It's two weeks before the birth of our daughter. We're in a technician's office verifying by sound and sight that all is well within the belly of my partner and I'm nattering on about the frilly dresses and pink sweaters we've received from family since finding out we're having a girl. The air and our lives are permeated with nervous and exhilarating anticipation. The technician moves the probe across Katrina and asks if we've kept the tags and receipts. I continue to muse about ways that the murky black and white form slipping in and out on the screen will change our lives forever. Then I pause and inquire about her comment. "The receipts on those dresses," she repeats. "You see this?" she asks, tapping the monitor. "That's a scrotum." When we share this story with others, they're generally amused until we indicate we're keeping the dresses. It is, after all, his choice what he wants to wear, we explain. Then our company becomes uncomfortable with the humor and uncertain whether and how to participate further in the discussion. Of course, none of our personal amusement about this occurrence curbs the sudden and reluctant sadness I feel as the little girl I'd been anticipating and connecting with in my mind for the past several months slips away, out of our lives and future. It leaves me wondering how the anticipated sex of a child could have possibly played such a significant role for this proud postmodern queer theorist. Suddenly I'm thrust into a world of new worries where my academic training offers little guidance or solace. I'm about to be a first-time mother, in a same-sex relationship, in a small western city where such things are still rare. My mind races with trepidation. Can I raise a son? How will he be potty-trained? Will he be bullied because of me or even possibly because of our interracial family? What, dear god, do I think of circumcision? And where the heck are all those articles I read about feminists raising sons? Stephanie May's essay "Mothers and Sons: Feminist Parenting and the Conundrums of Raising Males" provides an invaluable opportunity to reflect on where we find ourselves, as feminists with boys, four decades after the 1970s feminist movement. For feminist scholars of religion, this reflection is additionally informed by all we've come to theorize and know about the impacts of patriarchal religion and mythology on our concepts and experience of power and social categories relating to gender, sexuality, race, and class. May's reflections on historical discourse and theorizing about mothering encourage a reconsid-


The product range of the Gretsch-Unitas Group is supplemented by the new bathroom door control. With this control, developed mainly for the use in medical and nursing institutions such as hospitals, homes for the elderly and rehabilitation centres, a sanitary facility is accessible from two different rooms without anybody's privacy being affected. With the optional nurse call or emergency button, the doors can be opened from outside to guarantee accessability in emergency cases. The bathroom control allows for new design options when it comes to planning medical or nursing facilities. With two rooms sharing one bathroom, room and cost saving solutions are possible. The control is applied together with the electro-clutch locks of BKS or with equivalent locking systems of other suppliers. Flush mounted control components can be covered with customary switch covers. As an option, it is possible to use a stainless steel case for surface mounting. Due to its easy and convenient operation and the visual status indication, the bathroom control is also suitable for the use in barrier free areas.


Currently, there are still many science lessons that use the lecture method and are teacher-centred. There are still many students' natural science scores whose grades are below the KKM; the cause of low grades in this era is monotonous and unpleasant learning. Teacher-centred learning also makes students easily bored and bored, so they are not interested in learning related to the material being presented. Regarding this problem, the authors created a learning media in the form of an augmented reality application that functions to help students get to know and interact in real-time about Natural Sciences subjects, especially on animal metamorphosis material. The author uses the Multimedia Development Life Cycle (MDLC) development model through six stages, namely concept, design, collecting, assembly, testing, and distribution. From the results of making this application, animal metamorphosis learning will be easily recognized through augmented reality media, and students can enthusiastically learn using this application. Therefore, it is essential to make this learning media because students will be interested in learning new things, primarily related to 3D from augmented reality. Moreover, this technology is still rarely encountered and used in learning today.


On a reverse-phase Eclipse XDB-C8column, using the novel fluorescence reagent 1,2-benzo-3,4-di- hydrocarbazole-9-ethyl chloroformate (BCEOC) as a pre- column derivatization reagent, C1~C12aliphatic amine derivatives were optimally separated with a good baseline resolution by high-performance liquid chromatography in conjunction with a gradient elution. The optimal deriva-


A new method for estimating the rotational motion of a noncooperative target is presented by exploiting the 2-D space-variant characteristic of inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging. With a space-time analysis technique, the position variation of every extracted scattering center in both the range and cross-range directions can be utilized for rotation estimation. This method differs substantially from conventional methods that exploit high-order terms of the Doppler frequency, i.e., only the position variation in the cross-range direction. An iterative processing scheme is proposed to extract as many scattering centers as possible from the phase history of returned echoes. Experimental results with some measured airplane data demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.


............................................................................................................... iii Declaration............................................................................................................. v Acknowledgements.............................................................................................. vii Refereed papers arising from this research....................................................... ix List of Tables ..................................................................................................... xvii List of Figures..................................................................................................... xix Chapter 1: Introduction....................................................................................... 1 1.1 The problem ............................................................................................ 1 1.2 The informing question ........................................................................... 1 1.3 Background to the problem..................................................................... 2 1.4 The research report.................................................................................. 4 Chapter 2: Text production, transmediation and style..................................... 7 2.


dollars-for broader investment? But we could go on to an essentially private sector such as banking, where the costs, from salaries to computers and the bankers' profits, of stocking, administering, and investing all of our funds exceed US$80 billion a year, somewhere between 12 and 15 percent of the Brazilian gross domestic product (GDP) and more than the value of total agricultural production. To cover these costs, bankers charge interest, and the companies that borrow money, for their part, include financial costs in their price calculations and pass them on to the masses of consumers, who in buying their products pay the financial costs of maintaining a gigantic machine of financial intermediation. 1


This article examines the attempts between 1978 and 1998 to enact general regulatory procedural reform legislation. Two decades of off-again, off-again legislative efforts have yielded only fragments of reform. A major explanation for this, despite the official popularity of reform, seems to be the inability of putative reformers-traditionalists, populists, and restrictivists-to agree among themselves on the direction and content of general reform legislation. This experience raises a number of important theoretical issues for students of regulation, including the ethicalness of using procedural restraints deliberately to disrupt or impede the regulatory process and the impact of procedural controls on regulatory policy.


The article studies the economic growth patterns of the Baltic Sea Region countries, describes their gross domestic product trends, and predicts the future developments. As foreign trade is one characteristic of interrelationships between the countries, the geographical pattern of foreign trade is analyzed, especially emphasizing the linkages between the countries in the Baltic Sea Region. The article pays attention also to the perspectives in the 2025 time framework and ends with some comments regarding the conditions for future development.


Hepatic and cardiac
microsomalcarboxylesterase (CE) activities were measured on thebasis of hydrolyzing
pnitrophenylacetate (p-NPA).The effects of different inducers and inhibitors on CEactivity were
studied in SpragueDawley male rats. Itwas observed that phenobarbital (80 mg . kg-1, ig)
in-creased the liver microsomal CE activity, clofibratef300 mg . kg-1, ig) increased both the
enzymatic activi-ties of the hver and heart, while dexamethasone (100mg . kg-1, ip) only
increased the heart but not the liv-er CE activities. The effects of inhibitors on
P-NPAhydrolyzing activities of the heart and liver were differ-ent in vilro. In heart, the Vmax
was 143 nmol . L-1 .min-1 . mg -1 protein and the Km value was 0.41mmol. L-1 in control,
while the Ki values ofbis-p-nitrophenylphosphate sodium phenylmethyl-sulfonylfluorine and
diisopropylfluorophophate were1.0, 0.8 and 0.54 mmol . L-1 . min-1 . mg-1 protein,respectively.
The Km was 0.34 mmol . L-1 for the liverCE, and the Ki values were 1.1, 1.2 and 0.67 mmol .L-1
for the three inhibitors respectively. The resultsshowed that cardiac and hepatic CE might have
differ-ent reactions for different inducers.


This paper provides an overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty, and seeks to identify the various channels through which macroeconomic policies can affect poverty. Using the Human Development Index as a measure of well-being, the progress made by 100 countries over the 1975-98 period is presented, and its association with macroeconomic factors is explored. Given the rudimentary nature of research in this area, several avenues for future research are also outlined.


In this paper, an attempt is made to study the distribution of the number of male migrants from household through a sizebiased probability model based on certain assumptions. The parameters of the proposed model have been estimated by meth od of moments and its suitability is tested by applying it to a numb er of the observed set of population data collected under som e sample surveys. We found that the proposed model describes the obse rved data satisfactorily well.


The concentrations of metals in the groundwater were assessed on a seasonal basis to evaluate the possible risk on the local populace via the drinking water pathway in the mica mining areas of Jhar...


Ultrafast carrier dynamics of ultra-thin two-dimensional selenium has been carried out by transient absorption spectroscopy and its trap-state dominated recombination model with free carrier dominated carrier dynamics has been found out.


This paper reviews the current knowledge on turbulence effects in tilting pad journal bearings. Turbulence is becoming increasingly important in the design of hydrodynamic bearings due to the trend to increase power density in turbomachines and consequently the operating speeds of the hydrodynamic bearings. Turbulence has a series of effects on the bearing performance which may be beneficial or detrimental, depending on the operating conditions. The main turbulence models are recalled and a historical overview on the evolution of numerical simulations of turbulent flow in tilting pad journal bearings is presented. The two broad simulation strategies used are the generalized Reynolds equation and computational fluid dynamics. The main experimental works are then reviewed, and a unified comparison of these works is provided. Novel results on the critical Reynolds number in a tilting pad journal bearing are reported. Much emphasis is given on the experimental evidence for laminar-to-turbulent transition. The evidence used in the literature is reviewed and its reliability is discussed. Lastly, some future research directions are suggested.


Operational Modal Analysis relies upon the fundamental assumption that input is unmeasured and consists of a Gaussian white noise characterized by a flat spectrum in the bandwidth of interest. If this assumption is not fulfilled, the modal identification process may fail due to spurious frequencies appearing in response spectra. It is often possible to identify such non-structural frequencies, but they can also sometimes bias estimates. This is basically the case of spurious harmonics close to structural modes. About civil structures, spurious frequencies can be due to rotating machines but also to interaction with adjacent constructions, as discussed herein, where natural frequencies of a given structure are mixed together with those ones due to interaction with similar close structures; as a result, response spectra are characterized by several close peaks in a narrow bandwidth. An integrated use of output-only techniques is proposed to discriminate modal from spurious frequencies and applied to a real test case.


The issue of synchronization between dynamical systems has attracted much attention, and the systems with integer-order dynamical networks have been well studied. The synchronous behavior of fractional-order dynamical systems is very interesting and importance, but has rarely been studied. In this paper, we studied the synchronization and anti-synchronization behavior between integer-order dynamical networks and fractional-order dynamical systems via a Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model. Remarkably, there is synchronous behavior in such a system, and this is dramatically different from the behavior of integer-order dynamical networks. Moreover, we studied the impact of different coupling strengths on the dynamical process of synchronization and robustness of the designed controller to different coupling functions, different dimensions of dynamical equations and different fractional orders. Finally, we propose the theoretical analysis, which coincides well with the numerical simulations of five typical examples.


Crystalline samples of three N-aroyl-1,2,4-dithiazolidine-3,5-diones have been prepared as the first examples of a novel class of compound that displays the reactivity of an acyl isocyanate when treated with nucleophiles.


ABSTRACT This study was designed to compare the ways the websites promote giving campaigns between the United States and South Korea. Furthermore, this study explored how the campaign appeals are associated with the distinct cultural values between universities in the United States and Korea. Guided by a content analysis of 200 universities in the United States and South Korea, the findings of this study demonstrated that, compared to the Korean university websites, U.S. university websites more frequently targeted university-affiliated donors, including alumni, students, parents, and so forth, and used multimedia-based exemplars about the giving campaigns.


Abstract We examined the effects of thermal shock on poststocking survival of fingerling rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (mean total length, 99 mm; mean weight, 10 g), some of which were thermally tempered at stocking and others not. In one experiment we assessed survival when fish experienced increases in water temperature from 8°C to 24°C at two tempering rates (4°C/h and 8°C/h) and by an immediate transfer. In a second experiment we assessed survival when water temperatures were cooled to 0.3°C for 2 h and fish were subsequently transferred into 8°C and 24°C water without tempering. Both experiments were conducted with controls at 8°C that were subjected to the same handling procedures without any changes in water temperature. Fingerling rainbow trout were found to be very tolerant of all treatments, with few or no mortalities during the treatments or during the 2 weeks following treatment. Our experiments suggest that rapid changes to high but sublethal temperatures will not directly cause high mort...


And non-structural genes for resistance to human immunodeficiency Indian subtype C HIV-1 infection in humans the virus (HIV) vaccine constructs comprising HIV-1C is provided on the plasmid vector DNA Indian subtype strains structural gene.


distributed frequency restoration and economical active power control scheme for islanded AC microgrids. The authors presented a novel distributed cooperative control scheme that can restore the microgrid frequency to the nomi-nal value and thus achieve economical active power sharing. For this purpose, a distributed event-triggered eco-nomic dispatch algorithm is designed to calculate optimal active power reference, and a decentralized frequency controller is developed to restore the microgrid frequency and track the optimal active power reference. More-over, by employing event-triggered communication mechanism and decentralized secondary frequency control, they show that the communication burden can be significantly reduced. On the other hand, the paper by Shaikh et al. looks into the development of a strategy for optimal parameter estimation of overhead transmission line with the uncertainty of load modeling, where a Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) has been used to calculate the overhead AC transmission lines parameters. Their proposed technique has been successfully applied to both single-phase and three-phase AC transmission lines—showing that the determination of capacitance and inductance per unit length can be well made for three-phase using their proposed WOA algorithms at different bundle conductor arrangements. These papers present a fresh view on the current developments on the modeling and operational control of power grids and provide a useful insight on this important topic from several angles.


Micro protection is one of the challenges ahead of micro network expansion. Micro network functions in two states of connection to network and island. The short connection level of micro network is different at two functional levels. Therefore, the protection system which needs to diagnose the faults at two states would function improperly. In the preset article fault current limiter and oriented over-current relays optimal adjustment are implemented for micro network protection under the study. Additive particles optimal algorithm is used to adjust relays and fault current limiter impedance. The results show that by this method the micro networks can be secured at both two modes of functions.


This research was aimed to determine the effect of different tongka langit banana puree concentration on the physical, chemical, and sensory characteristics of muffin and determine the exact concentration of muffin with the best quality. A complete randomized experimental design with four levels of concentrations, i.e. 0% (control), 70%, 80%, and 90% was applied in this research. Results showed that the best physical, chemical, and sensory properties of muffins were obtained with the addition of 80% tongka langit banana puree.  A muffin with this respective concentration had an expansion volume of 118%, moisture, ash, vitamin, and total sugar contents of 26.09%, 1.56%, 0.60%, and 15.10%, subsequently. Based on its sensory characteristics, muffin with 80% banana puree was mostly preferred by panelists on aroma and overall likeness. The sensory characteristics of tongka langit banana were also maintained in the muffin.
Keywords: muffin, physicochemical, sensory, tongka langit banana puree

ABSTRAK
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan pengaruh konsentrasi puree pisang tongka langit terhadap karakteristik fisik, kimia dan organoleptik muffin dan menentukan konsentrasi puree yang tepat yang menghasilkan muffin dengan karakteristik terbaik. Rancangan Acak Lengkap dengan faktor tunggal konsentrasi puree pisang tongka langit dengan level 0% (kontrol), 70%, 80%, dan 90% digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa puree dengan konsentrasi 80% merupakan perlakuan yang tepat untuk menghasilkan muffin dengan karakteristik terbaik secara fisik, kimia dan organoleptik. Muffin dengan puree pisang tongka langit 80% memiliki volume pengembangan 118%, kadar air 26,09%, kadar abu 1,56%, kadar vitamin C 0,60%, total gula 15,10% dan lebih disukai panelis pada kategori aroma dan overall serta lebih mempertahankan karakteristik pisang tongka langit pada muffin.
Kata Kunci: fisikokimia, muffin, organoleptik, puree pisang tongka langit


In the present note, we study slant and hemislant submanifolds of an LP-cosymplectic manifold which are totally umbilical. We prove that every totally umbilical proper slant submanifold 𝑀 of an LP-cosymplectic manifold 𝑀 is either totally geodesic or if 𝑀 is not totally geodesic in 𝑀 then we derive a formula for slant angle of 𝑀. Also, we obtain the integrability conditions of the distributions of a hemi-slant submanifold, and then we give a result on its classification.


Introduction:
 Multiple myeloma (MM) is an incurable malignancy, and clinical trials with newer agents have shown improved patient outcomes. Ixazomib (Ixa) is a proteasome inhibitor and induces apoptosis in cancer cells. It is commonly used with immunomodulators for the treatment of MM. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the efficacy of Ixazomib alone and in combination with other drugs for the treatment of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM).
 Methods:
 A literature search was performed on PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, Web of Science, and clinicaltrials.gov. We used the following MeSH and Emtree terms; "ixazomib" AND "Multiple Myeloma" from inception till 06/05/2020. We screened 1,558 articles and included 3 randomized clinical trials (RCTs) (N=901) and 12 non-randomized clinical trials (NRCT) (N=632). We excluded case reports, case series, preclinical trials, review articles, observational studies, meta-analysis, and ongoing clinical trials that did not report interim efficacy outcomes. We used the R programming language (version 4.0.2) to conduct a meta-analysis.
 Results:
 In 15 clinical trials (N=1533), Ixa based regimens were used in patients with age range of 39-92 years. (Table 1) In 3 clinical trials (N=170), Ixa with Lenalidomide (Len) and dexamethasone (Dex) yielded a pooled overall response rate (ORR) of 90% (95% CI=0.82-0.94, I2=32%), a pooled complete response (CR) of 23% (95% CI=0.16-0.32, I2=24%) and a pooled ≥very good partial response and better (≥VGPR) of 39% (95% CI=0.24-0.57, I2 =76%) when used as induction therapy for NDMM patients. As consolidation therapy (N=88), pooled ORR was 91% (95% CI=0.79-0.97, I2=0), pooled CR was 36% (95% CI=0.27-0.47, I2=0) and pooled ≥VGPR was 70% (95% CI=0.53-0.84, I2=60%). (Fig 1-3)
 In 5 clinical trials (N=233), Ixa + cyclophosphamide (Cyc) + Dex yielded a pooled ORR, CR, and ≥VGPR of 76% (95% CI=0.70-0.81, I2 =0), 12% (95% CI=0.07-0.20, I2=44%), and 25% (95% CI=0.14-0.39, I2=78%), respectively. (Fig 1-3) The lower dose of Cyc 300mg/m2 had similar efficacy as 400mg/m2 with better safety profile in elderly patients. In a RCT (N=175) of Ixa with multiple combinations, Ixa + Dex yielded ORR 55% (95% CI=0.40-0.69), CR 14% (95% CI=0.07-0.28) and ≥VGPR 24% (95% CI=0.13-0.39). Ixa+ thalidomide (Thal) + Dex fostered ORR 82% (95% CI=0.70-0.90), CR 15% (95% CI=0.08-0.26), and VGPR 43% (95% CI=0.31-0.55). Ixa + bendamustine + Dex yielded ORR of 73% (95% CI=0.41-0.91), CR 9% (95% CI=0.01-0.44), and ≥VGPR 27% (95% CI=0.09-0.59). In one clinical trial (N=53), Ixa + melphalan (Mel) + prednisone (Pred) combination yielded pooled ORR, CR, and ≥VGPR of 66% (95% CI=0.52-0.77), 13% (95% CI=0.06-0.25), and 30% (95% CI=0.19-0.44), respectively. In a phase II trial (N=40), Ixa + daratumumab (Dara) + Len + Dex yielded an ORR, CR and ≥VGPR of 97% (95% CI=0.84-1), 15% (95% CI=0.07-0.28), and 35% (95% CI=0.22-0.51) respectively. (Fig 1-3)
 In a phase III RCT by Dimopholous et al. (N=656), Ixa maintenance therapy after stem cell transplant (SCT) yielded an ORR, CR, and ≥VGPR of 76%, 15%, and 54%, respectively. They observed 28% reduction in the risk of progression or death with Ixa vs. placebo, median progression free survival (mPFS) was 26.5 months (95% CI 23·7-33·8) vs 21·3 months [18·0-24·7]; hazard ratio 0·72, 95% CI 0·58-0·89; p=0·0023). Second malignancies were 3% in both ixazomib and placebo group. 27% of the patients in ixazomib group and 20% patients in placebo group experienced serious adverse events.
 In a clinical trial on unfit and frail patients (N=46) treated with Ixa + daratumumab (Dara) + Dex, pooled ORR and ≥VGPR were 83% (95% CI=0.69-0.91, I2=0), and 33% (95% CI=0.21-0.47, I2=0), respectively. (Fig 1-3) In the phase II trial, ORR, CR, and VGPR with ixazomib and lenalidomide were 64%, 26%, and 53%, respectively.
 Conclusion:
 Ixa in combination with Len, Dex, Cyc, Dara, Mel, Pred is effective in the treatment of NDMM patients. In early phase trials, Ixa with Dara, Len, and Dexa showed the highest overall response as induction therapy. Ixazomib maintainance therapy prolongs PFS after SCT as compared to placebo and represents an additional option for post SCT maintainace therapy in NDMM patiens. The safety profile of Ixa was acceptable with most commonly encountered adverse events were hematological including neutropenia and thrombocytopenia. Additional multicenter, double-blind, randomized clinical trials are needed to confirm these results.

 Anwer: Incyte, Seattle Genetics, Acetylon Pharmaceuticals, AbbVie Pharma, Astellas Pharma, Celegene, Millennium Pharmaceuticals.: Honoraria, Research Funding, Speakers Bureau.


Objective To determine the mRNA expression of transforming growth factor β2 (TGF-β2) in human brain glioma stem cells (BGSCs),and investigate its effect onimmunotherapy of glioma. Methods BGSCs were grown from 8 specimens resected from glioma from October 2008 to January 2009,then,they were isolated and identified.The expressions ofCD133,GFAP and TU-20 in the tumor cell spheres were detected by immunofluorescence staining; the TGF-β2 mRNA expression in BGSCs was detected by RT-PCR,and then,this result was compared with that of respective differentiated glioma cells. Results Positive expression of CD133 was noted in the tumor cell spheres,and GFAP and TU-20 could be expressed in the tumor cell spheres. A quantitative determination exhibited higher TGF-β2 mRNA expression in BGSCs than that in their counterparts of primary cultured glioma cells,which was statistically significant (t=3.619,P=0.009). Conclusion High TGF-β2 mRNA expression is noted in BGSCs,which might be the main producer of overproduction of TGF-β2 in gliomas leading to immune escape and resistance to current therapies.

Key words:
Glioma;  Brain glioma stem cell;  Transforming growth factor β2; Immunotherapy


Abstract The activity and stability of niobia supported on silica catalyst have been tested in continuous micro-pilot reactors, for biodiesel production starting from acid vegetable oils. A catalyst was prepared by the impregnation of silica pellets with a loading of 12% of Nb and was extensively characterized. The activity of this catalyst in both esterification and transesterification was tested in a continuous micro-pilot laboratory plant in which acid oil was fed (FFA 10% w/w) at a temperature of 220°C and at a pressure of 60 bar. The niobia based catalyst resulted in a very active catalyst in both esterification (FFA conversion = 95-90%) and transesterification reactions (FAME yield = 80-90%), and the activity remained quite constant for more than 100 h on stream. Notwithstanding this stability, a non-negligible leaching phenomena has been detected, in the case of long-time continuous runs, as the Nb concentration on the spent catalyst resulted lower than that on the fresh one. The obtained result confirms that the leaching of the active specie is one of the most strong problem in heterogeneous catalysis for biodiesel production.


Infrastructure is a general unit will often involve important financial and economic practical problems.In recent years,with the unit increase in capital construction projects,financial management of its infrastructure has also exposed a number of shortcomings,for these problems,…… for improving the administrative efficiency in the use of funds has its practical significance.


Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of platelets by immune mediators, their deficient production in the red bone marrow leading to the appearance of thrombocytopenia and increased risk of hemorrhage. Treatment is indicated in patients with low platelet counts (<30 x 10 9 /L), who present clinically with hemorrhagic events or are at increased risk for hemorrhage. Corticosteroid therapy remains the first choice in the treatment of patients with Primary ITP


The aim of being able to see what development strategies are suitable for mangrove tourism in Kampung Sejahtera on Baai Island, Bengkulu City. The research objective was to see the strategy for developing mangrove tourism in Kampung Sejahtera on Baai Island, Bengkulu City with a SWOT analysis. The data collection used was a questionnaire method with a list of questions to the respondents. The analysis method used is a SWOT analysis to see internal factors and external factors, which will then be entered into the SWOT matrix. The research results obtained from the analysis of internal factors and external factors. The result of the internal factor is a strength (strength) of 2.75 while the weakness (weakness) is 1.46, so the value of the internal factor is 2.75-1.46 = 1.29 while from the external factor the opportunity (opportunity) is 2 , 52 and for the threat (threat) is 1.58, the value of the external factor is 2.52-1.58 = 0.94. Based on the analysis diagram, the SWOT strategy is in the Cell (quadrant) I position. This shows that the SO strategy in the SWOT matrix is an aggressive strategy. This strategy explains that Kampung Sejahtera mangrove tourism can take advantage of the surrounding environment. The environment around mangrove tourism is still natural so that it is very likely for the community to add stages such as trading, opening food stalls, and lodging businesses around the mangrove tourism of Kampung Sejahtera on Baai Island, Bengkulu City, and Utilizing mangrove forests so as not to abrasion around mangrove tourism Kampung Sejahtera on Baai Island, Bengkulu City, which makes the tourist area safe and tourists who visit are comfortable and not worried about abrasion


This paper gives a method which bases on the wavelet decomposition and the neural network to predict the short-time load. Using wavelet transform, the load sequence is decomposed into sub-sequences on different scales, then using appropriate artificial neural network models the sub-sequences of forecasting date are predicted. Finally, by means of restructuring from the sub-sequences, the final forecasting results of the load sequence are obtained. The actual load data of electric network in Yichang, Hubei, China are applied to build the model. The instance shows that the proposed method is possessed of higher forecasting accuracy and better adaptability than back propagation (BP) neural network forecasting methods.


ABSTRACT We report the draft genome sequence of Microbacterium sp. strain HM58-2, which produces hydrazidase, an enzyme hydrolyzing acylhydrazides. The estimated genome size is 3.9 Mb. Genome sequence information of this strain will help to identify an assimilating mechanism of nonnatural compounds in this strain and to develop ecological applications.


Cheap and efficient wireless sensors have been widely studied by electronics and communication technology development. In this paper, a flexible planar dipole antenna based passive wireless strain sensor has been investigated. The planar dipole antenna is designed for X band and made on a flexible polymer substrate using a conventional photolithography process. The fabricated dipole antenna is attached to a nonmetallic cantilever beam and monitors its bending strain. Mechanical strain and load impedance of the dipole antenna can change its resonance frequency, return loss and reflected signal. The return loss and reflected signals of the dipole antenna sensor are characterized by using a network analyzer. The strain sensitivity of the sensor is proportional to the return loss variation with the bending strain of the cantilever beam. The magnitude of reflected signals increases as the bending strain increases.


This study attempts to provide a novel analytical framework for assessing Iran's gas export portfolio risk considering the aggregate dependency index of natural gas of importing countries and geopolitics factor. After providing indicators related to each of the natural gas transmission methods, the aggregate dependency index of each country is determined using the entropy-based aggregating method. This paper considers pipeline and liquefied natural gas. In this study, 17 countries are selected to evaluate the risk of dependency in natural gas exports. With respect to Iran's exporting natural gas plans, gas export portfolio risk is calculated based on two proposed scenarios. Considering two methods of transmission, the results show that gas export portfolio risk will be 63.4% at the lowest risk level.


Compared with closed-end funds, open-end funds refer to funds that can be traded jointly. With the development of financial market, fund has become an important investment channel. Fund performance reflects the historical growth, net capital and profit information of the fund, and it is also a reference index for investors to invest. The research shows that fund performance and investor behavior play an interactive role, with affecting the decision-making of investors' purchase or redemption. This paper mainly studies the relationship between the performance of open-end funds and investors' behavior, so as to make people more clearly about the relationship between the performance of open-end funds and investors' behavior.


Abbreviations5-HTT serotonin transporterMAOA monoamine oxidase APTSD posttraumatic stress disorderPsychiatrists have always been trying to understand the reasons why some people become mentally ill while others remain well. In the 20th century, the thinking about the causes of mental health and illness crystallized into the nature versus nurture debate, with the genetic causes (nature) seen as independent and separate from the psychosocial causes (nurture). This divided thinking led to damaging excesses on both sides. The demonstration of genetic contribution to mental illness was interpreted as deterministic causation that was stigmatizing and left little room for preventive or curative interventions short of extreme measures, such as birth control. Conversely, strictly psychosocial interpretations of mental illness led to parent blaming and obscure therapies leading patients to search for nonexistent traumata. In the last decades of the 20th century, findings of quantitative genetics converged to the understanding that genetic and environmental effects are unlikely to be independent of each other. However, it was not until the first decade of the 21st century that the reports of interactions between specific genetic variants and environmental exposures had significant impact on the professional and public understanding of mental illness.The reports that functional polymorphisms in several neuromediator-related genes do not directly cause mental illness but rather sensitize their carriers to the pathogenic effects of environmental exposures brought a new way of thinking about mental illness. A variant in the MAOA gene was found to make its carriers vulnerable to the long-term effects of childhood maltreatment on developing conduct problems and antisocial behaviours.' A variant in the 5-HTT gene sensitizes its carriers to the opposing effects of adverse and supportive environments in the development of depression.2 Variants in several glucocorticoid-related genes may make people sensitive to developing PTSD and other problems after a traumatic event.3 These findings suggest an intuitively plausible mechanism where biology interplays with the surroundings to mould the person's mental processes into healthy or disordered states. It agrees with the observations that some people are resilient to adversity and others are sensitive. Psychiatrists across the world have found this helpful in communicating with patients: nature is no longer deterministic but simply means that different people may need different approaches and each one may have a potential to thrive in his or her niche. Nevertheless, the numerous reports on gene-environment interactions have also proven puzzling. The existence of specific gene-environment interactions has been contested and subjected to complex arguments on issues, such as the statistical nature of interaction, which most psychiatrists find hard to understand.The 2 In Reviews in this issue4,5 provide fresh updates on findings in gene-environment interactions in anxiety and mood disorders. They also exemplify the current debate surrounding the issue of gene-environment interactions. While Dr Marco Battaglia4 probes and questions the nature of causal interactions, Dr Torsten Klengel and Dr Elisabeth B Binder5 assume an affirmative answer to the existence of gene-environment interactions and expound on their meaning and mechanisms. What comes across in both reviews is that the value of gene-environment interactions comes down to whether they are reliably present across populations, that is, whether they replicate.Regarding replication, the various interactions fared differently. The very first reported interaction between MAOA gene and childhood maltreatment in the development of antisocial behaviour was followed by numerous replications, and its validity can hardly be disputed.6,7 Interactions between variants in the glucocorticoid-related FK506 binding protein 5 and corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 1 genes and environmental adversity also appear promising with initial replications. …


The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III on the International Space Station (SAGE III/ISS) was delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) on 23 February 2017. The SAGE III/ISS payload was robotically installed external to the ISS and began acquiring science measurements on 17 March 2017. The SAGE III/ISS instrument retrieves vertical profiles of atmospheric ozone, multi-wavelength aerosol extinctions, and other gaseous species. This paper will focus on the improvements made to the operations of the SAGE III/ISS payload. A key focus of the operations team following commissioning was to create robust tools that aid in the operations of the payload. A close collaboration with the SAGE III/ISS ground systems team allowed for the development of web-based tools to continuously monitor the health of the payload. The mission operations team also worked with the SAGE III/ISS science team to gain a better sense of how the instrument works to maximize the quality and quantity of the science data collected. Another unique aspect of the SAGE III/ISS payload, that will be discussed, is the challenges of operating a hosted payload on the ISS; an active platform that has frequent attitude maneuvers, dockings, and EVAs. This active environment increases the need for the SAGE III/ISS operations team command to the payload. Through coordination and teamwork, SAGE III/ISS mission has developed an operations team, tool, and procedures that have successfully managed the payload around ISS activities and recovered from multiple instrument upsets. This has led the SAGE III/ISS payload to successfully surpass the acquisition metrics set forth prior to launch, allowing for the continued contribution to studying the atmospheric composition of the stratosphere and how it plays a role in Earth's climate.


The U.S. has the most expensive per capita health care system in the world. As such, one of the main goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to reduce costs for citizens. Morgen S. Johansen and Ling Zhu examine how private, non-profit, and government-run hospitals have responded to local market competition and the ACA. They find that administrators from public, non-profit, and private hospitals prioritize different aspects of care and costs in the face of market competition and that public hospitals are much more responsive to the ACA reforms.


Medicinal plants play a key role in human health care. Phytochemicals can be derived from different parts of plants. Different medicinal plants and their phytoextracts have shown antimicrobial action. Phytochemicals from Myristica fragrans plant extract are traditionally used to cure Diarrhea. Molecular docking method applied using "Biovia Discovery Studio". "High positive values of -CDOCKER energy and -CDOCKER interaction energy" suggested that Eugenol can effectively deactivate the shikimate dehydrogenase enzyme thereby interrupting the life cycle of the organism.


population, and was the result of an increase in bound enzyme content, in accordance with the conclusions of Gregson & Williams (1969). A second population, with a mean buoyant density of 1.166 was characterized by a low and relatively constant cytochrome oxidase/monoamine oxidase activity ratio with a mean value of 0.19. I t has been claimed that in mixed mitochondria obtained from whole mammalian brain homogenates, submitted to sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation, the resolution of cytochrome oxidase, monoamine oxidase and protein concentration into two peaks showed the potential feasibility of using such a procedure to separate glial and neuronal mitochondria (Hamberger et al., 1970). We have not obtained such clear-cut resolutions of these enzymic and biochemical mitochondrial parameters along the sucrose gradient from the crude mitochondrial fraction of the chick brain at any stage of development studied. In some experiments a 6 h centrifugation time was used, which did not modify the relative position of the isopycnic bands. From the results obtained in this study, we confirm the existence of more than two heterogeneous populations of mitochondria in the chick brain, the evolution of which is different during embryogenesis and postnatal growth and leads to various ratios of inner to outer membrane mass.


The solidification of multicomponent alloys is of high technical and scientific importance. In this review, we describe the ongoing research of the phase-field method for the solidification of dendritic and eutectic structures. Therefore, the corresponding experimental and theoretical investigations are presented. First, an overview of the historical development in solidification research is given. Thereafter, the ongoing progress of the phase-field models is reviewed. Then, we address the experimental and simulative investigations of different forms of dendritic and eutectic solidification. We distinguish between thermal and solutal dendritic growth as well as thin-sample and Bridgman furnace experiments of eutectic growth. Impurity-driven Mullins-Sekerka instabilities like cell structures, eutectic colonies and spiral dendritic growth are presented. Then, validation methods for the comparison between simulations, experiments and theoretical approaches are addressed. Subsequently, related aspects to simulate solidification are introduced. Especially, further physical aspects and computational optimizations are considered. Concluding, possible future research in the context of the phase-field method for solidification is discussed.


The paper presents simulation results about thyristor operation of a mains connected induction machine, both as a motor and as a generator. The results were obtained by three different simulation packages, Simulink, Psim and Plecs. The cosimulation options between these programs were checked. The performances of these three packages were compared. The simulation results were validated by real experiments.


This paper reports a new record of Zenion hololepis (Goode & Bean, 1896) from Indian waters. The species was collected during an exploratory deep-sea fishery survey onboard FORV Sagar Sampada off the Andaman Islands at a depth of 314 m using a High-Speed Demersal Trawl-Crustacean Version (HSDT-CV) on 25 November 2017.


Visual tracking is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Lots efforts have been made in the past decades and researchers have obtained some achievements, but there are still problems exist. To get a more powerful feature representation, deep learning based methods appear layer upon layer, and most of them achieve good performance at the price of losing speed. In this paper, we propose a SiamFL network for visual tracking, which introduce the focal loss with the Siamese network. With the focal loss, the network is capable of filtering out the easy examples, leaving the hard samples to train a discriminative network. Moreover, the SiamFL network also can alleviate the class imbalance problem by properly sampling the positive and negative samples at a certain ratio. Experimental results demonstrate the SimaFL has quick convergence and also have a better performance over the baseline tracker.


We introduce a notion of p-dimensional cones made of $p$-dimensional subspaces and gauges on these cones, giving rise to a contraction principle which generalizes the one for Birkhoff cones. Using tools on the grassmannian and the exterior algebra, we prove a spectral gap result for the p largest eigenvalues of an operator and a regularity result for the characteristic exponents of a random product of cone-contracting operators.


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A study of amebas of the genera Naegleria, Acanthamoeba, Polysphondylium, and Didymium shows that a cytopathogenic agent that is filterable and passageable is present only in the strains of the Naegleria whether they are obtained free-living from soil samples (N. gruberi) or as pathogens from humans (N. fowleri). The agents obtained from the different Naegleria strains are similar in amount and in their cytopathogenic interaction with chick cultures. The agent has characteristics that distinguish it from the known viruses.


This study aims to 1) To determine the usability level of UGM Faculty of Engineering Library website; 2) To know the loyalty of the visitors to make an online visit at UGM Faculty of Engineering Library's website;
3) To know the relationship between website usability with loyalty of user in Faculty of Engineering UGM Library. This research is a quantitative research. The population in this study is the user who visited the website of Faculty of Engineering UGM Library as much 1278 then taken sample of 296 people. Methods of data collection using questionnaires, nonparticipative observation, interviews and documentation. Measurement data in this study using Likert scale. Validity test using pearson's product moment formula and reliability test using alpha cronbach formula. Data analysis is divided into three stages: 1) Descriptive analysis using mean and grand mean, 2) Correlation test using pearson's product moment, and 3) Hypothesis test by comparing r table (0,133) and r count (0,557), obtained from table R at number 294 with error rate of 5%. The results showed that: 1) Usability Library Website Faculty of Engineering UGM entered in a high level because it obtained a grand mean of 3.87. 2) Loyalty of visitors to visit the website of UGM Faculty of Engineering Library, obtain grand mean 3.18. The value is in the range scale of 2.60 - 3.40 which indicates that the loyalty of visitors to visit online website of UGM Faculty of Engineering Library is in the medium level. 3) There is a positive and moderate relationship between the usability of UGM Faculty of Engineering Library's website and the loyalty of visitors to visit the Library website of Faculty of Engineering UGM, as proved by the positive r value of 0.557, it also shows that the relationship between the two variables is strong. From the results of the study there are several indicators that need to be improved, namely the indicators that get the score below the average. One of the interesting findings is that the user still uses other websites in searching the information on the library website of Faculty of Engineering UGM.


A factor screening experiment identifies a few important factors from a large list of factors that potentially influence the response. If a list consists of m factors each at three levels, a design is a subset of all possible 3m runs. This paper considers the problem of finding designs with small numbers of runs, using the search linear model introduced in Srivastava (1975). The paper presents four new general classes of these 'search designs', each with 2m−1 runs, which permit, at most, two important factors out of m factors to be searched for and identified. The paper compares the designs for 4 ≤ m ≤ 10, using arithmetic and geometric means of the determinants, traces and maximum characteristic roots of particular matrices. Two of the designs are found to be superior in all six criteria studied. The four designs are identical for m= 3 and this design is an optimal design in the class of all search designs under the six criteria. The four designs are also identical for m= 4 under some row and column permutations.


The dynamics of bubble, drop, and foam formation can present chaotic behavior. Under certain conditions these systems present routes to chaos such as period doubling, period adding, or intermittency. In addition to these aspects, some interesting emergent types of fragile objects can be observed, such as antibubbles.


daylight). The authors present a good discussion of albedo, including a table of values for many landscape materials. The direction of reflected light into buildings belongs in this presentation, whether from lighter colored plants or pavement. The authors' detailed discussion of solar radiation returns to the subject of visible radiation, infrared radiation, and longer-wave radiation from objects on earth. A very useful table (page 116) presents twenty-three trees and their range of transmissivity, season of foliation-defoliation, and maximum expected height. I wish there were more trees presented! It would also be helpful to expand this table's foliation-defoliation section to several climate zones; it is not clear which climate zone is described in this table, as the authors do not list their references for this information. The section on design testing by shadow casting is nicely done. Among the useful tips are the recommendation of two typical days for testing: May 6 (same sun path as August 6) and February 6 (same as November 6). Thus with only two sun-path tests, the designer gets the approximate midpoint of all four seasons. I wanted more of an emphasis on the value of deciduous vines and trees here--after all, each of these sun-path conditions represents two very different daily temperature ranges. The deciduous plant knows these differences well, and responds accordingly. This book is a useful contribution, especially to the teaching of landscape design. Significant points are made in boldface, and are easily found while skimming the book; graphics are simple and appealing; calculations are thoroughly explained; algorithms for computer programs are contained in several appendices. I found it enjoyable and informative reading. John S. Reynolds, A.I~t., is Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon, Eugene. Research interests include renewable energy utilization and passive cooling performance of courtyard buildings. GREEN NATURE/HUMAN NATURE: THE MEANING OF PLANTS IN OUR LIVES, by Charles A. Lewis. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. xix + 148 pages, text, notes, index, $14.95 paperbound, $32.95 clothbound. ISBN 0-252-06510-7 paper ISBN 0-252002213-0 clothbound


Previous studies have characterized differences in vitiligo associated with halo nevi, but the features of vitiligo presenting with halo nevus in children have yet to be fully described.


This study analyses the use of hedges in English texts written by year nine[1] pupils attending Norwegian lower secondary schools. Hedges are quantified in a corpus of 82 pupil texts using a taxonomy consisting of five hedging categories: Adaptors, Rounders, Plausibility Shields, Explicit Markers of Author Involvement and Verbal Fillers (Prince et al., 1980; Salager-Meyer, 1994; Holmes, 1986). As the pupils are school-level second language learners of English, each device is also deemed to be either accurately or inaccurately used based on grammar, well-formedness and appropriateness (Fetzer, 2004). The analyses are compared across topic, holistic ratings and formality. Texts in the corpus are written about two topics: sports and literary analyses of the novel Holes (Sachar, 1998). Texts about sports contain significantly more hedges than texts about Holes. Comparing accurate and inaccurate categories across holistic ratings, different results were produced when considering topic. Informally written texts about sports contain higher frequencies of accurately used devices than formally written texts about sports. The results suggest that topic and formality are the most significant factors affecting hedging use in this corpus. While hedging frequency overall does not seem to correlate with holistic ratings, overuse and inaccurate use of hedges seems to affect quality. Based on the results, it is argued that pupils may benefit from exposure to a wide range of accurately used devices. [1] "Year 9" is a term usually used in the UK, synonymous with "9th grade" used in the United States, for pupils aged 13-14.


ObjectiveTo investigate the clinical significance of surgical treatment for cardiac cancer accompanied by upper gastrointestinal bleeding.MethodsThe clinical and pathological data of 108 cases of cardiac cancer,among whom 93 cases confirmed by digestive endoscopy and histopathology suffered from vomiting blood or stool bleeding and 15 cases with massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding underwent emergency surgery,were analyzed retrospectively.Resection was performed in 101 patients and exploration only in 7 patients.ResultsThere was no operative or hospital death.Postoperative complications,including one case of anastomosis stricture and one case of anastomosis delayed massive bleeding,were all cured.Recent life quality was satisfactory in patients underwent resection.ConclusionsCardiac cancer can easily induce upper gastrointestinal bleeding.However,it does not mean that the tumor must have extensive invasion and lymph nodes metastasis.The operative indication should be specified,every preparation should be made and active surgical treatment should be performed as early as possible.


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This study presents an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) filter with improved out-of-band performance. The proposed filter adopts novel Composite Right/Left-Handed (CRLH) Transmission Lines (TLs), which are modeled with distributed elements instead of lumped elements. A unit cell of the CRLH TLs is theoretically analyzed to derive the design formulas. The analyzing results confirm that the proposed structures are CRLH TLs. A novel UWB bandpass filter with improved out-of-band performance is designed and fabricated using the induced formulas. The measurement results show that the fabricated UWB bandpass filter has an insertion loss of less than 2.8 dB, a bandwidth of 2.8-10.4 GHz and a rejection of more than 18 dB from 11.6 to 23.4 GHz.


Abstract Some classical types of nonlinear periodic wave motion are studied in special coordinates. In the case of cylinder coordinates, the usual perturbation techniques leads to the overdetermined systems of linear algebraic equations for unknown coefficients whose compatibility is key step of the investigation. Their solutions give solutions to the nonlinear wave equation which are periodic in time and found with the same accuracy as the nonlinear wave equation is derived. Expanding the potential for wave motion in Fourier series, we express explicitly the coefficients of the first two harmonics as quadratic polynomials of Bessel functions. One may speculate that the obtained expressions are only the first two terms of an exact solution to the nonlinear wave equations.


The COVID-19 pandemic brought disruption to teaching and other aspects of workload in higher education. The current study sampled 126 counselor educators about workload, compassion satisfaction, burnout, and job satisfaction. Results indicated that faculty workload and administrative responsibilities increased for counselor educators during the pandemic without adequate compensation or support. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)


A number of reagents have been examined for effecting the conversion of an optically pure 2-phenylhydantoic acid to an optically active 5-phenylhydantoin. Trifluoroacetic anhydride (TFAA method) and dilute hydrochloric acid (acid-catalysis method) proved to be the reagents of choice. The dependence of the kinetics of racemization of the 5-phenylhydantoin system on temperature has been studied in dilute hydrochloric acid solution to support the conclusion that 5-phenylhydantoins prepared by the acid-catalysis method are nearly, if not entirely, optically uniform.


Blast Theory productions, part game, part installation, part performance, enmesh the participant within an interactive performance system. They create complex environments in which spectators are co-authors, physically and creatively interacting with media, other players, and facilitators to develop and complete the work. This chapter will argue that Blast Theory disrupt the performer /spectator dialectic by creating a complex performance system that evolves into more than the sum of its components parts. Via theories of intermediation and complexity, the nature of audience interactivity will be illustrated as 'emergent', with the performance embracing an aesthetic of emergence. To support these complex systems, Blast Theory construct interactive environments that immerse the audience within the performance space whilst simultaneously encouraging reflection. The final section of this chapter will explore the audience's experience of collective creation and contemplative immersion in these complex systems of spectatorship.


A monolithic thin film red light emitting diode (LED) active-matrix (AM) micro-display driven by a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) driver is demonstrated. The resolution of the micro-display is <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$64\times36$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, with a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$40\,\,\mu \text{m}\,\,\times 40\,\,\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> pixel pitch. Starting from AlGaInP epi-layers grown on GaAs substrates, the monolithic red LED array was fabricated and then integrated with the AM driver using Au/In flip-chip bonding technology. After removal of the GaAs substrate, a crack-free thin film micro-display was realized with a high pixel yield. The thin film red LED AM micro-display delivers a luminance of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2.35\times 10^{4}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> cd/m2 at full-load conditions and can render images with 4-bit grayscale. This work not only provides a manufacturing-friendly approach for monolithic thin film red LED micro-displays, but also brings the possibility of hybrid integration with blue/green LEDs to achieve full-color LED micro-displays.


The purpose of this article is to analyze functionality in statements with a figurative meaning in tourist texts. In order to do so, we have selected a group of texts published by the Region of Murcia as part of a campaign to promote the region as a tourist destination. The motto in this campaign is Region of Murcia no-typical, and around it a number of texts are articulated- all of which fulfill the expected aim of a marketing slogan. We mainly focus on the communicative function of metaphors and metonymies to construct a figurative meaning, so we carry out both a semantic and pragmatic analysis of the selected statements. Our hypothesis considers that these procedures project an image of the tourist destination that relies on the recipients cognitive processes and emotional values for its interpretation. These techniques therefore lead the choice of the marketed product, as the constructed image links the tourist appeals of the region with the expectations of the future tourist, both in cognitive and emotional areas.


Institute of Industrial Science and Institute for Nano Quantum Information Electronics, University of Tokyo 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan Phone: +81-3-5452-6261, E-mail: email@example.com National Institute of Information and Communications Technology 4-2-1, Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan Walter Schottky Institute, Technische Universität München Am Coulombwall 3, 85748 Garching, Germany


In this paper, the effect of meditation on the seven load arithmetic tasks using Electroencephalogram (EEG) is investigated. The focused attention on breathing is taught to 11 healthy subjects as a simple meditation technique. EEG signals have been recorded at the beginning of meditation and after four weeks of regular meditation (daily 20 minutes) using EMOTIV device. The higher order crossings (HOC) features are derived from EEG signals for analysis of seven cognitive loads. The pre and post-experiment results are compared based on reaction time and effect on brain lobe. The K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN) classifier is used for classification of seven loads and achieved 83.57% accuracy in the post and 89.61 % accuracy in pre-experiment. The EEG-based cognitive load analysis is an important tool for continuous memory load measurement application.


For data acquisition of laser distance sensor in wing's cross section measuring system, the principle of asynchronous serial communication realized by Visual C + + is introduced. Several serial communication programming methods in Visual C + + are discussed. The class Win32Port which is composed of the serial communication Win32 API is given, the serial communciation between PC and laser distance sensor is achieved by this class. The example show that the method is convennient to realize control of laser distance sensor and has good applicability.


This paper develops a supervised discriminant technique, called Margin Maximum Embedding Discriminant (MMED), for dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional data. In graph embedding, our objective is to find a linear transform matrix to make the samples in the same class as compact as possible and the samples belong to the different classes as dispersed as possible. The proposed method effectively avoids the singularity problem frequently encountered in the classical linear discriminant analysis due to the small sample size (SSS) and overcomes the limitations of the traditional linear discriminant analysis algorithm (LDA) due to data distribution assumptions and available projection directions. Experimental results on ORL and AR face databases show the effectiveness of the proposed method


Sr-ferrite was prepared by multi-stage sintering and wet pressing under magnetic field,and vibrtaing sample magnetometer and scanning electron microscope were uesed to measure and observe its magnetic properties and microstructure,respectively.It shows that with increasing initial(first-stage) sintering temperature the saturation magnetization increases significantly,with maximun saturation magnetization of 64.46 A.m2/kg for 1250℃ sintering;saturation magnetization increases slightly with extending sintering time.Therefore,the saturation magnetization of Sr-ferrite can be improved by both reasonably increasing initial sintering temperature and extending sintering time.


We propose a few fundamental techniques to obtain effective watermark features of images in the image search index, and utilize the signals in a commercial search engine to improve the image search quality. We collect a diverse and large set (about 1M) of images with human labels indicating whether the image contains visible watermark. We train a few deep convolutional neural networks to extract watermark information from the raw images. We also analyze the images based on their domains to get watermark information from a domain-based watermark classifier. The deep CNN classifiers we trained can achieve high accuracy on the watermark data set. We demonstrate that using these signals in Bing image search ranker, powered by LambdaMART, can effectively reduce the watermark rate during the online image ranking.


Background: The antibody against the transcriptional intermediate factor 1γ (Anti-TIF1γ or anti-p155), is considered specific for dermatomyositis (DM) and its a marker of cancer risk. Our center carries out the determination of anti-TIF1γ by a homemade immunoblot (IB) technique with a 155 kDa TIF1γ human recombinant protein (OriGene). Currently there is a commercial technique of IB to detect TIF1γ (Euroimmun), however, commercial kits sometimes elaborate antigens without using whole protein structure. To date, there are no studies that study the agreement between the commercial kit and homemades IB. Objectives: 1-To compare the commercial IB results of anti-TIF1γ with homemade IB. 2-To describe and compare the clinical characteristics of the patients analyzed by both techniques. METHODS: Observational retrospective study that included adult patients with some determination of anti-TIF1γ antibodies since 2014 in two tertiary-level university hospitals. We collected demographic and clinical data of all patients. Taking into account their diagnoses we grouped them into: Cancer associated Myositis (CAM), DM without cancer, Systemic autoimmune Diseases (SAD) non-DM and other diagnoses. Subsequently, the clinical agreement with the IB results of anti-TIF1γ performed by commercial (cIB) and homemade (hIB) technique were analyzed. A p value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: 48 patients were recruited (77.1% women). 13 had diagnosis of CAM, 19 of DM without cancer, 7 of other non-DM EAS, and 9 had other diagnoses. Of all DM (CAM and DM without cancer), 12 were positive for both techniques. 5 presented discordant results (4 hIB positive with negative cIB and 1 cIB positive with negative hIB). 15 DM were negative for the two techniques, of which 8/15 had other antibodies associated with autoimmune Myopathy (3 NXP-2, 1 Mi2, 1 MDA5, 1 SAE, 1 Jo1 and 1 Ro52). When we analyzed patients with CAM with both techniques, 10/13 presented positive hIB vs 8/13 cIB positive. DM without cancer, 6/19 had positive hIB vs 5/19 cIB positive. The sensitivity and specificity of each test was evaluated in CAM and DM without cancer, being 61.5% and 73.7% respectively for cIB (p = 0.071), compared to 76.9% and 68.4% for hIB (p = 0.029). In non-DM SAD group, 1 patient had positive determination for both techniques, 3 had positive cIB with negative hIB, and 3 cIB negative with positive hIB. We also found other antibodies in 6/7 patients with non-DM SAD. The 9 patients with other diagnoses were: 1 positive for both techniques and 8 positive for cIB and negative for hIB. CONCLUSIONS: Homemade IB with 155 kDa recombinant protein was superior to cIB to detect TIFγ in our serie of patients with CAM. This could have clinical implications in screening and early detection of neoplasia that affect false negative by cIB. A positive cIB in patients not suspected as a SAD were negative for hIB in the major part of cases. It would be recommended to check the commercial IB using homemade IB, due to its known clinical-therapeutic implications. Disclosure of interests: Ana Milena Millán arciniegas: None declared, M. ANGELES MARTINEZ: None declared, aNAIS MARISCAL: None declared, aNDRES BAUCELLS: None declared, Leticia alserawan: None declared, Ernesto Trallero: None declared, Cesar Díaz-Torné: None declared, ana Laiz Consultant for: Lilly, Novartis, abbVvie, MSD, UCB and Janssen, Speakers bureau: Lilly, Novartis, abvvie, MSD, UCB and Janssen, Berta Magallares: None declared, Patricia Moya: None declared, HyeSang Park: None declared, andrea García-Guillén: None declared, Sycille Jeria: None declared, DAVID LOBO: None declared, albert Gil: None declared, Coral Gozalvez: None declared, Susana P. Fernandez-Sanchez: None declared, Laura Martínez-Martínez: None declared, Esther Moga: None declared, Hector Corominas: None declared, Cándido Juarez: None declared, Ivan Castellví Consultant for: I received fees less than 5000USD as a consultant for Kern and actelion, Paid instructor for: I received fees less than 2000USD as a instructor for Boehringer -Ingelheim, Novartis and Gebro, Speakers bureau: ND, albert Selva-O'Callaghan: None declared


Our Research Article does not argue that elements of an evolved social psychology are unimportant, as Baumard et al. suggest. Nor do we believe, as Delton et al. propose, that purely genetically evolved mechanisms, rooted in kinship and reciprocity, are sufficient to account for the massive expansion of cooperation in the past 10 millennia and the diversity of human sociality. We argue that understanding this expansion requires the integration of work on both cultural and genetic evolution.


Purified collagen has long been used as a biomaterial for a variety of medical applications. Other components of the extracellular matrix such as fibronectin, laminin and hyaluronic acid have also been used as a coating for medical devices to improve biocompatibility. Recently, the intact extracellular matrix (ECM) derived from a variety of tissues such as small intestine, dermis, and urinary bladder have been used as a biologic scaffold for regenerative medicine applications. When the native ultrastructure of the ECM is maintained, the host tissue response differs significantly from the classic inflammatory reaction and the classic response to synthetic biomaterials. Biologic processes such as angiogenesis, recruitment of specialized cell types, and anti‐microbial activity can be observed at the remodeling site of an ECM scaffold. The mechanisms by which theses physiologic processes are induced and their effect upon tissue reconstruction when the ECM is used as a biologic scaffold are not thoroughly understood. However, it is clear that the extracellular matrix has the potential to significantly modify the default mechanisms of adult mammalian would healing. The commercially available bioscaffolds composed of extracellular matrix will be reviewed as well as examples of clinical outcomes. Studies are currently being conducted to investigate cellular and molecular mechanisms by which ECM serves as an inductive scaffold for tissue reconstruction.


Hybrid zones between genetically differentiated populations provide material to study evolutionary processes. Since the discovery of chromosomal races in Sorex aruneus, contact zones have attracted attention of scientists. So far, studies on genetic markers in Sorex hybrid zones are missing. The acrocentric chromosomal race Cordon and the highly metacentric race Valais meet and hybridize at Les Houches in the Western Alps. On a transect through the hybrid zone, 273 shrews were caught at 15 localities over 4 years. Karyotype as well as the nuclear protein loci Alb and Pg were analyzed. Fst and Fis values were calculated by F-statistics. An analysis on pooled samples revealed the genetical differences between the hybridizing races as the only cause of population structuring. Genetical markers show clines with very strong frequency shifts at a mountain torrent, but behave differently through the zone. The performance of the torrent in maintaining the hybrid zone, selection against hybrids, possible assortative mating and linkage of the Valais Pg allele to a diagnostic chromosome arm, are discussed.


The invention discloses an on-line fault location system and method of a high-speed railway high-voltage full cable through line. The system comprises a system master station and a plurality of acquisition terminals which are arranged along the line in a distributed manner, wherein the acquisition terminals acquire and store power frequency voltage and traveling wave data, and lock the power frequency voltage and traveling wave data of two cycles before and after a current time point when currently acquired power frequency voltage is smaller than a preset voltage threshold value, and transmit the power frequency voltage and traveling wave data to the system master station through a tele-control channel, and the system master station determines the locations of faults according to the power frequency voltage and traveling wave data transmitted by the acquisition terminals. With the on-line fault location system and method of the high-speed railway high-voltage full cable through line provided by the invention adopted, on-line fault location of the high-speed railway high-voltage full cable through line can be realized effectively.


Many experimental works are concerned with the microinvestigation of interface bodies created during the wear process (especially wear particles). Previous works wing STEM have shown that ZDDP wear protection is associated with the structureless nature of wear debris, so that friction-induced amorphization was a key factor to obtain the antiwear conditions. In this paper, the synchrotron radiation, EXAFS (Extended X-ray Absorption Fine Structure) is used to probe the local environment of atoms (Fe and Zn) in interface ZDDP films. Results clearly show the fully amorphous character of these materials. Consequences on wear models are then discussed. Presented as an American Society of Lubrication Engineers paper at the ASLE/ASME Tribology Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, October 8–10, 1985


Household debt levels have increased substantially over the last decade, both in terms of the total amount outstanding and relative to incomes. At the same time, household debt portfolios became more diversified. While such qualitative observations apply to many OECD countries, the betweencountry differences remain very stark and are empirically more important than changes over time within any country. This paper uses micro data from four OECD countries (the United States, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands), to assess the determinants of household debt holding and to investigate whether or not credit constraints are important for household debt holding. We extend the existing literature in important ways. First, we present comparative evidence for four countries at the micro level, where we rely on household panel data for two countries; we are thus able to control for unobserved heterogeneity via individual household effects and to track changes in household behaviour over time. Second, by making data across countries as comparable as possible, we can explore the importance of the differences in institutional settings for debt incidence, debt outstanding and credit constraints. We also explore the implications for debt holding from consumption models, including a numerically solved precautionary savings model. We find that inter-country differences are substantial and remain even after controlling for a host of observable characteristics. This points to institutional differences between the countries being important.


A testing method of determination of 13 kinds of VOCs in carpets with environment test chamber(ETC),auto thermal desorption(ATD)and gas chromatography/mass spectrum(GC/MS)is established.In this method,the limit ranges of detection(LODs)for various VOCs are 0.008~0.4μg/m~3,the average recovery ranges from 90%to 106%,and the relative standard deviation(RSD)is less than 11%.Test results of various commercial carpet samples with this method show that,the kinds of VOCs in carpets depend on its backing materials;much 2-ethyl-l-hexanal is observed over square carpets with asphalt backing,and much styrene and 4-phenyl cyclohexene over those carpets with yellow hessian-based backing or polyester backing, and alkanes(straight-chained and branched-chain)over those with thin polypropylene backing.


This paper described the significance, goals, main contents ,organization and management of the project. Some progresses were introduced in the paper.


This paper presents a tool suite which enables requirementsdriven software reuse. The suite is built around requirements models that are transformed into design and code thus forming so-called 'software cases'. These requirements models can be compared for software case retrieval and reuse. 1 Motivation and related work Effective reuse of design and code artifacts is associated with mechanisms for asset indexing. Normally, additional indexing information has to be added to the reuse repository in a manual process. Some approaches allow for generating the indexes based on the information contained in the meta-model which defines the structure of the assets (see [1]). In other approaches, semantic information is attached to the assets to enable case-based retrieval (see [2]). In many product line approaches, a family of systems is indexed through requirements where the problem domain plays crucial role (see [3] for an interesting insight). The fundamental problem with current requirements-based indexing approaches is that requirements lack precision. This prevents from automatic indexing and retrieval based on such indexes. In this work we follow the use-case-based path started by Jacobson et al. in [4]. We make the use cases precise as introduced in [5] at the same time offering tools that enable formulating requirements with asset indexing potential. This can be achieved by treating requirements as models and applying modern model transformation techniques. This way we address the problems with wider adoption of software reuse (see [6]) consisting mainly in the existence of investment barriers (effort necessary to prepare assets for reuse and then to retrieve them). The presented tool suite enables software development scenarios where requirements specifications (problem statements) automatically form indexes to design and code artifacts (problem solutions) at a very detailed level thus forming so-called 'software cases' ready for comparison and reuse. 2 ReDSeeDS tool mechanisms Requirements based reuse has been accomplished through building of a tool called ReDSeeDS Engine in the context of the ReDSeeDS (www.redseeds.eu) Project. The tool allows for the following reuse scenario.


The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is vintage Long, filled with practical information, peppered with valuable analysis. Long discloses how former President Richard M. Nixon promised King Faysal that the United States would "remain evenhanded during the [October 1973] fighting." When Nixon requested $2.2 billion in emergency military aid to Israel from the Congress on 19 October 1973, Long confides, Faysal considered the American action as a "betrayal of the President's personal assurances to him" (p. 69). In another perceptive passage, he writes that


Programming design course is one of the required courses for many non-computer related students. The course objective is to equip students with basic knowledge of computer programming, which will be the essential tools for future study and work. However, it is difficult to get a satisfying teaching effectiveness with the same syllabus, because the backgrounds of the non-computer related students are diverse and the differences of learning capability are also very large. Hence, we introduce the flexible teaching methods gradually, which allow the teacher to adjust the syllabus around the baseline of the course in a certain degree according to the characteristics of the students, and to take flexible measures in content, exercises and so on. The result of reform is positive both in the academic achievement and the satisfaction of students. In the paper the recent flexible teaching reform methods in C programming language course will be introduced.


Novel interface-modified bionanocomposites with improved processability and AC conductivity was developed and examined in the experiments. The results indicated that the interface-modified bionanocomposites exhibited an approximately 2-fold decrease in complex viscosity and mechanically reinforced properties as compared to neat polylactic acid (PLA) and those without interfacial compatiblizer. Interface improvement from maleated PLA was observed on the fractured surface and also confirmed through the increased Young's modulus and the improved thermal and electrical properties. The micromechanical models were applied to predict the mechanical properties of the bionanocomposites in the matrix. At 5~7 wt% GNPs loadings the electrical conduction path was achieved inside the PLA matrix through the formation of the effective three-dimensional conductive networks in these bionanocomposites. It was interestingly noted that above the percolation threshold the increasing graphene loadings resulted in lower but higher AC conductivity. The mechanisms in unusual decrease in AC conductivity above percolation threshold were discussed and elucidated.


Based on expounding the professional characters of the reference room, this paper probes into how to do well the construction and management of music college's reference room from three aspects of the teacher, the data and the librarian.


2907 Grain sorghum and groundnut are important crops for soil that has relatively more clay content in the West Africa Sahel and Sudan Savanna while production on sandier soil is dominated by pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] intercropping (Reddy et al., 1992). Both sorghum and groundnut are also intercropped with pearl millet or maize (Zea mays L.) but the sorghum–groundnut intercrop system is especially important and is estimated to account for 6% of crop production area in Niger (Ministère de l'Agriculture/Direction des Statistiques Agricoles, 2014). Th e intercrop system is common in the semiarid tropics where the growing season is short and inadequate soil water and nutrient availability are major constraints (Siddig et al., 2013). Th e popularity of the system indicates sorghum and groundnut compatibility in intercrop with each crop exploiting available resources such as radiation diff erently for higher productivity and less risk with the intercrop compared with sole crop (Bationo and Ntare 2000). Langat et al. (2006) reported that intercropping sorghum and groundnut may increase, decrease, or not aff ect yields of sorghum and groundnut depending on the spatial arrangements of the intercrops. However, growing sorghum and groundnut in intercrop enhances land use effi ciency compared with sole crop production (Harris et al., 1987; Azam-Ali et al., 1990; Tefera and Tana, 2000). Sorghum and groundnut response to applied nutrients has not been studied much in the Sahel. Th e mean sorghum grain yield increase with 30 kg ha–1 N applied was 1.8 Mg ha–1 which was about 100% more than the yield under no fertilizer across 5 SY in Niger (Pandey et al., 2001). Unpublished results from research conducted at Fana, Kita, and Sikasso in Mali over 4 yr in the 1970s show a mean sorghum yield increase of 0.76 Mg ha–1 with 30 kg ha–1 N applied and 0.79 Mg ha–1 with 10 kg ha–1 P applied Sorghum and Groundnut Sole and Intercrop Nutrient Response in Semi-Arid West Africa


The relationship between structure and antibacterial activity among monocyclic beta-lactams having a pyridyl, pyrimidinyl, thiazolyl, imidazolyl, or a tetrazolyl group at N-1 position was investigated. N-(Tetrazol-5-yl)azetidin-2-ones were found to posses excellent activity.


The chemical extraction method for water-insoluble dietary fiber extraction from Agaricus bisporus was optimized.The results showed that the optimized processing conditions were,solid to liquid ratio 1∶10(m/V,g∶mL),pretreatment time 0.5 h,extraction time 2.0 h.The yield of water-insoluble dietary fiber under these conditions was 22.9%.


Abstract : A generalized review of the work accomplished in the direct and spin-off areas supported over the past six years in the following areas is presented: (1) Use of infrasound as an Atmospheric Probe: Infrasonic signals from natural and artificial sources were used as a passive probe of the atmosphere. (2) Gravity Wave Program: In this study, an array of sensitive microbarographs (microbarovariographs) is used rather than microphones. Results so far show that surface gravity waves were related to the presence of wind shear aloft and often constitute continuous background perturbations. Gravity waves also shown to characterize the approach of warm fronts aloft, often well before the advent of precipitation and other storm features. Gravity waves were also shown to be of possible importance in generating thunderstorms through the triggering action at times unstable or conditionally unstable conditions. (Author)


GIPC protein(regulator of G protein signaling-G alpha-interacting protein COOH) plays an important role in protein trafficking,endocytosis and receptor clustering.Meanwhile GIPC is an important regulator in tumori genesis mechanism as a new tumor-associated antigen and therapeutic target.Therefore,the research of GIPC has become a hot topic in recent years.In this article,we mainly reviewed the relationship between GIPC and tu morigenesis.


It is generally acknowledged that there are three series of hydrocarbon source rocks in Jurassic,Permian and Carboniferous formations in the east of Junggar Basin.A great quantity of oil whether from the Xiaoquangou Group of Triassic or not is not confirmed in Fukang Sag.However,no agreement has reached whether the Xiaoquangou Group of Triassic in Zhundong exploration area is effective hydrocarbon source rocks.A systematic analysis of the oil generation potential of the hydrocarbons in the area is carried out in this paper.The analysis indicates that the organic matter is rich in abundance and relatively good in the type and that they have come to the peak of oil production at present in thermal evolution.It is suggested that they should be the reasonable source for the hydrocarbon.Previous research discovered that the oil from Well Fu 5 of the Triassic Xiaoquangou Group actually came from the hydrocarbon of Xiaoquangou Group in Fukang Sag,which indicates that the Xiaoquangou in Fukang Sag possesses hydrocarbon-generating potential.Hence,the evaluation of hydrocarbon-generating potential will be of great significance for the oil and gas exploration in the Junggar Basin.


Objective:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of zaleplon in the treatment of insomnia. Method:A randomized and double-blind controlled clinical trial was conducted to treat with insomnia.The patients with insomnia were divided into the research group (zaleplon,n=30) and the control group (zopicolone,n=30) for 14 days. Results:The efficacy rates of the zaleplon group and zopicolone group were 93.3% and 90.0% respectively.No significant difference was found between two groups. Conclusion:Zaleplon is an effective and safe agent for treatment in insomnia.


Simple Summary Tumor endoprostheses are a common type of reconstruction after the resection of an extremity bone sarcoma. However, in the long-term, first and subsequent implant failures leading to revision surgery are common. One potential risk factor for implant failure is the length of surgery. This study investigates the impact of the length of surgery on prosthetic survival in 568 patients with sarcoma. Patients who had a first implant failure had a longer surgery; however, there were no differences in the infection-free survival, but only in the probability of mechanical failure. Patients with a subsequent revision surgery for infection had a shorter duration of surgery during the first revision. In conclusion, a shorter surgery appears beneficial; however, longer surgeries are not clearly associated with infection. In revision surgery, a longer operating time, indicating a more thorough debridement, may be desirable. Abstract Complications in megaprosthetic reconstruction following sarcoma resection are quite common. While several risk factors for failure have been explored, there is a scarcity of studies investigating the effect of the duration of surgery. We performed a retrospective study of 568 sarcoma patients that underwent megaprosthetic reconstruction between 1993 and 2015. Differences in the length of surgery and implant survival were assessed with the Kaplan–Meier method, the log-rank test and multivariate Cox regressions using an optimal cut-off value determined by receiver operating curves analysis using Youden's index. 230 patients developed a first and 112 patients a subsequent prosthetic failure. The median duration of initial surgery was 210 min. Patients who developed a first failure had a longer duration of the initial surgery (225 vs. 205 min, p = 0.0001). There were no differences in the probability of infection between patients with longer and shorter duration of initial surgery (12% vs. 13% at 5 years, p = 0.492); however, the probability of mechanical failure was higher in patients with longer initial surgery (38% vs. 23% at 5 years, p = 0.006). The median length of revision surgery for the first megaprosthetic failure was 101 min. Patients who underwent first revision for infection and did not develop a second failure had a longer median duration of the first revision surgery (150 min vs. 120 min, p = 0.016). A shorter length of the initial surgery appears beneficial, however, the notion that longer operating time increases the risk of deep infection could not be reproduced in our study. In revision surgery for infection, a longer operating time, possibly indicating a more thorough debridement, appears to be associated with a lower risk for subsequent revision.


The working life of electrical machines is primary affected by the insulation system quality. Diagnostics methods help to understand the momentary state of insulation and to avoid the possible damage or electrical breakdown of machines through the repair or insulation rewinding. Partial discharges testing belongs to one of the high applicable test method of insulating materials within electrical machines. The described experiment consists of laboratory thermal and electrical aging of main wall insulation and consequently testing of partial discharges. The test material consists of resin rich mica composites based on glass fabric and epoxy resin. The flat specimens of insulation were cured and thermally and electrically aged and the partial discharges were measured accordingly. The thermal aging was performed at four different temperatures (170, 175, 180, 186°C) at different times. The electrical aging was completed at two different voltage levels (10, 12 kV) at different times. The flat specimens were tested at special electrode setup. The conductive rubber electrodes were used to avoid the gliding discharges on the surface of specimen. The trends of partial discharge main parameters (ignition voltage, extinguish voltage, pulse count, average discharge current, peak charge level) are studied and described in dependence on exposure time, temperature and applied voltage.


The noise spectra and levels due to an airplane flying overhead in level flight have been measured near the ground. The results of such measurements for an airplane closely corresponding to the Douglas DC‐3 transport plane are discussed for altitudes between 100 and 500 feet and maximum engine power.


(57) Abstract: external control center, to address individual electronic label, so that it can transmit the information to the electronic labels, electronic label that is operably connected to an external control center, product using the display device is attached to a carrier, in the product carrier in department stores and warehouses, price, to an apparatus and method for displaying a product name and similar information. Electronic label, by having a graphic display device characterized by having an energetically image cell causing it contrast bistable suitable for product characterization, and use the product information, can be changed from the control center, It has the flexibility of installation, clarity for the customer, without the need for energy for the maintenance of the display information, avoiding the disadvantages.


Current knowledge on the toxicity of chemicals comes primarily from studies conducted on individual chemicals at relatively high concentrations. However, throughout their lifetimes, people are more commonly exposed to a range of chemicals at low concentrations. From a public health perspective, a major concern is whether toxicity could result from the interaction of two or more chemicals. Both organic pesticides (such as pentachlorophenol and metam sodium) and copper- and zinc-containing inorganic compounds are used as general biocides and wood preservatives. They are commonly found together in the soil and ground water near the wood-preserving and wood-disposing facilities, and in bodily fluids and human tissue. Recently, we have found that combinations of pentachlorophenol and copper, each at non-toxic concentrations, resulted in an enhanced cytotoxic effect, via a synergistic mechanism, in a bacterial model. Similar synergistic effects were observed with metam sodium and copper or zinc. This synergism, observed for organic and inorganic biocides, was found to be related to the formation of lipophilic complexes, which facilitate metal transport into bacterial cells. We propose that interactions between organic and inorganic biocides, and the formation of lipophilic complexes, that lead to a synergistic toxicity, may serve as a new mechanism for toxicity. This hypothesis needs to be further investigated, both experimentally and theoretically.


This study answers the question to what extent support for national cultural protectionism differs between countries, and to what extent differences between countries are related to levels of globalization. We propose that globalization processes affect people 0 s support of cultural protection- ism, both by a diversification view on globalization, that is, larger supply of goods, and by a nationalistic interpretation, that is, a threat to the nation and rising nationalism. National cultural protectionism of 27,725 respondents from 23 countries is analyzed (International Social Survey Programme data). Multi-level analyses show that globalization affects cultural protectionism negatively, providing support for the diversification interpretation. However, the positive indirect effect of globalization on cultural protectionism via chauvinism and cultural patriotism provides evidence for the nationalistic interpretation.


According to the 22 major city hospital medication data provided by pharma data base(PBD),the drug product database from the National Pharmaceutical Economic Information Network and the information from State Food and Drug Administration(SFDA),the main varieties of the diabetes drug market share,the growth rate and manufacturing enterprises are counts and analyzes in this review,and propose the research and development countermeasure for Chinese pharmaceutical companies.


One with the surface: A method is presented for electrode modification with terminal alkynes and alkenes. Direct oxidation of these moieties leads to efficient grafting onto glassy carbon, gold, platinum, and indium tin oxide surfaces. Various ferrocenes and 5,10,15,20-(4-ethynylphenyl)porphyrin were attached in this way.


– One of the crucial issues today faced by all of human being is climate changing. To fight with this phenomenon, some efforts are underway to overcome it. Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is one of these efforts. Business model of this approach is quite simple; who protect or upgrade forest condition should be paid. However, while other efforts have been regulated and enjoy carbon trading in the cap and trade horizon, carbon credits from REDD+ is still floating and waiting for decision from United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the available market to sell REDD+ carbon is voluntary. Since it is voluntary only, then market size becomes obstacle in delivering carbon credits produced by REDD+ project type. Along with preparation of REDD+ institution in Indonesia, an early mover ready to catch the opportunity has taken an action in the middle of some uncertainties; regulation, market, price, paradigm and so on. Besides those challenges, some options exist to be chosen in creating expected value. Then this process needs management flexibility. Being involved with voluntary market only will tend to the negative Expected Net Present Value (ENPV) direction. But with the hope of incoming regulated market, ENPV is changing. This changing ENPV is merely because of wide difference on market shares. Since this hope is only 50% being occurred, handling the project cost should extend as far as possible from grant making. Along with this effort lowering Verified Emission Reduction to sell it in high quantity should be done for the first 5 to 10 years project life cycle, face it with progressive marketing strategy, and or executes conservation activities first. Free, prior, and Informed Consent becomes the guidance for project developers in engaging communities. It is valuable both for project quality enhancement and for the practical reason in upgrading VER price under Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance.