From 1967, when Gaspare De Fiore published La figurazione dello spazio architettonico, to the present day, exactly 50 years have gone by, yet the work retains the same freshness I discovered when I started reading it, for the first time, during our academic education.  Perhaps the secret is to be found in the ultimate spirit of the book, which, as the author states in the introduction: "[...] wants to be just a research proposal of this 'sense of space'"


Spatial decision-making for site selection for earthquake-induced migration involves comprehensive consideration and evaluation of natural and civil factors,and the proper use of multi-source data,especially the spatial data,will decide whether the decision-making is science-based and reasonable.Taking advantage of fast data acquisition of Remote Sensing(RS) and the great spatial data analysis capacity of Geographic Information System(GIS),this paper built 2 spatial models for location fitness zoning of the relevant data of the study region and,based on the results,performed a comprehensive fuzzy evaluation of the candidate locations.In addition,seven first-class indicators(including geological safety,terrain,natural and cultural protection,transportation,development potential and others) and fifteen second-class indicators(including active faults,geological hazards,land cover,ecological and environmental protection,tourism resources and others) of Miansi Town in Wenchuan were evaluated by the two proposed models to provide assistant dada for site selection decision-making in earthquake-stricken areas.


One-to three-month-old infants(n=232) were compared their growth performance(weight, length, head circumference, chest circumference) by feeding methods in cross-sectional study. There were two groups : breast-fed(BF) and formula-fed groups(FF). The weights of infants at 1, 2, and 3 postpartum month were 4.50±0.48㎏, 5.76±0.62㎏ and 6.67±0.68㎏, respectively. The weight of male infants was higher than females. The length were 53.7±2.6㎝, 57.4±3.3㎝, 61.1±3.1㎝ at one to three postpartum months, respectively. The length of male infants was higher than females, too. Overall there were no significant differences between feeding methods in weight, length, head and chest circumferences, and monthly weight and length velocity. But 3-month-old formula-fed male infants showed bigger significantly in weight, monthly weight velocity and chest circumference than the breast-feds. By Korean standards, weight-for-height Z-score were distributed from 0 to +2. Not only was there a few malnourished infants but also overnourished were noticed, especially in formula-fed group. From this survey, long-term survey on growth and development of large scales might be necessary to determine the effect of feeding methods of infants after 3 months and to set proper growth standard for infant. And it was suggested that the careful attention of polarized nutritional problems of early infants was needed, especially in formula-fed group. (Korean J Community Nutrition 2(1) : 3 ~12, 1997)


Abstract This article aims to delve into the patterns of convergence and divergence of interests among three key regional players in the Middle East: the Russian Federation, Turkey and Iran. Reflecting on three recent pivotal events—namely the Syrian question and growing extremism in the Middle East; the Iranian quest for normalisation of ties with the West; and the annexation of Crimea by Russia and ongoing Black Sea disputes—the article argues that Moscow, Ankara and Tehran are seen as attempting, at least in the short term, to narrow down their foremost geopolitical differences for the sake of preserving their national interests as well as regional security and stability.


Practice has shown that the western democratic legal systems have developed several alternative dispute ways for resolving disagreements between the parties other that national courts. The article aims to explore and highlight the differences between peaceful means of conflict resolution and to provide a clear framework of the necessity of their promotion and further development. Depending on the different jurisdictions of the states, the opinion regarding the duties, rights and obligations of the parties in the process of ADR is different between each of this means and different regarding the domestic courts. In most legal systems the role of the conciliator, arbitrator or mediator it is simply to try to bring the parties together. For example, the proposed possibility of arbitration to withdraw the disputes from the jurisdiction of national courts is extremely beneficial to investment attractiveness. All this led to the exponential growth of bilateral and regional agreements for the protection and promotion of foreign investment, where one of the main provisions is the possibility of transmitting disputes between investors and the state of international arbitration. The sources of the law of ADR lie in a number of international conventions, international model laws and model rules, and institutional rules. To these may be added domestic legislation, reports of awards and academic writings. An arbitrator or mediator is described as 'a disinterested person, to whose judgment and decision matters in dispute are referred and must act in accordance with the rules of natural justice. Mediation practitioners point to a number of advantages which the mediation process has over the domestic court. In fact, it must be acknowledged that ADR usually takes place when at least one of the parties is unreasonable. Helping the parties to see the reason is a useful social role. The difference between this methods of resolving disputes would be so that the purpose of a conciliator, mediator or arbiter, would be to encourage the parties themselves to understand what benefits they can get from resolving the case out of court in which way they deem most appropriate. Historical scientific methods are used in this research. The theory part it is presented with concrete cases from practice of both judicial and non-judicial ways of resolving conflicts, logical system, method of analysis and synthesis. In this paper as well are used formal-legal and comparative-legal methods. The writing is guided by the provisions of the conceptual theory of international arbitration law and domestic law. Research methods were used, of simple presentation of facts to argue the concrete point of view and the characteristics of the clarification of this research.


Observation and experiment on the evapotranspiration rates (ET) of farmland were conducted in Dingxi Arid Meteorology and Ecological Environment Experimental Station, Institute of Arid Meteorology, CMA in 1993,1994 and 1996 by using Lysimeter technique and Bowen ratio-energy balance method (BREB). The results show that the BREB overestimated ET by about 20%, which can satisfy the accuracy demands in the semi-arid rainfed agricultural region. Moreover, the error in the BREB calculations of ET is smaller during non-advective periods than in advective periods. The agreement between the BREB method and Lysimeter technique on ET is better, but the Lysimeter technique underestimated ET because water and energy exchange is separated between Lysimeter and around field, and the exact error need to be confirmed by more observation study.


Power factor correction (PFC) technology has gradually become an important subject in the field of power electronic research. CCM mode Boost PFC is the most commonly used topology in high power converting occasions. This paper presented a detailed analysis on working principle of CCM Boost PFC. Besides, according to the different states of inductor current and output current, the working mode of inductor energy supply can be devided into two types. In this paper the two working modes were analyzed, with the derivation of boundary conditions and the value of critical inductance. A 400W Boost PFC model was made on the basis of Simulink platform. The simulation waveforms and experimental results were presented at last.


The cannabinoid system is a novel intercellular signaling system that plays a prominent role, among others, in the control of basal ganglia function. This finding can be concluded from the data obtained in different series of anatomical, biochemical, electrophysiological and pharmacological studies. These data demonstrated: (i) that the basal ganglia contain high levels of endocannabinoids and their receptors, mainly including the cannabinoid CB1 receptor subtype but also a related receptor type, the Correspondence/Reprint request: Prof. Javier Fernández-Ruiz, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular III, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Complutense, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040-Madrid Spain. E-mail: email@example.com Javier Fernández-Ruiz et al. 76 vanilloid TRPV1 receptor; (ii) that the activation or the blockade of this system produces important changes in motor behavior, changes that are originated as a consequence of interactions of the cannabinoid system with various classic neurotransmitters such as GABA, dopamine or glutamate; and (iii) the occurrence of marked changes in specific elements of the cannabinoid signaling system in various basal ganglia disorders, with emphasis in the induction/upregulation of the cannabinoid CB2 receptor subtype. This large evidence relating endocannabinoids and their receptors to the function of the basal ganglia, both in the healthy and the pathological brain, has provided support for the idea that cannabinoid-based medicines, with selectivity for different targets of the cannabinoid signaling system (synthetic enzymes, receptors, inactivation system), might have therapeutic potential to alleviate symptoms and/or provide neuroprotection in basal ganglia disorders, in particular Parkinson ́s disease and Huntington ́s chorea. The present chapter will review the knowledge on this issue trying to establish the future lines for the research on the therapeutic potential of the cannabinoid signaling system in basal ganglia disorders. Introduction: Brief summary of the cannabinoid


Trained immunity (TI) has been speculated to serve as a contributor to autoimmune disease (AD) pathogenesis via generation of hyper-inflammatory myeloid cells. Using a mouse model of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), we show that hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) constitute a transplantable, long-term reservoir for macrophages that exhibit features of TI, including increased Mycobacterium avium killing, inflammatory cytokine production, and augmented capacity to co-stimulate naive T cells. Strikingly, hematopoietic progenitor cells derived from these HSC exhibit unique molecular features characterized by reduced chromatin accessibility and transcription of metabolic genes, accompanied by reduced glycolysis and central carbon metabolism. Altogether, our data identify HSC as a functional unit of TI in chronic AD, establish increased T-cell costimulatory activity as a potentially pathogenic feature of TI in this setting, and show that macrophages inherit reduced metabolic activity from AD-exposed HSC, suggesting metabolic activation and TI can be decoupled. Our findings thus implicate HSC as a long-term reservoir for TI that could contribute to AD.


Specialist foster family care has quietly developed in the last twenty years and consistently reflects features of families' services providing within their homes, receiving payment for services, and are the primary service providers with social workers and other staff providing back up supervision and consultation. Matters for consideration as this programming thrust develops include distinguishing models of service which define the problem as lying with the child who is assumed to require treatment contracted with models which take a more ecological approach, clarifying the roles of foster parents and social workers, specifying the role of birth parents in specialist foster family care programs, developing the relationship of specialist foster family care to permanency planning, and identifying possible future directions including more extensive use of this type of service for adults.


L-selectride reduction of a chiral or achiral enone followed by reaction of the resulting enolate with optically active alpha-alkoxy aldehydes proceeded with excellent diastereoselectivity. The resulting alpha,alpha-dimethyl-beta-hydroxy ketones are inherent to a variety of biologically active natural products.


This study aims to determine 1) Effect of supervision of principals on work motivation of teachers in SMA Negeri 1 Maumere. 2) The effect of compensation on work motivation of teachers in SMA Negeri 1 Maumere. 3) Effect of supervision of principals on teacher performance in SMA Negeri 1 Maumere. 4) Effect of compensation to the performance of teachers in SMA Negeri 1 Maumere. 5) The effect of work motivation on teacher performance in SMA Negeri 1 Maumere. 6) Role of Motivation as a mediating influence supervision of principals on teacher performance in SMA Negeri 1 Maumere. 7) The role of motivation to work as a mediating influence of compensation on teacher performance in SMA Negeri 1 Maumere. Analysis of the data used in the study using Path Analysis (path analysis) which is the application of multiple regression using the path diagram as a guide t test the hypothesis testing as a basis for decision making in determining the direct and indirect effects of research dependent and independent variables.


Syntheses of the tetradehydroaza[14]annulene (5), the tetradehydroazabenz[14]annulene (6), the tetra-dehydroazadibenz[14]annulene (7), the tetradehydroaza[16]annulene (8), the tetradehydroaza[18]-annulene (9), the tetradehydroaza[20]annulene (10), and the tetradehydroaza[22]annulene (11) are described. The aza[16]annulene (8) and the aza[20]annulene (10) are the first examples of monocyclic aza-annulenes to show a paramagnetic ring current. The lactams, the precursors of these aza-annulenes, proved to exist in zwitterionic forms and to exhibit tropic behaviour. Comparison with the carbocyclic annulene series is made on the basis of 1H n.m.r. and electronic spectra of these compounds.


Explores two methods; rainfall thresholding and landslide susceptibility assessment that may be uses in the management of slope instability in landslide prone area


Taking a LNG plant for example,the application of double temperature heat conduction oil furnace to natural gas purification process is introduced.Combined with other natural gas heating modes,the advantages of heat conduction oil furnace and the problems to which attention should be paid in its application are presented.


DENMARK: A CO-OPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH. By Frederic C. Howe. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1921. Pp. IX, 203. Price, $2.00. Dr. Howe shows how Denmark has risen from a desperate condition in 1870 to a prosperous and contented condition at the present time, largely through co-operation and self-help on the part of farmers. The United States, which combines extraordinary resources in production with extraordinary expense and waste in marketing, may well consider what Denmark has done to bring producer and consumer together and eliminate the enormous expenses now levied upon both by our system. J. H. T.


Rain removal in videos is a problem that has attracted tremendous interest of researchers within the field of deep learning. Although deep-learning-based rain removal methods outperform large number of conventional vision methods, some technical issues that need to be resolved remain. In this article, we propose a new deep learning method for video rain removal based on recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture. Pseudo groundtruth was generated from real rainy video sequence by temporal filtering for supervised learning. Instead of focusing on various shapes of rain streaks similar to conventional methods, in this article, we focused on the changing behaviors of rain streaks. To accomplish this, images of progressive rain streaks were generated from the real rain videos and are sequentially fed to the network in a decreasing rain order. Multiple images with different amounts of rain streaks were used as RNN inputs to more efficiently identify rain streaks and then remove them. Experimental results demonstrate that our method is suitable for a wide range of rainy images. Moreover, experiments performed on both real-world and synthetic images demonstrate that our proposed method can achieve competitive results in comparison with the benchmarked and conventional approaches for rain streak removal from images.


The article addresses changes in the species composition of spiders during the warm season. The qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the spider community were analyzed during the most important periods of their activity in the main biotopes of the Volgograd agglomeration. The Cluster Analysis application, based on the Jaccard index, was used. The material was collected using 10 mm Barber soil traps with a fixing liquid (6% acetic acid solution). In total, 235 species of spiders belonging to 26 families were identified, including 195 species belonging to 23 families on the territory of Volgograd. Notably, 155 species were new to the fauna of the Volgograd region. Species Trichoncus villius Tanasevitch et Piterkina was found in the Russian Federation for the first time. The species composition was analyzed during critical periods of spider life: the end of winter diapause, the time before the summer diapause, the termination of summer diapause, and the period of before winter the diapause. In each case a set of traps were exposed for seven days. The spring period was characterized by the maximum number of species, and the maximum similarity in species composition was observed between the moment when spiders leave the winter diapause and the period before the summer diapause. During the warm season, the species composition changed almost completely twice: before the end of the summer diapause and at the end of the warm season, approaching the spring values. These changes were significantly less relevant to near-water biotopes, where environmental conditions were more stable compared to the other studied biotopes.


Two trench-gated power MOSFETs using strained SiGe channel are proposed to further reduce specific on-state resistance. The first is a multiple SiGe and Si layer structure for N-channel MOSFET. A 30nm Si0.85Ge0.15 layer and a 50nm Silicon layer are grown by RPCVD alternatively to achieve sufficient channel length which is longer than critical thickness before the trench etches. The second method is to form the strained SiGe layer along the trench sidewall for P-channel MOSFET. A single Si0.85Ge0.15 layer of 30nm thick is grown after the trench etches. It is expected that the channel mobility in the vertical direction will be increased by up to 40% and 60% for electrons and holes respectively compared to conventional silicon device with same structure and doping profile. The on-state resistance is predicted to be reduced by 12% and 20% for N-channel and P-channel MOSFET accordingly.


Summary. A r ecu rr ence r e l ation fo r the computation of the L p -no r ms of an He r mitian F r edho l m integ r a l operato r is de r ived and an expression giving approximate l y the number of eigenva l ues which in abso l ute va l ue a r e equa l to the spect r a l r adius is dete r mined. Using the L p -no r ms fo r the app r oximation of the spectra l radius of this ope r ato r an a p r iori and an a p o ste r io r i bound fo r the error a r e obtained. Some prope r ties of the a poste r iori bound a r e discussed.


In this paper we study the busy period in GI/G/1 work-conserving queues. We give the exact asymptotics of the tail distribution of the busy period under the light tail assumptions. We also study the workload process in the M/G/1 system conditioned to stay positive.


Condenser microphones using the electret principle have been developed with stable acoustic characteristics when exposed to high humidity and relatively high temperatures. At the same time they possess smooth frequency response characteristics and good sensitivity. Three different sizes have been made: a 1516‐, 12‐, and 14‐in.‐diam microphone. Two different types of 1516‐ and 12‐in. microphones have been designed, one for flat perpendicular incidence free‐field response and the other one for flat random incidence response. The 14‐in. microphone is designed for flat perpendicular incidence free‐field response. Acoustic characteristics of microphones are compared and the influence of environmental factors is discussed.


Aim: To assess the lipid profile and blood glucose concentration association between diabetic patients with and without cardiac disease. Study design: Case-control study Place and Duration: National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases Karachi from January 2021 to June 2021 Methodology: The study included a total of 180 participants categorized into comparative groups. Diabetic patients were categorized into cardiac and non-cardiac patients. Demographic data were collected using a questionnaire, and clinical data were recorded with the physical examination. Blood was collected from all patients for further glucose and lipid profile testing. Data were evaluated using SPSS version 21. Results: The average age was 49.53 ± 11.24 and 54.38 ± 11.87 years for non-cardiac and cardiac patients. Whereas BMI of 28.16 ± 5.89 and 27.64 ± 4.18 was observed in diabetic patients with non-cardiac and cardiac diseases. A total of 73 (81.2%) were smokers with cardiac diseases, and 58 (64.4%) were smokers without cardiac disease. A total of 80% of cardiac and 57.7% of non-cardiac patients had a family history of diabetes. Significant high levels of Cholesterol, LDL-C, and Glucose were observed. However, significantly lower levels of HDL-C were observed between patients with and without cardiac disease. Conclusion:The results of the current study indicate that patients with diabetes having cardiovascular disease have a significant association with biochemical parameters. Those with diabetes are more likely to acquire hyperlipidemia. Keywords: Biochemical parameter, cardiovascular disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Cholesterol, Dyslipidemia


The invention discloses a preparation method of an aliphatic powdery water reducing agent. The preparation method comprises following steps: 1, water and a sulphite is uniformly mixed so as to obtain a first mixed solution; 2, acetone, a formaldehyde aqueous solution, and a hydrosulphite solution are uniformed mixed so as to obtain a second mixed solution; 3, the second mixed solution is added into the first mixed solution dropwise and uniformly in 90min, after adding, sulfonation reaction is carried out, after sulfonation reaction, an obtained solution is cooled to as to obtain a mother solution; 4, an anticaking agent is added into the mother solution, and steam is used for homogenization; and 5, an obtained material is subjected to spray drying so as to obtain the aliphatic powdery water reducing agent. According to the preparation method, the anticaking agent is added into the mother solution before spray drying, so that the obtained aliphatic powdery water reducing agent is low in water content, caking is not easily caused, and production performance is achieved preferably.


A methanogenic bacterium A5 is isolated from the activated sludge of pharmaceutical wastewater by Hungate roll-tube technique.Cells of A5 are gram positive,nonmotile and coccoids(average diameter,0.7 μm).A5 uses acetic acid as substrates for CH4 formation.Identification indicates that it is similar to methanococcus mazei.


Background—Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major cause of mortality in adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) patients. SCD may be prevented by implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implantat...


In The Governance Gap: Extractive industries, human rights, and the home state advantage, Canadian law scholars Penelope Simons and Audrey Macklin argue that there is a "governance gap" with respect to the prevention of, and accountability for, direct or indirect corporate human rights abuses in host states and the provision of redress to victims of such abuses. In particular, the authors focus on the persistence of this governance gap in relation to the human rights-impacting conduct of transnational extractive corporations operating in zones of weak governance. The principal contribution of The Governance Gap is also its chief limitation. That contribution lies in the authors' demonstration of the inadequacy of voluntary self-regulation on the part of transnational extractive companies and the need for effective, prescriptive state governance. And yet this is also ultimately the central shortcoming of what is otherwise a highly accessible and valuable contribution to the literature on transnational corporate accountability. Regrettably, Simons and Macklin do not engage the issue of industry interference with public interest legislation in putatively "governance-rich" states like Canada.


The present invention relates to inhibiting chitinase-like molecules, inflammatory diseases (such as asthma, COPD, inflammatory bowel disease, atopic dermatitis, allergy, allergic rhinitis, scleroderma, etc.) composition for the treatment of and it encompasses a method. The present invention further encompasses a method of identifying a novel compound for the treatment of limited are those not Asthma, inflammatory diseases and the like COPD. This indicates that the present invention, IL-13 and that the expression of a chitinase-like molecule is associated mediated and / or with it an inflammatory disease, as well as to inhibit the chitinase-like molecule even treating and preventing the disease the in order to prove for the first time. Accordingly, the present invention relates to a novel discovery that it is treating and preventing inflammatory diseases that inhibit chitinase-like molecule.


Although intestinal continent reservoirs to the urethra have been used successfully in male patients for several case of a planned orthotopic neobladder [4, 5]. Despite good results in the first clinical cases, additional experiyears, their use in women undergoing cystectomy for bladder cancer has not routinely been considered until reence with regard to the functional anatomy of the remnant urethra, patient selection, refinements of the surgical cently. An undefined risk of the extent of transitional cell cancer – the most common type of bladder cancer – into technique, patient outcome with regard to the underlying disease, risk of tumor recurrence, and postoperative urothe female urethra was probably the reason for almost unequivocally performing total urethrectomy in comdynamics were valuable for improving patient selection and surgical technique. bination with anterior pelvic exenteration. This lack of a remnant portion of the urethra in conjunction with a deficiency of data about secondary urethral tumors and insufficient knowledge of the functional anatomy of the Anatomy of the Pelvic Floor isolated female urethra and its sphincter were the biggest obstacles in the development and common use of an Anatomical dissection and microdissection studies were performed on fetal and adult formalin-carbol-fixed orthotopic reconstruction of the lower urinary tract after cystectomy for bladder cancer. The use of intestinal cadavers. The course of autonomous nerve fibers from the pelvic plexus dorsolateral to the rectum running dorpouches with ileal segments as a urethral substitute with or without an artificial urinary sphincter has not gained somedially to the distal ureter, underneath the bladder pedicle alongside the lateral vaginal walls to the cranial wide acceptance either. In recent studies efforts were made to define the risk female urethra were depicted as well as the pudendal nerve branches to the caudal urethral rhabdosphincter of synchronous and metachronous urethral tumors in female bladder cancer patients [1–3]. Extensive anatomy [4, 5]. Recent experimental denervation studies in 6 female and histology studies of the female urethra and its relationship to the surrounding structures revealed further sheep followed for a period of 3 months functionally


Document Type Article Publication Date Spring 1998 Publication Title Corrections Management Volume 2 Issue 2 First Page 28 Last Page 35 Abstract Total quality management (TQM) has revolutionized business, and some of its components can be applied to corrections. The importance of information for developing performance-based standards is obvious. Much more difficult is the process of deciding what information to obtain and how to use it. In the area of juvenile corrections, information about the conditions or environments of juvenile facilities and how these conditions are associated with intermediate and longterm outcomes will be invaluable in developing performance-based standards. Recommended Citation MacKenzie, Doris Layton; Armstrong, Gaylene; and Grover, Angela R., "Performance-based standards for juvenile corrections" (1998). Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications. 29. https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/criminaljusticefacpub/29  Download


Insurance terms always go with the insurance contract that you sign. In theseterms the assurers rights and obligations towards the insurer are stipulated. It is often difficult to interpret these insurance terms. Sometimes it is hard to decide whether an incident is considered an insurance event or not. These problems often cause disputes between the assurer and the insurer. This essay is a study about how the insurance terms shall be interpreted. The essay only deals with the standardised insurance terms that are supplied by the insurer and Swedish Law. The purpose of this essay is to analyze how the insurance terms shall be interpreted when a dispute between the assurer and the insurer occurs. My focus is on situations where an assurer have entered an insurance contract. The assurer has later on become subject to a certain incident. In connection with this scenario he claims a certain financial compensation for the loss but the insurer rejects the claim because of his disagreement in terms of what the insurance cover. In order to answer my question I have used a traditional juridical method. Consequently the material exists of traditional sources of law, such as specific regulations, preparatory acts, case-law and doctrine. The wording of the insurance contract is a factor that creates the benchmark of the interpretation. The interpretation does not bring any particular difficulties when the wording of the insurance contract create a relatively clear idea of what the contract means. However, in those cases where the wording is vague or ambiguous one becomes forced to look at other factors such as a more general interpretation or the principle of ambiguity. The insurance contract also carries certain specialness´ that might affect the interpretation.


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Organic content analysis is not yet performed systematically but is increasingly called upon to solve issues associated with the production and transformation of raw materials, and the transportation, conservation, and consumption practices of antique organic materials, especially in funerary offerings and rituals. However, the relevance and accuracy of the data obtained depend upon the choices and the representativeness of the material samples as much as upon the conservation conditions of the vessels and the methodologies selected, which need to be designed according to the set of questions formulated by archeologists. The results obtained are degraded chemical markers allowing more or less trustworthy interpretations of the vegetal and/or animal organic components. The steps involved and the issues raised will be analyzed through two examples taken from the Perhamo (Products and Oily Residues of the Western Mediterranean) program. This research program has allowed for the analysis of more than 200 samples of organic contents of vases and structures considered linked to the production, stocking, and utilization of oil and perfume in the Mediterranean. The contents of seven glass vases were the object of chemical analyses and botanical interpretations.


Study the extraction of polysaccharide in citrus peel with high medicinal value, the polysaccharide was extracted by the method of ultrasonic extraction. The effects of some physical and chemical factors, such as particle size, solid-solvent ratio, ultrasonic time, ultrasonic power, on the extraction of polysaccharide in citrus peel were investigated. According to orthogonal design, the optimum condition for the extraction of polysaccharide were as follows granularity 30, 1∶40 of solid-solvent ratio, 120 W of ultrasonic power, 40 min, 3 times.


Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge, formerly Jefferson Proving Grounds, is one of Indi- ana's largest natural areas (approximately 22,000 ha). No studies have been conducted to quantify the grassland communities at Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge. Establishing a baseline of information regarding the plant community composition and structure would be helpful to monitor changes resulting from current management practices. Sixty permanently-marked 10 m radius circular plots were established in three managed grassland communities within the refuge. Three vegetation layers (overstory. understory. and ground layer) were sampled during July-August 2001. Overstory trees (> 10 cm dbh) were sampled in each plot and consisted mainly of Carya ovata, Liquidamber styraciflua, and Nyssa sylvatica. The understory ( 0.5 m) was sampled in sixty 2 X 2 m subplots in each grassland area. The understory was dominated by Rhus copallinum, Sassafras albidum, and Liquidamber styracifiua. The ground layer (all herbaceous species and those woody stem > 0.5 m) was sampled using 1 X 1 m subplots in each grassland. Fifty-four different species were sampled in the ground layer. Andropogon virginicus and Solidago juncea were the dominant plant species in the permanent plots.


This paper is devoted to the investigation of relative magnetoresistance MR in semiconductor polycrystalline materials: CuInAsS3, CuInAsSe3, CuInS2 and CuInSe2 under high pressures up to 50 GPa and at a constant transverse magnetic field. The pressure ranges of significant changes in the behavior of electrical resistance and magnetoresistance were identified for these materials. The features in the properties of CuInSe2, CuInS2 and CuInAsSe3 at these pressures are consistent with the data on the baric structural phase transitions in these materials. In the case of CuInAsS3 and CuInAsSe3 a shift of pressure intervals in which phase transitions can occur is observed that can be explained by an effect of chemical compression due to the changing the atom radii of the chemical elements forming the compounds.


The gradation segregation of aggregates is not only an intrinsic feature of the granular mixtures,but also an important factor of influencing the quality of asphalt pavement.Stacking method is employed in the paper to compare the segregation trends of different gradations and different aggregates through studying the segregation features of four gradation mixtures of 4 common HMA types(AC16,AK16,AM16 and SMA16),the methods and indexes of appraising the size of segregation are proposed,verification is made,which has provided a foundation for solving the gradation segregation problems on asphalt pavements from the perspectives of material and design.


Porphyria cutaneatarda (PCT) is a rare disease of porphyrin metabolism, related to a deficiency of Uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase activity. Clinically, it manifests itself by a skin fragility in photo-exposed areas. The characteristic biochemical profile of PCT, with elevated levels of urinary and plasma porphyrins, establishes the diagnosis. Treatment is based on phlebotomy, hydroxychloroquine (100 to 200 mg twice weekly) and control of susceptibility factors. We report a case of porphyria cutaneatarda in a male coast guard by profession.


nebula when its radius was 300,000,000 miles was the 340,000,000, present mean density of the sun being unity. The surface attraction of a primitive or nebulous asteriod was therefore almost nil. No exact calculations seem necessary to show that the separated masses might have been dismembered by the unequal attraction of Jupiter on the different parts. In other words, this influence was sufficient not only to detach the matter of asteroids from the central body, but also to subdivide the newly-formed nebulous planets until the fragments finally resulted in the existing asteroids. Evidence is not wanting of the actual occurrence of such division in the case of comets. Î The study is not unworthy the careful attention of astronomers.


In medical and health sciences, the detection of cell injury plays an important role in diagnosis, personal treatment and disease prevention. Despite recent advancements in tools and methods for image classification, it is challenging to classify cell images with higher precision and accuracy. Cell classification based on computer vision offers significant benefits in biomedicine and healthcare. There have been studies reported where cell classification techniques have been complemented by Artificial Intelligence-based classifiers such as Convolutional Neural Networks. These classifiers suffer from the drawback of the scale of computational resources required for training and hence do not offer real-time classification capabilities for an embedded system platform. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) offer the flexibility of hardware reconfiguration and have emerged as a viable platform for algorithm acceleration. Given that the logic resources and on-chip memory available on a single device are still limited, hardware/software co-design is proposed where image pre-processing and network training were performed in software, and trained architectures were mapped onto an FPGA device (Nexys4DDR) for real-time cell classification. This paper demonstrates that the embedded hardware-based cell classifier performs with almost 100% accuracy in detecting different types of damaged kidney cells.


In this paper a multicriteria scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times on a single machine is considered. The objective function of the problem is minimization of the weighted sum of total completion time, maximum tardiness and maximum earliness. An integer programming model is developed for the problem which belongs to NP-hard class. Only small size problems with up to 12 jobs can be solved by the proposed integer programming model. Heuristic methods are also used to solve large size problems. These heuristics are four tabu search based heuristics and random search method. According to computational results the tabu search based methods are effective in finding problem solutions with up to 1000 jobs.


When simulating control sequences in switching systems, it is often necessary to perform subcall-type simulation, i.e. the start and end of the calls are generated in independent arrival processes. If overload protection systems are being investigated (acceptance/re jection of calls), the call termination rate has to be adapted to the rate of accepted calls. This adaption can be performed automat ically by means of the proposed "tracking" method, which makes use of the properties of a G/M/oc' process.


Technological and social advancements have brought us to the brink of the 4 industrial revolution. With the rapid expanse of automation and intelligent machines, the workplace as we know it is changing. This could lead to greater inequality and massive recruitment challenges as societies are simultaneously facing an increase in unemployment as well as growth of talent shortage. The development of a unified competency management platform is proposed that serves as a communication layer between the stakeholders interested in retraining and upskilling of the workforce in light of these challenges. To provide the basis for companies to employ this platform and implement a competency framework, an instrument for the initial competency gap mapping was created and a case study is presented where the instrument was used to gain insight into stakeholder perceptions about and interactions around competency definition and management in the context of an ICT company.


This thesis reports on the effects of various growth regulating substances applied at various rates and in various ways to certain crop plants including potatoes, spring wheat, winter wheat, flax, red clover, sweet clover, alsike clover and alfalfa. Soaking of potato eyepieces in solutions of various chemicals before planting failed to accelerate emergence or increase yield. Emergence was decreased and delayed and tuber yields reduced by as much as 72 per cent by certain chemical treatments. Spraying of winter wheat and spring wheat with growth substances was without effect. Variation in susceptibility of flax to damage from similar concentrations of various chemicals was recognized. Application of herbicidal sprays to sweet clover and alfalfa showed that sweet clover could not be success¬ fully weeded from alfalfa by 2,4-D derivatives. Top growth of alfalfa and sweet clover was very susceptible to 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid, but their roots possessed marked resistance. Soil applications of phenoxy compounds at time of planting showed that very small quantities of these chemicals in the soil would decrease emergence of alfalfa, sweet clover, red clover and alsike clover. Emergence


BACKGROUND
Some acute changes occur in the myocardium during a hemodialysis (HD) session and for understanding the causes and importance of these changes we need to conduct studies which may clarify the contradictory results published up to date. This study is aimed to evaluate the acute effects of HD on the myocardium using 3 dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (3DSTE) in patients with and without hypotension during a dialysis session.

METHODS
We examined our HD patients who had normal ejection fraction (n=45) just before and after a HD session using 3DSTE. We recorded their demographic data, comorbidity status, renal replacement therapy characteristics and laboratory test results accordingly. Patients (n=12) with a history of intradialytic hypotension (IDH) occurring at least 30 % of their last 10 HD sessions formed the IDH group. The LV global longitudinal, circumferential area and radial peak systolic strain as well as RV Septum and Freewall longitudinal strain and fractional area change were calculated with 3DSTE analyses. After excluding 6 patients the data of the remaining 39 patients (18 males, 46.1 %, with mean age of 56.8 years) was analyzed.

RESULTS
In the non-IDH group decreases observed in Septum LS, Freewall LS and FAC following HD sessions was found insignificant (p=0.57; p=0.12; p=0.16, respectively). In the IDH group RV volume indexes and EF decreased significantly (p= 0.001; p=0.01, respectively) and Septum LS, Freewall LS and FAC worsened significantly (p=0.04; p=0.05; p=0.03, respectively) following HD sessions. A significant stunning effect was observed in the RV. Except twist and torsion all LV strain parameters were changed in both groups. In the IDH group changes observed in the GLS, GCS, GRS and area strain were larger compared to the non-IDH group. There was significant worsening in LV strain measurements following HD sessions in both groups.

CONCLUSION
HD treatment results in deterioration in all LV strain directions in both groups. RV strain parameters worsened statistically significant only in the IDH group. In patients with IDH the stunning effect of the session on both ventricles contributes to the long term effects of HD on the myocardium. Adjusting the ultrafiltration rate low in patients with IDH is also protective in RV strain deterioration and may break the vicious cycle preventing IDH patients to tolerate HD.


The community structure of urban forest,the basis of urban forest research,are determined by different plants species and its different patterns of spatial distributions.The paper provides an overview of the past and current research on community structure both at home and abroad from three aspects: the diversity research,dynamics research,the species selection and the models of plantation arrangement.It also advances development tendency of community structure in the future as well.


Abstract Nodular chert from the Cueva-Bedón carbonate platform (late Turonian-earliest Coniacian) occurs above the type 1 sequence boundary and in association with a transgressive systems tract deposit. It formed by selective replacement of grainstones-packstones, and Thalassinoides burrow fillings. Other minor types of selective silicification include the replacement of anhydrite nodules, forming quartz geodes, and the partial or total replacement of oysters and inoceramids. The chert nodules consist predominantly of microquartz with volumetrically minor fibrous quartz (length-fast chalcedony) and megaquartz. The silica has a mainly biogenic source (siliceous sponge spicules and radiolarians). Lepisphere textures that are indicative of an intermediate opal-CT precursor are evident in chert nodules, which indicates the chert formed by a maturation process from opalA to opal-CT to quartz. The δ 18O values of microquartz suggest a precipitation from marine fluids. The fabric of quartz geodes consists of irregular bands of heterometric megaquartz, quartzine and lutecite spherulites, and a well developed band of petaloidal megaquartz that contains small anhydrite inclusions. Bivalve shells are replaced mainly by fibrousquartz (quartzine-lutecite), which forms extensive beekite rings. The silica source of the replaced fossils is also biogenic, but silicification couldhave occurred by direct quartz replacement without an opal-CT precursor. Field and petrographic evidence indicate that silicification was an early diagenetic process that affected both uncompacted and compacted sediments, andwas inhibited when the dolomitization began. There seems to exist a syncrony in age (late Turonian-earliest Coniacian) between the nodular chert in the Cueva-Bedón carbonate platform and the bedded and nodular chert ofthe Plentzia carbonate turbidites in the deeper Basque Arc.


We consider the spin injection from Fe into ZnSe and GaAs in the ballistic limit. By means of the ab initio screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method we calculate the ground-state properties of epitaxial Fe‖ZnSe(001) and Fe‖GaAs(001) heterostructures. Three injection processes are considered: injection of hot electrons and injection of "thermal" electrons with and without an interface barrier. The calculation of the conductance by the Landauer formula shows that these interfaces act like a nearly ideal spin filter, with spin polarization as high as 99%. This can be traced back to the symmetry of the band structure of Fe for normal incidence.


Recently, a Game Shut-down policy, partially limiting the time for the use of online game service, has been implemented in order to protect the youth from the excessive use of games by limiting their access to games in the late hours, based on the serious side effects of online games on the youth. However, the effectiveness of a Game Shut-down policy becomes a social issue. Thus, this study aims to investigate the alternative policies through the levels of the communications suggested by the theory of excellence, for the successful implementation of the policy. As a result of the study, the government and students, the recipient of those policies, need to strengthen their two-way communication in respect of the Game Shut-down policy, breaking from the existing views on the perception. The problem is that the current government`s way of the communication for the Game Shut-down policy is one-way and it is aiming at achieving the objectives only. Thus, the communication in this manner will cause the side effect. `the opportunistic violation of the system in the future`, even if the students seemingly accept the system. Two-way communication will enhance the motivation for the voluntary acceptance of the system and lower the motivation for the opportunistic violation of the system. Thus, the government needs to strengthen two-way communication in the future.


CEREBRAL LOCALIZATION AND ITS BIOLOGICAL CONTEXT FROM GALL TO FERRIER By Robert M. Young. (Pp. xiv + 278; 28s.) Clarendon Press: Oxford. 1970. There is currently a growing convergence of interest between the neurologist and the psychologist which centres largely on what might be called the 'higher' functions of the brain. The former is moving beyond such sketchy consideration of them as might contribute to the localization of a lesion; the latter is becoming more realistically involved with the neural basis of the functions he traditionally studies. The novelty of this rapprochement is more apparent than real. Before the turn of the century many neurologists took their psychology-for what it was worth-very seriously, while psychological treatises paid more than lip-service to what was then known of the brain. The parting of the ways was due perhaps less to the impact of Freud than, paradoxically, the behaviourist attempt to objectivize and render nominally physiological the method and theories of psychology. The net result has been that psychologists and neurologists alike are now hampered by lack of appreciation of their predecessors' interactions and their relationship to the biological advances of the late nineteenth century. Dr. Young in this fascinating and in some respects notable book thus serves not only those with a taste for history but also anyone casting about for fresh starting points for brain research. (To give but one instance, one of the most marked failures of contemporary psychology is its continued evasion of the issue of voluntary versus involuntary action. Even cursory acquaintance with the writings of Hughlings Jackson and others of his time cannot fail to suggest fresh thoughts about this.) Dr. Young deploys a wealth of carefully assembled erudition and a quantity of aptly chosen significant detail in tracing the development of views about the functions of the cerebral hemispheres and their parts throughout the period he considers. He does not pretend to cover in equal detail the whole picture of nineteenth century thinking: much, for instance, went on in Europe, and in particular in Germany, to which he makes but sparse reference. Rather his approach is thematic and two features stand out in particular. The first is the story of the multifarious effects of the doctrines of Gall on neurological concepts and research-as opposed to the schematized versions of phrenology popularized by such writers as George Combe. The second emphasis centres upon John Hughlings Jackson, especially, on the one hand, his surprising-and to his readers obfuscating-dependence on the doctrines of Herbert Spencer, and on the other the more fruitful of his influences on his colleagues at the National Hospital, particularly David Ferrier. Between these two major phases there is a curious link in the fact that Spencer, by training an engineer, embarked on his philosophical career a convinced phrenologist! Dr. Young has uncovered and laid out afresh much of the fascinating history of nineteenth century thinking about mind and brain. The complexity of the intellectuaf milieu of the period, in which figures as major as Darwin, Huxley, Jackson and Ferrier intermingled with lesser but not insignificant characters like Edward Carpenter and George Henry Lewes, has for too long been subsumed into conveniently pre-digested, often misleading and infertile textbook stereotypes. Its reappraisal, with which Dr. Young has made so stimulating a beginning, could prove vitalizing to neurology and psychology alike.


ABSTRACT Writing in plain language aims to help users find what they need and ensures that the information is both useful and understandable. This is key for distance students whose primary library interaction may be with the library Website. A mix of user research and readability scores can be used to measure whether content is findable, useful, and understandable. There are several strategies authors can adopt to help them write in plain language, including keeping the users' needs and tasks in mind and structuring the content so that it can be quickly scanned. Converting existing Website content to a plain language format can be a large task; running a content audit can help determine which pages should be prioritized for revision. Once the Website is written in plain language, an ongoing content strategy is necessary to help it stay that way.


PURPOSE: A photo recommending method based on the photo selecting pattern of a user is provided to retrieve a recommended photo from stored photos by using an analyzed photo selecting pattern and provide the retrieved, recommended photo to the user. CONSTITUTION: Photo information is extracted from a photo selected by a user among photos stored in a user terminal (S100). The photo selected by the user is divided into a predetermined number of photo elements and then photo information of each photo element is extracted. A photo selecting pattern of the user is analyzed by using the extracted photo information (S200). A recommended photo is retrieved from the photos stored in the user terminal by using the analyzed photo selecting pattern (S300). The retrieved, recommended photo is provided to the user (S400). [Reference numerals] (S100) Step where information about a photo selected by a user is extracted; (S200) Step where the user's photo selecting pattern is analyzed; (S300) Step where a set of recommended photos are retrieved by using the analyzed photo selecting pattern; (S400) Step where the retrieved photos are provided to the user; (S500) Step where the photo selecting pattern is provided to the user


The formation of foams in the presence of organic liquids and the study of their properties and stability is an important scientific and practical task. The purpose of this work is to study the properties of foams that are formed in water saturated with diesel fuel (DF) in the presence of hydrophobized silica particles. Two types of silica were used as the solid phase: Aerosil-380, Ludox HS-40 and hydrophobizer-hexane-1-amine (99%) with a density of 0.766 g/cm3.Water saturated with diesel fuel was used to produce the foam. To obtain it, 50 ml of distilled water was added to 50 ml of diesel fuel (DT), stirred for 3-5 min and left in a dividing funnel at a temperature of 25 °C. After 24 h, the water was separated. Foaming was investigated when mixing a certain volume (V2) of dissolved diesel fuel and a suspension of hydrophobized solid particles with volume V1. The maximum height of the foam layer (H), which is formed in an aqueous medium containing diesel fuel in the presence of hydrophobized silica, as well as the change in its stability with an increase in the degree of hydrophobization of silica and the concentration of organic liquid, was studied. It was found that resistant to destruction foam layers (L~ 2 cm) are formed from hydrophobized Ludox HS-40 sol with a mass content of 20% and water saturated with diesel fuel, taken in equal volume ratios. When hydrophobized Ludox HS-40 was added to the suspension, dissolved diesel fuel in a larger (2-4 times) volume formed unstable foams with a higher column height H = 9-11 cm. It is shown that the foaming in the hydrophobized aerosil – dissolved diesel fuel system was insignificant (L ≤ 3 cm). The destruction of foams is due to their diffusion enlargement. The formation of a stable foam emulsion obtained from a suspension of hydrophobized aerosil and diesel fuel is possible with a volume ratio of 3:1. For citation: Vilkova N.G., Mishina S.I., Shatina E.A. Formation and stability of foams in water containing diesel fuel in the presence of hydrophobized silica. ChemChemTech [Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved. Khim. Khim. Tekhnol.]. 2023. V. 66. N 6. P. 54-60. DOI: 10.6060/ivkkt.20236606.6778.


The task of engineering a protein to assume a target three-dimensional structure is known as protein design. Computational search algorithms are devised to predict a minimal energy amino acid sequence for a particular structure. In practice, however, an ensemble of low energy sequences is often sought. Primarily, this is performed since an individual predicted low energy sequence may not necessarily fold to the target structure due to both inaccuracies in modeling protein energetics and the non-optimal nature of search algorithms employed. Additionally, some low energy sequences may be overly stable and thus lack the dynamic flexibility required for biological functionality. In this paper, we present a conceptually novel algorithm that rapidly predicts the set of lowest energy sequences. Based on the theory of probabilistic graphical models, it performs efficient inspection and partitioning of the near-optimal sequence space, without making any assumptions of positional independence. We benchmark its performance on a diverse set of relevant protein design examples and show that it consistently yields sequences of lower energy than those derived from state-of-the-art techniques. Furthermore, examination of the predicted ensembles indicates that, for each structure, the amino acid identity at a majority of positions must be chosen extremely selectively so as to not incur significant energetic penalties. We investigate this high degree of similarity and demonstrate how more diverse near-optimal sequences can be predicted in order to overcome this bottleneck for computational design. Finally, we exploit this in-depth analysis of a collection of the lowest energy sequences to suggest an explanation for previously observed experimental design results. The novel methodologies introduced here accurately portray the sequence space compatible with a protein structure and further supply a scheme to yield heterogeneous low energy sequences, thus providing a powerful instrument for future work on protein design.


Continued technology scaling exacerbates the incidence of degradation and failure in integrated circuits due to mechanisms such as oxide breakdown, negative bias temperature instability and electromigration. This work analyzes the impact of different factors on lifetime distributions for the oxide breakdown effect using a novel Monte-Carlo approach based upon the oxide percolation model and BSIM4 simulation models. Results of the analysis of oxide failure distributions are used to explore real-time lifetime projection and the use of in-situ monitoring circuits (assuming ideal sensor operation). The study also considers the importance of oxide thickness correlation in the presence of large amounts of inherent randomness and the implications on block-based sparing or redundancy. Subsampling sets of oxide characteristics from a set representing a full-chip allows insight into the accuracy of various projection methods and estimates of the sensor count required to make a useful projection. Under an ideal sensor assumption, the work shows that 500‐1000 sensors would be needed to provide lifetime projections with error under 8‐10%. This project is supported as part of the Gigascale Systems Research Center under the Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation research program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under award number SA4242-79952.


Design tables of medical follow-up studies including 320 common projects of clinical trials were made out for clinical applicatications from the basic method and applied models proposed before. By contrast with previous design tables, they have such advantages as 1. convenience for limiting the loss level, 2. no bias from informative censoring, 3. convenience for limiting the administrative censoring rate below its threshold and avoiding wrong designs and unreliable trial results, and 4. high flexibility without the Morgan error. The design procedure is simplified by using these tables. A worked example illustrates the methodology.


This slim volume containing 18 very brief essays has the ambition to act as a corrective to a dominant trend in anthropology where a tradition of detailed description of social and cultural praxis has been replaced with a tendency towards introspection and epistemic relativity. The result of this theorising approach comes at the expense of the actual object of interest. The editors of Ethnographies of Islam desire to fill that 'descriptive gap' by restoring the appreciation for ethnographic description and draw attention to the conditions under which the data at hand are produced (p. 1). They also note that with a shift in attention from structures to the role of people that is also affecting other social sciences, sociologists and political scientists are becoming increasingly aware of the merits of ethnography to their respective fields. This results in an extension of the scope of ethnography to the 'literate', 'urban' and 'upper class' aspects of Islam, which – due to an implicit but persistent division of academic labour – hitherto had been the domain of Orientalist scholarship in the original meaning of the word; a historical–philological engagement with texts. As a result of these shifts, the editors have redefined ethnography as 'the description and analysis of practices from the perspective of the social context in which they were produced', because this will enable scholars studying Islam and the Muslim world to use ethnography also for examining the practice of writing texts, scrutinising


Space-division multiplexing-based elastic optical networks (SDM-EONs) enhance the fiber capacity. Inter-core crosstalk (XT) and intra-core physical layer impairments (PLIs) occur in the multi-core fiber and degrade the optical signal. An existing model separately considers inter-core XT and intra-core PLIs, and sets a single XT threshold to each modulation format. This can lead to an unacceptable lightpath due to signal degradation or the occurrence of spectrum inefficiency. This paper proposes a routing, modulation, spectrum, and core allocation (RMSCA) model, which jointly considers inter-core XT and intra-core PLIs for SDM-EONs. The proposed model sets multiple XT thresholds for each modulation format based on inter-core XT and intra-core PLIs. We present an optimization problem and formulate it as an integer linear programming (ILP) problem. We introduce a heuristic algorithm for a network where the ILP problem is not tractable. Numerical results observe that the proposed model improves the spectrum efficiency by setting multiple XT thresholds to each modulation format.


In reaction to the lack of intrinsic motivation of construction site workers, to wear their safety helmets at all times, a series of research projects studied causes and possible solutions. Goal is to gain an inspirational discussion to get the design onto the next level.
This paper describes a study presented on a conference poster (Persuasive 2014, 21-23 May, 2014, Padua, Italy) which shows how persuasive technologies are implemented in product design, such as using motivational theories and smart systems


On the basis ofimmunological studie� on psoria sis in recent years, it secms probable that immunological mechanisms are of importance and that psoriasis could be regarded as an immunogenetic disease. In this study, increased serum levels of an immunosuppressive factor. the pregnancy 1.one protein (PZ). were found in psoriatic patients. Patients with elevated levels (>2 S.D. units) of PZ showed a positive association with continuous symp toms and a negative association with blood groups A and Fy(a+b-). Thus, induction of PZ occurs mainly in psoria tic patients who have a particular genetic constitution. The results support the hypothesis that PZ is not only an immuno�uppressive but also an immunoreactive protein.


Rift basins in Sudan are the passive rifts which are formed and controlled by the Central African Strike-slip Zone triggered by the opening of Atlantic Ocean in Late Mesozoic.The three rifting sequences of Lower Cretaceous,Upper Cretaceous,and Paleogene are superimposed vertically,ranging from passive rift in Early Cretaceous to active rift in Paleogene.The sub-basins typically have a half-graben geometry characterized by steep planar boundary faults and a low extensional factor.Trace volcanic activities and continuous tectonic subsidence result in a complete sedimentary cycle during Early Cretaceous and a set of excellent source rocks.The major pay zones are composed of quartzose and feldspathic-quartzose sandstones,featured by high porosity and high-permeability.Oil reserves are mainly accumulated in the postrift and overlying younger rift sequences.The major oil reservoirs are antithetic fault blocks and large drape-anticlines in the younger rift sequences.The transfer zones control the oil and gas accumulation and distribution.The characteristics of rift basins in Sudan are much different from those in the active rift basins of East China.


We report the case of a 67 years old male patient, followed for epidermoïd carcinoma of the right lung, and hyper-eosinophilia on peripheral blood exploration. 18F-FDG positron emission tomography-computed tomography (18F-FDG PET-CT) performed for initial extension assessment showed, in addition to the intense hypermetabolism in the right upper pulmonary lobe related to the primary tumor and the mediastinal lymph node involvement (Fig. 1A), an unusually intense muscular hypermatbolism


A study on the relationship between organic matter content and organic phosphorus content in sediments of Miyun Reservoir is reported in this paper. The results show that the contents of total organic carbon (TOC) and organic phosphorus in the surficial sediments are obviously higher than that in the bottom sediments. This is supposed to be the result of the increasing eutrophical indicator algae in the water with phosphorus as nutriment, when they died and whose debris accumulated in the surficial sediments by the decomposed and mineralized effects. The results from the study on characters of phosphorus section distribution show that there are obviously ascending of phosphorus content in the surficial sediments and pore water. This phenomenon is supposed to be due to the abundant animalcule and active organic oddment in the surficial sediments and decomposition of organic matter and phosphorus compounds, leading to the dissoluble phosphorus (DP) into the pore water. Based on the linear correlativity analysis with the statistical software of SPSS to the influences of forms of sedimentary phosphorus in the sediments, TOC and total phosphorus (TP) in interstitial water on phosphorus releasing, it is concluded that phosphorus in upper water of surficial sediment comes from three kinds of species of phosphorus—Fe-P, Al-P, DP in sediments and the contents of TP and TOC in interstitial water have strong influence on the concentration of total dissoluble phosphorus (TDP) in upper water of surficial sediment.The results from the study provide some basic information for further research on the effect of sediments,as an inner contaminant, on water quality of reservoir.


(57) Abstract: In polar error protection circuit of the present invention, the semiconductor switch (11) is connected in parallel with the polarity error protection diode (10). The semiconductor switch is switched off when the polarity error is switched on during normal operation.


Research interest for silicon nanophotonics is a topic of heavy interest currently due to the requirements for high density communications of integrated devices with small footprints in the semiconductor industry. Silicon photonic crystals (PhC) are nanoscale subwavelength periodic structures that possess the capability to induce strong interaction between light and matter. PhC nanocavities utilizes the photonic bandgap effect to trap certain frequencies of light within a small confined region for a diverse range of applications such as enhancement and suppression of spontaneous emission, efficient and compact lasers, add/drop multiplexers, optical filters and sensing etc. In this paper, we describe a mechanically-perturbative near-field probe with a special design shape to achieve low-loss and precise resonance control of PhC nanocavities. One-dimensional (1D) PhC are chosen for our study due to the ease of integrating with low-loss SOI waveguide technology and easy integration with nanomechanical structures. Sub-micron microelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) technology is introduced as an ideal integration platform with such near-field probe designs due to its capabilities to accurately control fine displacements without the need of bulky equipment such as atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning near field microscope (SNOM) or highly sensitive piezo-controlled micromanipulator stages. We propose that such near-field probe designs are capable of achieving large resonance spectral shift of up to few nm with high re-configurability, highly accurate actuation displacements, low power consumption, and portability. In this work, we propose an approach utilizing numerical methods to study and characterize the electromagnetic interaction between PhC nanocavities and nanomechanically displaced near-field nano-probes.


Nondeterministic, atomic computing primitives are introduced which are used to construct A-nets for describing transaction models precisely. A-nets and the computing primitives can be applied recursively to describe transactions at arbitrary levels of refinement. The techniques are demonstrated by describing a number of well-known and widely used transaction models, in particular ACID-transactions, distributed transactions with two-phase commit, Sagas, and LU6.2 transactions.<<ETX>>


The authors have studied quantitative and statistical qualities of the most frequent words in sermons of Kirill of Turov, contained in the Tolstoy Collection from the 13 th century ( NLR, F.п.I.39 ). In the course of three experiments, firstly, formal distinctions were found between the list and the corresponding copies from 8 contrasting sub-corpora, them being: 11 th –14 th century copies of the May Menaea, other months' Minaea, Sticheraria, Gospels, The Book of Psalms, chronicles, the Apostolos, and the Parenesis of Ephrem the Syrian; the last two appear to be the most similar to the list. Secondly, using Log-Likelihood, TF*ICTF' and Weirdness statistical tools, statistically meaningful words were found out, and a partial overlap in the forms under study appeared between the texts of Kirill and several of the sub-corpora. Thirdly, by comparing ranks of each of the forms, the closeness of the Tolstoy Collection texts and sub-corpora of different genres was estimated, and it was shown that original sermons of Kirill of Turov and translations of the teaching sermons of Ephrem the Syrian and of the Apostolos are closest to each other in terms of statistical significance of 15 most frequent forms. For the first time, the configurations of the most significant lexemes in the sub-corpora were found out. Also for the first time, their list was found to be similar in the sub-corpora of Kirill of Turov's sermons and of the Apostolos, as well as (partially) of the Parenesis, The Book of Psalms and the chronicles. High-rank units in the sermons of Kirill of Turov ( нъ , о , бо , съ ) were described in terms of linguistics, of genre and style, and of discursive pragmatics. The work was made using the transcriptions from the historical corpus "Manuscript" (manuscripts.ru). DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.2


A process for preparing high-quality low-salt low-potassium heavy sodium carbonate and ammonium chloride through direct vapour calcine, washing impurities (sodium chloride and potassium sulfate) withcondensed water in high-temp condition, reaction to generate water, hydrating with sodium carbonate and hot-air drying includes preparing raw materials, carbonifying, solid-liquid separation, calcine, packing finished sodium carbonate, heat exchange of liquid crystallizing, filtering and packing finished ammonium chloride. Its advantages include short technologica route, simple equipment and low energy consumption.


We combined Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (DOS) to study breast tissue composition in 20 healthy volunteers. A combination of MRI and DOS measures was found to be associated with breast density.


We have measured the temperature dependence of the energy @E0(T)# and broadening parameter @G0(T)# of the fundamental gap for GaSb and four samples of Ga 12xInxAsySb12y ~lattice matched to GaSb ! using infrared photoreflectance. The parameters that describe the temperature variation of the energy ~including thermalexpansion effects ! were evaluated using both the semiempirical Vashni relation as well as an equation that incorporates the Bose-Einstein occupation factor. The behavior of G0(T) was described by a Bose-Einsteintype equation.


[1] We construct a database from ACE spacecraft measurements of solar wind magnetic field fluctuations at 1 AU which resolves ∼2 decades in frequency at the high end of the inertial range. Using magnetic field measurements outside of magnetic clouds in combination with plasma measurements, we evaluate expressions for the Kolmogorov and Kraichnan cascade rates at 0.01 Hz from magnetic field power spectra and consider both isotropic and cross-field rates. We examine these rates as functions of proton temperature and solar wind speed, comparing them to the expected rate based on the heating of protons at 1 AU. The average Kolmogorov rate is consistently more than a factor of 10 greater than expected. We conclude that the cascade rate cannot be estimated using the Kolmogorov prescription and power spectra. The Kraichnan rate is close to the expected rate and is potentially a good way to estimate the cascade rate. No distinction is found between the isotropic and cross-field rates at 1 AU. However, consideration of the likely dependence of cascade rates with distance from the Sun shows that a distinction should exist at distances closer than 1 AU but not outside 1 AU. Moreover, we find that inside 1 AU, the cross-field Kraichnan prediction can maintain agreement with the expected heating rate whereas the isotropic prediction cannot.


This paper summarizes some cosmologically interesting measurements which are uniquely possible in the hard X-ray band and presents a mission concept capable of achieving them. The Present Epoch Plus mission will achieve a surface brightness sensitivity of better than 1% per square degree in the 2–10 keV band, and create a catalog of ∽ 106 sources. About 160,000 extragalactic sources are expected to be detected in the 2–10 keV band, providing an all sky survey with nearly uniform selection effects 10 times deeper than existing or planned surveys. The PEP concept can be achieved within the size and budgetary constrraints of a NASA Medium Explorer (MIDEX) mission.


The present situation of service trade development in China is that passive balance of payment has changed greatly,and passive balance of payment tends to broaden.The key factors of preventing the international competitiveness of service trade from strengthening are: unreasonable internal structure of service trade,serious imbalance development between city and countryside,lagged administrative system,shortage of the talents.The strategies to strengthening the competitive power are: adjusting internal structure of the service trade,optimizing structure of the service industry area,accelerating cultivation of the talents,and perfecting administrative system of service trade.


Introduction The fate of nitrogen during pyrolysis or combustion is an important consideration in the utilization of biomass. Nitrogen oxide emissions from biomass combustion are thought to arise primarily from fuel-bound nitrogen and an understanding of the chemical transformations involving nitrogen may lead to improvements in these emissions. An important source of nitrogen in biomass is proteins and amino acids, which can react catalytically with the carbohydrates by reactions generally characterized as Maillard chemistry. This chemistry produces complex mixtures of products and has been the subject of numerous studies. However, less is known about the role that this chemistry plays in the formation of char. The partitioning of nitrogen into char or gas phase products will be critical towards determining the routes for converting nitrogen from biopolymers into NOx emissions. We have studied reactions of amino acids with carbohydrates and how these reactions affect the composition of the resulting char. We have used Molecular Beam Mass Spectrometry (MBMS) to characterize the gaseous emissions from the pyrolysis of model mixtures of amino acids with carbohydrates. The remaining char has been characterized using elemental analysis and reflectance FTIR spectroscopy. Of particular interest in the char formation are effects due to the Maillard chemistry involving proline. We have shown that proline is more reactive in Maillard chemistry than other amino acids, which is consistent with literature reports of proline as a catalyst for asymmetric aldol condensations. In particular, we would like to investigate how proline affects the maturation of char.


Fire safety is an important issue in the current space program; ignition in low-g needs to be studied. The reduction in the gravitational acceleration causes changes in the ignition process. This paper examines the effect of gravity on natural convection, which is one of the important parameters in the ignition process. The NASA-Lewis 2.2 Second Drop Tower provided the low-gravity environment for the experiments. A series of experiments was conducted to measure the temperature of a small copper plate which was heated by a high intensity lamp. These experiments verified that in low-gravity the plate temperature increased faster than in the corresponding 1-g cases, and that the natural convection coefficient rapidly decreased in the low-gravity environment.


BACKGROUND Minimally invasive aesthetic procedures of the neck are becoming more popular. However, anatomical studies on the venous structures of the neck in relation to these procedures are lacking. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to identify the locations and communication patterns of the anterior jugular vein and external jugular vein (AJV and EJV) and the communicating vein (CV) based on superficial anatomical landmarks and to determine dangerous areas for dermal filler injections into the neck. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty sides of the neck from Korean adult cadavers were dissected for this study. RESULTS Four anatomical variants were identified. In Type Ia, the CV ran along the anterior border of the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) (33.4%); in Type Ib, a single vein was observed connecting the CV and the EJV at the level of laryngeal prominence (23.3%); in Type Ic, the CV proceeded separately from the medial side of the anterior border of the SCM (13.3%); and in Type II, the CV was absent while the EJV and AJV were observed (30%). CONCLUSION Given the 4 anatomical variants identified in this study, the authors recommend exerting caution when performing dermal filler injections approximately 10, 30, and 60 mm lateral to the midsagittal line to avoid iatrogenic side effects.


Simple Summary Grass-fed beef is becoming popular; however, there is little research information on optimising beef cattle performance in such production systems. In grass-forage-only beef systems, the removal of dietary concentrates increases the difficulty in achieving target live-weight performance and carcass fatness. Post-grazing sward height can potentially influence animal live-weight gain at pasture, whilst sire breed maturity (genotype) can potentially influence carcass fatness and, therefore, the duration required to achieve a commercially acceptable carcass fat score. Therefore, contrasting post-grazing sward heights and beef steer genotypes were evaluated within a grass-forage-only and grass-forage + concentrate production system. The high post-grazing sward height (6 cm) increased intake and live-weight gain at pasture and resulted in a heavier carcass after an indoor finishing period compared to the low post-grazing sward height (4 cm). The early-maturing genotype had a greater intake, live-weight gain and carcass fatness, but similar carcass weight and lower conformation score compared to the late-maturing genotype. Although concentrate supplementation indoors increased carcass weight and fatness, grass-forage-only steers still achieved a commercially-acceptable fat score when slaughtered at 24 months of age. In conclusion, grazing higher sward residuals and utilising early-maturing animal genotypes can increase live-weight pasture gain and carcass fatness, respectively, in grass-forage beef production systems. Abstract This study evaluated the effects of post-grazing sward height (PGSH, 4 or 6 cm) on herbage production, its nutritive value, dry matter (DM) intake, grazing behaviour and growth of early- (EM) and late-maturing (LM) breed suckler steers (n = 72), and the subsequent effect of indoor finishing diet (grass silage + 3.8 kg concentrate DM/head daily (SC), or grass silage only (SO)) on performance and carcass traits. Animals rotationally grazed pasture for 196 days, followed by indoor finishing for 119 days. At pasture, daily live-weight gain (LWG) was 0.10 kg greater for PGSH-6 than PGSH-4, resulting in a tendency for carcass weight to be 11 kg heavier. Although EM had a 0.10 kg greater daily LWG at pasture than LM, carcass weight did not differ between the genotypes. There was a genotype × PGSH interaction for carcass fat score, whereby there was no difference between EM-4 (8.83, 15-point scale) and EM-6 (8.17), but LM-6 (7.28) was greater than LM-4 (6.33). Although concentrate supplementation during indoor finishing increased carcass weight (+37 kg) and fat score (1.75 units), the majority of steers (83% of EM and 78% of LM) achieved a commercially-acceptable carcass fat score (6.78) at slaughter in the grass-forage-only system.


We investigate a scheme of fault-tolerant quantum computation based on the cluster model. Logical qubits are encoded by a suitable code such as the Steane's 7-qubit code. Cluster states of logical qubits are prepared by post-selection through verification at high fidelity level, where the unsuccessful ones are discarded without recovery operation. Then, gate operations are implemented by transversal measurements on the prepared logical cluster states. The noise threshold is improved significantly by making the high fidelity preparation and transversal measurement. It is estimated to be about 3% by a numerical simulation.


APPENDIX 2: THE YOUTH JUSTICE BOARD PROGRAM 42 Over the last 20 years, a critical mass of social science evidence has accumulated challenging what had previously been the prevailing notion that "nothing works" in the rehabilitation of offenders. Findings from academic and program evaluation literatures in the fi elds of psychology, criminal justice, sociology, and public policy suggest that evidence-based interventions, which effectively combine the core principles of rehabilitation (risk-need-responsivity), deterrence, procedural justice, and collaboration, can signifi cantly reduce recidivism. Additionally, emerging treatments for previously undertreated and underpublicized criminogenic needs (i.e., cognitivebehavioral therapy for criminal thinking) are proving feasible and effective with offender populations in the United States and abroad.


This research aims is to analyze the influence on the number of motor vehicle tax (PKB) and the number of motorbike name transfer fees (BBNKB) on regional expenditure in Bali in the period 2003-2017. The method used is multiple linear regression analysis, classic assumption test and statistical test including F test (F-test) and t test (t-test). Test Result F (f-test) with a value of sig 0,000 <0,05, then Ha is accepted Ho rejected This means that there is a simultaneous significant effect between the variable number of Motor Vehicle Tax (PKB) and the Amount of Transfer of Vehicle Title (BBNKB) to Regional Expenditure in Bali Province. Obtained the results of the t test (t-test) with a significant value of X1 of 0,000 smaller than 0.05. This means that the amount of motor vehicle tax has a significant effect on regional expenditure in Bali Province. While the significance value of X2 is 0.221 greater than 0.05. This means that there is no significant influence on the number of motorbike name transfer fees (BBNKB) on regional expenditure in the Province of Bali.


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Relationships between a pheromone-trap catch, adult emergence and penetration of fruit by first-instar larvae of Cydia pomonella were investigated from 1975 to 1977 in an orchard in South West England. For the first generation the times of moth emergence and catch in the pheromone trap were not significantly different; nor were male and female emergence times. The catch of moths of the first generation in the pheromone trap anticipated the appearance of their larvae in the fruit by 140–169 day-degrees > 10 °C. Eggs hatched after 94 day-degrees in the laboratory but in the orchard, wind and sunshine modified the microclimate so that the number of day-degrees required for egg development, as measured by standard meteorological instruments, was affected by wind and sunshine but development lasted on average about 90 day-degrees. This indicated a lag of 50–80 day-degrees between the curves for trap catch and oviposition: the pre-oviposition period in the orchard was shorter than expected from laboratory studies. In 1975 and 1976, some larvae developed to produce a second generation of moths which gave rise to a second generation of eggs and larvae, after an interval of 161 day-degrees in 1975, but only 41 day-degrees in 1976, indicating that in 1976 some eggs were laid before moths of the second generation were trapped. These results indicate that the first insecticidal spray against first-generation larvae should be applied about 140 day-degrees after the start of the reference week in which five moths of the spring brood are caught per trap. A second spray, if required to maintain insecticidal cover, should be applied about 100 day-degrees later. A spray should be applied against second-generation larvae immediately after the reference week for second-generation moths.


On the garnets Y3−2xCa2xFe5−x−yVxInyO12, with x ≤ 1.5 and y ≤ 0.5, we have measured the polycrystalline linewidth ΔHpoly at X‐band and room temperature and have determined from single crystals the first‐order anisotropy constant, K1. Since the single‐crystal linewidth of these materials is but a few oersteds and the polycrystalline samples had less than 1% porosity and second phase, the observed ΔHpoly is attributed to anisotropy broadening, according to Schlomann. The introduction of indium reduces both | K1 | and ΔHpoly, for example: x = 0.63y = 0TC = 280°C4πMs = 650 GΔHpoly = 98 Oex = 0.80y = 0.50TC = 155°C4πMs = 750 GΔHpoly = 8 Oe. That last value is the lowest yet reported in the range of T ≈ 23 TC.


Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) have been emphasized due to their threats in human health. Waste incinerator emission has been emphasized as a source of EDC including polychlorinateddibenzofurans (PCDD/F) and other carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Urinary 1-hydroxypyrene (1-OHP) has been used as an exposure biomarker for the PAHs. On the other hand, etheno-DNA adducts, e.g. 1, N 6 -ethenodeoxyadenosine (edA), has been developed as an useful effective or response biomarker for carcinogenesis. Thus, I investigated association between urinary 1-OHP and edA levels due to distance from an incinerator which was built more 10 years ago in the middle of a farm in P city. I designated the EDC-high and -low exposed group due to distance from the incinerator, i.e. within 2.5 ㎞ and 5.0~7.5 ㎞ from the incinerator, respectively. The study subjects were age and sex-matched males and females (mean age, 61.3±9.6 yrs; total 40 persons, male, 10; female, 10 for the each group). Urinary 1-OHP and edA were analyzed with HPLC-FD and IP-HPLC-FD, respectively. As results, the distance from the incinerator was not associated with urinary 1-OHP nor edA levels (p=0.43 and 0.82, respectively). On the other hand, urinary edA levels were significantly higher in the hyperlipidemia group (N=10) than normal group (N=30). In conclusion, urinary 1-OHP nor edA levels can not be suggested as an incinerator-related exposure nor effective biomarker. However, not only distance from the incinerator bot also systemic approaches including wind and soil contamination are required to assume exposure levels of incinerator-related EDC.


For series systems at equilibrium, the exponential distribution for times between failures is reasonably well justified. In the transient state, the exponential distribution applies also, but with a time varying scale parameter. Ignoring this parameter and using a partly aged system to make inferences about the mean life of a fully aged system can lead to very misleading outcomes. In particular, we show that reliability demonstration tests may have unacceptably high consumer's risk when applied in this manner.


-Little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), brownseed paspalum (Paspalum plicatulum), and Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans) dominate remnant upland grasslands of the Upper Coastal Prairie of Texas. Lowlands are dominated by eastern gammagrass (Tripsacum dactyloides) and switchgrass (Panicum virgatum). Composition and flora of uplands are similar to those of communities over loamy Alfisols of the Fayette Prairie, a southern outlier of the Blackland Prairie. Coastal Prairie lowlands are also similar to lowlands of the Fayette Prairie. Fayette Prairie communities over Alfisols show less similarity to Fayette Prairie communities over clayey Vertisols than to Upper Coastal communities over both soil types. Therefore, the Upper Coastal Prairie should be considered part of a north-south continuum of tall grass communities within Texas. Decreased importance of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) and sideoats grama (Bouteloua curtipendula) and an increased importance of brownseed paspalum in the uplands represent the most significant differences in dominance relationships between Upper Coastal Prairie remnants and remnants over Vertisols within the Fayette Prairie. This shift in dominance relationships may be the result of decreased precipitation inland coupled with variation in soil type. The Coastal Prairie in Texas can be divided into two sections based on variation in soils and climate. The Lower Coastal Prairie south of the San Antonio River occurs over hyperthermic soils and is in a dry sub-humid to semi-arid moisture region, while the Upper Coastal Prairie occurs over thermic soils and is in a wet sub-humid to humid moisture region (Thornthwaite, 1948; Soil Survey Staff, 1975). Smith (1899), Bray (1906), and Tharp (1926) provided qualitative vegetation descriptions of the entire Coastal Prairie, but no comprehensive quantitative studies exist for remnant grasslands of either the Lower or Upper Coastal Prairie. It is estimated that less than 1% of an original 8 million ha of native grasslands of the entire Coastal Prairie remains in a relatively pristine state (Smeins et al., in press). Extensive surveys of the Coastal Prairie revealed that little relict grassland vegetation exists in the Lower Coastal Prairie, while the Upper Coastal Prairie contained only approximately thirty relict stands. The purpose of this study was to: 1) quantitatively document characteristics of remnant grasslands of the Upper Coastal Prairie, 2) relate vegetation to edaphic and topographic variables, and 3) compare the composition and floristics of these remnants to the Fayette Prairie, which is located to the north and is considered a southern outlier of the Blackland Prairie (Fig. 1). This comparison will elucidate the degree of relationship between the Upper Coastal Prairie and other Texas Prairies (Collins et al., 1975; Diamond, 1980; Smeins and Diamond, 1983). STUDY AREA.-The Upper Coastal Prairie in Texas comprises a narrow strip approximately 50 to 100 km wide from the Louisiana border to the San Antonio River (Godfrey et al., 1973; Smeins SOUTHWESTERN NATURALIST 29(3):321-334 A GUST 28, 1984 This content downloaded from 22.214.171.124 on Sat, 24 Dec 2016 05:12:17 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms The Southwestern Naturalist


This article offers a close reading of the passages leading up to the myth of the cave and contends that the Republic frames this famous passage less as the illustration of a transcendental truth than as a problematic and self-referential meditation on the simultaneous necessity and impossibility of distinguishing between being and seeming. It contends that the myth when read in context not only asks us to distinguish between shadows on the wall and things themselves, it also forces us to interrogate this distinction. How does the world beyond appearance appear? What is it like? How does the truth seem?


Three-dimensional (3D) printing, combined with medical imaging technologies, such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), has shown a great potential in patient-specific tissue regeneration. Here, we successfully fabricated an ultrathin tubular free-form structure with a wall thickness of several tens of micrometers that is capable of providing sufficient mechanical flexibility. Such a thin geometry cannot easily be achieved by 3D printing alone; therefore, it was realized through a serial combination of processes, including the 3D printing of a sacrificial template, the dip coating of the biomaterial, and the removal of the inner template. We demonstrated the feasibility of this novel tissue engineering construct by conducting bile duct surgery on rabbits. Moving from a rational design based on MRI data to a successful surgical procedure for reconstruction, we confirmed that the presented method of fabricating scaffolds has the potential for use in customized bile duct regeneration. In addition to the specific application presented here, the developed process and scaffold are expected to have universal applicability in other soft-tissue engineering fields, particularly those involving vascular, airway, and abdominal tubular tissues.


Severe sepsis and septic shock are the main causes of death in critically ill patients.However,the diagnosis and treatment of severe infection is still facing many challenges.In order to guide clinical practice,the authors briefly summarize strategy of diagnosis and treatments to severe sepsis,which include timely and appropriate application of antibiotics,fluid resuscitation,anticoagulation,and so on.


Formula I including all geometric and stereoisomers [Formula 1] [In the formula, Q has the formula Q-1, Q-2 and Q-3 It is selected from the group consisting of; R X is O, S or Z is Compositions containing compounds of formula I, and invertebrate pest or invertebrate pest control method which comprises contacting the environment with a compound or composition of the biologically effective amount of the present invention also It is disclosed.


Day hospitals have, without question, become a necessary and important part of the geriatric service. The object of this study was to ascertain whether initial referral reasons matched the reasons for attendance at a day hospital. The criteria for referral fell into six categories as defined by Brocklehurst.1 Data were collected from two day hospitals, one in a rural area and one within a city. The information was gained by use of a questionnaire given to a random sample of 30 patients from each day hospital during one specified week. Results showed that all patients fell within the criteria of classification, the majority falling into the following three categories: rehabilitation; rehabilitation, medical investigations and procedures; and social support. On close comparison of the results from both day hospitals the relative needs of the patients attending and the use of basic resources available were vastly different. Without a more detailed examination of the background reasons behind this it would be impossible to ascertain why the differences in the two day hospitals proved to be so great. This would indeed provide an interesting and natural subsequent study.


After the first flush of 'ecclesiologically correct' churches in the period 1840–60, the churches of the Scottish Episcopal Church continued to be influenced by the precepts of the ecclesiological movement over the following 50 years. This article is a continuation of the author's article 'The Scottish Episcopal Church and the Ecclesiological Movement 1840–60', in Architectural Heritage, Vol. VIII, 1997,1 and describes how many of the precepts of the movement, like prominent altars, distinct chancels, orientation of buildings and scholarly gothic, along with screens and side chapels, became mainstream. This was partly due to the dominance of two native-grown architects, Dr Alexander Ross and Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, though many other Scottish architects took up the same ideas and adapted them. As in the earlier period, distinguished English architects were brought in for some commissions. Sir George Gilbert Scott designed the Church's most prestigious buildings in Glasgow and Edinburgh,2 while Bodley, ...