We utilize a formal model of division for determining a testbench of p-bit (dividend, divisor) pairs whose output 2p-bit quotients have properties characterizing these instances as the most challenging for verifying any division algorithm design and implementation. Specifically, our test suites yield 2p-bit quotients where the leading p-bits traverse all or a pseudo-random sample of leading bit combinations, and the next p-bits comprise a round bit followed by (p-1) identical bits. These values are proven to be closest to the p-bit quotient rounding boundaries and shown to possess other desirable coverage properties. We introduce an efficient method of generating these testbenches. We also describe applications of these testbenches at the design simulation stage and the product evaluation stage


The purpose of the article is to study historiographical sources on the problems of the poetic cinema of the "Soviet" period when the USSR (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) was a part of the united states-political formation – the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The methodology of the study allowed us to use the following methods: historical, adductive (cognitive), systemic, comparative-analytical. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is a comprehensive substantiated scientific position on historiographical sources on the problems of the poetic cinema of the "Soviet" period, which was characterized by the presence of rigid authoritarian censorship. Conclusions . The historiography of the period has been researched, the problem is represented by a large number of film studies, and it has been proved that the poetry of the majority of film works was achieved due to various stylistic elements. The practical significance of the obtained results is conditioned by the possibility of using actual historical and methodological material to comprehensively comprehend the problems of domestic film studies of the mid-twentieth century.


A sufficient condition of existence and uniqueness of a class of differential equation with continuous time-lag positive almost periodic solution was obtained by using the theorem of the existence and uniqueness of almost periodic solution and the method of constructing Liapunov functional.


Chylous pleural effusions developed ina patient withAlagille's- syndromewho haddysplasia ofthelymphatic system. Lymphaticabnormalities are not a recognised featureof Alagille's syndrome. Thefeatures ofAlagille's syndrome orarteriohepatic dysplasia asdescribed byAlagille et al"2 andWatsonandMiller' arecongenital heart disease (particularly pulmonary artery stenosis), intrahepatic cholestasis, anddysmorphic facies. Other features havebeendescribed,4 butabnormalities ofthelymphatic system havenotpreviously beenreported.


Japanese iris necrotic ring virus (JINRV) particles were isometric about 35nm in diameter and showed rounded outlines with rough surfaces when negatively stained in uranyl acetate. Purified virus preparations contained single component with a sedimentation coefficient of 118 S. In isopycnic centrifugation in CsCl, the particles formed a single band of buoyant density 1.353g/cm3. Nucleic acid extracted from the purified virus particles was identified as single stranded RNA by the following properties: positive orcinol reaction; susceptible to RNase A both in 1×SSC or 0.1×SSC; increase of about 18% in maximum absorption and shift of the absorption maximum to higher wavelengths by 4nm after treatment with formaldehyde (1.8%). Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis demonstrated one nucleic acid and one coat protein with estimated molecular weights of 1.28×106 and 38, 000, respectively. An antiserum against purified virus particles with a homologous titer of 512 in Ouchterlony double diffusion tests was prepared. The virus was serologically unrelated to 10 other single component viruses with isometric particles, including tomato bushy stunt, carnation mottle, and several members of the tombusvirus and carmovirus groups. However, its other properties were similar to those of carmoviruses.


This chapter spotlights the powerful discourse about independence that re/produced shared meanings about each of these elements, demonstrating their contingent nature. It argues that the maintenance of peace is less a function of institutional strength than of a discourse that structures the conditions of possibility such that political violence seems illogical or dangerous. The discourse articulates engrained popular ideas about the proximity—and dangerous unpredictability—of violence. The visible consequences of failing to negotiate a peace settlement in Somalia undoubtedly reinforced Somalilanders' motivations to succeed in doing so. For Somalilanders, the war in and around Mogadishu provided a tangible worst-case scenario that graphically illustrated the potential for violence to spiral out of control in structural circumstances that closely resembled Somaliland's. It suggests that the maintenance of peace rests, to a significant degree, on the reproduction of a belief that violence is undesirable, rather than the enforcement capacity of the institutions that articulate that belief.


195 Background: In ALSYMPCA, the first-in-class α-emitter Ra-223 had a highly favorable safety profile and was well tolerated. Safety monitoring of Ra-223 is essential for a complete safety profile. Here are final safety data including long-term follow-up safety 3 years after last pt's first injection (inj). Methods: Pts received 6 inj and entered designated follow-up from 4 wks after their last inj to 3 years after first inj. Pts were to be evaluated during tx period and 9 follow-up visits. All adverse events (AEs) were collected until 12 wks after last inj; thereafter, only AEs deemed tx-related were collected. Additional long-term safety data were assessed by specific diseases including acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), aplastic anemia, and new primary cancer in bone or other organs. Results: Safety population (pts receiving ≥ 1 inj) included 901 pts (Ra-223, n = 600; placebo [pbo], n = 301); 572 pts (Ra-223, n = 405; pbo, n = 167) entered follow-up. 60 pts (Ra-223, n = ...


During the period from 1955 to 1978, the insulation system of choice for motor windings in Japan was predominantly of the polyester type. Since there are still a number of polyester-insulated motors in the field, there is a demand for a reliable means of evaluating the residual life of these units, the ultimate goal being standardization acceptable to the industry. The present state of this effort in Japan is briefly reviewed. A simple but effective procedure for the diagnostic evaluation of motor life is offered. It is based on tests easily performed on the insulation and within the scope of the average motor repair shop facilities.<<ETX>>


The basic mechanisms of the freezing of cell suspensions are discussed in terms of solute enrichment and the resulting osmotical consequences. The shrinkage kinetics of the cell volume and the influen


In making Inheritance Certificate, the Head of BPN (National Land Agency) of Aceh Besar applies the policy on it by the Sharia Court's Ruling in Aceh. Therefore, it is very interesting to be observed and analyzed. The questions are whether the process of making Inheritance Certificate for Moslems in Indonesia needs legal basis judicially, why the Head of BPN of Aceh Besar who applies the policy on making Inheritance Certificate is based on the Sharia Court's Ruling, and what inhibiting factor in the Sharia Court in making Inheritance Certificate in Aceh Besar.This research was expected to be able to find any law on the making of Inheritance Certificate from normative, philosophical, and sociological aspects for the knowledge of law in Aceh Besar in particular.


A comparison of the molecular structures of the five-co-ordinate bis(imido) and imido alkylidene molybdenum complexes [Mo(NC6H3Pri2-2,6)(L)(L′)], where L is a tridentate pyridinediolato ligand and L′ is either NC6H3Pri2-2,6 or CHCMe2Ph, strongly supports the notion that the nitrogen of the bent imido ligand in the bis(imido) complex is sp2-hybridised.


Splenic metastasis from lung cancer is uncommon, and isolated metastasis to the spleen is extremely rare event. Most often they are part of widespread metastatic disease and usually reported at autopsy. We report an exceedingly rare case of metastatic involvement of the spleen in an operated case of lung adenocarcinoma in a 58‐year‐old man diagnosed 12 months after resection.


The goal of the project is to compare two memory images of one virtual machine and extract a high-level view of changes in kernel data structures, which is achieved through structured and typed memory based inspection on debug-symbols of the Linux kernel. The results of the comparison shall be the base for a machine-learning approach to identify malicious behaviour based solely on passive memory observation.


We demonstrated the performance of inverted CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite-based solar cells (SCs) with a thermally oxidized nickel/gold/copper (Ni/Au/Cu) trilayer transparent electrode. Oxidized Ni/Au/Cu is a high transparent layer and has less resistance than the oxidized Ni/Au layer. Like the oxidized Ni/Au layer, oxidized Ni and Cu in oxidized Ni/Au/Cu could perform as a hole transport layer of the perovskite-based SCs. It leads to improved perovskite SC performance on an open circuit voltage of 1.01 V, a short circuit current density of 14.36 mA/cm2, a fill factor of 76.7%, and a power conversion efficiency (η%) of 11.1%. The η% of perovskite SCs with oxidized Ni (10 nm)/Au (6 nm)/Cu (1 nm) improved by approximately 10% compared with that of perovskite SCs with oxidized Ni/Au.


Herein, the organic-inorganic hybrid phosphors has been designed and assembled by the intercalation of salicylic acid (HSA), as sensitizer, into the layered rare-earth hydroxides (LRHs) with the compositions of (Gd0.5Tb0.5-xEux)(2)(OH)(5)NO3 center dot nH(2)O, through ion-exchange reaction under hydrothermal condition. More interestingly, the luminescence color of the SA(-)-LRHs:xEu can be easily tuned from green to red due to the energy transfer from the Tb3+ to Eu3+ ions by changing the doping concentration of activator ions. In addition, the transparent and color-tunable luminescent film devices can be fabricated facilely with the use of SA(-)-LRHs:xEu hybrids and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).


PURPOSE: A method is provided to prevent a short between a bit line and gate electrode by avoiding an over-etching of a bit line contact pad. CONSTITUTION: A method comprises steps: a) depositing a bit line contact pad(108a), a material layer(109), and an inter dielectric layer(110) in sequence on a substrate(100); b) forming a bit line opening(112a, 112b) on each of cell array and core/peripheral region by etching a part of an inter dielectric layer selectively; c) forming a bit line spacer(114a,114b) on both walls of bit line openings, in which a bit line contact pad(108a) is exposed by etching a material layer; d) forming a bit line contact hole(116) by etching an inter dielectric layer; e) depositing a conductive layer(120) on overall substrate; and f) forming a bit line(120a) connected to a bit line contact pad on a cell array region as well as a b it line(120c) connected to a substrate on a core/peripheral region by etching a conductive layer.


The female librarians play a decisive role for a position in the university library.For a long time because of the social factors,role factors,personal factors hindered the development of the female librarians career,to eliminate the obstacles of the career,we should strengthen the government policy support of female occupation development,and create a good atmosphere of eliminating barriers to women's career.The library management should pay attention to the reasonable development and utilization of female human resources,women themselves should also set up career development and market competition consciousness,and make occupation career planning.


We have investigated the magnetism of the bare and graphene-covered (111) surface of a Ni single crystal employing three different magnetic imaging techniques and ab initio calculations, covering length scales from the nanometer regime up to several millimeters. With low temperature spinpolarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) we find domain walls with widths of 60 - 90 nm, which can be moved by small perpendicular magnetic fields. Spin contrast is also achieved on the graphene-covered surface, which means that the electron density in the vacuum above graphene is substantially spin-polarized. In accordance with our ab initio calculations we find an enhanced atomic corrugation with respect to the bare surface, due to the presence of the carbon pz orbitals and as a result of the quenching of Ni surface states. The latter also leads to an inversion of spinpolarization with respect to the pristine surface. Room temperature Kerr microscopy shows a stripe like domain pattern with stripe widths of 3 - 6 {\mu}m. Applying in-plane-fields, domain walls start to move at about 13 mT and a single domain state is achieved at 140 mT. Via scanning electron microscopy with polarization analysis (SEMPA) a second type of modulation within the stripes is found and identified as 330 nm wide V-lines. Qualitatively, the observed surface domain pattern originates from bulk domains and their quasi-domain branching is driven by stray field reduction.


Switching of loads, capacitors, along with the proliferation of power electronics equipment, non-linear loads in industrial, commercial and domestic applications have lead to power quality issues in the distribution system. Power quality issues such as voltage sag, voltage swell and harmonics, which are certainly major concerning issues in the present era. These issues can lead to failure or malfunction of the many sensitive loads connected to the distribution system, thus incurring a high cost for end users. Power quality problems are solved by advanced custom power devices. This study presents how the custom power device Distribution Static Compensator (D-STATCOM) is used to mitigate voltage sag and voltage harmonics in distribution system. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) controller based D-STATCOM is simulated in MATLAB-SIMULINK environment. Prototype model for single phase D-STATCOM is developed to verify the results. The simulation and hardware results show clearly the performance of the D-STATCOM in mitigating voltage sag and voltage harmonics in distribution system.


The modal asymmetry between truth-telling and lying refers to the impossibility of a world in which everyone lies, while on the contrary, a world in which everyone tells the truth is possible. This ethical issue is relevant to modern concerns about epistemic security, or the safety of knowledge. The breakdown of epistemic security leads to the erosion of trust and, hence, to an 'impossible' world since a willingness to believe in others is essential for the functioning of society. Here, we examine the threat of disinformation to epistemic security using an individual-based model in which individuals are both senders and receivers of signals and are characterized by their credulity and deceptiveness, which are targets of natural selection. The possible worlds are those favored by natural selection. Lies that significantly harm believers lead to the Kantian scenario: trust is completely eroded and the winners of the evolutionary race are incredulous. However, if the lies are not too harmful, our game evolutionary model predicts a world in which the individuals are both credulous and mildly untruthful. These two possible worlds are separated by a discontinuous phase transition in the limit of infinite population size.


Vector meson photoproduction offers the opportunity to image target
nuclei. The two-dimensional Fourier transform
d\sigma_{coherent}/dtdσcoherent/dt
of coherent vector meson photoproduction gives the two-dimensional
distribution of interaction sites in the target. Since vector meson
photoproduction occurs, at lowest order, via two-gluon exchange, this is
sensitive to gluon shadowing. We present an analysis of
\pi^+\pi^-π+π−
photoproduction using data from the STAR detector and a study of
d\sigma_{coherent}/dtdσcoherent/dt,
with an emphasis on probing the nuclear shape and its systematic
uncertainties.


Background: AntiCD19 CAR-T cells are effective against chemorefractory B cell lymphoma. Patients (pts) with rapidly progressive disease and urgent need for therapy have very poor prognosis and may not be able to receive CAR-T cells in time. Decreasing the apheresis to infusion time can make CAR-T cells rapidly available. We conducted a dual-center phase I trial using on-site manufacture of CAR-T cells for treatment of relapsed and refractory (r/r) B cell lymphoma.
 Methods: Adult pts with r/r CD19+ B cell lymphomas who failed ≥ 2 lines of therapy were enrolled. Autologous T cells were transduced with a lentiviral vector (Lentigen Technology, Inc, LTG1563) encoding an antiCD19 binding motif, CD8 linker, TNFRS19 transmembrane region, and 4-lBB/CD3z intracellular signaling domains. GMP-compliant manufacture was done using CliniMACS Prodigy in a 12-day culture, subsequently shortened to 8 days. Dose escalation was done using 3+3 design. Lymphodepletion included cyclophosphamide (60mg/kg x 1) and fludarabine (25mg/m2/d x 3). Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and immune effector cell associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) were graded using the Lee and CARTOX criteria, respectively. CAR-T persistence was measured with qPCR and flow cytometry. Plasma cytokine concentrations were measured using electrochemiluminescence (MesoScale Diagnostics, Inc).
 Results: Thirty-one pts were enrolled and treated. Baseline patient and disease characteristics are listed in table 1. Twenty-nine (94%) pts were refractory to the prior line of therapy and 21 (68%) had symptomatic disease at the time of lymphocyte collection. CAR-T cell product manufacture was successful in all pts. Median transduction rate was 45% [range 15-66], median culture expansion was 36-fold [range 3-79]. CAR-T cell doses were 0.5 x 10 6/kg (n = 4), 1 x 10 6/kg (n = 16), and 2 x 10 6/kg (n = 11). Median time from apheresis to lymphodepletion was 7 days (range 2 - 15) and median time from apheresis to CAR-T cell infusion time was 13 days (range 9 - 20). Twenty-eight pts were infused fresh product.
 Seventeen pts (55%) experienced CRS. Grade 1-2 CRS was observed in 15 pts (48%), grade ≥ 3 was observed in 3 pts (10%). One patient had grade 4 CRS that was later complicated by hemophagocytic syndrome and died on day 21; a second patient had grade 5 CRS in the context of bulky disease and died on day 8. Ten pts (32%) had ICANS and 4 pts had grade 3-4 ICANS. Treatment for CRS / ICANS included tocilizumab (n = 12), siltuximab (n = 4), anakinra (n = 3) and corticosteroids (n = 10). The most common all grade non - hematologic toxicity was fatigue, observed in 19 pts, all grade 1. Hematologic toxicity was common, with grade ≥ 3 neutropenia observed in all subjects.
 Twenty-five (81%) presented disease response and twenty-two pts (71%) achieved complete response (CR). There were no statistically significant differences in the overall and complete response rates between dose levels. After a median follow up of 18 months (range 1 - 32), 5 pts relapsed, and 7 pts have died. Causes of death include progressive disease (n=5), CRS (n=1) and CRS/HLH (n=1). Two-year estimates of PFS and OS for the whole cohort were 67% (95%CI 52-88%) and 75% (95%CI 60-93%)(fig1), respectively. Two-year estimates for patients achieving disease response (CR or PR) were 82% (95%CI 67-99%) and 90% (95%CI 78-100%), respectively. The median duration of response has not been reached (95% CI 74-100). Among pts achieving CR, 94% (95% CI 61-100%) had sustained remission at 12 months.
 Median time to peak CAR-T expansion, measured by PCR, was 14 days (IQR 14-19), without differences between dose levels, culture duration or fresh vs. cryopreserved infusion. All evaluable subjects had persistent CAR-Ts on PCR measurements done on days 30, 60 and 90. CAR-T cell dose did not have an impact in the time to peak in vivo CAR-T cell expansion or in the rate of CAR-T cell persistence (fig 2). Cytokine measurements have been conducted in 19 pts, with area under the curve (AUC) analyses showing pts with CRS had higher plasma concentrations of multiple cytokines (fig 3). Patients achieving CR had higher plasma concentrations of MIP3B.
 Conclusions: Second generation antiCD19 CAR-T cells with TNFRS19 transmembrane domain have potent clinical activity. On-site manufacture was successful in all pts. This strategy, in combination with fresh product infusion, can make CAR-T cell therapy rapidly available for pts with high-risk r/r B cell lymphoma.
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 AntiCD19 CAR-T cells with TNFRSF19 transmembrane domain for treatment of relapsed and refractory B cell lymphomas.


The rheumatoid arthritis is a kind of chronic,breaking out nature,non peculiar quality and pilosity arthritis repeatedly,It is connective tissue and some behavior of organizing the pathological change of fibre of collagen of whole body,It is a kind of one's own immunity disease.Author with Guizhi shaoyao zhimu decotion reduces and treats 136 examples of rheumatoid arthritis,Make nd control 50 examples the near future (36.76%),show 70 examples of result (51 47%), valid 12 examples (8.82%),Always efficient 97.06% of the better curative effect.


Genres are staged, structured, communicative events, motivated by various communicative purposes, and performed by members of specific discourse communities (Swales 1990; Bhatia 1993, 2004; Berkenkotter & Huckin 1995). Since its inception, with the two seminal works on the topic by Swales (1990) and Bhatia (1993), genre analysis has taken pride of place in much of the ongoing research in languages for specific purposes (LSP). The goal of much of this research is pedagogic, the understanding being that good genre descriptions can feed into pedagogy in the form of syllabus and materials design. Whereas genre analysis usually focuses on language as action, this paper argues that analysis needs to focus also on content and identity. The discussion sketches out what this might mean in terms of pedagogic application.


X-ray CT scanners are able to measure density distributions in materials without destruction. Since removal of binder causes density change, debinding behavior for alumina powder compacts was evaluated using one of the scanners. In the thermal debinding processes for these compacts, the decrease in average CT value, which corresponds to the overall decrease in X-ray energy penetrated through a compact, was found to be proportional to the decrease in density. The coefficient between the average CT value change and the decrease in density was unique under deferent debinding temperatures and deferent density distributions. Therefore, the binder losses in each cross section in compacts can be estimated by measuring changes in CT value of each section. Thus the binder losses in compacts which had density deference in the axial direction were examined. It was revealed that in the case that a compact is placed with higher density in an upper portion while debinding, the binder loss in a lower portion tends to be less than the other cases.


OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of exposition to tobacco's smoke on infants' growth. METHODS:A cross-sectional population-based study was carried out with infants up to two years old who went to public primary healthcare units for immunization. Ten units with 200 infants each were randomly selected. The parents or people in charge of 1,437 children answered a questionnaire. Weight and length were measured before the immunization. For multivariate analysis two models were built, whose dependent variable were the continuous ones, weight-for-age and length-for-age, which were built using the conceptual hierarchical modeling. RESULTS:Prevalence of low-length was 4.7%, and of low-weight was 3.0%. Among all children in the study, 35.8% were exposed to cigarette smoking of people in the household. After adjustments for socio-demographic variables and biological variables of the child, only the mother's smoking showed independent effect on the nutritional status of children, where the smoking habits during pregnancy remained associated with length-for-age (β=-0.226; p=0.02) and smoking of the mother with weight-for-age (β=-0.235; p=0.02). The smoking of the father and other people in the household's smoking did not present statistically significant association for any studied outcomes. CONCLUSION:Smoking during pregnancy showed independent effect on the length-for-age indicator and mother's smoking with weight-for-age of infants.


A novel dual‐band module transmitter is presented in this article. It works as a power amplifier at 2.4 GHz that satisfies the 802.11b/g wireless LAN standard and performs as an active frequency doubler at 6.8 GHz with the stop band characteristics of defected ground structure (DGS). The equivalent circuit unit and the stop band characteristics of the microstrip DGS are analyzed and simulated. For the proposed transmitter, second harmonic suppression is below −52.6 dBc in the amplifier mode, and fundamental suppression is below −41 dBc in the frequency doubler mode. It achieves 13.7 dBm of P1 dB and its gain is 16.5 dB at amplifier mode, and its maximum output is 7.8 dBm at 6.8 GHz in frequency double mode. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 3225–3228, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23935


The particle concentration signals of silicon powder in the fluidizing gas i.e. air under different operating conditions were determined. The diameter of silicon particles, operating velocity, radial distance and axial distance are used as input vector; the mean value of particle concentration signal in the silicon power fluidized bed is used as a target vector. The RBF neural network is applied to build the predicted model of the mean value in silicon power fluidized bed. The result shows that the prediction of mean value through the RBF neural network is prior to that by BP neural network, and its error is less than 0.2%.


Using the nitric acid-perchloric acid mixture to resolve sample with the hydrochloric acid as the medium,the hydride generation-atomic fluorescence spectrometry(HG-AFS) was utilized to measure Pb in tobacco.The effects of the acid concentration and sample pretreatment on different tobacco samples were investigated.The relatively standard deviation was 0.53%—4.39%and the detection limit was 0.1506μg/L.The linearity range was 0.0—80.0μg/L and the additional standard recovery was 85.6%—96.9%.The results coincided well with the standard values of tea standard GBW 08513 and GBW 07605.


Dear Dr Issa, I am delighted to tell you that your research ?Ethical mindsets, aesthetics and spirituality: a mixed-methods approach analysis of the Australian services sector? has been chosen, by the Editor(s) of Management Decision, as the winner of the 2010 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Management and Governance category. Your prize will include: 1) monetary prize 2) a certificate 3) the prospect of an offer of publication in Management Decision (as a full paper or executive summary/research note, at the discretion of the Editor(s) and 4) a winner¢s logo for use on correspondence. Winners will also be listed shortly on the Emerald and EFMD websites: http://www.efmd.org/odra & http://www.emeraldinsight.com/research/awards/odra.htm. I will be in contact again soon regarding the details of receiving your award, the offer of publication, etc. Thank you for your submission. Both Emerald and the EFMD are proud to help reward and promote such high-quality research. Congratulations, and I will be in touch soon. Best wishes, Devon BlakeExternal Relations Executive Emerald Group Publishing Limited


The purpose of this paper is to discuss representations of high order $C^0$ finite element spaces on simplicial meshes in any dimension. When computing with high order piecewise polynomials the conditioning of the basis is likely to be important. The main result of this paper is a construction of representations by frames such that the associated $L^2$ condition number is bounded independently of the polynomial degree. To our knowledge, such a representation has not been presented earlier. The main tools we will use for the construction is the bubble transform, introduced previously in [Falk and Winther, Found Comput Math (2016) 16: 297], and properties of Jacobi polynomials on simplexes in higher dimensions. We also include a brief discussion of preconditioned iterative methods for the finite element systems in the setting of representations by frames.


Alpha‐mannosidosis (AMS) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder which results from a deficiency of lysosomal alpha‐mannosidosis activity and displays a wide range of clinical phenotypes. Patients have traditionally been divided into type I, a more severe form that presents in infancy, and type II, a milder form that typically presents in later childhood. We describe three Hispanic males who presented in infancy with relatively mild forms of AMS. They were aged between 6 and 24 years at their last assessment. Homozygous mutations in the MAN2B1 gene were found in all three patients, one of which is a newly reported mutation. Two of the patients were brothers who were homozygous for the same MAN2B1 mutation. Despite being homozygous for the same mutation, the older brother had more severe developmental delay, hearing loss, and growth retardation. This report illustrates the difficulty in determining a strict genotype‐phenotype correlation in AMS, and supports screening for oligosaccharides in children with neurodevelopmental delay with mild phenotypic signs and symptoms.


As sodium tripolyphosphate(STP) being the reacting agent,this paper focuses on the phosphory-lation of the extracted pork hemoglobin assisted with ultrasonic technology,which mainly discusses the impact of pH value,temperature,time and STP content on the phosphorylation level.The optimal condition of phosphorylation was decided as follow: pH value 8.5,temperature 30 ℃,time 45 min and STP content 10%.In addition,the factor of STP and that of temperature both have the significant impact(P0.05),while the factor of pH value and that of time not so significant(P0.05).Under the optimal condition the phosphorylation level was 79.2 mg/g.


It is complex to design the controller of space flexible manipulator to track the desired endeffectors trajectory. In this paper,the kinematics and dynamics of the system are analyzed firstly by considering the unknown parameters. Then the augmented VSC of the system is discussed to track the desired trajectory. In order to suppress the flexible vibration actively,the hybrid trajectory is generated using the modal-virtual-control-method,which contains the control errors of flexible modal virtual control. The final control scheme is improved to track the hybrid trajectory. In addition,the viability of the proposed scheme is explored through simulation in a space rigid-flexible manipulator.


Electrical resistivity and Seebeck coefficients were determined for NiSb and CoSb as a function of composition. The results indicate that clustering of defects occurs for large deviations from the stoichiometric composition in CoSb, and that these compounds cannot be classified as electron compounds.


Over a decade ago, the 1982 revised edition of Richard Ellmann's celebrated biography provided an occasion to think about how the 1959 original, for all its virtues, might have hindered the ongoing process of coming to terms with Joyce. Probably the document that most of us remember from that moment is Hugh Kenner's Times Literary Supplement review, especially Kenner's sarcasm about the way that Ellmann credited some notori ously unreliable "Irish Facts."1 Kenner had a more general point, though, and it still resonates. Ellmann's focus on Joyce and the com monplace ("no one knew," he tells us, "what the commonplace really was until Joyce had written"?JJII 5) so affects his portrait that, for Kenner, Joyce the artist was nowhere to be seen. How, Kenner asks, could a Joyce who (Ellmann implies) "put down little he'd not actu ally seen and heard," whom Ellmann presents as a silly, vain, feck less, impressionable drudge, be respected (1384)? And did not Ellmann, to reinforce his argument, also accept the "cranky" witness of Stanislaus Joyce, whose combination of admiration, resentment, and obtuseness perfectly complemented Ellmann's need to under line Joyce's identity with everyman? Also, once we understand the connection between Ellmann's theme and what evidence he admit


Antioxidants protect the organism from the harmful effects of free radicals. High content of antioxidants is characteristic for red wine, olive oil, tea. Today in Russia is well studied the antioxidant activity of black and green tea, but the choice of teas found in the sale, much wider. The aim of the work was to study antioxidant activity of white tea, as well as its comparison with the parameters of green tea and rooibos. Spectrophotometrically compared the antioxidant activity of aqueous extracts white, green tea, drink rooibos using the adrenaline autooxidation reaction in alkaline medium (pH 10.65). The correctness of the spectrophotometric determination was confirmed on the device "Tsvet Yauza-01-AA" (Russia). As a standard used quercetin. In the initial period of time (up to 5 min) tea extracts "Java", «Elixir immortality» and rooibos are equally affect the values of optical density. After 10 min the optical density takes different values for different extracts, however this time is recommended to determine antioxidant activity. The highest antioxidant activity of the extract has white tea «Greenfield». Rooibos extract antioxidant activity could be compared with "Elixir of immortality" white tea аctivity. The lowest value of antioxidant activity of green tea "Princess JAVA". The effect of water temperature on the antioxidant activity of extracts was investigated. The highest value was found in tea «Greenfield» at a brewing temperature of 70 °C, which decreases with increasing temperature to 100 °C. The water temperature has a minimal effect on the antioxidant activity of the rooibos extract, but a small maximum at 80 °C is observed. The minimum value of antioxidant activity is the extract of green tea «Princess JAVA», but it increases with the temperature rise up to 100 °C. The study was conducted according to the content of antioxidants from the brewing time. For this, the device "Tsvet Yauza-01-AA" was used. To determine the selected white tea extract «Elixir of Immortality». The temperature was maintained at 100 °C. It is found that the recommended brewing time is two minutes.


Foreign Direct Investment are among the mobilizing factors of the economic development of a country, alongside the domestic investments, being a basic support in the achievement of the development and modernization strategies. The study presents, briefly, the effects of intervening Foreign Direct Investment flows on the economy of a country, able, by the advanced experience brought, to generate a better capitalization of resources, a contribution to growth. The directions of manifesting the mechanisms of influence of Foreign Direct Investment, as well as the role that they hold for their impact, the economic environment of the host country and the policies practiced in relation to Foreign Direct Investment are taken into account. The purpose of the paper was to point out some aspects regarding the favourable impact that foreign investments could have on an economy, by the contribution to new technologies and the contribution to the productivity increase. The conclusions point to the potential of the impact of Foreign Direct Investment on development and the need for the host countries, to support some properly oriented policies, by maintaining a correlation between the volume of foreign investment flows and the development potential of a country. The research method used to carry out the study was the documentation from the foreign and domestic specialized literature, the synthesis and processing of the relevant ideas, by capturing the impact of Foreign Direct Investment in economic development.


This thesis examines issues related to the relationship between the two languages comprised in a bilingual child's linguistic competence. The data investigated come from a longitudinal case study of an English-French bilingual child (2;00.04 to 4;02.25). The first topic under investigation relates to the reasons behind code switching as well as the constraints on the manifestations of this phenomenon. These constraints result in morphosyntactic combinations that can or cannot occur in code-switched utterances. The data are also analyzed from the perspective of the acoustic manifestation of stress in each language. The results of this acoustic investigation suggest that the child has two separate stress systems and that she has mastered the main phonetic cues related to the manifestation of stress in each language. Overall, this study supports claims in the current literature that bilingual speakers do indeed have separate grammars in their linguistic competence.


This paper is about the efficient generation of dense models of very large-scale environments from depth data and in particular, stereo-camera-based depth data. Better maps make for better understanding; better understanding leads to better robots, but this comes at a cost: the computational and memory requirements of large dense models can be prohibitive. We provide the theory and the system needed to create verylarge-scale dense reconstructions. To this end, we leverage three sources of geometric and contextual information. First, we apply a 2D Total Generalized Variation (TGV) regularizer to our depth maps as this conforms to the affine-smooth surfaces visible in the images. Second, we augment the TGV regulariser with an appearance prior, specifically an anisotropic diffusion tensor. Finally, we use the computationally efficient 3D Total Variation (TV) regularizer on our 3D reconstructions to enforce piecewiseconstant surfaces over a sequence of fused depth maps. Our TV regularizer operates over a compressed 3D data structure while handling the complex boundary conditions compression introduces. Only when we regularize in both 2D (stereo depth maps) and 3D (dense reconstruction) can we swiftly create "well behaved" reconstructions. We evaluate our system on the KITTI dataset and provide reconstruction error statistics when compared to 3D laser. Our 3D regularizer reduces median error by 40% (vs. a 2D-only regularizer) in 3.4 km of dense reconstructions. Our final median reconstruction accuracy is 6 cm. For subjective analysis, we provide a review of 6.1 km of dense reconstructions in the below video. These are the largest regularized dense reconstructions from a passive stereo camera we are aware of in the literature. Video: https://youtu.be/FRmF7mH86EQ


glomerular accumulation of fibrin a feature of several renal diseases and in secondary glomerulus, in the experimental intravascular clotting initiate glomerular role of the coagulation process in renal its importance in producing glomerular damage whether coagulation is initiated locally or systemically.


In disaster response operations, a great deal of coordination of various agents and institutions is required. The use of tactical and operational software is of great importance for the success of the operation. However, how operations can take place in adverse locations with scarce Internet access resources. This limitation can generate problems in the functioning of applications that are in the cloud. Thus, in this paper, we propose a mechanism is designed that explores the concepts of resilience in a fog environment, focusing on the availability of applications. The main objective of these mechanisms is to guarantee the availability of services even in the event of connection problems. The case study was carried out in a simulated environment, and the results showed the feasibility of the mechanism to be applied in a disaster response Operations Center.


The invention discloses a simulated electronic candle which comprises a flame head. The flame head comprises flame piece and a flame piece base. The simulated electronic candle is characterized in that the flame head comprises at least one LED lamp lighting up the flame piece, the LED lamp is installed on the flame piece base, a control circuit is electrically connected with the LED lamp, and the LED lamp emits warm white light or bright yellow light. The simulated electronic candle using LEDs has the advantages that the LEDs only need a very small space and are very low in energy consumption. Therefore, the simulated electronic candle is a very small candle, the LEDs on the candle are basically invisible, and the verisimilitude effect of the electronic candle is enhanced.


The most popular methods for measuring importance of the variables in a black-box prediction algorithm make use of synthetic inputs that combine predictor variables from multiple observations. These inputs can be unlikely, physically impossible, or even logically impossible. As a result, the predictions for such cases can be based on data very unlike any the black box was trained on. We think that users cannot trust an explanation of the decision of a prediction algorithm when the explanation uses such values. Instead, we advocate a method called cohort Shapley, which is grounded in economic game theory and uses only actually observed data to quantify variable importance. Cohort Shapley works by narrowing the cohort of observations judged to be similar to a target observation on one or more features. We illustrate it on an algorithmic fairness problem where it is essential to attribute importance to protected variables that the model was not trained on. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, Volume 11 is March 2024. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.


Scale factor,output bias and noise of digital closed-loop fiber optical gyroscopes(FOGs) were tested with the ambient temperature range of-40℃ to 60℃.Based on the test data analysis,it was indicated that for FOGs whose bias instability is more than 0.3°/h,scale factor error and bias error are the main sources of the temperature errors.One linear relation among the biase,ambient temperature and its gradient and another one between scale factor and ambient temperature were analized using the method of stepwise regression,and two multiple linear regression models(MLRM) for the biase error and the sacale factor were developed.The detected light power was led to the MLRMs as a new variable,which improves precision and saves calculation consumption by 40 percent for scale factor's MLRM.It is shown that the residaul mean square(RMS) of scale factor's MLRM is 1(bit/(°/s))2 and the RMS of bias's MLRM is 0.067(°/h)2.


Hydrazones derived from substituted benzoyl hydrazides and benzil α‐monoxime [viz. benzil α‐monoxime benzoylhydrazone (BMBH), benzil α‐monoxime 4‐chlorobenzoylhydrazone (BMPCBH), benzil α‐monoxime 4‐methoxybenzoylhydrazone (BMMBH), benzil α‐monoxime 4‐nitrobenzoylhydrazone (BMNBH) and benzil α‐monoxime 2‐chlorobenzoylhydrazone (BMOCBH)] have been synthesized and used in preparing the corresponding Cr(III), Mn(III), Fe(III) and Co(III) complexes. The ligands undergo deprotonation in ethanolic alkaline solution to form dinuclear complexes. The complexes are insoluble in common organic solvents, decompose above 300°C, and are spin‐free octahedral. The complexes isolated were characterized by elemental analyses, IR, electronic, 1H NMR spectra, conductance, thermal studies and magnetic susceptibility measurements. The bonding and probable structures of the complexes are discussed on the basis of the spectral and magnetic data. The ligands, as well as their complexes, show antifungal activity. The authors are thankful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India, for financial assistance.


We investigate the issue of path selection in mobile multi-hop wireless networks. We are interested in designing a path selection algorithm that maximizes the expected duration of the selected path. To this end we first study the distribution of path duration. We show that, under a set of mild conditions, when the hop count along a path is large, the distribution of path duration can be well approximated by an exponential distribution even when link durations are dependent and their distributions are heterogeneous. Second, we investigate the relation between a path duration and durations of the links along the path. We prove that the parameter of the exponential distribution, which determines the expected duration of the path, is related to the link durations only through their means and is given by the sum of the inverses of the expected link durations. We validate our analytical results using ns-2 simulation with the Random Waypoint and Manhattan mobility models.


In order to create governmental accountability, the local government has to present the financial statement that reliable and timeliness, as being ruled in PP No. 71/2010. To achive reliability and timeliness characteristics on local government financial reporting, its need highly quality human resources, appropriate internal control and information technology utilization. This research purposes to test the effect of human resources, internal control and information technology utilization to local government financial reporting reliability and timeliness. A survey was conducted to local government (Kabupaten or Kota) in Eks Karesidenan Surakarta Region through Dinas Pendapatan, Pengelolaan Keuangan dan Aset Daerah (DPPKAD). Collected data analized with multiple regression analysis. The results of this research show that human resources, internal control and information technology utilization tend to have effect on local government financial reporting reliability and timeliness.


Most industrialised countries are facing the need to reform their postcompulsory education and training systems and bring academic and vocational learning closer together. Countries have adopted different policies and strategies to do this. This Briefing reports on the Unified Learning Project which explored issues in bringing together or 'unifying' academic and vocational learning and compared policy approaches in Scotland, England and Wales. It also contrasted British developments with those in other European countries.


Secondary production of the meiobenthic harpacticoid Canuella perplexa T. & A. Scott, 1893 was estimated in a brackish water lagoon of the PO River Delta (Italy) from 1978 to 1979. The population was sampled approximately fortnightly with 3 replicate cores at a central, subtidal station. Three generation peaks and a nonproductive overwintering population were observed. Production of copepodites and adults was estimated by direct and indirect methods: (1) Crisp's specific growth rate method, applied both to the pooled C1 to adult stage and to each of the 5 copepodite and the adult stages separately; (2) the size frequency method; (3) the indirect. method of the body mass-scaled turnover ratio. The 3 direct estimates of the annual production of copepodites and adults are quite similar: 6.76, 6.09 and 6.78 g dry wt m-'. Egg production amounted to 0.02 g dry wt m-'; nauplii production was roughly estimated at 0.38 g dry wt m-'. These values show a relatively constant P/B ratio per generation (between 3 and 4), as predicted by theoretical considerations, and agree with empirically-derived production estimates of other species. The indirect method gave an annual P/B value of 6.96, which underestimates production at 4.58 g dry wt m-2. This is probably due to the weak dependence of the generation number on body mass for meiobenthic copepods.


The article tells about a trip to Winston Churchill's Chartwell estate in England. It describes the attractions of the park and tells how the great politician took part in its building.


People in the Yuan Dynasty regard The Book of Songs as a work with the properties of both Confucian classics and literature,and they expand their explanation and perception on this basis.One the one hand,they stride forward according to the philosophy of Zhu Xi,as "feel the substances and express the feelings while chanting and writing poetries conveying one's emotion".On the other hand,they still emphasis on the function of The Book of Songs as the Classic of the Confucian School to applaud,criticize,educate and civilize.From the basis of originating The Book of Songs,the elegant and gentle style in Yuan tries to conciliate the debate between the "emotion" and "logic" in Tang and Song,and finally,by following the style in the Prosperous Tang Dynasty,it insists on the integrity/peace of chanting the emotion and,in the same time,also adapts to the political need of "advocating the contemporary prosperity".Therefore,The Book of Songs is exactly the origin of the elegant and gentle style of poetry in the Yuan Dynasty.


This paper describes the emergence of fractal theory and Diffusion Limited Aggregation(DLA)model in fractal algorithm,the method for realizing the simulation of plants growth is provided based on DLA model.Based on this,a system for simulating plants growth is designed on the platform of Visual Basic,and the simulation results are discussed.


The Natural Resources Section handles a diverse number of issues ranging from litigation to protect our nation's resources and public lands to defense of the public fisc against claims by private property owners for alleged Fifth Amendment takings and by Native Americans for alleged trust breaches. By virtue of our responsibility for all litigation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), we defend the decision-making processes of almost every federal agency. Recent examples include litigation over agency decisions related to the Gulf oil spill, renewable energy projects, and snowmobile use in national parks. Our attorneys practice in both Federal and State courts.


Women play critical role in managing natural resources on family and community levels. In communities around the world, women manage water, sources for fuel, and food, as well as the both agricultural terrain. Across the world women play critical roles in relation to natural environment. North East India is the bio-diversity hotspot of India. This region is full of natural resources and people of this region is living with the nature .This paper tries to look out the role of women in environmental management. The major objective of this paper is to understand the role of women in environmental protection. This paper also tries to explore how the women of north east India is contributing towards managing the diversity of ecosystem. This paper is based on secondary data and qualitative by nature.


The coverage of the wireless sensor network node configuration optimization was researched.Redundancy exists in wireless sensor networks,which seriously affects the network's optimal performance.In order to effectively improve the coverage of wireless sensor network,an improved particle swarm algorithm was proposed for the optimization of wireless network node coverage.the crossover and mutation operators of genetic algorithm were introducted to optimize the hybrid particle swarm algorithm,to ensure that under the conditions of wireless sensor networks connectivity,the number of sensor nodes reached the required coverage.Simulation results show that the hybrid particle swarm algorithm can quickly converge to the accurate solution and better reduce the network redundancy to extend the network lifetime.


result of the research, the author states that the Jewish often appears as a mirror in which the Own, that is Ukrainian, is displayed in the Katria Grynevychewa's texts.


In polycrystalline materials the trapping of charge at interfaces has a decisive influence on the electrical transport properties through the formation of electrostatic potential barriers. This can either be an intrinsic phenomenon or can be related to impurity segregation leading to complex defect centers. This plays a key role in technologically important systems, especially those having electrically active interfaces, e.g.,p-n junctions in semiconductors and grain boundaries in electroceramics. Electroceramic oxides such as ZnO and SrTiO3 are common systems that exhibit the tendency of current control by internal potential barriers. While bulk measurements, either electrical (e.g. P-E, C-V, I-V), or optical (e.g. Raman) have contributed significantly to the understanding of charged interfaces, there are a very few direct observations of electrical activity at a nanometer level. For instance, it has been recognized that space charge and dopant segregation at the grain boundary are inter-related.


X. Hu, C. Yi, C.-H. Hsu, Prof. X. Gong College of Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering The University of Akron Akron, OH 44325 , USA E-mail: email@example.com X. Hu, Dr. M. Wang, S. Liu, K. Zhang, C. Zhong, Prof. F. Huang, Prof. X. Gong, Prof. Y. Cao State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices South China University of Technology Guangzhou 510640 , P. R. China E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


Contents: Guenter Eich - Poetry and poetic theory - Aestheti- cism - Political literature - German literature of the twentieth century.


In near α and α-β type titanium alloys, subsurface fatigue crack initiation occurs apparently without the existence of any defects such as inclusion or pore and is dominant in the high-cycle regime and at lower temperatures. Crystallographic transgranular facet or facets are commonly detected at the crack initiation site.1,2) Each fact is fitted to α grain morphology or microstructure, and mostly the facets formed on or near the (0001) basal plane regardless their inclination to the principal stress axis. Dislocation movement in α phase is restricted on the primary slip plane and fairly planar under high-cycle fatigue so that dislocation arrays on {1010}<1120> are piled-up in the vicinity of α grain boundaries and a local stress concentration generates near the boundaries.3) The microstructural design to refine the α-grain structure and to distribute its crystal orientation randomly may reduce the maximum of stress concentration, and then improve the high-cycle fatigue strength. In fact, the microstructural modification in Ti-6Al-4V alloys by thermomechanical treatment as equiaxed α grain structure with a few μm in diameter and fine β particles introduced much higher fatigue strength at cryogenic temperature.4) In the conventional hot-rolled Fractographical Analyses of Crack Initiation Site in High-cycle Fatigue for Ti–Fe–O Alloy at Low Temperature


Improved wavelet packet analysis and support vector machine were used to evaluate the performance of wireless Ad Hoc network. Experimental results show that the performance of Improved Wavelet Packet Analysis (IWPA) is much better than Wavelet Packet Analysis (WPA) and WT (wavelet transform). And the method of SVMDT is superior to RBF SA (simulated annealing). That IWPA combines SVMDT can get the best effect.


The challenges of implementing learner-centred pedagogies have been well documented, noting that many reform efforts fail to consider important contextual factors.  With attention to the disparity between policy and practice, this study investigated the conditions under which teachers can enact learner-centred pedagogy in the Maldives using design-based research.  This is a theoretically oriented, participatory methodology exploring practical solutions in real-world settings. Working collaboratively with teachers from an island school, a pedagogical intervention based on learner-centred principles, was designed to fit the Maldivian context.  This article discusses the process of implementing the intervention, the challenges influencing its use, and the particular contextual factors impacting on learner-centred reform.  Analyses of the research data and the reflection on the research process highlighted the importance of addressing the particularities of small states in the implementation process and reinforced the need for close attention to contextual factors within reform efforts.


Threats of disunity keep ravaging Nigeria's independence since 1960. The need for disintegration from the nation grows over time especially from the south-eastern and southsouthern regions of the country, and this eventually resulted in Nigeria's civil war of 1967-1970. Hostilities promoted by ethnic tensions are also higher than ever before. Insurgency which started in the north-eastern region since 2009 has continued to claim several lives and properties till date. Herdsmen and farmers conflicts have also continue to escalate in the north-central region of the country. While, cattle rustling and armed banditry keeps growing in the northwestern region. Attacks and bombardments of oil facilities have been employed by aggrieved militants in the Niger Delta Region to get at the country. Religious intolerance has also continued to result in confrontations that often claim several lives across the northern region of the country. The thrust of this paper is hinged on these threats that have been confronting Nigeria's national unity. The paper appraises efforts of the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in the task of promoting national integration in Nigeria. Descriptive analysis was adopted in this paper and data were sourced through secondary means from journal articles, magazines, newspapers, bulletins, lecture notes, diaries, and the internet. The paper revealed some of the impediments to national integration in Nigeria to include but not limited to: politics of identity, corruption among the political elites, power struggle and allocation of resources to the federating unions, religious intolerance, and internal conflicts as well as overcentralisation of power. Recommendations were then made towards repositioning the country's sustainable national unity.


A NEW INDUSTRIAL POLICY FRAMEWORK was outlined by the South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in 2002. This Integrated Manufacturing Strategy (IMS) will 'constitute a collective government position and co-ordinate a set of actions across government' (DTI, 2002:3). It is primarily focused on improving competitiveness. A range of factors are identified as important for firms' competitiveness including: the prices of inputs; infrastructure price and provision; technology and innovation; skills; and effective regulation. Integration with the international economy and increased knowledge-intensity in production are key features of the new competitiveness approach of the DTI, as opposed to the natural resource and unskilled-labour bases of earlier phases of industrialisation. The IMS proposes a 'value-matrix' framework to understand vertical and horizontal relationships affecting production. To assess the implications of such an approach we examine the


This essay presents the results of an ethnographic study of place and development politics in the Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone (SWGAUEZ). The zone was established as part of a 1993 federal program passed by Congress under the Clinton Administration, which guarantees some $40 million in block grants to selected impoverished communities. The analysis presented here focuses on how minority organizations from Westside, a low-income, African American neighborhood, constructed place meanings as part of their efforts to obtain federal funds for local projects. Ultimately, Westside's "place frames" promoted visions of development dissimilar to those of the zone's administration. The cultural dissonance created by these divergent senses of place culminated in a discrimination lawsuit and on-site assessment by the Office of the Inspector General. The essay reveals how conflicting geographic imaginations intensified longstanding ethnic and class-based conflicts in the zone. It thereby underscores the cultural-geographic underpinnings of development politics by showing how place impacted the implementation of this large-scale federal rural development program.


This paper is based on the results of an extensive (840-page) report of the Committee on National Spatial Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences, entitled Studies on Spatial Chaos (edited by A. Kowalewski, T, Markowski and P. Śleszyński—Studia KPZK PAN, vol. 182, Warsaw 2018—in Polish). Its aim was to conduct a comprehensive and detailed study on the problem of spatial chaos (spatial disorder), including an estimate of economic costs in Poland. For this purpose, literature was queried (articles and reports, etc.) and special analyses were prepared for this purpose. The total annual costs of spatial chaos were estimated at not less than 20 billion euros per year. The conclusions also proposed solutions and suggestions (for the government and local governments), which may reduce the acute costs of spatial chaos in society and economy.


We propose a new type of structure for singly heavy baryons of Qqqq̄q in addition to the conventional one of Qqq. Based on chiral symmetry of the light quarks, we show that the Qqqq̄q baryon offers a novel picture for heavy quark spin-singlet and flavor-antisymmetric baryons. By making use of the effective Lagrangian approach, we find Λc(2765) and Ξc(2967) are mostly Qqqq̄q while Λc(2286) and Ξc(2470) are mostly Qqq. The masses of negative-parity baryons are predicted. We also derive a sum rule and the extended Goldberger-Treiman relation that the masses of the baryons satisfy. Furthermore, a mass degeneracy of parity partners of the baryons with the restoration of chiral symmetry is discussed. These are the unique features that the conventional picture of radial excitation in the quark model does not accommodate. Our findings provide useful information not only for future experiments but also for future lattice simulations on diquarks.


The major problems threatening the survival of Elephants (Elephas maximus) in India are the fragmentation of habitats, loss of range and quality of habitat, and Man-Elephant conflict (Johnsingh & Panwar, 1989; Sukumar, 1989). Fragmentation of habitat is due either to loss of habitat continuity or to corridors being made between existing habitats as a result of the ever-increasing human and allied biotic pressures. One corridor which Elephants have stopped using for the last 40 or so years is the Ariankavu Pass between the Ashambu Hills (south of the Pass) and Idukki-Periyar hills (north of the Pass) in southern India. The Ashambu Hills, south of the Pass, support about 200 Elephants which are mostly confined to the Kalakadu-Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (900 sq. km) in Tamil Nadu, and Neyyar (125 sq. km), Peppara (53 sq. km), and Chendhurny (100 sq. km), in Kerala. The Idukki-Periyar Hills population of Elephants is between 800 and 1,000, largely confined to Periyar Tiger Reserve (777 km), in Kerala and the Grizzled Giant Squirrel Sanctuary (c. 400 km) in Tamil Nadu (Johnsingh, 1989 Fig. 1).


The high orbital eccentricity of the planet around 16 Cygni B may have been induced by the companion star, 16 Cygni A, but only if the stellar binary has suuciently small periastron distance. The long period of the stellar binary, 310 4 yr, implies that less than 1% of the orbit has transpired since its rst astrometric measurements in 1830. Therefore, we compute the orbit from the measured instantaneous velocity and position vectors, based on new precise Doppler and astrometric data, along with the Hipparcos parallax. The only unknown parameter is the separation between AB along the line of sight, constrained by the demand that the orbit be bound, which leads to a family of possible orbits for 16 Cygni AB. The physically plausible orbits have 18,200 yr< P <1.3 Myr, 877< a <15,180 AU, and periastron distances, 68< r p <1500 AU. The orbit is deenitely eccentric, with e = 0.54{0.96. All orbital parameters here are in approximate agreement with the previous computation by Romanenko. The new stellar binary orbit remains consistent with the possibility that perturbations from 16 Cygni A cause the eccentricity in the planet around 16 Cygni B. Recently a red point source has been detected 3.2 arcsec from 16 Cygni A, but its membership remains unknown (Trilling et al. 1998). We assess its membership based on astrometry and velocities of 16 Cygni A. The point source is either a low-mass M dwarf separated by 80 AU from component A or it is a higher mass star of perhaps 0.5 M , separated by at least 150 AU from 16 Cygni A, indeed possibly a background star. If the new companion is bound, 16 Cygni A & B never approach each other closer than 500 AU, diminishing the prospects that 16 Cygni A induces the eccentricity of the planet around 16 Cygni B.


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRCT : Universal testing machine is use for the testing of steel. The Test Based on Steel are also conducted for Government Projects. As per IS 2008 We can calculate the various test such as ultimate tensile strength, Yield strength, Elongation and weight per meter etc. the result is conducted by graphically method and the graphically, the graph is already prepared by UTM Machine. Ultimate tensile strength tells us the value that is necessary for complete failure and breaking. also the 8 to 32 mm diameter steel bar are checked with the help of UTM machine. As the machine is modular, the parts can be swapped with better components that fits the requirement, leaving the possibility for many upgrades in the future.


Osteoarthritic conditions of the knee joints of the rabbits were produced by instability with surgical procedure. Degenerative changes was studied utilizing the cryoscanning EM and TEM.Results were as follows:1. Surface of degenerative articular cartilage was mainly repaired by the juxta-articular fibrous tissue, synovial origin from peripheral rims.2. Cell-cluster was concidered as an origin being intraarticular recovery sign in view of the ultrastructure and Aleian Blue staining.3. Acid Mucopolysaccharide in chodrophyte was demonstrated by the Ruthenium Red staining.


Automotive purchasing power is an important indicator of a country's economic development, recently the domestic car-sale market are shrinking .In additional,it face more competitive envorinment, It is essential to enhance the competitive strength in domestic auto industry ,and developing the more effective enterprise resource allocation method. In this study, based on a car dealer in Taiwan the objective productivity original data, the use of data envelopment analysis, analysis of the relative efficiency of various business locations .Technical efficiency of the study in 2011 in the automotive industry, with 11 business liaison and decision-making unit (DMU), I will use CCR model which proffered by Charnes et al., (1978),explaining the reasons for inefficient automobile industry, by efficiency changes among by the evaluated manufacturers, and try to generalize the problems that may arise, and further proposed to improve the management recommendations. Key-Words: Data envelopment analysis, car dealers, slack variables analysis


This study examined pathways from maternal parenting behavior to adolescents' internet addiction through both self-control and depression/anxiety. Participants were 449 and graders in Seoul. They completed questionnaires on maternal parenting behavior, adolescents' self-control, depression/anxiety, and internet addiction. Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling. Maternal parenting behavior indirectly influenced adolescents' internet addiction through self-control and depression/anxiety. Self-control and depression/anxiety individually mediated between maternal parenting behavior and internet addition. However, maternal parenting behavior didn't directly affect adolescents' internet addiction. Self-control was influenced by maternal parenting behavior and also played a crucial role in preventing adolescents' internet addiction.


Federal Reserve pronouncements usually yield little insight into the real functions and limitations of monetary policy or into ruling-class thinking on the prospects for U.S. capitalism. During financial crises, the Fed may affirm its "readiness as a source of liquidity to support the economic and financial system," as Chairman Alan Greenspan put it following the October 1987 crash. But even such emergency bulletins are more designed to allay public fears and boost market confidence than to inform citizens about the inner workings of the system and Fed policy. They are somewhat akin to the assurances of "no danger to the public" routinely churned out by the authorities after nuclear-reactor accidents. In more normal times, Fed statements utilize the jargons of market analysts and neoclassical economists which have grown increasingly similar in the recent years of exploding finance and stagnating productive activity. This reinforces the aura of elite expertise and control separating Fed personnel and operations from the general public.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.


Cosmic-ray exposure ages of Apollo 14 rocks and rock fragments obtained by the Kr81-Kr83 method range from 27 to 700 m.y. Rock 14321, collected near the Cone crater rim, is one of the many approximately 27 m.y. old ejecta which were reported at the Third Lunar Science Conference. All the other rocks have considerably higher exposure ages. Isotopic anomalies from neutron capture in gadolinium, bromine, and barium are used to obtain information on the lunar neutron spectrum at various depths below the lunar surface. The flux ratio of resonance and slow (less than 0.3 eV) neutrons is found to be nearly constant in the topmost approximately 100 g/sq cm.


Simple Summary The monogeneric family Vietnamellidae is endemic in the Oriental region and found only in the Indomalayan biogeographic realm. Seven nominal species have previously been described, but three are considered to be junior synonyms. However, some provisional species designations have been established. In this study we described formally Vietnamella sp. C as a new species, V. nanensis sp. n., based on the specimens used for initial DNA data and our expanded set of materials from Nan Province, Thailand. Based on morphology, the larva of the new species can be distinguished from those of other congeners. Additional mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene data for the new species are also provided. A key to larvae of all known species in the genus is provided. Abstract The larva, male subimago, female imago, and eggs of V. nanensis sp. n. are described based on specimens from Mae Hong Son and Nan provinces, Thailand. The female subimago is described based on a photograph of a specimen reared to the imago stage. The species previously was distinguished only by DNA barcode data and designated as Vietnamella sp. C. Based on morphology, the larva of the new species can be distinguished with the following combination of characteristics: (i) pattern of serration on the ventral margin of the forefemur, (ii) posterolateral margins of abdominal terga with pairs of acute tubercles, especially terga VI and VII, (iii) a well-developed pair of median ridge projections on tergum X, (iv) the second segment of the maxillary palp being about 1.3× the length of the third segment, and (v) females containing eggs with prominent protuberances on the chorionic surface. A key to larvae of all known species in the genus is provided.


Childhood closed head injury differs from adult head injury in some significant aspects. In this special issue, we attempt to provide an overview of current approaches to the study of childhood closed head injury. We will explore some issues particularly pertinent to children, such as age at head injury and time since head injury, within a context of new developments in the cognitive decomposition of language, memory, and executive function; new perspectives on the interface of cognitive and neuropsychiatric function; and recent advances in neuroimaging in pediatric populations. Unlike adult head injury, childhood head injury occurs against a background of ongoing physical and cognitive development. One consequence of this is that age and time variables may be significant moderators of the effects of a closed head injury sustained during childhood. The same variable that moderates cognitive effects throughout the life span, such as time since injury, may exert its effects differently in adults and children. DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY, 25(1&2), 1–3 Copyright © 2004, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.


The aim of this paper is to study the superstability related to the d'Alembert, the Wilson, the sine functional equations for the trigonometric functional equations as follows: .


In this paper an Extended Hydrodynamic Model for the coupled system formed by electrons and phonons has been formulated, in which the problem of the closure for the high-order moments is solved by means of the Maximum Entropy Principle of extended thermodynamics.
Simulation results for a 1D n+ - n - n+ silicon diode are presented.


Considering some of the major challenges suffered by majority of the wireless communication network users and also the challenges being faced by the network providers in order to provide satisfactory quality of services that will meet the demand of their subscribers, there is a need for an implementation of a better call management scheme. This proposed scheme classified calls into two groups; short-calls and long-calls. Statistically, it has been found that over 65% of GSM users make calls that are less than or equal to 180s. Hence, this proposed scheme will give priority to short calls, and also adopt a relative probability factor (β) which will be used to allocate some percentage of the channels that were initially allocated to long calls whenever the long calls are minimal within the last interval being considered. This scheme tends to provide better utilisation of communication channels at all-time especially at peak periods. This paper considers the number of available channels, signal strength, short-call duration, long-call duration, call arrival rate and call service rate within the Base Transceiver Station (BTS).


The reaction of NO2 with C2F4 was studied at 30°, 68°, 114°, and 157°C by in situ monitoring the infrared absorption bands of the products. The major primary products of the reaction are O2NCF2CFO and FNO. Smaller amounts of CF2O (and presumably NO) are also produced. There was no evidence for other primary products, though they may have been produced in minor amounts. The rate laws for the production of both O2NCF2CFO and CF2O are first order in both [NO2] and [C2F4]. CF2O production is at least partly heterogeneous as demonstrated by packing the quartz reaction vessel with Pyrex beads and by using a Monel cell. The homogeneous rate constant obtained from the high-temperature results gives a rate constant of 3.4 × 108 exp (minus;17000/RT) M−1sec−1 for CF2O production. Actually these Arrhenius parameters represent lower limits, since the heterogeneous reaction may still be playing a significant role. The production rate of O2NCF2CFO is not much affected by changing the nature of the surface or the surface to volume ratio. However the reaction may be heterogeneous, since the rate constant for its formation of 1.3 × 104 e×p (−7500/RT) M−1sec−1 has an abnormally low pree×ponential factor. E×periments in the presence of NO indicate that the mechanism for O2NCF2CFO formatlon is

The intermediate can also react with NO:

with k13/k12 = 1.3.


ABSTRACT Background: Although various psychosocial consequences of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) have been thoroughly evaluated, perceived stress has not been well studied. Aim: This study assessed perceived stress and its psychosocial and clinical correlates. Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 410 PTB patients. Data were analyzed by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) v23. Independent sample t-test and Pearson correlation were used to test the association between perceived stress and other variables. Assumptions of linear regression were checked. Multiple regression analysis was done to identify statistically significant association at P < 0.05. Results: Anxiety, perceived social support, and stigma were found to have significant association with perceived stress in multiple regression analysis. Perceived social support and duration of treatment were negatively significantly associated with perceived stress. Patients with PTB had high perceived stress, and moderate to strong significant correlation was observed among variables. Conclusion: Interventions tailored at addressing various psychosocial aspects of tuberculosis (TB) are needed.


This report describes the progress made during this reporting period of a project to demonstrate that the air pollution from a traveling- grate stoker being used to heat water at one of MPEC`s central heating plants in Krakow, Poland can be reduced significantly by (1) substituting the unwashed, unsized coal currently being used with a mechanically cleaned, double-sized stoker fuel and by (2) optimizing the operating parameters of the stoker. It is anticipated that these improvements will prove to be cost-effective and hence will be adopted by the other central heating plants in Krakow and, ideally, throughout Eastern European cities where coal continues to be the primary source of fuel. EFH Coal Company has formed a partnership with two Polish institutions -- MPEC, a central heating company in Krakow, and Naftokrak-Naftobudowa, preparation plant designers and fabricators -- for the execution of this effort. The terms of a long- term contract for the procurement of 750,000 tons of 20 mm x 0 raw coal for the new plant have been negotiated with the Katowice Holding Company. This draft contract currently is still under legal review. The negotiated price is near that of the Polish government`s established price of $32/ton. Biprostal, an engineering firm located in Krakow, continued performing the many environmental and permitting activities that are required by the various levels of the Polish government before the plant can be constructed and operated. The search for markets for utilizing surplus production from the new plant continues. Because of the unanticipated delays encountered during the onset of the project with forming the EFH Coal/Polish partnership and in negotiating long-term raw coal supply contracts, a third 90-day, no-cost time extension was requested.


In this paper we study the fluctuation spectrum of a linearized Vlasov-Poisson equation in the presence of a small external electric field. Conditions for the control of the linear fluctuations by an external electric field are established.


This paper introduces a systematic approach to investigate a higher order nonlinear dispersive wave equation for modeling different wave modes. We present both the conventional KdV-type soliton and anomaly type solitons for the equation. We also show the conservation laws and Hamiltonian structures for the equation. Our results suggest that the underlying equation has more interacting soliton phenomena than one would have known for the classical KdV and Boussinesq equation.


Abstract : The purpose of this research was to investigate the applicability of anaerobic upflow packed beds to serve as the methane-phase digester of an overall two-phase digestion system. In the two-phase anaerobic digestion process, the sequential acid and methane fermentation steps of the overall digestion process are optimized in separate reactors (8). Acidic end-products emanating from the first-stage acid-phase digester are ultimately converted to methane in a second-stage methane-phase digester. In this research, laboratory-scale upflow anaerobic filters were operated with acidic effluents from complete-mix acid-phase digesters fed with particulate and soluble feeds. Specifically, the objectives of the work were: (1) to ascertain whether upflow anaerobic filters can be operated with feeds containing high concentrations of volatile acids (VA), and (2) to evaluate the effects of such operating factors as loading rate, HRT, effluent recirculation ratio, and digester temperature on the conversion of volatile acids and other products of acid-phase digestion to methane.


Complete placenta previa is associated with a higher percentage of adverse clinical outcomes and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used in the preoperative examination of patients with placenta previa.


In recent years, the structure of a-Si based TFTs have been getting more complex and glass transferring by conveyor rollers during each process were increased accordingly. Static electricity in transferring processes is becoming a major issue because most companies to pursue high productivity. In this paper, we analyzed a point defect which was induced by electrostatic discharge event in transferring processes. Based on the analysis, we proposed the effect of ionization to minimize triboelectric charge in glass transferring systems.


With the methods of literature review,number statistics and comparative analysis,the paper analyzed the performance of Chinese and Asia's major national track and field athletes in Guangzhou Asian Games.Know ourselves and can only know yourself.For the development of a reference track and field,we did these.


The arc, generated between the cathode and slag in a de electric arc furnace (EAF), constitutes the principal source of thermal energy in the furnace. Steady state melting conditions rely on efficient control of the arc's power. This is achieved by keeping the arc's length constant, which is currently not directly measured in the industry, but relies on an external voltage measurement. This voltage measurement is often subject to inaccuracies since it may be influenced by voltage fluctuations that are not necessarily related to the arc itself, such as the variable impedance of the molten bath and the degradation of the graphite electrode. This study investigated whether or not it is possible to develop a sensor for the detection of arc length from the sound that is generated by the arc during operation. Acoustic signals were recorded at different arc lengths using a 60 kW de electric arc furnace and 600 g of mild steel as melt. Using a filterbank kernel (FB) based Fisher discriminant analysis (KFD) method, nonlinear features were extracted from these signals. The features were then used to train and test a k nearest neighbour (kNN) classifier. Two methods were used to evaluate the performance of the kNN classifier. In the first, both test and train features were extracted from acoustic signals recorded during the same experimental run and used a ten fold bootstrap method for integrity. The second method tested the generalized performance of the classifier. This involved training the kNN classifier with features extracted from the acoustic recordings made during a single or multiple experimental runs and then testing it with features drawn from the remaining experimental runs. The results from this study shows that there exists a relationship between arc length and arc acoustic which can be exploited to develop a sensor for the Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za


This article is a systematic repudiation of Joseph Hamburger's thesis in his book John Stuart Mill on Liberty And Control. Hamburger maintains that Mill wanted to promote the `moral regeneration of mankind' by eroding Christian belief and replacing it with a religion of humanity. He argues that Mill's defense of liberty must be seen in this context, although Mill himself tried to conceal some of his views. Mill in fact permitted interference even in the area of self-regarding conduct. He was against interference by public opinion, but not against interference by superior persons. Mill valued freedom because it enabled superior persons to promote the desired progress toward the religion of humanity. But this article argues that Hamburger fails to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate forms of interference, a distinction that is central to Mill's case for liberty. Superior persons are not allowed to coerce others from engaging in non-harmful but `miserable' conduct. The progress that Mill envisaged was to be achieved within the framework of freedom for all.


In this talk we are concerned with thermally stratified flows in domains that contain a macroscopic interface between a highly porous material and a pure-fluid domain. Our study is based on the single-domain approach according to which the same set of governing equations is employed both inside the porous medium and in the pure-fluid domain. Also, the mathematical model that we employ treats the porous skeleton as a rigid solid that is in thermal non-equilibrium with the fluid. First, we present briefly the basic steps of the derivation of the mathematical model. Then, we present and discuss numerical results for both thermally stratified shear flows and natural convection. Our discussion focuses on the role of thermal stratification on the flows of interest and on the effect of thermal non-equilibrium between the solid matrix and the fluid inside the porous medium.


RECENT MAJOR CHANGES Contraindications (4) 08/2017 Warnings and Precautions (5.3) 08/2017 INDICATIONS AND USAGE Levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol tablet is an estrogen/progestin COC indicated for use by women to prevent pregnancy. (1) DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION Take one tablet daily by mouth at the same time every day for 91 days. (2.1) Take tablets in the order directed on the Extended-Cycle Wallet. (2.2)


DUNCAN, BARBARA, and ELIOT, JOHN. Some Variables Affecting Children's Spatial Conservation. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1973, 44, 828-830. This study explores the possibilities of using Kershner's spatial test with young children and seeks correlations with other tasks involving visual skills and dimensionality. 25 kindergarten children from a middle-class school were tested on Kershner's spatial model, 2 WISC performance tests, and 2 Piagetian tasks. The results validated Kershner's work but did not support his claims that his test measures conservation or dimensional concepts.


The adversity of which the hero in Spirited Away experiences is the same process of maturity in which heros in fairy tales unavoidably undergo. As heros in fairy tales reborn through initiation with adversity, the hero in Spirited Away also reborns through adversity. This film follows the patterns and characteristics in fairy tales, i.e. initiation, heroism, antagonist and protagonist. Also this film expresses images of heros in blue, white, red colors through the symbol of water. As a symbol of water, Haky, the dragon, is an important character, who emphasizes the characteristic of motherhood with blue and white colors. Teenagers surely have to leave from their mother to be an independent person. As heros in fairy tales become mature, leaving from their motherhood, Chihiro leaves from her mother and experiences adversity and difficulties and therefore, becomes individually. Deviation from her mother symbolize independence. Spirited Away is a film of creative fantasy in which the director combines colors and water perfectly to symbolize heroes. And he uses the basic structure of fairy tales, i.e. deficiency, initiation, adversity and return which reflect the process of the hero's maturity. Especially with the symbol of water and colors, the film expresses a typical process of the hero's maturity in order to describe a deep longing for motherhood in the human's heart, to overcome it and to become independent.


In this paper, new harmonic reduction scheme by using the genetic algorithm (GA) is proposed for single phase modified Packed U-Cell (MPUC-5) five-level inverter. Packed U-Cell multilevel inverter was first introduced in 2011 and since then many switching sequences have been proposed for obtaining different levels of output voltage, with overall reduction in harmonic content from output voltage waveform. In this paper, the authors have tried to obtain the optimum switching angles to reduce the output harmonics by applying genetic algorithm. Genetic algorithm is nature inspiring optimization technique, which works on the principle of heredity, evolution and Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest. Genetic algorithm evolves iteration by iteration and gives better and better results and finally converges to optimum result as per our requirements. This concept is verified in MATLAB®/Simulink environment and is also validated experimentally using the TI-28335 DSP.


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In spite of current reports of an encouraging decline in the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), the sudden and unexplained death of an apparently healthy baby, in this and other western countries,' it is still the single most important cause of death between 1 and 12 months. Especially highlighted have been its associations with social disadvantage, poor home environment, inadequate antenatal care, smoking, low birth weight, higher winter incidence, and greater male vulnerability.2 3 An anthropological perspective suggests that we investigate the incidence of SIDS from a broader historical and geographical perspective, recognising its continuing rarity in many parts of the world and its association with western patterns of child rearing.


As the efficiency of road segmentation has a direct effect on the reliability of road following and planning -- and consequently the speed of the Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV) -- road segmentation is one of the most preliminary and important tasks for the road following and planning of ALV, and a variety of methods for color road segmentation have been proposed. This presentation proposes a new data-fusion-based color road segmentation method in which a pyramid-based data structure and the corresponding region splitting and combination techniques for the classification of sensed areas are adopted. In the segmentation process, the roads are first segmented in two 1-D color spaces, and the data fusion technique is then used to combine the two classification results, improving the accuracy of the road segmentation.


A three-dimensional (3D) computational fluid dynamic simulation of a vortex tube is carried out to examine its flow and thermal characteristics. The aim of this work is to model the performance of the vortex tube and to capture the highly swirling compressible flow behavior inside the tube for an understanding of the well known temperature separation process. Simulations were carried out using the standard k-ɛ, k-omega, RNG k-ɛ and swirl RNG k-ɛk-ɛ turbulence models. An experimental setup was built and tested to validate the simulation results. The RNG k-ɛ turbulence model yielded better agreement between the numerical predictions and experimental data. This model captured well the essential features of the flow including formation of the outer vortex and the inner reverse vortex flow. Flow and geometric parameters that affect the flow behavior and energy separation are studied numerically. Effects of the inlet pressure, with and without an insert in the tube, are examined by numerical experiments.


Computer simulation of phase de60mposition was performed for the G. P. zones of A1−Zn alloy system on the basis of the Cahn−Hilliard's non−linear di血sion equation. In the calculation, the modified regular solu− tion approximation was adopted, i.e. the composition and temperature dependences of the interaction parameterΩbetween the nearest neighbor atoms were taken into account and the mobility of the system was defined as a function of solute composition. A1−Zn alloy systems have asymmetry concerns with the solute composition on phase diagram, that is diffbrent from the alloy systems calculated in the previous papers where regular solution model and Cu−Co alloys. The phase decomposition was successfully computed for the G. P. zones of A1−Zn alloy. The calculation method is applica'ble for the aUoys, whose decomposition regions have asymmetry with solute composition. It is expected that the simulation is useful in the analysis of phase decomposition process.


Suicide is a behavior which forms from the interaction of psychological,social and neurobiological factors.In the past 20 years,increasing evidence has indicated that suicidal behavior bases strong neurobiological factors.This article analyzes and categorizes the neurobiological factors of suicide;introduces existing research on the neurobiology of suicide.


SUMMARY The absorption of folic acid in the intestine is the major factor that determines the level of folate in the bloodstream and eventually the amount of folate that is transferred into eggs. Antinutritive constituents of cereal grains, such as nonstarch polysaccharide, can potentially influence the absorption of nutrients, including folate. Two studies were designed to determine whether the types of cereals and enzyme supplementation in laying hen diets could affect folate content in chicken eggs. In the first study, 96 Bovan White hens (n = 12/diet) received a corn-, wheat-, barley-, or barley + β-glucanase-based ration, containing 0 or 4 mg/kg of diet of crystalline folic acid for 21 d. Response criteria included production parameters and egg folate measurements. In the second study, 120 Hy-Line CV20 laying hens (n = 12/diet) received a 25% rye-wheat ration containing 0, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, or 4 mg of crystalline folic acid/kg of feed with or without supplementation of a β-glucanase and xylanase enzyme cocktail (2,000 units/kg of diet) for six 7-d periods. Production parameters, including in vivo viscosity of jejunal digesta and egg folate content, were measured. In the first study, the type of cereal in the diet significantly (P 0.05) effect on egg folate content. The production performance of the laying hens in both studies was also not affected by the type of cereal and enzyme supplementation. Overall, we conclude that the type of dietary cereal may influence the deposition of folate in eggs; however, dietary supplementation of enzyme does not influence egg folate concentration.


Effects of aqueous leaf extracts of bryophyllum pinnatum (AEBP) on some neuropharmacological activities were studied in mice. The extract in dosages (50,100 and 200 mg/kg) was found to produce a profound decrease in exploratory activity in a dose-dependent manner. It also showed a marked sedative effect as evidenced by a significant reduction in gross behaviour and potentiation of pentobarbitone-induced sleeping time. It delayed onset in strychnine-and picrotoxin-induced convulsion (seizures) respectively with the protective effect being significantly higher in picrotoxin- than strychnine-induced convulsion. It also decreases the rate of picrotoxin-induced mortality in mice with LD50 of 641mg/kg. The totality of these effects showed that the extract possesses depressant action on the central nervous system Keywords: Bryophyllum pinnatum , Neuropharmacology, exploration, anticonvulsant, muscle relaxant.


PURPOSE: To reduce the shift operating force while preventing the asynchronous engagement in a synchronous clutch mechanism for transmission. CONSTITUTION: Gears 14, 16 are rotatably fitted to a shaft 12, and a hub 32 is fixed to the shaft 12. The hub 32 is slidably provided with a shift sleeve 34. When the shift sleeve 34 is moved, balk rings 40, 42 are moved, and friction surfaces 24, 26 and friction surfaces 48, 50 of the gear 14, 16 sides are engaged with each other to generate the synchronous torque. The balk rings 40, 42 are limitedly rotated by the synchronous torque, and blocker gears 44, 46 and a blocker of the sift sleeve 34 are engaged with each other to prevent the asynchronous engagement of an inside spline gear 36 with jaw gears 28, 30. Additional axial force is generated in response to the synchronous torque so as to increase the engaging force between the friction surfaces 24, 26 and 48, 50 by the engagement of tabs of the balk rings 40, 42 with an opening of the shift sleeve 34, in which the tabs are to be inserted, with the self-energize inclination, and synchronism is promoted and while the shift operating force is reduced.