New York State's Mined Land Reclamation Law of 1975 committed the state to the balanced policy of assuring the orderly development of its mineral deposits while mitigating adverse environmental effects of the mining process. A new mining operation requires a permit from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), with the permit based on a mining plan and a reclamation plan. Because the state cannot contravene town land use laws, operating a new property usually requires action also by the town in which the mining is to occur. Thus situations arise in which the state issues a permit but the town does not. However, the state law has proved helpful in that the DEC has a professionally trained staff that understands the mineral industry, its environmental impacts, and their mitigation. The presence of the staff and the advice they give is that of a detached third party that can answer questions with professional objectivity. In the event that the town requests an environmental impact statement (EIS), the DEC helps by supplying a format for the EIS and evaluating it once completed. Although the state does not assure that needed deposits can be developed, the Mined Land Reclamation Law has made it possible that some deposits have been developed that otherwise may not have been. The DEC has ultimately approved more than 90 percent of the requests for mining permits. However, there are no statistics about the number of mining permits that ultimately have received local approval.


Commission decided to extend its ban on meat and bone meal (MBM) in feedstuffs. This decision has confirmed and extended the Commission Decision of 29 December 2000 specifying the ban on certain materials in animal feeds after the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) crisis has suddenly reappeared. The prohibition on the use of protein derived from all mammalian tissues in feedstuffs was initially stated by the Commission Decision 94/381/EC after the outbreak of the "mad cow" epidemic and its probable relationship with new variant Creutzfeld–Jacob disease in humans. In fact, all processed animal proteins are forbidden from use in the feeding of all animals. Exceptions are made for some processed animal proteins (fish meal and hydrolysed animal proteins) and dicalcium phosphate which may be used to feed animals other than ruminants. To be implemented and policed, the ban requires analytical methods for control laboratories throughout Europe. To propose analytical solutions to this problem, a consortium of 10 European partners (see Figure 1), led by the Agricultural Research Centre of Gembloux, submitted a research proposal to Brussels. The STRATFEED project (www.stratfeed. cragx.be) has been accepted and financed by the European Commission. The project is entitled "Strategies and methods to detect and quantify mammalian tissues in feedstuffs" and regroups teams involved in the analysis of feed using different techniques. The STRATFEED project is centred around three techniques: classical microscopy, PCR methodology using the last developments in molecular biology and near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. The classical microscopic method is currently the only official method for the detection of MBM in feedstuffs accepted throughout Europe.1 This method is based on the microscopic identification and estimation of sieved and decanted fractions of particles (mainly bones) of animal origin in feedstuffs. Since the examination is visual, the results depend on the analyst's knowledge of various features of the ingredients and the application of the microscopic technique. The speed of the method is around four to six samples a day. The DNA technology (PCR) method is based on the detection of taxon-specific DNA sequences from a number of heterogeneous matrices. By using the PCR-based procedures and appropriate primer pairs, the technology allows a rapid and sensitive detection of taxon specific DNA-sequences from MBM. Two additional methods based on infrared spectroscopy were added: NIR spectroscopy and NIR microscopy. NIR spectroscopy meets all the criteria of speed of response, reliability, cost-effectiveness and fitness for a radically new approach to qualifying raw materials (ingredients) and finished feed products. It can analyse a sample in a few seconds even for multiple constituents and, importantly, it is nondestructive. This feature is important since it permits further analysis or a second expert assessment. When integrated in any official quality control system in trade or industry, NIR spectroscopy will allow the number of samples analysed to increase and provides an instantaneous method to detect and flag suspected materials. The application of NIR spectroscopy to the detection and quantification of MBM in feed is mainly based on two preliminary and pioneering works done by Professor Ana Garrido from the University of Córdoba and Dr Ian Murray from the Scottish Agriculture College, Aberdeen, both members of the STRATFEED consortium. In their feasibility study on the use of the quantitative prediction of MBM added to a feed compound and presented in 1998 at the Workshop "Identification of animal ingredients in compound feed focusing on the microscopic method for identification" of the CEMA group held in Lingby,2 Professor Ana Garrido and Victor Fernández-Cabanas have shown the possibility to calibrate a NIR spectrometer for the quantification of MBM in feedstuffs. At the same time, Dr Ian Murray has prepared an internal report entitled "Authentication of fish meals by the near infrared reflectance spectroscopy with particular reference to the absence of land animal tissues". This work will be followed by a publication in Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy. These studies have demonstrated the potential of NIR spectroscopy in the detection of MBM in fish meals. In the framework of the STRATFEED project, the NIR approach will be developed and validated as a screening method to classify unknown samples and also to detect and quantify the addition of mammalian tissues in feedstuffs. In addition to the teams of Professor Ana Garrido and Dr Ian Murray, the teams of Rob Frankhuizen from the State Institute for Quality Control of Agricultural Products in Wageningen (RIKILT, The Netherlands), Alba Puigdomenech from the Laboratory of the Autonomous Government of Catalonia in Barcelona (LAGC, Spain), Jos Zegers from Nutreco (The


Vision, Values & Courage is a timely book which points to some of the basic issues involved in management and leadership. We are constantly being bombarded with new buzz words such as quality circles, total quality management (TQM), reengineering, globalization, diversity, and finally the &dquo;vision thing&dquo; as our last president pointed out in his campaigns. We are offered these as a panacea to our economic and cultural ills. Seldom have I noticed any serious efforts to examine what they really mean. Two professors from the Mclntyre School at the University of Virginia and a consultant from Arthur Anderson have written a book that gets to the heart of the discussion about quality and leadership.


Numerical methods for the simulation of solidification developed during the past three decades are summarized. The first part of this overview deals with models for binary metallic alloys predicting the type and amount of solidifying phases and the concentration distribution in these phases. Cellular as well as columnar and equiaxed dendritic structures are considered. Possible factors of influence (e.g. solid state diffusion, coarsening of the dendrite arms, undercooling effects) are described. The published approaches are critically discussed and open questions are defined. The inclusion of all effects which affect microsegregation has been successfully carried out only in a few cases. These complete models are able to make very accurate predictions of microsegregation and concentration distributions.


Flutter instability of bridge decks due to wind forces is one of the major problems that can be encountered during lifting phase. To counteract this, three solutions are possible: (i) by changing the stiffness of the deck section by modifying its geometry, (ii) by changing the aerodynamic properties of the deck or (iii) by adding damping to the model. While the second solution (ii) was previously explored for a real case at Third Bosphorus Bridge, the present paper investigates the latter by implementing an unconventional technique namely Tuned Liquid Dampers (TLD). Using a scaled model (1:100), an experimental study in the Wind Tunnel (WT) was conducted with the purpose of testing the efficiency of TLDs by varying parameters such as height or position of the water tanks which provides the maximum critical wind speed.


We generated dark solitons at a repetition rate of 25 GHz and experimentally investigated their soliton transmission in a normal dispersion fiber. The experimental result exhibited good agreement on the theory.


Detailed workload specification, extensive response time requirements, and precise modeling of software behavior characterize capacity management of these complex, embedded computer systems. T his article describes capacity management of the current 9020 T en-route air traffic control, or ATC, computer system, the soon-to-beoperational host computer sy'tem, or HCS, and the future Advanced Automation System, or AAS. The goal of capacity management is to ensure that performance requirements for services supported by the ATC computer systems are always satisfied. The central capability required to satisfy this goal is the prediction of future computer system performance. As shown in Figure 1, predictions of future performance are required for advanced planning and decision making. Performance predictions provide data for sizing the computer systems at operational sites. Prediction of shortfalls in performance wehl in advance of their occurrence allows preventive actions to be taken. Advance knowledge can prevent the degradation ofperformance or the necessity of limiting system functionality to alleviate capacity overload conditions. Figure I illustrates how the predictive function is dependent upon data from other capacity management elements. Accuracy of this supporting data is critical to the accuracy of the predictive performance models. Definitions of the expected future workload and future functional enhancements are used by the model to predict future computer system performance. Measured values of current workload and performance parameters are used to validate performance models and verify the proper current performance ofthe systems. Operationally, measured data are used to validate assumptions made in the model. Shortfalls in capacity have occurred in the current 9020 systems. In part these shortfalls were caused by the lack of a reliable performance prediction capability. A major challenge in capacity management for the new HCS was to develop a tool for ongoing prediction ofperformance-a performance model to provide regular, timely, and accurate predictions of performance


ABSTRACT Contemporary global issues can be examined through the lens of modern photographic art. In an effort to prepare global-ready graduates, this article explores the pressing problems of environmental degradation, urbanization, and homelessness through the work of three contemporary artists. Illustrative works, suggested approaches, and curriculum resources are provided.


Shield tunneling technology,with its unique intelligent,safe,fast,wide applicability formation characteristics and so on.Based on the above advantages that the process in the metro engineering construction is rapid popularization in China,but this construction method in the metro construction processing may still caused the surface subsidence and ground collapse dangerous.How to reducing due to construction that caused influenced the ground and surrounding building structure.Accumulating engineering construction that related experience and lessons.A Shield technology personnel which the topics be addressed.In this paper,the subway shield tunneling construction induced ground collapse of the typical accident case handling process to conduct a comprehensive,detailed analysising,proposed in view of the ground collapse accident treatment recommendations.A vie that reducing or preventing the occurrence of similar accidents.In order to providing beneficial reference and helping.


Objective To explore the application effect of cluster nursing in the treatment of intra-aortic balloon counter pulsation. Methods Two hundred and forty patients with the treatment of intra-aortic balloon counter pulsation in CCU were chosen and divided into the observation group and the control group according to random number table, each with 120 cases. The control group received the routine nursing, and the observation group received the cluster nursing including strengthening risk evaluation, improving basic nursing, proper anticoagulant therapy, cooperation nursing and psychological nursing of extubation. The complications and average hospitalization time in patients of the two groups were observed. Results The overall incidence rate of complications in the observation group was 10.0%, and were lower than 20.8% in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant ( X2 = 5.40, P 〈 0. 05 ). The average length of hospital stays was ( 10.55 + 2.19) d in the observation group, and was less than ( 17.65 ± 2.21 ) d in the control gwup, and the difference was statistically significant (t = - 10. 217, P 〈 0.05). Conclusions Application of cluster nursing in the treatment of intra - aortic balloon counter pulsation can effectively reduce the incidence of complications, and shorted the hospital stays in CCU, and has a positive significance to improve the quality of medical and nursing.

Key words:
Saccule and utricle;  Cluster nursing;  Intra-aortic balloon counter pulsation


Abstract As a consequence of the static Jahn‐Teller effect of the 5E ground state of MnIII in cubic structures with octahedral parent geometries, their octahedral coordination spheres become distorted. In the case of six fluorido ligands, [MnF6]3− anions with two longer and four shorter Mn−F bonds making elongated octahedra are usually observed. Herein, we report the synthesis of the compound K3[MnF6] through a high‐temperature approach and its crystallization by a high‐pressure/high‐temperature route. The main structural motifs are two quasi‐isolated, octahedron‐like [MnF6]3− anions of quite different nature compared to that met in ideal octahedral MnIII Jahn‐Teller systems. Owing to the internal electric field of Ci symmetry dominated by the next‐neighbour K+ ions acting on the MnIII sites, both sites, the pseudo‐rhombic (site 1) and the pseudo‐tetragonally elongated (site 2) [MnF6]3− anions are present in K3[MnF6]. The compound was characterized by single‐crystal and powder X‐ray diffraction, and magnetometry as well as by FTIR, Raman, and ligand field spectroscopy. A theoretical interpretation of the electronic structure and molecular geometry of the two Mn sites in the lattice is given by using a vibronic coupling model with parameters adjusted from multireference ab‐initio cluster calculations.


The Indian telecom industry is one of the fastest growing in the world and second largest mobile market globally. The Indian cell phone market is characterized by a large subscriber base (545 million connections as on May, 2010, expected to reach 876.6 million in 2013), low average revenue per user (INR 209 as on March 2009) and high churn rates (53.2% in 2009, and is expected to increase to 59.6% in 2013). The Indian consumers are enjoying a wide range of services along with the world�s lowest local call rates. The mobile phone operators in India are faced with the challenge of reducing customer churn in the ever-increasing prepaid subscriber market. Under such circumstances, the success of mobile phone service providers in India mainly depends on developing innovative schemes to increase customer loyalty. In service organizations, customer loyalty is considered as prime determinant of long-term financial performance of firms. One of the crucial issues of today is to understand how or why a sense of loyalty develops in customers. Loyalty definitions and metrics are mostly in behavioural and attitudinal terms. Consensus is absent in the marketing literature on how loyalty should be conceptualized and measured in the service industry. The present study addresses both the conceptual and measurement issues related to customer loyalty amongst the cell phone users. Building on existing literature, the antecedents of customer loyalty are reassessed in a service setting namely, customer satisfaction, trust, commitment, corporate image, and switching costs. This paper reports the development and validation of scales for measuring customer loyalty and its antecedents. The scale development and validation process was divided into three phases. Phase 1 consisted of the item generation process, assessment of content validity, and initial purification of measures. Item analysis and exploratory factor analysis were used on data collected from 250 postgraduate business students of a major university in India for initial purification of the instrument. In Phase 2, additional data were collected from 855 cell phone users in northern India to assess the latent factor structure through confirmatory factor analysis. In Phase 3, the discriminant validity and convergent validity of the measures were established. The managerial implications of the major findings of this study are as follows: It contributes to the existing literature by developing a theory-based framework for understanding the direct effects of satisfaction, trust and commitment, switching costs and corporate image on behavioural and attitudinal loyalty. By measuring loyalty as composite measure consisting of both behavioural loyalty and attitudinal loyalty, it provides evidence of the multidimensional nature of loyalty construct. Using data collected from mobile phone users, the reliability and validity of the scale are established. The newly refined and validated measures can be used by future researchers to study customer loyalty and its antecedent factors. The loyalty measures developed in this study provides managers with an easy tool to identify attitudinal and behavioural differences among customers. Marketing managers can draw meaningful distinctions between customers who buy out of habit and those who buy because of emotional attachment to the company.


Objective: To evaluate efficacies of oral nifedipine and intravenous labetalol in the management of severe pregnancy induced hypertension and analyse fetomaternal outcome. Methods: In this nonrandomised controlled study one hundred cases having severe pregnancy induced hypertension divided into two groups. Each group had 50 cases; nifedipine group and labetalol group. Patients in nifedipine group was given 10 mg initially, with repeated doses of 10 mg, every 15 minutes, for up to a maximum of 5 doses, or until the goal blood pressure less than or equal to 150/100 mm Hg was attained. Patients in intravenous labetalol group, was given 20 mg initially followed by escalating doses of 40 mg, 80mg, and then 80 mg, every 15 minutes, until the therapeutic goal blood pressure was achieved, or for a maximum of five doses. Corresponding placebos either 0.9% isotonic saline solution or inactive tablet was given simultaneously in each regimen. If therapeutic blood pressure was not achieved over 5 doses then cross over treatment was given. Results: The results of the study showed that the mean time required to achieve target blood pressure is 71.00±66.60 minutes in labetalol group and 25.20±14.03 minutes in the nifedipine group with the p value of < 0.01. The nifedipine group required in average 1.12±.32 doses to bring about the desired action and the labetalol group required 2.04±1.37 doses to bring about the same action which is statistically very highly significant ('P' value <0.01). Urine output at 60 minutes of commencing treatment is 55.20±16.72 ml in labetalol group compared to 99.10 ± 27.15 ml in nifedipine group with a 'P' value <.001. urine output at 60 minutes of commencing treatment is 55.20±16.72 ml in labetalol group compared to 99.10 ± 27.15 ml in nifedipine group with a 'P' value <.001. 10% failure rate is noted only in labetalol group requiring cross over treatment (P = 0.22). Fetomaternal outcome was more or less similar in both the group. Only one case of maternal mortality was seen in labetalol group as a result of eclampsia related complications. Conclusion: Both oral nifedipine and intravenous labetalol are effective in the management of severe pregnancy induced hypertension; however oral nifedipine controls hypertension more rapidly and with fewer doses and is associated with a significant increase in urinary output.


In the paper,a simple and reasonable computational model of the hydraulic cylinder is built,and influences of each component of the hydraulic cylinder on the static stability of the cylinder are analysed.Based on small deflection stability theory,the theory of minimum potential energy is used to obtain an approximate method of computing critical pressure.The computation example shows that the calculation method is simple and quite accurate.


Requirements Engineering is one of the most important phases in a software project. The elicitation of requirements and the identification of dependencies between these requirements appears to be a challenging task. In this paper, we present an approach to automatically identify requirement dependencies of type requires by using supervised classification techniques. Our results indicate that the implemented approach can detect potential requires dependencies between requirements (formulated on a textual level). We evaluated our approach on a test dataset and figured out that it is possible to identify requirement dependencies with a high prediction quality. We trained and tested our system with different classifiers such as Naive Bayes, Linear SVM, k-Nearest Neighbors, and Random Forest. The results show that Random Forest classifiers correctly predict dependencies with a F1 score of ~82%.


The Terceira Island is located at the plate boundary between the Eurasian and African plates. This plate boundary usually referred to as the Terceira axis, is a highly complex, non conventional ridge system morphologically defined by a succession of deep rhombic basins and shallow volcanic banks or islands materializing domains of higher magmatic budget (Lourenco et al., 1998).


Among the Enterococci, Enterococcus faecalis is most frequently associated with human infections ranging from the urinary tract and wound infection to endocarditis and bacteraemia. These infections are often multidrug-resistant and, hence, life-threatening. Moreover, E. faecalis are often co-isolated with other pathogenic bacteria from polymicrobial biofilm-associated infections contributing to disease progression and poorer patient outcomes. Genetic tools to dissect complex interactions in biofilms and mixed microbial communities are largely limited to transposon mutagenesis and traditional allelic exchange methods requiring time- and labour-intensive two-step integration and excision screening that can take a week or more to make a single mutant. We built upon the well-characterized CRISPR interference system using streptococcal dCas9 to develop an easily-modifiable, inducible system for E. faecalis that can efficiently silence single and multiple genes in a matter of hours. We show that this system can silence genes involved in biofilm formation, antibiotic resistance, and can be used to interrogate gene essentiality. Uniquely, this tool is optimized to study genes important for biofilm initiation, maturation, and maintenance, and can be used to perturb pre-formed biofilms. This inducible CRISPRi system will be valuable to rapidly and efficiently investigate a wide range of aspects of complex enterococcal regulation networks within the biofilms, including polymicrobial biofilms.


Superconducting (SC) cavities for use in electron storage rings have advanced to the point where several laboratories are making definite plans to use them on a large scale. Laboratory tests of multi-cell SC cavities, including input and higher-order-mode (HOM) couplers, have yielded accelerating fields up to 15.3 MeV/m (CW). Reasons for the improved performance are discussed. Since the 1983 International Accelerator Conference in August, 1983, four SC cavities have been tested in storage rings. The cavities have yielded accelerating gradients up to 6.5 MeV/m, in excess of the frequently-quoted objective of 5 MeV/m. In addition, the average gradient obtained in these four tests was 4 MeV/m, almost twice the average obtained in the four cavities tested in storage rings during 1982 - 1983.


A method for moving target detection and tracking in real time image processing system designed for a single camera surveillance system is described. First, for the detection of moving target, the image matching between the consecutive image frames is carried out, and the difference between consecutive image frames is calculated. Then the motion regions are detected and approximate contour of the moving target is obtained. Finally, by applying the dynamic programming method to enhance the conventional active contour model, the contour of the moving target is extracted. This approach provides robustness to noise and can be implemented with high speed. This method can be applied as a part of the real time surveillance system of a ferryboat station.


Tllis paper reports a s{ngle case in which the author quanti 血es his own experience of ab1 コormal spatial perceptlon following cataract surgery . Following surgery the author noted that while wearing high diopter Iellses objects appeared much closer than expected . This produced a discrepancy between Visual and tact 量le input, such that the actual object location wherl touched see 皿 ed farther away than would be expec 亡ed based on vision . Qn the other hand・・izes ・・d th ・ ・p ・ti・1 ・xt ・ nt ・f ・bl・・t・ p・ p ・ ・ dic・lar t・ the li... f ・ight l・ Qk 。d l。rg ,, than both the visual memory of the object and the tactile−kinesthetic percep しion of it, An exampl ・ ・f ・ particular[y unusual ・ xperi ・ n ・e w ... sf ・1エ・ws . Wh ・ n tw ・ id・ ntical pエate $ were placed on a table , one in front of the other , the mQre distant plate appeared distinctly larger than the nearer one . This seems to be an illusion based ⊂》n exaggeratio 鳳 of s三ze constancy . In our experiment , the level of constancy was n /ieasured . Results showed that the level of constancy was greater than one . (Z > 1.O, where Z is 'rheuless 'ratio Qf con − stallcy .) Key wQrds : anomalies in space perception, cataract eyes , over size constancy , Thouless 陶 Z


This paper addresses 7th-grade children's mathematical modelling at the end of a 3-year program. The children and their teachers participated in a series of mathematical modelling activities from the 5th grade through to the 7th grade. The problems involve authentic situations that need to be interpreted and described in mathematical ways. We examine the mathematical understandings and mathematisation processes that the children used in constructing their models for the final problem (Summer Reading). We report on the nature of the problem factors that the children chose to consider, the operations they applied, the types of transformations they made through these operations, and the representations they used in documenting their models.


A method for forming a flash memory device is provided to prevent loss of a conductive film in an oxide film forming process for an element isolation film on a surface of the conductive film for the floating gate. In a semiconductor substrate(100), a tunnel insulating layer(102) and a first conductive film(104) are laminated on an active region. A trench is formed in an element isolating region. A first insulating layer(110) is formed on the trench. A protective film(112) protecting the first conductive film is formed along the surface of the first insulating layer and the first conductive film. The element isolation layer is formed by forming a second insulating layer on the first insulating film. The protective film is made of the oxide film. After the protective film is formed, the thermal process is performed. The thermal process is performed for 30 to 60 minutes by adding the temperature of 850 or 900 degrees centigrade.


 Identify the most common causes of head, neck and spinal injuries.  List 10 situations that might indicate serious head, neck and spinal injuries.  List the signals of head, neck and spinal injuries.  Describe how to effectively minimize movement of the person's head, neck and spine.  Know the situations in which you would hold the person's head in the position found.  Describe how to care for specific injuries to the head, face, neck and lower back.  Know how to prevent head, neck and spinal injuries.


epitope for experimental allergic neuritis. J Neuroimmunol 1990;27:187–90. 24. Dahle C, Ekerfelt C, Vrethem M, et al. T helper type 2 like cytokine responses to peptides from P0 and P2 myelin proteins during the recovery phase of Guillain-Barré syndrome. J Neurol Sci 1997;153:54–60. 25. Dahle C, Kvarnstrom M, Ekerfelt C, et al. Elevated number of cells secreting transforming growth factor beta in Guillain-Barré syndrome. APMIS 2003;111:1095–104. 26. Csurhes PA, Sullivan A-A, Green K, et al. T cell reactivity to P0, P2, PMP-22, and myelin basic protein in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2005;76:1431–9. 27. Groux H, Cottrez F. The complex role of interleukin-10 in autoimmunity. J Autoimmun 2003;20:281–5. 28. Roncarolo MG, Battaglia M, Gregori S. The role of interleukin 10 in the control of autoimmunity. J Autoimmun 2003;20:269–72. 29. Mocellin S, Panelli MC, Wang E, et al. The dual role of IL-10. Trends Immunol 2003;24:36–43. 30. Beebe AM, Cua DJ, de Waal MR. The role of interleukin-10 in autoimmune disease: systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and multiple sclerosis (MS). Cytokine Growth Factor Rev 2002;13:403–12. 31. Moore KW, de Waal MR, Coffman RL, et al. Interleukin-10 and the interleukin-10 receptor. Annu Rev Immunol 2001;19:683–765.


a case exhibiting choreiform movements (paramyoclonus multiplex ?).? Mr. Alexis Thomson showed a patient after laparotomy for purulent peritonitis of gonorrhoeal origin, and second laparotomy for acute intestinal obstruction due to multiple bands, ten weeks later.? Dr. F. M. Graham showed the base of a skull in which the right lateral sinus was absent.?Dr. Harvey Littlejohn showed?(1) Specimens illustrating compression of the brain from haemorrhage; (2) specimens illustrating the effect produced by prolonged immersion in water; (3) uterus showing appearances in menstruation; (4) uterus from case of abortion at the fifth month, resulting from external violence ; (5) photographs of a case of drowning.?Dr. Alexander Bruce read a paper on " Hsemorrliage into the spinal cord during pregnancy." Haemorrhage into the cord is a very rare condition. Cases of it have been mistaken for acute myelitis. In the case recorded, the patient, set. 31, complained suddenly of loss of power in the legs, with great pain all over the body, and vomiting. There was complete loss of sensation below the level of the xiphisternum, the external abdominal muscles were paralysed, and the deep and organic reflexes were lost. There was great abdominal distension and dyspnoea. Babinski's sign was present. In spite of every precaution, large bedsores rapidly developed. At the seventh month, two months after the onset of the symptoms, the patient gave birth to twins, the labour being absolutely painless. The patient eventually died of bronchitis and exhaustion. Examination of the cord revealed a haemorrhage which destroyed the anterior cornua, and extending from the sixth cervical to the twelfth dorsal segments. Several angeio-gliomata were found under the membranes, and it was from the rupture of one of these that the haemorrhage proceeded; a tube extending from the fifth dorsal to the first lumbar vertebra was also


Noise from aircraft run-ups and departure operations at airports can be a continuing source of annoyance to residents living near the airport. Barriers and sound insulation modifications to houses can reduce the impact of the noise; however, the noise to the rear of a jet aircraft is predominantly low frequency, which is not well attenuated by these passive methods. Recent advancements in active noise reduction offer an alternative solution for reducing low-frequency aircraft noise by using loudspeakers to create localized areas of quiet. In this paper the authors present results from a model which predicts the size of the noise reduction area as a function of the system parameters and configuration. These predictions are then compared with data measured during the application of an active noise reduction system outside a commercial airport. For the covering abstract see ITRD E107776.


In this paper, signal detection for MIMO-OFDM systems operating on quasi-static frequency selective fading channels with time offsets is considered. A channel equalizer is first proposed to cancel most inter-block and inter-symbol interferences, based on second order statistics of the received signals. The transmitted signals are then detected from the equalizer output with the aid of a few pilot symbols. In most scenarios, the number of pilot symbols required here is less than that required in the existing algorithms. In addition, perfect time synchronization, time offset and channel length estimations are not needed. The algorithm is applicable irrespective of whether the channel length is shorter than, equal to or longer than the cyclic prefix (CP) length. Simulations confirm the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm and verify its robustness against time offsets, namely, different time delays for different users.


This paper aims to evince the bulk metric near the brane and in particular the black string warped horizon associated to the Casadio–Fabbri–Mazzacurati braneworld black holes, and their physical consequences. The black string can be shown to be more unstable to large-scale perturbations than the Schwarzschild standard black strings, namely the Gregory–Laflamme instability. The two solutions of Einstein equations proposed by Casadio, Fabbri, and Mazzacurati, regarding black hole metrics presenting a post-Newtonian parameter measured on the brane are analyzed, in particular when suitable values for the post-Newtonian parameter precluding Hawking radiation on the brane are chosen. The associated black string profile is studied. Further details can be found in [1].


Control of quantum coherence in many-body system is one of the key issues in modern condensed matter. Conventional wisdom is that lattice vibration is an innate source of decoherence, and amounts of research have been conducted to eliminate lattice effects. Challenging this wisdom, here we show that lattice vibration may not be a decoherence source but an impetus of a novel coherent quantum many-body state. We demonstrate the possibility by studying the transverse-field Ising model on a chain with renormalization group and density-matrix renormalization group method, and theoretically discover a stable $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric quantum criticality with central charge $c=3/2$. Thus, we propose an Ising spin chain with strong spin-lattice coupling as a candidate to observe supersymmetry. Generic precursor conditions of novel quantum criticality are obtained by generalizing the Larkin-Pikin criterion of thermal transitions. Our work provides a new perspective that lattice vibration may be a knob for exotic quantum many-body states.


Chronic thyrocalcitonin (TC) deficiency was produced in rats by thyroidectomy and thyroxine replacement. These and control animals had the parathyroids implanted into neck muscles. Four to 5 weeks after surgery, administration of Ca (0.15 mEq/100 g ip) produced marked and prolonged hypercalcemia in TC-deficient rats. Basal plasma Ca in these animals was the same as in the controls. Parathyroidectomy made no difference to the Ca tolerance pattern in TC-deficient and control animals. When 45Ca tracer was given to the 2 groups of rats either with or 8 days before the Ca load, changes in the plasma 45Ca activity (absolute and specific) indicated that TC acts by inhibiting bone resorption. Inhibition of bone resorption by TC during hypercalcemia is an important homeostatic process which is permanently impaired in thyroidectomized animals. The growth and general health of rats seemed unaffected by TC deficiency. (Endocrinology 81: 1297, 1967)


Background: Diabetic foot ulcers are one of the leading causes of amputation in non-traumatic patients. This research aimed to investigate the correlation between the level of HDL cholesterol and the severity level of diabetic foot ulcer based on Wagner classification. The study conducted at Wahidin Sudirohusodo Hospital, Makassar, Indonesia. Methods: This is an observational study with the cross-sectional design. The data collected before and after the treatment. The change of the levels of HDL cholesterol and the severity level of the diabetic foot ulcer based on Wagner classification during the treatment were analyzed. Data analyzed using Spearman Correlation test, the paired t-test to assess the change in the levels of HDL cholesterol and the levels of severity of diabetic foot ulcer based on Wagner classification at the time admission and after the treatment. ANOVA test was used to observe the reduction significance of the severity of diabetic foot ulcer based on Wagner classification, and it was categorized as significant if p<0.05. Results: The results indicated that there is a correlation between the level of HDL cholesterol and the severity level of diabetic foot ulcer based on Wagner classification either at the early treatment with p-value = 0.003 (r = 0.448) and the end of the treatment with p-value = 0.001(r = 0.477). The lower of the level of cholesterol HDL, the higher was the severity level of the diabetic foot ulcer. Meanwhile, the correlation between the increase of the level of HDL cholesterol and the reduction of Wagner classification during the treatment was statistically insignificant with p-value = 0.100 (r = 0.215). Conclusions: there was a correlation between elevated HDL cholesterol levels during treatment with Wagner classification decrease during treatment, the higher the HDL change, the higher the Wagner classification, but this was weak correlation and statistically insignificant.


After flowering, different shading treatments were imposed on crops that varied in sowing date, genotype and plant density. It was found that ear yield was close ly related to the amount of irradiance received during grain filling: it increased by approximately 10 kg ha 1 per M J m-2 if density was not limiting. However, the intensity of carbohydrate redistribution from vegetative to reproductive plant parts differed greatly. Whole-crop yields were also affected by the distri bution of irradiance over time. The digestibility in vitro of the organic matter was affected most by shading during the last part of the growing season. Earlier shading reduced cell-wall pro duction, thus limiting the detrimental effect of shading on whole-crop digesti bility. Shading influenced digestibility through its effects on cell-wall content. Cell wall digestibility only differed slightly between shading treatments. For all crops, shading effects on whole-crop digestibility showed the same pattern, but not the same magnitude. As well as affecting yield and quality, shading also affected suitability for en siling, susceptibility to stalk rot {Fusarium spp.), leaf senescence and mineral up take. A hypothesis is offered to explain the effect of shading on ear size, ear growth and longevity of leaves in terms of the prompt effects of shading on root activity.


Additive hazard regression is a survival analysis that is an alternative to Cox proportional hazard regression. The additive hazard models that have been developed include the Aalen additive hazard model and the Lin-Ying. In this study, Lin-Ying additive hazard regression was used as an analytical method to be applied in stroke data that had been hospitalized at Pandan Arang Hospital Boyolali. This method is considered more effective because there is no assumption of proportionality. The purpose of using this method in this study are analyze the characteristics of stroke patients, form a Lin-Ying additive hazard regression model, find out the factors that affect the rate of improvement of the clinical condition of stroke patients, and interpret the model. Based on the analysis that has been done, the average length of hospitalization is 4,471 days ≈ 4 days, and the factors that significantly affect the rate of improvement of clinical conditions in stroke patients at Pandan Arang Hospital Boyolali are blood pressure and blood sugar.


The celadon unearthed from Laohudong have been regarded as probably the products of Xiuneisi (XNS) guan kiln, Eight XNS sherds and other relative wares are analyzed by WD - XRF method to get the compositions of body and glaze. The results show that the compositions of Laohudong guan ware is different from those of Altar guan wares, combining with other information we think that the Laohudong guan wares are just the produets of XNS guan kiln, furthermore the South Song guan wares are maded of the resources from Zhe Jiang province but not from He Nan province.


This paper discusses policy towards gender in the water sector. It identifies key directions in gender policy and, while recognizing the progress made by donors towards implementing this, identifies some of the obstacles and difficulties encountered. The paper is based on a review of selected donor agency documentation and on discussions with staff conducted by Katja Jobes in May 1995.


Adopting literature,questionnaire investigation,expert interview and mathematical statistics method,the author made an investigation in the lesson of TAEKWONDO in Nanchang secondary schools,to find its implementation,and provide the theory basis for the popularity and development of TAEKWONDO.


The purpose of this review is to summarize the literature available on the extract known as wheatgrass juice derived from Wheat grass which is the mature shoot of the plant Triticum aestivum Linn. belonging to the family Gramineae. In general, Wheat Grass Juice (WGJ) is an extract squeezed from the mature sprouts of wheat seeds. Green Blood Therapy is the use of wheat grass juice (WGJ) to cure multiple diseases. The name "green blood" of wheat grass is attributable to its high chlorophyll content which accounts for about 70% its total chemical constituents and also to its close structural similarity to Haemoglobin. Wheat grass juice contains almost all the nutrients the body requires and is considered to be a complete food. Two ounces of wheat grass juice has the nutritional equivalence of five pound of the best raw organic vegetables. It is over flowing with vitamins, aminoacids, liver enzymes and chlorophyll. It contains 98 of 102 earth elements found in soil, including phosphorous, calcium, iron, magnesium and potassium as well as essential enzymes and 19 aminoacids. It has twice vitamin A as in carrots and is higher in vitamin C than oranges. Wheat grass therapy is recommended for patients suffering from chronic diseases like Asthma, Atherosclerosis, Parkinson's disease, Joint pains, TB, Constipation, Hypertension, Diabetes, Bronchitis, Insomnia, Eczema, Sterility, Haemorrhage, Obesity and Flatulence. Nowadays it is widely used in the treatment of cancer. Hence, the themes reviewed highlight the far reaching branches of study and application of this miracle plant in the treatment for minor ailments and serious life threatening issues as well as a preventative dietary supplement. This review aims to focus on the scientific trials with regard to the medicinal value of WGJ.


Countering Islamic radicalism has been the main focus of global counterterrorism efforts in recent years.These largely operational strategies have yielded some success. But terrorists have displayed a high level of resilience and adjusted their strategies accordingly. Though operational capabilities have been weakened, groups like Al-Qaeda have shifted to "franchising" their violent ideologies to like-minded groups and individuals, with the Internet increasingly becoming their main media. The outcome of this strategy can be seen in that five years after 9-11, the 2006 US National Intelligence Estimate reports that "activists identifying themselves as jihadists, although a small percentage of Muslims, are increasing in number and geographic dispersion".


It is common practice to estimate wave steepness parameters from zero crossing analysis of wave elevation records in the time domain. Numerical and experimental investigations were carried out to compare steepness parameters based on spatial-domain and time-domain wave profiles. It was found that significant biases may occur in steepness parameters based on time-domain analysis of irregular wave trains. A new hybrid zero crossing analysis method is described that can provide more accurate information on wave steepness.


This paper deals with faster energy transaction with re-configuration of ultracapacitors during ride through conditions of static and dynamic loads. The ultracapacitors are re-configured within the bank from parallel to series at 50% state of charge(SOC). MatLab simulations for the cases studied are reported here.


Note Oral leukoplakia (OL) is the most common potentiall y malignant disorder of the oral mucosa (Neville and Day, 2002; Haya-Fernández et al., 2004; WHO, 2005).  Besides oral leukoplakia, actinic cheilitis, lichen  planus, and erythroplakia are also considered potentially malignant conditions affecting the oral  cavity. These lesions can precede oral squamous cell carcinoma, which is the most common malignancy of the oral cavity (Neville and Day, 2002; HayaFernández et al., 2004). It is believed that those conditions are reasonably classified as "potentiall y malignant" as it has been observed that some lesion s evolved to malignant ones during follow-up. In addition, typical alterations of potentially malign ant lesions are seen co-existing in the margins of squa mo s cell carcinoma. Moreover, a proportion of these les ion show cytological, morphological, chomosomic, genomic, and molecular alterations that are also observed in malignant lesions (Warnakulasuriya et a l., 2007).


This essay examines transnational online communities as sites of identity, belonging and memory. It looks at the ways in which memories are circulated, shared and created within these virtual spaces. It explores, with the guidance of previous research on diasporic online sites, the ways in which notions of nostalgia, ordinariness and hybridity come together in different contexts of online remembering and how virtual memory sites shape the ways in which past is imagined, represented and experienced.


There has been a strong interest to translate optical quantum technologies into photonic integrated circuits (PICs) as they could provide a stable, compact, and potentially scalable architecture for generating, manipulating, and measuring optical quantum states. Among the various PIC technologies that are being developed, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) PICs have several advantages, including technologically mature foundry fabrication, CMOS-process integration, and high-performance switches, modulators, polarization control, filters, and other essential optical components. However, several components are missing that are needed for quantum information processing tasks. Here, we describe recent progress on augmenting SOI PICs with essential capabilities for photonic quantum technologies — entangled photon sources, single photon detectors, and reconfigurable linear optics unitary transformations — and focus on two central application areas: quantum communications and quantum simulation.


ABSTRACT Human service organizations seek bilingual professionals to meet the social and linguistic needs of their increasingly limited English proficient (LEP) clientele. As a result, bilingual professionals often find themselves having to meet overwhelming service delivery expectations. This paper reports on a qualitative study about the work experiences of 27 court employees within a judicial system in the Eastern United States. The study found that bilingual professionals encounter challenges because of their language skills. At the intersection of these challenges are microaggressions that manifest in the judicial system, adversely affecting them professionally and personally.


Raman scattering was employed to study structural phase transitions of InSb, GaSb and GaAs induced by highly non-hydrostatic pressures applied by mechanical impact, in which high compression/decompression rates are imposed to the sample. The results showed that is possible to produce several structural phases localized in different micrometric regions of the same sample: the zinc blende to possibly wurtzite structural phase transition and the generation of a multiphase state.


Among mucus-secreting cells, the gastric gland mucous cells, Brunner's glands, accessory glands of pancreaticobiliary tract, and pancreatic ducts exhibiting gastric metaplasia are unique in that they express class III mucin identified by paradoxical Con A staining composed of periodate oxidation, sodium borohydride reduction, Con A, and horseradish peroxidase reaction. Recently it was shown that these mucous cells secrete glycoproteins having GlcNAcα1→4Galβ→R at nonreducing terminals of the carbohydrate moieties. Herein we describe the expression cloning of a cDNA encoding a human α1,4-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (α4GnT), a key enzyme for the formation of GlcNAcα1→4Galβ1→R. COS-1 cells were thus cotransfected with a stomach cDNA library and a leukosialin cDNA. Transfected COS-1 cells were screened by using monoclonal antibodies specific for GlcNAcα1→4Galβ→R and enriched by fluorescence-activated cell sorting. Sibling selection of recovered plasmids resulted in a cDNA clone that directs the expression of GlcNAcα1→4Galβ→R. The deduced amino acid sequence predicts a type II membrane protein with 340 amino acids, showing no significant similarity with any other proteins. The α4GnT gene is located at chromosome 3p14.3, and its transcripts are expressed in the stomach and pancreas. An in vitro GlcNAc transferase assay by using a soluble α4GnT revealed that α1,4-linked GlcNAc residues are transferred most efficiently to core 2 branched O-glycans (Galβ1→4GlcNAcβ1→6(Galβ1→3)GalNAc), forming GlcNAcα1→4Galβ1→4GlcNAcβ1→6(GlcNAcα1→4Galβ1→3)GalNAc. Transfection of α4GnT cDNA into gastric adenocarcinoma AGS cells produced class III mucin, indicating that α4GnT is responsible for the formation of class III Con A reactivity. These results indicate that the α4GnT is a glycosyltransferase that forms α1,4-linked GlcNAc residues, preferentially in O-glycans.


This paper gets a few new fixed point theorems of the condensing mapping. Furthermore, we utilize our results to study the non zero solution and positive solution and properties of the solution for a class of the nonlinear integral equations, and some new results are obtained.


The article notes the relevance of issues of civil law protection of the privacy of a citizen. The legal nature of the concepts "private life", "privacy", "inviolability of private life" is revealed. At the same time, private life is considered as the sphere of realization of the private interest of a citizen. The main types of violations of privacy and the problems of civil protection have been identified. In particular, it substantiates the inconsistency of using such criteria as "state interest" and "public interest" when disclosing information about the secret of a citizen's private life. The judicial practice is analyzed, recommendations on amendments to the legislation are given. The issues arising in the implementation of the rules on the secrecy of private life in contractual legal relationships are considered. Possible negative consequences of the conclusion of an agreement on the disclosure of information related to the secret of private life in contracts with the participation of a weak party are noted.


SUMMARY Rice productivity is limited by many pests, especially Pomacea spp. in Southeast Asia. Pomacea spp. damage to rice depends on sowing methods, flooded conditions, and snail densities in the field. Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the effect of different sowing methods, water levels, and snail density (1, 2, and 3 snails per plot) on the damage potential of Pomacea maculata and Pomacea canaliculata to rice and its yield. Both species caused complete loss of crop in direct seeding and 14 days old transplanted rice. The least damage by both species was recorded in 21 and 28 days old transplanted rice with no further damage after week five. Irrigation and snail density also influenced damage whereby highest damage was recorded in rice grown with 5 cm water level in comparison to 2 cm. At 2 cm water level, damage by various snail densities was trivial. However, in 5 cm water level, damage increased with the increasing snail density and the highest damage was observed at three snails per plot of either species. No difference in inflicted damage to various treatments was observed between two species, suggesting their equal damage potential on rice. Meanwhile, rice yields in 2 cm water level treatments were compatible with 5 cm control treatment. The least yield was recorded in treatments with three snails per plot of either species at 5 cm water level. Understanding the effect of sowing method and suitable water level is important as it can be further incorporated into rice cultivation practices to reduce damage of apple snails and ensure a high yield during harvest.