This paper deals with the analysis of the effects and perception of infoemia both on social networks and in the sphere of civic journalism during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Comparative analysis of the perception of the COVID-19 virus pandemic in developed democratic societies and its repercussions (to the audience above all) and comparison with the informational values of comments on the most visited online portals in Bosnia and Herzegovina are the essence of this work. In pursuing these goals, the work is divided into two parts. The first part of the paper analyzes the existential dissemination of information about the first and second wave of COVID-19 pandemics in the world with a focus on social networks and citizen writing – an audience about pandemics that has undoubtedly taken all the notes of infodemium where it is difficult to determine the information value of comments or writing prosumer. Web 2.0 as the dominant dissemination tool of all types of media content and the general approach and freedom of commenting have influenced the experience and – consecutive – perception of the available information. The informative cacophony affected the audience (which is also a generator of "informative" content) in several ways mentioned in the first part of the paper. The second part of the work deals exclusively with the analysis of the content of comments on several of the most visited informational portals of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Most comments have been found to lack usable information value and contribute to media cacophony, and from the point of view of the value of news usually do not provide useful information or at best provide information whose credibility (although they may seem plausible and/or argumentative) cannot be easily verified. The conclusion of the paper is that the information value of comments from visitors to bh information portals is not particularly high in the slightest regard from the content level with rare examples of (semi)quality information of usable content.


In Mozambique, there is a limited supply of blood and elevated risks for transmission of infections. Prior studies have documented that many transfusions in Mozambique are potentially avoidable. Transfusion training workshops with a survey and exam were held for providers to understand their perceptions and to improve knowledge and clinical practice.


As extreme weather impacts global supply chains, industries must keep resources moving. Global and growing, today's supply chains form the backbones of world economies. But as international trade increases, these all-important resource networks are becoming longer, more complex and more vulnerable. Be it the flow of goods, electricity, communications or oil and gas, today's governments, global manufacturers, aid relief organisations and insurance firms are worried sick over supply chain disruptions.


The present invention is an in vitro system to separate the blood filtering material to selectively separate and extract selected by means of molecular size. Thus, the present invention relates to an extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus, comprising at least one exchanger (1), the exchanger (1) comprises a first inlet (2) at least one of the blood being processed, a first liquid an outlet (4) and a second fluid outlet (5); a first inlet (2) is connected to a switch (1) for receiving a blood processing input line (10); a switch coupled to (1 ) a first outlet (4) a blood outlet line (or venous line) (11); at least one processing unit (21), said at least one processing unit (21) comprises at least one first fluid inlet (22) and at least one first fluid outlet (24), a second outlet exchanger (1) (5) with the processing unit (21) a first inlet (22) in fluid communication, and the processing unit (21) a first outlet (24 fluid communication (10)) to the input line.


Belvedere's car park can accommodate two or three cars, and you may park on the street in front, free of charge.


OBJECTIVE
Pegylated interferon (PegIFN) and ribavirin (RBV) treatment for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can induce depressive episodes. Personality traits have been associated with mood disorders. The aim of this study was to evaluate the personality profile as a risk factor for induced depression by PegIFN and RBV treatment in patients with HCV.

METHOD
In a prospective cohort study, 204 consecutive HCV outpatients who received PegIFN and RBV were assessed using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders and the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R). Moreover, the Patient Health Questionnaire and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale were administered at baseline and at 4, 12, 24, and/or 48 weeks of treatment. Patients were recruited between September 2003 and December 2006.

RESULTS
One hundred eighteen patients (57.8%) were men. The mean (SD) age was 44.39 (10.4) years. The incidence of induced depression during the 48 weeks of antiviral treatment was 73 (42%). Low self-directedness dimension (HR = 0.63, 95% CI = 0.446 to 0.890, p = .009), baseline subclinical depression levels (HR = 1.113, 95% CI = 1.023 to 1.22, p = .013), and history of mood disorders (HR = 0.372, 95% CI = 0.220 to 0.629, p <.001) were independent predictive factors for induced depression during PegIFN and RBV treatment. Other predictive personality TCI-R subscales were enlightened second nature (HR = 2.939, 95% CI = 1.423 to 6.071, p = .004), fatigability (HR = 0.421, 95% CI = 0.237 to 0.749, p = .01), and disorderliness (HR = 0.449, 95% CI = 0.248 to 0.815, p = .008).

CONCLUSION
Low self-directedness, depressive symptoms at baseline, and history of previous mood disorders may predict induced depression by PegIFN and RBV in euthymic HCV patients.


Blepharoptosis surgery is one of the most common oculoplastic procedures, and the aim is to clear the visual axis. Many surgical techniques for the correction of ptosis have been described and performed, but the operative approach is based on the extent of eyelid excursion, the amount of levator function, and the degree of ptosis.In this study, the frontalis sling procedure with triband suspension was performed on 32 eyelids of 23 patients. All the patients had visual loss because of blepharoptosis with only 0 to 3 mm of measurable levator function. Postoperatively, the palpebral fissure was increased in all the patients. The purpose of this study was to report the use of a modified frontalis sling procedure for congenital ptosis patients with minimal to no levator function. In conclusion, this modified frontalis sling technique if used maximizes the frontalis muscle, creating sufficient eyelid elevation, with stable effect over time.


Each of the books here under review explores a subject of increasing importance and controversy within the European Community, within the United States and other nations, and in international relations—the relationship between trade and the environment. However, they do so from somewhat different perspectives and take different approaches. Trade and Environmental Law in the European Community by Andreas Ziegler—an associate researcher at the Swiss Institute for Research into International Economic Relations, University of St. Gallen—begins widi an introductory overview, followed by a more detailed discussion divided into two parts, "Undistorted Trade and Competition and Domestic Environmental Measures" and "Community Environmental Law and Domestic Environmental Measures," respectively. The entire monograph is organized into twelve chapters. The author starts his introduction (chapter 1) with a general discussion of the integration of trade and the environment and then explains his approach, which is based on the idea diat die effective and adequate protection of the environment has become the shared responsibility of tile European Community and the member states. Ziegler maintains that the Community has established a "very comprehensive system for the balancing of ecological and trade interests" (p. 9).


The invention discloses a formulated feedstuff for Jinghai Yellow chicken layers. The feedstuff is characterized in that: the feedstuff comprises components of, by weight: 55 to 65% of yellow maize, 15 to 20% of soybean meal, 2 to 5% of corn gluten meal, 4 to 10% of wheat bran, 1 to 2% of soybean oil, 7.5 to 8.5% of stone powder, 1 to 1.5% of calcium monohydrogen phosphate, 0.25 to 0.35% of common salt, 0.1 to 0.2% of choline chloride, 0.1 to 0.2% of methionine, 0.05 to 0.08% of lysine, 1.5 to 2% of composite minerals, 0.05 to 0.08% of composite vitamins, 0.03 to 0.05% of an antioxidant, and 0.02 to 0.04% of a mildew inhibitor. The feedstuff provided by the invention is advantaged in that: all nutritional requirements of Jinghai Yellow chicken under an artificial breeding condition are satisfied. Jinghai Yellow chickens are slow in intake. With the feedstuff provided by the invention, nutrition of breeder hens is restricted, and the hens have low senses of hunger. With the feedstuff, breeder hens difficultly get fat and overweight, and good egg laying performances are maintained. The growth speed of Jinghai Yellow chickens is low, and conversion rate of feedstuffs is low. The raw materials used in the formulated feedstuff are easy to obtain, and the cost of the feedstuff is low.


ABSTRACT With our Clipped Wings is a performance that showcases the research findings of the doctoral research project "Understanding gay men's identities through narratives of their erotic and romantic relationships." The performance delivers compelling narratives through which participants in this research described in their own words what being gay means to them. It offers an intimate opportunity to observe the ways in which gay men have been trapped in oppressive social dynamics, environments, and discourses that have facilitated sexual encounters but have clipped their wings to love.


Current thinking in Second Language Acquisition suggests that 'Presentation, Practice, Production' (PPP) approach is totally unjustifiable as a means of teaching. However it not only persists but seems to flourish. It is a methodology about which passions run high with Michael Lewis (1996:9) writing 'the fact is that the PPP paradigm is, and always was, nonsense' and Long (1998:136) condemning deductive teaching as 'neanderthal teaching practices'. Despite academics being united on the fact that learning does not take place the way that the PPP methodology supposes (Willis1996), and despite Task Based Learning (TBL) seemingly ready to fill the void with a model consistent with SLA theory, PPP is not being abandoned as SLA researchers would wish.


The subcutaneous implantation of a cotton pellet in the rat evokes a short‐lasting phase of increased capillary permeability lasting some 20 min. after implantation followed by a more sustained phase which occurs after 2·5–3 hr. The early increase is antagonised by lysergic acid diethylamide, reserpine and 5‐HT. The peak granuloma weight is reached at 2 days, and then falls rapidly. Antagonism of oedema and granulation tissue by hydrocortisone and reserpine can be demonstrated at 2 days after implantation.


To study the effect on Anti-lipid peroxidation of water extracts from processed products of Chinese angelica,mouse liver homogenates spontaneous lipid peroxidation,erythrocytic membrane lipid peroxidation and erythrocyte hemolysis induced by H2O2 in vitro were used to assess their capacity of Anti-lipid peroxidation.The results showed that the rate of inhibition on mouse liver homogenates spontaneous lipid peroxidation was in sequence of carbonized Angelicawine-broiled angelicaraw Angelicaoil-broiled AngelicaFoci subsoil-broiled angelica;the rate of inhibition on erythrocytic membrane lipid peroxidation induced by H2O2 was in sequence of carbonized Angelica Foci subsoil-broiled angelicaraw Angelicawine-broiled angelicaoil-broiled Angelica;the rate of inhibition on erythrocyte hemolysis induced by H2O2 was in sequence of wine-broiled angelicacarbonized AngelicaFoci subsoil-broiled angelicaoil-broiled Angelicaraw Angelica.And inhibition effect showed a better dose-dependent relation.It was concluded that the water extracts from processed products of Chinese angelica showed certain inhibitory effect on anti-lipid peroxidation in vitro,and carbonized product had the best inhibition on liver homogenates spontaneous lipid peroxidation and erythrocytic membrane lipid peroxidation induced by H2O2,but wine-broiled angelica showed the best inhibitory effect on erythrocyte hemolysis induced by H2O2.


The "Eilenberg-Moore" type spectral sequences which connect K*(QX) and K*(X) have well-known bad properties, when, for example, X = K(Z/p, 2) . This paper shows that the result can be as bad when X is a finite complex. The "Eilenberg-Moore" type spectral sequences which connect K* (QX) and K* (X) have well-known bad properties, such as when X = K(ZL/p, 2) [4]. The purpose of this note is to show that the spectral sequence properties can be just as bad when X is a finite complex. Specifically, we prove Theorem 1. For any odd prime p, there is a simply connected finite complex X such that (i) K*(X;7z) = o (integral K-theory) (ii) K* (QX; z) contains a direct summand isomorphic to 1/p. It follows (informally) that there is no way of deducing K* (OX; Z) from the limit of the Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence with E2 = TorK* (X ;Z) (E,I ), even when X is finite. The example X is a very obvious one; the cofibre of the Adams map [1] in a suitable dimension. We describe this space X and prove that it has trivial K-theory in ? 1; in ?2 we show that its loopspace has nontrivial K-theory. 1. THE SPACE X Let p > 2 be a prime and let pn (p) denote the Moore space SnI U en . In [1] J. F. Adams described stable maps (1) A: pn+2p-2(p)_ pn(p) (n large) such that A* is an isomorphism in K-theory. We define X(n,p) to be the cofibre of A: (2) X(n,p) = Pn(p)UA C(Pn+2p-2(p)). Received by the editors August 25, 1988 and, in revised form, March 1, 1989. 1980 Mathematics Subject Classification (1985 Revision). Primary 55N15; Secondary 19L20.


From morphological and ontogenetic points of view, an attempt was made to investigate the complex organization of the nervous system in Cipangopalndina chinensls. Specimens of three developmental stages were selected for investigation: (1) 2-whorled larvae, (2) 3-4 whocled larvae, and (3) 6-7 whorled adults. They resemble one another structurally not only in typical gastropod nerve ring with its arising buccal loop but also in the chiastoneury with its forming visceral loop and in the podal ladder with its anastomosis. There are, however, differences noted in detailed features. In the 6-7 whorled adult, 15 peripheral nerves arise from the left and right abdomino-intestinal connectives respectively; they are better developed than in the younger ones, but the region in which the osphradial nerves distributed is more expansive in 2-whorled larva than in adult.The distributions of the principal nerves in the 6-7 whorled specimens have been traced in detail and following descriptions are new records for Cipangopaludina chinensis.A nerve cord runs across the ventro-lateral margin of the cerebro-pleural connective and the cerebral ganglion, and joins the left and right moities of the pleural ganglia at the mid-ventral portion. It is termed as "pleural commissure".Being situated at the anterior portion of either pleural ganglion, a rather short nerve trunk arising from the above mentioned "pleural commissure", passes forward to the post-lateral corner of the cerebral ganglion and connects with the cerebro-podal connective. Such a nerve trunk has not yet been described so far in gastropods. It is termed as "pleuro-cerebro-podal connective". From this connective four labial nerves originate and extend forward beyond the anterior apex of the cerebral ganglion. It is different from the former description that the cerebral ganglion gives rise to these four labial nerves.The structure of the labial commissure is degenerated as a soly simple nerve, passing across the internal wall of the labium and joining with left and right labial nerves; and of that dialyneury, existing on either side of the body, the pleural ganglion united to the opposite visceral nerve by anastomosis with the pallial nerve.The podal ladder consists of a pair of podal trunks with 6-7 commissures, different from that of Viviparus viviparus with only 3-4 (Simroth, 1881). The podal anastomosis similar in form to that of V. bengalemis (Annandale and Sewell, 1921), is formed by interior and exterior podal nerves ramifying over the anterior portion of the propodium.The nerve endings of the sensory, motor and sympathetic system which have not been heretofore described, are investigated, noted and shown is plates I-X, figures 1-11.Physiologically speaking, the sensory centre is mainly in the pharyngeal ring, the motor centre in the podal ganglia, while some sympathetic centres are diffused and located jn the supra-intestinal ganglion (for respiratory organs), in the left abdominal ganglion (for circulatory organs), in the right abdominal ganglion with its conjoining abdomino-intestinal connective (for digestive organs), and in the posterior half as long as the right abdomino-intestinal connective (for urogenital organs).In making comparisons with some species of the Order Archacogastropoda and Mesogastropoda, it has been found that the species C. chinensis still retains the podal ladder in a well-marked but rather generalized stage similar to that of Cydophorus ceylankus, Trochus sp. and Haliotis sp. (Butschli, 1887; Hanstrom, 1928; Morton, 1958), while both the pharyngeal ring and the dialyneury have developed to a rather advanced stage, similarly to that of Pomatias (=Cydostoma) elegans (Taylor, 1897).


This report summarizes the main outcomes of the proposed work presented to the 2018 IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship. The project demonstrates an additively manufactured (AM) 75-110 GHz (W-band) transceiver for broadband communications. Goals for the overall system include developing a quasi-planar, highly-integrated, compact communication system with the use of laser-enhanced direct-print additive manufacturing (LE-DPAM) that is feasible and inexpensive for high-volume production. LE-DPAM incorporates laser machining using a pico-second pulsed laser with a 355 nm wavelength along with fused deposition modelling and micro-dispensing in a single digital manufacturing platform. AM fabricated transmission lines, novel interconnects and packaging are demonstrated, the performance of which are either comparable or exceed that of conventional packaging.


Gold nanoparticles were prepared by sodium citrate reduction method,and the diameter was about 13 nm. In weakly acidic buffer medium,vitamin B1( VB1) interacted with gold nanoparticles to form a binding product,resulting in a red shift of UV-vis absorption spectra,so that the concentration of VB1 could be determined. The experimental parameters were optimized with regard to pH,incubation time and the concentration of the gold nanoparticles. Under optimal experimental conditions,the linear range of the colorimetric sensor for VB1 was 5 ~ 60 ng/mL,the corresponding limit of detection( 3σ) was 0. 74 ng/mL. The method was used for the determination of VB1 in tablet and injection,and the results were consistent with the method given in pharmacopoeia.


ABSTRACT This paper attempts to reassess the work of two contemporary writers in the 1930s: Gilberto Freyre in Brazil and E. du Perron in the Netherlands Indies (Indonesia). Their famous narratives (respectively, Casa-Grande e Senzala and Het Land van Herkomst) present a (post) colonial world where inequality, violence and racism are almost as conspicuous as mixing and contact across the colour lines. In fact, although one work is a sociological and historical interpretation of colonial and imperial Brazil and the other a literary reworking of personal reminiscences related to Indies society in the early twentieth century, both construct worlds that present several important similarities.


A simple extraction-spectrophotometric procedure for the determination of microamounts of indium is reported. Indium is quantitatively extracted from the aqueous phase at pH 5.0–5.5 into chloroform with N-p-chlorophenyl-2-furohydroxamic acid and determined spectrophotometrically using 4-(2-pyridylazo)resorcinol. The red mixed complex of indium absorbs at 520 nm with a molar absorptivity of 3.0 × 104 l mol–1 cm–1. The system obeys Beer's law from 0.18 to 3.70 p.p.m. of indium. The effects of pH, reagent and PAR concentrations, shaking time, diverse ions and the stoicheiometry are discussed. The results obtained using the proposed method are compared with those obtained by atomic absorption spectrometry, which may be applied to the extracted indium. The merits and demerits of several other spectrophotometric methods for indium are also discussed.


Random forests (Breiman, 2001, Machine Learning 45: 5–32) is a statistical- or machine-learning algorithm for prediction. In this article, we introduce a corresponding new command, rforest. We overview the random forest algorithm and illustrate its use with two examples: The first example is a classification problem that predicts whether a credit card holder will default on his or her debt. The second example is a regression problem that predicts the logscaled number of shares of online news articles. We conclude with a discussion that summarizes key points demonstrated in the examples.


"Up" and "down" hysteresis offsets were observed in polarization-graded ferroelectrics. The polarization gradients were achieved by imposing temperature gradients across a bulk ferroelectric material near its Curie temperature. In the absence of temperature gradients, no hysteresis offsets were observed, ruling out extraneous sources as the cause of the aberrant behavior, thereby establishing the origin of the offsets in the class of polarization-graded ferroelectric devices.


In today's society, social media have become an almost essential part of everyday life, particularly in the organisations where almost every employee and manager/leader use social media. Recently scholars have started to investigate leader's communication with their employees by using social media. However, leader's role in motivating their followers to use this innovation and increase performance is ignored by researchers. Using social capital theory as a base, the objectives of the present study are to examine the role of social media and affective organisational commitment between the relationship of transformational leadership (TFL) and employee's task performance (ETP). The proposed model was tested with the data collected from 254 employees from insurance companies situated in China. Model was tested by PLS-SEM with using SmartPLS 3. Findings of the study suggest that transformational leadership has a direct positive relationship with task performance and affective organisational commitment as well as indirect positive relationship via social media on task performance. This study contributes to the existing literature in the field of social media, leadership, commitment, and performance. Implications, limitations and future research are discussed.


This paper describes patterns of participation and attainment in A‐level physics, chemistry and biology from 1961 to 2009. The A level has long been seen as an important gateway qualification for higher level study, particularly in the sciences. This long‐term overview examines how recruitment to these three subjects has changed in the context of numerous policies and initiatives that seek to retain more young people in the sciences. The results show that recruitment to the pure sciences has stagnated, general trends have hardly varied and the track record of government policy in influencing change is not strong. There is no evidence for increasing achievement gaps between the sexes at A level and even national policy requiring that all young people study science up to the age of 16 appears to have had little impact on recruitment at this level.


The results of this study showed that the effects of body contact technique teaching were better than those of traditional teaching in the following aspects: mastering accurate basketball techniques; raising actual combat ability; strenthening the students'physical quality and so on.This teaching method possesses an actual feasibility.


Investigation of Factors Affecting the Prevalence of Selected Parasites and Bacterial Pathogens on Three Species of Freshwater Catfishes Exported from Trinidad


The biological effects of halogenated steroids in animals have been reviewed in this monograph by Doctor Fried and his collaborator^.^-^ The high degree of potency which these compounds demonstrated in the animal assays clearly indicated the desirability of a clinical evaluation of their biological activity in I t has been possible to test a number of these derivatives of hydrocortisone and to compare their metabolic effects with those of the nonfluorinated parent compounds. Among them, 9-alpha-fluorohydrocortisone appeared to be the most promising from a clinical point of view and was made available in amounts sufficient for adequate clinical testing. The results obtained with other derivatives are to be considered, at present, as preliminary. These studies have been carried out on the Metabolic Ward of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass. The high degree of activity of 9-alpha-fluorohydrocortisone acetate is illustrated in FIGURE 1. The effects of 100 mg. of hydrocortisone acetate and of 5 mg. of fluorohydrocortisone acetate on urinary electrolyte excretion were compared in an Addisonian patient maintained on a constant diet. The two compounds were administered as a single dose by mouth. I t is apparent that both sodium retention and potassium diuresis were considerably more marked with the fluorinated compound, indicating a t least a twentyfold increase in sodium-retaining activity. Furthermore, when the urinary sodium-to-potassium ratio was followed (FIGURE 2), it appeared that both hydrocortisone and fluorohydrocortisone produced a marked and rapid decrease in this ratio, but that the effects of 5 mg. of fluorohydrocortisone were considerably prolonged as compared to those of 100 mg. of hydrocortisone. The marked effects of 9-alpha-fluorohydrocortisone on organic metabolism are illustrated in FIGURE 3. A patient with Addison's disease maintained on a constant diet was given 25 mg. of the compound as an eight-hour intravenous infusion. The steroid was dissolved in 10 ml. of absolute ethanol and diluted in 500 ml. of saline containing 5 grams of albumin. The metabolic effects obtained were compared with those of a control infusion of saline with alcohol and albumin. A maximal and prolonged eosinopenia, a marked increase in urinary glucose excretion, and a definite rise in the urinary excretion of nitrogen, uric acid, and potassium were observed with fluorohydrocortisone. Urinary glucose was measured by a specific, enzymatic method based on the oxidation of glucose by glucose oxidase.6 Employing this method with a patient main-


The large scale structures observed in cosmic maps correspond to super-horizon (causally discon-nected) perturbations in the early Universe that are usually attributed to scale invariant adiabatic modes from cosmic Inflation. Here, we interpret discrepant measurements of the expansion rate H 0 (the so called Hubble tension) as super-horizon perturbations and show that they are neither adiabatic nor scale invariant. We argue that these measurements indicate that cosmic expansion originates from gravitational collapse and bounce, rather than from a singular Big Bang. This explains the observed cosmic acceleration and large scale structure without the need of Dark Energy or Inflation.


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To explore the differences and characteristics of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) among children and adolescents in regions with different latitudes in China.


Background: Paraplegia and peripheral nerve injuries may arise after general anaesthesia from many causes but are easily ascribed to central block if the latter has been used.


Exchange interaction plays an important role on magnetic properties of nanocomposite magnets consisting of hard- and soft-magnetic phases. Here the exchange interaction in the Sm-Co/Co (and Fe65Co35) magnetic films was characterized by measuring static (m(r)(H)) and demagnetized (m(d)(H)) remanence curves. According to conventional method: delta m(H)=m(d)(H) - [1 - 2m(r)(H)], the exchange interaction was evaluated. The switching fields H-p(1) and H-p, at which static (m(r)(H)) and demagnetized (m(d)(H)) remanence show the fastest change, were identified. The relative ratio eta=H-p-H-p(1)/H-p of switching fields Hp' and Hp has a linear relationship with the maximum value of delta m(H) curves, proposing an alternative way to characterize the exchange interaction.


chapter considers the response of humanity to the divine revelation under the title 'Faith, Hope and Love". Harrison has covered the literature well, and has obviously been through a great deal of Augustine's corpus. However, I do have one or two problems with the book, some matters of presentation, others matters of substantive discussion. First, presentation: in the fourth chapter various metaphors that Augustine uses to describe Christian existence in this world are discussed. Her section on 'Death' (pp. 182-4) contains 36 footnotes— 'Hunger and Thirst' (p. 182),'Blindness' (p. 181), none. Either something is worth proving with a text or it is not, and in this regard the book is at its best extremely helpful, and at worst, puzzling. Second, substance: Harrison presents well the discussion of language as model, but often rhetoric seems to be viewed through the modern concern with understanding as 'decoding'. Harrison has begun an important discussion, but there is much more to be done; for Augustine, rhetoric is a matter of listening and interpretation, and hence there is much more to be made of Augustine's development of the Christian rhetor as one who intuitively follows the canons of Christian eloquence, a theme touched on (p. 75ff.) but not fully played out here. Augustine's theological understanding of inwardness and his portrayal of the persuasive and educative power of true doctrine are themes that also have considerable aesthetic content. Following this important treatment it should no longer be possible to simply reiterate the established presentation of Augustinian aesthetics. However, this book should be viewed as only the start of that process. There remains much to be done, and it will be interesting to see if this author will undertake the task.


Objective To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of chemotherapy regimens represented by pirarubicin(THP) vs.adriamycin hydrochloride(ADM) for non-Hodgkin lymphoma(NHL) in mainland China.Methods e randomized controlled trials(RCTs) about THP vs.ADM for treating NHL were collected in the databases such as CNKI,CBM,VIP and WanFang Data,and the references of the included studies were also retrieved manually,with the retrieval time from January 1989 to September 2012.According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria,two reviewers independently screened articles,extracted data,and assessed the methodological quality of the included studies.en metaanalysis was performed using RevMan 5.0 so ware.Results A total of 15 RCTs involving 1 659 patients were included.e results of meta-analysis showed that: a) As for the total e ective rate,the CTOP(C: cyclophosphamide,T: pirarubicin,O: vincristine,P: prednison) regimen was superior to the CHOP(C: cyclophosphamide H: adriamycin hydrochloride,O: vincristine,P: prednison) regimen with a signi cant di erence(OR=1.07,95%CI 1.02 to 1.12,P=0.006);and b) As for the safety,there were signi cant di erences between the two groups in the incidence of cardiac toxicity(OR=0.42,95%CI 0.30 to 0.57,P0.000 01),gastrointestinal tract response(OR=0.69,95%CI 0.56 to 0.85,P=0.000 5) and liver damage(OR=0.69,95%CI 0.48 to 1.00,P=0.05).But no signi cant di erences were found between the two groups in the incidence of mye1osuppression: the decreased hemoglobin(OR=0.83,95%CI 0.61 to 1.14,P=0.25),leucopenia(OR=0.85,95%CI 0.68 to 1.07,P=0.17),and thrombocytopenia(OR=0.99,95%CI 0.70 to 1.39,P=0.95).Conclusion Based on the domestic evidences at current and compared with CHOP regimen represented by ADM,CTOP regimen represented by THP for treating NHL shows a higher total e ective rate and less side e ects.However,more high quality,large sample and double blind RCTs are required to prove this conclusion for the quality and quantity limitation of the included studies.


Breeding experiments in which selection was exercised against the lethal action of and the production of beak defects by the "short upper beak" mutation of fowl yielded the following results. The percentage of hatched chicks became nearly normal. In the final progeny the great majority of chicks had a normal beak at hatching time, and most of those chicks which at first had a slight shortening of the upper beak became normal during growth. In some instances the upper beak at maturity was longer than normal. The effect of the "short upper beak" mutation on long bone length became lessened under the influence of selection against lethal action and beak deformity. The "short upper beak" mutation was found in Houdan stock. The modifiers of this mutation were picked up after outcrosses to White Leghorn fowl. It is concluded that the "modifiers" are part of the normal genic make-up of beak development in the White Leghorn breed.


The paper entitled Effect of ephemeral snow cover on the active layer thermal regime and thickness on CALM-S JGM site, James Ross Island, eastern Antarctic Peninsula presents and discusses ground temperature and weather records (snow depth only available for 1 year) over the summers 2016-2017 and 2017-2018, together with GPR measurements, mechanical probing and UAV survey on a permafrost monitoring site in the Antarctic Peninsula to infer summer snowfall effects for one of these two summers


The purpose of this research was to advance the understanding of the behavior of small groups in online chat rooms. The research was conducted using Internet chat data collected through planned exercises with recruited participants. Analysis of the collected data led to construction of preliminary models of social behavior in online discourse. Some of these models, e.g., how to effectively change the topic of conversation, were subsequently implemented into an automated Virtual Chat Agent (VCA) prototype. VCA has been demonstrated to perform effectively and convincingly in Internet conversation in multiparty chat environments.


OBJECTIVES
With elimination of the financial burden of dental services, one can expect an increase in utilization of dental services. This study aimed to investigate the effective mechanisms of financial barriers to the utilization of dental services in an Australian adult population.

METHODS
South Australian survey data from the Dental Care and Oral Health Study (2015) were analysed. Following the flexible mediation approach, the direct effect of income and indirect effect of income through mediators (insurance, concession card and service sector) on the outcomes (visit avoidance and treatment prevention due to the cost) were calculated.

RESULTS
Findings showed that around half of the low-income people and one-third of the high-income South Australians experienced a financial burden on receiving a dental visit or service. The indirect effect of income on both outcomes of financial burden was negligible, while the direct effect was significant. By changing the potential outcome distribution to their counterfactual exposure distribution and if the mediators are drawn from their counterfactual exposure (lower/higher income) distribution, the odds of visit avoidance and treatment prevention due to the cost were almost twice (Odds Ratio: 2.13, 95% CI 1.72-2.60) and 98% (Odds Ratio: 1.98, 95% CI 1.67-2.35) than in the lower-income individuals, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS
It can be concluded that the level of household income, directly and regardless of insurance status, concession card ownership and whether the service sector was public or private, affected the financial burden on utilization of dental services.


Location desicion is an important strategy for many firm because it is difficult
and expensive activity. Location desicion requires many factor which need qualitative
and quantitative consideration.
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a method of decision-making that the
main tool is the hierarchy. With a hierarchy, a complex and unstructured problem will
be divided, grouped and arranged into a form of hierarchy. The main data of AHP
model is human perception that considered an expert.
With the AHP model, this thesis is to answer what criteria are used by the
developer in choosing the location of housing in the region of Malang. There are four
criteria, with respective are identified, these are: (1) Economic Criteria, the following
sub criteria are (a) land prices, (b) development cost, (c) proximity to sources of labour,
(d) availability/affordability of water sources, and (e ) availability/affordability of
electrical fasilities


The Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas (1) has been touted in many circles as a significant gay rights opinion, (2) but it is much more than that. While it is certainly the first decision of the Court to recognize a constitutionally protected interest in same-sex intimacy, (3) it is even more significant as the first opinion from the Court to speak positively about sex without reference to procreation, (4) recognizing that sex can be a valuable form of "expression" that "can be but one element in a personal bond that is more enduring." (5) The reference is brief and unexplained, but has greater constitutional resonance when compared to the Court's prior relegation of sex to "myster[y]" and a "sensitive, key relation to human existence." (6) The Court's willingness to characterize sex as a possible form of expression is particularly remarkable, considering how little judicial and scholarly support the argument has found. (7) For some, it may be difficult to accept that sex could be communicative without a public audience, (8) even though the Court has held that private communication, such as a conversation, is protected by the First Amendment. (9) For others, only traditional coital sex expresses appropriate values, (10) even though it is precisely this attempt to monopolize conduct for a particular point of view that triggers strict scrutiny of conduct alleged to express ideas. (11) Or perhaps it is all that sex entails--the physical exertion, the concentration on technique, the sweat, the noises and curious silences, the pursuit of orgasm, the hope or fear of procreation, and frankly sometimes simply too much or too little going on wherever it all takes place--that just seems so unusual for "speech," making a mess of the idea of expression in the midst of sex, or at least sex as some know it. But the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear--twice now in the context of conduct used to express a sexual point of view (12)--that "a narrow, succinctly articulable message is not a condition of constitutional protection," and that a message may be protected even if it as abstract or perplexing as the "painting of Jackson Pollock, music of Arnold Schoenberg, or Jabberwocky verse of Lewis Carroll." (13) And Lawrence's brief but carefully qualified statement about the expressiveness of sex is entirely consistent with its expressive conduct doctrine, open to the idea that the parties might engage in sex to express a feeling or idea. (14) The absence of such arguments may be precisely what has made it easy for courts to choke feelings and ideas from their portrayals of sex as mere conduct, striking at sexual nonconformists, often at the most vulnerable and intimate moments in our lives. In the days of Bowers v. Hardwick, (15) the Court had evidence before it that, for gays and lesbians, as for all people, sex can be an important means to express love and intimacy. (16) But, without the doctrinal development of First Amendment claims for sex, the Court demeaned sex as mere conduct. (17) Given that, the Lawrence majority's recognition of the thoughts and feelings injured by laws policing sex is not only a potential doctrinal watershed, it is utterly touching. This Article elaborates on the theory of sexual expression floated in Lawrence in two ways. Part I summarizes generally why the Court's expressive conduct doctrine, aided by Lawrence, should permit future litigants to make expressive conduct and association claims for sex. But while Lawrence may effectively protect all private, noncommercial, consensual, adult sex between two adults from criminal prosecution, it leaves a great deal of sex, as well as a great deal of expression, unprotected from injury by government forces, as Part II of this Article details. (18) Of particular note, Lawrence's silence on the array of gender expression lost to the punishment of noncoital sex would be deafening but for the Court's brief suggestion that a liberty interest in sex should not depend on the gender of the parties involved. …


Graphene, one of the viable candidates to replace Silicon in the next generation electronic devices, is pushing the research community to find new technological solutions that can exploit its special characteristics. Among the proposed approaches, the electrostatic doping represents a key option. It allows the implementation of equivalent pn-junctions through which is possible to build a new class of reconfigurable logic gates, the devices analyzed in this work. Recent works presented a quantitative analysis of such gates in terms of area, delay and power consumptions, confirming their superiority w.r.t. CMOS technologies below the 22nm. This work explores another dimension, that is testability, and proposes a study of possible physical defects that might alter the functionality of the graphene logic gates. The electrical behavior of faulty devices, obtained through the emulation of physical failures at the SPICE-level, has been analyzed and mapped at a higher level of abstraction using proper fault models. Most of such models belong to the CMOS domain, but for some specific class of defects, new fault definitions are needed.


Sulphate-rich wastewater is an increasing concern for industries as LKAB. The water chemistry of the LKAB Kiruna water system is characterized by high alkalinity, high pH (pH 7.5-9.0) and high conc ...


The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) was the administering agency for the Texas Traffic Light Synchronization (TLS) Grant Program III which was funded with Oil Overcharge funds made available by the Governor's Energy Office. TLS III resulted in a total expenditure of $1.7 million in program funds and local matches for the optimization of traffic signal timing plans and the replacement of outdated signal controller equipment across the state. As stated previously, the program's objective was to reduce traffic congestion and facilitate the flow of traffic, with the goal of achieving more efficient use of energy resources. With 26 completed projects, the TLS III Program has resulted in benefits that will pay for the cost of the program many times over. These benefits were estimated from the required before and after studies that were submitted by the cities. These studies document the major goals of the TLS III Program - reductions in fuel consumption and unnecessary delay and stops. All projects were evaluated using the same unit costs.


The environmental impact of products has been increasingly discussed in recent years. In response to questions of the environmental appropriateness of, for example, technologies used to attain a high level of fire safety, a model has been developed to quantify the emissions from fires and include this into a holistic treatment of the environmental impact of a product from the cradle to the grave. This model is based on Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology but represents a significant improvement over traditional LCA models that cannot include accidents such as fires. The Fire-LCA model has been tested in three case studies: TV, cables, and furniture. This article presents the model in detail, in particular focusing on the difference between the Fire-LCA model and traditional LCA models, using examples from the case studies.


In COPD patients oxidative stress (OS) is a limiting factor of exercise training effects on muscle impairment during pulmonary rehabilitation (PR). Antioxidant supplementation used during PR appeared inappropriate to cope with COPD-related antioxidant deficits. We therefore investigated whether exercise training PR, combined with non-pharmacological antioxidant supplementation (vitamins C and E, zinc, selenium), would have beneficial effects on muscle impairment and exercise capacity. 58 stable COPD patients (61 years; FEV1: 59%predicted) referred for a 4-week PR program, were recruited in a double-blind randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Primary outcome was change in quadriceps endurance (Qend). Secondary outcomes were: quadriceps maximal voluntary contraction (QMVC), exercise capacity (maximal oxygen uptake (Vo 2sl ), systemic OS markers and muscle fiber cross sectional area (CSA). Qend was significantly increased in both COPD patient groups. QMVC and VO 2sl were improved (+9 and +16%, respectively) exclusively in "PR+antioxidant" group (p=0.01 and p In conclusion, this study showed that antioxidant supplementation combining vitamin C, E, zinc and selenium, improves the PR effects on QMVC, Vo 2sl and muscle fiber CSA by enhancing antioxidant capacity of COPD patients.


Quantum Darwinism describes objectivity of quantum systems via their correlations with their environment--information that hypothetical observers can recover by measuring the environments. However, observations are done with respect to a frame of reference. Here, we take the formalism of [Giacomini, Castro-Ruiz, & Brukner. Nat Commun 10, 494 (2019)], and consider the repercussions on objectivity when changing quantum reference frames. We find that objectivity depends on non-degenerative relative separations, conditional state localisation, and environment macro-fractions. There is different objective information in different reference frames due to the interchangeability of entanglement and coherence, and of statistical mixing and classical correlations. As such, objectivity is subjective across quantum reference frames.


The elementary features of light-scattering by small particles are described and illustrated by examples relevant to bacteriological practice. A number of specialised applications are reviewed.


Work performed under United States - German High Temperature Reactor Reactor Research Exchange Program. A method was developed for determining U traces in pyrocarbon layers in the range 10/sup -6/ to 10/sup -9/. First, the layers are mechanically removed stepwise in special glass containers (step width 5 to 15 mu m) in which the chemical dissolution of the abraded PyC is carried out. The U is then determined by a fluorimetric method, with a relative standard deviation of 34% for 10/sup -9/ g 6% for 10/sup -7/ g and 9% for 10/sup -6/ g of uranium. The limit of detection is 10/sup -9/ g U. Impurities such as thorium, silicic acid, H/sub 2/SO/sub 4/ coming from the particles or the preparation of the solution do not disturb the uranium determination. For all particles investigated, a more or less distinct tub-shaped profile was observed with a maximum near the surface of the outer layers. The concentration level within the coating depends on the coating temperature. The contamination is about one order of magnitude higher for particles whose outer layer was deposited at 2000 deg C than for those coated below 1600 deg C. (17 figures, 36 references, 6 tables) (DLC)


Follow the progress of a mind that never ceased exploring. These volumes provide a fully scrutinized text of Eliot's Collected Poems 1909 –1962, present many poems from his youth which were published only decades later, and collect here — many for the first time — other works that saw only private circulation in Eliot's lifetime.


The article focuses on strengthening of food security through sustainable development of agriculture in Uzbekistan. In particular, aspects for assessing food security, the factors influencing the food security and sustainable agricultural development in the country were assessed. Attention is also paid to attracting investments in the agricultural sector, increasing the efficiency of land and water resources use through the introduction of modern technologies.


In this paper,(R,R)-N,N'-bis(3,5-di-tert-butyl salicylaldehyde)-1,2-diaminocyclohexane cobalt complex [Salen-Co(II)] as a chemical modifier was synthesized with 3,5-di-tert-butyl salicylaldehyde and(1R,2R)-diaminocyclohexane as the raw materials,and Schiff base cobalt complex-modified carbon paste electrode(Salen-Co/CPE) was prepared by direct mixing of chemical modifiers,adhesives and graphite powder in proportion.Experiments showed that the Schiff base cobalt complex-modified carbon paste electrode had a good electrocatalytic activity for the formaldehyde.Measured with the chronoamperometry method,the oxidation peak current and the concentration of formaldehyde in the range of 3.0×10-2~1.2×10-1 mol/L showed a good linear relationship under the optimum conditions and the detection limit was 3.33×10-3 mol/L.


The response of two pineal enzymes, serotonin N-acetyltransferase (SNAT; E.C.2,3.1.5) and hydroxyindole-0-methyltransferase (HIOMT; E.C.2.1 .1.4) to the reduction of pineal norepineph- rine (NE) content produced by systemic injections of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) was exam- ined in the present study twice daily, at 1200 and 2400 h, in the cyclic female rat. In rats sacrificed 3 days postinjection during the dark period (2400 h), injections of 6-OHDA that produced maximal inhibition of SNAT activity (58% of control values) also caused significant decreases in NE content in pineal, hypothalamic and cardiac tissues (48, 75 and 12% of control values, respectively). In rats sacrificed 17 days postinjection at 2400 h, SNAT activity and pineal NE content had returned to control levels, while hypothalamic and cardiac NE content remained significantly depressed (70 and 22% of control levels, respectively). These results confirm the role of NE in the induction of SNAT activity and reveal that 6-OHDA is more effective in decreasing cardiac than pineal NE content. In a second experiment, HIOMT activity was measured throughout the estrous cycle in both treated and control Reduction of hypothalamic NE content by 6-Ol-IDA did not block ovulation or disrupt the estrous cycle, although the initial cycle was prolonged by 1 day in some animals. Although average l-IIOMT activity during the estrous cycle in 6-OHDA treated animals did not differ from control levels, the amplitude of the circadian alteration in HIOMT activity as well as the relationship of this pineal enzyme to the estrous cycle was altered in animals receiving the drug. These findings suggest that the nocturnal rise in l-IIOMT activity and the relationship of this pineal enzyme to the estrous cycle are regulated, in part, by a NE sensitive component in either the pineal gland, hypothalamus or both.


P-type Ti/Al-based contact vias of different sizes but identical processing were electrically characterized using linear transfer length method (TLM) patterns and metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors. While the TLM patterns and MOS transistors with large vias follow ohmic contact behavior, Schottky contact properties were observed for smaller contact via dimensions. Focused ion beam (FIB) analysis of the contact vias verified the presence of Ti3SiC2 on large 66 μm x 25 μm contact vias and its absence on smaller 16 μm x 3 μm ones, correlating its absence with the electrical Schottky properties.


The aim of this study was to evaluate the extender composition, presence or absence of seminal plasma and dilution rate of spermatozoa for the preservation of fresh semen during three days before artificial insemination (AI). The percentage of kidding was influenced by the duration of storage: 4 h = 71%; 28 h = 61%; 52 h = 39%; 76 h = 28%. The fertility rate decreased in both extenders tested (milk or NPPC) when the storage duration increased. Evidence was given that the removal of seminal plasma by centrifugation at collection does not improve the fertility rate. Using the same number of total spermatozoa per straw (100 x 10 6 ), but with a variable inseminated volume of 0.20 mL or 0.40 mL per straw, AI results showed that the reduction of the concentration of spermatozoa in the AI dose did not improve the fertility rate after AI, whatever the storage duration.


Computing brought new possibilities to define, storage, retrieve and communicate knowledge in computer system based teaching from simple personal application of computers to teaching organizations in computer networks. Internet and modeling techniques from the advanced information technology offer high amount of methodological elements well appropriate for distance learning in an integrated virtual and Internet environment. One of the latest advancements in this area is published in [1] and [2]. Considering some basic concepts and methods from the proposals of the authors of these papers, this paper gives some methodological elements and details necessary for the implementation of the proposed method in the higher education practice. Paper starts with an explanation for managed functionality of a virtual classroom. Following this, configuring and constraining classroom models are discussed. Finally, entities for course model and procedures for operating a classroom are detailed.


Abstract Many principles characterize educational justice in terms of the relationship between educational inputs, outputs and distributive standards. Such principles depend upon the causal pathway view of education. It is implicit in this view that the causally effective aspects of education can be understood as separate from the normative aspects of education. Yet this view relies on an impossible division of labor between empirical and normative work in educational research: it treats the causal roles that are understood and explained objectively through empirical research as separate from the normative theorizing that informs the assessment of particular policies and practices. Such principles therefore rely on unreliable causal claims and are unable to make prescriptions about practices even according to their own conceptions of justice. Furthermore, such principles obscure other relevant considerations of justice that pertain to the internal processes of education and the structural relation of education to external social conditions.


Women's poverty issues become increasingly complex because it turns out women's poverty is not only caused by the limitation of access to economic resources. There are structural problems with the cause factor and not a single constraint, tend to vary according to the conditions of political, economic and social in their neighborhood. The existence of gender inequality in various aspects of life also worsening conditions of poverty on women.This is because the dual role that they have to run, on the one hand as a housekeeper and the other side as the breadwinner of the family. This research is quantitative descriptive. The results showed a young woman from RTM have education good enough, where the majority of the already educated junior high scholl and senior high school, although there is still educated to elementary school or never attended school because of limited funds bench, have low skills because of the presence of the non formal education yet or training undertaken, have a desire to seek self help especially in the field of trade and agriculture, has limited capital to be able to start a business for that initial funds needed to encourage them to start trying, have the potential to alleviate themselves from poverty if given help to seek.


Many investors purchase stock but are reluctant or unable to sell short. Combining this arbitrage asymmetry with the arbitrage risk represented by idiosyncratic volatility (IVOL) explains the negative relation between IVOL and average return. The IVOL-return relation is negative among overpriced stocks but positive among underpriced stocks, with mispricing determined by combining 11 return anomalies. Consistent with arbitrage asymmetry, the negative relation among overpriced stocks is stronger, especially for stocks less easily shorted, so the overall IVOL-return relation is negative. Further supporting our explanation, high investor sentiment weakens the positive relation among underpriced stocks and, especially, strengthens the negative relation among overpriced stocks.


Abstract As a major swine-producing state, North Carolina (United States) has adopted incentives for energy recovery from swine waste and environmental performance standards for new swine facilities. However, there are no treatment performance requirements for existing farms; therefore, management of swine waste in open lagoons with spray irrigation for disposal is nearly universal in North Carolina. Emissions of nitrogen to the atmosphere and the landscape from large industrial swine farms have led to concerns over the impact on environmental quality and human health. Accordingly, there has been increasing interest in developing alternate treatment methods for swine waste, including methods that allow for energy recovery. To evaluate the technical feasibility and limitations of coupling biological nitrogen removal with anaerobic digestion of swine waste for energy recovery, we operated a pilot nitrification/denitrification system at an 8,000-head finishing farm already practicing full-scale anaerobic dig...


Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder find robots easier to communicate with than humans. Thus, robots have been introduced in autism therapies. However, due to the environmental complexity, the used robots often have to be controlled manually. This is a significant drawback of such systems and it is required to make them more autonomous. In particular, the robot should interpret the child's state and continuously adapt its actions according to the behaviour of the child under therapy. This survey elaborates on different forms of personalized robot behaviour models. Various approaches from the field of Human-Robot Interaction, as well as Child-Robot Interaction, are discussed. The aim is to compare them in terms of their deficits, feasibility in real scenarios, and potential usability for autism-specific Robot-Assisted Therapy. The general challenge for algorithms based on which the robot learns proper interaction strategies during therapeutic games is to increase the robot's autonomy, thereby providing a basis for a robot's decision-making.


The paper explores and explains the diffence in retrieval patterns using controlled vocabulary of terms in the two versions of database. The study compares the DIALOG'S PsycINFO and Silverplatter's PsycLIT. The review of literature indicated that there is little research that directly compares across forms of databases. The topics were randomly selecled from Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. The topics were first searched in the PsycLIT disc-2 and later searched in the PsycINFO. The searches were made in the descriptor field and sets were limited to the English language. The free text searching was also done to how retrieval patterns. The various tables displayed the results. The range of the variance is noted from -20 to -1. The study revealed that systems differ in unexpected ways. The online always retrieved more citations than the equivalent CD-ROM. There is difference in search engines, file structure, updates, and document types in the two versions. Each medium has stength and weakness and the...


We investigate the effects of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) and LiF interfacial layers on the efficiency of organic bulk heterojunction photodetectors fabricated with blends of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) as electron donor and {6}-1-[3-(methoxycarbonyl)propyl]-{5}-1-phenyl-[5,6]-C61 as electron acceptor. At high reverse bias voltage, we find that the efficiency of these devices is limited only by the rate of creating excitons in the organic layer. Upon correction for the optical loss at the interfacial layers, the internal quantum efficiency can approach 100% in this highly disordered network of donor-acceptor molecular heterojunctions.


The present invention generally provides gypsum-containing slurry and the slurry is prepared using gypsum-containing products, in particular, the present invention provides a high starch lightweight gypsum wallboard, and a method of manufacturing the gypsum wallboard. The slurry includes stucco, naphthalenesulfonate dispersant, and pregelatinized starch. Weight of dry stucco, a naphthalenesulfonate dispersant in an amount of from about 0.1 wt% -3.0 wt% is present. In the formulation of dry stucco weight, the pregelatinized starch is at least about 0.5 wt% up to about 10% by weight of the amount of pregelatinized starch present. Other slurry additives can include trimetaphosphate salts, accelerators, binders, paper fiber, glass fiber, and other known ingredients.


To investigate the impact of diabetic macroangiopathy on correlation between high sensitivity C-reactive protein(hs-CRP) and low density lipoprotein cholesterol(LDL-C) in urban fringe zone in Chengdu. Levels of hs-CRP,total cholesterol(TC),triglyceride(TG),high density lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL-C) and LDL-C were detected in 40 type 2 diabetes patients with macroangiopathy,another 40 without macroangiopathy and 30 healthy controls. Levels of hs-CRP,TC,TG and LDL-C in controls were significantly higher those in patients with type 2 diabetes(P 0.05),and those in patients with macroangiopathy were significantly higher than those in patients without macroangiopathy(P 0.05).The hs-CRP level was positively correlated to the LDL-C level(r=0.53,P 0.05) in patients with macroangiopathy.The HDL-c level in patients with macroangiopathy was significantly lower than that in patients without macroangiopathy and the controls(P 0.05). Hs-CRP and LDL-C can be used as the indicators for predicting the risk of macroangiopathy complicated by type 2 diabetes.The detection of them is benefit to the prediction and early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes with macroangiopathy.


Hybrid vehicle is energy-saving and environment-friendly.Technique and economy analysis of hybrid vehicle industry development in China was made from technical aim,key technique,economical evaluation,and social benefit.Economical evaluation consists of the current situation of the manufacture,sale,and prospect of the hybrid vehicle industry in China,as well as economical analysis and gain and loss analysis of hybrid vehicle in China.It is concluded that the hybrid vehicle industry should be promoted greatly in China.


Photochemical reductions of imidazole-conjugated quinones in acetonitrile solutions containing [Ru(bpy)3]2+ (bpy: 2.2′-bipyridine) as a photosensitizer and triethanolamine as an electron donor sele...


Ionogel-based chemoresistive humidity sensors have been successfully fabricated through ionothermal assembly of ionic liquids into a silica network, which exhibited superior humidity performances. Fast substantial impedance changes were observed with changing humidity for real-time monitoring of human breath.


Propropylene was reinforced with various concentrations of glass fiber (0, 10, 20, 28, and 35 percent by weight) and standard test samples were prepared by injection molding under identical conditions. The influence of fiber concentration on the morphology and mechanical properties was investigated using polarizing microscope, scanning electron microscope, Instron universal testing machine, etc. Tensile strength, tensile modulus, and flexural strength were found to increase with glass fiber content, while impact strength was reduced. These observed changes in mechanical properties were explained in terms of alterations in skin-core morphology, spherulite size, transcrystallinity, etc. The efficiency of reinforcement factor (K) was calculated for all the composites. It was found that K decreases with the increase of fiber concentration. This study attempts to correlate fiber concentration and polymer morphology with mechanical properties and the overall efficiency of reinforcement. This would help in optimizing the fiber content to prepare molded composites with desired mechanical properties.


The US and the UK are currently reforming welfare policy to emphasise work. It is in this context that UK policy makers have increasingly seen 'demand-led' programmes as a key component of welfare-to-work policies. This article draws upon the findings of research conducted for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which examined how employers respond to job applications from offenders, to discuss the challenges faced by policy makers engaged in welfare reform. A key finding is that the demand-led approach has inherent weaknesses which limit its ability to help offenders into work.


As an important stage of feudal society,Ming Dynasty claimed the severer punishments on the officials at the very beginning. Concrete and perfect legal provisions were made for the official's crimes of corruption, mdpractice, etc. And the legal system of the official's duty crime in the Ming Dynasty was more perfect than that of the past. All these provisions had been well executed in the initial stage so that the officials were kept pure in the earlier periods. However, because of the reasons of the society, the law, and the politics, the official's duty crime was extended. Till the later periods, the corrupted situation became unmanageable finally.


The disruption of erythrocytes in hematoma after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) releases a great deal of hemoglobin, which degrades into heme and globin, the former will finally degrade into iron, bilirubin and CO. These degradation products have neurotoxicity and play an important role in the edema formation.

Key words:
hemoglobin;  brain edema;  intracerebral hemorrhage


FIELD: medicine.SUBSTANCE: group of inventions refers to medicine and concerns the treatment of pruritus in a patient who needs such treatment. This treatment comprises the step of administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of 3-[(3aR,4R,5S,7aS)-5-[(1R)-1-[3,5-bis (trifluoromethyl)phenyl]ethoxy]-4-(4-fluorophenyl)-1,3,3a,4,5,6,7,7a-octahydroisoindol-2-yl]cyclopent-2-en-1-one (serlopitant) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or polymorph thereof. Method for administering a serlopitant to a patient is also provided.EFFECT: group of the invention provides treatment of pruritus of different genesis in a patient, while the developed scheme of administration of the drug provides a prolonged antipruritic effect.34 cl, 4 dwg, 7 tbl, 6 ex


Objective To explore the clinical and pathological characteristics of ductal carcinoma in situ(DCIS) with tumor size examination. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 78 DCIS cases in Affiliated Hospital of Hebei University from Feb. 2011 to Sep. 2013. A comparative analysis was conducted with the cut-off points of 1.0cm and 3.0cm tumor size. Results When tumor size≤1.0cm and tumor size between 1.0-3.0cm, the clinical characteristics had no significant difference, when tumor size3.0cm, the characteristics were significantly different from the above two(P0.05) shown as micro infiltration, high multifocal proportion, and high sentinel lymph node positive rate. The variance analysis of pathological indicators of DCIS and IDC showed that the positive expression of ER, PR, Ki67 was relatively low, while the positive expression of HER-2 was relatively high(P0.05), this difference was significant. When tumor size 3cm, all the indicators had no significant difference. Conclusion When tumor size3.0 cm, the DCIS is more aggressive and its biology characteristics are similarly to IDC. The IDC treatment is recommended.


The phase structures of Ca (Al1-xNix)2 (x=0,0.1,0.2,0.3 and 0.4) alloys were studied.It was found that the phase components of the alloys changed remarkably with the increase of Ni content. When x=0,only C15- type Laves phase CaAl2 existed in the alloy. When x=0.1, 0.2 and 0.3, the alloys consisted of CaAl2, NiAl and Ca13Al14. The amount of CaAl2 phase decreased gradually and the amount of NiAl increased with the increase of x. Increasing x to 0.4, the CaAl2 phase disappeared completely; and the alloy consisted of NiAl, Ca8Al3and Ca.


The concept of invariance in hypothesis testing is discussed for purposes of target detection. Invariant tests are proposed and analysed in two contexts. The first involves the use of cyclic permutation invariance as a solution to detecting targets with unknown location in noise. An invariance condition is used to eliminate the target location parameter, and a uniformly most powerful test developed for the reduced data. The test is compared with conventional solutions, and shown to be more powerfuL The difference however is slight, justifying the simpler formulations. This conclusion continues to hold even when additional unknown noise parameters are introduced. The second form of invariance involves invariance to data contained in linear subspaces of the observation space. Such invariance is proposed as a generic method of reducing mismatch resulting from overly-simple models, which cannot capture the full complexity of the data. The formulation involves a data-reducing projection, where components of the data which are difficult to model are discarded. The notion has relevance to both low-rank subspace interference and low-rank subspace mismatch. Methods are presented for making estimates of invariance subspaces and covariance matrices for use in this invariant detection formulation. Using two different interpretations, necessary conditions on the subspace estimates are derived. These conditions can sometimes be solved exactly, but approximate methods are provided for the general case. It is shown that for use in invariant detectors, covariance matrix estimates have to be independent of data components contained in the invariance subspace. The EM algorithm can be appropriate for this estimation. Maximum likelihood methods for obtaining the estimates are presented under Toeplitz, circulant, doubly block Toeplitz, and ARMA constraints. Using actual samples of x -ray data, results are presented which demonstrate that subspace invariant tests can be substantially more predictable than noninvariant tests. This is true in particular when models are highly constrained, as is commonly necessary in adaptive detection. The improved predictability usually comes at the cost of a decrease in performance, although this is not always so. The invariant detectors also avoid the need to preprocess data to better fit the assumptions. Un ive rsi ty of Ca pe To wn


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Rate constants and branching fractions have been measured for the reactions of H3O+ and H3O+(H2O) with toluene (C7H8), ethylbenzene (C8H10), and n-propylbenzene (C9H12) as a function of temperature using a variable temperature-selected ion flow tube (VT-SIFT) and a high-temperature flowing afterglow (HTFA). The reactions have been studied up to 1200, 1000, and 900 K for toluene, ethylbenzene, and n-propylbenzene, respectively. The measurements are the first for H3O+(H2O) with these reactants. The H3O+ + alkylbenzene reaction rate constants are equal to the collision rate constants given by the Su−Chesnavich equation at all temperatures. Both nondissociative and dissociative proton-transfer products are observed. H3O+ reacts with toluene above 900 K to produce C7H9+, C7H7+, and C6H5+ predominately, whereas only C7H9+ is observed at lower temperatures. Proton transfer from H3O+ to ethylbenzene produces C8H11+ exclusively at 300 K, and by 800 K, C6H7+ is the major product with only minor amounts of C8H11+ an...


We have analyzed the available data on the primary E1 transitions in the thermal-neutron capture by even isotopes of calcium with the aim of determining the relative importance of direct and compound-nucleus mechanisms of capture in these nuclides. In some of these cases, the thermal-neutron scattering length, as well as the spectroscopic factors of the final states, is known, and an absolute estimate of the direct capture cross sections can be made. In these cases (/sup 40/Ca, /sup 44/Ca) the estimates made from a specialized optical model (which reproduces the scattering length precisely) and a global optical model with a valency contribution from a local level are in agreement and are also generally close in absolute value to the experimental cross sections. The detailed deviations can be accounted for as a compound-nucleus contribution to the transitions, which fluctuates, but has an overall magnitude in agreement with Cameron's semiempirical relationship for this mechanism. In both nuclides the compound-nucleus contribution to the capture can plausibly be attributed to a bound local level. For /sup 48/Ca there is some indirect evidence for the value of the thermal-neutron scattering length, and the use of this value in the calculations of direct capture leads tomore » agreement with the data. There is no evidence for an important compound-nucleus contribution in this magic number nucleus. In /sup 42/Ca and /sup 46/Ca the thermal-neutron scattering length can be adjusted to ''best fit'' the calculation of direct capture from the optical model to the experimental data. After this adjustment the detailed agreement between theory and data is very good, indicating the major predominance of the direct mechanism in capture at thermal-neutron energies by these nuclides.« less


This paper describes dressing assistance by an autonomous robot. We especially focus on a dressing action that is particularly problematic for disabled people: the pulling of a bottom along the legs. To avoid injuring the subject's legs, the robot should recognize the state of the manipulated clothing. Therefore, while handling the clothing, the robot is supplied with both visual and force sensory information. Based on the them, dressing failure is detected and recovery from the failure is planned automatically. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is implemented and validated in a life-sized humanoid robot.


Radar images are affected by multiplicative noise depending on the underlying signal (the ground reflectivity) due to the coherence of the radar wavelength. Images present a strong pixel to pixel variability considerably reducing the efficiency of target detection and classification algorithms. We propose in this study filtering this noise using image multiresolution analysis. The value of the wavelet coefficients of the radar reflectance is estimated by a Bayesian model by maximizing the a posteriori density and by modeling the different densities using the Pearson distributions system. The resulting filter combines a classical adaptive approach and wavelet decomposition using the local variance of the wavelet coefficients for segmenting and weighting the latter taking into account the multiplicative nature of the noise.


Reactive Nitrogen Species (RNS) are important regulators of signalling pathways in muscle atrophy during prolonged disuse. We used the bed rest analogue (2nd Berlin Bed Rest Study, BBR2‐2) as a model of muscle inactivity, to study the pattern of S‐nitrosylated proteins in healthy human subjects following prolonged immobilization with and without exercise countermeasures. Twenty‐four healthy male subjects underwent 60‐days of 6° head down tilt bed‐rest (BR) and were randomized to an inactive control group (BR‐CTR, n=8), a high‐load resistive exercise group (BR‐RE, n=8) and a high‐load resistive vibration exercise (BR‐RVE, n=8) group. Muscle biopsy from m. soleus (SOL) and m. vastus lateralis (VL) were performed before and after BR and the pattern of S‐nitrosylated proteins were investigated by the "biotin switch assay". Preliminary results showed that the level of S‐nitrosylated muscular proteins was altered after BR in all groups (i.e., BR‐CTR group: +10% SOL; +15% VL; BR‐RE group: no change in SOL, +18% in VL; BR‐RVE group: −19% in SOL, −15% in VL). More detailed proteome analysis of s‐nitrosylated proteins is presently underway. Vibration exercise thus serves as an effective exercise countermeasure protocol to prevent oxidative stress during disuse‐induced skeletal muscle atrophy or exposure to microgravity. Sponsor: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft‐und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany (# 50WB0821 to D.B.)


This research is library research that discusses the thought of Ibn Hazm. This research focuses on the study of the methodology of ijtihad of Ibn Hazm. One of the themes of ijtihad of Ibn Hazm  can still, up to the present, be considered is his concept on social assurance.  Ibn Hazm is the follower of the School of Ẓairiyyah who emphasizes more on text of the reality and in some matters rejects qiyas. Therefore, his thought on social assurance  is of importance to study. This research studies the method of ijtihād of Ibn Hazm, his istidlāl and the influence of the School of Zhairiyyah on his ijtihad as well as his isti n bāṭ  or ijtihād on social assurance  for the haves not. Ibn Hazm possesses liberal interpretation to  social assurance. Therefore, his thought on social assurance is of importance to study, particularly when related to the development of the contemporary Islamic Law and to the BPJS that currently grows   in Indonesia. Kata Kunci : Ẓahiriiyah, Ibnu Hazm, Ijtihad, BPJS.


We present here observations on records of the snakes Thamnodynastes pallidus and T. hypoconia in eastern Amazon, made during field sampling. Specimens of  both species were collected at Arari municipality, Maranhao state lowland ("Baixada Maranhense") region, northeast Brazil, on a fluvial plain characterized by a mosaic of extensive natural floodplains, open vegetation and small forest remnants, as well as anthropic areas. The record of T. hypoconia is the second one of the species in Maranhao state and the first one in the eastern Amazon domain; it also fills a gap on the species distribution in the state. Pholidosis, color and morphometry of specimens are described.


As widely known about retreating ice sheets and rising sea levels, we can waste no time in curbing global warming. Regarding coal-fired thermal power plants, reduction of CO2 emissions is said to be essential. Accordingly, IHI has carried out a demonstration of a co-firing system for coal and a high-ratio of carbon-neutral woody biomass (up to 50% in calorific value) to significantly cut CO2 emissions. IHI Corporation


This article designs and implements the random access procedure in the UE side in the LTE(long term evolution) system. First it researches the scenarios and type of the process, then designs the flow of the random access procedure. At last the design and implementation of random access procedure are verified through the SDL/TTCN test and verification platform, which meets the 3GPP protocol specifications.


We construct a new lottery measure (ALM) to evaluate the lottery preference feature of stocks. The new measure is different from the common used lottery proxies: maximum daily return (MAX) and skewness (SKEW). In the U.S. stock market, the relationship between the ALM and expected returns is negative and it can be explained by MAX. Additionally, the negative predictability of ALM is significant and cannot be explained by other controls when the investor sentiment is high. While no significant relationship has been detected between the ALM and the stock returns during the periods of low investor sentiment.


Over a billion people do not have electricity in their homes and whether electricity spreads across the developing world hinges on household willingness to pay for it. Our surveys, conducted in 100 villages in India's poorest state, uncover innovations in off-grid solar technologies and government-led grid expansions which imply that households face a growing choice set on where to source electricity from. The main contribution of this paper is to create a demand system founded upon experimental variation in solar prices that allows us to assess household willingness to pay for different sources of electricity. This reveals two key insights. The first is that though off-grid solar is valuable to unelectrified households it is largely a stop-gap with households preferring the grid when that becomes available. The second is that extending the grid to all consumers necessitates rationing and disadvantages off-grid solar whereas raising prices or removing theft limits grid access and advantages off-grid solar. Our paper demonstrates that these trade-offs will be central to electricity policy in poor economies. ∗We thank Manoj Sinha and Col. Baljit Singh of Husk Power Systems for their partnership in implementing the project. We are grateful to Liran Einav and seminar participants at Berkeley, Harvard, LSE, MIT, Stanford and the Western Economic Association for comments. We thank Shruti Bhimsaria, Menna Bishop, Catherine Che, Ananya Kotia, Rakesh Pandey, Aditya Petwal, Vı́ctor Quintas-Mart́ınez and Rashi Sabherwal for excellent research assistance. We thank the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, the LGT Venture Philanthropy Foundation, USAID and the International Growth Center (IGC) for financial support. All views and errors are solely ours. †Burgess [Dept of Economics, LSE: firstname.lastname@example.com]; Greenstone [Dept of Economics, University of Chicago: firstname.lastname@example.com]; Ryan [Corresponding author, Dept of Economics, Yale University: email@example.com.]; Sudarshan [University of Chicago, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago (India): firstname.lastname@example.com]


Thermography in breast cancer detection presents promising diagnosis when used as a first line screening tool in adjunct to mammography. A thermogram consists of various regions such as patient's arms, chest and breasts. Segmentation of the breast region is an important step in classification of normal and abnormal thermogram. This paper deals with image pre-processing using inpaint algorithm and automated segmentation of breast regions using anisotropic diffusion filter along with level-set evolution without reinitialization. Three types of breast thermograms which include one normal and two abnormal were considered for this study. The segmented results were tested using performance measures and 98% of accuracy is obtained.


107.41: There is a pun on beyt: ' whereas in this nether world the Beyt-i Ma'mur [i.e. the Ka'ba] is famous for its uniqueness, that book contained 60,000 " nourishing couplets ". ' 125.30, 134.43 : for ' ozr read gadr 126.25 : for muzdhir (' guardians ') read mazdhir, ' manifestations ' 133.7 : read nazmim, ' my poetry ' 136.23, 138.18:' 'ummdl is hardly ' superintendents ', but ' tax-farmers ' 136.32-36: ' unless a magistrate, the sun of whose justice illumines the nether world . . ., has made the recommendation ('arz)—a man from whom lies are unthinkable ' 137.35 : The allusion in kdfiri cevz agaclari, cited in a simile for fast-rooted obstacles, is not to Kafiristan (p. 48, n. 85) but to a clause in the Ottoman Kanunname (ed. N. Beldiceanu, Code de lois, fol. 13r; different in TOEM, ed. M. 'Arif, pp. 14-15), where kdfiri appears to mean ' pre-Islamic ' (cf., a little before, kadimi; cf. also the terms zeytun-i kdfiri, discussed by B. Lewis, Notes and documents, p. 41, n. 38, and kdfiri bodurum in U. Heyd, Ottoman documents, p. 141). The point of the kanunname'a provision is that if the peasant wishes to keep these old trees on his fields he must share their crop with the sipdhi to compensate him for loss of tithe from cereals that could have been grown on their sites. 139.16: for mevki' (' position') read muvakki', i.e. the Nisanci 142.15: ' Do not say to yourself " This is not [a proper] career (yol) for him " ' 145.42 : for kdsibin read kambin 146.26: boluk halki is not quite ' Janissary cavalry', for the Janissaries, almost by definition, were infantry; 'All means the ' Sipahis of the Porte '. Nor is the ocak at 188.12 the ' [Janissary] corps', but the ' corporation ' of the timariot class. 151.17 : ' not be the tenth of a tenth of what they earn ' 161.26 : for dehrine read ve her neye, ' would not let the beglerbegi swallow up all he


More data are needed to understand the risk for COVID-19 severity among pediatric asthma patients. We present findings from a national registry characterizing COVID-19 hospitalizations among pediatric asthma patients.

 Data were obtained from the Pediatric COVID-19 US Registry, which included medical records of COVID-19 cases < 21 years old between March 2020 and May 2021. Those with asthma were eligible while immunocompromised and transplant cases were excluded. Descriptive statistics and chi-square tests were performed.

 Of the 1089 eligible asthma cases, half were 12 to 17 years old [Figure 1], the majority were male [Figure 2], a third Black African American [Figure 3], and most were Non-Hispanic/Latino 825 (76%). 242 (22%) reported a history of smoking.
 A fourth of cases (257 (23.6%) were hospitalized for COVID-19. More than half (54%) reported asthma as their only pre-existing condition. The majority (n=71, 28%) were taking regular inhaled corticosteroids. Almost half (n=120, 47%) had abnormal chest radiographic findings, 20 (7.8%) had abnormal CT findings, and 24 (9%) progressed to lower respiratory infection. About 10% (n=25) needed mechanical ventilation. A third (n=88, 34%) required ICU care with 33% of those receiving inhaled corticosteroids. A quarter needed mechanical ventilation [Figure 5].
 Compared to asthma patients not hospitalized for COVID-19, those hospitalized were significantly (P< 0.05) more likely to be non-Hispanic, havemultiple pre-existing conditions, and be obese [Figure 6]. Compared to those not admitted to ICU, ICU cases were significantly more likely to be obeseand be diagnosed with MIS-C [Figure 7].
 Demographics
 The majority of cases (N=479, 44%) were between 12 and 17 years old, Male (N=610,56%) and Black or African American (N=410, 38%).
 Clinical Characteristics
 Risk factors assessment

 This is one of the first national studies examining COVID-19 among pediatric cases with asthma. Our data suggest that children with asthma who have multiple pre-existing conditions and/or are obese have a higher risk for hospitalization. These early data may aid clinicians in developing future prospective studies to understand COVID-19 risk among this vulnerable population.

 Lara A. Danziger-Isakov, MD, Ansun BioPharma: Contracted clinical research|Astellas: Contracted clinical research|GSK: Advisor/Consultant|Merck: Advisor/Consultant|Merck: Contracted clinical research|Pfizer: Contracted clinical research|Takeda: Grant/Research Support|Takeda: Contracted clinical research|Viracor: Grant/Research Support.


Three methods of chromosome doubling to produce doubled haploid plants from microspore cultures of Brassica napus were compared: colchicine treatment of microspore-derived plants, microspore-derived embryos, and isolated microspores. In the whole plant treatment, 53% of the treated plants set seed, but the treatment delayed plant growth and reduced seed set. When microspore-derived embryos were treated with colchicine, the doubling frequency was 32% (compared to 15% for spontaneous doubling). Direct colchicine treatment of isolated microspores resulted in a doubling efficiency of 70% of the whole plants. This treatment also stimulated embryogenesis in microspore culture, leading to increased plant regeneration


This paper presents a kind of optimal switch method for variable-speed pumping stations with similar parallel pumps, and gives the minimum total power consumption. The optimal switch method is given for the changing total flow. The conclusion can also be applied to the energy optimization of other general devices.


Objective To investigate the efficacy of valsartan combined with benazepril in the treatment of early diabetic nephropathy and the impact on the UAE within 24 h. Methods 224 cases of patients with early diabetic nephropathy admitted in our hospital from January, 2012 to December, 2013 were selected and randomly divided into 2 groups, each with 112 cases. Patients in control group were given benazepril, and patients in observation group were given valsartan based on the treatment of the control group. The clinical efficacy, UAE change, and adverse reactions of two groups were compared. Results The efficacy of observation group was 93.8%, which was significantly higher than that(83.0%) of control group, the difference was statistically significant(P0.05);After treatment, the UAE levels of two groups were significantly reduced, and UAE level of observation group was(123.5±34.6) mg/d, which was significantly lower than the control group's(165.7±41.2) mg/d, the difference was statistically significant(P0.05);Adverse reactions rate of observation group was 7.1%(8/112), and that of control group was 8.9%(10/112), the difference was not statistically significant(P0.05). Conclusion Valsartan combined benazepril can effectively treat the early diabetic nephropathy and reduce the UAE level, which is worthy of promotion.


Hypertrophic pseudo tumoral herpetic lesion is an uncommon presentation in immunocompromized hosts that can be refractory to established therapies. We describe bipolar anal and tonsilar herpetic tumoral lesions related to acyclovir-resistant HSV-2 in a human immunodeficiency virus-infected patient. Treatment with valacyclovir, cidofovir, and thalidomide failed and surgical excision was required.


The invention relates to an intelligent grazing system. The intelligent grazing system comprises a central processing system and terminals, wherein the central processing system is connected with the terminals by network communication; the terminals are arranged on individual domestic animals; each terminal comprises a data processing unit, a data transmitting unit and a positioning unit; the data processing units are used for processing come-and-go data in the terminals; each positioning unit is used for acquiring the position information of the corresponding terminal; and the data transmitting units are used for transmitting position data to the central processing system through a network, so that the central processing system can acquire the positions of the terminals in real time, and the positions of the animals with the terminals are obtained. By using the intelligent grazing system, management on animal groups is facilitated, and lost animals can be conveniently found out.


The improved stability period of a reversed-field-pinch (RFP) configuration with high current density (500 A·cm−2, on average) is well understood on TPE-1R(M) with a metal liner whose size is the smallest among the RFP experimental devices being operated at present (r/R = 9/50 cm unit). Plasma parameters of Ip = 130 kA (duration time about 1 ms), ne0 = 6 × 1013 cm−3, Te0 ≈ 600 eV, and βp ≈ 10% are obtained. The improved stability period is characterized by a remarkably reduced fluctuation level (δBp/Bp ≈ 1%) and a steady improvement of plasma confinement. Possible explanations for the interesting phenomena in the setting-up phase and the improved stability period of TPE-1R(M) are given, i.e. relaxation phenomena, toroidal-flux enhancement within the plasma, and current disruption. The scaling of electron temperature and density, depending on the plasma current in the improved stability period, are described with a discussion of the energy confinement time. The entire performance of TPE-1R(M) is discussed in relation to that of other RFP machines.


Use is made of recent experimental results that have shown the elementary nucleon-nucleon cross section at ultrarelativistic energies increasing as log-squared E. The principle of geometric scaling implies that the effective size of the nucleon scales to the same degree. When geometric scaling is combined with the soft spheres model for nuclear interaction cross sections, one may calculate the interaction probabilities of target-projectile systems at energies corresponding to the highest seen for cosmic rays. The model is readily applied to strongly interacting elementary particles including antiparticles as well as to complex nuclei. Cosmic ray interaction cross sections calculated at ultrarelativistic energies are found to increase substantially. 20 references.


Ningbo University of Technology is proactive in implementing its applied talents training mode known as "Integration of Knowing and Doing and Coordination of Double Cores." Guided by the Outstanding Engineers Training Program of the Ministry of Education and based on the school"5 +5 Quality Improvement Project", NBUT has witnessed overall progress either in the teaching quality or in the talent training quality.


Cellulose and sugarcane bagasse were used in the preparation of new chelating materials for adsorption of heavy metals. Physical and chemical modifications were accomplished in those biopolymers aiming the preparation of materials able to adsorb heavy metals as lead, cadmium, copper and chromium. Those modifications include the non-mercerization of cellulose and sugarcane bagasse and the treatment of mercerized and mercerized materials with succinic anhydride for the introduction of carboxylic acid functions. Then, those acid functions were modified with triethylenetetramine, as a polydentate ligand, to anchor amine groups to the materials. Those amine groups were quaternized using methyl-iodide to obtain quaternary ammonium groups. Mercerization effects were evaluated by x-ray diffraction, FTIR and TGA-DTA. The materials obtained by chemical modifications were characterized by FTIR, TGA-DTA and elemental analysis of C, H and N. Mass gains and the concentrations of introduced acid and basic functions were calculated. Compared to succinylated non-mercerized cellulose and sugarcane bagasse, succinylated mercerized cellulose and sugarcane bagasse showed an increase of 7.1 and 12.1% in the mass gain and 0.4 and 0.2 mmol/g in the concentration of carboxylic acid functions respectively. Compared to succinylated non-mercerized cellulose and sugarcane bagasse modified with triethylenetetramine, succinylated mercerized cellulose and sugarcane bagasse modified with triethylenetetramine showed an increase of 13.7 and 5.1% in the mass gain and 0.8 and 0.3 mmol/g in the concentration of amine functions respectively. One of the materials containing amine groups was quaternized in order to prepare a material containing quaternary ammonium groups capable of accomplishing anionic exchange. The chelating materials obtained were used in studies of adsorption and their maximum adsorption capacities were evaluated by Langmuir model and compared. Compared to succinylated non-mercerized cellulose and sugarcane bagasse, succinylated mercerized cellulose and sugarcane bagasse showed an increase in adsorption capacity of 32.6 and 83.3 mg/g of Pb2+, 16.3 and 43.6 mg/g of Cd2+, 17.5 and zero mg/g of Cu2+, respectively. Thus, it is proven the efficiency of mercerization in the preparation of materials with greater power of adsorption.


We present δ15N data of organic nitrogen (δ15NON) from a deep western subarctic Pacific (WSAP) sediment core over the last 145 ka. To remove the effect of inorganic nitrogen (IN) on bulk nitrogen (BN), we used the contents of IN and BN, and the isotopic ratios of IN (δ15NIN) and BN (δ15NBN). The contribution of IN to BN was largest 59% and δ15NIN had lower values than δ15NBN. However, the large contributions of IN to BN and the distinct isotopic values did not largely change any variability associated with δ15NON in the δ15NBN. Thus, it is possible to use δ15NBN in carrying out paleoceanographic research with δ15N at least in the open WSAP. The δ15NON values have been affected by long‐term diagenesis making the values lower with depth in the sediment, but the values during less productive colder periods were generally lower compared to those during neighboring productive warmer periods. The results might indicate that δ15NON during the less productive colder periods (i.e., glacial periods) were lower than that during the productive warmer periods (i.e., interglacial periods). Previous studies have reported that the biological production in WSAP, where it is limited by iron at present, during glacial periods was at more reduced level than during interglacials despite there being more eolian dust supply during glacial periods. This indicates that the increase of biological production with enhanced iron supply derived from eolian dust during the glacial periods did not occur. If this is the case and alternatively the iron input from the subsurface layer to the surface‐mixed layer by ventilation process is more important as suggested by recent works, the variations in δ15NON would be explained by the variations in the Fe/NO3− ratio in the upwelled water. Although δ15NON has been affected by long‐term diagenesis in the sediment, the usage of this isotopic ratio provides new implication regarding the past ocean circulation in the open WSAP.