We prove an explicit Carleman estimate for the semiclassical Schr\"odinger operator $P = - h^2 \partial^2_x + V(x,h)$ on $L^2(\mathbb{R})$, with $V(x,h)$ a finite signed measure, and where $h>0$ is the semiclassical parameter. The proof is a one dimensional instance of the spherical energy method, which has been used to prove similar Carleman estimates in higher dimensions and in more complicated geometries. The novelty of our result is that the potential need not be absolutely continuous with respect to Lebesgue measure. Two consequences of the Carleman estimate are the absence of positive eigenvalues for $P$, and a limiting absorption resolvent estimate with sharp $h$-dependence. The resolvent estimate implies exponential time-decay of the local energy for solutions to the corresponding wave equation with a measure potential, provided there are no negative eigenvalues and no zero resonance, and provided the initial data have compact support.


The invention discloses tubular pile cement and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the steps: (1) mixing grit, gravels, gypsum, quartz tailings and water, so as to obtain slurry A1; (2) adding cement clinker and an admixture into the slurry A1, and mixing, so as to obtain the tubular pile cement, wherein relative to 100 parts (by weight) of cement clinker, the dosage of the grit is 5-30 parts (by weight), the dosage of the gravels is 5-30 parts (by weight), the dosage of the water is 10-50 parts (by weight), the dosage of the admixture is 2-20 parts (by weight), the dosage of the gypsum is 10-25 parts (by weight), and the dosage of the quartz tailings is 5-15 parts (by weight). The invention further provides a cement tubular pile and a preparation method thereof. Through the design, the prepared cement tubular pile achieves the effects of relatively low cost and good properties.


The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for degassing the coating. In this method, coating material is fed into the vacuum vessel, means for separating the gas from the paint are provided therein. In this way, there is formed a compartment with two separate, deaeration is carried out in two different stages using a single device.


Abstract Inadequate diet quality is a cause of undernutrition among children 6–23 months of age in Bangladesh, particularly in remote and isolated areas such as Bandarban District. Feeding animal source foods can help to combat stunting and wasting problems among children, but it may not be accessible or acceptable. A barrier analysis using the Designing for Behavior Change Framework was conducted in Bandarban district with participants from 4 ethnic groups, to explore potential barriers and key motivators by examining 12 behavioural determinants of consumption of animal‐source food in complementary feeding for children 8–23 months. Data were collected from 45 mothers of children 8–23 months, who provided animal‐source foods to their children (doers), and from 45 mothers who did not (non‐doers), for a total of 90 interviews. Nine determinants were statistically significantly different between doers and non‐doers as follows: self‐efficacy, positive consequences, negative consequences, social norms, access, reminders, perceived risk, perceived severity and perceived action efficacy. Nearby access to purchase animal‐source foods, rearing poultry or livestock at home and the support of household and community members are enablers to feeding animal‐source food. In contrast, these same factors are barriers for non‐doers. The lack of money to spend on animal‐source foods is also a barrier. An integrated nutrition‐sensitive and gender‐transformative animal‐based food production, and inclusive market programme could increase access to meat and eggs at the household level, increase opportunities to earn income and support gender‐equitable household workloads and decision‐making for optimal child feeding.


The present invention relates to a control device for operating an automated machine (7). The control device (1) has a touch-sensitive screen (4) for simultaneous detection of contact positions of contacts simultaneously occurring at different locations (A1,A3,C2) of the screen (4). The device compares a geometric pattern with a stored target pattern during contact of keys (6a,6b,6c) at the screen (4), where the geometric pattern is defined by the detected contact positions (A1,A3,C2) of the key. The device allows operator control actions to be performed for operating an automation machine (7) when the device detects correlation of the geometric pattern with the target pattern. The present invention also relates to a method for detecting permission for operating an automation machine.


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Although hypotension is an almost invariable feature of Addison's disease,1 recognition of its diagnostic significance is potentially fraught with difficulty, whenever it is perceived to be solely attributable to reversible mechanical causes such as cardiac tamponade, and its relevance to an underlying cause of pericarditis such as hypoadrenalism,2 is overlooked. This was the case in two patients aged 42 and 36 years, respectively, in whom admission blood pressures (BPs) were 60/35 and 87/62 mmHg, respectively, and in whom BP improved substantially after pericardiocentesis.3 In the case of the first …


We used first-principle simulation methods to generate amorphous TiO2 (a-TiO2) models and obtained chemically-ordered amorphous networks. We analyzed the structural and the electronic properties of the resulting computationally generated structures. We propose that two peaks found in the Ti-Ti pair correlation correspond to the edge-sharing and the corner-sharing Ti-Ti pairs. Resulting coordination numbers for Ti (6) and O (3) and the corresponding angle distributions suggest that local structural features in bulk crystalline TiO2 are retained in our aTiO2 models. The electronic density of states and the inverse participation ratio reveal that highly-localized tail states at the valence band edge are due to the displacement of O atoms from the plane containing three neighboring Ti atoms; whereas, the tail states at the conduction band edge are localized on over-coordinated Ti atoms. The Γ-point electronic gap of approximately 2.0 eV is comparable to calculated results for bulk crystalline TiO2.


Two fungi growth chambers containing six growth tubes each are used in this experiment. One chamber is for the space experiment; the other is for the simultaneous ground control experiment. The hyphae of Neurospora crassa band A mutant are inoculated at one end of each tube. Both the chambers arc kept at 3 °C 5:1.5 °C to stop hyphae growth until the Spacelab is activated. After the activation, each chamber is transferred sumultaneously to the Spacelab and a phytotron in KSC and kept in continuous light at the same temperature. After about 24 hours of light exposure, each chamber is inserted into a growth chamber bag to keep it in constant darkness. The circadian rhythm of conidiation is initiated by this light to dark transition. After thc dark incubation for 5 days at room temperature, both the growth chambers are kept at 3 °C + 1.5 °C to stop growth of the hyphae. After the space shuttle lands, both conidiation patterns are compared and analyzed.


This article analyzes technical trade barriers,environment-protecting barriers,counter-dumping barriers,ecology label barriers,numeric barriers,and equipment barriers in aquatic products foreign trading.It puts forwards some corresponding strategies and suggestions.


This paper presents an in-situ calibrated model-based approach to treat natural ventilation as an integral element of the operation of the buildings' thermal systems. Specifically, the potential of statisticallybased and numeric air flow models is explored as part of a hybrid building controls scheme. Toward this end, two case studies are described. In one case, the underlying predictive model is based on the statistical treatment of data obtained from a set of insitu measurements in a typical office space. In the second case, a multi-zone air-flow model is used to predict the fresh air volume flows into the building interior. The resulting air flow models can be integrated within a model-based control approach toward the operation of the buildings' ventilation systems.


SME development as a major domestic policy objective that is consistent and reinforced within APEC would not only engender inclusive growth, but also enable SMEs to become drivers of growth for the domestic, as well as the regional economy. This paper provides some background about the setting, locally in SME development policy and regionally in APEC SME activities, and offers recommendations for APEC cooperation for mainstreaming SMEs in the regional and global market.


Strategic goals of stable development of territories of all levels at the expense of producing competitive goods and increase in export potential of regional producers, as well as the need to improve quality of life, have justified the necessity of using effective technologies for territory branding, which, in turn, requires theoretic solution of some scientific problems in terminological and instrumental areas of knowledge. Current problems of the regional branding as the branding of special areas have got less attention than national and regional branding, which has led to the lack of common concepts and continuation of terminological discussions, and also searching for universal model of the regional branding. Researches done by the specialists in this area have allowed us to know their views on the definition of the term "regional branding" in relation to the need to develop structural models of brands (different for different regions), to consider commodity brands as preferrable constituent parts of regional brands, to develop integrated model of consumer values which form preferences in selection of food products of well-known brands and brands of local producers. In the conclusion of the present work there is a list of problems to be solved in future studies through interdisciplinary approaches.


Given the increasing volume of audiovisual content being produced, combined with the growing demand for granularity in image searches, it is becoming increasingly impractical for television archives to catalogue their collections without automatic processing and artificial intelligence technologies. This paper describes a pioneering project to implement such technologies


A framework for parallel visualization at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is being developed that utilizes the IBM Scaleable Graphics Engine (SGE) and IBM SP parallel computers. Parallel visualization resources are discussed, including display technologies, data handling, rendering, and interactivity. Several of these resources have been developed, while others are under development. These framework resources will be utilized by programmers in custom parallel visualization applications.


The differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) was used to discriminate among 25 commercial high density polyethylenes (HDPE) on the basis of their degree of crystallinity and melting temperature. The area under the melting endotherm correlated directly and inversely with creep and thermal expansion measurements. Since high crystallinity was related to the design required properties of density, creep, and thermal expansion, DSC studies readily identified eight of the more promising polymers from the group of 25. The overall crystallization kinetics of polyethylenes with 75% crystallinity were analyzed by the Avrami and Fischer-Turnbull equations. Results indicate small disk-like spherulites (Avrami n = 2) following nucleation-controlled growth kinetics. These conclusions are in reasonable agreement with polarizing microscope observations. An equilibrium melting temperature between 141 and 142/sup 0/C was estimated from Hoffman-Weeks plots. Processing thick parts from highly crystalline polyethylene is difficult because of the 14% volume change on crystallization. Higher degrees of crystallinity are associated with moderate molecular weight, so the viscosity range of these polyethylenes is not especially suited for processing by extrusion. These caveates necessitate tradeoffs between optimal design properties and processing requirements for HDPE parts. 26 references, 11 figures, 2 tables.


Pupal age is critical when sterilizing pupae of a different strain of Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), for a sterile insect technique (SIT) program. Pupal age is usually determined using pupal eye color, which is optimally dark brown for C. capitata prior to sterilizization. This color is achieved at 9 days of pupal age, 2 days before adult emergence, and upon maturity at 25 oC. However, it is often necessary to use different pupal holding temperatures in order to manipulate pupal development, especially when unforeseen problems occur during the C. capitata rearing procedure. Holding pupae at lower temperatures delays pupal development and slows down the progression of eye color changes; at higher temperatures, the opposite occurs. The pupal eye color of C. capitata was documented at different ages at different holding temperatures. When maturing pupae at 17, 20, 25 (standard holding temperature), and 28 oC, the developmental duration of pupae was 28, 17, 11, and 9 days, respectively. Using this eye color as the reference guide for timing the irradiation of pupae, the optimum pupal age for irradiation when held at 17, 19, and 28 oC was 23–26, 14–15, and 8 days old, respectively. Documented and close-up photographs of pupal eye color for different pupal holding temperatures are presented here can be used as a reference guide to determine the best time for the irradiation of pupae in an SIT program. Philippine Journal of Science 148 (1): 87-93, March 2019 ISSN 0031 7683 Date Received: 07 Aug 2018


Highly refractive and transparent polyimides (PIs) based on 2,5-bis(4-aminophenylsulfanyl)-1,4-dithiane (BASDT) have been developed. BASDT was polymerized with two dianhhydrides such as 1,2,3,4-cyclobutanetetracarboxylic dianhydride (CBDA) and 4,4'-[p-thiobis(phenylenesulfanyl)]diphthalic anhydride (3SDEA) to afford two PIs. The PI of 3SDEA/BASDT exhibited the glass transition temperature at 156 °C and the 5% weight loss temperatures (T5%) at 310 °C. The 1,4-dithiane moiety endowed the PI films with good optical transparency with high refractive indices. The optical transmittance of the PI film from CBDA and BASDT at 400 nm was higher than 90% for the thickness of 1.0 μm. Furthermore, the 1,4-dithiane moiety and flexible thioether linkages in the molecular chains of the PIs provided them with high refractive indices of 1.6929?1.7455 and small birefringence of 0.0056-0.0299.


Critical limits of potassium in Belar (fine, mixed, hyperthermic Vertic Haplaquept) and Bankati (fine, mixed, hyperthermic Aeric Ochraqualf) series were studied in a pot experiment using rice as a test crop for the critical limit of K in soils and concentration of K in rice plant. Bray's per cent yield, per cent K content and K uptake by rice plant were significantly correlated with water soluble, available, reserve, non-exchangeable and total K. The data confirmed that the existing critical level of 113 kg ha−1 is applicable to the soils of Belar and Bankati series.


Polymer composites provide the opportunity to design the material as well as the part. The domain for composites design can be viewed along three dimensions, namely material design, part design, and process design. These dimensions are not independent, and their interactions create important bottlenecks in manufacturing. Integrating these material/part/process issues becomes increasingly important as composite materials penetrate the durable goods markets and as high-performance markets become more and more cost conscious. Often these bottlenecks are caused by lack of strategic knowledge or the application of knowledge in the wrong context. To address these challenges and facilitate the use of polymer composites, a problem-solving architecture for integrated material/part/process design is being developed that makes use of knowledge-based systems (KBS) technology. The goal is to bring to bear the necessary decision-making knowledge at important junctions in the design procedure. Our current implementations include a system for material design and a system for elementary process design in the form of process technology selection. These systems and the problem-solving architecture are founded on a particular approach to KBS known as Generic Task Theory. These software systems are described in terms of their behavior, the underlying domain assumptions, and the knowledge representation constructs and inferences used in design problem solving.


Two prenatally detected cases of 45,XY,-14/46,XY,r(14) are described. The breakpoints of the ring chromosome 14 at bands p11.2q32 were confirmed using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). These cases are added to a growing number of cases of ring chromosome 14 syndrome reported since 1971. The r(14) syndrome is reviewed with emphasis on the clinical features that set it apart from "general ring syndrome". Although individual cases show a variety of manifestations, the major clinical features include growth retardation, mental retardation, seizures, microcephaly and distinct dysmorphic facial features.


Epoxy resins were modified by some thermosetting materials using unsaturated polyesters which were cured with styrene , MMA ,and MA . When unsaturated Polyester ( as thermosetting material ) was used , and cured with styrene showed better results than acrylic monomers . Thermal stability rised on modification of epoxy resins with unsaturated polyester . The new formulation had converted the epoxy resin from hard brittle material to hard and tough material .
Thermal analysis were studied using ( DSC ) and physicomechanical characteristics were measured .


Sukoharjo District has been an endemic area of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) subtype A(H5N1). We conducted a serology investigation to determine the level of human exposure to HPAI A(H5N1) and describe trading practices of poultry in eight live bird markets in Sukoharjo. A cross-sectional study was conducted in traditional markets. Total 75 traders were selected using simple random sampling proportionally from 221 traders in all eight markets. Serum samples were tested for H5N1 antibody titer by hemagglutination inhibition test. There was no trader with positive H5N1 antibody. Majority of the traders washed carcasses (84.0%), used containers to carry poultry and carcasses (94.7%), and cleaned places of trading (94.7%). Poultry traders had not been infected by HPAI A(H5N1).


Background: Obesity is on the rise among Indian women; increasing from 12.6% (NFHS-3) to 20.7% (NFHS-4). This leads to dysregulation of several groups of hormones and has deleterious effect on the reproductive system. Extra adipocytes are sources of extra estrogen that can cause menstrual disorders such as oligomenorrhoea, polymenorrhoea, menorrhagia and metrorrhagia. Counselling women about weight reduction will help in improving their reproductive health and quality of life. Thus, the present study was done to assess obesity among women and to describe the menstrual abnormalities among them; simultaneously, the perception of obesity among these women was also assessed.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted by doing house to house survey among 250 women of reproductive age residing in the urban field practice area of KIMS, Bangalore for a period of 3 months from June to August 2018. Details about socio-demographic factors, presence of any menstrual abnormalities and perception of obesity were collected using questionnaire by house to house survey. Anthropometric measurements were done and BMI was calculated. Data was entered in MS excel and analysed using appropriate statistical tests.Results: The study included 250 subjects; among whom 59.2% were obese. The common menstrual problems reported were dysmenorrhea (52.8%), oligomenorrhea (20.4%), hypomenorrhea (14.1%), menorrhagia (13.6%) and polymenorrhea (1.6%). Menstrual problems affected daily activities in 50.7% subjects. The difference between perception of their body image and their actual weight was found to be statistically significant.Conclusions: Obesity is an important health issue among women and most of them had menstrual abnormalities.


MRI in modern medical science is a technique of imaging by generating a magnetic field to measure and image variation in signals from each tissue and has recently been applied frequently both because of its accuracy and because it does no harm to the human body without radiation exposure. However, MRI causes serious noises while coils move to generate a strong magnetic field and the noises are giving serious physical and psychological distress to the patients. For this reason, various studies are needed to reduce the noises generated from MRI operation; however, South Korea has had very few relevant studies or data. From this perspective, this study analyzed the effectiveness of the methods of increasing the absorption elements within MRI rooms and wearing hearing protection device in reducing noises generated from MRI operation. As a result of the study, the magnetic field strength of 0.3T was lowered to ≤60dB(A) only by increasing absorbing power within MRI rooms or wearing hearing protection device. However, good measures should be taken for 1-3T of a magnetic field ≥60dB(A), which can significantly affect patients. Applying both methods lowered the noise level so that it had no effect on patients with 38.4-58.4dB(A), with the exception of D Source with 3T for intensity of a magnetic field. Moreover, D Source with 64.1-67.1dB(A) for 3T is expected to have no significant effect on patients if exposure time is not long. It is expected, therefore, that the efforts to increase absorbing power within MRI rooms and wear hearing protection device will provide a stable examination environment to patients getting an MRI scan. This plan for reducing noises is expected to be useful in developing a measure against noises generated from MRI operation.


In recent years, China's catering industry competition fierce increasingly, which dramatically accelerated the rapid evolution of the industry ecosystem and business development model. Reality, catering industry supply chain management services are moving towards specialization and diversification. However, there still confront many problems in the corporate positioning, selection of the operating and external business. First, starting from the definition of the catering industry supply chain ecosystem, this paper analyzes the different actors in the supply chain ecosystem. We discussed the process and characteristics of the supply chain in catering industry supply chain secondly. Then, the related evaluation model which impress on mathematical model is established between the catering industry supply chain service providers and customers.


If one is to inherit a theatrical text to let it survive throughout time, there is a twofold task to be committed: in Roland Barthes's terms, preserving its studium and at the same time devising its new punctum; in other words, maintaining consistency of the work without seriously ravaging it on one hand, and on the other, ingeniously appreciating the work to save it from repeated reception without any peculiar variation. In the case of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the prince Hamlet as a character with inward personality has been a punctum since the seventeenth century. However, now that such concepts as the unconscious or psychology have become so familiar a concept to the contemporary, Hamlet's personality is hardly effective as a punctum. Alternately, the concept of impersonality in Hamlet is now new to us, hence a new punctum of the play. In this perspective, the foundational story of Hamlet is not the tragic drama itself, but rather the positionality of the prince Hamlet in Elsinore, that is, personality versus impersonality. Gregory Doran's Hamlet (2009), produced by BBC in collaboration with Royal Shakespeare Company, provides an example of alternate reading of Hamlet by suggesting surveillance technology as the embodiment of impersonality in the play.


The Mattapan Volcanic Complex is dated as late Mississippian, and younger sediments as no younger than earliest Pennsylvanian. Analogy is suggested to the volcanic sequence and structure of the Horton and Windsor formations in Nova Scotia. This age is believed inconsistent with a glacial origin for the Squantum "tillite." The structure is interpreted as fault block, complicated by later Appalachian orogeny.


With the even stricter standards of NOx emission,the current process depending only on combustion process control,can't meet the demand.Coal-fired power plants in China are also to be equipped with flue gas De-NOx systems in the near future.The mainstream technology,selective catalytic reduction(SCR) flue gas denitrification,was introduced,including its technical principle and process system design.


Several studies made by others1have stated the conclusion that maternal factors were not important in relation to the neonatal survival of the premature infant. The usual contention is that the birth weight of the premature infant largely determines its ability to initiate a satisfactory extrauterine existence. Obviously, birth weight as an evidence of maturity has a great deal to do with fetal survival. However, it is not the only controlling element in a satisfactory fetal prognosis. We have found the good health of the mother and the absence of serious obstetric complications to be of extreme importance. Only one other study, that of Diddle and Plass,2has indicated that factors other than birth weight influence fetal prognosis. This paper is a review of our experience with premature infants born on our obstetric services from July 1, 1946 to Feb. 1, 1949. Among 477 premature births, in which


Dendritic cells(DC) are bone marrow-derived professional antigen-presenting cells.DCs have ability to prime or tolerize T lymphocytes,thereby initiating or inhibiting immune responses.They reside in all tissues and organs,migrate to peripheral lymphoid organs to present antigen to T lymphocytes in T cell zones upon appropriate activation.Because of this central role in T cell activation,there is a great deal of interest in using DCs therapeutically to diliver positive or negative signals to immune system.DCs at different stages of maturation interact with chemokines.This review will describe the interactions between DCs and the chemokine system.


This paper describes the transformation of copper smelting at home and abroad situation,From both the fire and wet copper smelting outlined the development of copper smelting technical progress.Summarized the development of copper smelting technology directions and trends,Brief description of the advantages and disadvantages of various technology and application.


Recently the innovative gear Ring seine
(Ring vala) is introduced in Kakinada for
pelagic fishing. It is made of silk yarn
having a total length of about 315-350 m
and breadth of about 34-40 m.This Gear started operation from this year along the coast of Pampodipeta, Kothapeta,
Yelliahpeta, Dhaniahpeta, Narsipeta,Perumallapuram, Konapapapeta and Uppada.


Viable spawns have been obtained in the laboratory from untreated prawn Penaeus indicus and from others which had one eyestalk ablated. Fecundity was shown to be dependent on spawning technique, female size and whether the spawner was wild or domestic. Using low aeration during spawning, domestic unablated female fecundity was significantly lower than it was for wild females, due to a concomitantly smaller ovary volume. During late premoult, mature ovaries are resorbed to ovarian Stage 1-2 and after ecdysis they redevelop. 52.1 O/O of spawnings occurred during early premoult, 44.4 O/o during intermoult, 3.5 O/O at premoult, while no spawns occurred during late premoult or early postmoult. Average egg numbers and hatch successes were higher for unablated females when compared with ablated females. Average spawns per moult cycle were 1.98 and 2.24, respectively. It was conservatively estimated that wild females spawn at least 7-9 times in a lifetime. There were twice the number of spawns with a black tank background as there were with a white one and the former yielded higher average egg numbers and hatch successes. General pigmentation, ovary, egg and nauplius colour was dependent on background colour. Moult-cycle duration was temperature dependent but generally shorter for ablated females. As female condition decreased, moult-cycle duration decreased accordingly for any given temperature. Spawning activity declined when the condition factor was less than 0.8. Both ablated and unablated spawning females > 39 g tended to decrease in mass and condition while females < 39 g continued to grow. Nutrition is probably the main contributory factor to this anomalous growth. Large females possibly have nutritional requirements different from females of less than 39 g. A viable F, generation of P. indicus has been reared.


Objective To understand the psychology of nursing undergraduate students before clinical practice, and to provide a basis for instruction nursing students before clinical practice.and at its early stage.Methods A total of 60 nursing undergraduate students in fenyang college of shanxi medical university were investigated via filling out questionnaire.Results Before clinical practice, nursing students were worried about the clinical application of the nursing operation,nursing professional knowledge and communication on sick children,lying-in women and critically ill patients.Conclusion We should actively take messures to foster good psychology state,and improve ability of application.


Many changes have occurred in the context of marketing education during the past decade, including the increased use of new technology-based and experiential pedagogies. To update the understanding of how students in advanced marketing courses perceive marketing pedagogies in this new context, a replication and extension of Karns's study of student perceptions of learning activities was performed with survey responses from 227 students at eight universities. Multidimensional scaling analysis suggests that the underlying structure of these perceptions can be described by the labels: enjoyable, challenging, and real world. Internships, class discussion, and case analyses were seen by students as the learning activities that most contribute to their learning. Course Web sites and online discussion were seen as relatively less effective in contributing to student learning. Overall, it appears that marketing educators should continue efforts to imbue all learning activities with an applied, real-world orientation.


In this work, electrocatalytic hydrogenation (ECH) of phenol to cyclohexane and cyclohexanol was studied. Experiments were run in a H-type cell with a Pt sheet as anode. The cathode material and structure were found to have a large effect on the ECH of phenol. Among the cathodes studied, the 1.5% Pt supported on graphite gave the highest product yield and current ef fi ciency. Temperature was another important variable, the yield of cyclohexane increased from 44.1% at 20°C to 63.7% at 60°C, but then dropped back to 50.3% at 80°C. Effects of electrolyte composition on ECH of phenol were also investigated. The yield of cyclohexane was highest when 0.2mol/L HClO 4 as electrolyte. Variable current studies in the range of 10 – 90mA showed an increase in product yields with increasing current from 10 – 30mA, but yields decreased when current above 70mA. The suitable starting concentration of phenol was 50mmol/L.


Sliding friction and wear experiments, electron microscopy, and diffraction studies were conducted with an Fe67Co18B14Si1 ferrous-base metallic glass in sliding contact with aluminum oxide at room temperature in air. The results indicate that the amorphous alloy can be crystallized during the sliding process. Crystallization of the wear surface causes high friction. Plastic flow occurred on the amorphous alloy with sliding, and the flow film of the alloy transferred to the aluminum oxide surface. Two distinct types of wear debris were observed as a result of sliding: an alloy wear debris, and powdery and whiskery oxide debris. Generation of oxide wear debris particles on an alloy can cause transitions in friction behavior.


For pedagogical purposes, numerical integration methods are applied to a simple eigenvalue problem in quantum mechanics. Computer programming of the problem is discussed, the effect of different choices of initial conditions is mentioned, and the sensitivity of the method, to the difference interval width is discussed. Schroedinger's time independent equation in one dimension is d 2'1'/dx2 + 2m[E V(x)] /h bar squared= 0. For the square potential V(x) = V0 x~ a/2, x;? a/2 = 0 -a/2 < x < a/2 The discrete eigenfunctions are I. 'I'n(x) = [B cos (K1a/2)eK,a/2] = [B] cos (K1x) eK2x x ~ -a/2 -a/2 < x < a/2 = [B cos (K1a/2)eK,a/2] e -K2x x ;? a/2 '.or n = 1, 3, 5, ... odd natural numbers, and IL '1'11 (x) [-A sin (K1a/2) e Kza/2] e K2x x ~ -a/2 = [A] sin (K1x) -a/2 < x < a/2 = [A sin (K1a/2) e K2a/2] e -K2x x;? a/2 For n 2, 4, 6, ... even natural numbers, where Ki = y2mEu)/h bar squared and K2 = y2m ( V 0 En) /h bar squared. The determination of the eigenvalues, E 11 , involves solving the transcendental equations g tan g = yZ2 e for n odd, and g cot g = yZ2 e for n even, where g = y2mE11a2 /2h bar squared and Z = y2mV0 a2/2h bar squared This solution may be found by simple graphical or numerical 1Thc authors wish to express their gratitude to lVIr. George Strawn of IBM for programming and operating the cmnputer and to the IB:M Company for their generous contribution of cmnputer time. 2 Assistant Professor of Physics, Upper Iowa University. :1Jnnior, Physics Department, Upper Iowa University. 4Instructor of Mathematics_ Upper Iowa University.


Abstract : This report presents the derivation of new equations for determining the changes in the direction of a ray of light as it passes through the atmosphere from an object to the observer. The equations are applicable to objects inside or outside the atmosphere. Equations are also de rived for obtaining the topocentric distance of the object as a function of the object's height and the observed zenith distance.


This work deals with cracks identification from over-determined boundary data. The consideration physical phenomena corresponds to the transient heat equation. we give a theoretical result of identifiability for the inverse problem under consideration. Then, we consider a recovering process based on coupling domain decomposition method and minimizing an energy-type error functional. The efficiency of the proposed approach is illustrated by several numerical results.


Gold nanoparticles of two different sizes stabilized by a 15-mer peptide ligand specifically designed for this purpose have been prepared in aqueous solution and characterized by UV-vis spectroscopy and TEM. The presence of the ligand and its binding mode to the particles via its four cystein thiols is evidenced by FTIR and NMR spectroscopy. Biotinylation of the particles via binding to a freely accessible lysine residue is demonstrated.


A programme designed with VB aiming at the historical database section of an industrial realtime information system in some petrochemical plants,which realizes the historical data storage from PHD real time database to Oracle relational database is introduced.


Household water conservation is very important to the relief of water shortage in China's inland river valleys.Individuals may use water frugally for egoistic value orientation,socio-altruistic value orientation or biospheric value orientation.This research aims to find out which value orientations influence water conservation of urban residents in inland river valleys.Based on questionnaire survey of urban residents in Zhangye City and by using structural equation model analysis,it was found that water conservation of the respondents was mainly influenced by egoistic value orientations measured by awareness of consequence to self,and the respondents used water frugally mainly because of individual interests.To a great degree,the respondents did not care about water shortage of residents in lower reaches and future generations as well as ecological problems related to water shortage.Policy implications and suggestions on water conservation were put forward finally.


The development of physiological reactions of the dermal melanophores has been studied in Rana temporaria, R. ridibunda and Xenopus laevis. In these species, the background (secondary) reactions of melanophores appeared at different stages of larval development but their appearance was always timed with the eye slit closure.


An adaptive parametric firefly algorithm is proposed for the premature convergence of the firefly algorithm itself and the late oscillation of the algorithm iteration. In the image threshold segmentation test experiment, the algorithm is used to optimize the maximum entropy image segmentation, and the maximum entropy and the basic firefly improved maximum entropy algorithm are compared. At the same time, two important indicators of image segmentation evaluation index regional consistency are used to evaluate the results. It shows that the experimental results of the algorithm have better intra-regional consistency and noise immunity.


The results of a national survey of wintering Skylarks Alauda arvensis undertaken by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) between November 1997 and February 1998 are reported here. Over three visits, volunteers counted Skylarks and mapped habitats in 541 1-km squares selected from the Skylark's winter range based on BTO Winter Atlas data and a stratified random sampling approach. Four landscape strata were defined from the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology landscape classification: arable, pastoral, marginal upland and saltmarsh. The survey counts underestimated Skylark abundance, but were good measures of relative abundance across habitat types. The two best predictors of Skylark presence–absence at the landscape scale were the availability of coastal and farmland habitats. Squares with saltmarsh had the highest densities and occupancy (80% of squares). At the patch scale crop stubbles, especially weedy cereal stubbles, were used significantly more than expected by chance. Oilseed rape was positively selected whereas cereal crops were used in proportion to availability and grazed grass was avoided. Skylarks avoided fields smaller than 2.5 ha and selected fields larger than 7.5 ha. We estimate that in midwinter there may be less than 1–2 ha of weedy cereal stubble per 1-km square. We recommend the retention of over-winter stubbles for the conservation of Skylarks and other farmland birds, and research on stubble management and effects on grain availability and arable weed regeneration on Skylark use.


Cycloadditions of 6H-1,3,4-Oxadiazin-6-ones (4,5-Diaza-α-pyrones), 11. – δ-Chloro δ-Lactones from γ-Oxo Ketenes

Prepared from 1,3,4-oxadiazinone 1 with norbornene, cyclopentene, cyclopentadiene, and indene, the γ-oxo ketenes 2, 5, 6, and 7 have been converted into the δ-chloro δ-lactones 3, 8, 9, and 10, respectively, by treatment with hydrogen chloride. The configuration of 10 has been determined by an X-ray structural analysis. These pseudo chlorides prove to be stable against methanol. Only in the presence of sulfuric acid as catalyst 3 suffers methanolysis to yield diester 4. On thermolysis, the γ-oxo ketenes are transformed into β-lactones. In particular, 6 and 7 gave 13 and 12, respectively. Formed also on photolysis of 6, β-lactone 13 partly isomerized to β-lactone 14 on prolonged heating.


LONG AGO Hermann Haeberlin wrote, in referring to the conceptual aspects of the Pueblo kachina cult, "From the ideas we find associated with this worship today, we cannot, of course, draw any inferences whatsoever as to its probable origin or its historical development." The investigation of these problems, therefore, and of the "phenomena of assimilation a d reinterpretation which have doubtlessly taken place, as well as the discrimination of primary and secondary elements necessarily fall outside of the scope of our considerations."2 If we were to accept this position as applying to all aspects of the kachina cult, which would imply that historical reconstruction from modem data is impossible or invalid, the only sources of historical information would then be archaeological remains and documentary materials. For the kachina cult these sources are very poor. Archaeology does not even provide us with absolutely certain evidence of the existence of a pre-Conquest kachina cult, and the documentary material gives us essentially only a static description of parts of it at one point in time, the mid-seventeenth century. Fortunately, however, it is not necessary to take the extreme position, which indeed Haeberlin himself did not occupy. Distributional d ta are available, and many clues to history may be found therein. Their implications, moreover, may be checked by other tools of the "inferential method," such as the associations of cultural traits and complexes, and linguistic data. By these means something of the history of the kachina cult may be inferred, at least in its broad outlines. This is all that will be attempted, and even the inferences here drawn are not advanced with any claim to certainty. I believe, however, that they follow from the facts as they are known today. There is much variability in the kachina cult from town to town, but its under-


In this paper, we present a component-based development project dedicated to real-time embedded harvesting systems. Energy harvesting consists in converting the ambient energy into electricity to power electronic devices, making them self-sufficient. Instead of minimizing its energy consumption, such a system must operate in a so-called energy neutral mode by consuming only as much energy as harvested in the environment. Consequently, our objective is to develop and integrate power management and scheduling facilities specifically adapted to energy harvesting embedded systems with real-time constraints. For example, these system level facilities have to make on-line decisions such as : when should the system use energy (i.e. active state) and when should it recharge the energy storage (i.e. idle state) ? We are providing these facilities as open-source software components. Adding them to the existing open-source CLEOPATRE library based on Linux/RTAI will participate to the evolution of the open-source real-time technology.


Belonging to the jewelry field, the invention provides a kaleidoscopic style diamond (twelve-encircling-one), which is formed by the following 8 steps of: Quinto mold pouring, finishing, polishing, diamond inlaying, leveling, buffing, electroplating, and quality inspection. The Quinto is molded into a small truncated cone, the upper and lower layers both have inward tilt angles, and the angle design is consistent with a diamond cutting surface angle. A three-layer round diamond stacking inlaying technology is employed to inlay small diamonds and fill all gold positions at the Quinto bottom. And a small round diamond is inlaid on each triangular golden claw surface of the truncated cone top. Refrangibility is increased by reducing light gold. And a large diamond effect is created by overall refraction of the truncated cone top. According to the invention, small diamonds are stacked to achieve the effect of a whole large diamond, and the cost is reduced.


Gustatory cortex (GC) responds to tastes on the tongue with dynamic ensemble activity that represents first the presence, then the identity, and finally the hedonic value (palatability) of tastes. This final state of the taste response is uniquely altered by conditioned taste aversion (CTA) – a powerful one-trial learning paradigm in which a taste becomes aversive after association with gastric malaise – a process requiring coordination between GC and basolateral amygdala (BLA). Previously, we found that one key requirement for learning in this circuit is expression of the serine/threonine kinase 11 (Stk11) gene (a tumor suppression gene which has only recently been associated with learning; Levitan et al., 2020). When Stk11 is knocked out in BLA projection neurons (BLApn), CTA learning fails to occur. Here we have examined how learning-related response plasticity in GC taste responses is impacted by the knockout of Stk11 in BLApn. Contrary to the commonly held assumption that a lack of learning means a lack of such plasticity, but consistent with the fact that Stk11KO has been shown to increase the excitability of BLApn, our data reveal that the knockout of Stk11 in BLApn does not eliminate plasticity; rather, it shifts the impact of CTA training on GC taste responses to an earlier, learning-inappropriate epoch. Even naïve taste representations are altered—specifically, the pattern of similarities and differences among the different taste responses are rendered abnormal by Stk11 KO, and these relationships fail to change with training. Finally, the latency of behavior-related dynamic ensemble features of the GC taste response, which is also abnormal in naïve KO mice, is rendered disorganized by CTA. Together, these results suggest that Stk11 plays a role in governing the coordination of GC activity by BLA, and demonstrate that alterations in the function of BLApn caused by Stk11KO inhibit learning not by inhibiting plasticity but by changing its temporal properties.


A sequential auxiliary particle filtering(SAPF) method is proposed to identify a non-stationary dynamic system with abrupt changes of system parameters.In the APF,the sampling importance density is proposed as a mixture density that depends upon the past state and the most recent observations,and hence the method has a good time tracking ability.The APF,therefore is more suitable for tracking the non-stationary system than the conventional particle filtering.The numerical simulations confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method for the online structural damage identification.


In this paper, a decoding method incorporatingword-level con(cid:12)dence measures for improved speech recognition is presented. At (cid:12)rst, we focus on the estimation of con(cid:12)dence measures from the word graph and evaluate them in word graph rescoring (2nd-pass in 2-pass search system). Next, we propose the lexical tree search (1st-pass in 2-pass search system) incorporating the word-level con(cid:12)dence measures and an iterative decoding based on the con(cid:12)dence measures, resulting in the re-construction of the word graph. The experimental results showed that this method achieved a slight improvement at word accuracy.


The influence of emotions is very significant in PSIT, since these professionals usually find themselves interpreting in communicative situations in which the people that they provide a service to suffer some kind of emotional distress. This can be particularly challenging for interpreters, since many codes of conduct on the ethics of the profession highlight neutrality as one of the main features that they must respect. In the case of empathy, a value expected to be offered by public workers, many studies have highlighted the importance it has to improve interactions. However, this topic has not been developed in depth in many research studies up to date. Therefore, the aim of this article is to conduct a systematic review of the studies published in the field of PSIT with relation to empathy and how it affects the profession. We will limit the review to studies published from 2000 to 2020. In the conclusions we will reflect on the importance of conducting this kind of studies to review current research needs and establish future directions.


Double and multiple craters (clusters and linear chains) occur on the icy satellites of Saturn. Similarities in morphology, degradational state or size of craters within a group of craters indicate that they were formed at the same time by the impact of a broken-up projectile.


This study aims to determine the effect of the Two Stay Two Stray type of cooperative learning model on students' mathematics learning outcomes. The research was carried out at MTs PAB 1 Helvetia with 32 students in class VIII-B as the experimental class. This research is a quantitative research with experimental method using one group pretest posttest design. Students are given a test to measure learning outcomes and an observation sheet to measure student activity. From the results of the study, the average pretest value was 49.6875 and the posttest average value was 8.0938. The results of the hypothesis test carried out show that the value of t_count is , with the value of t_table at a significant level of 0.05, which is 1.694, then t_count ( ) > t_table (1.694). The gain index value of 0.71678 is interpreted into the criteria for the value of g>0.7, the results indicate that the gain index is in the high category. The conclusion of this study explains that there is an effect of the Two Stay Two Stray type of cooperative learning model on students' mathematics learning outcomes where there is an increase in the average value of learning outcomes after being taught using the Two Stay Two Stray type of cooperative learning model, and student activities are quite active during the process. learning using the type of cooperative learning model Two Stay Two Stray


A rotary table is a positioning device used in metalworking for the multiple axes of machine tools, and the utilization trend is increasing with machining efficiency. In the construction of a rotary table, the core technology is a power transfer unit that drives the table, typically a gear type and a roller gear cam type. As the rollers installed on the turret column have rolling movement on the contact surface of the roller gear cam, the roller gear cam type has the advantage of low wear, high load, and fast driving. Therefore, it is currently being replaced by a roller gear cam type. In this study, we researched a 5-axis machining method for the roller gear cam on a rotary table and a new method of applying double roller gear cam curve to reduce the noise and shock between the roller and the cam surface. We implemented the 5-axis machining process in this study using software to generate NC-code and machined the roller gear cams using a Mazak Integrex-200IV. We found that the roller gear cam and turret were able to identify mutual touch status and the noise from the operation of the roller gear cam was substantially reduced.


Objective: To provide a study update in preparation for study close out and dissemination of results. Background: The NINDS funded STEADY-PD III trial is a 36 month, Phase 3, parallel group, placebo-controlled study evaluating the efficacy of isradipine 10 mg daily as a disease-modifying agent in early PD. The study is being conducted at 54 Parkinson Study Group sites in US and Canada. Enrollment of 336 participants was 6-months ahead of schedule and participant retention has been excellent. Design/Methods The first study participant enrolled in November 2014 and the last participant is anticipated to complete the study in November 2018. The primary outcome is the change in the Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) Part I-III score as measured in the ON state at month 36, in the active arm compared to placebo. Secondary outcome measures include: 1) Time to initiation and utilization of dopaminergic therapy; 2) Time to onset of motor complications; 3) Change in non-motor disability and a spectrum of other PD motor and non-motor outcome measures. Results: As of October 13, 2017 of the 336 total participants enrolled, 327 are active in the study; (98% retention) and 315 are on study drug. There have been 9 premature withdrawals and 48 serious adverse events, 3 possibly related to study drug, 2 deaths ( unrelated). 278 (83%) participants started PD symptomatic therapy. Conclusions: STEADY-PD III is fully enrolled and maintains high retention despite 3-year duration of intervention. Final study results are expected winter 2019. This study represents a unique opportunity to evaluate the potential impact of a novel therapy to slow progression of PD disability and provide clinically meaningful benefits. Study Supported by:NINDS U01NS080818 and U01NS080840 Disclosure: Dr. Simuni has received personal compensation for consulting, serving on a scientific advisory board, speaking, or other activities with Acadia Abbvie Anavex Allergan Avid Civitas Accorda GE Medical Eli Lilly Cynapsus Ibsen IMPAX Merz Inc National Parkinson Foundation Navidea Sanofi Pfizer Sunovion TEVA UCB Pharma Voyager US World Meds. Dr. Simuni has received research support from Civitas, Acorda, Biogen, Roche Neuroderm. Dr. Holloway has nothing to disclose. Dr. Oakes has nothing to disclose. Dr. Biglan has received personal compensation for consulting, serving on a scientific advisory board, speaking, or other activities with Eli Lilly, Company. Dr. Lungu has nothing to disclose.


A method of making an electret article, which method comprises: (a) providing a polymeric article to be loaded; and (b) contacting the polymer loaded with an aqueous liquid having a pH and conductivity of the article follows: (i) if the article has a zeta potential of -7.5 mV or less, then the liquid contact has a pH greater than 7 and a conductivity of about 5-9000 microSiemens per centimeter; and (ii) if the article has a zeta potential of -7.5 greater mV, then the liquid contact has a pH of 7 or less and a conductivity of about 5-5500 microSiemens per centimeter; and (c) drying the article.


HISTORY OF MANUFACTURING SCHEDULING Why Schedule? Traditional Scheduling Methods Current and Future Scheduling Advances The Selection of a Scheduling Methodology SCHEDULING METHODS Finite Capacity Scheduling What the Future Holds Finite Capacity Scheduling Implementation MANAGEMENT STYLES The Role of Management The Measurement of Performance FCS Success Appendix References Index.


The vascular system is inefficiently repaired after spinal cord injury (SCI) in mammals, resulting in secondary tissue damage and immune deregulation that contribute to the limited functional recovery. Unlike mammals, zebrafish can repair the spinal cord (SC) and restore motility, but the vascular response to injury has not been investigated. Here, we describe the zebrafish SC blood vasculature, starting in development with the initial vessel ingression in a body size-dependent manner, the acquisition of perivascular support and the establishment of ventral to dorsal blood circulation. The vascular organization grows in complexity and displays multiple barrier specializations in adulthood. After injury, vessels rapidly regrow into the lesion, preceding the glial bridge and axons. Vascular repair involves an early burst of angiogenesis that creates dysmorphic and leaky vessels. Dysfunctional vessels are later removed, as pericytes are recruited and the blood–SC barrier is re-established. This study demonstrates that zebrafish can successfully re-vascularize the spinal tissue, reinforcing the value of this organism as a regenerative model for SCI.


Pedestrian safety remains a crucial issue, considering that pedestrian fatalities are increasing faster than motorist fatalities. In 2016, pedestrian fatalities reached nearly 6000 in the United States, which is the highest annual record of pedestrian traffic fatalities in more than two decades. In Louisiana, pedestrian fatalities reached 110 in 2015, nearly 15% of total traffic fatalities. In the same year, the pedestrian fatality rate per 100, 000 populations in Louisiana reached a higher level (2.18) than the national average (1.67). While pedestrian crashes most frequently occur in urban areas, the fatal pedestrian crash rate is 1.5 in urban areas and 3.8 in rural areas, and the rural population is only 26.8%. To reduce pedestrian crashes, this paper presents an analysis of Louisiana pedestrian crashes (2006-2015) and investigates the pedestrian safety problem. In addition, the statistical relationship between pedestrian injury severity and contributing factors, including demographics, pedestrian behavior, and the built environment for urban and rural areas, is established using multinomial logit models. Fatal and severe crashes are strongly related to the alcohol or drug use and elderly age of pedestrians, regardless of their urban or rural locations. However, the pedestrian crashes in urban and rural areas have different characteristics. Variables such as pedestrian crossing/entering road away from intersections, walking in the roadway, dark-unlighted conditions, and speed limits greater than 60 mph are significant only in rural areas but not in urban areas. The findings of this study demonstrate some unique characteristics of Louisiana pedestrian crashes, which can help select the targeted countermeasures.


The strength of interactions between plants for pollination depends on the abundance of plants and pollinators in the community. The abundance of pollinators may influence plant associations and densities at which individual fitness is maximized. Reduced pollinator visitation may therefore affect the way plant species interact for pollination. We experimentally reduced pollinator visitation to six pollinator-dependent species (three from an alpine and three from a lowland community in Norway) to study how interactions for pollination were modified by reduced pollinator availability. We related flower visitation, pollen limitation and seed set to density of conspecifics and pollinator-sharing heterospecifics inside 30 dome-shaped cages partially covered with fishnet (experimental plots) and in 30 control plots. We expected to find stronger interactions between plants in experimental compared to controls plots. The experiment modified plant–plant interactions for pollination in all the six species; although for two of them neighbourhood interactions did not affect seed set. The pollen limitation and seed set data showed that reduction of pollinator visits most frequently resulted in novel and/or stronger interactions between plants in the experimental plots that did not occur in the controls. Although the responses were species-specific, there was a tendency for increasing facilitative interactions with conspecific neighbours in experimental plots where pollinator availability was reduced. Heterospecifics only influenced pollination and fecundity in species from the alpine community and in the experimental plots, where they competed with the focal species for pollination. The patterns observed for visitation rates differed from those for fecundity, with more significant interactions between plants in the controls in both communities. This study warns against the exclusive use of visitation data to interpret plant–plant interactions for pollination, and helps to understand how plant aggregations may buffer or intensify the effects of a pollinator loss on plant fitness.


A New Delhi feminist theatre of children, women, slum-dwellers, and the homeless named after the first Indian to kill his British superior in the 1857 uprising against British rule.


The rising customer demands are fulfilled by the industrial sector through increased output and expedited shipping. The objectives or satisfied through the manufacturers by using cloud technologies. Tiers of manufacturing sectors adopt with the proposed technology in the future for maintaining the connection shows with the supply chain as well as customers. Cloud computing is referred as abstraction of storage, computation and infrastructure of network altogether as the platform which allows application deployment in speedy manner and dynamic scaling as well. The crucial area in cloud computing is self-service that can allow users to fill the web-form easily and quickly. A novel technical approach to job execution and resource sharing compared to conventional industrial robots is provided by Smart Manufacturing Environments, which uses cloud robotics. SME can be built up on the combination of cloud computing and industrial robots. The main focus of the proposed study is to successfully enabling the manufacturing services on demand which is provided over the internet. Manufacturing services with Cloud-based equipment can also be used by companies attempting to convert Collaborative Robots, Pa-as-you go business models, and production of increasing the productivity of production facilities, raising the caliber of products, enhancing producers' capacity to adapt to shifting consumer needs, and entering new markets.


BACKGROUND
Anaphylaxis is a severe, potentially fatal, systemic allergic reaction. Understanding predictors of recurrent and severe anaphylaxis in adults, and identifying gaps in ongoing anaphylaxis care, is needed to minimise its impact.

AIMS
To evaluate the risk factors in adults with severe and recurrent anaphylaxis presentations and to evaluate the management of patients in regard to the recommended cascade of care.

METHODS
We completed a retrospective audit of adults with confirmed anaphylaxis who presented to an inner-city emergency department from 1 January 2009 through 31 December 2018. Data recorded included demographics, background history, medication use, severity, co-factors, triggers, management, discharge disposition and referral for follow-up. Data were managed in REDCap and analysed using Stata. Associations were assessed through odds ratios (ORs) and t tests.

RESULTS
Six hundred sixteen individuals had 689 episodes of anaphylaxis over the audit period. Age over 65 (OR: 5.4 (95% confidence interval, CI: 2.3-13.2), P < 0.0001) and history of asthma (OR: 1.6 (95% CI: 1.03-2.5), P = 0.03) were independent risk factors for severe anaphylaxis. History of food allergy (P < 0.001) and food as the trigger were associated with recurrent presentations (OR: 2.1, 95% CI: 1.1-3.9, P = 0.01). Only 19% of patients met the recommended cascade of care, with post-adrenaline monitoring and recommending follow-up with an allergy specialist demonstrating the largest gaps. There were increased presentations with time but no difference in triggers or severity.

CONCLUSIONS
Increased age and asthma were identified as risk factors for severe presentations. History of food allergy was a risk factor for recurrent presentations. Further research is needed on the gaps in care for adults with anaphylaxis to identify the reasons why, so we can better care for these patients.


A non-invasive tagging system for individual identification of three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus was evaluated. The tags were easily detected via video, and tagged and non-tagged fish did not differ in terms of growth, activity levels or shoaling behaviour.


Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) can provide detailed information of flow motion, temperature distributions and species dispersion in buildings. However, it may take hours or days, even weeks to simulate airflow in a building by using CFD on a single central processing unit (CPU) computer. Parallel computing on a multi-CPU supercomputer or computer cluster can reduce the computing time, but the cost for such high performance computing is prohibitive for many designers. Our paper introduces high performance parallel computing of the airflow simulations on a graphics processing unit (GPU). The computing time can be reduced by 10 30 times using the GPU. Furthermore, the cost of purchasing such a GPU is only $500, which is less than 2% of a multi-CPU supercomputer or a computer cluster for the same performance.


Objective: To discuss a method to establish a three-dimensional model of healthy human knee joint, which can be used for further knee joint biomechanics analysis and simulation. Methods: CT scan and medical image three-dimensional reconstruction software (Mimics) were used to obtain the knee joint three-dimensional finite element model (FEM) according to reverse engineering theory. Results: FEM of knee joint with complete bone structure was established by Mimics. Conclusion: Three-dimensional FEM was established according to CT images exports as IGES file. The model can be used for knee joint biomechanics finite element analysis to provide references and proposals for the clinical diagnoses of knee joint illness, and the design of artificial knee joint prosthesis.


The article studies the landscape structure of the territory of south the Selenga middle mountains. The introduction to the article defines the concepts of landscape structure, factor-dynamic system, and reveals the essence of the structural-dynamic approach to the study of geosystems. The section "Object and methods of research" describes the natural conditions of the south of the Selenga middle mountains and methods of landscape research. The results of the study present an analysis of the main landscape-forming processes, factor-dynamic series, and dynamic categories of geosystems, as well as a map of the landscape structure of the study area. A structural-dynamic (factor-dynamic) approach to the analysis of landscape structure was implemented using GIS technologies based on remote sensing data, field research materials, maps of various contents and literary information. The leading landscape-forming processes and the main factors that influence the formation of the landscape structure are shown. As a result of the conducted research, a landscape map of geosystems of the topological hierarchical level was constructed, which shows the types of geosystems (geomes, classes and groups of facies) reflecting the factor-dynamic structure of landscapes. For the mountains of the south of the Selenga Middle Mountains, the leading landscape-forming processes are gravity-slope, slope water-erosion, fluvial and aeolian processes that determine the formation of lithomorphic, alluvial-hydrolithomorphic and psammo-lithomorphic factorial-dynamic series of geosystems (facies classes). For plains, the leading landscape-forming processes are slope water-erosion, alluvial, lacustrine and aeolian, forming lithomorphic, alluvial-hydromorphic and psammomorphic series of facies.


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Abstract This paper focus on a simplified viscoelastic problem subjected to unilateral boundary conditions. The problem is reduced to a pseudodifferential linear complementarity problem using Fourier techniques. Under appropriate regularity assumptions on the data, the diagonal process is employed to prove the existence result to this pseudodifferential linear complementarity problem.


The list of Agarics of Kaghan valley includes 228 species belonging to 59 genera, placed in seven orders. Out of these, 24 species are edible. These were collected from Kaghan: Sharhan, Shogran, Naran and Lalazar ranging from 5000 feet to 9000 feet with thick forest cover. However, the forest become scanty in alpine region; at Babusar top (13684 feet) few Boletus species under Juniper bushes were reported.


Objective: To investigate the role of dementia in a multiethnic population on neurological outcomes after ICH. Background: History of cognitive impairment is the major differentiating factor between the intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and FUNC score. Design/Methods: ICH patients were prospectively enrolled in the Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Hemorrhagic Stroke (GERFHS III) study from 2008–2012 and the Ethnic/Racial Variations of Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ERICH) study from 2010–2015. Dementia prior to stroke was defined as positive history or treatment with donepezil, galantamine, memantine, or rivastigmine. Location of ICH was analyzed as lobar vs. non-lobar. Specific outcomes – modified Rankin score at 3 months (0–2 vs. ≥3), Barthel Index score ( Results: Of 3537 cases of ICH, 304 had dementia predating ICH. Compared with those without, dementia patients were more likely to have care withdrawn during hospitalization (OR 5.11, 95% CI [3.95–6.60], p Conclusions: Confirming FUNC score analysis, pre-existing dementia is a strong and independent predictor of poor outcome after ICH. Dementia is more common in lobar ICH than non-lobar ICH. Future studies should incorporate history of dementia as an independent predictor of outcomes following ICH. Study Supported by: NINDS R01NS036695, NINDS U01NS06976. Disclosure: Dr. Yim has nothing to disclose. Dr. Sekar has nothing to disclose. Dr. Moomaw has nothing to disclose. Dr. Osborne has nothing to disclose. Dr. Martini has nothing to disclose. Dr. Xiong has nothing to disclose. Dr Biffi has nothing to disclose. Dr. Rosand has nothing to disclose. Dr. Woo has nothing to disclose.


On September 24 and 25, 1998, the Polar spacecraft observed intense outflows of terrestrial ions in association with the passage of an interplanetary shock and coronal mass ejection. The orbit of the Fast Auroral Snapshot (FAST) Explorer was in the noon-midnight meridian during this ion outflow event, and FAST passed through the day side cusp region at ∼4000 km altitude every 2.2 hours. FAST was therefore able to monitor the ion outflows subsequently observed by Polar. We show that while the outflows were more intense after the shock passage, the overall particle and field signatures within the cusp region were qualitatively similar both before and after the shock passage. FAST observations show that the cusp particle precipitation marks the lower latitude leg of a pair of field-aligned currents and further, that both field-aligned current sheets appear to be on open field lines. Moreover, the polarity of the cusp currents is controlled by the polarity of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) y-component, such that the magnetic field perturbation associated with the pair of cusp currents is in the same direction as the IMF By. This is a consequence of the reconnection of cusp-region field lines at the magnetopause, with the flux transport resulting in electromagnetic energy being transmitted along field lines to the ionosphere as Poynting flux. We show that this Poynting flux can be as high as 120 mW m−2 (120 ergs cm−2 s−1) at FAST altitudes (∼500 mW m−2 at ionospheric altitudes), presumably because of the strong IMF By (∼40 nT), and is the dominant energy input to the cusp-region ionosphere. Furthermore, we find that the peak ion outflow flux is correlated with the peak downward Poynting flux, although only a few passes through the cusp centered around the time of the shock passage were used to determine this correlation. The energy carried by Poynting flux is dissipated as heat within the ionosphere, through Joule dissipation. The heating will tend to increase the ionospheric scale height, allowing greater access of ionospheric ions to the altitudes where transverse ion heating via ELF waves can occur. Thus electromagnetic energy supplied by the transport of reconnected magnetic flux is the essential first step in a multistep process that enhances the outflow of ionospheric plasma in the dayside cusp.


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In this article, the author reviews the different readings proposed by scholars for the final verse of a cantiga of Alfonso X Joan Rodriguiz foi osmar a Balteira (B 481/V 64), corroborating the proposal of the most recent editor, Juan Paredes.


Twenty-one students were homeless. One student had asked a cafeteria worker on a Friday afternoon for leftover food to take home for the weekend. Those were among the facts that high school English teacher Ann Haugland heard at a professional development event in her Boone, Iowa, Community School District. "I couldn't sleep that night," Haugland said. The next morning, she presented her superintendent with a plan: Let's have a one-day fundraiser for needy students in the district. The superintendent gave permission, but said the fundraising had to be separate from the school's own foundation. Haugland quickly found three other teachers, Rhonda Getschman, Jane Dupuis, and Georgiann Hagen, who were willing to help organize a fundraiser the following month. They asked departments in the schools to donate gift baskets to be auctioned. They ran a coffee shop and bake sale, serving coffee and hot cider in mugs that people could keep. "We thought we'd make $1,000," Haugland said. Instead, they raised nearly $15,000. Rather than make this a one-time, feel-good event, the three teachers saw the potential for doing more. So, they started their own philanthropy. In six years, the Boone Hope Foundation that the teachers created has given away over $130,000 to help students with emergency needs related to food, clothing, shelter, and health care. The foundation serves about 100 families per year. About one-third of the assistance goes toward rent, about one-third for utilities, and the other third toward a combination of assistance for food, clothing, or health care. According to Jim Collogan, director of the National School Foundation Association, the Boone Hope Foundation is the only teacher-led charitable foundation of its kind. Typical community Boone, Iowa, is not a wealthy community. According to the 2010 U.S. Census data, median household income for Boone County was about $49,578, slightly lower than the national average of $51,914, but higher than the state average of 48,872. In 2009-10, the number of Boone students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch across the schools ranged from slightly above 40% at the elementary schools to 60% at the alternative school. Neither is it exceptionally large--Boone has only about 12,000 residents. In spite of its size, the foundation raises about $15,000 each year to give away. The Hope Foundation's mission is "to provide comfort to our community's children in emergency-type situations." Seven foundation board members decide how to respond to various student assistance requests. Those board members include the original three teacher leaders plus four other teachers, counselors, and nurses. Because the foundation is separate from the Boone public schools, it also serves children who attend two parochial schools in the community. Each school building has at least one designated representative to the foundation. Any staff member at any school who sees a student in need can either contact a building representative or a member of the foundation board. The board tries to make a decision within 48 hours. A board member will then notify the requesting staff member of the status of the request, and then contact the family in need. For example, if a bus driver notices that Bert's winter coat does not zip, the driver notifies Sue, the middle school counselor who is also a foundation board member, that he might need a new coat. Sue e-mails other foundation board members about the need. Jane Dupuis, who keeps track of which families have been assisted, checks to see if the student's family already has been helped that year. If the family has not received assistance and if the rest of the board agrees, Dupuis approves the request and takes a Wal-Mart gift card to the middle school to give to Sue. Sue notifies the student's family that the Hope Foundation has a gift card to enable them to buy Bert a new coat and arranges to deliver the gift card to them. …


In this investigation, variable amplitude loading effect was studied on aged hardening Al-alloys in series 2000 and 7000. Generalised Willenborg model was used in order to show loading interaction effects (overload effects). Variable amplitude loading under different form of spectrum has affected highly the fatigue life and fatigue crack growth rates. Fatigue lives were increased and fatigue crack growth rates (FCGRs) were decreased in increasing of overload ratio in single overload case. In application of overload band, the fatigue lives and FCGRs were affected by band overload and R-ratio of them when level in FCGRs was increased.


The article identifies the scales of the Soviet toponymy (macro-toponyms and toponyms as such) in Georgia and some geographical peculiarities of their territorial distribution. The study was undertaken in several stages: (1) identification and analysis of the general list of Soviet toponyms (according to the geographical background, naming circumstances and date of origination), (2) identification of the scales of Sovietization for different Regions of the country and territorial peculiarities, (3) development of the classification of Soviet toponyms, and (4) mapping the Soviet toponyms. A number of sources were used to achieve these goals, including territorial-administrative organization, general population census, cartographic sources, toponymic studies, etc. The study revealed that the process of "Sovietization" of the toponyms developed in several directions: by giving the names of memorial names to administrative units and settlements (regions, cities, settlements and villages); by giving the ideological Soviet names to the geographical objects; by partially changing the toponyms (by translating or adding epithets); by forming new objects of the Soviet revival and naming them.


The ability to follow the motion of individual particles in a dusty plasma is essential for most experiments on complex plasmas. However, for 3-D particle clouds, the precise determination of all particle coordinates at once is a sophisticated task. This paper introduces and benchmarks a new diagnostic tool which combines the techniques of digital inline holography and stereoscopy.


In this paper, we report the crystal structure of 2-[2-(diphenylphosphoryl)phenyl]-1H-perimidine (L1) obtained from the ring closure reaction of 1,8-diaminonaphthalene and 2-(diphenylphosphino)benzaldehyde, followed by the dehydrogenation reaction with sodium metabisulfite (Na2S2O5). L1 was characterised using 1H, 13C & 31P NMR, FT-IR and X-ray single structure analyses.


Objective To study the effect of butylphthalide on onexpression of aquaporin-4in cortex of rats following cerebral ischemia and its mechanismin protecting rats against cerebral ischemic injury.Methods One hundred and forty male SD rats were included inthis study.A global cerebral ischemia model of rats was established by ligating 4blood vessels.The 72rats used in establishing the model were randomly divided into cerebral ischemia group,butylphthalide treatment group and sham-operation group ( 24in each group ) .The rats in butylphthalide treatment group were further divied into 0.3mg / kg group,1.0mg / kg group and 3.0mg / kg group ( 8in each group ) .The Evans blue and water level and aquaporin-4expression level in brain tissue were measured by immunohistochemistry.Results The Evans blue and water levels were significantly higher whereas the aquaporin-4expression level in brain tissue was significantly lower in cerebral ischemia group than in sham-operation group group 1day and 1week after ischemia ( P0.05,P0.01 ) .The Evans blue and water levels were significantly lower whereas the aquaporin-4expression level in brain tissue was significantly higher in butylphthalide treatment group than in cerebral ischemia group 1day and 1week after ischemia ( P0.05,P0.01 ) .Conclusion The aquaporin-4is expressed in a time-dependent manner and butylphthalide can regulate the aguaprotein-4expression in rats following cerebral ischemia.


Context. The disc around the Herbig Ae/Be star HD 100546 is one of the most extensively studied discs in the southern sky. Although there is a wealth of information about its dust content and composition, not much is known about its gas and large-scale kinematics. Many recent results have stressed the importance of studying both the gas and dust in discs. 12CO is an excellent gas tracer in the submillimetre, and the intensity ratio between lines originating from low and high rotational levels probes the gas temperature. Emerging submillimetre facilities in the Southern hemisphere allow us to characterise the gas and dust content in objects like HD 100546 better. Aims: Our aim is to establish whether the disc is gas-rich and to study the disc temperature and kinematics. Methods: We detected and studied the molecular gas in the disc at spatial resolution from 7.7 arcsec to 18.9 arcsec using the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope (This publication is based on data acquired with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX). APEX is a collaboration between the Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie, the European Southern Observatory, and the Onsala Space Observatory.). We observed the lines 12CO J = 7-6, J = 6-5, J = 3-2, 13CO J = 3-2 and [C I] 3P2-3P1, as diagnostics of disc temperature, size, chemistry, and kinematics. We use parametric disc models that reproduce the low-J 12CO emission from Herbig Ae stars and we vary the basic disc parameters - temperature, mass, and size. With the help of a molecular excitation and radiative transfer code we fit the observed spectral line profiles. Results: Our observations are consistent with more than 10-3 M⊙ of molecular gas in a disc of ≈400 AU radius in Keplerian rotation around a 2.5 M⊙ star, seen at an inclination of 50°. The detected 12CO lines are dominated by gas at 30-70 K. Not detecting the [C I] line indicates excess ultraviolet emission above that of a B9 type model stellar atmosphere. Asymmetry in the 12CO line emission suggests that one side of the outer disc is colder by 10-20 K than the other. A plausible scenario is a warped geometry in the inner disc casting a partial shaddow on the outer disc. We exclude pointing offsets, foreground cloud absorption, and asymmetry in the disc extent as possible causes of the observed line asymmetry. Conclusions: Efficient heating of the outer disc by the star HD 100546 ensures that low- and high-J 12CO lines are dominated by the outermost disc regions, indicating a 400 AU radius. The 12CO J = 6-5 line arises from a disc layer higher than disc midplane, and warmer by 15-20 K than the layer emitting the J = 3-2 line. The existing models of discs around Herbig Ae stars, asuming a B9.5 type model stellar atmosphere, overproduce the [CI] 3P2-3P1 line intensity from HD 100546 by an order of magnitude.


J. his special issue of Sociological Focus represents an acknowledgment that the sociological study of white supremacy and white racialism is not a topic left exclusively to deviance and criminological scholars. We believe that the study of these actors must examine the nature, organization, and activities of the participants of the white supremacist and racialist movement from a sociological perspective. In addition, one must analyze the socioeconomic, cultural, and institutional links among selfdesignated white supremacists in order to understand their activities. The idea that white supremacists are social movement actors, like mainstream social movement actors and institutions, and are socially, politically, and ideologically constructed, derives from a use of the classic sociological imagination. The use of this approach presents an alternative view to the deviance perspective, which contends that white supremacist actors and institutions should be understood primarily as deviants. We believe that this volume moves the dialogue further into a rich sociological context where analysis is not limited to description but broadened into analyses of discourse, mobilization, and activity. The research in this volume builds on detailed historical, archival, interview, and Internet research, much of it from primary sources. The role of human agency and social structure in determining which individuals become associated with white supremacist activity and in defining the scope and structure of the resulting collectivity created by white supremacist organizing is a central concern for many of the essays. Katz and Bailey discuss the belief system employed among "constitutional militias" and compare that ideological system to the world view of white supremacists. The influence of supremacists on some sectors of the so-called Patriot movement is demonstrated via the narrative analysis used by Katz and Bailey. Perry also examines the structure and discourse of the Patriot movement in her discussion of the activities of that movement. Perry further illustrates the absorption of supremacist ideas within those groups. Ferber and Kimmel discuss the use of different components of a Western motif among white supremacist discourse as a means of legitimizing it. Standard discussions of white supremacy neglect social structure since membership within these groups is assumed to be an inevitable consequence of individual deviation. Ferber and Kimmel illustrate the manner in which this discourse can be construed as normative among some Americans. Berbrier demonstrates another aspect of the discourse of white supremacists in his analysis of how white supremacists construct an image of themselves as victims at the hands of the oppressive sociopolitical organization of American society. The development of white supremacy in its varied forms in the United States was the result not just of individual and motivational factors but also of structural ones. These organizations arose and changed because the economic and historic context created a cultural climate in which individuals would be receptive to the varied white supremacist messages of Christian Identity, international conspiracy, and ethnic conflict. Beck analyzes the socioeconomic factors that are tied to Ku Klux


If one examines climates of relationship in most col lege classrooms, there is ample evidence that either the teacher or large numbers of students are reluctant, uninvolved participants. There is little reason to expect that a life long commitment to inquiry will grow out of these "passionless," anesthetic, joyless, deadly serious academic rituals. If man's spirit is to be liberated in joy ful celebration of the puzzles of the human situation, it will be necessary to radically modify arrangements for higher learning. Higher education policies must: 1) Keep uncommitted faculty members away from students. 2) Discourage uncommitted students from joining in quiry activities.


Diabetes mellitus is today one of the major chronic degenerative
diseases of our environment caused not only by bad living habits but also by the
lack of care and service limitations of promotional preventive health, presenting
various oral manifestations, which we will highlight xerostomia.
Objective: To determine the relationship of xerostomia and diabetes mellitus in
patients treated at the Regional Hospital of Loreto the months of July and August
2016.
Method: This study was a prospective, epidemiological, descriptive, transverse and
correlational where salivary flow of patients with diabetes mellitus type 1 and type
2 controlled treated at the outpatient clinic of the Regional Hospital of Loreto "Felipe
Santiago Arriola Iglesias" was measured the months of July and August 2016 and
underwent TSG (global salivary Test "Schirmer") (sialometry).
Results: The sample consisted of 175 patients, of whom 129 (73.7%) women and
46 (26.3%) men. The average age of the patients was 55.25 years with a standard
deviation of ± 11.48 years.
Conclusion: It is shown that the correlation between the type of diabetes mellitus
and xerostomia in patients with diabetes mellitus treated at the Regional Hospital
of Loreto from July to August 2016 with a significance of p = 0.027 (p <0.05). thus
demonstrating the relationship between the two variables in question. It has 60
(34.3%) patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus xerostomia have very
low.


Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on testing conducted on coking coal samples for carbon electrode use in aluminum production. The testing methods, and results are presented. This report includes tables.


Air humidity is the water vapor existing in the atmosphere. In this paper it is presented measurements of the relative air humidity inside a closed container where temperature was kept constant. Under these conditions, humidity increases until water vapor becomes saturated. At this moment, humidity reaches its maximum value. The experimental set includes: a closed glass container, a hygrometer, a thermometer and a chronometer. Thus, it is a simple experiment, which is possible to be reproduced in a general physics laboratory and used as a complement to textbooks that do not include this topic.


of Man in John 6, showing their affiliation to the Synoptic tradition. Four lectures on Symbolism, Sacraments, Paradox and Dualism, and History draw together Barrett's thought more broadly. He strongly opposes the view that John borrowed directly from non-Christian sources, but refuses to tie the gospel down to one strand of early Christianity. The Jewishness of the gospel is recognized without rejecting the relation of it to the Hellenistic world.


Objective: To test the tolerance of H. pylori to bile. Methods: H. pylori was cultured on blood agar plates containing human bile at different concentration from 0.01% to 1.8%.Results:Growth of H. pylori was not affected by 0.1% bile, reduced by 0.1%~1.2% bile and inhibited by ≥1.4% bile. Giemsa staining showed the morphology of H. pylori changed from curved bacillus to spheroid and filar. But it can revert to normal form after it is tolerated in bile. Conclusions: Bile inhibits the growth of H. pylori in a dose-effect manner, but H. pylori can tolerate bile after inducement.