Abstract Single crystals of monoclinic P 2 1 / c TeMo 5 O 16 have been synthesized from mixtures of oxydes containing TeO 2 and MoO 3 : a =10.0344(9), b =14.430(1), c =8.1599(5) A, β =90.780(6)°, Z =4. The structure, solved by the heavy-atom method, was refined to R =0.029 ( R w =0.036) for 6029 reflections with σ ( I )/ I ≤0.333. The three-dimensional framework can be described from two-octahedron-thick slabs which are connected through [Mo(1)O 6 ] octahedra, forming hexagonal windows where Te(IV) is located. The effective charge of Mo is close to 5.5 inside the slabs and 6.0 for Mo(1). Thus, the compound is a two-dimensional conductor. The structural relations with other crystals are described and new series of oxydes are predicted.


Objective Enterally administered glucose modifies gut sensation, diminishes hunger, and slows gastric emptying by suppressing antral motility and stimulating pyloric pressures. We aimed to clarify the mechanism of small intestinal glucose sensing. Methods We studied eight healthy males twice, in random order. An antroduodenal manometry catheter was positioned with a sleeve sensor across the pylorus. Benzocaine, or vehicle alone, was given into the proximal duodenum as a bolus, followed by continuous infusion for 105 min (T=−15 to 90 min). Glucose was also infused into the proximal duodenum at 3 kcal/min for 90 min (T=0–90 min). Sensations of hunger, bloating, and nausea were assessed with visual analog questionnaires, blood was sampled at intervals, and energy intake at a buffet meal (T=90–120 min) was measured. Results Perceptions of bloating and nausea were markedly less with benzocaine when compared with vehicle (P<0.05 for each), with no difference in hunger, or energy intake. In contrast, the suppression of antral waves and stimulation of phasic and tonic pyloric pressures, duodenal waves, and propagated duodenal wave sequences by intraduodenal glucose infusion did not differ between the 2 days. No difference in blood glucose, plasma insulin, or plasma glucagon-like peptide 1 between benzocaine and control was observed, whereas glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and cholecystokinin concentrations were slightly higher with benzocaine (P<0.05 for both). Conclusion Mucosal anesthesia ameliorates unpleasant sensations induced by enteral glucose, but does not inhibit the release of gut peptides that feed back on appetite and gastroduodenal motility.


Abstract This article analyzed a school's class assemblies from Edgar Morin's ethics perspective. How are class assemblies organized at Municipal Secondary Schools in Campinas/SP? How can they contribute to the understanding of ethics in the school environment? This research employed qualitative methods of interviews and observation. The results show that introductory activities to class assemblies - such as reading, music, and physical contact - develop self-knowledge, reduce hostilities and awaken recognition of the other. The study contributes to the reflection on conflict resolution in the school environment. It also contributes to understanding how conflict can be an opportunity for more mature social relations.


During fruit oil synthesis and accumulation period, fruits are the main carbohydrate sink and water stress may modify the reserve availability for next season development. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of deficit irrigation during fruit oil synthesis period on next season carbohydrates content. Experiment was carried out in a super high density olive orchard (Olea europaea cv Arbequina) located in La Puebla de Montalban, Toledo, Spain (39o 48'N, 04o27'W, 516 msnm). Two irrigation level were applied from the middle August until harvest (First November), when most of the 80% of the oil accumulated on fruits occurs. The control treatment (Non stressed) was irrigated until harvest, trying to maintain the root zone close to field capacity. The Stressed treatment was irrigated with water dosage being reduced to 12% of Non stress treatment. Carbohydrates (soluble sugars and starch) were measured on roots, leaves and stems at the end of winter. Differences on carbohydrate concentration were observed on leaves but not in the reserve organs as roots or stems. Leaves of the Stressed trees presented higher carbohydrates content. These results show the important role of carbohydrates on water stress adaptation by osmotic regulation.


Two-phase modelling testing was performed to study the shear strength of rock bridges of jointed rock mass in this paper. The failure process of rock sample containing multiple collinear cracks was observed. Based on theory of fracture mechanics and analytical method, a rock-bridge failure model was proposed and the expression of shear strength was derived. Comparison of calculated shear strength and the model test results was made and they agree well.


Sylvester equation is often applied to various fields, such as mathematics and control systems due to its importance. Zeroing neural network (ZNN), as a systematic design method for time-variant problems, has been proved to be effective on solving Sylvester equation in the ideal conditions. In this paper, in order to realize the predefined-time convergence of the ZNN model and modify its robustness, two new noise-tolerant ZNNs (NNTZNNs) are established by devising two novelly constructed nonlinear activation functions (AFs) to find the accurate solution of the time-variant Sylvester equation in the presence of various noises. Unlike the original ZNN models activated by known AFs, the proposed two NNTZNN models are activated by two novel AFs, therefore, possessing the excellent predefined-time convergence and strong robustness even in the presence of various noises. Besides, the detailed theoretical analyses of the predefined-time convergence and robustness ability for the NNTZNN models are given by considering different kinds of noises. Simulation comparative results further verify the excellent performance of the proposed NNTZNN models, when applied to online solution of the time-variant Sylvester equation.


In this paper,the fundamental concept and implementing procedure of multiple capacity spectrum method are introduced for the veracity of estimating the displacement demands of multiple structures.The differentnesses and the relationships are compared between this method and the original capacity spectrum method.For two frame concrete structures in different types of site,the target displacements that are estimated by multiple capacity spectrum method and inelastic dynamic history analysis,are compared and analyzed.The analyses on the examples,show that the procedure rooted in multiple capacity spectrum method,through which the inelastic displacement demands of multiple structures are given,may be used as a simple and effective method in intermediate and soft soil sites.But in the hard soil site,the error margin for the present method is great,to which the attention,should be given in the actually usage.


The aim of this paper is to analyze the fiscal decentralization process in Spain from a political economy perspective. We describe the five reforms that hav...


Distal-extension removable partial dentures have always posed a challenging situation to the clinician and in such cases the strategic positioning of the direct retainers would ensure the long-term success of the prosthesis. Different direct retainer designs have been discussed by various authors in the literature. This paper highlights the extracoronal direct retainers, which can be used in the successful prosthodontic rehabilitation of distally edentulous arches with a removable partial denture.


Stochastic Kronecker Graph model is widely used to generate synthetic graphs that simulate real-world graphs. In this model, the initiator matrix decides the degree to which the synthetic graph approximates the real-world graph. The computing of initiator matrix, however, requires that the number of the nodes of input graph is the power of the dimension of the initiator matrix. In order to fulfill such requirement, some methods (e.g., KronFit and Moment) add isolated nodes to the input graph, which damages the input graph's properties. Other method (e.g., KronEM) predicts the links between the nodes after adding isolated nodes. Unfortunately, the prediction dramatically increases the complexity of computing. In this paper, we propose a method named as MomentSA to solve the problems. Our method completes the input graphs by leveraging the law of property changes of graphs, which does not need to predict the links as method KronEM. Simultaneously, our method uses the moment-based estimation and ADAM (Adaptive Moment Estimation) method to compute the initiator matrix, which can compute the initiator matrix quickly. Experiment results on our prototype implementation suggest that the initiator matrix computed from our method is more accurate than existing state-of-art systems, and the speed of computing is about three to four orders of magnitude faster than state-of-art systems.


The article analyzes the experience of distance learning in conditions of self-isolation, obtained in the spring of 2020 in higher education institutions. A survey of students in the first days of transition to online training and after three months of working in this mode revealed the most common difficulties manifested in the subjective assessments of cadets and teachers of higher education organizations. Four groups of difficulties are identified that, according to students, reduce not only the productivity of work in the process of forced distance learning, but also the satisfaction of this form of training: difficulties associated with a decrease in motivation, creativity, and the value of professional training; difficulties in understanding and completing tasks; user difficulties when working with a computer; technical difficulties associated with unsatisfactory computer or Internet performance. Quantitative characteristics of each group of difficulties are given, their probable causes and ways to support students are discussed. Some data from the survey of students and teachers after three months of training in self-isolation are presented. A number of data on the psychological causes of subjective difficulties of students is provided.


The article describes and briefly analyses the legislation on energy efficiency of buildings. These include, in particular, Sections 6 and 6a) of Act No. 406/2000 on Energy Management, as amended, and the implementing regulations attached to this law. The texts of these legal provisions set out the duties of owners of buildings and those of heat suppliers and consumers, which are related to the construction and operation of buildings and heating systems.


This paper introduces a modified dual output series-parallel switched capacitor charge pump used in an energy harvesting system to give multiple supplies to the system. Com-pared with the conventional series-parallel topology, it gives two outputs instead of one and gives a higher efficiency versus wide current loads. The proposed design provides a loop for startup operation with a minimum voltage of 800mv. The proposed circuit is implemented in 0.13µm CMOS technology and achieves an efficiency off 90% at 10uW and 86% at luW.


We describe gluon-pair production from a space-time dependent chromofield via vacuum polarization within the framework of the background field method of QCD. The processes we consider are first order in the action. We derive the corresponding source terms for gluon pair production for situations that can be described by a 1+1 dimensional approach. Especially, we observe that within the range of applicability of our approach the principal contribution to gluon production is included. Gluon production from a space-time dependent chromofield will play an important role in the production and evolution of the quark-gluon plasma in ultra relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC.


This paper discusses the significance and principle of Yunnan's economic zone classification and points out the tentative ideas and plan of Yunnan's economic zone classification.


The author explains black holes in the context of astronomy and astrophysics. The history of black hole research and black hole discovery are covered briefly. The author explains why supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei are the most promising candidates for imaging black holes. The principles of radio interferometers used as observation methods are covered. The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, its future plans, and the role of the Korean members are introduced.


Macaca nemestrina is one including appendix II containing list of endangered species. The research aims to understand home range to know daily behavior and mapping range of Macaca nemestrina in the area of Riau University forest and surrounding areas. This research using a method of direct observation by way of follow, noticed as well as record every activity performed by groups of Macaca nemestrina. The determination of the regional daily range in overlay using software arcgis 10.1. Daily activity were analysed by counting average time daily activity and percentage number of daily activity fauna. Home range Macaca nemestrina were analysed using kernel density estimation (KDE) located on program Geospatial Modelling Environment (GME) and ArcGis 10.1. Home range outermost Macaca nemestrina were analysed by the method of Minimum Convex Polygon (MCP). The result showed that Macaca nemestrina in the area of Riau University forest having broad areas of 176.553 m². Maps of the home range Macaca nemestrina having range regions core level very high density area of 7.916 m², high area of 11.344 m², mid 41.468 m², low area of 83.28 m² and level of density is very 32.542 m². The activity of Macaca nemestrina is eat, break, migrates, grooming and social interaction. The highest activity is break activity 36,68%, the lowest activity is grooming 4,10%. The percentage of eating 25,33%, social interaction 29,69% and devolve activity 4,20%. To scatter cruiser regions Macaca nemestrina in forest area of Riau University were on the point coordinates 101°22'44,565'BT–101°23'8,918'BT and 0°28'56,122'LU–0°28' 32,798'LU.


This report aims to examine and assess the impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on the healthcare systems of the United States of America and Italy; two of the most heavily affected nations. Using data from December 2019 to January 2021, several consultations, and policy reviews, we identify risks and notable areas of issue in each nations' approach to combating the virus. We focus our report particularly on the health policies and the governmental structures in place that contributed to each nations' initial method of alleviating the impact of COVID-19. Our report compares the two healthcare systems and proposes a list of mitigation strategies for each respective country to consider implementing in order to alleviate the risks and impact of future pandemics and systemic consequences.


By providing an electroplating system having a bath of electroplating solution was placed in a first and second anode within the bath, a method for simultaneously electroplating a conductive region exposed on both sides of the disk drive suspension components. The suspension components are positioned between the first and second anode in a bath of electroplating solution. First electroplating current is generated between the conductor region exposed at the first surface of the first anode and components. Second electroplating current is generated between the second anode and the conductor region exposed at the second surface. Thereby, a layer of conductive material is plated on the conductive region exposed on both sides of the component. Such as time and magnitude, by controlling the parameters of the first and second plating current, on opposite sides of the conductor, the same or it may be plated a layer of conductive material different thicknesses.


Flooding can cause disruption and devastation in cities, with massive damage to livelihoods, property and urban infrastructure as recently experienced in New York City, Jakarta, Bangkok, Accra, Mississippi and Queensland. For cities in developing nations, unplanned urban expansion, poor infrastructure and services, inadequate drainage and weak institutional capacity can multiply the negative impact of flooding. In such circumstances, floods often affect informal settlements and bring the additional burden of diverting resources away from poverty alleviation and other development efforts. Preparing for future floods, which may become more frequent in the future, integrated flood risk management recognises that risk reduction which relies solely on engineered defences may be uneconomic, impractical or make flood risk worse under certain circumstances. Therefore authors advocate for a holistic and forward-looking approach to improve resilience of cities in which appropriate engineered measures are combined with non-structural mechanisms, land use planning, emergency preparedness and recovery planning. Decision-makers can use this approach as guidance in implementing balanced and robust solutions in flood risk management.
Funded by the World Bank / Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), the flagship report 'Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century' was designed to provide operational assistance to policy-makers and technical specialists, particularly in the rapidly expanding cities and towns of the developing world, on how best to manage the risk of floods. Comprehensively dealing with available structural and non-structural measures, the handbook provides common guiding principles to building resilience to urban flooding. Over 50 case studies, carefully selected from extensive literature review, workshops and consultations, illustrate current practice, challenges, and lessons learnt from around the world. International and local workshops were held to test and disseminate the key findings and recommendations. A major objective of the research project was to develop a set of policy principles and practical recommendations, based on the case studies, literature and inputs from expert participants at the workshops, to support the implementation of integrated flood risk management through a structured, iterative and participatory process.


In this case report, a seven-year-old, male, castrated Landseer presented with chronic respiratory distress, occasional coughing, dysphonia and exercise intolerance is described. The stress caused by transportation and the physical examination rendered the dog severely dyspneic and cyanotic. At that moment, the core body temperature was increased up to 42.5 °C. Based on the clinical signs, laryngeal paralysis causing heat stroke was the most likely diagnosis. The dog was anesthetized and intensive temperature control methods, like active cooling and fluid therapy, were applied. As soon as the dog was cardiovascularly stable, emergency treatment for laryngeal paralysis was performed. As a result of timely intervention, the dog recovered completely without any persisting complications.


In this essay the author, one of the founders of ICSS, explores the heterogeneous substance of the sociology of sport as has been well reflected in this International Review since its very beginning. The roots of the heterogenity are traced into the three basic constituents of the sociology of sport: sociology as a mother science, sport culture in societies and societies themselves with their different political-cultural patterns. The mainstream of research tends to conform with the mainstream of practical sport, while various critical schools, which may be expected to gain strength in the near future, often challenge the conventional belief- system and late development of mainstream sport with emerging political, commercial and other external interests.


Ethics, broadly defined, is having the integrity to act in a moral and civil manner. It calls for both organizations and individuals to act responsibly and with some trust. This chapter describes a collaborative and cooperative initiative to assess the effectiveness of research ethics education. A preand post-survey of over 200 graduate researchers in seven doctoral offering institutions of the North Carolina University System who participated in the open seminar research ethics course showed significant improvement on knowledge and attitude about ethics but did not show improvement in ethical reasoning skills assessment. Compared to the control group, these findings lead researchers to the conclusions that effective ethics education and training may be improved by developing programs that create a community of supportive peers and mentors rather than individual training designed to effect compliance regulations and codes of conduct.


Mothers who return to work on either a part-time or casual basis after their babies are 3 months old may be nearly as likely to stop breastfeeding as mothers who return to work on a full-time basis, findings suggest.


Recent studies have shown that talkers implicitly imitate/accommodate the phonetic properties of recently heard speech [1, 2]. However, it has also been shown that this phonetic imitation effect is not an automatic process [3, 4]: in [3], the artificially lengthened VOT on /p/ was imitated in a non-shadowing task, while shortened VOT (which could jeopardize phonemic contrast) was not imitated, suggesting that phonetic imitation is sensitive to existing phonemic contrast. This paper explores whether phonological factors unrelated to contrast preservation also affect imitation of phonetic details, specifically, Japanese vowel devoicing. The results revealed significant imitation of Japanese devoicing, indicating that perceived fine phonetic details are imitable and can subsequently affect speech production even in phonologically constrained environments.


Predictive maintenance plays an important role in managing commercial buildings. This article provides a systematic review of the literature on predictive maintenance applications of chilled water systems that are in line with Industry 4.0/Quality 4.0. The review is based on answering two research questions about understanding the mechanism of identifying the system's faults during its operation and exploring the methods that were used to predict these faults. The research gaps are explained in this article and are related to three parts, which are faults description and handling, data collection and frequency, and the coverage of the proposed maintenance programs. This article suggests performing a mixed method study to try to fill in the aforementioned gaps.


Independent tests of the NASA Common Research Model (CRM) at NASA's National Transonic Facility (NTF) and the European Transonic Windtunnel (ETW) revealed discrepancies at low operating temperatures and high Reynolds numbers that warranted further investigation. Since each facility used their own force balance for their tunnel entry, one suggestion for the discrepancy was the temperature compensation methodology developed and applied for each balance. This hypothesis is explored through simulation and experimentally. Independent calibrations of NASA's NTF-118A balance at NASA Langley and ETW reveal discrepancies in the thermal compensation of the normal force and pitching moment primary sensitivities with temperature, while the axial force primary sensitivities are in good agreement. The application of the force balance calibrations performed at NASA and ETW to the prior wind tunnel data suggests that the thermal compensation discrepancies are an order of magnitude less than the discrepancies observed between the wind tunnel aerodynamic coefficients.


The work is aimed at deciphering the contribution of background deformation and persistent fracture zones on the fluid flow properties of tight platform carbonates. Taking advantage of 3D exposures present in the Murge area of southern Italy, the fracture networks crosscutting at different scales the layered Cretaceous limestone of the Altamura Fm. were analyzed. The rock multi-layer is characterized by 10's of cm-thick, sub-horizontal, laterally continuous carbonate beds. Each bed commonly represents a shallowing-upward peritidal cycle made up of homogeneous micritic limestones grading upward to cm-thick stromatolitic limestones and/or fenestral limestones. The bed interfaces are formed by sharp maximum flooding surfaces. Porosity measurements carried out on 40 limestone samples collected from a single carbonate bed show values ranging between 0,5% and 5,5%.


Kalyadi: One each of the samples collected from 3rd and 4th levels of the mine, which are said to analyse over 400ppm Co in the bulk analysis, were examined under SEM & EPMA. The study has confirmed that Co is present as Co-Pyrite. The mineral occurs as euhedral prismatic to nearly squarish crystals (measuring 15 to 100 microns) enclosed mostly in Co-free pyrite Fig. 1 and at times also in chalcopyrite. Chalcopyrite forms rims and fills fractures in pyrite. The gangue minerals ofthe ore are mainly quartz and K-feldspar. Magnetite


Jiangxi Luding International Shopping Park applies the fire water storage tank to do the design of water storage air-conditioning systems and the computer room design of water storage system,and its operation mode.It gives a variety of the operation strategies during different load time sections and calculates and pointes out that the park with water storage air-conditioning systems will save users considerable running costs by an example.


Water supply is a crucial infrastructure in residential estates, required for a safe and healthy life. Improper supply and management of water could however, lead to significant environmental problems. This is underscored by the global concern of the impact of rapid urbanization on availability of such natural resources as water. This exploratory study assessed the sustainability of the current water provision methods in Abesan Low Cost Estate; the case-study residential estate in Lagos Metropolis. Based on the theory of ecological citizenship, it examined current methods of water provision in the residential estate and their associated problems and also sought to locate the social construction of sustainable water supply methods amongst residents. Data was sourced from a survey which resulted to responses from two hundred and eleven households with the use of a semi-structured questionnaire. The Residents' Association Executive Council was also interviewed. Findings indicate that the social construction of residents to sustainable water supply alternatives such as rain water harvesting, in-situ water-recycling and community water recycling was largely negative. For sustainable water supply alternatives to be acceptable to residents of the estate, intensive public enlightenment campaigns have to be carried out. Built-environment professionals should promote these sustainable water supply alternatives through design, construction and management. Keywords: Water supply methods, Sustainability, Residential estates, Lagos metropolis, Ecological citizenship, Social construction.


This text is a revised version of the authors Habilitationsschrift which was submitted to the University of Augsburg, 1993.
Fuchs type differential operators are used to model the analysis on manifolds with cone--like singularities, or more general, stratified spaces. This book provides a self--contained treatment of the analysis of the heat equation and index theory for these operators.
Major topics are short--time asymptotics, $\eta$-- and $\zeta$--functions, (relative) index theorems. Another chapter is devoted to the discussion of deficiency indices and Dirac Schr\"odinger operators.


The benthic marine flora from Montana Clara has been studied. 110 taxa were collected: 2 Cyanophyta. 66 Rhodophyta, 26 Phaeophyta and 16 Chlorophyta. Apo lossum ruscifolium Kylin y Polysiphonia brodiaei (Dillvyn) Greviiie a r e nev records f ~ o m the Canary Islands,


A number of recent technological trends have made data intensive applications such as continuous media (audio and video) servers a reality. These servers store and retrieve a large volume of data using magnetic disks. Servers consisting of heterogeneous disk drives have become a fact of life for several reasons. First, disks are mechanical devices that might fail. The failed disks are almost always replaced with new models. Second, the current technological trend for these devices is one of annual increase in both performance and storage capacity. Older disk models are discontinued because they cannot compete with the newer ones in the commercial arena. With a heterogeneous disk subsystem, the system should support continuous display while managing resources intelligently in order to maximize their utilization.
This dissertation describes a taxonomy of techniques that ensure a continuous display of objects using a heterogeneous disk subsystem. This taxonomy consists of: (a) strategies that partition resources into homogeneous groups of disks and manage each independently, and (b) techniques that treat all disks uniformly, termed non-partitioning techniques. We introduce and evaluate three non-partitioning techniques: Disk Merging, Disk Grouping, and Staggered Grouping. Our results demonstrate that Disk Merging is the most flexible scheme while providing a competitive, low cost per simultaneous display. Finally, using an open simulation model, we compare Disk Merging with a partitioning technique. The obtained results confirm the superiority of Disk Merging.


In 32 patients with chronic renal disease the exocrine function of the pancreas was studied by the pancreozymin-secretin test. The patients were divided into two groups: 16 patients without renal fail


A compact, low cost, phased array antenna optical beamformer with element level analog phase (0 - 2 (pi) ) and amplitude control using nematic liquid crystal display-type technology is experimentally demonstrated. Measurements indicate > 6-bit phase control and 52.6 dB of amplitude attenuation control. High quality error calibration and antenna sidelobe level control is possible with this low control power, analog antenna controller. Optical system options using rf Bragg cells or wideband Bragg cells are discussed.


The treatment of coronary stenosis is often based upon invasive high risk surgical assessment. The surgical assessment quantifies the fractional flow reserve (FFR), a ratio of distal to proximal pressures in respect of the stenosis. Non-invasive imaging-computational methodologies call for robust and calibrated mathematical descriptions of the coronary vasculature that can be personalized. In addition, it is important to understand non-vascular factors that FFR. In this preliminary work, a 0D coronary vasculature model capable of personalization was implemented. The model was used to demonstrate the roles of focal and extended stenosis (intra-vascular), as well as microvascular disease and atrial fibrillation (extra-vascular) on FFR. It was found that FFR the right coronary artery is maximally affected by disease conditions. Interestingly, the severity of both microvascular disease and atrial fibrillation were found to be secondary to their mere presence regarding the modelling based FFR estimation. The 0D model provides a computationally inexpensive instrument for in silico coronary blood flow investigation as well as clinical-imaging decision making. Further- more, it establishes a basis for 3D computational fluid dynamics assessment of FFR in patient specific geometries.


Although viscoelastic structures have been widely used for vibration and noise reduction in the field of aerospace engineering,accurate calculation for dynamic parameters of viscoelastic structures remains difficult problem. Modal strain energy method and the corresponding modified methods have been always used for approximate calculations. On the basis of analysis of the priciples of existing modal strain energy methods and their correlations,a new modal strain energy method,whose correction factor varies with the amplitude of modal loss factor,is proposed for computing loss factor and natural frequency of viscoelastic structures.A four parameter prototype system,which is equivalent to beams and plates with constrained layer damping,and a new high damping spacecraft isolator are taken as example to verify accuracy of the proposed method by comparisons.


Euphemism is a common phenomenon as well as an important way of smoothing relationship among people.Different language communities have their own specific system of euphemisms.Using as a broad meaning that is not limited to lexical level,English euphemisms are different from Chinese ones on two sides—formation of euphemisms and the cultural meanings they reflect.Both languages have their own ways of formation of euphemisms.At the same time,different history,values and religions have exerted influence on euphemisms of the two languages.This contrastive study will help to promote comprehension of both the characteristics of the two languages and the cultural background reflected by them.


We report a case of cervical myelopathy due to vertebral hemangioma. A 74-year-old woman experienced gait disturbance and increasingly severe paraparesis. CT scans and MRI suggested vasucular hemangioma affecting C7 and a portion of C4, but CTM showed compression of the spinal cord at C7. Decompressive laminectomy at C7 and posterior fusion from C5 to Th2 were performed, and bleeding was slight. Post-operatively, the patient showed improvement of her symptoms.


In confocal cellular imaging, fluorescent markers are used to label target structures. These elements of interest frequently appear as spots within a noisy background. Several algorithms have been proposed to extract spots in such conditions. However, specific methods are required when other structures are also labelled. In this paper, a new spot extraction filter is proposed to discriminate between spots and other structures using the shape of the local spatial intensity distribution. Preliminary results in the analysis of the intra-cellular distribution of the KORRIGAN1 protein in plant cells are presented. Very low detection error rates are reported.


Introduction: Depression is one of the most common psychiatric problems. The prevalence of depression in Iran has been estimated about 10-35% in females and 5-9% in males. Nicotine is a narcotic substance and approximately 22% of American people are dependent on it. One of the notorious outcomes of nicotine-dependency is behavioral problems. The aim of this study was to find the relationship between depression and nicotine-dependency so as to prevent its harmful effects on the society. Materials & Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study the relationship between depression and nicotine-dependency has been investigated. For this purpose 120 patients referring to Ayatollah Kashani OPD in 2002 were selected by simple random sampling. In the first stage all subjects were evaluated by nicotine-dependency test (forhrestrom) and divided into two groups of nicotine-dependents (N=25) and non-dependents (N=95). Then the depression in the two groups was evaluated by employing Beck Standard Test and the relationship between depression and nicotine-dependency was studied by comparing the obtained results in the two mentioned groups. Data were analyzed by c 2 . Results: In the present study the rate of depression was higher in nicotine-dependent group comparing to non-dependents. That is, in the nicotine-dependent group 24% had mild, 32% moderate and 20% severe depression. In non-dependent group mild depression was seen in 23.7%, moderate in 23.7% and severe in 7.9%. This showed a significant difference between the two groups with regard to the rate of depression (p=0.003). In dependent group 28% and in non-dependent group only 7.9% had history of depression. Conclusion: Based on the results, nicotine-dependent subjects had higher rate of depression comparing to non-dependents. Depression and nicotine-dependency had a   reciprocal relationship. Among all demographic variables, the only nicotine-dependency variable leading to depression was in smokers. Therefore health programs are highly recommended in order to teach and inform all levels of community of the harmful effects of nicotine.


An increase in SH content was shown to occur during the frost hardening of several herbaceous plants (2). To test this relationship further, SH was measured in a series of wheat varieties grading in hardiness from very hardy to very tender. The field-determined hardiness of these 15 varieties is shown in table I together with the hardiness determined by tests in a freezing chamber.


Automatically detecting the intent of an utterance is important for various downstream natural language processing tasks. This task is also called Dialogue Act Classification (DAC) and was primarily researched on spoken one-to-one conversations. The rise of social media has made this an interesting data source to explore within DAC, although it comes with some difficulties: non-standard form, variety of language types (across and within platforms), and quickly evolving norms. We therefore investigate the robustness of DAC on social media data in this paper. More concretely, we provide a benchmark that includes cross-domain data splits, as well as a variety of improvements on our transformer-based baseline. Our experiments show that lexical normalization is not beneficial in this setup, balancing the labels through resampling is beneficial in some cases, and incorporating context is crucial for this task and leads to the highest performance improvements 7 F1 percentage points in-domain and 20 cross-domain).


The purpose of this paper is to derive necessary and sufficient conditions for target path controllability (TPC) of time-varying dynamical systems, and to relate the results to those of Brockett and Mesarović in 1965. It is shown that conditions for TPC inW^{p}_{1}by means of Lp-controls are easy to verify, but are very strong. TPC implies that the number of target variables is less than or equal to the number of control variables.


Approaches to communication used by health workers have been criticized for being shallow creating slogans e.g. a happy family is a small family which produce consumer backlash and fail to establish any real rapport with the people they intend to serve. In rural villages a happy family is not considered a small family if there are not enough children to help with the chores. Good family planning programs should lead to well-informed decisions and long-term commitments by contraceptors. Community workers not directly involved with family planning refer appropriate people to family planning services. Others receive intensive training in the relationships between their particular field and family planning. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has provided training programs for its own international staff to develop an understanding of the interrelationship between food agriculture and population. The International Labour Organization (ILO) has provided technical assistance to a large number of countries in developing workers education programs which combine family planning with other family welfare issues. Mass media is improving as a source of infor mation for making informed decisions. Educational radio has been used successfully in Costa Rica the Dominican Republic and Colombia. Television has been used in Mauritius. In the face of a low acceptance rate communicators should rethink their messages.


OBJECTIVES
Trainee urologists must be helped and guided in order to acquire surgical techniques and professional skills. This methodological trial was designed to define the training objectives based on the needs formulated in terms of basic technical procedures.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Systematic planning based on the training cycle was used in this study. Training needs were identified by a questionnaire sent to 4 groups composed of a limited number (about twelve) of urologists, but representative of the various modes of urological practice in several regions of France. Data were acquired according to the Delphi method.

RESULTS
A list of 10 operations to be mastered at the end of urology training was defined consensually based on the replies (79.2%) to the questionnaire. This list was used as the basis for the design of general and specific training objectives for each operation. These objectives were validated by the urologists consulted. Three examples of these objectives are presented.

CONCLUSION
A clear determination of the surgical technique training needs and objectives could lead to standardization of the practical training of urology residents. This would subsequently need to be completed by determination of the methods of evaluation of achievement of these objectives for tutors and trainee urologists.


ABSTRACT Porous materials have attracted considerable attention in materials science, chemistry and multidisciplinary areas of research due to their diverse structures, tailorable functionalities, large surface areas, remarkable optical transparency, confinement and shape selectivity effects. The precise architecture of porous photocatalytic materials has been extensively reported by the hybridization of semiconducting nanoparticles (NPs), light-responsive metal complexes and plasmonic metal NPs with silica-based micro-, meso- and macro-porous nanostructures. This review targets to cover state-of-the-art accomplishments in the surface engineering chemistry of zeolites, mesoporous silica, and metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as excellent host materials for solar to chemical energy conversion and environmental remediation. The specific advantages and disadvantages of representative porous materials in photocatalysis have also been elaborated and summarized. Finally, key advances and prospects are presented to overcome the current challenges in photocatalysis and to inspire further studies in this rapidly evolving research field. Graphical abstract


Quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping experiments are commonly described in scientific literature but the results presented in tables are difficult to re-use. QTL TableMiner++ (QTM) enables to make these results available in machine-readable formats.


The generation of radiation by electric charges is a phenomenon that has been well known since the last century. It can arise from changes in level of bound elec trons when the radiation is then essentially monochromatic with a frequency related to the transition energy of the bound elec trons, or from the acceleration of free or almost free electrons, as for example in classical antennas, klystrons or black body radiation and synchrotron radiation. Lasers have been known since the turn of the fif ties where bound electrons in atoms, molecules or crystals are the source of oscillation and mirrors provide feedback to give the amplification. More recently, another way of producing a light amplifier was discovered 1), making use of free relativistic electrons travelling in a transverse periodic magnetic field called an undulator. Lasers built on these prin ciples are called Free Electron Lasers (FEL). In the following, we focus on the Comp ton type FEL where electrons individually experience the undulator field and the photon field (and we neglect repulsive elec trostatic interactions between the elec trons). There also exist high electron densi ty FEL where electrons collectively interact with the undulator and photon fields.


Purpose: Green or environmental Human Resource Management (GHRM) has became popular in recent years and there is a spate of conferences and researches going on in the area of green HRM, with these developments taking place GHRM also gaining the attention of academia and practitioners from all around the globe.   Therefore there is a need to provide a comprehensive literature review so that further analysis can be carried out on the recommendations thus suggested, therefore this paper provide a comprehensive literature review in the area of Green Human Resource Management and try to identify scope, approaches and contexts to identify focus areas and also proposed areas for future researches. Design/Methodology/Approach: On the basis of comprehensive literature review approach researches were borrowed from many reputed journals and the researches from these journals became the inherent part of this paper. Multidimensional matrix was formed after the identification of six focus areas and six contextual variables. Findings: It is proposed that more than 40 articles would be reviewed in a process of performing comprehensive literature review as the research is growing significantly in the area of Green Human Resource Management from the last decade.


Analytical solutions to nonlinear difference equations describing stationary states of the d -dimensional classical O(2) (XY) spin model are studied. The Hirota bilinear operator formalism is employed to obtain exact and approximate stationary vortexlike-mode solutions having a form somewhat similar to a discrete version of vortex solutions to the two-dimensional sine-Gordon equation. The former exists for a specific case, while the existence condition for the latter is much less restrictive. The obtained analytical result is demonstrated in numerical calculations of vortex profiles for a two-dimensional model O(2) spin system, in which a single vortex and a periodic array of vortex-antivortex pairs are shown.


Galaxies accrete their mass by means of both smooth accretion from the cosmic web, and the mergers of smaller entities. We wish to quantify the respective role of these two modes of accretion, which could determine the morphological types of galaxies observed today. Multi-zoom cosmological simulations are used to estimate as a function of time the evolution of mass in bound systems, for dark matter as well as baryons. The baryonic contents of dark matter haloes are studied. Merger histories are followed as a function of external density, and the different ways in which mass is assembled in galaxies and the stellar component accumulated are quantified. We find that most galaxies assemble their mass through smooth accretion, and only the most massive galaxies also grow significantly through mergers. The mean fraction of mass assembled by accretion is 77 %, and by mergers 23 %. We present typical accretion histories of hundreds of galaxies: masses of the most massive galaxies increase monotonically in time, mainly through accretion, many intermediate-mass objects also experience mass-loss events such as tidal stripping and evaporation. However, our simulations suffer from the overcooling of massive galaxies caused by the neglect of active galaxy nuclei (AGN) feedback. The time by which half of the galay mass has assembled, both in dark matter and baryons, is a decreasing function of mass, which is compatible with the observations of a so-called downsizing. At every epoch in the universe, there are low-mass galaxies actively forming stars, while more massive galaxies form their stars over a shorter period of time within half the age of the universe.


Fusarium is a filamentous fungi that has emerged as a frequent cause of invasive infections in immunocompromised patients. Dermatologists often play a critical role in diagnosing fusariosis, as greater than 70% of patients with disseminated infections have cutaneous involvement, and microbiologic evaluation of skin specimens provides the diagnosis in the majority of cases. Second-generation triazoles are typically the most effective medications in treating invasive Fusarium infections, and we discuss the benefits of using these medications, as well as detail the side effects of these therapeutic agents.


The accuracy of a mechanism of removing waste is decided by the driving cam and it will affect the quality of cutting ultimately.The motion curve of the frame,which is based on the motion theory of driving cam outline on the scrape-clearer,is fitted with a seven polynomial motion law.The cam mechanism is analyzed with a complex vector method and the cam profile has been calculated under a no impaction condition.There is flexible impaction in beginning and end positions.The result of theoretical calculation has an important significance to improve the performance of cam and the accuracy of mechanism of removing waste.


This Major Research Project was completed as part of the requirements for the Masters of Science Couples and Family Therapy Graduate Program. Any questions or inquiries can be made to email@example.com or email@example.com.


This paper, basing on the state equation of a radial four degree freedom magnetic bearing, presents the steps in using the linear quadratic method of the optimal control theory to design a centralized and decentralized parameters control system. Matlab language is also used to carry out simulation comparison, which proves that the difference is small. In this paper, the structure of hardware and software based on the digital signal processor, the method of debugging and the experimentation result are presented in brief. The vibration amplitude of rotor is about 20μm when the speed of rotor runs between 0 to 60 000r/min. The experiment shows that the decentralized controller based on the linear quadratic method meets the demands of active magnetic bearing system. This method may be used for reference in the study and designing of controllers for active magnetic bearing.


We investigated 245 diarrheal stool specimens from HIV-positive subjects between January 2003 and December 2006 to determine the etiological role of coproparasites. Parasitic etiology was observed in 91 (37.1%) cases. Isospora belli (26.1%) was the most common parasite followed by Entameba histolytica/dispar (3.3%), Cryptosporidium spp. (2.9%), Giardia intestinalis (1.6%), and Strongyloides stercoralis (1.2%). Interesting trends of significant increase in the number of cases of I. belli and decline in Cryptosporidium spp. were observed during the study period. Progressive decline in immunologic response destines HIVinfected patients vulnerable to myriad opportunistic infections (OI). Diarrhea is one of the major complications, occurring in ≈ 90% of patients living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries. Numerous studies have outlined the emergence of important opportunistic intestinal coccidian parasites, notably Cryptosporidium spp. and Isospora belli. While cryptosporidiosis has no effective treatment available to date, isosporiasis can effectively be treated with trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX). Therefore, we investigated the parasitic etiology of diarrhea in HIV-infected patients admitted with diarrheal symptoms between January 2003 and December 2006 at the YRG Center for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE), Chennai, a tertiary AIDS care center in southern India. Patients' HIV status was determined by double-ELISA method following World Health Organization, Geneva, and National AIDS Control Organization, New Delhi (WHO/ NACO) guidelines. A single fresh stool specimen was collected in a clean, dry, wide-mouthed container. Direct wet mounts were examined under 100× and 400× magnification for intestinal parasites. Presence of I. belli and Cryptosporidium spp. oocysts was confirmed by examining the formalin–ether concentrated stool specimen by modified AFB staining. Strict quality-control procedures were followed adhering to NABL guidelines for all investigations. Data were analyzed using Microsoft Excel and Epi Info version 3.3.2 statistical software for revealing statistical significance. 2 test for trend analysis was used to observe the proportion of Cryptosporidium spp. and I. belli from 2003 to 2006. A P value 0.05 was considered significant. Of the total 245 study subjects analyzed (mean age 34.6 ± 8.1 years), 199 were males (mean age 34.9 ± 7.3 years) and 46 were females (mean age 34.4 ± 11.3 years). All the patients were on single course of double-strength TMP-SMX prophylaxis for Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) (Pneumocystis jiroveci). Only a few HIV-infected individuals among the study population were under anti-retroviral therapy, and the numbers were too low to be included for analysis. Parasitic etiology was observed in 91 (37.1%) patients. Eighty-seven cases (35.1%) harbored a single parasite, while 5 (2%) presented mixed infection. Coccidian enteric parasites were the leading cause of parasitic diarrhea in 71 (29%) cases, and other parasitic pathogens were detected in 15 (6.1%) cases as a single etiological agent. I. belli was the most frequently encountered parasite found in 64 (26.1%) stool specimens followed by Entameba histolytica/dispar in 8 (3.3%) cases and Cryptosporidium in 7 (2.9%) specimens. Helminth involvement was observed in 10 (4%) specimens. Bacterial and viral causes of diarrhea were not determined in the present study. There was an increase in the number of diarrheal cases admitted each year, which was due to increasing numbers of new patients. A statistically significant increase in the number of cases of I. belli (p 0.00037, 2 test for trend) and a decline in the number of cases of Cryptosporidium spp. (p 0.00001) during the study were also observed (Table 1). The reasons for these changes are unclear, and we do not have data on place of residence, changes in patient population, or weather conditions (rainfall and temperature) that might explain the observed trends. Despite prophylactic treatment with TMP-SMX, I. belli was the most commonly encountered parasite in our study. Indeed, the frequency of isosporiasis in patients with AIDS is likely to be underestimated due to prophylactic administration and treatment with TMP-SMX for PCP and other infections. One double-strength TMP-SMX (160 mg/800 mg) daily is standard prophylaxis against PCP, but some investigators have proposed higher doses for prophylaxis and the treatment of isosporiasis. Thus, an inadequate dose of TMP-SMX could explain the high proportion of I. belli in diarrheal stools and conceivably could have led to emergence of drug resistance. In addition, patients may have been unable to adhere to the prophylactic regimen, but we do not have data on adherence. The isolation rate of I. belli was relatively high in our study (26.1%) compared with other studies (0–14%) and is in * Address correspondence to N. Kumarasamy, YRG Center for AIDS Research and Education (YRG CARE), Voluntary Health Services Campus, IT Corridor, Taramani, Chennai 600113, India. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com TABLE 1 Yearly incidence of Isospora belli and Cryptosporidium spp. from 2003 to 2006 Year No. of diarrheal cases admitted I. belli positivity Cryptosporidium spp. positivity 2003 25 3 (12%) 4 (16%) 2004 34 6 (17.6%) 1 (2.9%) 2005 55 15 (27.3%) 1 (1.8%) 2006 131 40 (30.5%) 1 (0.8%) Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 77(5), 2007, pp. 823–824 Copyright © 2007 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene


Rocks of the dunite–clinopyroxenite series (dunite, wehrlite, olivine clinopyroxenite, and clinopyroxenite) are common as cumulates formed around Moho in arc–related environments, but their formation processes remain unclear. They are common as xenoliths of Group I from Takashima in the Southwest Japan arc, and a description of their formation process is provided here. The rocks vary from dunite to clinopyroxenite via wehrlite and olivine clinopyroxenite, and all showing mosaic equigranular to weakly porphyroclastic textures. The rocks are completely free from plagioclase, and they contain <3 vol% chromian spinel. Some of them contain up to 3 vol% orthopyroxene; these are approximate mixtures of olivine and clinopyroxene. As the dunites change to clinopyroxenites, the Mg# [= Mg/(Mg + total Fe) atomic ratio] varies from 0.93 to 0.84 in olivine, and from 0.92 to 0.87 in clinopyroxene. The Cr# [= Cr/(Cr + Al) atomic ratio] of the chromian spinel varies from 0.8 to 0.2 with decreases in the Mg# of olivine and clinopyroxene. The Mg–Fe distribution relation between olivine and clinopyroxene suggests their subsolidus equilibration is around 800–900 °C. Initial Mg#s expected at a magmatic temperature indicate that their formation proceeded from magma in the order of Mg–rich dunites followed by clinopyroxenites and then less Mg–rich dunite–wehrlite–olivine clinopyroxenite. This suggests a zigzag liquid path, starting from a mantle–derived olivine–oversaturated magma, around the olivine–clinopyroxene cotectic boundary. Continuous crystallization of olivine or clinopyroxene due to supersaturation could have enabled the magma to straddle the cotectic boundary to form alternately clinopyroxene– and olivine– oversaturated magmas.


PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) is a network protocol used in the implementation of Virtual Private Networks (VPN). PPTP uses a client-server design that operates at Layer 2 of the OSI model. Network administrators require the existence of performance testing Point to point protocol and VPN network topology; this can be done with the result of simulation of computer networks. This research will discuss about the level of performance and security of PPTP to sniffing in VPN network. Simulations were performed with an average file packet delivery scenario of 500 MB. Graphical Network Simulator-3 (GNS3) is a network software emulator. This allows a combination of virtual and real devices, used to simulate complex networks. The simulation will be done using a VPN network and not using VPN by using GNS3 network simulation tool. Measurement of performance and security analysis is obtained by using Wireshark. The simulation results of the test will produce data to be used in the analysis process. PPTP performance analysis is performed in testing data transfer using FTP protocol when using the VPN network and not using VPN network. Performance parameters measured using Wireshark include throughput and delay. Testing is done by transferring data from the FTP protocol using a VPN network and not using a VPN network. The data transfer test results will get the parameters of output, delay, and data level of confidentiality. The best throughput values give results, data transfers that not use VPN are higher than using a VPN with an average yield of 153 KB and a delay in the network that does not use a VPN that is 0.0032 MS. Data transmission process from both methods shows the security of the FTP protocol, this concludes the security of the PPTP VPN protocol. Keywords— VPN; point-to-point; sniffing; FTP


The "Overview Statement on Medical Records," which appeared in the August 1975 issue, overlooks the needs of patients and parents. The Committee on Standards of Child Health Care has noted that patients may have multiple sources of care and that the population is more mobile. It seems not to have observed that people want to know and learn more about their state of health and care. The doctor, clinic, or any one institution that owns the medical record is unlikely ever to be "the one institution which gives a complete and continuous documentation of the patient's medical history."


Effects of global warming on animal distribution and performance become visible in many marine ecosystems. The present study was designed to develop a concept for a cause and effect understanding with respect to temperature changes and to explain ecological findings based on physiological processes. The concept is based on a wide comparison of invertebrate and fish species with a special focus on recent data obtained in two model species of fish. These fish species are both characterized by northern and southern distribution limits in the North Atlantic: eelpout (Zoarces viviparus), as a typical non-migrating inhabitant of the coastal zone and the cod (Gadus morhua), as a typical inhabitant of the continental shelf with a high importance for fisheries. Mathematical modelling demonstrates a clear significant correlation between climate induced temperature fluctuations and the recruitment of cod stocks. Growth performance in cod is optimal at temperatures close to 101C, regardless of the population investigated in a latitudinal cline. However, temperature specific growth rates decrease at higher latitudes. Also, fecundity is less in White Sea than in *Corresponding author. Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Marine Biology/Ecological Physiology, Postfach 12 01 61/ Columbusst., D-27568 Bremerhaven, Germany. Tel.: +49-471-4831-1307; fax: +49-471-4831-1149. E-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.com (H.O. P . ortner). 0278-4343/01/$ -see front matter r 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved. PII: S 0 2 7 8 4 3 4 3 ( 0 1 ) 0 0 0 3 8 3 North and Baltic Sea cod or eelpout populations. These findings suggest that a cold-induced shift in energy budget occurs which is unfavorable for growth performance and fecundity. Thermal tolerance limits shift depending on latitude and are characterized by oxygen limitation at both low or high temperatures. Oxygen supply to tissues is optimized at low temperature by a shift in hemoglobin isoforms and oxygen binding properties to lower affinities and higher unloading potential. Protective stimulation of heat shock protein synthesis was not observed. According to a recent model of thermal tolerance the downward shift of tolerance limits during cold adaptation is associated with rising mitochondrial densities and, thus, aerobic capacity and performance in the cold, especially in eurythermal species. At the same time the costs of mitochondrial maintenance reflected by mitochondrial proton leakage should rise leaving a lower energy fraction for growth and reproduction. The preliminary conclusion can be drawn that warming will cause a northern shift of distribution limits for both species with a rise in growth performance and fecundity larger than expected from the Q10 effect in the north and lower growth or even extinction of the species in the south. Such a shift may heavily affect fishing activities in the North Sea. r 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.


Nowadays, the utilization of renewable biomass resources to transform them into value-added platform molecules has aroused widespread attention. Particularly, anethole (AN) is widely considered as a significant chemical owing to...


• Reconsider the eligibility guidelines for USDA farmworker housing funds. • Encourage farm owners to work collaboratively to provide housing. • Set aside funds from the NY Housing Trust Fund for farmworker housing. • Hold year round farmworker housing to the same inspection code standards as all other housing. • Grant farmworkers "special needs" status and add them to the NYS Consolidated Plan. • Provide state tax credits for building or improving farmworker housing. • Expand the Housing and Community Renewal (HCR) Manufactured Home Replacement Program to include farmworker housing. • Create an office within HCR dedicated to farmworker housing.


The article reviews the results of the experience of the application of sociological methods in evaluation of effectiveness of the various methods and forms of dissemination of scientific and political knowledge. The methodology and results of sociological surveys of lecturers, visitors, and organizers of the lecture propaganda are shown. The research is based on the study of archival sources and shows the achievements of lecture propaganda, reveals deficiencies and shows the ways to solve problems.


RECENT DOCUMENTS FROM church conferences, councils, and institutions throughout Venezuela have regularly employed and suggested two basic moral criteria for interpreting the nation's changing political situation: (1) the practice of exercising political power (ethical legitimacy of organizational and operational mediation); and (2) the horizon of any political system (structural criticism and legitimacy of purposes related to the new emerging model). This new political system, known since 2005 as "21st-Century Socialism," is supported by President Hugo Chávez, even though it appears to be neither mandated by nor aligned with the articles of the 1999 National Constitution. The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference insisted on the need to clarify the orientation of this emerging model because "its ideological foundations and the models proposed as a reference . . . can indeed be an attempt to impose a single way of thinking. Faced with this, it is absolutely necessary that the Government and the official political sector clarify with no ambiguities or delays their reiterated proposal for this '21st-Century Socialism.'" The bishops' exhortation carried two particular critiques:


We provide formal definitions of degree of blameworthiness and intention relative to an epistemic state (a probability over causal models and a utility function on outcomes). These, together with a definition of actual causality, provide the key ingredients for moral responsibility judgments. We show that these definitions give insight into commonsense intuitions in a variety of puzzling cases from the literature.


College students' life consciousness and life education are gained more attention by society.Through the questionnaire survey,present situation of college students' life awareness is analyzed,from college students' living attitude to commit suicide as well as suicide reasons.To carry out the life education,survey results are analyzed,and corresponding countermeasures and suggestions are given.


In present work, multi-metallic nanoparticles were synthesized by chemical method in a controlled
environment by using silver, lead, mercury, egg shell powder (contains 1% calcium phosphate, 1%
magnesium carbonate, 94% calcium carbonate and 4% organic matter), potassium nitrate, potassium
alum and extracts of citrus lemon by following the process defined in Traditional Indian Medicine,
Siddha System of Medicine. The morphology, compositions and structure of the product were
characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), scanning electron
microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
techniques. Highly uniform spherical multi-metallic nanoparticle was subjected for the antibacterial
activities. The particles were agglomerated as observed by SEM micrographs. The particles were
homogeneous, spherical in shape and loosely agglomerated as seen by TEM pictures. The antibacterial
activity of the synthesized multi-metallic nanoparticles against B. cereus, S. aureus, E. coli and P.
aeuroginosa was demonstrated using the zone of inhibition technique. The synthesized multi-metallic
nanoparticle can find plausible biological applications.


The Zirconia toughened Alumina (ZTA) composites with 0-16 wt % of ZrO2 were prepared by slurry method and sintered at temperature (Ts) 1500°C and 1600°C for 2 hours. The density, porosity, structural properties and mechanical properties of Al2O3-ZrO2 composites with respect to ZrO2 content as well as sintering temperature have been explored in the present work. About 2% higher density of 16 wt % ZTA has been achieved and the microstructures are highly homogeneous and finer with less porosity when compared to pure Al2O3. The surface morphology of the samples was studied by using SEM. The effect of zirconia content on hardness and elastic modulus were investigated. At 1500°C, maximum hardness shows 15.79 GPa and at 1600°C, it is 19.76 GPa, which is observed for pure Alumina. However, at same temperatures, minimum hardness shows 11.24 GPa and 12.96 GPa, respectively, that is observed for 16 wt% ZrO2. Elastic modulus also shows same behaviour as shown for hardness. Flexural strength increases with the increase of both zirconia content and sintering temperature. The approach adopted in the present study may provide an alternative to design Al2O3- ZrO2 composites with improved mechanical properties.


In this paper,the development of Indian remote sensing satellite series is reviewed,the specifications of IRS-P5 satellite platform and sensor are introduced and compared with the IKONOS、SPOT5 HRS.The positioning algorithm using Rational Function Model(RFM) of IRS-P5 is described in detail.Experiment was carried out using stereo pair of Beijing hilly area.The results show that with high accurate and well-distributed Ground Control Points(GCPs) the plane and elevation accuracy of IRS-P5 imagery could reach 5-meter and meet the mapping requirements of national topographic map 1:50,000.


Introduction
 DLBCL is an aggressive disease that can be classified by immunohistochemistry (IHC) into GCB and non-GCB or by gene expression profiling (GEP) into GCB, activated B-cell (ABC), and unclassified subtypes. RCHOP is the standard frontline treatment (tx) for DLBCL with a 60% cure rate. Ibrutinib (ibr), an oral covalent Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor, showed activity in relapsed/refractory ABC DLBCL. This study aimed to analyze if the addition of ibr to RCHOP would improve efficacy in previously untreated patients (pts) with non-GCB DLBCL or the ABC subtype.
 Methods
 Pts with centralized IHC-confirmed non-GCB DLBCL were randomized 1:1 to standard RCHOP with either ibr (560 mg/d, po) or placebo (pbo) on a 21-day cycle for 6 or 8 cycles. Pts were stratified by revised International Prognostic Index, region (US/Western Europe vs rest of world), and number of prespecified RCHOP cycles (6 or 8). ABC DLBCL was retrospectively identified using GEP (HTG EdgeSeq cell of origin assay). Primary end point was event-free survival (EFS), defined as time from randomization to progression, relapse from complete response (CR), initiation of tx for PET-positive or biopsy-proven residual disease after ≥ 6 cycles of RCHOP, or death, in the intent-to-treat (ITT) or ABC population. Secondary end points included progression-free survival (PFS), CR rate, overall survival (OS), and safety.
 Results
 Overall, 838 pts were randomized to ibr + RCHOP (n = 419) or pbo + RCHOP (n = 419). Median age was 62 years (yrs) with 58.5% < 65 yrs; 67.7% had ABC subtype. Baseline prognostic factors were balanced; slightly more pts ≥ 65 yrs in the ibr + RCHOP arm (45% vs 38%). In the ibr + RCHOP and pbo + RCHOP arms, 80.8% and 90.7% of pts received ≥ 6 cycles of RCHOP; 22.4% and 13.6% discontinued tx (all drugs) with adverse event (AE) being the most common reason (12.2% vs 5.3%). All deaths rate was 16.5% vs 17.2% in the ibr + CHOP vs pbo + RCHOP arm, respectively. In pts < 65 yrs, 90.4% vs 91.1% of pts received ≥ 6 cycles of RCHOP in the ibr + RCHOP vs pbo + RCHOP arm, respectively. Fewer pts ≥ 65 yrs in the ibr + RCHOP arm (69.0%) received ≥ 6 cycles of RCHOP compared with the pbo + RCHOP arm (90.0%). Ibr pharmacokinetics with RCHOP was similar to other studies in B-cell malignancies where ibr was used as a single agent or in combination. Median follow-up was 34.8 months.
 Ibr + RCHOP did not improve EFS in pts with non-GCB (by IHC) or ABC (by GEP) DLBCL: The hazard ratio (HR) for EFS was 0.934 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.726-1.200) for the ITT and 0.949 (95% CI, 0.704-1.279) for the ABC subset. Multivariate analysis showed a significant interaction (based on SAP prespecified 1-sided α level p < 0.1) between tx effect and age as a continuous or categorical variable. Efficacy was a function of age: stable benefit seen in younger pts, with a decline with increasing age, and benefit no longer favorable in pts ≥ 65 yrs.
 Efficacy outcomes favored ibr + RCHOP-treated pts < 65 years with statistically significant risk reduction in EFS (30%), PFS (33%), and OS (43%; Table, Figure). A similar trend was seen in the ABC subset. Multivariate analyses, adjusting for other baseline covariates, confirmed the tx benefit in younger but not elderly pts.
 Grade ≥ 3 AE rates were 89.9% and 87.1% in the ibr + RCHOP and pbo + RCHOP arms, respectively. Serious AEs (SAEs) were greater in the ibr + RCHOP vs pbo + RCHOP arm (53.1% vs 34.0%), particularly febrile neutropenia and pneumonia, as were AEs leading to RCHOP discontinuation. In pts ≥ 65 yrs, there were more SAEs (67.4% vs 40.6%) and pts who received < 6 cycles of RCHOP (31.0% vs 10.0%) in the ibr + RCHOP vs pbo + RCHOP arm. In pts < 65 yrs, grade ≥ 3 AEs were similar; SAEs were numerically higher (41.5% vs 29.8%) in the ibr + RCHOP vs pbo + RCHOP arm, but the proportion of pts who received < 6 cycles of RCHOP was similar (9.6% vs 8.9%) between arms.
 Conclusions
 While the addition of ibr to RCHOP did not improve efficacy in the ITT population, there was a significant interaction between tx and age. Among pts ≥ 65 yrs, unexpected increased toxicity associated with ibr + RCHOP resulted in reduced RCHOP exposure, which may explain in part the worse clinical benefit/risk profile of pts in the ibr + RCHOP vs pbo + RCHOP arm. However, in pts < 65 yrs, the addition of ibr showed clinically meaningful improvement in EFS, PFS, and OS with an acceptable safety profile.
 Funding Source
 Sponsored by Janssen. Writing assistance was provided by Liqing Xiao of PAREXEL and funded by Janssen.

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THE FACT that any change in surroundings or any unusual strain, such as violent muscular exercise, chronic diseases and even mental stress may disturb the sexual cycle of the female is well known from human pathology. Animal experiments confirmed these facts and countless publications have appeared in which the authors show how dietary deficiencies and intoxi-cations may affect the female sex organs. In most cases, however, the authors who studied this phenomenon expressed the belief that the particular experimental intervention which they studied exerts a specific influence on the ovary or the sexual cycle. It is not within the scope of this publication to discuss the extensive literature on this subject in detail, but a few examples may help to illustrate our problem. Insufficient food intake has been shown to cause irregularities of the cycle or permanent anestrus in the guinea pig (1, 2) and rat (3–5).


Gamma-ray and X-ray spectrometers carried in the service modules of the Apollo 15 and Apollo 16 spacecraft were employed for compositional mapping of the lunar surface. The measurements involved the observation of the intensity and characteristic energy distribution of gamma rays and X-rays emitted from the lunar surface. A large-scale compositional map of over 10 percent of the lunar surface was obtained from an analysis of the observed spectra. The objective of the X-ray experiment was to measure the K spectral lines from Mg, Al, and Si. Spectra were obtained and the data were reduced to Al/Si and Mg/Si intensity ratios and ultimately to chemical ratios. Analyses of the results have indicated (1) that the Al/Si ratios are highest in the lunar highlands and considerably lower in the maria, and (2) that the Mg/Si concentrations generally show the opposite relationship. The objective of the gamma-ray experiment was to measure the natural and cosmic-ray-induced activity emission spectrum. At this time, the elemental abundances for Th, U, K, Fe, Ti, Si, and O have been determined over a number of major lunar regions. Regions of relatively high natural radioactivity were found in the Mare Imbrium and Oceanus Procellarum regions.


ABSTRACT This article introduces Bayesian predictive monitoring of time-between-events using Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) and Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) control charts with predictive control limits. It is shown that the proposed methodology not only overcomes the requirement of a large Phase-I data set to establish control limits, but also feasible for online process monitoring. In addition to Bayesian memory-type charts with dynamic control limits, a comparison of the frequentist sequential charts, designed by using the unbiased and biased estimator of the process parameter, is also given in this article. For the performance evaluation of the predictive TBE chart in the presence of practitioner-to-practitioner variability, we use the average of the in-control average run length (AARL) and the standard deviation of the in-control run length (SDARL).


In this work, we introduce the concept of complex text style transfer tasks, and constructed complex text datasets based on two widely applicable scenarios. Our dataset is the first large-scale data set of its kind, with 700 rephrased sentences and 1,000 sentences from the game Genshin Impact. While large language models (LLM) have shown promise in complex text style transfer, they have drawbacks such as data privacy concerns, network instability, and high deployment costs. To address these issues, we explore the effectiveness of small models (less than T5-3B) with implicit style pre-training through contrastive learning. We also propose a method for automated evaluation of text generation quality based on alignment with human evaluations using ChatGPT. Finally, we compare our approach with existing methods and show that our model achieves state-of-art performances of few-shot text style transfer models.


We demonstrate experimentally for the first time a significantly increased threshold for stimulated Brillouin scattering using the duobinary modulation format. Measured thresholds are 17.3 dBm at 2.5 Gbit/s increasing linearly to 23.9 dBm at 10 Gbit/s.


The satellite GSTAR III is currently providing a multitude of communication services from its 3.9 deg inclined geosynchronous orbit. Nodal crossings are stationkept at 93°W longitude. North-south maneuvers are not implemented and the inclination is permitted to grow naturally. Daily sublatitude and longitude variations trace a "figure-eight" trajectory as seen from terrestrial observation points, requiring the ground antennas to track the satellite. Left uncompensated, the satellite radiative power footprint and associated radio-frequency polarization plane undergo 24-h cyclic variations. To minimize the daily radiative power variations, the spacecraft antenna boresight is kept targeted at the specified geographic location by programming the flight computer with appropriate roll and pitch bias increments. At later phases of mission life, when the signal polarization plane rotation is no longer acceptable, the momentum vector will be partially skewed in the direction of equatorial normal. At some stage, periodic thruster-assisted spacecraft yaw maneuvers will be required to reduce the polarization plane rotation. This paper describes the attitude maintenance procedures being used to support communication services from a non-nominal orbit. Nomenclature H = spacecraft momentum axis / = inclination of orbit, deg M = angle from ascending node to the satellite, deg TV = orbit normal vector n = orbital rate, 15 deg/h t = time past ascending node, h Z' = spacecraft pitch axis a. = ratio of change in roll attitude to change in satellite latitude a = pivot offset commanded through the APE b = pivot offset commanded bypassing the APE m = maximum pivot offset over a day, deg / = pivot offset limit; 2 deg for GSTAR III t = total offset in satellite momentum wheel pivot, deg e = roll error due to pivot offset as sensed by the ESA \l/ = satellite yaw angle, deg


Presents a report on the placement services of the Academy of Management in the United States as of 1964. Increase in the number of applicants and openings; Limitations of publishing the openings in the Academy journal; Costs of the services.


In this paper,the theory of OLE Automation is instructed.Then the technique of how to use OLE Automation in Visual Basic 6.0 is discussed,especially the difficulty in developing the application of OLE Automation.The study also involves itself with a case of OLE Automation at the end of the paper.


Rating: Mature Archive Warning: Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings Category: M/M Fandom: Final Fantasy XV Relationship: Gladiolus Amicitia/Noctis Lucis Caelum Character: Noctis Lucis Caelum, Gladiolus Amicitia, Ignis Scientia, Prompto Argentum, Aranea Highwind, Iris Amicitia, Talcott Hester, Cor Leonis, Other Character Tags to Be Added Additional Tags: FFXV kinkmeme, Post Game, Amnesia, Noctis Lives, Slow Burn, Friendship, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Collections: FFXV Kinkmeme Stats: Published: 2017-07-24 Updated: 2018-03-20 Chapters: 16/? Words: 54199


This book reports on a study of the health manpower process within the British National Health Service. It explores manpower planning, production and management aims, methodologies and practices and assesses their compatibility with the World Health Organization's 'Health for all by the year 2000' strategy. It provides extensive reviews of the professional and official literature and details an investigative survey of manpower practices within District Health Authorities. Throughout, the book focuses upon medical, nursing and allied health practitioners. The orientation is towards the politics of health manpower, examining issued from the formulation of policy and technical details of the health manpower process, through to implementation and evaluation. In addition, three cases studies of services innovation and their manpower implications are explored, namely, the development of community care for the mentally handicapped; teamwork in a health centre; and an expanded role for the nurse, in particular the potential of a nurse practitioner. The study concludes by developing an evaluative checklist of issues encompassing the health manpower process. The book will be of interest to health professionals, administrators, planners and managers, ad to those concerned with the study of health services


We hypothesize that the infection-induced functional reprogramming of brain-resident microglia and TRM cells serves as a double-edged sword that on one side provides long-term immunity to specific pathogens locally in the CNS, but on the other side predisposes the CNS to increased risk of inflammation, tissue stress and neurodegeneration. Here, we will test the hypothesis that successive viral infections, naturally experienced over one's lifetime, progressively increases the numbers of 'inflammatory trained' TRM cells and microglia in the brain that hasten agerelated inflammation and predisposition to AD.


MPINGEMENT OF THE glenohumeral joint often involves the tendinous insertion of the supraspinatus or infraspinatus muscle on the humeral head pressing against the undersurface of the acromion process. The approximation of bony surfaces is increased as one elevates the humerus for use during functional activities. The underlying impingement has been anecdotally reported to be managed successfully with interventions including ice, ultrasound, and other therapeutic modalities, even though evidence-based literature fails to support such an approach.1,2 Achieving full elevation of the humerus requires not only adequate abduction and fl exion ranges of motion but also adequate inferiorglide accessory motion.3 Inadequate inferior gliding of the humerus is believed to be associated with the contact of the humeral head against the undersurface of the acromion, which compresses the soft-tissue components between the bony structures. Inferior glide of the humeral head is obtained only when the inferior capsuloligamentous tissue possesses extensibility suffi cient to permit normal arthrokinematics. Joint mobilization has been used successfully to restore humeral elevation in individuals with adhesive capsulitis by increasing the extensibility of the inferior aspect of the glenohumeral ligaments and adjacent capsular components.4 Adequate extensibility prevents approximation from occurring, maintains the space between the humeral head and the acromion, and subsequently improves the mechanics of humeral elevation and prevents bony approximation from occurring. With this in mind, one could therefore hypothesize that using a humeral-head inferior-glide joint-mobilization technique would reduce the impingement of the tendinous insertions of the supraspinatus and infraspinatus muscles on the greater tuberosity.


Road safety for automated vehicles requires accurate and early detection of stationary objects in the vehicle's path. Radar can use doppler to effectively identify stationary objects and make these identifications at long range and in severe weather and poor light conditions. In this paper, we propose a radar-based stationary object detection system that combines signal processing techniques with machine learning technology to detect stationary in-path objects from the low level spectra of front looking radars. The proposed system consists of novel signal and image processing methods to extract key features from the raw data, which are fed into a long short-term memory (LSTM) to determine the probability of a stationary object in-lane at each range. Experiments with collected data in controlled and uncontrolled scenarios demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.


This paper studies the decomposition of the gender earnings gap in the Brazilian labor market using microdata from the 2010 Brazilian census. Counter‐intuitively we find that the gender earnings gap in favor of males widens with increased GDP per capita. Firstly, we find that females present higher schooling than males, which is consistent with the higher return to schooling among females. Secondly, the effect of the female schooling advantage on income is magnified by the local level of income inequality. Thirdly, through decomposition, we obtain the component due to discrimination (or any factor independent of schooling that undervalues female characteristics) against women. Finally, the explanation for the counter‐intuitive result is that while gender discrimination reduces with GDP per capita, somehow the level of income inequality reduces more quickly, resulting in a gender earnings gap that widens with increased GDP per capita.


In order to analyzing the vehicle-track coupling vibration character of infinite length track,a time-varying model of railway tangent track spatial vibration was presented. With finite element method, both the sleeper and the rail were divided by linear viscoelastic discretely supported beam element. The vibration equation group of the model were formulated using the principle of total potential energy with stationary value in elastic system and the "set-in-right-position" rule for formulating matrixes. Using the technique of track being "added and cut down", the mass matrix, damp matrix, stiffness matrix and force vector of the model became time-varying. With the existing vehicle dynamics model and the measurement parameters, 4 km track was applied to calculate the dynamic responses of vehicle-track coupling vibration. The maximum values of!rail displacement, wheelset lateral force and carbody acceleration between calculation and measurement results are very close, which demonstrates the feasibility of the presented model. 1 tab, 13 figs, 8 refs.


This letter addresses the problem of automatically detecting and quantifying performance degradation in remote mobile robots, in real-time, during task execution. A robot may encounter a variety of uncertainties and adversities during task execution, which can impair its ability to carry out tasks effectively and cause its performance to degrade. Such situations can be mitigated or averted by timely detection and intervention, e.g., by a remote human supervisor taking over control in teleoperation mode. Inspired by patient triaging systems in hospitals, we introduce the framework of "robot vitals" for estimating overall "robot health". A robot's vitals are a set of lower-level metrics that estimate a variety of indicators of performance degradation faced by a robot at any given point in time. Robot health is a higher-level metric that combines robot vitals into a single scalar value estimate of performance degradation. Experiments, both in simulation and on a real mobile robot, demonstrate that the proposed robot vitals and robot health can be used effectively for online estimation of robot performance degradation during run-time.


In our study of Czech homeschooling families, we discovered that the unifying theme of their justifying narratives was how the families rearranged the norm of "good parenting," defined as the amount of time families spent together. The parents argued the importance of sacrificing their own time and educating their children themselves. They distinguished themselves from parents who are not willing to attend the children's needs as much. Finally, we show that homeschooled children also actively adopt the family time management.


Fault-tolerant operation of multi-drive is an important aspect of system reliability in specific fields such as electric vehicles and rail transits. This paper proposes a new fault-tolerant control strategy for three-motor drive based on neural network right inversion (NNRI). The key of this strategy is to use NNRI to approximate the right-inverse system of three-motor drive under both healthy and faulty condition. A pseudo-linear system is completed by constructing the NNRI system and combing it with three-motor drive. The capability of fault tolerance can be enhanced. Meanwhile, the proposed strategy can solve the coupling problem effectively between speed and tension. Simulation results are given for verification.


Indirect tooth restoration involves customized tooth replacements in the form of crowns, onlays, or inlays. The preparation design for an indirect restoration must maintain a balance between preserving the tooth structure and obtaining sufficient retention and resistance. Ceramic inlays have gained popularity because of their esthetic appearance and improved physical and mechanical properties. The resistance to fracture is directly related to the amount of remaining tooth structure. The widened marginal ridges, the increased width of the isthmus and the increased depth of preparation are the main reasons for the decrease in resistance. The masticatory loads in the posterior region are much higher than in the anterior region. Amongst the posterior teeth, the premolars suffer the most from vertical fracture. The finite element method is considered as an important tool to study stress distribution. Hence, in this study, we will compare the influence of cavity depth and width in generating stress patterns in premolars restored with ceramic inlays using finite element analysis (FEA).


When researchers study Emotional Intelligence (EI) in an organizational context with the motive of examining its influence on employee performance they are invariably faced with the challenge of conceptualizing EI in a uniform and unambiguous manner. Given the 'people' element of the marketing mix for services, Emotional Competencies (ECs) are of particular interest to managers in the service sector. This study is based on the survey of the opinions and perceptions of 114 managers from four selected service industries (civil aviation, healthcare, banking, and hospitality) in India regarding (i) their preferred conceptual framework for EI and its derivative construct ECs and (ii) the relevance of EI and ECs to managerial performance. It was observed that practicing managers in the selected service sectors had a preference for a hybrid formulation of EI with a bias towards an 'ability' rather than a 'trait' based formulation. The overwhelming majority of managers perceived ECs to be highly relevant for managerial performance and effective leadership outcomes.


Recent boom in Image Processing can be attributed mostly to Artificial Neural networks, enormity of data and availability of high-performance hardware. ANNs need to be designed with care and a lot of tweaking is required according to the problem at hand. However, they can be designed automatically by deploying search algorithms given a set of possible values for hyperparameters. Previously, network design has been limited because of the inherent complexity of network diversity in terms of their style (e.g. VGG-style or ResNet-style). Aforementioned two network styles require different kinds of parameters hence limiting the search algorithm to output only a specific style of architecture. We propose a methodology which will allow the system to search for the best architecture with least possible constraints.


Two tensorial polarization parameters are measured for (d-p) scattering, using 22-Mev polarized deuterons as the incident particles. The angular distributions and their parameters are presented. (tr-auth)


The Etruscan civilization on the Apennine Peninsula (ca. 900 - 27 B.C.) and the kingdom of Goguryeo on the Korean Peninsula (ca. 37 B.C. - 668) were separated by time and space. Nevertheless, they share an interesting aspect of their culture in common which is the creation of murals in the chambers of mounded tombs. These murals provide important insights into the lifeworld and the perceptions of the afterlife for both civilizations.
The present study compares the themes of the murals from the Etruscans and the kingdom of Goguryeo in order to ascertain similarities and differences in their pictorial language. Whilst the differences may be simply explained by cultural differences, the similarities may point to commonly shared or universal values and modes of representation in early state formations. As can be demonstrated there is a range of themes that occur in both civilizations such as depictions of the tomb owners, banqueting scenes, hunting, processions and many more. The juxtaposition of the funerary art from both civilizations reveals also a few peculiarities which may be unique for each cultural sphere. In case of Goguryeo this is the depiction of star constellations and for the Etruscans the representation of sex scenes.
It is being argued that the similarities in the scenes can be explained by common social and behavioral factors. These are for instance the performance of an ancestor cult, a strong affiliation to elite distinction and the creation of a group-related identity.