitation isotopes nationwide, the Chinese Network of Isotopes in Precipitation was established in 2004. The current study reviewed the major characteristics of the 928 samples that were collected from 2005 to 2010. The ranges of δD and δ18O values generally followed the pattern NE>NW>TP>NC>SC, and the amount-weighted δ-values followed the pattern SC>NW>NC>TP>NE. Temporal variations presented a 'V'-shaped pattern at the SC region and reverse 'V'-shaped patterns at the NE and NW regions. Decreasing trends with the advent of the rainy season were found at the NC and TP regions. The Chinese Meteoric Water Line has been established as δD=7.48δ18O+1.01. The distributions of scattering along the line demonstrated different water vapour origins and characteristics. The values of δ18O showed strong temperature dependence at the NE (0.27‰/°C) and NW stations (0.37‰/°C), and this dependent variable switched to water vapour pressure and vapour pressure at the SC stations. The geographical controls of δ18O were −0.22‰/° and −0.13‰/100 m for latitude and altitude, respectively. The δ18O/Latitude gradient increased from south to north at the Eastern Monsoon Region, and the δ18O/Altitude gradient (−0.30‰/100 m) was especially significant for the TP region. The results of this study could provide basic isotopic information for on-going investigations in hydrology, meteorology, palaeoclimatology and ecology at different regions of China.


Full coverage location of logic resource faults is vital for FPGA design and fabrication, rather than only detecting whether there are faults or not. Taking advantage of flexibility and observability of software in conjunction with high-speed simulation of hardware, SOC co-verification technology based in-house FPGA functional test environment embedded with an in-house computerized tool, ConPlacement, can locate logic resources automatically, exhaustively and repeatedly. The approach to implement full coverage location of configurable logic block (CLB) faults by the FPGA functional test environment is presented in the paper. Experimental results of XC4010E demonstrate that full coverage location of logic resource faults as well as multi-faults position can be realized.


Formerly Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manchester

Neil was born 10 February 1925 and died on 30 December 2003, aged 78. The only child of a North London GP, Neil was educated at Highgate School, Cambridge and University College Hospital. He was given a distinction in his DPM by Sir


This paper deals with a critical analysis of a model of evaluation, intervention, and process analysis for teaching methodological conceptual skills, as well as


Accelerograms, Fourier amplitude spectra and response spectra from ground motion recorded in the San Fernando earthquake at selected sites in Los Angeles were examined and compared. Although differences exist in the data from the bases of a group of six tall buildings close together near the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Normandie Avenue, the differences are not significant from the standpoint of design. A single design spectrum is most appropriate for this area, even though there exists a variety of foundation conditions, building properties and basement configurations for the six sites.

The degree to which soil-structure interaction and the local geology affected the response could not be precisely determined from the basement accelerograms, although the data from the six Wilshire-Normandie sites offered some evidence that soil-structure interaction and local site conditions did not contribute significantly to the character of the recorded motions. There was some correlation between the degree of similarity in the response at two sites and their distance apart. Thus, it is possible that some differences in the response of the closely spaced buildings could result from different superposition of the seismic waves.

The shapes of response spectra from all of the sites studied, including the spectra from seven buildings 2–3 miles distant from the buildings near the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Normandie Avenue, indicate that the character of the ground motion was probably more dependent on the source mechanism and the travel paths of the earthquake waves, rather than on more local effects.


Abstract Two surveys of Rarotonga, Cook Islands (21°20'S, 160°16'W) were made to determine the mosquito fauna of the island, and to identify the habitats required for breeding by searching for larvae. The first survey was made during the "dry season" in May 2001, the second during the "wet season" in February 2002. The mosquito fauna comprised four species Culex (Culex) quinquefasciatus Say, Culex (Culex) annulirostris Skuse, Aedes (Stego‐myia) aegypti (Linnaeus) and Aedes (Stegomyia) polynesiensis Marks. Larvae of the Culex species were most often found in larger natural and artificial water bodies. The Aedes species bred in both natural and artificial containers of all sizes. Ae. polynesiensis was the most widespread species, using natural holes in all regions as well as artificial containers in the urban areas. Most larvae of Ae. aegypti were located in small artificial containers. The two Aedes species are the vectors of dengue fever on the island. Mosquito control during outbreaks should specifically target the artificial containers preferred by Aedes sp. for breeding habitats.


Interest and activity in solar energy as an alternative source of energy are rapidly increasing the world over, and this is likely to continue for years to come. No solar energy system, if it is to be efficient and economic, can be designed or constructed prior to detailed engineering study and a complete systems analysis. All such analytic work requires a detailed and accurate knowledge of insolation and other parameters. For efficient computer analysis these parameters should be expressed in the form of a probabilistic insolation model based on precision measured data over extended periods of time. Central solar station siting surveys also require accurate measured data, as do efficiency verifications and demand-load analyses. The present lack of accurate historic insolation is due mainly to the lack of precision insolation instrumentation for field work. This paper describes a precision insolation instrument developed for field survey work and for use as a calibration transfer standard. Two of these instruments have operated in the field for two years and a calibration stability analysis over this period of time is discussed.


The IPEC report for the first quarter ended 31 March 2013 for funeral assurance companies in Zimbabwe highlighted that Foundation Funeral Assurance had the highest lapse ratio. The performance of funeral assurance companies in Zimbabwe shows differences in terms of customer retention strategies. The research sought to analyze the customer retention strategies employed by Foundation Funeral Assurance Company after dollarization in Zimbabwe. The primary objective was to identify the customer retention strategies currently being used by Foundation Funeral Assurance Company, the challenges they are facing in implementing them and identify other alternative strategies and areas of improvements. Data was collected from a random sample of 100 walk in clients from FFA. It was presented using tables, graphs and pie charts. The research revealed that, the customer retention strategies being used by FFA are not effective. The study recommends the funeral assurance company to develop a proper prospective, staying in touch with customers, leading through top-down loyalty, training and empowering employees, providing incentives, building trust through reliability and being available when they are needed the most.


BACKGROUND
Knowledge about the variation in treatment rates is needed to assess whether the access to health services is equitable. The objective of this study was to investigate the rates of surgical treatment of degenerative cervical spine disease in Norway and the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority area and the local coverage in the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority area, and to assess the activity in the region.

MATERIAL AND METHOD
We included cervical spine procedures recorded in the Norwegian Patient Registry from the years 2014-18 and estimated age-standardised treatment rates for Norway, the health regions and health trusts in Northern Norway Regional Health Authority. We estimated the local coverage as the proportion of patients resident in the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority area who had undergone surgery at the University Hospital of North Norway in Tromsø.

RESULTS
The treatment rate remained stable at an average of 29.6 surgical procedures per 100 000 inhabitants (aged 18-105) per year. The rate for residents in the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority area was 23.0 procedures per 100 000 inhabitants per year (78 % of the national average). The rates in Finnmark and the areas of residence served by the University Hospital of North Norway were close to the national average. Residents in the Nordland and Helgeland areas had lower rates in each year of the study period, with an average of 16.6 and 18.1 procedures per 100 000 inhabitants per year respectively. This corresponds to 56 % and 61 % of the national average. Local coverage in the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority area increased from 69 % in 2014 to 91 % in 2018.

INTERPRETATION
The treatment rate for degenerative cervical spine disease was lower in the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority area than in the rest of Norway. For this to be compensated and the local coverage to be increased to 100 %, we have estimated that the activity needs to be increased by approximately 35 surgical procedures per year.


This paper is based on the method of case-based reasoning to build a decision-making system to discuss the study and development of an urban traffic accident rescue under the ITS condition by the sample of its application.


Image classification is an important problem in computer vision research and is useful in applications such as content-based image retrieval and automated detection systems. In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in this field to classify different types of images. In this paper, we investigate one such domain, namely, food image classification. Classification of food images is useful in applications such as waiter-less restaurants and dietary intake calculators. To this end, we explore the use of pre-trained deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) in two ways. First, we use transfer learning and re-train the DCNNs on food images. Second, we extract features from pre-trained DCNNs to train conventional classifiers. We also introduce a new food image database based on Australian dietary guidelines. We compare the performance of these methods on existing databases and the one introduced here. We show that similar levels of accuracy are obtained in both methods, but the training time for the latter is significantly lower. We also perform a comparison with existing methods and show that the methods explored here are comparably accurate to existing methods.


Dissertation as a partial requirement for obtaining a master's degree in information management, with a specialisation in Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management.


Reactions of benzo-1,4-quinone with 2-phenylethylamine and p-tyramine produced the novel 2,5- diamino-derivatives (2b,c), analogous to 2,5-dianilinobenzo-1,4-quinone (2a). 2,5-Dihydroxybenzo- 1,4-quinone (3) reacts with aniline to form the tetrol (4a) and not 2,5-dianilinobenzo-1,4-quinone (2a) as previously reported. This tetrol (4a) may hydrolyse to form the monoimine (5a). Only in boiling aniline was the 2,5-dianilino derivative (2a) produced from the tetrol (4a). Novel tetrols were similarly isolated from 2-phenylethylamine, p-tyramine and histamine. Benzo-1,2-quinone reactions with aniline and the above amines were also studied. Implications of these reactions for the extraction of amines from foods are discussed.


The paper reports a rare case of breast anomaly, classified as "tuberous breast", which was of a specific nature since it was the result of a lateral thoracotomy performed at the age of 7 days old to esophageal atresia. The paper analyses the possible etiopathogenetic mechanisms. The use of an original reparative technique enable an adequately shaped and protruding breast to be obtained without the use of prosthesis and without leaving additional scars.


The invention discloses a butyronitrile-butylbenzene mixed rubber with high hardness. The mixed rubber is prepared from nitrile rubber 3345, styrene-butadiene rubber, antioxidant NBC, antioxidant MB, stearic acid, sulfur powder, microcrystalline wax, zinc oxide, processing aid WB212, acetylene black, carbon black SRF, dioctyl maleate, promoter TMTD, promoter M, promoter DM, nanometer silica, modified acrylate, machine oil, nanometer calcined kaolin, a plasticizer, etc. The butyronitrile-butylbenzene mixed rubber provided in the invention has high hardness and good resilience at the same time; and the mixed rubber is used for fabricating rubber products like sealing rings, having the advantages of conservation of cost and excellent performance.


The reuse of materials, which would in the past have been considered as waste to be dumped at some land® ll site, possibly in the middle of attractive countryside, has now become a very desirable option. It is a popular way for companies to demonstrate and advertise environmentally friendly behaviour and has in some cases proved to have considerable economic advantages. Within the context of increasing land® ll taxes and possible health hazards often associated with stockpiling of the waste, no material can afford to be stigmatized as a `waste product' any more. Labelled as `by-products' or r̀ecycled goods' , the `waste' material is now fed into the industry from whence it originated to be reprocessed for a wide range of other applications. Thus old tyres, brick waste or even empty soda and lager cans are ® nding new and innovative uses and many yet undreamt of applications wait to be tried. A less visible but nonetheless useful `waste' material has already found reapplication in the construction industry: ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) has been known for some time to improve the sulphate resistance of concrete, when incorporated into cement. Its application for geotechnical purposes, however, has been rather limited in the past.


Among Chinese traditional distilled liquors, Moutai-flavoured liquor is the most famous, owing to its complicated process as it is derived from fermented sorghum coupled with the use of a Moutai-flavoured Daqu. In this study, a novel isolate, belonging to a black Aspergillus, was obtained and identified as Aspergillus hennebergii by ITS-5.8S rRNA sequencing analysis and conventional morphologic identification. The influences of initial pH, carbon source, nitrogen source and metal ions on the production of an A. hennebergii protease were studied. The results revealed that metal ions exerted a significant effect on enzyme production and activity. Additionally, the potential application of the protease from A. hennebergii was investigated. The enzymatic hydrolysis resulted in the identification and quantification of 42 compounds, including alcohols, aldehydes, pyrazines and esters. These volatile compounds exhibited special flavour properties. Significant differences were observed between the enzyme treatments and the control sample. Samples from the enzyme treatments led to the highest amounts of alcohols, pyrazines and aromatics. These results suggest that A. hennebergii, or its protease, may have some application values for the enhancement of the quality of Chinese liquor and for the improvement of the liquor production process. Copyright © 2014 The Institute of Brewing & Distilling


. We prove a formula for the quantization of a proper Hamiltonian LG -space M with terms indexed by the components of the critical set of the norm-square of the moment map. Combined with a certain Lie-theoretic inequality, the formula implies that the multiplicity of the minimal irreducible positive energy representation at a given level is a quasi-polynomial function of the power of the prequantum line bundle. This is closely related to the [ Q, R ] = 0 Theorem for Hamiltonian LG -spaces. Our approach is based on the theory of quasi-Hamiltonian G -spaces, as well as the approach of Paradan and Szenes-Vergne to the [ Q, R ] = 0 Theorem for compact Hamiltonian G -spaces.


In clinical applications of hyperthermia, temperatures can be measured at only a few locations, whereas accurate temperature profiles need to be known for efficient therapy. For doing this, bio-heat transfer equation was modified into 1 dimensional 2 boundary value problem for simplicity and the efficiency of time, and solved by Galerkin's method. The results were then applied to annular array transducer for both the calculation of its axial temperature distribution and the estimation of temperature profiles from a few measured temperature data.


The ingestion rate and selection of algal food in juveniles of Coelomactra antiquata was carried out.The results showed that juveniles of C.antiquata fed with the algae Tetraselmis sp.at large size(φ11.2μm) had higher ingestion rate than that fed with Chorella sp.and Chaetoceros mulleri at the same feeding time.The ingestion rate of juveniles of C.antiquata fed with the algae Tetraselmis sp.reached the highest value of 174.928×10~(-5) mg·h~(-1) at the 5th hour.The ingestion rate increased sharply with higher algal density when juveniles were fed at a fitting algal density with three algals,respectively,then ingestion rate reached a maximum value and decreased after exceeding the definite value.The relationship between ingestion rate and algal density can be expressed by quadratic polynomial.


Objective To study the value of ultrasound diagnosis of the carcinoma of extrahepatic bile duct.Methods The sonographic images obtained from 27 cases with pathologically proved extrahepatic bile duct carcinoma were retrospectively analyzed.Results The correct rates of definitive diagnosis,sensitivity with ultrasound were 81%,92%,and localization with ultrasound were 84.6%(at hilar sites);100%(at middle sites);62.5%(at dist ant sites).Conclusion holangiocarcinoma can be earlier detected with sonography.Sonography is an effective technique in diagnosing extrahepatic bile duct carcinomas.


[Objective] With ethanol as extraction solvent,supercritical CO2 extraction of grape seed proanthocyanidins was studied. [Method] Taking single factor test combined with response surface method,the extraction technique for proanthocyanidins from grape seed was optimized. [Result] The optimal conditions were obtained as follows: ethanol volume fraction 69. 22%,CO25 L / h,extraction time 62. 82 min,solid-liquid ratio 1∶ 1. 13 g / ml,extraction temperature 55 ℃,extraction pressure 35 MPa. Under the above conditions,the theoretical value of proanthocyanidins in grape seed is 164. 916 mg / kg,the measured value is( 163. 60 ± 0. 93) mg / kg,the purity of proanthocyanidins is 88. 5%.[Conclusion]The study can provide reference and theoretical guidance for promoting comprehensive utilization of grape resource in Xinjiang.


Respect to the rotary grinding method, to be continuously fed to the object apparatus is to be or is difficult to achieve efficient use of space around the device. The present invention is to provide a new concept to solve these problems straight forward type of polishing apparatus and method. A parallel set of parallel adjacent each linear stage linearly moving in mutually opposite directions. By pressing on this table are the object both, for coupling force exerted by the rotational motion of the object. By relative movement between the rotation and linear motion of the object table set to abrasive grain polishing object to be processed. It may also be via a belt type polishing tool is held by the object table to replace the value of the table plane.


Health Management and its Monitoring during Pandemic is one of the major issues in not only our country, but the whole world. People are losing their lives due to the ignorance of their body's vitals (symptoms or signs of any disease). It is really important for one to keep track of their health, not only for themselves but also for those around them as well. Keeping this in mind, a proposed system titled E-Health Tracker was designed and constructed. Using ESP8266 Node MCU Wi-Fi Module, DS18B20 Temperature sensor probe, MAX 30100 Pulse Oximetry sensor and DHT-11 Temperature and Humidity sensor. A 0.96″ OLED screen is used to display all the readings from the sensors processed by the Node MCU ESP8266. In addition to that an Open-Source IOT Web API service called ThingSpeak which allows to aggregate, visualize, and analyze live data streams in the Cloud is utilized. A user can create a Channel by signing up and naming the Channel along with the Fields where the user wants to display the sensor data.


According to clinical and pathological observation in infectious serositis of duck, the main signs of this disease were diarrhoea, breathing with difficulty, head tremble and movement beyond coordination. The pathological changes that had been found in 30 experimental ducks were fibrous pericarditis, hepatitis, and encephalitis. The fibrous serositis, liver fatty degeneration or focus necrosis,nonsuppurative encephalitis and serous-fibrous pneumonia were typical pathological changes of histology.


The growing number of children and young people with problems at school requires continuous improvement and enhancement of skills on the side of the teacher. Knowledge of a variety of therapeutic methods gives educators a large range of possibilities for interaction with students with special educational needs. To meet the needs of children and young people with learning difficulties, students learn various methods of working with children. Among many methods is the one of the Educational Kinesiology – a method highly controversial among Polish teachers and therapists. The aim of the article was to present the opinion of pedagogy students of this very method.


An overview is given on properties of the Large Scale Structure (LSS) using recent sky surveys (SDSS Main sample). LSS evolves very slowly, thus it contains imprints of physical conditions in the early Universe, as well as processes during its evolution. Present physical experiments are still unable to reproduce conditions in the very early Universe, thus the study of the properties of the LSS yields valuable information for fundamental physics.


The Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) technique is applied to the derivation of the Gaussian Dispersion Plume Model as well as to more complex transport phenomena such as the one-dimensional advection equation, the one-dimensional diffusion equation, the one dimensional advection-diffusion equation, and finally to the multi-dimensional advection-diffusion equation. Further application is discussed.


The methods and apparatus of the present invention includes a sensing device that permanently express the stimulus in the process of causing a systematic variation of the sensed state. This process includes the detector of change of 1) the apparatus, the change in the observation environment that is external to 2) sensing devices and stimulation, and, 3) certain changes in the representation of the stimulation itself. Specifically one embodiment of the present invention is an intelligent sensing device having a "initial stage" consists Such expression "engine". In order to grasp the presence of the above-described changing process, it is not necessary to be re-measured, the pattern analysis module does not need to be retrained. Other specific embodiments of the present invention is a communication system for decoding a message as a representation of the signal. Transmitting device, various processes affecting the path between the receiving device and both causes the messages will not be damaged by the signal change.


Objective
To establish a mouse model of pneumonia with C57BL/6 and MyD88KO mice after infection with an isolated ST23 Klebsiella pneumonia (KP) strain, which was an epidemic strain and identified by multilocus sequence typing (MLST).

Methods
Fifty C57BL/6 mice were randomly divided into three groups: KP infection, control and immunosuppressive groups. Thirty MyD88KO mice were divided into KP infection and control groups. All mice in the KP infection groups were infected with 50 μl of ST23 KP strain through nasal dripping. Equal volume of PBS was used to set up the control groups. Mice in the immunosuppressive group were first injected with cyclophosphamide for three days and then infected with equal volume of ST23 KP strains through nasal dripping. Clinical signs and survival curves during KP infection were monitored. Moreover, pulmonary bacterial loads and histopathological changes in the KP-infected mice were detected at different time points.

Results
ST23 KP-infected C57BL/6 mice showed inflammatory cell infiltration in lung tissues on the 10th day and remained alive on the 21st day. All ST23 KP-infected MyD88KO mice died on the 5th day with severe histopathological damage in lung tissues. C57BL/6 mice that pretreated with cyclophosphamide had similar symptoms with MyD88KO mice after infection and died on the 5th day. Some critical inflammatory mediators such as TNF-a, nitric oxide synthase 1 (NOS1) and NF-κBp65 were up-regulated in lung tissues of mice after KP infection. No inflammatory syndromes were found in the mice of PBS control groups.

Conclusion
This study suggests that the mouse model of pneumonia is successfully established with KP strain. It will help researchers to study the characteristics and pathogenesis of ST23 KP strain-induced pneumonia and to seek safe treatments in the future.

Key words:
Klebsiella pneumonia (KP); ST23; TNF-α; NF-κBp65


This paper aimed at opening up opportunities to look for new meanings in Indonesia's relations with Middle Eastern countries, which are no longer a binary opposition, such as good and black and white, but are searching for colors and other positive meanings. Many people interpret an entity solely on the basis of a frozen meaning, a static meaning, and seem monotonous. Deconstruction seeks to offer a new meaning through re-actualization, redefinition, and/or re-interpretation. In general, this paper discusses the "new meaning" of Indonesia's relations with the Middle East. This paper argues that to welcome Society 5.0 through Humanism, both Indonesia and the Middle East share the same opportunity to advance humanism aspects that would be applicable to that era. Humanism which is being developed must be controlled by three things: anthropocentric, echocentric and theocentric. We need human beings' intelligent role in a society that chooses and sorts super intelligent technology to share common virtues. Hopefully, in the meantime the Society 5.0 era will bring much help for the Indonesia's cooperation with the Middle Eastern countries for a better future of both.


The accurate estimation of an increase in forest stand biomass has remained a challenge. Traditionally, in situ measurements are done by inventorying a number of trees and their biometric parameters such as diameter at the breast height (DBH) and height; sometimes these are complemented by carbon (C) content studies. Here we present the estimation of net primary productivity (NPP) over a two years period (2019–2020) at a 25-year-old Scots pine stand. Research was based on allometric equations made by direct biomass analysis (tree extraction) and carbon content estimations in individual components of sampled trees, combined with a series of stem diameter increments recorded by a network of band dendrometers. Site-specific allometric equations were obtained using two different approaches: using the whole tree biomass vs DBH (M1), and total dry biomass-derived as a sum of the results from individual tree components' biomass vs DBH (M2). Moreover, equations for similar forest stands from the literature were used for comparison. Gross primary productivity (GPP) estimated from the eddy-covariance measurements allowed the calculation of carbon use efficiency (CUE = NPP/GPP). The two investigated years differed in terms of the sum and patterns of precipitation distribution, with a moderately dry year of 2019 that followed the extremely dry 2018, and the relatively average year of 2020. As expected, a higher increase in biomass was recorded in 2020 compared to 2019, as determined by both allometric equations based on in situ and literature data. For the former approach, annual NPP estimates reached ca. 2.0–2.1 t C ha−1 in 2019 and 2.6–2.7 t C ha−1 in 2020 depending on the "in situ equations" (M1-M2) used, while literature-derived equations for the same site resulted in NPP values ca. 20–30% lower. CUE was higher in 2020, which resulted from a higher NPP total than in 2019, with lower summer and spring GPP in 2020. However, the CUE values were lower than those reported in the literature for comparable temperate forest stands. A thorough analysis of the low CUE value would require a full interpretation of interrelated physiological responses to extreme conditions.


Includes newspaper cuttings from the newspaper "Magazin (It-Torca)" of 7th November 1965, "Lehen is-sewwa" of 29th November 1966, description of the "Imhuh morda", "Il-Mument" of 2nd November 2014 and 23rd November 2014, "It-Torca" of 2nd November 2014 and 9th November 2014, "The Malta Independent" of 2nd November 2014, 3rd November 2014, and 6th November 2014 and "In-Nazzjon" of 6th November 2014.


Graph metrics are important tools for the comparisons between networks. However, different graph metrics may lead to different evaluation results for a certain network. In this paper, we generate a unified framework for the multi-metrics and study the collective evaluation method for complex networks with multi-metrics. Finally, the experimental analysis verifies the correctness and practical values of the proposed method.


In this paper, we inquire into whether, and by how much, the use in tactical planning of a dense set versus a sparse set of candidate roads can reduce the two major costs (construction and transportation) of forest operations. This inquiry is conducted by using an optimal road location model to generate dense and sparse sets of candidate roads for three different problem instances. These problem instances were then solved using a mixed integer representation of the integrated tactical planning problem. The results show that the use of a dense set versus a sparse set of candidate roads, for all three problem instances, yielded solutions with a mean decrease in transportation and construction costs of 34.34% and 6.94%, respectively. The mean increase in revenue was 1.06%, and the mean increase in the objective function value (revenue minus the total road construction and transportation costs) was 5.62%. In addition, the mapped solutions reveal the spatial attributes of a lower versus a higher cost road network: straighter roads and more efficiently located forks within the road network. These results were obtained to illustrate how reductions in the costs of transportation and road construction can be achieved in tactical planning.


Radiation‐induced compound formation in vitreous silica has been observed with Raman light scattering. The compounds were observed to form in silica samples that were impregnated with hydrogen (deuterium) gas and irradiated with gamma rays. Neither impregnation nor irradiation alone produced Raman‐active compounds. The combination, however, did produce compounds that were identified as silicon hydrides (deuterides) and hydroxyls (deuteroxyls). In addition, the hydroxyl (deuteroxyl) band shapes differed between as received and impregnated/irradiated samples and among the different impregnated/irradiated silica samples. The principal band features were found to be due to light scattering from at least three independent modes, each of which appear to result from a different hydroxyl (deuteroxyl) genus. In contrast, the hydride (deuteride) bands behave as though they were due to scattering from a single vibrational mode.


Objective: To investigate the in vitro antioxidant activities of three selected green, red and brown seaweeds – viz., Chaetomorpha linum (Muller) Kützing, Grateloupia lithophila Boergesen, Sargassum wightii Greville from Mandapam coast in Rameshwaram (Southeast Coast of India). Methods: The acetone and ethanol extracts of the seaweeds were investigated for their Total antioxidant activity, Reducing power, DPPH radical scavenging activity, ABTS radical scavenging activity, Deoxyribose scavenging activity, H2O2 radical scavenging assay, Lipoxygenase activity and Nitric oxide radical inhibition assay. The antioxidant assay was performed at the concentration ranging from 200-1000μg/ml. Results: Brown seaweed exhibited good antioxidant activity when compared to red and green seaweeds. The maximum antioxidant activity was shown by the ethanol extract of S.wightii by DPPH radical scavenging assay (79.1 ± 1.21%). Ethanol extract showed a good antioxidant activity when compared to the acetone extract. Conclusion: Seaweeds have received special attention as a source of natural antioxidants and were found to be a good source of antioxidant. Further, there is a need for isolation and characterization of natural antioxidants having less or no side effects for use in foods or medicines to replace synthetic antioxidants.


An analytical method used to approximate flow coastdowm in a loop without knowledge of pump characteristics is extended to the problem of pump startup at constant applied torque. Differential equations are derived expressing the ratio of the transient flow to steady-state flow Q in terms of the ratio of the fluid energy to the energy stored in the pump alpha and of the loop half time t/sub 1/2/ (time required for the loop flow to drop to half its initial flow when the pump is cut off from the loop); the equations are solved and the solutions plotted on a Q vs. T (ratio of elapsed time to t/sub 1/2/) graph at various alpha values. The results, compared with those obtained from pump characteristic curves, give close agreement for small alpha values (high- inertia impellers) and small discrepancies for large alpha values now-inertia impellers). (D. L.C.)


This paper describles the structure and usage of underwater retractable winch briefly,and elaborates the design principle and general structure of the new domestic multi-purpose underwater retractable winch,at the same time,it represents the design and type seleetion of the main parts for the designer to use.


This paper is a continuation of our previous work and discusses the consensus problem for a network of dynamic agents with directed information flows and random switching topologies. The switching is determined by a Markov chain, each topology corresponding to a state of the Markov chain. We show that in order to achieve consensus almost surely and from any initial state, each union of graphs from the sets of graphs corresponding to the closed positive recurrent sets of states of the Markov chain must have a spanning tree. The analysis relies on tools from matrix theory, Markovian jump linear systems theory and random process theory. The distinctive feature of this work is addressing the consensus problem with "Markovian switching" topologies.