Quality seedlings are an important ingredient for raising good plantations and to increase the productivity. Root-Trainer technology for raising seedlings is world wide appreciated, but this requires a heavy capital investment. India being a poor country cannot afford such capital investments. An alternative for root-trainer, the Polytubes are suggested whose performance is found to be more or less same. The capital investment in Polytube nursery is much less than that of a root-trainer nursery.


This study proposes to analyze the ELLE Brasil covers, throughout its 28 years, in an objective and comparative way, measuring the frequency of the sightings, which represent models of representation, and qualitatively interpreting the data. As a method, it has been applied the Content Analysis of the corpus , carefully selected. We have concluded that over the years there was an almost unisonous representativeness, privileging slim bodies of white women. The black women representation and their phenotypes were practically unseen in ELLE Brasil covers. However, in an accurate analysis of the last decade, the plurality of representations was shown, for the first time, possibly an emerging phenomenon.


The quotes cited above demonstrate clearly differences in investigation and interpretation, and are lifted from discussion on the pragmatic difficulties in research and the modification process of interpretation of roles and goals a dilemma not encountered, according to Cronbach, in traditional natural science?. In establishing a science base in nursing the methodological debate is alive and well and is continued in the guest editorial in this issue by Hugh Chadderton which develop thc views voiced by Professor Maggs in his guest editorial in the previous edition of A~77?M~rf/~.


TO THE EDITOR: The recently published report by Abdolleh et al on a series of more than 1,100 patients with pN-positive prostate cancer (PCa) provides new insights into the prognostic stratification of N1M0 PCa, as well as predictive analyses to better inform patient selection for adjuvant external-beam radiotherapy (aRT). In the authors' analysis of aRT by risk groups, patients with study-defined intermediate-risk disease (one to two positive lymph nodes, Gleason score 7, and either pT3b/pT4 or positive surgical margins) and high-risk disease (three to four positive lymph nodes) achieved improved survival with aRT in univariable and multivariable models. Conversely, patients with study-defined very low–, low-, and very high–risk disease did not seem to benefit from aRT. In an effort to validate their findings in a distinct patient population, the authors also analyzed a SEER cohort of patients with pN-positive PCa from 1999 to 2009. Similar, although not identical, risk groups were analyzed and an overall survival benefit of aRT was redemonstrated for intermediateand high-risk patients alone. However, the authors acknowledge that because of the historic conventions of data acquisition in SEER, the external validation risk groups differed from those defined in their primary analyses, as did a number of factors included in their multivariable models. Important differences included the analytic groupings for both Gleason and T stage, and the absence of surgical margin status for pT2/T3a disease, which would be necessary to properly stratify patients into low-risk versus intermediate-risk categories. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) values were not required for study-defined risk stratifications but were accounted for in the multivariable models of the primary analysis; PSA was absent from the SEER analysis. Conversely, the authors elected to include race in the multivariable analysis of their SEER cohort but not in their primary analysis. We recently published a SEER analysis of N1M0 PCa in which we evaluated the effect of local therapy (prostatectomy, radiotherapy, or both); our analysis also demonstrated a trend toward improved overall survival in favor of the addition of aRT compared with prostatectomy alone. Given our familiarity with some of the unique features of PCa data in SEER, we were in fact able to generate identical risk stratifications as those defined in the primary analysis by Abdollah et al, and we sought to validate their findings in SEER using these identical risk groups. To provide some background information: In 2004, in a cooperative effort with the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC), SEER began coding "Collaborative Stage" data, which include diagnostic PSA levels and individual Gleason scores for PCa. In addition, surgical margin status is coded specifically for patients with pT2 and pT3a PCa but not for those with pT3b or pT4 disease. Although this may be considered a rather curious approach to margin status coding, it happens to be a fortunate circumstance for our purposes, given that surgical margin status is needed only for patients with pT2/T3a PCa to inform the risk stratifications that were proposed by Abdollah et al. Therefore, by the year 2004, all data that would be required to replicate identical risk stratifications were available in SEER. In addition, all data were available to replicate multivariable analyses that are identical to those reported by Abdollah et al, with the exception of surgical margin status, which, for the reasons mentioned, could be used for risk stratification but could not be included in multivariable analyses because of a lack of data for patients with pT3b/T4 disease. Using the most recent SEER release (SEER*Stat version 8.1.5) and largest data pool (SEER 18 Registries), we searched for patients, in years overlapping those used by Abdollah et al, for which adequate


~t A case of the very rare chondroid variant of chordomas at the base of the skull is presented. The characteristic presentation, radiological and computerized tomographic appearance, findings at surgery, pathology, and treatment of this lesion are discussed. Neurosurgeons should be aware of this variant, due to its predilection for occurrence at the base of the skull and its more favorable prognosis compared with that of typical chordoma.


Considering cyber risk as a (man-made) natural catastrophe (Nat-Cat) systematically clarifies the actuarial need for multiple levels of analysis, going beyond claims-driven statistics to forecast losses, and necessitating ambitious advances in scope, quality, and standards of both data and models. The prominent human component and dynamic and multi-type nature of cyber risk makes it uniquely challenging when compared with other Nat-Cat type risks. Despite noted limitations of data standards and models, using updated U.S. breach data, we show that this extremely heavy-tailed risk is getting significantly worse -- both in frequency and severity of private information items (ids) exfiltrated. The median predicted number of ids breached in the U.S. due to hacking, for the last 6 months of 2018, is about 0.5 billion, but there is a 5 percent chance that it exceeds 7 billion -- doubling the historical total! In view of this extreme loss potential, insurance principles indicate a need to reduce ambiguity through research and to provide a sufficient basis for writing sustainable insurance policies. However, as demand for extended insurance coverage exists, premium differentiation is deemed attractive to incentivize self-protection and internalize externalities.


The change of refractive index in a transparent materials caused by magnetic field has been measured using Michelson interferometer method.
Transparent materials used in the experiment is AgBr thin film with 8,01.10-5 m in thickness . External Magnetic field which applied to the samples in orde 182 mT in
solenoida and generated by conducting the alternating current. To be observe the change of refraktive index due to the change of B, the number change of fringes is
calculated. The laser used by He-Ne laser by l = 632,8 nm and output power 1 mW.
The result show that in AgBr thin film it indicates change of refraktive index shown by degradation number of fringes pattern after affecting the external magnetic
field. Ever greater of given magnetic field will smaller of fringes pattern.


Media International Australia internet and pop culture. The proposition is pragmatic. It does not categorically dismiss assumptions that the internet will eventually lead to the downfall of authoritarian governments, but it is not cynical in assuming users to have no influence on the framing of the internet. The last chapter on the Egyptian Revolution is particularly relevant right now because activists around the world are using the internet and social media to make themselves heard through participating in citizen journalism, organising grassroots movements or raising awareness in the democratic Western world. On one hand, the Egyptian Revolution can be chalked up as victory of the internet power. On the other, governments can also promote favourable ideals online. The 'Fifty-Cent Party' in China – people hired to write patriotic comments on message boards and forums – does just that. The author has selected five useful case studies from the United States, Europe and the Arab world to help readers understand the narrative construction of the perception of the internet. A case study on the Chinese internet would make this book even more comprehensive and global. Due to the state ownership of infrastructure, the Chinese internet is indeed a national intranet that can be shut down by its government at any time. It makes the internet culture there drastically different from that in the West. If the public's perception of the internet is shaped by policy-makers, entertainment and news media in West, internet historians/ cultural studies scholars should examine whether the same can be applied in China or under other regimes where censorship still exists and internet freedom is still not a right. – Nickkita P.M. Lau, Media, Film and Television, University of Auckland


Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) use in intraarticular injections is thought to be potentially efficacious in the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA) and as an alternative to corticosteroid injections. However, little is known about the safety of PRP usage in the treatment of large joint osteoarthritis. In the 21 identified studies, there were primarily minor adverse effects include pain, redness, swelling, nausea, and dizziness. The limitations of this review include the relative paucity of well-designed studies that describe detailed adverse effects using safety as an outcome measure. Intraarticular injection of platelet-rich plasma has low risk of morbidity. This review describes the evidence for the short-term safety of intraarticular PRP injections and its derivations in the treatment of large joint OA (knee, hip, shoulder). Further investigation is needed to determine the short-term safety of PRP for use in the management of OA in the hip and shoulder, as well as the documentation of long-term safety in the shoulder, hip and knee.


The teaching reform experiments in China's modern times were initiated by a group of renowned educationalists and thinkers,such as Huang Yanpei,Yan Yangchu,Liang Shuming,Tao Xingzhi,Chen Heqin,and so on.Their earnest practice and diligent efforts made the significant contribution to the contemporary national education and teachng,and influenced today's educational and teaching reform greatly.We have found that time's teaching reform contained the strong idea of " Education for the masses and for the populace",which was exactly the origin of the early audiovisual education practice.This article introduces the main teaching reform experiments and educational ideas in the modern times,probes into the thought of the audiovisual education practice,which gives important enlightenment to the development of today's audiovisual education.


The Thread of Energy by Martin J. Pasqualetti is a new "quasi" textbook about energy for geographers, other undergraduate students, and perhaps a broader readership. Pasqualetti has taught a geography course on the thread of energy at Arizona State University for many years, and argues that energy is a social issue with a technical component rather than the other way around. Thus, the book is a broad review of energy and society. The "thread of energy" is a metaphor he uses to humanize the subject of energy and make it more relatable. Comprehensive energy textbooks for geographers are few and far between. One recent such text, and thus a competitor, is Energy and Society: A Critical Perspective (Bridge et al. 2018).


Transcription factor PU.1 (270 aa, ~31 kDa) is encoded by the human SPI1 gene. This protein plays a role in transcriptional regulation in hematopoietic cells.


Leading cardiovascular diseases (arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus) are often accompanied by such complications as atrial fibrillation (AF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD). As kidney function worsens, the risk of AF increases. The incidence of AF and CKD ranges from 5:1. At the same time, the risk of developing of end-stage CKD (ESCKD) increases in patients with AF. The combination of AF and ESCKD, on the one hand, increases the risk of thromboembolic complications, and on the other hand, it can cause hemorrhagic complications, which makes it difficult to decide whether to start oral anticoagulant therapy.


One of the problems with time-sharing is the long list of commands that must be known and used effectively to take a program from source statements to a load module that would run. To alleviate this problem, my project was to write an interface for the student to use when dealing with the time-sharing system. In accomplishing this, my program uses compiler techniques for processing the interface commands with immediate execution. The commands that the interface handle and expand were specified in BNF and a SLR(K) analyzer was used to create the tables fr the semantic analysis in the interface program. As the commands are recognized each production is a further step in the processing of these shortened commands. The runtime support was altered to include a section of code that enabled the interface to overlay all programs it requires. This was done to save space and enable the immediate execution of the instructions.


In this paper, we present a novel routing algorithm in order to avoid deadlock and packet dropping. In our proposed algorithm the network-on-chip (NoC) is capable of tolerating faults in presence of control faults in combinational parts of routers. In addition, by modifying the functionality of the router, the router is enabled to test its own, as well as the preceding router's functionality based on the routing algorithm, destination address and previous router's situation. Each router recognizes the faulty neighbor and announces it to successive routers. In this scheme no extra packets will be generated. We analyze the effects of our method on latency, power consumption and drop rate. Our experimental results illustrate that, fault coverage for routers can reach up to 100% with yet low power consumption and significant improvement in latency compared to the baseline approach.


The vegetation structure within Chamaecyparis obtusa plantation was analyzed for the purpose of applying the effective forestation method for Chmaecyparis obtusa plantation, tending and regeneration in the southern districts of korea. The reaults were as follows : 1. The importance percentage was high in the order of Eurya japonica, Rhus verniciflua, Chamaecyparis obtuse, Lindera erythrocarpa, Carpinus laxiflora. Styrax japonica, Viburnum dilatatum, Zanthoxylum piperitum and Smilax china among the vegetation of Chamaecyparis obtuse. Importance percentage of natural seedling of Charnaecyparis obtuse was high in lower story but gradually decreased in middle story. 2. The basal area of upper trees had a negative correlation with the density of natural seedlings in the middle and lower story, and it represents that the basal area of upper trees had some effect on the density of natural seedlings within understories. 3. The rate of the A and B class by Raunkiaer`s frequency was higher in the vegetation of middle story than that of lower story. 4. By Morisita`s index, the species of Chamaecyparis obtuse, Rhus venziciflua, Lindera erythrocarpa, Smilax china. Callicarpa japonica and Lindera obtusiloba were randomly distributed at lower story, but they were aggregatively distributed at middle story. At all of middle and lower story, Eurya japonica and Viburnun dilatatum were randomly distributed, and Carpinus laxiflora, Zanthoxylum piperitum and Picrasma quassioides were aggregatively distributed. 5. The number of appearance species and the value of species diversity in western survey area were more than that of eastern survey area. 6. The salue of species diversity at lower story was higher than that of middle story, and it represents that the number of individuals of appearance species was composed more even at lover story than middle story. 7. According to cluster analysis by similarity index, the survey areas were separated from inland and seacoast districts. 8. Judging from each stories ordination analysis by dissimilarity index, the vegetation was separated from lower and middle story, and the vegetation of lower story was more progressed succession stage than that of middle story. 9. In Chamaecyparis obtuse stands, Eurya japonica had a positive correlation with Sorbus alnifolia, Hex macropoda. Ficus erecta and Trachelospernaum asiaticum, but it had a negative correlation with Zarzthoxylum piperitum, Carpinus laxiflora and Parthenocissus tricuspidata. 10. In estimation of the productivity of Chamaecyparis obtzcsa stands, the value of SC (Conic surface) and VP (Parabolic volume) for upper trees was 94.5% and 99.63%, respectively and SC and VP of middle story was 5.49% and 0.37%, respectively. In the species of middle story, material productivity was high in order of Eurya japonica. Lindera eryhrocarpa, Rhus herniciflua. Carpinus laxiflora and Styrax japonica.


Four kinds of wireless access technology are introduced,this paper sums up the characteristics and applications,the relationship of other three technology and bluetooth are analyzed,and the functions are contrasted.


NEW PRODUCT OF CONTRAST, IS BY ONE OR MORE COMPOUNDS ALIPHATIC ETHERS PERFLUORINATED, BROMES, WHICH EACH GROUP CONNECTED TO OXYGEN IS AC C. THE PRODUCT IS AS IS WATER OR RELEASE.


Competence in Uzbek composition writing skills is particularly important in determining students' performance in Uzbek because this will enable the students to improve in their Uzbek composition paper and consequently do well in the overall Uzbek examination in the University examination. Students also use Uzbek writing skills to answer questions in the other Uzbek papers of the University examination. That means writing skills also determine how well the students will perform in all the Uzbek papers. In order to acquire the writing skills in Uzbek, students need to be facilitated by their teachers since writing is only acquired by being taught. In view of the performance in Uzbek in the University examination and given the important role of the teachers in teaching writing skills, this paper therefore intends to investigate how teachers' pedagogical competencies influence students' performance in Uzbek writing skills. The teachers' pedagogical competencies which the paper focuses on are; teachers' planning to teach, teaching methods, learning resources, classroom management, and designing of assessment techniques to evaluate learners' performance in Uzbek composition writing skills. The paper seeks to establish whether teachers' pedagogical competencies in planning for teaching influences students' performance in Uzbek writing skills in Korean universities. In addition, the paper attempts to International Journal of Science Arts and Commerce ISSN: 0249-5368 www.ijsac.net Page 64 determine whether teachers' pedagogical competencies in teaching methods influence students' performance in Uzbek writing skills in Korean Universities. The other area of concern is to establish whether teachers' pedagogical competencies in classroom management styles influence students' performance in Uzbek writing skills in Korean universities. Finally, it seeks to determine whether teachers' pedagogical competencies in design and assessment techniques influence students' performance in Uzbek writing skills in Korean universities. Key Terms: Assessment, Classroom management, Language teaching, Pedagogical competencies, Second language, Writing skills. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Language is an important component of human development and it is the main medium of communication and interaction between human beings which is used to transmit culture from one generation to another. It is used to communicate human thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary symbols and signals such as sounds, words and gestures. As children develop from infancy to adulthood they are expected to acquire various language milestones in their first language which climax at adult-like or native-like language competence. Language can be acquired as a first language, also referred to by Mitchell et al (2004) as mother tongue or native language, or it can also be acquired as a second language. The acquisition of first language is normally through the natural process of socialization within the family by adult beings. Second language is defined by Rod (1997) as any language that is learned subsequent to the mother tongue or the learning of a third or fourth language through contact or in a classroom through instruction. Mitchell and Myles (2004) concur with Rod and also state that; such second languages can be of wide communication within the local region, (like Korean in Korea) or they can be foreign languages (like Uzbek and other foreign languages in Korea). Uzbek in Korea, for most people is a second or even a third language because most educated Koreans are bilingual, since they speak their ethnic languages, and English. Most linguists are of the view that second language learning is an extra ordinary complex phenomenon (Carol, 1995; Mitchell & Myles 2004) which a large number of people never acquire to a high level of competence. Because of these differences in acquiring first and second language, there is much greater extent of institutionalization of second language acquisition than first language. Second language acquisition in this case, is essentially related to the conscious language teaching and learning, which takes place in the classroom, with a general aim of developing communicative competence; or acquiring native-like speaker competence. This is the ability to use language correctly and appropriately to accomplish communication goals. In teaching and learning second language, in the early stages, instructors may need to focus more on oral communication which refers to listening and speaking skills. Competence in these skills lays the foundation for the acquisition of reading and writing skills. Whereas listening and reading are receptive International Journal of Science Arts and Commerce Vol. 3 No. 9, September -2018 www.ijsac.net Page 75 skills speaking and writing are productive skills which have to be taught. Instructors, especially in second language, can only help the students to speak fluently when they model appropriate listening strategies. As for the writing skill, in a second language situation, writing skills are the most difficult to master. The role of the teacher in teaching writing in second language is therefore very significant. In supporting the importance of a teacher, Brumfit (1989), states that one major relevant factor to second language teaching is the teacher's variables such as aptitude, attitude, motivation, age, previous experience and training. Gorman (1991) also recognizes the role of the teachers as that of a key position in the classroom instruction in their students' second language learning. That means the teachers' pedagogical competencies in second language teaching are significant for their students' success. According to Stern (1996), teachers' pedagogical competencies in second language teaching can be analyzed in terms of various variables involved in the pedagogical process. He distinguishes four main categories of variables of teacher competence; presage, context, process and product. Presage variables are the characteristics which teachers as individuals or as a group bring to their teaching. The context consists of the conditions within which the teacher operates – the community, the school environment and the students themselves, which determine the way the teacher will manage the teaching learning environment. The process is what teachers and learners do in the classroom. These are the learning activities which are determined by the teaching methods used by the teacher. The product variable refers to the outcome of the teaching learning processthe actual language proficiency attained by learners as indicated by learners' performance. Another definition of pedagogical competence is by Suciu and Mata (2011) who consider the resources used by an individual teacher in the educational process as pedagogical competence. Furthermore, they emphasize that understanding pedagogical competence is the ability to solve pedagogical problems and tasks occurring in situations of real pedagogical activities; that is the ability to manage the learning environment. They also state that teachers' pedagogical competencies consist of three major aspects of planning, teaching and assessing. Use of appropriate pedagogical competencies to teach Uzbek is very important because of the significant role Uzbek plays as a second language, not only in Korea but also in most Central Asian Countries, where it serves an important function of a unifying factor within these countries and among different countries of this region of Asia and the world at large. Good performance in Uzbek at this level is also significant for the students because it provides a springboard for further learning of the language at higher levels of education and for selection into other courses which offer job placement. Given the significant role of Uzbek, it is expected that the teachers of this second language will aim at developing adequate competence in their students so that they can perform well in the subject. Various studies which have been done on the importance of the teacher have confirmed that the teacher is very significant in determining student's performance in a particular subject as well as the general academic achievement, Kuenzi (2008), Furguson and Gilpin (2001).In supporting the importance of a International Journal of Science Arts and Commerce ISSN: 0249-5368 www.ijsac.net Page 66 teacher in teaching second language, (Brumfit 1989, Gorman 1991, Stern 1996&Suciu and Mata 2011 ), emphasize that the teacher's pedagogical competencies are a major factor in second language teaching. They also define pedagogical competencies as constituting various variables that are involved in the pedagogical process and are used to solve pedagogical problems. These scholars and researchers also agree that it is only teachers who have the appropriate pedagogical competencies who can be able to assist their students to perform well. 2.1 Teachers' pedagogical competencies in teaching writing skills According to Stern (1983) the language teaching /learning model identifies two principal players – the language teacher and the language learner. The teacher's role in second language learning is crucial in facilitating learning. According to Yalden (1987) the teacher's role in 2 language teaching like Uzbek, is to foster communication. In order to do this the second language teachers, according to Shulman (2012) need to have both pedagogical and content knowledge. Pedagogical knowledge means the "how" of teaching which is generally acquired through education course and personal experience. Content knowledge on the other hand is the "what" of teaching. In an exploratory study into the distinctive characteristics of language teachers especially teachers of English as a foreign language, Borg (2006) states that the teacher should have adequate knowledge of the 2 nd language by being able to speak and write the language with a high level of proficien


This book introduces a proposed algorithm which simulates the biological functions of central dogma processes and allows integrating the Cryptography and Steganography. Such an integration has the advantage of being able to transmit a highly secured message between a sender and receiver. In this case, an eavesdropper is unable to discover or understand the transmitted message. The process of cipher/decipher of the proposed algorithm is similar to the DNA transcription, splicing and RNA translation of the real organisms. This algorithm has its own advantages and disadvantages as indicated in the book. Also, this algorithm is evaluated by comparing it with some other encryption algorithms.


Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in men. Patients with localized prostate cancer have multiple treatment options including active surveillance, prostatectomy, brachytherapy, and external beam radiation therapy (EBRT). Aim of the Work: to report on the quality of life outcomes in a number of male patients who underwent intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for clinically localized cancer prostate, compared to patients underwent 3D CRT, using licensed Arabic version of FACT-P questionnaire.

 The present study included 103 patients diagnosed by localized prostate cancer. Patients files were collected from International medical center and oncology department at Ain Shams University hospital from June 2018 to December 2018. They were divided into two groups: Group I consisted of 51 patients treated using 3D CRT, all of them are under hormonal treatment. They completed a questionnaire at (Month 0) baseline, then on the followup visit, after 3, 6 months (Month 3, 6). Group II consisted of 52 patients treated by IMRT and hormonal treatment, the same dose range and field as 3D CRT. They participated and completed the questionnaire at the same phases (Month 0, 3, 6) with the same methods as the 1st group.

 stability in HRQoL (social and emotional subscales) in 3DCRT and the IMRT groups, and no significant difference among the two groups was observed throughout the follow-up period, although the radiation doses prescribed differed from one another. And showed a significant improvement in scores of (physical, functional and prostate concerns) subscales.

 The two approaches used in this study showed similar patterns of alterations regarding general and disease specific HRQL with mild superiority for IMRT for the first 6 months after radiation therapy. Comparison of results between the 3DCRT and the IMRT groups revealed no substantial degrees of impairment in rectal toxicity and sexual function despite the dose escalation in the IMRT protocol. Thus, IMRT seems to offer a good treatment delivery approach with favorable HRQL outcomes.


The fundamental notion of the consistent stability of semidiscrete analogues of evolution PDEs is explored. Lyapunov's direct method is used to develop CFD semidiscrete algorithms which yield the TVD constraint as a special case. A general formula for supplying dissipation parameters for arbitrary multidimensional conservation law systems is proposed. The reliability of the method is demonstrated by the results of two numerical tests for representative Euler shocked flows.


The cross-plane thermal conductivity of a type II InAs/GaSb superlattice (T2SL) is measured from 13 K to 300 K using the 3ω method. Thermal conductivity is reduced by up to 2 orders of magnitude relative to the GaSb bulk substrate. The low thermal conductivity of around 1-8 W/m·K may serve as an advantage for thermoelectric applications at low temperatures, while presenting a challenge for T2SL quantum cascade lasers and high power light emitting diodes. We introduce a power-law approximation to model non-linearities in the thermal conductivity, resulting in increased or decreased peak temperature for negative or positive exponents, respectively.


The effect of cadmium on growth rates of Thalassiosira fluviatilis Hustedt and Isochrysis galbana Parke at non‐limiting nutrient concentrations is described by the lerusalimskii equation. At limiting nitrate concentrations, the effect of Cd on growth rate of T fluviatilis is described by analogy to the general equation of enzyme inhibition in which the reaction involves a single intermediate. When cells are stressed by Cd, not only is the maximum growth rate reduced, but the half‐saturation growth parameter is increased. The value of log (k1/k2) can be used to describe the type and degree of interaction between a nutrient and an inhibitor, k, and k2ate the inhibitor concentrations resulting in 50% growth inhibition as nutrient concentration approaches zero and an infinitely large value respectively. Results show that for T fluviatilis, the degree of inhibition by Cd is more severe at low than at high NO3‐levels but the difference in seventy diminishes at Cd concentration increases.


It is shown that if the socle soc(A) of a semisimple Banach algebra A is norm-closed, then soc(A) is already finite dimensional. The proof makes use of the Al-Moajil theorem. However it is remarked that our main theorem is an extension of the Al-Moajil's.


Adding appropriate volume of sand determined by indoor test to the clay packing system of municipal sanitary landfill,the total stress of clay packing of the landfill is calculated by flat finite element method.Effects of thickness of clay packing on stress distribution in the clay packing are analized for different conditions of foundation to provide theoretical reference value for economically reliable operation of the landfill and maximizing its space.


Banyumas District Hospital is the pioneer in the national level of a computerbased 3N (NANDA, NIC, NOC) nursing management application. Nursing management information system in Banyumas District Hospital is a sub-system of Banyumas District Hospital's Management Information System. Hospital's Management Information System is a computerize system processing and integrating the whole process of health providing bussines in a coordinated networking,report and administrarion procedure to get a fast,exact,and accurate information.
This research's aim was to evaluate the nursing management information system in Banyumas District Hospital using acceptance-based of PIECES and TAM methode. The research was and explanatory research using surve in Banyumas District Hospital using acceptance-based of PIECES and TAM methode. The research was and explanatory research using survey methode and cross sectional study design. The data was analised in Spearman Rank correlation test with 0,05 significance level. The research found that the category of Banyumas District Hospital's Nursing Management Information System is good.


The northern white-breasted hedgehog (Erinaceus roumanicus) is a charismatic insectivore mammal threatened by habitat loss, the use of biocides, and collisions with vehicles. We aimed at valorizing hedgehog conservation through the contingent valuation method for estimating the proportion and the amount of willingness to pay (WTP) and the effects of cognitions and sociodemographic characteristics on WTP. We collected data through interviews with 704 residents of four administrative regions of northern Greece. Binary logistic regression and Welsh–Poe interval regression were used for estimating the effects of predictors on the proportion and mean WTP, respectively. Most participants (58.2%) were WTP a mean of EUR 31.7 for hedgehog conservation, totaling EUR 21.9 million annually when projected to the population. Positive attitudes, mutualism wildlife orientations, intention to participate in hedgehog conservation actions, and participation in consumptive and non-consumptive wildlife-related recreational activities increased WTP. Highly educated females, with high income and a pet were more WTP than less educated males, with low income and without a pet. Findings provided necessary information to managers about the value of hedgehog conservation, the potential for raising required funds and the differences in WTP among and within public groups.


We performed variational Monte Carlo simulations of an alkali ion impurity $({\mathrm{Li}}^{+},{\mathrm{Na}}^{+},{\mathrm{K}}^{+},$ and ${\mathrm{Cs}}^{+})$ in liquid ${}^{4}\mathrm{He}$ at the equilibrium density and $T=0\mathrm{K}$ using the shadow wave function technique. We calculated the chemical potential, the local order, the single-particle excitation spectrum, and the effective mass of the ions. In all cases the first shell of He atoms is ordered, forming what is usually called a snowball. The radial density profiles and angular correlations show that the microscopic structure of the snowball is remarkably different for each ion. Only in the case of ${\mathrm{Na}}^{+}$ and ${\mathrm{K}}^{+}$ are the atoms of the first shell essentially localized so that the snowball can be considered as a solid. In the case of ${\mathrm{Li}}^{+}$ and ${\mathrm{Cs}}^{+}$ these He atoms readily exchange with the others and this difference shows up dramatically in the values of the effective masses. The local order is simple cubic in the case of ${\mathrm{Li}}^{+}$ and face-centered cubic in the case of ${\mathrm{K}}^{+}.$


The paper deals with first the uniqueness of the self-calibration of a rotating and zooming camera, mathematically, given two views. It is assumed that the principal point and the aspect ratio are fixed but the focal length changes as the camera rotates. In this case, theoretically at least one inter-image homography is enough to compute the internal calibration parameters as well as the rotation, and the self-calibration is unique up to a rotation. Secondly, it is shown that the calibration parameters can be obtained through a linear computation, even though the original problem is highly nonlinear, when the principal point is given a priori. Finally, the authors analyse the effects of the deviation of the principal point on the linear computation of the focal lengths and the rotation. From the mathematical analysis, it is found that the more the camera changes its zoom the larger the effects are, and the larger the rotation angle the smaller the effects are. Thus, the image centre may be taken as the principal point in practical applications. Experimental results using real images are also given.


There is no direct correlation between total information technology (IT) spend and business profitability ‐ an outrageous claim one might think. But this is the fact of the matter as proved in research we have carried out with Andersen Consulting. It does not mean that IT never improves business performance ‐ it means that how money is spent is more important than the amount. So what makes IT investments pay off and deliver long‐term value to a business?.


We present ab initio calculations of the infrared (IR) spectra of the strongly anharmonic clusters F–(H2O) and F–(H2O)2 using full-dimensional potential energy and dipole moment surfaces. The full-dimensional F–(H2O)2 potential energy surface is composed of previously published one- and two-body water potentials, a two-body F–H2O potential, and a new three-body F–(H2O)2 potential. The three-body water–fluoride potential is a fit to 16 111 second-order Moller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ) energies using permutationally invariant polynomials. The IR spectrum of F–(H2O)2 is computed using 6-, 8-, 10-, and 13-dimensional VSCF/VCI in order to illustrate the effects of mode coupling and intensity borrowing between the high-frequency intramolecular modes and the low-frequency intermolecular modes. Comparisons with Ar-tagged action spectra are also made.


Background: Increasinglyhigh numbers of theheartvalvesurgeryis nowbecause ofpeople's lifestylesthat causedegenerativerisks. One ofits managementischangingheartvalve throughsurgery. Thepatient'smortality datas are used as the parametes to measure the quality of heart valve surgery in a hospital. Aim: To find outdata on mortalityincardiacsurgerydepartment in a case of heart valve surgery inDr.Kariadi HospitalSemarang from January 2014-December 2014. Methods: This study is aretrospectivedescriptive study, withrandom sampling, usingsecondary datafrommedical records of the Medical Record Department, ICU(Intensive CareUnit) and Installation of Central SurgeryDr.KariadiHospital Semarang from January 2014-December 2014. Dataare classified bythe type ofoperation such as: the AVR(Aortic ValveReplacement), MVR(Mitral ValveReplacement) andDVR(Double ValveReplacement) by looking atmortalityrisk factors: gender, age, disease diagnosis, CPBtime, cross-clamp time, longerICU stay, length of ICUventilatorsandcause of death. Result: The number of patientsof heartvalvesurgeryin Dr.Kariadi HospitalSemarang on January 2014-December 2014 were as many as57people. The number of patientswho diedwas 9 people(15.8%). Most cause of deathwassepticshock. The type ofthe heart valve surgerywiththe highest mortalityliftisthe DVR, while thehighestsuccess ratesin theMVRoperation. Conclusion:During theperiod of January 2014-December 2014, the death rate of the heartvalve surgeryat the Dr. KariadiHospital Semarang was15.8%with0% in AVRoperations, 12.9% in MVR and27.8% in DVRoperation.


PURPOSE: A method for manufacturing and operating gift certificates sold off-line but used on-line is provided so that a user can be authenticated from a gift certificate issuer only with intrinsic information marked in each gift certificate, without exposing his private information, such as a credit card number, a resident registration number, etc. CONSTITUTION: In a gift certificate(A) sold off-line, a management number(11), an access code(12), a limit amount(13), an issued date(14) and a homepage address(15) are marked. The management number(11) is a serial number marked in an exposed stated for easy management in manufacturing, distributing and selling the gift certificate(A). The access code(12), marked in a one-to-one ratio with the management number(11), is formed as a randomized code and applied with a thin film so as not to be exposed. The limit amount(13) corresponding to the management number(11) and the access code(12) is stored in a database together with them. An Internet user can use the limit amount(13) until it vanishes totally as a settled amount is deducted every time he purchases goods or uses contents.


A tree T is arbitrarily vertex decomposable if for any sequence of positive integers adding up to the order of T there is a sequence of vertex-disjoint subtrees of T whose orders are given by . It is proved that if a tree T is arbitrarily vertex decomposable, then ( T) 6.


In the present note, we give a concise proof for the equivalence between the local boundedness property for parabolic Dirichlet BVP's and the gaussian upper bound for their Green functions. The parabolic equations we consider are of general divergence form and our proof is essentially based on the gaussian upper bound by Daners \cite{Da} and a Caccioppoli's type inequality. We also show how the same analysis enables us to get a weaker version of the local boundedness property for parabolic Neumann BVP's assuming that the corresponding Green functions satisfy a gaussian upper bound.


We report variations with orbital phase in UV resonance lines of HD77581 (BO.5 lab), the optical counterpart of the high-mass X-ray binary system Vela X-l (4U0900-40), occurring at low and intermediate negative velocities. We argue that these variations are caused by ionization effects in the stellar wind by the X-ray source, just like the well-known orbital modulation of the highvelocity part of the P Cygni absorption, as was predicted by Hatchett & McCray (1977). We also present UV observations of the C m subordinate line at 2296 A of HD153919 (06.5 Iaf+), the optical counterpart of 4U1700-37, which support our earlier interpretation that the orbital variations observed in the subordinate He II1640 A and Niv 1718 A lines In this star are the result of variable Raman-scattered emission lines. We show that it is difficult to give a consistent explanation of the observed orbital variations in UV spectra of HD77581, if we adopt a monotonie velocity law for the stellar wind. Both the orbital variations at low and high velocities in HD 77581 and the absence of similar changes in UV resonance lines of HD153919 can be better understood if the velocity structure of the supergiant's wind is non-monotonic. Such a velocity structure is predicted by recent hydrodynamical calculations of radiation-driven winds (Owocki et al. 1988). The dumpiness of a shocked stellar wind can also explain the observed soft X-ray excess and the flaring in X-ray luminosity, caused by local changes in the mass-accretion rate.


The Web's functionality has shifted from purely server-side code to rich client-side applications, which allow the user to interact with a site without the need for a full page load. While server-side attacks, such as SQL or command injection, still pose a threat, this change in the Web's model also increases the impact of vulnerabilities aiming at exploiting the client. The most prominent representative of such clientside attacks is Cross-Site Scripting, where the attacker's goal is to inject code of his choosing into the application, which is subsequently executed by the victimized browsers in the context of the vulnerable site. This thesis provides insights into different aspects of Cross-Site Scripting. First, we show that the concept of password managers, which aim to allow users to choose more secure passwords and, thus, increase the overall security of user accounts, is susceptible to attacks which abuse Cross-Site Scripting flaws. In our analysis, we found that almost all built-in password managers can be leveraged by a Cross-Site Scripting attacker to steal stored credentials. Based on our observations, we present a secure concept for password managers, which does not insert password data into the document such that it is accessible from the injected JavaScript code. We evaluate our approach from a functional and security standpoint and find that our proposal provides additional security benefits while not causing any incompatibilities. Our work then focusses on a sub-class of Cross-Site Scripting, namely Client-Side Cross-Site Scripting. We design, implement and execute a study into the prevalence of this class of flaws at scale. To do so, we implement a taint-aware browsing engine and an exploit generator capable of precisely producing exploits based on our gathered data on suspicious, tainted flows. Our subsequent study of the Alexa top 5,000 domains shows that almost one out of ten of these domains carry at least one Client-Side Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. We follow up on these flaws by analyzing the gathered flow data in depth in search of the root causes of this class of vulnerability. To do so, we first discuss the complexities inherent to JavaScript and define a set of metrics to measure said complexity. We then classify the vulnerable snippets of code we discovered according to these metrics and present the key insights gained from our analysis. In doing so, we find that the reasons for such flaws are manifold, ranging from simple unawareness of developers to incompatibilities between, otherwise safe, firstand third-party code. In addition, we investigate the capability of the state of the art of Cross-Site Scripting filters in the client, the XSS Auditor, finding that several conceptual issues exist which an attacker to subvert of its protection capabilities. In total, we show that the Auditor can be bypassed on over 80% of the vulnerable domains in our data set, highlighting that it is ill-equipped to stop Client-Side Cross-Site Scripting. Motivated by our findings, we present a concept for a filter targeting Client-Side Cross-Site Scripting, combining taint tracking in the browser in conjunction with taint-aware HTML and JavaScript parsers, allowing us to robustly protect users from such attacks.


Variations in solar UV irradiance at Lyman alpha are studied on short time scales (from days to months) after removing the long-term changes over the solar cycle. The SME/Lyman alpha irradiance is estimated from various solar indices using linear regression analysis. In order to study the nonlinear effects, Lyman alpha irradiance is modeled with a 5th-degree polynomial as well. It is shown that the full-disk equivalent width of the He line at 1083 nm, which is used as a proxy for the plages and active network, can best reproduce the changes observed in Lyman alpha. Approximately 72 percent of the solar-activity-related changes in Lyman alpha irradiance arise from plages and the network. The network contribution is estimated by the correlation analysis to be about 19 percent. It is shown that significant variability remains in Lyman alpha irradiance, with periods around 300, 27, and 13.5d, which is not explained by the solar activity indices. It is shown that the nonlinear effects cannot account for a significant part of the unexplained variation in Lyman alpha irradiance. Therefore, additional events (e.g., large-scale motions and/or a systematic difference in the area and intensity of the plages and network observed in the lines of Ca-K, He 1083, and Lyman alpha) may explain the discrepancies found between the observed and estimated irradiance values.


In this paper, the issues that need to be taken into account when analyzing the vibration state of rolling bearings with the defect "wear of the inner bearing cage" are touched upon. A design diagram of rolling bearings and a diagram of the forces acting on the bearings during their operation in a screw compressor are presented. Studies of the vibration state of rolling bearings on an operating screw compressor at a real industrial facility have been carried out. Vibration measurements were carried out when the compressor was operating with new bearings and with workers on whom there was obvious wear of the inner cage. The effect of wear of the inner bearing cage on the vibration state of the screw compressor is shown. It is established that for this type of bearing defect, in relation to the object un-der study, when analyzing the vibration state, the use of direct autospectral parameters is ineffective. For the case under consideration, the most effec-tive are the parameters of amplitude and frequency modulation.


A checklist of polychaete species recorded from El Salvador in the Pacific coast of Central America is presented (13°44'39'' N, 90°07'58'' W to 13°30'10'' N, 87°43'13'' W), including mainly estuaries, sandy beaches and sublittoral environments from El Salvador, Eastern Pacific, is reported. The checklist comprises 121 species belonging to 80 genera in 35 families currently know from the area. We provided a synthesis of the taxonomical and ecological work carried out until now that could guide to future research.


Capitalism is a system of accumulation that organizes production and social reproduction to extract surplus value. As it does so, accumulation generates those behaviors registered as crime by the state. This exploratory paper traces the impact of accumulation processes on urban variations in U.S. crime rates following the Second World War. The analysis focuses on the transition from industrial to corporate capitalism, core-periphery aspects of domestic investment shifts, and the effects of these trends on police and victim estimates of crime. Contributing to an empirically grounded theory of crime in advanced capitalism, findings show that selected personal and property crime rates vary with accumulation trends. In the United States, crime has increased steadily since the Second World War (Jacobson, 1975; Gurr, 1977) and, as a phenomenon requiring explanation, has led some scholars to examine the underlying economic and social processes generating it. Marxists, in following this approach, take "street crime" as an indication of the absolute deterioration of social life accompanying unemployment and underemployment (Crime and Social Justice, 1976). Although this tradition views unemployment and therefore crime as systemic consequences of economic crisis, it overlooks the possibility that economic expansion also generates crime. By broadening the research problem to include the incidence of crime in stages of both expansion and contraction we confront accumulation, the organizing process of capitalism. Accumulation organizes production for the extraction of surplus value but proceeds unevenly; capitalist investments shift, accelerating industrial development in one area but retarding it in another. Thus, we examine regional and metropolitan differences in the accumulation process and look at their impact on crime patterns. The evidence to be presented bears on the following generalizations about the effects of capitalist accumulation on the distribution of crime. In areas affected by the withdrawal of capital, the out-migration of highly paid workers and the marginalization of the remainder, accompanied by the absorption into the labor force of low-paid workers, women and youth, intensify central city distress and interpersonal conflict over the distribution of shrinking resources. High rates of interpersonal conflict, registered as "violent crime," characterize these metropolitan settings. In areas affected by the infusion of capital, the absorption of new workers into the manufacturing labor force depresses property and personal crimes. Expansion of the manufacturing labor force, however, occurs in the context of broader developments that signal the emergence of low density cities characterized by a comparatively even pattern of urban-suburban growth. Such dimensions of urban structure contrast sharply with the structural features associated with violent crime. They offset the low incidence of property crime attributed to increases in the size of the manufacturing labor force and are linked to high rates of property-threatening acts, recorded as "property crime."


Facing the background of regulation of the national macro policy and awareness of cultivated land protection, there is an important problem for the municipal government to utilize the underground space scientifically, effectively and rationally by the means of market economy. In this paper the investigation of Jiande City is introduced.


The lock mechanism for use with lever handles has a latch mechanism and the lock core, the lock core rigidly connected to the lock core so as not to rotate in the door. Does not require a through bolt can be used for small diameter it rose. It stops and the spring return mechanism is entirely located within the lock core, so it is possible to thin the rose. The lock core defines a rest position for the lever handles forms a small angle from the horizontal. The left and the right structure structure to eliminate the need to create a different lock, the lock core is made to be actually symmetrical with respect to the vertical plane instead of a horizontal plane, the inner and outer sides of the lock mechanism can be interchanged. The locking by solid locking member including a pair of locking lugs that direct bond to the inner periphery of the lock core can withstand the force of the evil that is applied through the lever handle. The end play is almost completely removed by using a collar connecting the inner and outer side of the lock to the interchangeable lock core to provide the texture of a good quality. The lock, the lever handle, the locking member, the latch bolt, the lock core, the latch mechanism.


Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC) is becoming more widely used in construction in recent years due to its favorable attributes, such as productivity improvements, reduced labor costs, improved work environment and safety, and improved product quality. The cast-in-place applications of SCC include bridges, buildings, drilled shafts and tunnel linings. Several challenges are associated with these applications, such as formwork pressure, pumpability, cross slope, and surface finish. This paper is a literature review of these challenges and presents the state-of-art studies and guidelines to address these challenges and improve the use of SCC in cast-in-place construction.


A bucket selector system has been developed for the KEKB collider. Three VME computers for actual bucketselecting, bunch-current reading and operator interface are working. The system provides a tool for generating the desired filling patterns in the rings.


The Aqueous humor concentration of norfloxacin was measured following topical administration in 20 eyes. The substance was applied at different time intervals. Nineteen samples obtained prior to catar


Preface M.Di Matteo - PART 1: INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN COUNTRIES - Fiscal and Monetary Interdependency in the Fitoussi-Phelps Two-Country World H.Frisch - Debts, Deficits and Growth in Interdependent Economies G.Alogoskoufis & F.van der Ploeg - A Two-Country Analysis of International Targeting of Nominal GNP J.A.Frankel & N.Funke - PART 2: REAL AND FINANCIAL INTEGRATION - The Dynamics of Capital Liberalization: a Macro-econometric Analysis G.Gandolfo & P.C.Padoan - A Common Monetary Standard or a Common Currency R.I.McKinnon - Traditional Comparative Advantages Vs Economies of Scale NAFTA and GATT G.Chichilnisky - PART 3: THE COMPLEX CONNECTIONS BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH - Trade in Primary Products: Price Instability: Causes and Remedies D.M.Newbery - A Dynamic Analysis of a North-South Trade Model M.Di Matteo


In this paper, a new methodology of fractional derivatives based upon Hermite polynomial is projected. The fractional derivatives are demonstrated according to Caputo sense. Hermite collocation technique is introduced to express the definite results of Bagley-Torvik Equations. The appropriateness and straightforwardness of numerical plan is presented by graphs and error tables.


Thrust faulting, folding, and penetrative compressional fabrics (e.g. spaced cleavage, pencils, and coal cleats) have been found in several outcrops within the central Deep River Basin (the southern Durham subbasin to the northern Wadesboro subbasin). The trend of these structures is nearly parallel to the basin, and may locally control the present geometry of the basin boundaries. These features are distributed throughout the stratigraphic section and across the entire width of the basin. In outcrops where relative timing can be determined, the compressional structures post-date all extensional and intrusive features associated with basin formation. In particular, thrusts cut across and displace basin-parallel normal faults and basin-normal cross-faults. All thrusts found to date verge northwest, and displacements of cross-fault boundaries indicate that transport was approximately 325[degree].


A series of 14 and 16‐membered octaazamacrocyclic complexes [ML1X2] and [ML2X2] [M = Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II), X = Cl or NO3] have been synthesized by a template condensation reaction of hydrazine with 1,3‐dibromopropane or 1,2‐dibromoethane and formaldehyde in methanol. The complexes and their overall geometry and stereochemistry have been characterized by elemental analyses, IR, 1H NMR, EPR, UV–Visible, magnetic susceptibility and conductivity measurements. An octahedral geometry is suggested for all of the complexes where two coordination sites are occupied by Cl or NO3 and the other four sites by secondary amines. The low conductivity data suggest that the complexes are non‐ionic.


Listening is considered as the most important skill for its role as the prerequisite to master the other skills. However, many students face difficulties to master the skill because their vocabularies are limited and students do not put attention during the learning process. To overcome the problem, this study used VOA news video to find the effect on students' listening ability. Therefore, the research objectives are 1) How is the effectiveness of using VOA news video on students' listening ability? 2) How is the students' perception on the use of VOA news video on their listening ability? This quasi experimental research populations were students of SMAN 1 Babakan 2017/2018, the samples were students of X IPA 1 consisted of 36 students and X IPA 2 consisted of 35 students. The instruments were two tests; pre-test and post-test and a questionnaire. The finding showed there was an effect from pre-test and post-test score in experimental class after listening VOA news video. The mean score of pre-test was 60.42 and the post-test was 87.14. The hypothesis test showed the significant score of regression was 0.000 because of significant score < 0.05 and t count (4.168) > t table (2.03452). Thus, H0 could not be accepted since there was an effect using VOA news video in students' listening ability. In addition, most students responded positively of VOA news video as the media in teaching listening. Therefore, VOA news video is recommended as a media for English teachers to teach listening skill.


For cubic maps, i.e. graphs regularly embedded in a compact surface, Euler's relation yields a formula connecting the number of n-sided faces for all n to the Euler characteristic of the surface. In this formula the number of hexagonal faces is missing. We introduce a new technique for constructing out of given maps new maps with the same facial structure except for the number of hexagonal faces, which is increased. This is used to obtain a characterization of combinations of numbers of 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-sided faces realizable by cubic maps on compact surfaces. This characterization is complete for the sphere, the torus and the Klein bottle, and conjectured to be complete for the projective plane.


The key benefits of the six-port receiver architecture, being a special type of direct conversion receivers, are its high bandwidth and low circuit complexity. This concept has been known on the one hand for precise phase measurement applications and on the other hand for complex valued data reception in the millimeter wave region. The work presented here shows a new approach for combining both principles in one six-port receiver. For the first time a method for simultaneous data reception and direction of arrival (DOA) detection will be presented requiring only one enhanced six-port front-end.


ABSTRACT Dietary regimes are frequently likened to religious movements on account of the fervor of advocates' adherence, and their enthusiastic proselytizing. Yet, beyond this somewhat pejorative use of the metaphor, analysis of the quasi-religious nature of diets can provide a valuable window into the subjective experiences of individuals undertaking stringent dietary regimes. Among Australian Paleo dieters, the increase in chronic illness and obesity prevalence is perceived as indicative of societal disorder, with the breakdown of the body reflecting broader economic, political and social malaise. The Paleo diet's embedded moralism provides an explanatory apparatus that makes sense of the world through notions of good and evil, in this way satisfying dieters' desires for cosmological meaning within their experiences of suffering. This moral symbolism filters into constructions of food as either pure or polluting, with "clean" eating and Paleo lifestyle transformations serving as quotidian expressions of agency, and a means of resistance to societal ills. The Paleo diet consequently exemplifies how the functions of traditional religion can be fulfilled by dietary practices within secular communities.


The paper deals with the problem of comparison of Digital Terrain Models, which were gained by different technologies for the same area. In the article a test area is examined and the data generated from laser scanning, topographic mapping and photogrammetric evaluation of aerial images are compared. In the article the scope, the accuracy and the reliability of the different methods are compared and evaluated; the results are demonstrated visually and in form of tables.


Abstract. Technological change is responsible for major changes in the labor market. One of the offspring of technological change is the SBTC, which is for many economists the leading cause of the increasing wage inequality. However, despite that the technological change affected similarly the majority of the developed countries, nevertheless, the level of the increase of wage inequality wasn't similar. Following the predictions of the SBTC theory, the different levels of inequality could be due to varying degrees of skill inequality between economies, possibly caused by variations in the number of skilled workers available. However, recent research shows that the difference mentioned above can explain a small percentage of the difference between countries. Therefore, most of the resulting inequality could be due to the different ways in which the higher level of skills is valued in each labor market. The position advocated in this article is that technological change is largely given for all countries without much scope to reverse. Therefore, in order to illustrate the changes in the structure of wage distribution that cause wage inequality, we need to understand how technology affects labor market institutions.In this sense, the pay inequality caused by technological progress is not a phenomenon we passively accept. On the contrary, recognizing that the structure and the way labor market institutions function is largely influenced by the way institutions respond to technological change, we can understand and maybe reverse this underlying wage inequality. Consequently, we would like to examine to what extent the reason behind the increase of wage inequality in some countries but not in others is attributed to the structure and the way the institutions of labor market work. In this article, we will attempt to examine this hypothesis by empirically elaboratingon the relationship between SBTC, inequality and labor market institutions. Keywords. Wage inequality, SBTC, Minimum wage, Trade unions, Collective bargaining. JEL. O10, J10, E50.


In the present paper, we introduce q-Sz´asz Mirakyan operators by taking the weight function of q- Chlodowsky-Durrmeyer operators on C[0;1) and investigate their approximation properties. We give weighted  approximation theorem.


The present invention provides a method of maintaining good moisture permeability and good water resistance medical, operation flexibility and adhesive sheet, and such a preparation method of effective medical adhesive sheet. The present invention provides a medical adhesive sheet comprising a substrate between a polyurethane, a layer of the adhesive layer, the nonwoven fabric alkene, and the adhesive layer with the adhesive, the amount of moisture permeability of 2000g / (m2 · 24Hrs) above; polyurethane base the maximum olefin nonwoven fabric made of polypropylene-based thermoplastic elastomer, and vertical and horizontal; thickness value within the range of 1 ~ 10μm; interlayer thickness of the adhesive layer is a value within a range of 5 ~ 30μm point elongation value 200% or more, respectively; and, pasting the adhesive layer with a thickness value within the range of 5 ~ 45μm.


Most adults embrace difference in themselves and others as something that enriches their lives, but that's rarely the case in the primary school playground - especially when it comes to disabilities. In this study guide, Kim Edwards shows how you can use three popular children's films to teach young students that being different or having disabilities is always okay.


This paper examined the theoretical and empirical literature on the determinants of the supply side intermediation performance of commercial banks in Nigeria. In order to realize the objectives of the study relevant quarterly time series data were collected from 1994 to 2005. In analyzing the data, the study employed one of the popular econometric techniques that has attracted much attention in dynamic empirical macro economic research (that is, the error correction model: ECM) with a view to knowing the predictive power. It was found that deposit interest rate (DRI), treasury bill rate (TBR) and foreign exchange rate (FER) are important determinants of the commercial banks deposit in Nigeria. It was also found that any estimation on the supply side intermediation performance of commercial banks involving the use of the ECM yields better and more reliable results than that involving the use of the orthodox ordinary least square (OLS) method. The paper recommended that in the interest of the economy, the policy of abandoning the traditional banking operation which is lending in preference to trading in the foreign exchange market should be reviewed and moderated.


Phenol is a major pollutant in the wastewater because of its presence in the effluent of major processing and refining plants. It has severe effect on human being, both short term and long term. Various methods are used for removal of the phenol from wastewater such as adsorption, photodecomposition, volatilization and other various biological and non-biological methods. In the present study attempt is done to present the survey of the research on the phenol removal by various methods. The methods such as Polymerization, electrocoagulation, extraction, photodecomposition, advanced oxidation and ion exchange were used effectively by various investigators. These methods are reported to be efficient for the phenol removal. Suitable method for phenol removal can be selected based on availability of the material, extent of separation required and properties of phenolic effluent.


Summary In this study, spectral decomposition, AVO analysis, seismic attributes, principal component analysis, supervised neural facies classification and waveform calibration were combined to delineate potential hydrocarbon bearing zones in plays from Western Canada.


This supplementary document is organized as follows: 1) more training details in Section 1; 2) details on network inference in Section 2; 3) detailed architectures in Section 3; 4) qualitative studies in Section 4. All notations are followed from the paper. 1. Training We defined the center heatmaps in Equation 1 from the paper such that the centers are converted into 2D Gaussian masks. The standard deviations σx and σy are computed based on the desired radii a and b along x-axis and y-axis, respectively: (σx, σy) = 1 3 (a, b) = 1 3 b( √ 2− 1) s/τ + 1c. (1) The values of a and b are determined by Eq.(1) such that for any point within the ellipse region of radii a and b, when using it as a center to create a bounding box of object size s, the bounding box has at least 0.5 intersection over union (IoU) with the GT bounding box. Then the prediction of center heatmaps can be supervised by forms of distance losses such as Gaussian focal loss [5, 7, 13] with hyper-parameters α = 2 and γ = 4 for weight balancing. Let Ô be the predicted center heatmap, then the pixel-wise loss LOc,x,y is defined as: LOc,x,y = { (1− Ôc,x,y) log(Ôc,x,y) if Oc,x,y = 1 (Ôc,x,y) (1−Oc,x,y) log(1− Ôc,x,y) o/w. (2) 2. Inference In this section, we provide more details on inference and post-processing of our proposed fully convolutional scene *Work done in part as an intern at Futurewei Technologies Inc. graph generation (FCSGG). Our model outputs four dense feature maps: center heatmaps Ô, center offsets ∆̂ , object sizes Ŝ and relation affinity fields (RAFs) F̂. To get the object centers, we follow the same step in [13]. Specifically, a in-place sigmoid function is applied to the predicted center heatmaps Ô such that their values are mapped into the range of [0, 1]. Then a 3 × 3 max pooling is applied to center heatmaps for filtering duplicate detections. For a point p = (x, y), the value of Ôc,x,y is considered as the measurement of the center detection score for object class c. Then peaks in center heatmaps are extract for each object class independently. We keep the top 100 peaks by their scores and get a set of object centers {o} i=1 with object classes {c} i=1. To get the corresponding center offset and object size given a detected object center ô = (x̂, ŷ), we simply gather the values from ∆̂ and Ŝ at ô. We can get the center offset δ̂ i = ∆̂x̂i,ŷi = (δ̂ i x, δ̂ i y), and the object size ŝ = Ŝx̂i,ŷi = (ŵ x, ĥ i y). Finally, the bounding box (x̂0, ŷ i 0, x̂ i 1, ŷ i 1) of object b̂ i can be recovered by x̂0 = ( x̂ + δ̂ x − ŵ/2 ) · τ ŷ 0 = ( ŷ + δ̂ y − ĥ/2 ) · τ x̂1 = ( x̂ + δ̂ x + ŵ /2 ) · τ ŷ 1 = ( ŷ + δ̂ y + ĥ /2 ) · τ, (3) where τ is the stride of the output features. As for multi-scale prediction, we gather the top 100 detected objects for each scale, then perform a per-class nonmaximum suppression (NMS) and keep the top 100 boxes from all the detections, e.g., if there are 5 scales, we will keep the top 100 boxes from the 500 boxes across all the five scales. 2.1. Path Integral For multi-scale RAFs, we select the valid object pairs from the kept 100 detections {o} i=1 following the rule defined in Section 4.2 from the paper. For example, we define


Timothy Hildebrandt says with the end of China's one-child policy, family expectations to produce an offspring will eventually ease on the only child who happens to be gay or lesbian


Fundamental component of any personalization application is user profiling. The existing user profiling strategies are based on users interest (i.e. positive preferences).The main focus is on search engine personalization and to develop several concept-based user profiling methods. Concept-based user profiling methods deals with both positive and negative preferences. This user profiles can be integrated into the ranking algorithm of a search engine so that search result can be ranked according to individual users interest. The RSCF makes a search of data containing the item in the search results, the required data is been clicked by the user and this clicked data is given as the input and generates the rankers as the output.. The negative preference increases the separation between the similar and dissimilar queries. This separation provides a clear threshold for agglomerative clustering algorithm and improves the overall quality.


__________________________________________________________________________ Introduction. The basal ganglia of the dominant brain hemisphere have numerous connections with associating frontal lobe cortex, which has a strategic importance for the programming of the speech, the linguistic and articulation patterns creation. The ischaemic stroke involving basal ganglia can cause aphasic speech disturbances (the subcortical aphasia); the influence of the subcortical lesion on the creation and variability of speech sounds could not be excluded. The aim of the study is the fundamental frequency (F0) and formants F1–F4 estimation of vowel "a" in patients with basal ganglia ischaemic lesion in dominant for speech cerebral hemisphere. Material and methods. The study comprised 28 right-handed patients (16 women, 12 men; mean age 54,2 years), with ischaemic lesion involving basal ganglia in the left hemisphere and 30 healthy persons (mean age 52,7 years). Computer speech analysis was performed in all persons using acoustic program "Iris". Patients with aphasia and dysarthria were excluded. A vowel "a" pronounced for 5 s was analyzed. Fundamental frequency (F0) and and formants F1–F4 variation were analyzed. Results. Dispersion of formants F2–F4 frequencies was significantly higher in patients with ischaemic lesion in left hemisphere in comparison to the controls. Fundamental frequency F0 and F1 formant showed similar stability in the both groups. Ryszard Podemski i wsp., Zmienność akustycznych parametrów mowy w udarze podkorowym www.um.viamedica.pl 17 Conclusions. Lesion in subcortical structures in dominant brain hemisphere cause desynchronization of vowel formants speech components (formants F2–F4), resulting in their higher dispersion within the range of various frequencies. Obtained results suggest that acoustic parameters of speech sounds depend also on central mechanisms of speech.


Self-calibrated interferometric-intensity-based optical fiber sensors were described.The center wavelength of the light-emitting diode(LED) light source is 1310 nm.Coarse wavelength division multiplexer(CWDM) was used to split the reflected lights from the F-P cavity into two branches,which contain a narrowband spectrum and a broadband spectrum.The ratio of them can eliminate the influence of the fluctuation of the light source output power and fiber loss.The sensor system that combines the advantages of the interferometry and intensity-based device can measure both static and dynamic strain.Experimental results show that in the static strain measurement,the full scale of 200 and the minimum resolution of 0.5 can be reached.In the dynamic strain measurements the accurate frequency of the cantilever can be obtained.


Part 1 The normal lens: transparency metabolism crystallins membrane and cytoskeletal proteins. Part 2 The ageing lens: physical changes metabolic changes changes to crystallins changes to plasma membranes and cytoskeleton. Part 3 The epidemiology of cataract: the size of the problem prevalence and incidence case-control studies diabetes diarrhoe, malnutrition, poverty and sunlight renal failure hypertension and diuretics myopia miscellaneous risks cataract and mortality. Part 4 Experimental opacification of the lens in vivo and in vitro: sugar cataract radiation cataract cynate, isocyanates, urea and cataract steroid-induced cataract selenite-induced cataract genetic cataracts calcium and opacification oxidation and opacification phase seperation opacification (cold cataract) miscellaneous cataracts synergistic cataracts common pathways to cataract. Part 5 Human cataract: physical changes metabolic changes changes to crystallins changes to membranes common pathways to human cataract. Part 6 Prevention and therapy: prevention by eliminating causes anti-cataract agents.


T HE OUSTER OF Antonin Novotny as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPC) is a major watershed in the history of the Communist movement. Under the stewardship of Alexander Dubcek, Novotny's successor, the CPC leadership is striving to achieve what no Communist regime, save possibly the Yugoslav, has ever attempted, viz., a radical overhaul of its political system. What is of particular significance here is that many of Dubcek's reforms run contrary to the classical principles and practices of Communist rule. As the policies already adopted (and those impending) indicate, Dubcek seeks more than just personnel changes and policy modifications; he seeks more than just to eradicate the ugly and repressive qualities of Czechoslovak public life associated with the harsh rule of his predecessor. Far greater things are involved. The new leadership is striving to change the Czechoslovak political system at its very foundations. In fact, Dubcek is attempting to remold Czechoslovakia according to an imaginative and radically-innovative "new political model." Before discussing the content of these reforms, a word about their origins. Under Novotny's leadership, Czechoslovakia was regarded, along with East Germany, as the staunchest bastion of Stalinism and dogmatism. In the eyes of the world, Czechoslovakia was Moscow's "docile," "loyal," "stable" satellite. This reputation was well-deserved for, since it came to power in 1948, the Czechoslovak Party leadership established one of the most orthodox and repres-


The present knowledge on, and interpretation of, the asymmetry of Stokes V of spectral lines thought to be formed in and around magnetic flux tubes is reviewed. Crude models of non-linear oscillations in the flux tube were investigated in order to explain the observed values of Stokes V amplitude and area asymmetry. It was found that flux tube models with quasi-oscillatory motions, consisting of a slow upflow and a rapid downflow in the magnetic region, as well as a downflow in the non-magnetic surroundings, may reproduce the observations, both asymmetries and zero-crossing shift of Stokes V


High-speed target often suffers from the range walk (RW) problem within the process of long-time coherent integration (CI). The aim of this paper is to present a new coherent detection algorithm, i.e., modified location rotation transform (MLRT), which could effectively correct the RW and estimate the velocity of the high-speed target. In particular, the MLRT algorithm could rotate the coordinate locations of echo data to remove the RW and estimate the velocity via searching the rotation angles. Then, the CI of target's energy is obtained via the Fourier transform along the slow-time direction. The advantage of the MLRT is that it could achieve superior integration and detection performance and avoid the blind speed sidelobe effect without increasing the computational complexity, in comparison with other representative algorithms. Simulations and real data processing are provided to evaluate the efficacy and feasibility of the proposed algorithm.


With the purpose to scrutinise ethnic identity as it negotiates through times of change, this thesis focuses on how the identity of the Karen in northern Thailand has been defined in the context tourism. The meeting of the Karen with foreign tourists and Thai tour guides is studied through the notion that inter-ethnic relations are necessary for ethnic identity to exist. Interviews and participant observation were carried out in order to understand the Karen's self-ascribed identity. As a result, this thesis illustrates how cultural expressions were used by the Karen to present themselves, demarcate their ethnic boundary, and utilised as a strategy in dealing with disputes. Furthermore ethnic identity persists, although the Karen's definition of it may change through the adaptation of cultural forms.

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To establish an analytical method for determining coumoxystrobin residues in apple and soil.[Methods] Coumoxystrobin residues in apple and soil were abstracted by acetonitrile,extracted with ethyl acetate,cleaned up with neutral alumina column,and determined by HPLC-UV.[Results] The average recoveries in apple and soil were 80.7-83.6%,83.5-93.9%,and the coefficient of variation were 3.3-6.9%,1.5-6.7% respectively.The limit of detection of coumoxystrobin was 5×10-10 g,the limit of quantification was 0.05 mg/kg.[Conclusions] The method is simple and reliable,meet to the requirement of pesticide residues analysis,and could be applied for determining coumoxystrobin residues in apple and soil.


The present invention belongs to the technical field of metallurgy, in particular to a hard mineral, mineral composite and a method and apparatus for the separation of iron slag chemical reduction of iron scrap iron. The present invention is between grate and rotary kiln is provided with a secondary combustion chamber, the top of the secondary combustion chamber is provided with a gas conduit, and connected with the gas pipe through the top grate, the grate and the bottom of the regenerator fan connected to form a flue gas circuit, and is attached to the lance and the coal particles in the pulverized coal lance outlet of the rotary kiln; method of the present invention is a hard mineral, ore and iron scrap shredding compound in the form of pellets in a rotary kiln separation of iron and slag reduction. The method of the present invention is applied directly in the grade of 35% to 55% lower stay lean ore, iron ore and scrap composite, after which direct reduction, then sorted out over 90% of high-grade products reduced iron, scrap alternative quality burden, this patent enables low stay lean and mineral resources of renewable resources and to lay a solid foundation, but also laid the foundation for the development of short process steel, on the other hand saving energy.


What keeps the herd from running, Stampeding far and wide? The cowboy's long, low whistle, And singing by their side.


The island of Kalimantan are still shortcomings in fulfilling the needs of
electrical energy. It is estimated that by 2013 electrification in Kalimantan by 71%,
from 44.5% in 2004. Kalimantan has the energy potential of coal, oil and some water.
Kalimantan has the Cost of Provision (HPP) is high, particularly in West Kalimantan
Rp. 3.200.00/kWH. Kalimantan has extensive oil palm plantations. Palm has a solid
industrial waste in the form of shells, fiber and empty fruit bunches, which left so it
can be utilized as a source of electrical energy. PT Perkebunan Nusantara XIII
(Persero) which has 9 garden and 7 mills have the opportunity to generate electric
energy. It required the mapping of potential energy generated, the location, technical
and economic analysis.
The study begins by taking the data for each plant. The data include the
number of oil palm fruits are processed per day lowered into the number processed
per hour


The brain, one of the main organs in the human body, has been extensively studied throughout the history of medicine. Some brain parameters, particularly the hemodynamic parameters, are associated to several brain disorders. Due to this connection, NIRS (Near infrared spectroscopy) techniques play a key role in brain research – they measure such parameters in order to potentially exploit the early-detection process. NIRS devices make use of near infrared spectrum, light between 650nm and 950nm, to measure various parameters non-invasively and changes of the tissue such as concentrations of oxy-(HbO2) and deoxyhaemoglobin (HbR) main absorbers of most tissues in this spectral range and related to blood oxygenation and volume changes. TM-NIRS, CW-NIRS and FD-NIRS combined with code-modulation techniques are commonly used for medical purposes. Nowadays, new modulation techniques for wireless communication are being developed and could be even used in NIRS techniques. Based on this fact, this thesis provides a review of existing NIRS modulations and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. The main aim was to build a new simple, affordable, and operative NIRS transmitter that can be utilised in digital modulation techniques focusing on human and mice measurements. In addition, this project was aimed to exploit 3D printing sensor design techniques and the testing process of the designed device. A 4kHz emitter with 4 high-power LEDs, a clock signal generator, decade counters and a receiver was designed and tested. Furthermore, PPG signal-NIRS optodes and a prototype of a phantom head were designed and 3D printed.


This article is a summary of the methods of a family-oriented rehabilitative project at Espoo Mental Health Center for young patients who have been discharged from a psychiatric hospital where they have been treated for their first psychotic episode. The article discribes the first application of the so-called psycho-educational approach to this population. The therapy emphasizes co-work with the family by actively trying to help the parents give up guilt feelings which are thought of as a major hindrance to the developement of a working alliance. The family is also given clear information on schizophrenia, the different theories on etiology, medication, rehabilitation possibilities in the community, prognosis and factors influencing it etc. The parents are explicitly taught how to deal with negative symptoms, aggresion, nonsensical talk, etc. The general feeling is that this type of work gives parents information that they need to cope with the illness. It also seems to be of value for the developement o...


Analysis of how motion characteristics of radar platform influence imaging is the premise of researching on motion compensation,detection,recognition and tracking methods.Aiming at the problem of radar platform motion characteristics and its effect on range profile,the study firstly analyzed the motion characteristics of radar platform,gave an LFM signal model based on motion platform,and quantitatively analyzed the influence on range profile which result from the motion characteristics of the radar platform.It is concluded that,under the condition of general radar platform,the micro-motion of platform influencing the radial velocity/acceleration can be ignored;the translational-motion of platform is the main factor influencing the range profile,the micro-motion of platform have little influence on range profile;radial acceleration influencing the range profile can be ignored.Finally,the simulation results verify the correctness of conclusion.


Galaxy-scale strong lensing is a powerful tool in Astrophysics and Cosmology, enabling studies of massive galaxies' internal structure, their formation and evolution, stellar initial mass function, and cosmological parameters. In this conference proceeding, we highlight key findings from the past decade in astrophysical applications of strong lensing at the galaxy scale. We then briefly summarize the present status of discovery and analyses of new samples from recent or ongoing surveys. Finally, we offer insights into anticipated developments in the upcoming era of big data shaping the future of this field, thanks to the Rubin, Euclid, and Roman observatories.


High powered lasers have been used in dermatological procedures such as tattoo removal. This use is associated with a potential, biological hazard of high speed tissue particles from the laser field. It has been proposed that by applying a clear dermatological would dressing directly over the laser treatment site, it may be possible to completely trap the potentially airborne tissue particles from the procedure. Some important questions must be addressed prior to the implementation of such a technique. While the use of a wound dressing may significantly reduce the airborne materials during the laser procedures, new problems may arise: 1 . The wound dressing or some of its components may absorb excessive amount of light energy. This would result in a very localized temperature rise which may be harmful to the patient; 2. The smooth surface of the wound dressing material could induce specular reflection of the incident laser beam, thus introducing a laser hazard to the staff and patient. To address these possible problems, we studied a series of ClearSite Wound Dressings which have been reportedly tested for such laser procedures. The objective of the studies were, to determine if the use of ClearSite in conjunction with laser procedures poses a possible hazard to either the patient or to the Operating Room personnel, and to determine the effect of the ClearSite dressing on the optical characteristics of the light beam. The latter includes light absorption and transmittance for various wavelengths.


It has recently been shown that a multi-channel linear prediction can effectively achieve blind speech dereverberation based on maximum-likelihood (ML) estimation. This approach can estimate and cancel unknown reverberation processes from only a few seconds of observation. However, one problem with this approach is that speech distortion may increase if we iterate the dereverberation more than once based on Itakura-Saito (IS) distance minimization to further reduce the reverberation. To overcome this problem, we introduce speech log-spectral priors into this approach, and reformulate it based on maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation. Two types of priors are introduced, a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) of speech log spectra, and a GMM of speech mel-frequency cepstral coefficients. In the formulation, we also propose a new versatile technique to integrate such log-spectral priors with the IS distance minimization in a computationally efficient manner. Preliminary experiments show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.


In frictionless and rational markets, perfect substitutes must have the same price. In markets with trading costs, however, price differences may be as large as the costs of executing the arbitrage between markets. Moreover, if trading costs differ, trading activity will tend to be concentrated in the lowest-cost market. This study tests the differential trading cost hypothesis by examining the rate at which new information is incorporated in stock, index futures, and index option prices. The lead/lag return relations among markets are consistent with their relative trading costs. Prices in the index derivative markets appear to lead prices in the stock market. At the same time, index futures prices tend to lead index option prices, and the prices of index calls and index puts move together. The trading cost hypothesis reconciles the disparity found between the temporal relation in the stock index/index derivative markets versus the stock/stock option markets.


Currently, different advanced technologies are implemented in power networks, with aim to improve power quality and reliability of grid operation. Naturally, Distribution Automation and Management Systems (DAMS), Smart power equipment, Advanced Metering Structure, Distributed Energy Resources and/or systems Demand Response are implemented in electricity distribution networks. Smart Grid Solutions coordinate different advanced technologies in an efficient energy management system. Outline Smart Grid Solutions, with investments of estimation, possible benefits and operation costs, is presented in this article, with estimation of cost-effectiveness in a lifetime of particular systems.


Chromosome translocations involving the monocytic leukemia zinc finger (MOZ) gene occurs often in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) of monocytoid phenotype (FAB types M4 or M5). The resulting MOZ-related fusions include MOZ-CBP, MOZ-P300, and MOZ-TIF2. MOZ has been identified as a histone acetyltransferase of unknown function. MOZ has been demonstrated to interact directly with RUNX1 to regulate RUNX1-mediated transcription and the MOZ-CBP fusion disrupted RUNX1-mediated transcription activity. The MOZ fusion partners CBP and p300 are transcription coactivators with histone acetyltransferase activity; TIF2 is a nuclear receptor coactivator which recruits CBP/P300 in receptor activation. In an animal model, the MOZ-TIF2 fusion successfully induced the occurrence of AML. The leukemia transformation depended on a nucleosome binding motif in MOZ and two CBP binding motifs in TIF2 partner. However, the detailed molecular events relevant to leukemogenesis by MOZ-TIF2 have not been elucidated. We have constructed a MOZ-TIF2 fusion and investigated the effects of this fusion on global gene expression in U937 cells. The U937 cell line with expression of MOZ-TIF2 or wild type MOZ gene were established by stable transfection with pcDNA3-MOZ-TIF2 and pcDNA3-MOZ. RNA was isolated from the early passage of stably transfected U937 cells with TRI reagent® - RNA/DNA/protein isolation reagent according to the manufacturer's protocol. The expression of MOZ-TIF2 in the established cell line was verified by RT-PCR with specific primers for the fusion gene. The examination of global gene expression with Affymetrix gene chip was conducted on the human U95A array. Ten micrograms of total RNA was used. Synthesis of cRNA and subsequent hybridization was completed by the Core Facility at LSUHSC-S according the standard Affymetrix protocol. The human U95A array represents 12,256 oligonucleotides of known genes or expression tags. The gene chip experiment was repeated once for each established cell line with the forced expressed fusion or wild type gene. The raw data was collected and analyzed for the detection and log ratio of each gene or expression tag with the Affymetrix Microarray Suite with the scale set at 2500. The results were further analyzed with GeneSifter.Net. Compared to the expression profile of control cells stably transfected with pcDNA3 vector alone, a > 5-fold change in expression was seen with 49 genes increasing and 32 genes decreasing expression in MOZ-TIF2 expressing cells (p = 0.01). In cells overexpressing wild type MOZ, gene expression increased >5-fold in 411 genes and decreased >5-fold in 48 genes. In a comparison of MOZ expressing cells to MOZ-TIF2 expressing cells a >5-fold change of expression was seen in 296 genes with increased expression in 256 and decreased expression in 40 genes. Among the differentially expressed genes, the c-Myc oncogene expression was increased a strikingly with a 29-fold in MOZ-TIF2 expressing cells over the control cells. Our results suggest that MOZ-TIF2 fusion may interfere with the function of wild type MOZ during the development of myeloid cells by inhibiting MOZ-mediated transcription. In addition, an alternative pathway involving c-Myc may also play an important role in MOZ-TIF2 related leukemogenesis.


How to apply clustering algorithm to effectively cluster large-scale data is an important research topic in data mining. Based on an in-depth analysis of the Hadoop platform architecture and Canopy-kmeans clustering algorithm, the Canopy-kmeans algorithm was optimized and parallelized. The data packets are clustered after grouping and sampling by statistical thinking to facilitate parallelization and reduce time complexity. The Canopy initial center point selection was optimized using the minimum-maximum principle, and data outlier average sampling method was used to ensure the uniform extraction of data samples from the original data, and the k-means iterative calculation process was optimized. Combined with the MapReduce framework under the Hadoop platform, the improved algorithm is designed and implemented in parallel. Experiments show that the improved Canopy-Kmeans parallel algorithm is effective and convergent when clustering massive amounts of numerical data, and it has a certain degree of improvement in the clustering accuracy and timeliness.


The seed production feasibility of approved hybrid varieties of rice were assessed using 15 commercially approved varieties comprising four public hybrids. Higher seed yield potentiality and earliness in maturity were the two most important indicators for popularizing hybrid rice variety in Bangladesh. The field performance of the approved hybrid rice varieties were found to vary significantly for different traits. Maximum outcrossing potential was observed in SL08HA followed by BRRI hybrid dhan2A but F 1 seed yield per plant was the highest in BRRI hybrid dhan3A due to its high tillering ability followed by BRRI hybrid dhan2A, ACI1A and Heera2A. Among the tested entries F 1 seed production potentiality of BRRI hybrid dhan3A was maximum indicated its commercial prospect of large scale seed production. Public bred hybrid BRRI hybrid dhan3 and BRRI hybrid dhan2 has immense potentiality for large scale commercialization but BRRI should ensure the quality of parental lines seed as well as supply sufficient amount of seeds according to the demand. Private company hybrids ACI1H and Heera2H have good commercial prospects but seed production under Bangladesh conditions needs to be fine tune.