The importance of wireless communications is increasing thanks to the numerous types of services supported by wireless devices, which allow the realization of the always best connected vision. However, the dramatic boost toward miniaturization and nanoscale technologies requires rethinking of wireless communications on such a scale. While the transformation from wired to wireless communication has improved connectivity for end users and spawned new research areas, the field as a whole is approaching a crossroad. The main reason for this is the emergence of miniature devices, in particular devices that are built from nano components, which has led to new challenges for the wireless communication paradigm. Calcium signaling is a natural intercellular calcium wave found in biology cells that enables communication at short range between cells. Using this form of signaling can enable short-range communication that exploits a combination of biological constructs and engineered cells.


The preparations and structures of nitroxides are briefly surveyed. The major portions are concerned with their applications of the spin labelings and spin trappings, which are written with the intention of arousing interests in the fields.


A novel concept using non-uniform frequency selective surface (FSS) backed as a reflection plane for amplitude controlled reflectarray is proposed. First, a modified square-loop FSS element with broad reflection response band (from −22dB to 0dB) is designed. Then, a non-uniform FSS using the modified square-loop element is backed as a reflection plane for reflectarray. By properly controlling each element size of the FSS, the reflection amplitude from the reflectarray element can be sufficiently controlled and amplitude controlled reflectarray can be realized. A reflectarray using Dolph-Tschebyscheff weighting coefficients is implemented and a major-lobe to sidelobe ratios of up to 22 dB is obtained.


Three fat levels (8%, 16% and 24%) and five modified connective tissue (MCT) levels (0%, lo%, 20%, 30% and 40%) were used in a 3×5 complete factorial design to prepare and characterize meat batters. Proximate analysis, batter pH, emulsification temperature increase, raw batter extrusion, batter stability, collagen levels, and processing yield data were collected. Increasing levels of MCI increased batter pH, emulsification temperature increase, batter extrusion values, and collagen levels. Thermal processing yield losses declined with increased MCI level. Addition of MCI may be effective for reducing such losses in low-fat meat batters without major changes in batter stability.


Since the acceptance of unlicensed use of the Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology in the range between 3.1 and 10.6 GHz in the USA (FCC, 2002) and more recently between 3.4 and 8.5 GHz in Europe (ETSI, 2008), the realization of low-cost UWB wireless systems is considered a fundamental research goal both for military and commercial applications. The possible use and benefits of UWB technology are significant and among its potential applications, high-resolution radar and short-range ultra-high speed data transmission are very attractive. In this scenario, design, fabrication and characterization of effective antennas for UWB systems are challenging tasks with respect to the case of narrowband systems. A suitable UWB antenna should be capable of operating over an ultra-wide bandwidth. Therefore it is necessary to guarantee a good behavior of the antenna in the band of interest in terms of impedance matching with the transmitter, radiation and time-domain properties. Moreover, recent UWB antenna development tends to focus on ultra-compact planar antennas as they are more practical in terms of manufacturing, integration with the system electronics board and form factor. Typical configurations exhibit radiation patterns similar to the traditional monopole/dipole antennas, i.e. they behave as omnidirectional radiators in the plane normal to the radiating element. This feature is desirable in UWB devices which do not have a fixed or a-priori defined orientation with respect to the environment and thus when it is not necessary to favour any specific direction. On the other hand, strongly directive radiators are required for radar applications, especially when low-power, lowinterference and high-resolution devices are needed. Directive UWB radiators are also interesting towards several complementary goals, e.g. to provide extra radio link gain to single antenna transceivers, to mitigate the effects of multipath in the indoor UWB channel, and, last but not least, to result in a high front-to-back ratio, which is desirable in many applications such as in wireless body-area networks (WBAN). In the past few years, several printed broadband monopole-like configurations have been reported for UWB applications, but presently, very few efforts have been made to increase their directionality. This chapter intends to provide the reader with two different design methodologies for increasing the directivity of planar UWB antennas. In section 2, a novel antenna layout will be presented, as the result of subsequent modifications of a native 1


The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of the payment system for old age insurance claims to the private party, with indicators of the payment system for Old Age Insurance claims which include, 1) JHT claims that reach the age of 56 years, 2) JHT claims for those who leave RI (WNI), 3) JHT claims for those who leave the Republic of Indonesia (WNA), 4) JHT submission for people with total disabilities, 5) JHT claims for those who die, 6) JHT claims for 10 years membership, 10% withdrawal, 7) JHT claims for 10 years membership, taking 30%, 8) filing JHT for those who resign before retirement age, 9) filing JHT for those who are laid off. data used descriptively to explain research data.
The results of the research prove that there are some requirements that are not in accordance with ministerial regulations regarding submission of claims that must include the original KTP and KK while in the ministerial regulation only includes a photocopy but all of it was done by the poor branch BPJS Employment to implement the precautionary principle in withdrawing Old Age Claim (JHT) claims.


Kilowatts class diode-pumped Cs vapor laser (DPCL) has been realized and this kind of lasers have military applications potentially for its high output power with high efficiency. Pumped by a fiber coupled laser diode, the key operating parameters of a DPCL are studied, including the spot size of focused pumping light, pressure ratio of buffer gases, vapor cell length, temperature of Cs vapor and reflectivity of output coupler. The spot size is properly chosen in the consideration of both the intensity scalability and mode matching. Pressure ratio is optimized under a modest pressure of mixed gases of helium and ethane. Under the optimized pressure ratio, the Cs vapor can absorb the pumping energy and convert it into laser energy efficiently. Besides, the temperature and reflectivity are also optimized to operate the DPCL in optimum state. The results have significant instructions for the experimental design of DPCL.


The smart grid is an important hub of interdisciplinary research where researchers from different areas of science and technology combine their efforts to enhance the traditional electrical power grid. Due to these efforts, the traditional electrical grid is now evolving. The envisioned smart grid will bring social, environmental, ethical, legal and economic benefits. Smart grid systems increasingly involve machine-to-machine communication as well as human-to-human, or simple information retrieval. Thus, the dimensionality of the system is massive. The smart grid is the combination of different technologies, including control system theory, communication networks, pervasive computing, embedded sensing devices, electric vehicles, smart cities, renewable energy sources, Internet of Things, wireless sensor networks, cyber physical systems, and green communication. Due to these diverse activities and significant attention from researchers, education activities in the smart grid area are also growing.


In coded bidirectional cooperation, two nodes wish to exchange messages over a shared half-duplex channel with the help of a relay. In this correspondence, we derive performance bounds for this problem for each of three decode-and-forward protocols. The first protocol is a two phase protocol where both users simultaneously transmit during the first phase and the relay alone transmits during the second. In this protocol, our bounds are tight. The second protocol considers sequential transmissions from the two users followed by a transmission from the relay while the third protocol is a hybrid of the first two protocols and has four phases. In the latter two protocols the bounds are not identical. Numerical evaluation shows that in some cases of interest our bounds do not differ significantly. Finally, in the Gaussian case with path loss, we derive achievable rates and compare the relative merits of each protocol. This case is of interest in cellular systems. Surprisingly, we find that in some cases, the achievable rate region of the four phase protocol contains points that are outside the outer bounds of the other two protocols.


In this paper,we studied the classification of emergency supplies,and changed of SPSS cluster analysis method.Finally,we also used the specific example elaborated on this approach.


Cesarean scar ectopic pregnancy (CSEP) is the rarest location for ectopic pregnancy (incidence of 1:1,800 to 1:1,216);1,2 with implantation in the cesarean scar defect (CSD) of the uterus,3,4 There are two types of CSEP; Type 1 has progression toward the uterine cavity; Type 2 is deep within the Myometrium.5 The primary pathology stems from poor wound healing, resulting in focal thinning of the uterine scar or migration of the embryo through a microscopic fistula wedge defect exposing the site for implantation.6,7 Additional complications include rupture, hemorrhage, and uterine rupture due to weakness of the cesarean scar.8−10


This article studies Cranach's Cupid complaining to Venus paintings and their inscriptions, focusing on their relationships to other texts and images made in Wittenberg in the same years. The moralizing use of the pseudo‐Theocritean Idyll XIX in the paintings and their inscriptions is connected to a trend of neo‐Latin versions of the same poem, inaugurated in the mid‐1520s by Philip Melanchthon (1497–1560). The poem of the inscriptions was written by the scholar Georg Sabinus (1508–1560), a former student of Melanchthon's. This, together with another similar poem by his tutor, was first published in a music book, Georg Rhau's Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae (1536). Cranach also intended a religious interpretation of his Cupid and Venus pictures, a reading that is encouraged more explicitly in the illustrations of the 1538 edition of the Enchiridion. The paintings are characteristic of the preoccupations of German painters and scholars in their subject‐matter, charged with moral and religious overtones, and also in the way in which they were meant to engage the viewer as interpreter.


A bubble that is oscillating with a small amplitude may be thought of as a damped, undriven harmonic oscillator. If the bubble is near a free surface, it may be considered as a simple acoustic source close to a pressure release boundary and will therefore radiate as a dipole. It has been shown in a previous paper [Pumphrey et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 85, 1518–1526 (1989)] that this mechanism is the major cause of the sound produced by rain and probably makes a contribution to the Knudsen spectrum of ambient noise in the ocean. Experimental results are presented for such freely oscillating bubbles, mostly entrained by drop impacts, which show that they have the resonance frequencies and damping constants predicted by theory. The presence of the free surface affects these values to a certain extent. The radiation pattern was measured and was shown to be a dipole, as predicted. Calculations of the amplitude of the bubble oscillation indicate that it is small, confirming that the linear approximation is valid...


Abstract Objectives: envy is a negative social emotion that stems from a social comparison. This study explores the effect of deservingness on the intensity of schadenfreude (pleasure in another's misfortune) in situations of invidious comparison. Method: the participants, 181 children between the ages of three and 10, were asked to describe what an envious character felt when the character (s/he) envied had lost an (deserved or undeserved) advantage. They were also asked to explain their answers. Results: the findings showed that schadenfreude was more intense when the lost advantage was undeserved than deserved only in young children. The difference between conditions decreased with age. The children's explanations of schadenfreude were based on the damage to the envied person, whereas the responses of pity were justified by the misfortune and equitable ending (no one wins) of the story. Conclusions: the discussion addresses some of the possible factors, such as the acquisition of display rules, deservingness and perception of equality, that contribute to children's understanding of emotions such as envy and schadenfreude.


The VP2 protein of canine parvovirus (CPV) is the main part of capsid and attachment ligands for entry into specific and cancerous cells through transferrin receptors (TfRs). Expression of VP2 alone results in assembly of a typically-sized virus like particle (VLP) in insect cells for therapeutic purposes. So, in this research our purpose was to construct a recombinant bacmid shuttle vector expressing VP2 of CPV using site-specific transposition mechanism in Bac-to-Bac baculovirus expression system. The full-length of CPV-VP2 gene (1755 bp) was isolated by PCR amplification using specific primers and cloned firstly into RBC T/A cloning vector and then subcloned into the corresponding restriction sites of pFastBac1 donor plasmid vector. Then the accuracy of cloning process in these vectors was evaluated by PCR and enzymatic digestion analysis. Then the confirmed pVP2FastBac1 plasmid was transferred into E. coli DH10Bac competent cells and the site-specific transposition of VP2 into bacmid shuttle vector was accomplished using the helper plasmid. Finally, the accuracy of transposition process was evaluated by a PCR panel using specific primers and PUC/M13 universal primers. Cloning, subcloning and recombination of VP2 gene of canine parvovirus into baculoviral shuttle vector were performed and confirmed successfully. In other words, VP2-containing recombinant bacmid was constructeed successfully. In this study, we used the Bac-to-Bac system for site-specific transposition of VP2 gene from pVP2FastBac1 to baculovirus derived bacmid shuttle vector. The constructed recombinant bacmid can express recombinant VP2 protein in insect cells.


Abstract : There is a universal need within defense-related operations fo r chemical sensing. It is most desirable for the detector (i.e. probe) to operate in situ and to produce information on chemical composition in real time with a high degree of sensitivity (ppb or less). It is the goal of this work to develop a 'universal' remote sensor for organic and inorganic compounds in both gaseous and liquid environments, based on surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The SERS signal is observed as the enhanced Raman spectrum of molecules absorbed onto certain active metal substrates. The goal of Phase I was to determine the feasibility of using SERS in gas phase sensing. Keywords: Fiber optic, Sensor, Raman, Air quality, Groundwater, Environment. (mgm)


At present, the environmental art design course in art and architectural institutions or "landscaping" in landscape architecture and other related courses value theory more than practice; combined this phenomenon with the prominent problem existing in teaching process, according to the learning characteristics of students, the teaching contents, methods and ways should make targeted modifications; in addition, the content and set of curriculum should also be reformed. Optimization should make from the basic theory, case study, curriculum design and other aspects. At the same time, strengthen the practice of content, start from the survey, mapping, analysis and other aspects, making students have better understanding of early theoretical knowledge, then they can link the theory with practice well so as to learn and apply elastically. Through the optimization of the curriculum, students are more familiar with various attributes of pants in landscaping so that they can make planting design more reasonable and skilled.


Shelley Budgeon acknowledged that advertising images "saturate the fabric of daily life, to the extent that our encounters with them have become routine" (1994, p.55). The truth in this statement can be evidenced in the simple act of looking through a magazine. Magazines comprise of such a large proportion of advertisements that it becomes difficult to find the editorial matter itself, with the line between adverts and articles blurring; seemingly merging into one another. However, as Bagdikian remarked, the quantity of adverts in magazines is not a new development. She declares that by the 1950s, to become a success "most magazines were fundamentally designed for advertising rather than editorial matter" (2009, p.82). This phenomenon becomes even more interesting when the content of these adverts is analysed. If a company is to expend a considerable amount of money on an advertising campaign, research must be provided to ensure that the content conveys their intended message in order to effectively increase sales.


Introduction: One of the effective factors in the participation and cooperation of elderly patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in selfcare activities is to receive medical, caring, emotional and psychological support from family members. However, an elders' perception of the received support can affect the effectiveness of family social support.


This essay on motion to suppress presents an overview of the procedural context for the motion, its development rooted in precedent from the US Supreme Court, the procedural requirements to successfully present and argue the motion in the pretrial process, and a list of available exceptions to the exclusionary rule that can be raised in the motion hearing by opposing counsel. The essay also considers possible outcomes and benefits that may result from the introduction of a motion prior to trial.

Keywords:

evidence;
justice;
law enforcement;
police


This paper reports the simulation-based analysis of six dynamical structures with respect to their wrist-worn vibration energy harvesting capability. This work approaches the problem of maximizing energy harvesting potential at the wrist by considering multiple mechanical substructures; rotational and linear motion-based architectures are examined. Mathematical models are developed and experimentally corroborated. An optimization routine is applied to the proposed architectures to maximize average power output and allow for comparison. The addition of a linear spring element to the structures has the potential to improve power output; for example, in the case of rotational structures, a 211% improvement in power output was estimated under real walking excitation. The analysis concludes that a sprung rotational harvester architecture outperforms a sprung linear architecture by 66% when real walking data is used as input to the simulations.


Neutron incoherent scattering experiments covering wide energy-momentum space were carried out by utilizing both pulsed neutron source and steady neutron source, in order to elucidate the dynamical properties of the protons in KDP (KH 2 PO 4 ). In the paraelectric phase, no inelastic peaks corresponding to the excitation of the proton tunneling mode was observed within the limit of the instrumental resolution. Instead, strong quasi-elastic scattering was observed extending in a wide energy-momentum space. The experimental results are analyzed consistently based on the `order-disorder' model throughout T c . However, in order to get reasonable fit for the energy spectra in the paraelectric phase, we have to assume an extraordinary value for the relaxation time of the proton hopping motion as 3×10 -13 sec, which is of the order of the inverse of the averaged phonon frequency.


The slow growth rate and the deficit of full-fledged financial security have created the preconditions for studying the relationship between foreign investment and economic growth. In previous literature, key emphases on this issue were studied in the short term and in terms of static functioning of the economy. Thus, this article purposely studied the dynamic nature of the development of the relationship between foreign investment and economic growth in Nigeria from 1980 to 2018. The use of the Augmented-Dickey Fuller test confirmed the precondition for adopting dynamic techniques to test the significant role of foreign portfolio investment (among other analyzed factors domestic savings, government capital expenditures, market capitalization) in the formation of gross domestic product. The use of the lag selection method allowed to determine the optimal lag for estimating the autoregressive distributed model, which substantiates the effectiveness and reliability of the autoregressive distributed lag model. The information base of the study was the statistical bulletin of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The results of empirical estimations in the short term showed that domestic savings had significant and negative impact on gross domestic product. The study empirically confirms and theoretically proves that foreign investment, domestic savings, government spending and market capitalization determine long-term trends in gross domestic product formation in Nigeria. Practically, the empirical result revealed that the presence of a significant deficit of domestic savings in Nigeria creates obstacles to successful economic growth in the country both in the short and long term; portfolio foreign investment accelerates economic growth in the long run to a greater extent than in the short run.


This thesis aims to determine how far the level of community satisfaction of government programs in the form of Cash Direct Assistance Fund (BLT), especially in the city of Depok on the district of Sukmajaya and Pancoran Mas from the management. In this study, Likert-scale tests are used to results of the questionnaire so that the level obtained with the gap between the expectations of reality, methods of analysis used by the validity and reliability for the questionnaire, Corelations and Crosstabs analysis to determine whether there is a relationship between the level of income beneficiaries and beneficiaries confidence in answering the questionnaire, and a Cartesian diagram is used to determine the position of the factors that will be a priority in management. Based on the results validity test is known that the 14 indicators say the question is valid and reliable all the variables declared. From the results of processing using a Likert scale kesioner can be concluded that the society of Depok are not satisfied with Program Cash Direct Assistance Fund ( BLT ) either from the implementation, management and the BLT program itself. While the results of analysis using Crosstabs and Corelations show no relationship between levels of income and one's beliefs in answering questions in the questionnaire.


We show that relatively optimistic research and even the mere provision of research coverage for the issuer (regardless of its direction) attract co-management appointments for securities offerings. Co-management appointments are valuable because they help banks establish relationships with issuers. These relationships, in turn, substantially increase the banks' chances of winning more lucrative lead-management mandates in the future. This is true even in the presence of historically exclusive banking relationships. The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: email@example.com., Oxford University Press.


Human parainfluenza virus(HPIV)is one of the most common pathogens of community acquired respiratory infection.The epidemiology and clinical features vary in different subtypes.HPIV also affect other systems except respiratory system.The sequences of nucleotide and amino acid showed high identity among the strains in the same type, while remaining some variation.Most research shows the variation associated with time and district.Hemagglutinin-neuraminidase(HN)protein shows most polymorphic among all the proteins of HPIV.Some amino acid variation among the active site of HN protein will affect its activity.The influence of many gene mutations, which lead to amino acid variation, and affect the activity of HN protein remains uncertain.Further study on the epidemiology, clinical features, phylogenetics analysis of HPIV plays an important role in the prevention and control of its prevalence.

Key words:
Human parainfluenza virus; Epidemiology; Clinical features; Phylogenetics analysis


The article shows from texts and sources of Vatican II that it is a major strategy of theological reform at the Council to understand the Church eschatologically. Leaving behind positions of traditional neo-scholastic ecclesiology, this strategy remodels the social, missionary, and ecumenical character of the Church. Moreover, it affects the understanding of time and eternity as well as the relationship between the Church in the political order.


In this article, I relate the loss of weorðan in the past tense to the loss of an Old English grammatical subsystem that encouraged the expression of narrative by bounded sentence constructions. This type of construction represents a situation as reaching its goal or endpoint, and serves to mark progress in a narrative (e.g. then he walked over to the other side). Instead of this system, from Middle English onwards a mixed system emerges with differently structured bounded sentence constructions as well as, increasingly, unbounded sentence constructions – which structure events as open-ended, usually by means of a progressive form (e.g. he was walking). I show how weorðan in Old English was strongly associated with the Old English system of bounded sentence constructions – an association with boundedness is not surprising given its meaning of '(sudden) transition into another state'. In the thirteenth century this rigid Old English system started to break down, as primarily evidenced by the disappearance of the time adverbial þa and the loss of verb-second. Wearð, being strongly associated with the old way of structuring narrative, decreased too and eventually disappeared.


Introduction Chapter One: The Lacanian phallus Chapter Two: Abjection Chapter Three: The abject phallus in fiction: Bataille and Adamov Chapter Four: Abject phalluses, abject penises: Serge Doubrovsky and Michel Houellebecq Chapter Five: Phallic narrative transvestism: Christiane Rochefort and Christine Angot Chapter Six: The abject phallus in cinema: Godard, Ferreri, Eustache, Noe, Bonello Conclusion Bibliography Index


The objects of this study were to examine the importance of self esteem mediation by presenting a self esteem development model of the physically handicapped and to analyze the current status of intervention studies about self esteem of the physically disabled in Korea. A total of 62 journals related to the self esteem of the physically handicapped were searched. In seven of them, the effects of various interventions on the self esteem of the physically disabled were studied. As a results, The mean effect size of the intervention methods was very effective as 1.435. The intervention methods were art activities, horticultural activities, sports activities, and psychological counseling. Based on the limitations of the existing studies, it is necessary that scientific researches that can be evidence-based practice related to the self-esteem of disabled people should be made sufficiently for their active social participation and independence through improvement of self-esteem of persons with disabilities, Through such research, it is necessary to identify the key factors that can improve the self esteem of individuals with physical Received (May 30, 2017), Review Result (June 14, 2017) Accepted (June 21, 2017), Published (August 31, 2017) 1 Major of Special Education, Graduate School of Education, Korea National University of Transportation, ChungJu, ChungChengbukdo, Korea email: email@example.com Analysis of Effects of Intervention Methods for Improvement of Self-esteem of Individuals with Physical Disabilities Copyright c 2017 HSST 884 disabilities and to develop and implement various intervention programs reflecting these core elements in actual intervention contents.


A method for the removal of fast surface states, slow states and fixed charge in various MIS structures is described. This radio-frequency (RF) annealing process is done in a 13.56 MHz capacitively-coupled plasma etcher/ stripper. This technique has proven to be more effective than the conventional thermal annealing process, and has been used to successfully eliminate undesirable radiation effects induced by E-beam, electron gun metallization, or reactive ion etching exposure in MIS structures. The temperature during the annealing process is estimated to be less than 340°C. Necessary conditions of the annealing process are detailed, and an annealing mechanism is postulated.


This review presents the most informative genes for the diagnosis of complications of metabolic syndrome. It is shown that the polymorphism G-455A (rs1800790) of the gene FGB, Glu298Asp (rs1799983) of the gene eNOS, G83A (rs2368564) of the gene REN are the most informative markers to as-sess the possibility of fatal complications of metabolic syndrome. Risk assessment and prognosis of the disease course is multifactorial, where the most formative method will be the assessment of the complex of many single-nucleotide polymorphisms of genes, since the presence of a synergistic interac-tion of genetic polymorphisms is important, when the presence of unfavorable variants of genes of several systems increases the probability of the disease and its more severe course.


A package for a micro-electromechanical device includes a substrate adapted to support the micro-electromechanical device. The micro-electromechanical device is electrically coupled to a plurality of electrodes. The package also includes a thermally conductive structure coupled to the substrate, an electrical contact layer having a plurality of traces in electrical communication with the plurality of electrodes, and an interposer structure coupled to the substrate. The interposer structure includes a continuous annular region defining a recessed region bounded by a bond surface. The package further includes a transparent cover coupled to the interposer structure and sealing the micro-electromechanical device in the recessed region to isolate the micro-electromechanical device in a controlled environment.


Introduction Urban tree systems (Figure 1) are known to provide a wide variety of benefits in urban areas, including regulating the volume and quality of runoff during storms. Among the mechanisms through which trees may enhance stormwater management efforts are interception and stemflow, through which direct rainfall is captured in the canopy or directed to the base of the tree where typically high infiltration rates reduce the volume of potential runoff, and transpiration, through which trees use water stored in the soil in between storms to replenish storage capacity for the next storm event. Extensive tree cover may also reduce and delay runoff peaks, enhance infiltration rates relative to adjacent turfgrass areas, and reduce nutrient leaching to groundwater systems. To effectively integrate runoff-regulating mechanisms by urban tree systems within stormwater management programs, utilities and other stormwater practitioners need to be able to reliably and easily estimate runoff reductions and/or water quality impacts associated with trees. The purpose of this factsheet is to introduce a set of equations that can be used to estimate runoff capture (via interception and stemflow) and subsequent use (via transpiration) by trees in urban settings, based on processes illustrated in Figure 2. These equations can be applied at the treeto stand-scales, so that stormwater managers can estimate the impact of trees on runoff budgets in a variety of contexts.


I examined patterns in stream macroinvertebrate assemblage structure and assemblage-environment relationships at four taxonomic levels (i.e. species, genus, family, and order) and based on four data types (i.e. presence/absence, logarithmic, square-root, and raw abundance) in a boreal drainage basin. Tests of resemblance matrix concordance within taxonomic levels showed that not all matrices were strongly correlated. Presence/absence matrices showed poor correlations with raw abundance matrices, possibly reflecting the fact that a few dominant species were responsible for assemblage patterns in the latter. By contrast, logarithmic and square-root data generally showed strong matrix correlations, and this pattern existed at the species, genus, and family levels. Assemblage-environment relationships were rather similar between species-, genus-, and family-level data sets, given that the same key environmental variables were included in the final environmental dissimilarity matrices in BIO-ENV analysis. In conclusion, researchers should pay considerable attention to data transformations when interpreting assemblage patterns at different taxonomic levels and comparing different studies, as different data transformations may provide differing information and lead to highly differing conclusions.


The practices of forming sustainable local communities by the methods of socio-cultural design of common areas differ depending on the level of spatial self-organization of the community: urban level (urban spaces); district level (neighborhood, group of quarters); the level of the secondary common area (yard spaces). Sociocultural approaches to the formation of local communities in the improvement of courtyard areas are based on the practice of participation and include: reliance on grassroots urban initiatives, assistance in resolving territorial conflicts, artistic practices.


In Word of Mouth 26:4, I reviewed an article by Barnes, Kim, and Philips (2014) that reported a study showing that students' ability to properly introduce characters in stories was moderately and positively correlated with literate language feature use, narrative comprehension, narrative quality, and oral language comprehension. The fact that the skill of proper character introduction was correlated with a variety of other language skills indicates that these expressive and comprehension language skills may develop concurrently with proper character introduction. Proper introduction of characters appears to require greater literate skills, and literate skills enable the better introduction of characters. Understanding the role characters play in narratives is an important component of the Common Core Standards (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010), for example,


From the Qing Dynasty,the study of Tang Zhi Yan(《唐摭言》) which is a note work in the Tang and the Five Dynasties(618-960) has yet been paid attention.Past scholars including Liu Yusong,Cen Zhongmian and Yu Jiaxi had made great efforts on the research.With the deepening of the study and discovery of new relevant materials,the condition for the complete collation and research has matured.


The bean weevil Acanthoscelides obtectus is one of the world's main pests of stored beans. The heterogeneous inbred family (HIF) population of near-isogenic lines (NILs) could be an exceptional strategy to study the inheritance of the resistance against A. obtectus. We developed a HIF population of 148 NILs of R-bufa-80-12. The objectives of this research were as follows: (1) to study and understand the genetics of the attack resistance to A. obtectus in a HIF population and (2) to identify the best lines to provide weevil resistance. The pure lines of the HIF population showed a great variability for all the analyzed traits. The traits studied in this research have a normal distribution showing continuous variation, so they are considered to be quantitatively inherited. The heritabilities for resistance traits were low and very low, ranging from 0.09 to 0.17. The heritability for 100 seed weight was the highest, with a significant value of 0.90. The best lines of the HIF population for resistance to A. obtectus comprised Line-45, Line-129, Line-124, Line-142 and Line-47. In general, these lines presented lower preference of adults, and lower consumption in grams and in percentages. However, lines 45 and 129 are the most interesting from a commercial point of view because they combine resistance and seed weight.


Research with clinically depressed and maritally discordant couples suggests that women's distressed behaviors function to suppress their partners' subsequent aggressive responses. We applied this coercion hypothesis to a nonclinical sample of dating couples (N = 288). We further examined whether these effects were gender-specific, and whether distressed and aggressive behaviors differ within physically violent versus nonviolent relationships. Women but not men reported engaging in elevated rates of distress in response to partner aggression during past dating conflicts. However, both women and men expected distressed behavior to suppress partner aggression during future conflicts. Expectations about the functional effects of distressed behavior did not differ for participants with physically violent partners versus nonviolent partners. However, participants in violent relationships reported enacting more distressed behaviors and had greater expectations for partner verbal aggression during future conflicts than did participants in nonviolent relationships. Future research may identify the early onset of dysfunctional interaction patterns in couples and concomitant psychological distress.


A novel sensor is developed for the detection of amobarbital in urines,which is based on an electropolymerized molecularly imprinted polymer( MIP) on the surface of the CuO nanoparticles modified glassy carbon electrode. The optimums film formed conditions and experimental conditions were explored. The surface feature and performance of the modified electrode were characterized by scanning electron microscope(SEM),cyclic voltammetry(CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy(EIS). The results of electrochemical measurements indicated that CuO nanoparticles had good sensitization effected for the molecularly imprinted sensor and it exhibits good sensitivity and selectivity to the template molecule amobarbital. Under the optimal conditions,the relative redox peak currents of hexacyanoferrate were linear. The concentration of amobarbital ranged from 1. 0 × 10- 7to 1. 4 × 10- 4mol /L,with a linear correlation coefficient of 0. 9966. The detection limit was 2. 1 × 10- 9mol /L(S /N = 3). The prepared sensor was applied to the determination of amobarbital in urine samples with recovery ranging from 94. 00% to 104. 67%.


According to the paragraph 62 part 3 of Latvian Insolvency Law the debtor (legal person) is obliged to file for insolvency proceedings (liquidation) if the debtor is not able to service its debts and it is not possible to file for legal protection procedure (court approved reorganisation) or to reach out of court settlement with creditors. According to Latvian legislation the management of the debtor is criminally liable for hesitation to file insolvency petition and according to the mentioned provisions of Insolvency Law management of a debtor may avoid criminal liability if they try to reach out of court restructuring.


Objective The search for papers published included peer reviewed and 'grey' published literature from range of databases and and took place over 4 months. Themes emerging from the included studies and papers were synthesised. Structural violence and marginalisation. The sexual and reproductive health experiences of separated young people on the move. A rapid review with relevance to the European humanitarian crisis.


The four nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compounds uridine (1), 2-(β-D-glucopyranosyl)-3-isoxazolin-5-one (2), adenosine (3), and hypaphorine (4) were isolated from the n-butanol extract of the roots of Callerya speciosa. Their structures were characterized on the basis of extensive nuclear magnetic resonane (NMR), mass spectroscopic analyses, and comparison with reported values. This is the first report on the isolation of compounds 1-4 from Callerya speciosa.


In this paper we propose a novel approach for multiresolution fusion for the satellite images based on modeling low resolution multispectral image. Given a high resolution panchromatic (Pan) image and a low spatial but high spectral resolution multispectral (MS) image acquired over the same geographical area, the goal is to obtain a high spatial resolution MS image. To solve this problem use a maximum a posteriori (MAP) - Markov random field (MRF) based approach. Each of the low spatial resolution MS images are modeled as the aliased and noisy versions of their high resolution versions. The high spatial resolution MS images to be estimated are modeled separately as discontinuity preserving MRF that serve as a prior information. The unknown MRF parameters are estimated from the available high resolution Pan image using homotopy continuation method. The proposed approach has the advantage of having minimum spectral distortion in the fused image as we do not directly operate on the Pan pixel intensities. Our method do not require registration of MS and Pan images. Also the number of MRF parameters to be estimated from the Pan image are limited as we use homogeneous MRF. The time complexity of our approach is reduced by using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) in order to minimize the final cost function. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by conducting experiments on real image captured by Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) satellite sensor acquired over the city of Trento, Italy.


Fine-Granularity-Scalability (FGS) has recently been adopted as the MPEG-4 standard for the efficient and flexible distribution of multimedia over the Internet. The FGS framework allows spatio-temporal-SNR tradeoffs in real-time (not limited to encoding time) at transmission or (post-) processing time, depending upon the available bit-rate, sequence characteristics, priority, user preferences or receiver resources. This paper discusses the versatility of FGS and how it can be used to great advantage in a variety of application domains beyond Internet video streaming, such as robust wireless video transmission and flexible scalable storage. In particular, the focus is on investigating the use of FGS for enabling the Universal Media Access (UMA) paradigm for wireless networks. To cope with detrimental channel conditions, we use several joint source-channel coding schemes for wireless transmission, termed Robust FGS (RFGS). RFGS exploits the FGS property of compressing video data in a set of multi-priority streams, based on the channel characteristics and terminal capabilities, by adapting the channel coding. Our results show that RFGS can provide graceful adaptability to varying network conditions while also offering additional benefits such as flexible Quality-of Service (QoS) management and channel adaptation and allocation. Moreover, the use of FGS for scalable storage of video content in gateways and in-home centralized storage units is also investigated. The results show that the proposed scalable method allows storing ten times or more video data on the same storage device depending on the desired guaranteed minimum quality level.


Within effective organizations employees often go beyond formal job responsibilities, performing nonmandatory tasks with no expectation of recognition or compensation. Therefore, it is important to learn more about how organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) can be cultivated. In this study a new measure of OCB, which is useful in exploring how this construct functions in K–12 schools, was developed. Data were collected in two separate samples and confirmed that this new measure was reasonably valid and reliable. Further testing explored whether the two-factor structure found in other organizational contexts held in public school settings. A significant relationship was found between OCB and school climate. Implications of these findings and directions for further research are discussed.


Examines the relationship between empowerment, desire to be empowered and perceived control among professional nursing staff in a small healthcare institution where recent attempts at empowerment have had limited success. A sample of 31 nurses and nursing assistants was used to test hypotheses that there is a positive relationship between perceived control and empowerment and that this relationship is moderated in a positive direction by desire to be empowered. Questionnaires measuring the four dimensions (meaning, competence, self‐determination, impact) of empowerment and desire to be empowered as well as work locus of control were administered to subjects. Results support the hypothesized relationship between perceived control and empowerment. However, that between desire to be empowered and empowerment was not supported. Implications of these findings are discussed including several possible ways of increasing perceived control in specific situations. These include changing some organizational, supervisory style, reward system and job design factors.


Abstract The Neotropical cicada Fidicina variegata Sanborn is described as a new species. This work validates a name previously assigned to this species and considered a nomen nudum. Comparisons are made to other members of the genus found in Costa Rica. A summary of the biology of the species is provided.


The electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) analysis method was used for studying structure and properties of multilayer nitride films CrN/MoN fabricated by cathodic arc physical vapor deposition (Arc-PVD). Samples were deposited on steel substrates with different single layer thickness from tens nanometers to 1 micron and with total thickness of coatings up to 8-13 μm. Color grains mapping, grain size distribution profiles, pole figures and texture analyses were the main research instruments. Studying of obtained coatings was performed on specially prepared polished cross-section samples. It was observed the dependence between a single layer thickness and a grain size, which also changes through the depth profile of the coating. It is possible to study phase composition, prevailing crystals orientation, dominant texture and grains growth. Studying of grains size, as well as other indicated parameters, is very important task because it gives an information about grains interfaces volume which causes changes in mechanical properties of material. Obtained results were cross-checked by X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD).


Connecting mobile devices with the cloud, suffers from high network latency and the huge transmission power consumption. Main obstacle for today's mobile devices is lack of resource, and requires increasing the processing power of device, increasing memory capacity, a need for greater durability of the battery etc. Cloudlets can provide available resources to nearby mobile devices with lower access overhead and energy consumption. To stimulate service provisioning by cloudlets and improve resource utilization, a feasible and efficient incentive mechanism is required to charge mobile users and reward cloudlets. This paper introduces multi-object Practical swam optimization (MOPSO) algorithm in order to optimize various single or combinations of objectives including localization time, messages sent during localization, and the power consumed.


7526Background: VEN can cause rapid tumor debulking in patients (pts) with relapsed/refractory CLL. Current VEN dosing schedule with TLS prophylaxis/monitoring averts overt TLS, but further data on...


Clonal micropropagation studies with silver maple (Acer saccharinum L.) included experiments with var- ious shoot. explant types, cytokinins, and stock plant maturation levels. These trials led to successful explant estab- lishment, axillary shoot proliferation, rooting of microshoots, and establishment of plantlets in the greenhouse. Overall, the best cytokinin tested was the phenylurea derivative TDZ. Shoot proliferation on juvenile explants was poor with kinetin, 2iP, and BA. Only zeatin at 10 µ M was comparable to TDZ. TDZ at 10 nM was optimal for both juvenile and adult nodal explants. Juvenile explants that were held in vitro for 4 months commonly had at least 60 axillary shoots that could be subculture or excised for rooting. Microshoots rooted within 2 weeks. Following rooting, silver maple plantlets could be transplanted into a growing medium and placed directly onto a greenhouse bench. Studies were also conducted on rooting stem cuttings (macropropagation). Single nodes from juvenile plants rooted under intermittent mist, regardless of auxin application; however, shoot-tip cuttings from adult trees rooted best when auxin in ethanol solution was applied. Chemical names used: N- phenyl- N' -1,2,3 -thiadiazol-5-ylurea (thidiazuron, TDZ), N- (2-furanylmethyl)-1H-purin-6-amine (kinetin), isopentenyladenine (2iP), benzyladenine (BA), (E)-2-methyl-4-(1H-purin- 6-ylamino)-2-buten-1-ol (zeatin). Silver maples are valued in the landscape because of their at- tractive foliage with its typical "maple" shape and silvery under- side, the graceful inverted vase shape of the mature trees, rapid growth that provides summer shade in a reasonably short time, and adaptability to a wide variety of soil types. The rapid juvenile growth rate is an attribute where fast shade is required (Dirr, 1977) and is also desirable in species grown under short-rotation culture conditions for the production of energy (Ranney et al., 1986). -Appropriate selection and documentation of performance for woody biomass species that grow well on secondary farmland are important to the energy future of the United States. As fossil fuels become depleted, renewable resources can be used to con- vert the sun's energy into biomass. Silver maple has been se- lected as a model species for research under the Short Rotation Woody Crops (SRWC) program, sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Biofuels and Municipal Waste Technology Divi- sion, because of its rapid juvenile growth and other attributes as a potential woody biomass species (Ranney et al., 1986). Research that uses clonal planting stock offers advantages for the study of tree genotypes, as compared to using seedlings from open-pollinated seed orchards. Individual tree seedlings can present problems because the components of genotype and en- vironment are very difficult to separate when one is attempting to interpret the performance of a particular phenotype. Members of clones are genetically identical and, as such, can allow for


Purpose The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the in vivo pre-lens non-invasive drying-up time of two types of daily disposable contact lenses (DDCLs) after 12 hours of wear. Methods This prospective, randomized, single-center, cross-over pilot study evaluated 31 subjects aged 18–44 years with normal eyes and good tear film stability who were adapted current soft contact lens wearers. Subjects wore nelfilcon A and stenfilcon A DDCLs for 12 hours each on two different days. Non-invasive video keratography drying-up time (NIK-DUT) videos of each eye were recorded 12 hours after lens insertion for about 25 seconds, with a 5-minute tear film recovery time allowed between video recordings of the right and left eyes to avoid bias. Post-blink time required to reach 15% distortion of the projected rings and the speed of break-up at 15 seconds post-blink were measured at each time point and on-eye wettability was determined by ring mire projection under white light illumination. Results Mean time to reach 15% ring distortion was similar for nelfilcon A (19.25±3.20 sec) and stenfilcon A (20.24±3.02 sec) DDCLs but varied highly among subjects. The mean speed of break-up at 15 sec post-blink was 0.3±0.38% distortion/sec (95% confidence interval [CI] 0.138–0.365% distortion/sec) for nelfilcon A and 0.2±0.23% distortion/sec (95% CI 0.048–0.279% distortion/sec) for stenfilcon A DDCLs. Conclusion Multifunctional topography allowed the objective evaluation of in vivo pre-lens tear film stability using ring mire projection. This dynamic method was simple, fast and non-invasive, enabling measurements of NIK-DUT and evaluating wettability over a large area, greater than the optical zone of the contact lens surface, for the entire inter-blink interval.


In this paper, a novel simple algorithm of nonlinear load simulation is proposed. The characteristic of load simulation is very important for power electronic load (PEL). About this content, there are few articles mentioned, especially the study of nonlinear load simulation algorithm is less. So on the basis of linear load simulation algorithm introduced, this paper summarizes a kind of algorithm that is easy to be realized in engineering focusing on the implementation of nonlinear load simulation. Through software simulation and experiment, the feasibility and accuracy of the algorithm is verified.


In this paper, the influence of some important parameters affecting the flexural behavior of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with one layer of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminate has been studied. For this purpose, six reinforced concrete beams were cast and tested in the laboratory. Based on the obtained data, when CFRP laminate is applied to the tension face, too close to the steel rebar, the flexural strength of the strengthened beam is reduced. In general, the performance of the beam strengthened with one wide CFRP strip is better than that strengthened with two equivalent narrow strips. Ultimate load capacity of each strengthened beam was calculated based on the method given by the ACI 440.2R and compared with the test one. It is concluded that, to avoid the steel rebar-CFRP laminate interaction effect, the CFRP laminate depth-to-the effective depth ratio (df/d) should not be smaller than about 1.17.


This chapter describes vegetable oil-based addition polymers and polyamides. It deals with the importance, materials and methods, structure–property relationships and applications of vegetable oil-based addition polymers and polyamides. The chapter also includes a short review of such addition polymers and polyamides from various vegetable oils. It is shown that vegetable oils also play a key role in synthesising these industrial polymers. The importance of such polymers is highlighted, as they can be used in surface coatings and paints and in the automotive and transport industry.


Institutions of higher education have the opportunity to address pressing social problems by harnessing the resources of the academy for the public good. Public work takes many forms, including direct service, research, service-learning, and civic engagement. When developing community-based programs and courses, faculty and community engagement professionals (CEP) must consider how to account for power differentials, grapple with root causes, and challenge dominant narratives so as to avoid reinforcing harmful stereotypes. This critical approach to community engagement may result in a justice-orientation to community work. In this chapter, the author explores various modes of community engagement, discusses the central considerations in designing opportunities for students, and describes justice-oriented engagement. In addition, the author reflects on her own experiences and describes the competencies required of a justice-oriented CEP. Finally, the author highlights new directions in community engagement work as a vehicle for transformative change.


Earthquake resistance building design must be considered as a design standard in the future for Pidie Jaya - Aceh government as 7th December in 2016 earthquake in Pidie Jaya Aceh which destroyed many major and minor infrastructures. Therefore, soil dynamic parameters must be obtained for design purposes in Pidie Jaya reconstruction and rehabilitation in the future. To avoid the structural failure during the earthquake process, the value of structural vibration frequency (f) should not similar to the value of natural soil vibration frequency (fn). This article aims to determine the soil dynamic parameter of soil layers for disaster mitigation purposes. Several existing buildings namely Dayah Mudi Samalanga, Baitul Muttaqin Mosque, Cubo Bridge, Regent Office Building, Local Lawyer Office and around Pidie Jaya fault were chosen for soil sampling locations. Dynamic parameter of Gmax and Vs are the result of this research. Moreover, the fn value was calculated by Kramer method. Comparison of fn values was performed by simple modeling off values based on SNI 1726-2012. The highest value of the void ratio (e) was obtained in Baitul Muttaqin Mosque soil sample which is 1.84. The highest fn value is at Pidie Jaya fault, which is 2.01 Hz and the lowest fn value is at Baitul Muttaqin Mosque, Pidie Jaya, which is 1.301 Hz.


Abstract Aluminum metal matrix composites (AMMCs) are light-weight materials are widely used in structural applications due to their favorable properties such as lightweight, high specific strength and modulus, wear resistance and low coefficient of thermal expansion. Today, new developed magnetic aluminium based composites (Al-Zn-Si) became very attractive due to their improved magnetic, physical and mechanical properties. These composites, depending on final desired properties with different reinforcement types, are very suitable for electrical motors and other usage in aircraft engineering. These promising properties of AMMCs are attributed to the size and distribution of the reinforcement, as well as to the grain size of the matrix. Process that was used in this work is called 'Sinter-Forging' during which compacted aluminium specimens were forged just after sintering. A novel near-net shape, low-cost sinter-forging approach to processing particle-reinforced metal matrix composites allow manufacturing parts for high performance applications with short processing time and low energy consumption. The aim of this work is to briefly present the efficient 'Sinter-Forging Process' and to summarize properties of new composites developed for aeronautical applications.


To ensure the trouble-free operation of the rock-destroying tool, the peculiarities of its interaction with the rock at different stages of work must be additionally studied. Still unexplored in full is the relationship between the state of the equipment of the rock-destroying tool and the oscillatory processes during the operation of the drilling tool. The basic dependences for determining the wear indicators of the equipment of the rock-destroying tool have been proposed. The scheme for implementing the method of assessing the condition and predicting the wear of equipment, taking into account the peculiarities of its interaction with the rock, has been improved. Underlying its implementation is the presence of a law of change of at least one generalized coordinate of an arbitrary cross-section of a drilling tool. Bench experimental studies were carried out, according to the results of which the dependence of the depth of the face deepening on the mode parameters of drilling and the geometry of the equipment was established. It was found that the wear of the cutter by 1 mm causes a decrease in the amplitude of longitudinal oscillations by an average of 1.4 times. The obtained functions of deepening the face were used to determine the energy indicators of the process of rock destruction. Given the peculiarities of the implementation of the experiment, the work and power of the axial load for the destruction of the rocks of the pit were used for such indicators. It should also be noted that the construction of numerical models is necessary for a complete assessment and prediction of the wear of rock-destructive tools. They should reflect the mechanical system and provide the ability to obtain the values of parameters that are not determined by the results of a laboratory experiment.


Evaluating spatial features is a key aspect of addressing environmental issues, extending from natural resources to contaminated sites, and geographic information system (GIS) tools have proven essential to these analyses. Use of GIS is prevalent in natural resource management (Bettinger/Wing 2004), where accurate geographic information is an integral part of decision making. This information is also important for decisions at contaminated sites, and GIS approaches have been widely applied to display extensive information from multiple databases to support risk assessments and cleanup plans. Such plots help highlight key hazards, priority areas, and related cumulative risk issues. Cumulative risk analyses address multiple hazards not only across space and time but also across disciplines, so in evaluating the impacts of current conditions and various management options, not just human health and ecological resources are assessed but also sociocultural and economic resources. These two areas, managing natural resources and contaminated sites, are being more closely integrated as the importance of minimizing harm to site ecosystems and allocating funds wisely gains visibility (Whicker et al. 2004). Until recently, contamination has typically been addressed by aggressive engineering measures that caused ecological harm and were very expensive, with questionable benefit to the overall protection of local communities and cleanup workers. The GIS offers a powerful tool for integrating analyses of both natural and contaminated resources to promote sustainable more environmental decisions that achieve net protection. To review, a GIS provides for storage, organization, manipulation, interpretation and display of points, lines, polygons and raster data as attribute themes and maps. Attribute files stored in a GIS are linked to specific geographic locations to maintain


The incidence of malignant neoplasms in undescended or ectopic testicles is high. Hinman and Benteen1reported an incidence of 7.5 per cent in cryptorchids and stated that tumors occurred 20 times as frequently in undescended testes as in those normally placed. Pace and Cabot2sectioned 24 testicles removed from the abdomen and detected microscopic evidence of cancer in three. Gilbert and Hamilton3reviewed 7,000 recorded cases of testicular tumors and found 840, or 11 per cent, associated with ectopia, a correlation 48 times higher than expected by chance. Orchiopexy is not necessarily an effective prophylactic measure against the development of malignant degeneration. Gilbert and Hamilton3indicated that 77 tumors occurred in testes previously transferred to the scrotum from an ectopic position. Gilbert4analyzed the cases of 58 of a total of 65 patients (two of his own) reported on in the literature in whom malignant


The article gives grounds to suppose that subject's attributes are immanent features of a person's different levels individual, personality, individuality, and subject itself. The highest level of the personality development is subject which coincides with the level of the personality maturity and creativity.


BACKGROUND
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequent complication following cardiac surgery. It occurs mostly between the second and fourth postoperative days and often recurs within 30 days after surgery. While postoperative AF has been well analyzed, post-discharge recurrences of AF have not been clearly described even if they are reported as a frequent cause of re-hospitalization.

METHODS
We followed up 185 patients for 10 +/- 5 months with the aim of characterizing the post-discharge recurrences of AF. All patients had recently undergone cardiac surgery complicated by AF and were in sinus rhythm at the time of admission to our Center. We also compared the efficacy of the main prophylactic regimens adopted in the referral Centers (amiodarone, beta-blockers, amiodarone plus beta-blockers) during the first postoperative month.

RESULTS
In the first postoperative month AF recurred after discharge in 60 patients. The event rate was not different in patients treated with amiodarone and controls (47 vs 50%, p = NS), while it was significantly lower in patients taking beta-blockers either alone or associated with amiodarone (10 and 9% respectively, p = 0.002). At the end of follow up (10 +/- 5 months), AF persisted in 3 out of 176 study patients (1.7%).

CONCLUSIONS
In patients undergoing cardiac surgery, post-discharge recurrences of AF are frequent during the first postoperative month and have a clinical relevance. Beta-blockers (not amiodarone) seem to be an effective prophylactic measure. The phenomenon tends to vanish in the long term, and a chronic prophylaxis is not justified.


The article is dedicated to the perception of the problem of the "strong personality" in the vein of Nietzsche's idea of a superman in Italian literature at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, and especially its echo in L. Pirandello's novel "The Old and the Young". The original interpretation which Pirandello gives to this theme is represented in the context of the writer's philosophical and aesthetic views.


In this paper, the UK's new aircraft carriers are taking shape in an artificial world that looks out over the sea high above Portsmouth, England. The work being done at the QE Class MS Integration facility at Portsdown Technology Park will make sure that the new Queen Elizabeth (QE) Class Aircraft Carriers, currently under construction in shipyards across the UK, will be state of the art and fully integrated with the new F-35 Lightning II when the aircraft is delivered. The QE Class MS team are involved in a three-year programme of visualisation and experimentation to reduce cost through risk mitigation by integrating real, maturing and prototype systems with assistance from their developersworking in partnership with the MoD and Navy to iron out any problems at an early stage. The facility is also designed to evolve to enable the integration of delivered systems prior to their installation on the carriers.


We study the BRST cohomology within a local conformal Lagrangian field theory model built on a two-dimensional Riemann surface with no boundary. We deal with the case of the complex structure parametrized by the Beltrami differential and the scalar matter fields. The computation of all elements of the BRST cohomology is given.


The important parameters of a diffused silicon varactor diode are related to process parameters. Each processing step is analysed for yield and spread in the process parameters it controls. The final yield of the fabrication process and the spread in the device parameters involve yield and spread for each step. Practical results show that the yield and minimization of spread can be optimized.


Distributed speech synthesis (DSS) is a novel field of study and will be playing an active role in the domain of speech technology in the post-PC era. This paper focuses on the architecture design, implementation mechanism and optimization considerations of DSS systems. First, client-server based DSS architectures are investigated in server, client and network parts, respectively. Second, related system implementation issues are discussed correspondingly. Finally, system optimization suggestions in the aspects of data security, QoS control and load balancing between DSS server and client through dynamic arbitration are presented.


Individuals with severe polyarticular rheumatoid arthritis affecting the upper and lower extremities may not be able to grip or lift a standard walker for transfers or walking. For these individuals, a standard walker can be converted easily to a rolling platform walker that facilitates standing transfers and walking (Figure). The approximate cost for the modification is $30.00.

WALKER MODIFICATION

To convert a standard walker to a rolling platform walker, affix a 22-in × 8-in × .4-in* plywood board to the walker handgrips with strapping and metal screws. The board provides a stable platform on which to pull up to standing and perform forearm weight bearing for ambulation. Place soft padding over the board to prevent splintering while providing greater weight-bearing comfort.

Insert two Lumex Auto-Stop† wheels into the front legs of the walker to permit easy forward rolling while providing a braking action, which prevents rolling during forearm weight bearing.


Among the different data mining techniques which can be used to extract knowledge from numerical data, the nearest neighbor approach has been widely applied in many mathematical and statistical problems. In this paper we use an algorithm based on a modified version of the nearest neighbor method to solve a problem of classifying the creditworthy clients, in a banking context. The empirical analysis is undertaken by considering data from an Italian local bank.


We present a method for the automatic delineation of two neuromelanin rich brainstem structures –substantia nigra pars compacta (SN) and locus coeruleus (LC)- in neuromelanin sensitive magnetic resonance images of the brain. The segmentation method uses a dynamic multi-image reference atlas and a pre-registration atlas selection strategy. To create the atlas, a pool of 35 images of healthy subjects was pair-wise pre-registered and clustered in groups using an affinity propagation approach. Each group of the atlas is represented by a single exemplar image. Each new target image to be segmented is registered to the exemplars of each cluster. Then all the images of the highest performing clusters are enrolled into the final atlas, and the results of the registration with the target image are propagated using a majority voting approach. All registration processes used combined one two-stage affine and one elastic B-spline algorithm, to account for global positioning, region selection and local anatomic differences. In this paper, we present the algorithm, with emphasis in the atlas selection method and the registration scheme. We evaluate the performance of the atlas selection strategy using 35 healthy subjects and 5 Parkinson's disease patients. Then, we quantified the volume and contrast ratio of neuromelanin signal of these structures in 47 normal subjects and 40 Parkinson's disease patients to confirm that this method can detect neuromelanin-containing neurons loss in Parkinson's disease patients and could eventually be used for the early detection of SN and LC damage.


This study had two purposes. The first is to examine the effect of emotional labor on casino employees` job attitudes(job satisfaction, turnover intend). The second is to examine the moderating effect of the organizational support on the relationship between emotional labor and job attitudes The result showed that only deep acting is positively associated job satisfaction and negatively associated with turnover intend. The surface acting had no significant effects on the job attitude. The second finding is in the context of the first finding. The moderating effect of organizational support on the relationship emotional labor and job attitudes is only significant in the case of deep acting.


The study is aimed at investigating into the recognition and assessment of students who major option tennis in Baotou teachers college academy institute on option tennis.120 students were investigated by condensed questionnaire.The result of researching indicates that the students are quiet positive.The numbers of students argue that the teaching space and the number of every class are all should be improved.It also needs to improve in the education aspect.This research offers the reliable encasement for us to probe the education optimize.


The multipurpose canister (MPC) project represents a cornerstone of the current U.S. Department of Energy`s Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (OCRWM) program for handling spent nuclear fuel. The MPC and associated support equipment is being designed to accommodate the requirements for not only storage and transport but also for the specified disposal requirements of the mined geologic repository system. The phase 1 design effort for the MPC system, being performed by the Westinghouse team on behalf of TRW Environmental Safety Systems (TESS), the OCRWM management & operating (M&O) contractor, is on schedule for delivery of completed safety analysis reports (SARs) in April 1996.


This paper proposes fault(attack) detection and localization scheme to handle multiple failures(attacks) in the optical network using wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technology. This proposed scheme is two-phased scheme containing (a) the detection of faults(attacks) through monitoring devices raising alarms (fault or attack detection) and (b) subsequently the localization of these faults or attacks (fault or attack localization) by invoking an algorithm. The later phase will obtain a set of potential faulty(attacked) nodes (links). Next the scheme locates the exact faulty(attacked) node(link) by the process of sending and receiving signals. I have demonstrated the performance of the scheme on 14-node NSFNet and 28-node EuroNet. Next I have compared this scheme with an existing algorithm [1] for locating faulty nodes (links). The proposed scheme outperforms the existing one.


offers specific examples of historical lessons for the countries involved. The importance of past relationships and common histories may figure significantly in this new global economy. This book offers itself to a wide variety of potential uses in the academic environment. It could be used as an excellent introductory reading in the disciplines of geography and political science (in the area of comparative politics and international relations and/or international law). In providing this introduction to the political and economic uncertainty of the Caspian region, Diba has produced a work that is both timely and necessary. The book fills a void in the extant literature, primarily because its focus is a new and growing concern, since the most significant changes have been less than ten years in the making. The volume's substantial appendix includes articles referencing specific treaties and samples of correspondence relevant to the history of the region. These appendices will aid in understanding the regional tensions, by configuring a chronology of historical events and diplomatic maneuverings. Lacking in this work, however, is a clearer, more detailed presentation of the actual spatial relationships of the region. In the discussion of the border states, their relationships to each other, the varying methods of boundary delineation, and the legal aspects of access to the sea, a map or series of maps could have supported the analysis and made the presentation much more accessible to the average reader. L. Joe Morgan University of North Carolina, Greensboro


A fixed prosthesis is defined by the Academy of Prosthodontics as any dental prosthesis that isluted, screwed or mechanically attached or otherwise securely retained to natural teeth, tooth roots and or dental implant abutments. Examples of these prostheses are crowns, bridges and onlays, which serve to restore the function and aesthetics of badly broken down teeth and in some instances to replace missing teeth [1].


By using pollen staining technology,this paper studied the drift frequency and distance of transgenic phyA maize pollen. The risk probability of the pollen drift differed in different directions,and decreased with the increasing distance from the central planting area of transgenic phyA maize. The pollen drift risk probability was the maximum( 65. 6%- 82. 5%) at the place of 1 m distance from the central planting area of transgenic phyA maize,which was significantly greater than that( 21. 8%) at the place of 3 m distance from the central planting area. At the places of above 5 m distance from the central planting area,the pollen drift risk probability was less than 8. 7%. Due to the different weather conditions of sampling dates,the pollen drift distance was somewhat different,and the maximum distance of pollen drift could be 35 m from the central planting area of transgenic phyA maize.


MB-003, a 3-page fact sheet by Patricia Fajardo-Cavazos and Wayne L. Nicholson, gives step-by-step instructions for an elementary school class exercise in which students isolate visible strands of their own DNA using easily obtained materials. The value of this exercise is explained. Published by the UF Department of Microbiology, October 2006.


The following with slight modifications is a list of books two sets of which have been acquired for the special use of Freshmen students in the University of Chicago, who are taking the survey course in English literature which precedes all the advanced courses. The basic idea in formulating the list is that for each division pursuing the general introductory course in English literature there ought to be a special library on exhibit, either in the classroom or at some designated place in the college library. This collection should have in its favor two features: (i) It should come moderately near to representing the chief needs for collateral reading in connection with such a course. (2) It should serve as an eyeopener to students with reference to the cheapness and attractiveness of standard works which they might care to purchase for themselves. It is not for a moment assumed that any student will read all of these books in connection with the course, but it is fair to suppose that the assembling of them as a group will lure the students on to reading which they might not otherwise attempt, and that it will begin their acquaintance, through the mere sight of the books, with works which they will subsequently read. The list has been made up on the basis not solely of devising a theoretical model library, but also, in conjunction with this, of utilizing books in print in standard series at low prices. These are drawn almost exclusively from the following series:


Mangroves are peculiar ecosystem and it is found at tropical regions. The degradation of mangroves changes the surface radiation balance, consequently, the albedo. To evaluate and compare albedo data two micrometeorological steal towers was installed in the Marechal Deodoro city, Alagoas, Brazil from October 2004 to October 2005. On the native mangrove tower (9o 42' 18"S; 35o 48' 32" W) two pyranometers were fixed above the canopy to collected incident and reflected solar radiation, and in October 2005, a third pyranometer was installed inside of the mangrove area. On the deforested area (9o 36' 38" S; 35o 46' 03" W) radiation sensors were installed at a higher 2m above the surface. The results had shown that in average the albedo above mangrove forest is 5% higher than over others kind of tropical forest, as an example, Amazonian rain forest. The maximum registered internal albedo was 13% and it was reached when canopy albedo was at lowest ≈ 20%, evidencing the tilde influence. Moreover, at the deforested area albedo was, in average 35%, which implies an increase of 49 % when the natural area is deforested.


Abstract: Optical microscopy is a noninvasive tool for the visualization and identification of molecular and nanoscopic compounds in tissues. Nonlinear optical microscopy, in particular, is capable of imaging selected targets in live tissues in real time and with sub-micrometer resolution. These attributes make nonlinear optical microscopy a prime candidate for mapping engineered nanomaterials in a wide variety of tissues. This chapter reviews the basics of various forms of nonlinear optical microscopy that are poised to play an important role in photomedicine.


The gas utilities, first among the energy industries to feel the threat of shortages and customer losses, have competed vigorously to retain their market share by securing long-term contracts. Gas utilities project a much higher (30 to 35 trillion cubic feet (tcf)) annual supply in the year 2000 than the 10 to 15 tcf projected by the oil companies. The gas utilities argue that using high-Btu gas from coal to generate electricity is the most cost-effective, efficient, and the least environmentally damaging way to use coal. The author blames the historical perception of gas as a by-product of petroleum and the self-fulfilling assumption of declining supplies for limiting production. The industry has fought these two assumptions by arguing that reserve estimates are too low, that regulated prices discourage exploration and production, and that Federal funding and attention have been too small.


New series of complexes of general [Ru(Cl)2(H2O)2.L]nH2O ; where LH=[α-(2-hydroxy-1-naphthyl)-N-(p-R-phenyl nitrone] n=0-6 and R=H, Cl , Br , COCH3 , NHCOCH3 , NH2 and CH3 were formula synthesized and characterized by their elemental analysis(CHN) , molar conductance , magnetic moments , infrared and electronic spectral measurements. The Ligand (L) acted as a bidentate, univalent toward the ruthenium (III( ion via the two oxygen atoms of, the nitrone and naphtholic groups, with the presence of two chloride ions and two aqua molecules the most probable octahedral geometry around each ruthenium ion in each complex. Khalaf I. Khallow & Eman M.H. Al-Bayate 87 The elemental analysis as well the infrared spectra revealed the presence of lattice water molecules outside the coordination sphere. Their molar conductance measurements revealed the nonelectrolytie behavior of the synthesized complexes.


18 Background: The use of oral anti-cancer medications- which are often high priced with significant cost sharing to the patient- is increasing. Transparency of out-of-pocket costs and payment responsibility has historically been limited due to the wide variation in coverage by insurance plans and pharmacy benefits. Our study utilized a novel pharmacy database to describe within-drug and between-drug variation in patient copayments for ten common oral anti-cancer medications. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study including all patients prescribed an oral cancer-directed therapy through the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Specialty Pharmacy between January 1,2021 and December 31, 2021. The unit of analysis was defined as patient-drug. Copayments were standardized as 30-day costs. Data was abstracted through our institution's Specialty Pharmacy prescribing database and linked to demographic data through the institutional electronic medical record system. Between drug variation in copayments was analyzed using Pearson chi square tests. Results: There were 1,357 total patient-drug combinations over the study period. Medicare Part D was the primary payor (44%) followed by commercial insurance (25%). The ten most frequently prescribed medications (Table) accounted for 50% of all oral anti-cancer prescriptions. Minimum monthly copayment for all medications was $0. There were significant differences across medications in the percentage of patients with a mean copayment above $150 (Χ2 = 33.9, p < 0.001) and percentage of patients receiving financial assistance (Χ2 = 63, p < 0.001). Conclusions: There was a high amount of within-drug and between-drug variation in copayments within an integrated specialty pharmacy program. It is essential to identify patients with high copayments early on in cancer treatment and connect them with tangible resources to help mitigate the growing financial impact of these medications.[Table: see text]


ABSTRACT Elementary particle aspects using beams from accelerators and cosmic raysare compared. An important feature in high energy physics is particle identi-fication in the final state. This technique is used to describe global featuresof e + e − -annihilations such as multiplicities and multiplicity distributions ofcharged hadrons and the relative fractions of pions, kaons and protons. Alsothe characteristic properties of quark and gluon jets and scaling violation ine + e − -interactions are discussed. INTRODUCTION Cosmic ray experiments investigating problems of high energy physics are alwaysfixed target experiments. This implies the disadvantage that only a small fractionof the energy of the incident particle can be used for the creation of new particleswhile the major part is used to boost the interaction products into the forwarddirection.For a target of mass m and an energy of the incident particle E lab the center-of-mass energy squared s is calculated to bes = 2mE lab , (1)as long as E


Wear is the progressive loss of the material from the operating surface of machine due to relative motion between surfaces. The successful design of machine elements depends upon essentially on the understanding tribological principles like wear and friction. The lubricating oils are the blood of the machine's operation, and the service life and economic effectiveness of the machine are relative to the quality, performance and reasonable use of the oils. Nanoparticles put into lubricating oils can improve the properties of extreme pressure, anti-wear and friction reducing. Efficiency and service life of the machine were also improved. In recent years, many scientific researchers have dedicated themselves to studying lubricating oil additives as an important project. In the present review paper, comparative study of tribological properties like anti-wear and friction reducing properties of nano- lubrication oils are studied. In the studied papers nano- lubrication oils are made by adding different nanoparticles like Cu, CuO, TiO2, CeO2 to different lubricating base oils/engine oils in varying proportions.


Multichannel dc SQUID systems have to be mounted inside a cryostat to be operated below the critical temperature Tc. SQUIDs have to be encapsulated to prevent aging of the high temperature superconducting (HTS) materials. Additive manufacturing offers the opportunity to develop arbitrary structures for sample holders and SQUID capsules to address problems of conventionally manufactured systems. To investigate the potential of additive manufacturing techniques for the use with superconductors for wiring purposes, we developed a 3D-printing process for the high-Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O7. For this purpose we built a 3D printer with a paste extruder to print different ceramics and printed with this setup substrates out of SrTiO3 dispersed in water and polyethylene glycol. Furthermore, the option to print YBa2Cu3O7 with the paste extruder was investigated. For this purpose YBa2Cu3O7 was dispersed in different organic solvents and printed on the additive manufactured substrates. Measurements showed that superconducting properties emerged below a Tc of about 84 K. Currently the process is being optimized for larger sample sizes, arbitrary structures and higher current capacity of the superconducting structures.


After calculation,we adopt reasonable cutting parameters,and optimize the headstock design,including cutting tools and their jig and fixture. Then at the factory's present condition,we make good use of old power units,adopting dual-rate electrical machine,to solve the problem of power deficiency during the period of design. So we can provide feasible way to solve such kind of problems.


Life span assessment is a very important issue for the nuclear community. A serious threat to the life span of a Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) is an occurrence of the Pressurized Thermal Shock (PTS) during an Emergency Core Coolant (ECC) injection in a loss-of-coolant accident. Traditional system codes fail to predict the complex three-dimensional flow phenomena resulting from such an ECC injection. Improved results have been obtained using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis based on the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. However, it has been shown also that current transient RANS approaches are less capable to predict complex flow features in the downcomer of the RPV. More advanced CFD methods like Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) are required for modeling of these complex flow phenomena in the downcomer. The current paper addresses the feasibility of the application of LES for single-phase PTS. Furthermore, the required grid resolution for such LES analyses is identified by evaluation of solutions on different meshes. A buoyancy-driven PTS experiment has been considered. This experiment has been performed in the 1:5 linear scale Rossendorf Coolant Mixing Model (ROCOM) facility. In the applied numerical model, the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved in the LES formulation, with an additional transport equation for a scalar, which is responsible for driving the embedded buoyancy term in the momentum equations. Instantaneous mixing characteristics are investigated based on evaluation of the scalar concentration. The analysis presented in this paper indicates that the application of LES is feasible nowadays. It is demonstrated that the mixing in the downcomer is quite sensitive to small turbulent disturbances at the ECC inlet, i.e., two simulations performed with slightly different fluctuations at inlet result in substantially different flow in the downcomer. This complicates the analysis of the data from simulations and suggests that validation against experimental data should not be performed using single physical experiment.© 2009 ASME


Treatment refractory bipolar disorder (TRBD) cases are known to be notoriously difficult to manage. The problems further increase when a comorbid illness is associated with it. Traditionally clozapine has been used in a slow titration regime which takes two to three weeks for reaching the desired dose and thus duration of hospital stay is prolonged. Here we report a case of TRBD with comorbid tibia-fibula fracture successfully treated with rapid dose clozapine titration regime, without any overt side effects. We observed rapid dose titration regime to be extremely effective in fast control of agitated-violent behavior and superior mood stabilization. This suggests rapid titration of clozapine as a suitable alternative for hospitalized TRBD patients, especially when the severe manic symptoms cause hindrance to adequate management of a comorbid illness.


Cubiu (Solanum sessiliflorum Dunal) is a fruit with high potential for being used in food industry in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. This work was carried out to verify the effect of modified atmosphere associated with refrigeration on postharvest conservation of cubiu fruits. Ripe fruits, except the control ones, were stored on polystyrene trays under passive modified atmosphere (polyvinyl chloride film coverage) and stored under refrigeration (7°C and ±85% relative humidity) for 16 days. Every three days they were analysed regarding weight loss, acidity, pH, soluble solids, total sugars, ascorbic acid, phenolic compounds, polyphenoloxidase activity, alcohol insoluble solids and pectin. Neither atmosphere nor storage time produced difference on most chemical compounds, but in both cases, the ascorbic acid content only lowered in the first eight days (yet the decrease was sharper in environmental atmosphere). Concentrations of phenolic compounds and polyphenoloxidase activity were higher in mesocarp tissues. Weight loss reduction in the fruit as a whole, lack of wrinkling in the surrounding area of stem insertion, and superficial darkening right in the stem insertion, were the major benefits provided by the passive modified atmosphere in the postharvest conservation of very ripe cubiu fruits stored for sixteen days under refrigeration.


Data has multi-view representations from various feature spaces in real world. Multi-view clustering algorithms allow leveraging information from multiple views of the data and this may substantially improve the clustering result obtained by using a single view. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm called Collaborative PLSA (C-PLSA) for multi-view clustering, which works on the assumption that the clustering from one view should agree with the clustering from another view. The proposed C-PLSA combines individual PLSA models on two different views, and imports a regularizer to force the both clustering results agree across the two views. To solve the regularized problem, an alternative optimization algorithm based on generalized EM (GEM) is adopted for maximum likelihood estimation. Experiments on two real-world datasets, i.e., Reuters multilingual text and Corel images, demonstrate the improved performance of our proposed method over some related work.


Background: Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) is a non-invasive assessment of body composition and cellular health, which may improve the assessment of nutritional status in sick children. We explored the reliability, clinical utility, and acceptability of BIVA, as an indicator of nutritional status for children under five years with and without pneumonia, in Malawi. Methods: We conducted a parallel convergent mixed-methods exploratory study in Mchinji District Hospital, Malawi, in 2017. We planned to recruit a convenience sample of children aged 0-59 months with clinical pneumonia, and without an acute illness. Children had duplicate anthropometric and BIVA measurements taken. BIVA measurements of phase angle (PA) were taken of the whole body, and trunk and arm segments. Reliability was assessed by comparing the variability in the two measures, and clinical utility by estimating the association between anthropometry segment, and a positive association with WAZ in the full body measurement in healthy children. Healthcare workers in focus group discussions expressed trust in BIVA technology and that it would enable more accurate diagnosis of malnutrition; however, they raised concerns about the sustainability and necessary resources to implement BIVA. Conclusions : While healthcare workers were positive towards BIVA as a novel technology, implementation challenges should be expected. The differential direction of association between anthropometry and PA for children with pneumonia warrants further investigation.


This paper addressed the problem of both time-constrained and resource-constrained loop pipelining. Retiming and pipelining of the original data-flow graph have become a popular subject for loop scheduling. Many methods use heuristic way to search the best solution of scheduling and they may be time-consuming. This paper presented a novel retiming method based on special nodes. It is an improvement of MARS design system and its efficiency is shown by an example.


Differentiation of intra-axial brain masses with conventional MRI or CT imaging is difficult especially neoplastic from non neoplastic masses. Advanced MR imaging techniques, such as diffusion weighted MR imaging, perfusion MR imaging and MR spectroscopy can further improve the diagnostic accuracy of conventional CT and MR imaging. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging may detect inflammatory processes, whereas characteristics of peritumoral area may help to distinguish between metastases and glioblastomas. In solid tumors DWI, may also aid the differentiation between low grade gliomas and malignant tumors. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging also provides adjunctive information for detection of demyelinating processes. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging has an important role in diagnosis & differential diagnosis of the ring enhanced intracranial lesions with the conventional MR sequences after IV contrast injection. Purpose: To determine the accuracy of a Diffusion-weighted MR imaging in diagnosis and to differentiate and characterize the intra-axial enhancing focal lesions, according to its histopathological findings or clinical diagnosis. Materials and Methods: 40 patients (25 men and 15 women), mean age, 34.5 years) with neurological symptoms with or without previous investigations were enrolled into this study. Results: Search results showed 10 patients with high-grade and 5 with low-grade primary neoplasm, 10 with abscesses, 4 with lymphoma, 8 with demyelinating diseases, and 3 with metastases. Those lesions revealed different patterns of DW and ADC values. Conclusion: Diffusion-weighted MR imaging is significant in diagnosis and accurate in differentiation of several intra-axial brain focal lesions. [Ali Abdel-Fattah Alsyed Esmael, Mahmoud Abu-el-fadl,; Mustafa Motawe, Ismail Badawy, Seham Abbas Aly and Emad Fawzy. Role of Diffusion-weighted MR Imaging in diagnosis of intra-axial contrast enhanced brain masses. J Am Sci 2013;9(5):131-139]. (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.jofamericanscience.org. 18


Nowadays the importance of the term DevOps (Developer Operations) has increased around the world, and Mexico is not the exception. This paper describes the implementation of information security and risk management best practices in a DevOps approach established in a Data Center of a large government organization of Mexico. The DevOps approach with security and risk management practices was named as DevSecOps + Risk Management and it aims to produce a strategy among automatize operation within the organization or enterprise using information technologies, software engineering and quality controls, so that, it allows managing work flows, version control, software product release, risk management and security reinforcement, considering people and technology.


Uranium and its oxide have been brief introduced in this paper.Progress in processes and application of UO_2 pellets is also introduced.This article mainly focuses on the recent progress in low temperature sintering of UO_(2+x) pellets in partial pressure oxidation.Moreover,the opinions on future studies and application,(1) diffuse sintering and active sintering are main mechanism of low temperature sintering of UO_(2+x) pellets,(2) better process parameter and larger grain size are key problem of low temperature sintering of UO_(2+x) pellets,were presented.