Abstract : This report reveals that many important engineering properties of titanium and its alloys are anisotropic and that this anisotropy can be used to achieve improvements in structures and other applications. From this review of textures found in commercial titanium products and the way in which they develop, it can be seen that a wide variety of different types are possible and many others will undoubtedly be developed as the knowledge increases or a specific need arises.


Ten years have passed between the Inter-ministerial Road Safety Committee's decision made on December 17, 1993 which asked a group of experts to produce a white paper on the effect of drugs and medication on driving and the introduction of new legislation with three successive laws drafted between June 1999 and February 2003. This paper will discuss the need to improve epidemiological knowledge and develop an understanding of the role of drugs in road accidents in France.


A 6-year-old boy presented with ear ache and mild fever. The assessing registrar confidently made the assertion that the diagnosis could not be otitis media as he has read that the presence of wax excludes this. You wonder if this is true.

In children [population], does the clinical finding of ear wax [intervention] predict the absence of otitis media [outcome]?

PubMed – advanced search criteria: otitis media, children, ear wax and/or cerumen and diagnosis. Thirty two results were found. The titles and abstracts were reviewed and two relevant studies were found.1 2

Ovid - MEDLINE/EMBASE – advanced search criteria: otitis media, children, ear wax and/or cerumen. Seventeen results were found. The titles and abstracts were reviewed and one relevant study was found (this was the same as the study found in the PubMed search).2

A further search for case reports was unsuccessful. Ovid: MEDLINE/EMBASE database – search terms: otitis media, ear …


Building on the Acs-Szerb Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI) methodology this paper aims to show the public policy applicability of GEDI. GEDI is a complex measure of entrepreneurship involving three sub-indices, 14 pillars and 28 variables. By answering four research questions we present Hungary's entrepreneurial profile, show the change of the entrepreneurship over the 2006-2010 time period, and identify the strengths and the weaknesses. Hungary is compared to three important country groups. GEDI is a useful tool for policy-oriented analysis. Unlike other research projects that provide rather general and uniform policy suggestions, GEDI offers individual country level, tailor-made policy recommendations. Based on the principle of the weakest link, we present an optimal policy mix for Hungary involving the eight weakest performing pillars to improve Hungary's GEDI score.


Linda Volonino, Reynaldo Anzaldua, and Jana Godwin (2007). Computer Forensics: Principles and Practices. Pearson/Prentice Hall. 534 pages, ISBN: 0-13-154727-5 (paper), US$85.33 Reviewed by Jigang Liu (firstname.lastname@example.com), Department of Information and Computer Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN 55106 "Computer Forensics: Principles and Practices" by Linda Volonino, Reynaldo Anzaldua, and Jana Godwin, published by Pearson/Prentice Hall in 2007 is one of the newest computer forensics textbooks on the market. The goal of the book, as the authors put it, is to teach "students who want to learn about electronic evidence – including what types exist and where it may be found – and the computer forensics methods to investigate it" so that they will be prepared "in a career in information security, criminal justice, accounting, law enforcement, and federal investigations – as well as computer forensics." Linda, Reynaldo, and Jana are not only experienced college professors, but also industry bounded professionals. All of them have substantial working experience with law firms or law enforcement in dealing with both civil and criminal cases. They are all certified information system security professionals (CISSP). Their teaching experience at the college level and their working experience on real cases make this book a must-read book for a college professor. (see PDF for full review)


The invention discloses a transformer fault diagnostic method based on gray fuzzy firefly algorithm optimization. The method comprises the following steps: effective data sequences of the contents of five characteristic gases of a transformer are selected through a characteristic gas content prediction module, and the characteristic gas predictive values at a time under the independent variable sequences of the five characteristic gases are obtained through a univariate time sequence gray model; pretreatment is performed on data; characteristic gas coding sequences are used as inputs of training samples, and transformer fault types corresponding to the inputs are used as outputs to built an IGSO-LM network, and the weight value and the threshold value of the LM network are optimized through an IGSO algorithm; the network is trained by using pretreated data of the characteristic gases of the transformer, so as to obtain an optimal nerve net weight value and the threshold value to built a transformer fault diagnostic model and judge the transformer fault types. The transformer fault diagnostic method provided by the invention solves the problems of data source shortage of transformer fault gases and low result accuracy in a conventional analysis method.


Although parental drug misuse is becoming an increasing concern for child welfare, little is known about the impact it has on children from their unique perspective. In the majority, research fails to listen to the voices of children, as the focus has been on the drug users themselves. Nevertheless, drug misuse undoubtedly has an impact on the whole family, often becoming '…the axis around which the family dynamic would revolve' (Barnard, 2007: 39) and children at the core of these family dynamics are invariably hidden behind closed doors. Although there is a growing commitment to working with children in research, within the arena of parental drug misuse children's voices are lost. Similarly there is little focus in the British literature on the reflective voice of adults, detailing their childhood experiences of growing up with parents who misuse drugs. This research provides a much-needed insight into the consequences of parental drug misuse, through the voice of an adult reflecting on their childhood years who was willing to open their 'closed door', thus contributing a rare perspective to the knowledge base.


A photograph of Afghan president Dr. Ashraf Ghani onboard a flight back to Afghanistan was recently tweeted by his spokesperson. Surely, a rather quotidian occurrence in our digital age. Yet, it is...


The utility model discloses a four -wire ohm formula touch -sensitive screen theory of operation instruments used for education with calculate function, including setting up two adjustable resistance devices, single -pole double -throw, double -pole double -throw, 5V DC power supply, voltmeter and the four -wire ohm formula touch -sensitive screen USB control board on unable adjustment base, double -pole double -throw was received to two wires that slip varistor device was drawn same one side, double -pole double -throw's opposite side is received to two wires that another slip varistor device was drawn, two terminals in the middle of the double -pole double -throw are continuous with 5V DC power supply's positive and negative both ends, the wire that drew forth every slip varistor device one side selects the end to be connected with two quilts of single -pole double -throw. Utilize this experiment appearance to carry out the study of the theory of operation of four -wire ohm formula touch -sensitive screen, it is more directly perceived to the student, change understanding, can make the student understand ITO's in theory of operation and the four -wire ohm formula touch -sensitive screen of four -wire ohm formula touch -sensitive screen effect more clearly.


Post traumatic myositisossificans is a benign condition of heterotropic ossification of unknown aetiology which typically is related to trauma from a single blow or repeated episodes of microtrauma. We describe an unusual case of myositis ossificans which developed as a complication at the donor site for hamstring autologous graft used in open anterior and posterior cruciate repair and posterolateral corner reconstruction in a 15 year old girl. Case report: A 15 year old girl sustained a closed traumatic dislocation of her left knee when she fell from a trampoline. She underwent emergency manipulation under anaesthetic and closed reduction followed by MRI scan which showed a complete disruption of the lateral collateral ligament complex, posterolateral corner injury, complete tears of the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments and a partial tear of the medial collateral ligament. 13 days later she had an open reconstruction of her anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments with allograft and a repair of popliteus and lateral structures with Larson reinforcement with controlateral hamstring autologous graft. Eight months following open reconstruction the patient represented to her primary care practitioner with a painful lump in the postero-medial controlateral right thigh. MRI study showed that there was a lobulated hypervascular appearance with a thin enhancing rim of low signal on all sequences indicating calcification. An xray revealed a calcified mass consistent with the diagnosis of myositis ossificans. Discussion and conclusion: To date we have found no reported cases of myositis ossificans occurring as a result of surgery to harvest hamstring autograft in the setting of ligament reconstruction about the knee. We believe that this is an unusual complication of the donor site which needs awareness amongst clinicians involved in primary and revision cruciate ligament reconstruction. We suggest that a management strategy of surveillance for this lesion is appropriate and excision biopsy should be reserved for specific indications such as malignant features on imaging or mass effect.


The Dentist and the Psychiatrist have many things in common. Both of them must remain neutral in the face of hostility and the infantile demands of the patient. Both of them develop guilt and tension over infficting pain and confronting people with painful material. Both of them try to satisfy the professional needs of individuals but often times get hung-up in the unconscious needs of the patients.


PURPOSE: To detect the rectangular solid body by using a modification differential method so as to obtain a difference of data to be processed from a reference image of the data thereby generating a differential image of the data. CONSTITUTION: At first sides are detected, then lines are found out and junctions are detected. Then data of the junctions are filtered based on angles, the junctions are assembled into a group to generate an assumed box. The modification differential method is used for a synthesis image where pixel values are zero. When a difference between a value of a reference frame and a gray value of the image during processing is less than a threshold level, the synthesis value indicates zero for specific pixels. On the other hand, the difference is larger than the threshold level, the picture element value of the synthesis is equal to a gray level of the picture element corresponding to the image during analysis. Assuming that the box is not fixed, the modification differential method leaves concerned areas as they are and is not susceptible to the effect of a small change in the picture element values.


Objective To investigate the relationship between serum cytokine (IL-2,IL-6,sIL-2,sIL-6R and TNF) level and the clinical expression as well as the response to the treatment of patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy.Methods The levels of serum IL-2,IL-6,sIL-2,sIL-6R and TNF were measured in 35 acute phase patients after their clinical expresson had been assessed.32 of the acute patients were received the same examination after a course of glucocorticoid therapy.Results The levels of IL-6,sIL-2,sIL-6R and TNF tend to elevate with the increase of severity of eye disease.Patients with successful outocme fo glucocorticoid treatment have a higher level of sIL-2,sIL-6R and TNF before treatment than those ith little response,and their sIL-2R?TNF level decreased markedly.Conclusions IL-6,sIR-2R and sIL-6R Levels in peripheral blood might reflect the severity of eye disease,measuring the levels might estimate the outcome of treatment.


Road gets high level of pollution form vehicle emission and from industrial park. The use of traffic light as an information medium on air quality in the industrial park makes riders aware of the traffic light. The electronic information board is an integration among CO, SO2, NO2, O3 and PM10 sensors with dot matrix panel with three colors as the display. The information on it shows the air pollution level, whether it is included in "healthy, not-healthy, and dangerous" andd the first aid to rider if injury happens. This research uses MQ-7 (CO), MQ-136 (SO2), MiCS-2714 (NO2), MQ-131 (O3), and Sharp GP2Y1010AU0F (PM10) sensors. The result of the test showed that the "healthy" category out the Air Pollutant Standard Index was araound 0 100, the "not-healthy: category was around 101 299, and the "dangerous" category was around >300.


IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES, the name of Gudbrandur Vigfusson is now all but forgotten except perhaps among Beowulf scholars who occasionally remember him as the man who in 1878 proposed a connection between Grettis saga and Beowulf, which is still widely accepted. Yet Vigfusson was, during the second half of the nineteenth century, the most prolific and veruatile of all Old Norse scholars in Scandinavia and elsewhere in fields as diverse as lexicography, folktales, editions and translations of Eddic and skaldic poetry, saga studies, and the history of Iceland during the Middle Ages. But in 1989, when a century had passed since his death, it was apparent that his name had faded to obscurity. The University of Iceland invited Benedikt S. Benedikz, a scholar who had made a study of Vigfusson's life and career, to give a lecture about him, but the only real attempt to revive his reputation came from Leeds University. There, two scholars at the School of English, Rory McTurk and Andrew Wawn, brought out a volume of essays under the somewhat quaint title of ur Dolum til Dala. (1) Ur Dolum til Dala is a collection of fourteen articles by scholars from all over the world, and, as the editors put it in their preface, they hoped that the book would "serve as a modest tribute to the remarkable achievement of Gudbrandur Vigfusson as a scholar and as an unrivalled catalyst for Icelandic studies in 'the English-speaking community' and far beyond (McTurk and Wawn viii). However, Ur Dolum til Dala did little to celebrate Vigfusson's achievement. Most of the contributors simply said something polite about him in the introduction to their articles and then proceeded to discuss their chosen topics. This did not escape one reviewer who promptly rebuked the editors for including articles that did "not take Vigfusson as their subject" (Wolf 514). One of the contributors, Benedikt S. Benedikz, was certainly not guilty of this charge, however, as he contributed an essay called "Gudbrandur Vigfusson: A Biographical Sketch" to Wawn and McTurk's volume, and it is this biographical sketch on which I want to focus in the course of my discussion of Vigfusson's life. Benedikt S. Benedikz's article is the fullest treatment of the life and career of Guobrandur Vigfusson that we have to date and drew praise from one reviewer as a "good framework in which to place Vigfussons accomplishments" and for including" a just and detailed analysis and evaluation of his career" (Kellogg 523). The first compliment is without doubt quite deserved, but the second one is more problematic as we shall soon see. In his article Benedikz follows Vigfusson's career from his birth in 1827 through his early schooling, graduation from grammar school (gymnasium) and entry into the University of Copenhagen where he took up the study of Old Norse, although no degree program existed in that subject at the time. This decision eventually led to his Icelandic fiancee's leaving him since there would be no prospect of a government position for someone without a formal university degree. As was to be expected, Vigfusson's Old Norse studies soon landed him a fellowship at the Arnamagnaean Institute in Copenhagen and brought him into contact with leading Old Norse scholars of the time such as Jon Sigurdsson. During this period Vigfusson produced a long essay on the internal chronology of the sagas, which he published in Safn til sogu Islands (1856); an edition of Biskupa sogur with Jon Sigurdsson (1858); an edition of Bardar saga Snofellsass together with various minor sagas, which appeared in the Nordiske oldskrifter series m 1860; assisted with the final preparation of Sveinbjorn Egilsson's Lexicon poeticum for the press in the same year; and finally produced an edition called Fornsogur (Vatnsdola saga, Hallfredar saga and Floamanna saga) with Theodor Mobius in Leipzig, which was published there in 1860. Over the next eight years, Vigfusson worked on a diplomatic edition of Flateyjarbok with Carl Richard Unger, a Norwegian scholar, and prepared during this period an edition of Eyrbyggja saga, which was published in Leipzig in 1864. …


The occurrence in female reptiles of structures homologous to functional components of the male reproductive system has been noted by several authors. Leydig (1853 ; cited by Braun, 1877) first described the persistence, in varying degrees, of mesonephroi and mesonephric ducts in female specimens of Lacerta and Anguis ; Braun (1877) confirmed these observations and, with Schoof (18$5), extended them to several other lizard genera. The latter author described in addition a rete ovarii in the lizards Gongylus and Chamaeleo. The retention of the mesonephric duct was also observed by Braun (1877) in female representatives of five snake genera. A rnesonephric duct alone (van Wijhe, 1881; van den Broek, ' 3 3 ) or both niesonephros and mesonephric duct (Evans, '39) have been found in female specimens of five genera of turtles. Some details have been published on the occurrence of heterosexual structures in female crocodilians. Gadow (1887) reported a female Alligator mississippiensis of a total length of 29 em. in which there was present, apparently bilaterally, a fully formed mesonephric duct extending from the anterior end of the parovarium (the latter is only mentioned) to the cloaca. The mesonephros and its duct have been described in more detail f o r alligators of total lengths up to 19 inches


A preliminary evaluation has been made of a captive carry rig for testing handling qualities of small UAVs. The method used was to attach the vehicle such that it is free to rotate on a tripod above a car. Results indicate that the method is very suitable for evaluating aircraft trim and control surface effectiveness. The method is shown to provide repeatable, sufficiently accurate data to provide information regarding to aircraft stability and control at a preliminary design stage and at low cost. Further work is required to ascertain the ability to measure forces and moments such that derivatives can be estimated.


Modelling of shear behaviour of residual soils is difficult in that there is a significant variability in constituents and structures of the soil. A Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is developed for modelling shear behaviour of the residual soil. The RNN model appears very effective in modelling complex soil shear behaviour, due to its feedback connections from an hidden layer to an input layer. Two architectures of the RNN model are designed for training different sets of experimental data which include strain-controlled undrained tests and stress-controlled drained tests performed on a residual Hawaiian volcanic soil. A dynamic gradient descent learning algorithm is used to train the network. By training only part of the experimental data the network establishes neural connections between stress and strain relations. Although the soil exhibited significant variations in terms of shearing behaviour, the RNN model displays a strong capability in capturing these variabilities. Both softening and hardening characteristics of the soil are well represented by the RNN model. Isotropic and anisotropic consolidation conditions are precisely reflected by the RNN model. In undrained tests, pore water pressure responses at various loading stages are simultaneously simulated. With a RNN model designed for a special drained test, the network is able to capture abrupt changes in axial and volumetric strains during shearing courses. These good agreements between the measured data and the modelling results demonstrate the desired capability of the RNN model in representing a soil behaviour.


The preparation of activated carbon from bamboo charcoal by fast pyrolysis using KOH-microwave irradiation method was researched.The effects of different conditions on the properties of bamboo-based activated carbon were systematically studied via orthogonal experiments.The optimum conditions were as follows: mass fraction of KOH solution 25 %,impregnating time 24 h,microwave power 800 W and activating time 7 min.Under the above conditions,iodine adsorption value of activated carbon was 1 239.08 mg/g,methylene blue adsorption value was 274.95 mg/g,which was 2.04 times of the level specified for the first grade in GB/T 13803.2-1999 standard,and specific surface area was 1 394.16 m2/g.Meanwhile,FT-IR spectra of bamboo charcoal before/after activating were tested.The results showed that surface structure of bamboo charcoal was modified greatly after activation,more surface chemical functional groups were created and specific surface area and adsorption properties of bamboo charcoal were also raised.


Rule Set Based Access Control(RSBAC) is a security framework based on Linux,which consists of kernel enhancements and related patches available for recent Linux kernel versions.It achieves controls of access to computer resources,and this kind of control is of granularity and flexibility.This paper introdues the three basic concepts of RSBAC: subject,object and request, and explored its architecture,further more,explored designs and implements of RSBAC.


Purpose - The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of founder families in medium-sized manufacturing firms and to investigate the impact of such influence on risk management – more specifically foreign exchange hedging and speculation. Design/methodology/approach - This empirical study uses survey data and publicly available data for descriptive analysis and ordinary least squares/ordered regression analysis. Findings - The authors find that two thirds of medium-sized manufacturing firms are founder family firms in which the founder of the firm or members of his/her family are active in the management team, are members of the board of directors, and/or are shareholders of the firm. The study finds no difference between such founder family firms and other firms in terms of the use/non-use decision related to foreign exchange derivatives but a marked difference in terms of the extent decision. Thus, founder family firms tend not only to hedge but also to speculate more extensively than other firms. Research limitations/implications - The findings are based on medium-sized manufacturing firms in Denmark. Originality/value - This study provides empirical evidence on the influence of founder families in medium-sized firms and adds to the sparse literature on the impact of founder family influence on risk management.


In the output power range below one electrical watt, the combination of an isotope heat source with a metallic thermoelectric converter yields characteristics that are superior to systems employing other kinds of energy sources or conversion methods. When the output power is to be delivered at a high impedance, the metallic thermocouple shows a substantial advantage over the semiconductor thermocouples. The isotope-metal thermocouple system can be designed to yield other important power source characteristics such as the ability to withstand severe mechanical vibration and shock and to produce constant output power over a very wide range of temperature ambients. The design for the present (SNAP-15A) device allows for an ambient range of from -65° to + 165° F, but a much wider range can be accommodated. Transient response to ambient temperature change can be tailored to specific requirements for uniform power output. Finally, the device can operate under water, in air, or in vacuum. The device characteristics support a wide range of potential applications. Following are some of the applications under consideration: 1. Provide a steady reference voltage for long life applications. 2. Supply a network of radio beacons for the lunar landing area. 3. Power transmitters for remote weather and detection data. 4. Provide fail-safe ultrareliable long-life power in space satellites. 5. Power miniaturized communication sets. The degree to which the new device is competitive with other power sources for such applications depends on the detailed requirements.


In this article two new types of wavelet bases for Hermite quintic splines are offered. The algorithm of wavelet decomposition as the solution of three systems of the linear equations, from which one system is three-diagonal with strict diagonal domination and two other systems are four-diagonal, is received.


'The tradition unfolds' discusses how schools and teachers use differing amounts of both the progressive and formal tradition. Teachers in primary schools have tended to take from the progressive tradition more than their secondary colleagues. Research into classrooms, including Neville Bennett's research and project ORACLE, has considered the effectiveness of group work in learning. What emerges out of classroom research is a realization that teachers are not robots: they respond to the class as well as leading it; they reflect on their successes and failures and they adapt. This explains why top-down efforts from governments to change schools often fail; they divert teachers from their experience and instincts.


SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN ANATOMIST f' INHERE has lately been I installed in the Old AshmoI lean Museum at Oxford a ■ memorial window designed to commemorate the men of science who were connected with its founda tion. One of its lights bearing the arms and instruments of Sir Christopher Wren was presented by the Royal Institute of British Architects. As one would expect the instruments shown are all connected with that profession and do not symbolize the other branches of science in which he at one time showed such proficiency. No more appropriate place for such a window could have been found. The Old Ashmolean Museum was built between 1679 and 1682 to house the collection of rarities, including those of Tradescant, which Elias Ashmole presented to the University of Oxford. Gunther1 has proved that Wren was the architect, a fact upon which some doubts had been thrown. Besides the Museum it contained lecture rooms and laboratories, a library and a dissect ing room for private courses on anatomy. The first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum was Dr. Robert Plot, the author of the "Natural


Under the condition of second fundamental form and mean curvature,we study the instability of F-harmonic maps for submanifold in Euclidean space or spheres,and generalize the results of other authors.


DOI: 10.1111/iju.14043 The goal of RP for localized PC is complete tumor removal with full recovery of continence and EF. It is reported that preRP ED is associated with biochemical recurrence. However, there is no study that evaluated the association between EF recovery and survival after RP. We assessed whether EF recovery was associated with longer survival among men who did not die of PC. We identified 7509 patients who underwent RP at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 1991 through 2016 with a median follow-up period of 4.1 years (interquartile range 2.0–6.7 years). Of 7509 patients, 3853 had functional erections preoperatively and had EF assessments at 12 months postoperatively. The 12-month EF assessment was determined by physicianor patient-reported outcomes. Patient-reported EF was determined using the International Index of EF-EF domain. A score of 22 was used to define functional erections. As the administration of this survey began in 2007, we used physician-reported outcomes before that date. The physician-assessed EF scoring system was 1–5 (1 – normal, full erections; 2 – full erections, but recently diminished; 3 – partial erections, satisfactory for intercourse; 4 – partial erections, unsatisfactory for intercourse; 5 – absence of any erections). Functional erections were defined as a score of ≥2. In our cohort, we used physicianand patient-reported outcomes in 1964 (51%) and 1889 (49%) patients, respectively. As participants with ED might be at a greater risk of death from PC due to nerve resection with high-risk disease, a sensitivity analysis using competing risks regression was carried out. Using death from PC as the competing risk, we tested the association between other-cause mortality and EF status on univariable and multivariable analysis after adjusting for age, CCI, diabetes and hypertension status. Statistical analyses were carried out using Stata version 13.0 (StataCorp, College Station, TX, USA). Table S1 lists the clinical characteristics of the cohort. EF recovery was experienced by 1501 (39%) patients. Characteristics that are associated with higher-risk and more aggressive disease were associated with ED at 12 months. There were 140 deaths, 28 (20%) attributed to PC and 112 (80%) due to other causes. Although 15-year other-cause death rates in patients who recovered EF at 12 months (8%; 95% CI 5–12) tended to be lower than those who did not recover (21%; 95% CI 16–29; HR 0.68, 95% CI 0.44–1.01; P = 0.054), this effect was markedly attenuated when adjusting for age, CCI, and hypertension and diabetes status (P = 0.4; Table 1). Furthermore, EF recovery was not associated with other-cause mortality after adjusting for the competing risk of death due to PC on univariable competing risks regression (SHR 0.68, 95% CI 0.45–1.02; P = 0.064) or on multivariable analysis (SHR 0.87, 95% CI 0.57–1.33; P = 0.5). In RP, safe cancer control and maintenance of functions seem to be paradoxical. Negative EF recovery for a patient with oncological success might mean that the cavernous nerves were compromised during surgery. In contrast, positive EF recovery for a patient with oncological failure could have resulted from dissection close to the prostate with preservation of the cavernous nerves. Patients with high-risk cancer will not experience EF recovery due to nerve resection, and might die from PC. Therefore, we defined the endpoint as death from other-cause mortality, using death from PC as the competing risk. Recabal et al. evaluated 584 patients with high-risk PC who underwent RP. They reported that just 24% of the patients who underwent some degree of nerve sparing had a positive surgical margin, and 47% of the preoperatively potent patients who underwent some degree of nerve sparing experienced EF recovery at 24 months postoperatively. If experienced surgeons carry out RP, some degree of nerve sparing is thought to be safely performed for high-risk patients with an acceptable rate of positive surgical margins.


Behçet disease (BD) is a rare systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology, primarily characterized by recurrent oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, uveitis, and skin lesions. Pathergy test positivity is a nonspecific inflammatory response of the skin to trauma and supports the diagnosis. Recently, new inducers of pathergy reactions have been identified, for example, the placement of dental braces and laser hair removal. Our clinical case highlights the importance of thinking about this potential pathergy inducer in BD patients, to improve their quality of life and avoid complications.


The effect of glucose and invert sugar impregnation on the convective drying rate of pineapple and the suitability of nine mathematical models to describe the drying curves were investigated. Tests were conducted using fresh pineapple rings and samples which were pre-treated by osmotic dehydration in sucrose solutions (0.40, 0.44, and 0.47 g mL-1) and in invert sugar syrup. Osmotic pre-treatments were performed at 40 and 50 oC for 2 hours at 60 min-1. The convective drying was performed in a tray cabinet dryer using heated ambient air at 60 oC and 1.25 m.s-1. The adjustment levels of the models were based on the correlation coefficient, the root mean square error, mean absolute percentage error, and residual plot analysis. The highest rates of convective drying were obtained for the fresh samples. In the osmotically pre-treated fruits, with both temperatures, an increase in the solution concentration was followed by a decrease in the convective drying rate. The Wang and Singh model was considered the most adequate in describing the convective drying of pineapple rings.


Purpose: To present a case report of a patient with amelogenesis imperfecta rehabilitated with 26 CAD-CAM all-ceramic fully sintered zirconia crowns.
Case description: A male subject, 28 year-old, sought dental treatment presenting a clinical condition compatible with amelogenesis imperfecta. All teeth had yellow, brown, and white areas of weak enamel. Composite restorations were present on teeth 14, 16, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 46; dental caries were shown on teeth 36, 37, and 47. Hipersensitivity was reported. The treatment included fully sintered zirconia crowns for all teeth, using a CAD-CAM system. No problems of marginal adaptation of the crowns were detected, and the final results were satisfactory for both the patient and the clinician.
Conclusion: The clinical rehabilitation of an amelogenesis imperfecta case is a challenge, and a multidisciplinary approach is required. Zirconia all-ceramics crowns are an excellent option to restore dental aesthetics as the opaque zirconia coping can mask dischromic abutments, and the crowns have biocompatibility and improved physical properties.


We report on an experimental and theoretical investigation of the residence time distribution (RTD) of the polarization mode-hopping regime in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) subject to optical feedback. The RTD exhibits discontinuity and oscillations, as a result of the fast intensity oscillations at the delay time that accompany the slow mode hopping. We furthermore show numerically that an external noise source on the injection current allows observation of a coherence resonance phenomenon in VCSELs induced by time-delayed feedback.


ABSTRACT The cleaning and rehabilitation of oiled wildlife, especially waterfowl, has been one of our most difficult environmental problems to solve. It is plagued by controversy, emotion, apathy, ...


Our retrospective study done on 184 cases of hypertrophic mammary gland and ptosis on little, medium, and high grade confirms that we have approached an original technique, giving an inversed T scar, reducing the horizontal part of our scar instead of the original Pitanguy scar.


Section 1—Background The conventional energy wisdoms; Alberta, oil and the tarsands—the capital cost crunch; the national energy picture and predictions for future—beginning of the end for conventional policies in [Strategies for Self-Reliance] problems of credibility for the [nuclear solution] cases for conservation and renewable energy as real alternatives to continuing, deepening crisis.

Section 2—Specific Issues and Considerations Underlying components of Canadian energy crisis—capital cost pinch; lead time pinch; over-optimistic reserve forecasting; other socio-economic, environmental and political hangups. Examples: Northern energy and Dene threat to development; vast capital costs for tarsand development; environmental and cost checks on rapid, large expansion of hydro potentials; problems for nuclear energy—CANDU and Quebec separatism; overseas sales [sweeteners].

Section 3—The Mounting Crisis Ongoing thrust of energy development versus new problems and policy rationales; particular problems for nuclear power and rapid, large expansion of open-pit coal working; infrastructure and economic-social problems decreasing credibility of nuclear power and expanded coal; lead time and consumer resistance problems for electrification; transport problems for coal; strategic and political problems for nuclear; environment problems for coal; capital cost constraints.

Section 4—Conservation and Renewable Energy: the New Solution Preamble to Conservation and the New Renewable Energy Sources.

Section 5—Conservation Canada's energy-inefficient society; international economic and social comparisons; potentials for eliminating/reducing demand while raising GNP and showing population growth (both at decreased relative rates); economic development stages and [decoupling] high yielding conservation sectors; quantitative summaries of potentials; policy, social and economic aspects.

Section 6—The Renewable Energy Sources Reasons for optimism on renewables; advantages of renewables; solar energy; wind energy; biomass energy; quantitative summaries of potentials; cost and job impacts; conclusions regarding renewable energy sources.

Section 7—Programming for Conservation and Renewable Energy Outlines for a structure on which renewables and conservation are developed.


It was analyzed and summarized the corrosion mechanism of the metal materials in the hydrochloric acid medium and the research status in this article.Nowadys,it was found that the corrosion rate of the metal materials in the hydrochloric acid medium related to the acidity and the chloride concentration.It was became a main trend to research the Cl-and the H+ to the metal Corrosion,and the dynamic problem of the anode/cathode reaction in order to resolve the corrosion of the metal materials in the hydrochloric acid medium.


Potassium ferrate was an effective and multi-functional water treatment agent,had strong oxidationcapacity in aqueous solution.Its reductive product Fe(Ⅲ) was non-toxic.It integrated the properties,such as oxidizing sterilization,adsorption,flocculation,and deodorization,without caused secondary pollution in wastewater treatment.In the last decade people payed more attention to the Fe(Ⅵ) which called green oxidant.


The assertion that exchange rate volatility has no real effects on trade volumes has been a contentious issue for over a decade. The European Union established the euro on the basis of a contrarian view to this assertion, and also maintained relatively fixed exchange rates following the collapse of the Bretton Woods exchange rate system in the early 1970s. Indeed, anecdotal evidence appears to support the view that there is an inverse relationship between trade volumes and exchange rate volatility. Business associations also consistently support more fixity in exchange rates, despite the existence of derivative markets for the purposes of hedging. While exports and imports appear on the current account of balance of payments, foreign direct investment appears on the capital account. Much of the world's foreign direct investment (FDI) is undertaken by multinational enterprises (MNEs), about 60 percent on average during the 1990s. The nature of FDI flows is very unlike merchandise trade flows, as FDI largely consists of


The authors have investigated the effects of different doses of mineral fertilizers combined with co-inoculation of Bacillus subtilis and Trichoderma asperellum to promote plant growth and use efficient nutrients in a plant Urochloa (Syn. Brachiaria) brizantha cv. Marandu. Individual experiments with doses of the nutrients nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) were carried out. The experiment was conducted in a completely randomized design, factorial 3 × 5. With the treatments: control noninoculation, inoculation with Bacillus subtilisUFRA-92, and coinoculation (MIX) with T. asperellum (UFRA-06, UFRA-09, UFRA-12, and UFRA-52) + B. subtilis x nutrient omissions (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%). Each treatment had five replications. Biometric parameters, nutrient content, and nutrient use efficiency were evaluated. The results showed that the inoculants promoted growth in Marandu grass. The use of inoculants promoted growth and increased N, P, and K uptake by Marandu grass. Co-inoculation changed leaf area, shoot length, elongation rate, and leaf appearance for N and K and root dry mass for P. In addition, the co-inoculation combined with doses of 75% of N, 50% of P, and 50% of K increased the nutritional content of the leaves by 256% of N, 280% of P, and 29% of K and provided greater agronomic efficiency, with increments of 462% of N, 544% of P, and 177% of K, compared to the control treatment. We present the potential of co-inoculation of B. subtilis and T. asperellum to promote the growth of Urochloa under reduced fertilizer application. There was an improvement in plant growth and nutrient use efficiency.


Objectives: To evaluate the correlation between postoperative aeration around the stapes and hearing outcome after canal wall down tympanoplasty with canal reconstruction for cholesteatoma. Study Design: Retrospective case review. Setting: University hospital otolaryngology department. Patients: Seventy ears of 65 patients with middle ear cholesteatoma were included. Patients who had fixed or poorly mobile ossicular chain was excluded. Interventions: They were underwent canal wall down tympanoplasty with canal reconstruction. Canal wall was reconstructed with the tragal or conchal cartilage and the cortical bone plate. Main Outcome Measures: We measured aeration around the stapes on coronal and axial computed tomographic sections at 1 year after ossiculoplasty and investigated the correlation between postoperative aeration around the stapes and postoperative air-bone gap (using the mean of 0.5-, 1-, and 2-kHz threshold values) at 1 year after ossiculoplasty. We also investigated it for each of Wullstein type and for each of 0.25-, 0.5-, 1-, 2-, and 4-kHz thresholds. Results: Aeration around the stapes was negatively correlated with postoperative air-bone gap (correlation coefficient, -0.53; p < 0.05). Types I and IV tympanoplasty had a higher correlation with postoperative air-bone gap than type III tympanoplasty. The 0.5-KHz frequency had a higher correlation with postoperative air bone gap than other frequencies. Conclusion: Measurement of postoperative aeration around the stapes is an effective method for evaluating the importance of middle ear aeration. Aeration around the stapes contributes to better hearing outcome.


Although the southern Pennine uplands have experienced industrially derived heavy metal pollution for almost two hundred years, an historical analysis of its depositional records has not yet been undertaken. The area has no natural lakes but has many reservoirs, and despite the potential for sediment disturbance due to fluctuating water levels, reservoir sediments can be used as a record of heavy metal pollution. A methodology for the selection of reservoirs with undisturbed sedimentary records, and the verification of sediment stratigraphy is proposed. Preliminary results of metal analysis from the Howden reservoir indicate trace metal contamination with Zn > Pb > Cr > Ni = Cu.


We study the entropy of the set traced by an n-step random walk on Zd. We show that for d ≥ 3, the entropy is of order n. For d = 2, the entropy is of order n/ log n. These values are essentially governed by the size of the boundary of the trace.


The NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ScanningRaman Lidar (SRL) system was deployed to Andros Island in the Bahamas from July 29 until September 20, 1998 as a part of the NASAHeadquaters sponsored Convection And Moisture Experimen(CAMEX3).


The anatomical basis of conscious experience has traditionally been linked to sensory‐fugal (inward) pathways that convey sensory information to progressively "higher" association cortices. Current thinking is emphasizing the importance of sensory‐petal pathways that run in the opposite (outward) direction. According to emerging views, many aspects of cognition may represent an iterative neural dialogue between sensory‐fugal connections, which reflect the physical nature of ambient events, and sensory‐petal connections, which infer the nature of the stimulus based on empirical accounts of past experience. These reciprocal pathways, embedded within the internally generated oscillations of the brain, are further modulated by top‐down projections from high‐order association cortices, most prominently located in prefrontal cortex. This set of top‐down projections has the capacity to transcend experience‐based representations and to insert internally generated priorities into the interpretation of ongoing events. The characteristically human capacity for resisting stimulus‐bound responses and favoring novel interpretations may be linked to the influence of these top‐down projections. The reciprocal sensory‐processing pathways and their top‐down modulations collectively define the conscious interpretation of experience. Ann Neurol 2008;64:367–378


This paper studies the reliability of an industrial knitting machine, emphasizing the reliability value and the reliability indicators: failure rate and MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures). This study has been conducted on an industrial knitting machine and has duration of 4500 hours (approximately 6 months), after which preventive maintenance operations are planned. This study analyses the behavior of the reliability, failure rate and of the MTBF depending on the functioning environment and of the temperature to which the knitting machine was subjected. The last part presents an analysis of the top ten components that are most likely to malfunction.


The research progress on laser surface processing of magnesium alloy is reviewed.Laser surface processing techniques of magnesium alloys such as melting,alloying,composite intensifying and cladding developed in recent years are introduced.Its achievements such as improving the hardness,wear and corrosion resistance of magnesium alloys,repairing the finished-product of magnesium alloys are described.Finally some prediction of its future development is also presented.


Sky News report on 20 August 2016 'Cape York cattle owners outraged at govt plan' contained false and misleading information.


In the graduation thesis the Grosupeljscica stream is presented, which flows through the town of Grosuplje. Due to heavy rain the stream overflows the surrounding buildings. The subject of the graduation thesis was to determine the flood endangered areas and protection from high waters. In the first part the Grosupeljscica watershed is described. The description includes the basic characteristics of the watershed, topographic, hydrographic and hydrologic characteristics of the watershed. On the basis of field inspection and godetic maps was made a detailed description of topographic and hydromorphologic characteristics of the selected reach. In the second part, computer program HEC-RAS was employed. With the program was made a computation model to process the geometrical data of stream, flow and boundary conditions. The computation model processed the water surface of 100-year water, with which the floodplain of the Grosupeljscica stream was determined. The program calculates steady and unsteady flow. In the graduation thesis we made both calculations and compared the results. Because of the intent to build a storage resorvoir upstream of discussed reach, which would retain part of water during heavy rain, we considered this in the calculations. In the Grosuplje area the flow from the storage reservoir on the account of inflows and precipitation during 100-year water, should increase by more than four times. Beside the existing constructions the river engineering also considered the planned constructions, which would reduce the flooded area during high waters. The river engineering includes several measures. The computation has shown that some culverts dam high waters. This kind of culverts will need to be enlarged. Because the extension of the channel was not a sufficient


The gas temperature in the cores of many clusters of galaxies drops inward by about a factor of 3 or more within the central 100-kpc radius. The radiative cooling time drops over the same region from 5 or more Gyr down to below a few 10 8 yr. Although this indicates that cooling flows are taking place, XMM-Newton spectra show no evidence for strong mass cooling rates of gas below 1-2keV. The soft X-ray luminosity expected from steady cooling flows is missing. Here we outline and test the energetics of a cold mixing model in which gas below 1-2keV falls from the flow and is rapidly cooled by mixing with cold gas. The missing X-ray luminosity can emerge in the ultraviolet, optical and infrared bands, where strong emission nebulosities are commonly seen. We explore further the requirements for any heat sources that balance the radiative cooling in cluster cores.


Applications of digital technology has changed the traditional art and design in the passive role of audience,the audience can also participate in the art of"creative process"and let the audience to judge and select.The rapid development of the modern information age has brought about social progress and development,but also resulted in some loss of national traditional art of hand,and attached to the art of traditional hand-traditional culture will be greatly affected,even with the demise of manual arts.So how to protect the design and development of arts and culture as woodcarving Jianchuan focus of this article.


Currently teacher evaluation is a recurrent and problematic topic in all the spheres and levels of academic life; surely, this doesn't scape from the sectors, institutions, actions and subjects that shape higher education. The following exercise of analysis, derived from a concluded research process, evinces a relation with an interpretation about the evaluative discourses and practices that permeates this level of the education in Colombia and that is materialized in the universities, in this case in the Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas (Bogota-Colombia), and the way how their staging may imply actions or procedures of either inclusion or exclusion. The descriptive and interpretative analytics exposed in here is done on various national and institutional documents of prescriptive and normative order, and it considers the exam of the institutional and institutionalized practices over teacher evaluation.


Ocean reanalysis products are routinely employed as reality checks in model evaluations and for process studies. This is especially so for critical regions such as the equatorial cold tongue (ECT) in the eastern equatorial Pacific where models suffer a chronic cold bias. ECT is a major player in the Pacific equatorial zonal sea surface temperature (SST) gradient (ΔEWSST) that has a significant impact on oceanic heat uptake and thus global climate. Hence, we investigate the reliability of three ocean reanalysis products for surface flux and ocean dynamic controls on ΔEWSST and Niño3.4 SST trends. We infer that while Niño3.4 SST trends are positive in all products, the signs of ΔEWSST trends do not agree with each other because initial conditions likely play a big role in their evolution. However, for ΔEWSST trends, the effect of initial conditions gets canceled out to some extent. Mixed layer heat budget and trends in ocean dynamic features such as tropical and subtropical cells, equatorial undercurrent, and subsurface temperatures are also diagnosed. We show that two reanalysis products that show a strengthening of ΔEWSST have contradicting trends in their surface heat flux and ocean dynamic contributions. This suggests that without accurate surface heat and momentum fluxes, data assimilation techniques may produce an east–west trend that is inconsistent among each other. Reanalysis products must address these issues considering the importance of this gradient. Plain Language Summary The east to west sea surface temperature (SST) gradient (ΔEWSST) of the equatorial Pacific Ocean (EQPO) is characterized by a highly variable cold SST over the eastern EQPO and relatively less variable warm, fresh pool in the west. This gradient reinforces the equatorial easterlies because of a positive feedback with wind‐driven upwelling in the east. Anomalous weakening (strengthening) of the ΔEWSST and the resulting weaker (stronger) easterlies lead to an El Niño (La Niña). On climate change timescales, this feedback modulates oceanic heat uptake and atmospheric warming as seen by the La Niña‐like state during 1998 to 2013 and the so‐called global warming pause. The reliability of future climate projections depends on simulating the coupled dynamics of the region faithfully due to its global reach. Therefore, climate models have to be thoroughly evaluated. As observations are insufficient, ocean reanalysis products, which are comprehensive records produced bymerging observations and models, serve as surrogates for observations in this context. However, the surface heat fluxes and ocean dynamics are inconsistent among three reanalysis products analyzed. The inconsistencies in surface fluxes in two products still produce a similar ΔEWSST trend but with different ocean dynamic pathways.


We study the relationship between Web users and service providers, taking a sociotechnical approach and focusing particularly (but not exclusively) on privacy and security of personal data. Much conventional Web-security practice seeks to protect benevolent parties, both individuals and organizations, against purely malevolent adversaries in an effort to prevent catastrophic events such as data breaches, ransomware attacks, and denial of service. By contrast, we highlight the dynamics among the parties that much conventional security technology seeks to protect. We regard most interactions between users and providers as implicit negotiations that, like the interactions between buyers and sellers in a marketplace, have both adversarial and cooperative aspects. Our goal is to rebalance these negotiations in order to give more power to users; toward that end we advocate the adoption of two techniques, one technical and one organizational. Technically, we introduce the Platform for Untrusted Resource Evaluation (PURE), a content-labeling framework that empowers users to make informed decisions about service providers, reduces the ability of providers to induce behaviors that benefit them more than users, and requires minimal time and effort to use. On the organizational side, we concur with Gordon-Tapiero et al. [19] that a collective approach is necessary to rebalance the power dynamics between users and providers; in particular, we suggest that the data co-op, an organizational form suggested by Ligett and Nissim [25] and Pentland and Hardjono [28], is a natural setting in which to deploy PURE and similar tools.


Risk management is one of the top priorities in the financial industry today. The research of quantifying risk is one of risk management's centers. Quantifying the risk of financial time series amounts to measuring their expected shortfall. Asymmetric Power Distribution(APD) is a new family of densities for expected shortfall. The main feature of the APD is that it combines the flexible tail decay property with the asymmetry, which makes it particularly suited for modeling the behavior of financial returns. In this paper, a non-parametric estimator, as a improvement to the traditional estimators, used the Support Vector Machine(SVM)for expected shortfall based on APD is proposed. The simulated studies show that this method can depict the distribution characters of Asymmetric Power Distribution with good results.


Emerging evidence has shown that GSK3β plays a pivotal role in regulating the specification of axons and dendrites. Our previous study has shown a novel GSK3β interaction protein (GSKIP) able to negatively regulate GSK3β in Wnt signaling pathway. To further characterize how GSKIP functions in neurons, human neuroblastoma SH‐SY5Y cells treated with retinoic acid (RA) to differentiate to neuron‐like cells was used as a model. Overexpression of GSKIP prevents neurite outgrowth in SH‐SY5Y cells. GSKIP may affect GSK3β activity on neurite outgrowth by inhibiting the specific phosphorylation of tau (ser396). GSKIP also increases β‐catenin in the nucleus and raises the level of cyclin D1 to promote cell‐cycle progression in SH‐SY5Y cells. Additionally, overexpression of GSKIP downregulates N‐cadherin expression, resulting in decreased recruitment of β‐catenin. Moreover, depletion of β‐catenin by small interfering RNA, neurite outgrowth is blocked in SH‐SY5Y cells. Altogether, we propose a model to show that GSKIP regulates the functional interplay of the GSK3β/β‐catenin, β‐catenin/cyclin D1, and β‐catenin/N‐cadherin pool during RA signaling in SH‐SY5Y cells. J. Cell. Biochem. 108: 1325–1336, 2009. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


The Cosmic Background Explorer Observatory (COBE) underwant a thermal vacuum thermal balance test in the Space Environment Simulator (SES). This was the largest and most complex test ever conducted at this facility. The 4 x 4 m (13 x 13 ft) spacecraft weighed approx. 2223 kg (4900 lbs) for the test. The test set up included simulator panels for the inboard solar array panels, simulator panels for the flight cowlings, Sun and Earth Sensor stimuli, Thermal Radio Frequency Shield heater stimuli and a cryopanel for thermal control in the Attitude Control System Shunt Dissipator area. The fixturing also included a unique 4.3 m (14 ft) diameter Gaseous Helium Cryopanel which provided a 20 K environment for the calibration of one of the spacecraft's instruments, the Differential Microwave Radiometer. This cryogenic panel caused extra contamination concerns and a special method was developed and written into the test procedure to prevent the high buildup of condensibles on the panel which could have led to backstreaming of the thermal vacuum chamber. The test was completed with a high quality simulated space environment provided to the spacecraft. The test requirements, test set up, and special fixturing are described.


Thermophysical properties provide a deep and meaningful picture of various interactions taking place in ternary and higher component liquid mixtures. Density (ρ), viscosity (η), and ultrasonic velocity (u) have been determined for the ternary liquid mixture of 1,4-dioxane-DMSO-water of different percentage compositions in the presence of quaternary alkyl ammonium iodide salts (R4NI) of varying alkyl chain lengths at 303.15, 313.15 and 323.15 K. From the experimental data, the acoustical parameters such as adiabatic compressibility (βad), intermolecular free length (Lf), free volume (Vf), acoustic impedance (Z) and relaxation time (τ) have been evaluated. Studies at different temperatures have been carried out to check the validity of Frank's hypothesis as well as Eyring and Kincaid theory of model of propagation of sound velocity due to weak complex formation because of hydrogen bonds. The present investigation involves the study of nature of molecular interactions, molecular rearrangement and hydrogen bond making/breaking phenomena.


Abstract - Homoeopathy has been always questioned right from its inception. It has been more than 200 years that homoeopathy has been practiced in different countries. There have been many questions about its scientificity but still it has produced some miraculous result, which we get from history. In India it is also being practiced widely and recognized as an official system of medicine. This article puts a light of how homoeopathy can be one of the potential armories to the health care delivery system and be a part of community health. Key Words - Community health, Genus epidemics, QoL


The social adoption of change is usually hard because in reality, forces opposing the social adoption of change manifest. This situation of organizational conflict corresponds to the case where two competing groups of influential agents ("promoters" versus "adversaries" of change) operate concurrently within the same organizational network. We model and explore the co-evolution of interpersonal ties and attitudes in the presence of conflict, taking into account explicitly the microscopic "agent-to-agent" interactions. In this perspective, we propose a new ties-attitudes co-evolution model where the diffusion of attitudes depends on the weights and the evolution of weights is formulated as a "learning mechanism" (weight updates depend on the previous values of both weights and attitudes). As a result, the co-evolution is intrinsic/endogenous. We simulate representative scenarios of conflict in 4 real organizational networks. In order to formulate structural balance in directed networks, we extended Heider's definition of balance considering directed triangles. The evolution of balance involves two stages: first, negative links pop up disorderly and destroy balance, but after some time, as new negative links are formed, a "new" balance is re-established. This "new" balance is emerging concurrently with the polarization of attitudes or domination of one attitude. Moreover, same-minded agents are positively linked and different-minded agents are negatively-linked. This macroscopic self-organization of the system is due only to agent-to-agent interactions, involving feedbacks on weight updates at the local microscopic level.


Smart City has become the new developing target of modern city. Analyzing in depth the characteristics and connotation of Smart City and listing analysis dimensions for Smart City construction have the vital practical significance. This paper builds the 5I model of Smart City from four perspectives of information infrastructure construction, information perception and intelligent application, new generation of information technology industry and information security assurance. To have a more clear exposition of the present situation of Smart City construction from 5I model, this paper takes Shanghai for example to provide rational analysis perspectives and scientific references for the development of Smart City all over the world.


Wiring diagrams usually serve as a tool in the study of arrangements of lines and pseudolines. In this paper we go in the opposite direction, using known properties of line arrangements to motivate certain equivalence relations and actions on sets of wiring diagrams, which preserve the incidence lattice and the fundamental groups of the affine and projective complements of the diagrams. These actions are used in [GTV] to classify real arrangements of up to 8 lines and show that in this case, the incidence lattice determines both the affine and the projective fundamental groups.


In the pipeline's construction phase and long-term operation time,there will be inevitable mechanical damage for the pipeline.The burst of mechanical damage in the pipeline is the main form of pipeline failure.Dent and gouge are the main form of mechanical damage.The combination defect of dent and gouge would greatly reduce the strength of the pipeline.First of all,two prediction models were analyzed detailed,and the scope of application of the model were given,then were compared with the full-scale burst test results,and the conclusion that the dent-gouge prediction model is a better model to predict a gouge and a dent defect was come to,finally,some suggestions were put forward.


Since 30 years, the emergence of unemployment and the instability of the economic conditions have led to questioning the canonical model for male careers without interruptions. At the same time, the women' participation rate has increased: they interrupt less and less activity because of motherhood and children's education. However, the women's careers still differ from men's. In static terms, women's jobs are characterized by short contracts, part-time and interruptions. In terms of life cycle, the gender wage gap reflects the effects of the whole career rather than pure wage discrimination: ceteris paribus, the differences are built during the career according to promotions and bonus systems more favourable to men. In terms of generation, women's careers, characterized in the past by long periods of child education and inactivity, are now characterized by more part-time and fixed-term contracts. The aims of our work are to identify several types of wage-careers and to predict the future wages using the wage function estimated for each career-type. This work may furthermore be used to evaluate the impacts of the different reforms on the expected pension amount for the future generations of retirees. First we will present the specificities of women's wage-careers during the life cycle and between generations, with a review of the empirical literature on this topic. Second we will present the data used, the EIC. Third we will describe the method and the first results obtained for two generations (1946 and 1962). We can observe convergence of wage profiles but persistence of inequalities.


The solubilities of ethylbenzene in styrene-butadiene rubbers (SBR) have been measured by the same apparatus at 100 and 130 o C. A UNIFAC-FV model was applied to predict the activities of solutes in polymer solutions


Based on data from Bank Indonesia (BI) on the growth of commercial credits and
small and medium enterprises (SME) in 2010, it is sufficient to make optimistic.
Credit growth increases significantly. Bankers target commercial credits as well
as small and medium enterprises (SME) will grow 25% to the end of 2010. From
the records of the Central Bank, commercial credits and SME in late 2009 was
recorded at Rp502,02 trillion. This amount represents 34.91% of total credits of
bank at such rates reaching Rp1.437,93 trillion. While total of commercial credits
and SME at the end of this year, will be predicted to reach Rp627,52 trillion. This
optimism is captured by the Bank Windu, as one bank that provides commercial
credits and SME as an opportunity. But in order to be able to succeed in the
competition, a good strategy analysis is required.
This research aims to analyze the macro environment and banking industry in the
commercial and SME segments, analyze the company's resources and
capabilities, identify the key success factors in banking industry in the
commercial and SME segments, as well as formulate business strategies of
Banking Strategic Business Unit of Bank Windu�s commercial segments as well
as small and medium enterprises.
Looking at the analysis done, we can conclude that the strategy which can be
applied is a growth strategy that can be done by relying on existing strengths and
opportunities, and overcoming any weaknesses and threats of Bank Windu.
Meanwhile in the short-term, the targets to be achieved in meeting the growth
strategy are (1) improvement of infrastructure (organizations, human resources
and systems), (2) an increase in business volume, (3) expansion of office
network, and (4) fulfillment of GCG (Good Corporate Governance).


Currently, dengue has became a major public health problem in Indonesia. Aedes aegypti is confirmed as the main dengue vector. The organophosphate and phyretroid have been used in vector control program for more than 3 decades. Insecticide resistance evidences and mechanisms are essential to find the current status of insecticide susceptibility of dengue vectors. In this study, we analyzed the molecular principles of resistance to phyrethroid and organophosphate insecticides on mosquitoes collected from Palu, Central Sulawesi, and Belu and Ende, East Nusa Tenggara. Single-step polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method was conducted to detect amino acid mutations in paratype voltage-gated sodium channel (VGSC) gene and Achetylcoline esterase-1 (AChE) gene of Ae. Aegypti mosquitoes. The result showed that V1016G mutations of VGSC gene were detected from the wild-caught Ae. Aegypti mosquito from Palu, Belu and Ende. In contrast, G119 wild type allele of AChE gene was found from all Ae. Aegypti of all study sites. These evidences suggest that Ae. aegypti from Palu, Belu and Ende have developed multiple resistance towards phyrethroid insecticides. Based on prior susceptibility test, Ae. aegypti from all study sites were possibly developing resistance to organophosphate in other mechanisms. New strategies are needed, especially insecticide rotation in this area to achieve efficient vector control.


This article aims to present a Methodological Guide to add gamification elements to the Geodesign framework when planning the future of the city, using Geogames such Minecraft, with the participation of children in Tirol, in Brazil. The problematic tackled is related to the challenges that participants of a Geodesign workshop face when co-designing projects as alternative futures for the territory, such as losing engagement and involvement. To support the participants overcome these challenges we incorporate playfulness into the some of the Geodesign workshop phases enhancing geovisualization, collaboration and cognition.


Over the previous decade, African cities experienced a wave of frenzied construction driven by imaginations of world-city status. While these projects provoked new discussions about African urbanism, the literature on them has focused more on the paperwork of planning than actual urban experiences. This article addresses this lacuna by investigating residents' reactions to the post-conflict building boom in Luanda, Angola. I show that Luandans' held highly ambivalent orientations towards the emerging city. Their views were shaped by suspicions about pacts between Angolan elites and international capital that recapitulated longstanding tensions over national belonging. These concerns were voiced via discussions of the very aesthetics of the new city. Buildings became catalysts for expressions of dissent that put into question the very project of state-driven worlding. The paper therefore argues that the politics of aesthetics are central to grasping the contested understandings of urbanism currently emerging in various African cities.


Boeing Vertol Model 234, CH-47D and 347 tandem rotor helicopters demonstrate noise levels that comply with the overall noise standard requirements. The helicopters achieve these noise levels because they are, by design, free of impulsive noise in level flight and climb. Avoiding an impulsive noise signature is achieved by developing and applying configuration design criteria that eliminate blade vortex intersections and recognize advancing blade tip noise limitations in high speed forward flight. Airfoil design, rotor separation and rotor tipspeed selection all contribute to the noise control. Compliance with the approach element of the standards is marginal at best. The approach problem is not appreciably alleviated by reduced tipspeed and airfoil design. Since it is a single rotor phenomenon, it is not alleviated by rotor separation in the tandem configuration. Tip shapes may provide the answer, but to date this approach has not led to a satisfactory solution.


The purpose of this paper is to determine the extent to which information system (IS) personnel form an occupational community. To this end, a model of an occupational community is developed. Occupational communities are hypothesized to form when people are highly involved in and identify with their work, when the work itself is inclusive, and when people are isolated (in terms of geography and/or time.) Data was obtained on the strength of the IS occupational community, and on the three antecedents of involvement, inclusivity, and isolation, through semi-structured interviews with IS personnel. The results show that IS personnel form a weak occupational community, if they can be said to form an occupational community at all.


There are some different solutions to the implement of tree catalog,and they will affect the efficiency of program execution.It is more important to choose a good solution for some systems which have a lot of data.The combination of database design and query algorithm is the great factor to the efficiency. The paper introduces some familiar algorithm and brings forward the mended design,at last points out the advantage of good algorithm and design.


Life cycle assessment (LCA) is broadly used around the world. The comprehensiveness of the method helps to avoid problem-shifter in reducing environmental impact from anthropogenic activities. In Southeast Asia, some countries have adopted gradually the application of life cycle approach in government action plans and marketing strategies. However, its progress remains unclear due to the lack of investigative studies. The aim of this paper is to provide a review of the current application of LCA framework in Malaysia. The paper also highlights the acceptance of the concept within government sectors and industrial players. The life cycle assessmentLCA progress in Malaysia can be seen from three perspectives: 1) government planning and policy; 2) industry involvement and 3) LCA priorities. This study reviewed the current progress of LCA implementation in Malaysia based on the current literature. In government planning and policy, LCA has been embedded in project development and monitoring through the Carbon Reduction Initiative and National Database Development. However, the progress in industry involvement so far has shown less participation due to low demand towards green products. In moving towards a high-income nation and open economy, the Malaysian government has emphasized on the need for greater inclusiveness where green initiatives were put forward in Malaysia's development.


The present invention discloses a method for producing extruded polypropylene sheet and the improvement of the sheet containing β crystal high degree. The polypropylene sheet comprising at least one resinous polymer of propylene and an effective amount of the β-spherulites. Wherein β is added to the polymer by the β-spherulites into a sheet was produced in the nucleating agent. The presence of β-spherulites in the sheet help perforated sheet stretching uniaxially or biaxially oriented to produce a mesh structure, but also to expand the temperature range of the stretching. The resulting lower density than the density of the mesh without β spherulites of polypropylene mesh. In the orientation step perforated β-nucleating sheets have different stretching characteristics, so that more nodes resinous polymer drawn connecting region between the longitudinal and transverse strands, while a higher percentage of the web area having a solid polymer structure, these changes result in the tensile behavior oriented network has a higher strength and torsional rigidity. This will produce the desired end application wt meet all the mechanical properties of a lighter mesh structure such as concrete and for stabilizing soil in civil engineering gridwork and landfills. Lighter β-nucleating extruded sheet may be stretched at a faster line speeds, thereby reducing manufacturing costs.


Two letters by Saba and Orzechowski (1) and Schon (2) address our research linking elevated methane and ethane concentrations to shale-gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing (3). We respond briefly here and point readers to a supplementary document for more details (4).


Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology dominates other fuel cell technologies because it is a highly efficient form of electric energy generation from natural gas, with both simple fuel cell plants and with integrated cogeneration power plants. This study proposed a tubular SOFC stack with methane gas feeding, internal reforming of hydrocarbons and internal air preheating. To achieve this goal, 'optimal' operating conditions for enhanced unit performance were identified. Thus, the genetic algorithm (GA) technique with the min-max method was employed to perform a multi-objective optimization on the unit performance. Simultaneous maximization of efficiency and minimization of environmental impact were considered as the two objective functions. Pareto-optimal sets of operating conditions were successfully obtained by GA with the min-max method for different process conditions and were used to achieve the effective operation of a tubular SOFC stack power generator with the diameter, the thickness of the cathode, anode and electrode, and the length being 22.0 × 10 -3 , 2.0 × 10 -3 , 1.0 × 10 -4 , 4.0 × 10 -5 and 1.5 m, respectively. The fixed current density model produced the optimal solution with 75.52% efficiency and 16.35 × 10 -2 g.s -1 .kW and an environmental impact score of 221.28 kW. The fixed outlet temperature option prodcued 50.41% system efficiency, 31.15 × 10 -2 g.s -1 .kW and an environmental impact score of


and social structure. The bibliographical references are generally confined to the footnotes. When one contemplates the difficulty of achieving consistency and comparability in seven separate chapters written by scholars of nearly as many nationalities, the editors are to be commended on a job well done. My only complaints are that too few of the authors actually offer a sustained discussion of the sources, and that their bibliographic references are less complete than one would expect from such a volume. Bruce Lenman's essay on Scotland (Scotland is afforded a ten-page "note" within the chapter on the British Isles) focuses most consistently on the sources, their provenance, and the difficulties that attach to their use. Charles Wilson's treatment of (the rest of) the British Isles and Hermann Kellenbenz's chapter on Germany are also informative in this respect. Unfortunately, some of the remaining authors found it difficult to resist converting their chapters into mini-economic histories of their countries. The act of compression, perhaps, has led several authors to be overly free in making sweeping, and debatable, generalizations. These shortcomings notwithstanding, every chapter is informative and rich in examples of quantitative data, much of them otherwise unavailable in English. For example, the book offers graphs of Portugal's salt production and exportation, of annual textile production in several cities of the Low Countries, of bankruptcies in the Dutch cities, and of silver production in Thuringia. It offers what is perhaps the first published glimpse of the long-awaited aggregate series of English baptisms, burials, and marriages between 1540 and 1840 based on the over-400 parish samples being analyzed by the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. The volume is certain to be highly valued, particularly by graduate students. I expect that teachers of economic history will find many uses for it, and I, for one, look forward to the publication of its companion volume.


An adaptive quarter-wave tube was developed for a large diesel engine that has the capability of tuning to variations in engine speed, exhaust gas temperature, and load on the engine. The system is robust to the diesel exhaust gas that reaches temperatures of over 450°C and contains soot. This paper describes the components of the system and some experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of the device, where noise reductions greater than 20dB were achieved.


The evaluation of case teaching effectiveness is of great significance to carry out and promote case teaching.In accordance with the characteristics of case teaching,the evaluation index system is established and the model of evaluating case teaching effectiveness is constructed based on Analytical Hierarchy Process.


The current research work presents one-dimensional numerical simulation results of water surface elevation along a natural river, in order to investigate an accurate operation of three existing dams, with flat and arched gates, for flood protection. The study reports an extensive numerical simulation procedure of four different operations of the dam gates, including all gates opened, all gates closed, only flat gates opened and only arched gates opened, for flood risk estimation through the studied river reach. The one-dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulation procedure of water surface profile variation, under steady flow conditions, through the natural river, was performed for available maximum inflow discharges of 5, 25 and 100 year flood period.

All numerical results are graphically presented and comparisons between different gate operations provide an accurate investigation of a safe dam handling in order to prevent the surrounding river area against flood events. The applied hydrodynamic numerical model, ldquoHEC-RASrdquo model, is a useful and accurate methodology for flood risk assessment in a natural river area, with complicate geometries and different hydraulic constructions.


We prove certain results pertaining to some isomorphism properties of commutative modular group algebras and briefly review a paper by pointing out some obvious mistakes and essential incorrectness.


The invention discloses an automatic tarpaulin covering device for a truck. The automatic tarpaulin covering device comprises tarpaulin, and a pair of guide rails which are provided with matched sliding pieces. The automatic tarpaulin covering device is characterized in that two sides of the tarpaulin are respectively provided with a connecting seat connected with the sliding pieces; a pair of sliding pieces, close to the rear ends of the two sides of the tarpaulin, are driving sliding pieces; the driving sliding pieces are connected with a motor and a pulley mechanism through pull ropes; one pair of guiding rails are movably arranged at the upper side of two side plates of a compartment through a cylinder lifting mechanism; the cylinder lifting mechanism comprises a plurality of cylinder type telescopic columns arranged at the two side plates of the compartment; and the upper ends of the cylinder type telescopic columns are fixed in the corresponding positions of the guide rails. The improvement of the automatic tarpaulin covering device further comprises a longitudinal tarpaulin rolling rope and a transverse elastic rope. The automatic tarpaulin covering device disclosed by the invention has the characteristics of simple structure, low cost and convenience for use; the tarpaulin is assembled and disassembled without manual operation; and the covering state is tight and compact in the process of assembling the tarpaulin, so that the operation time is saved, and the working efficiency is improved.


The invention relates to a wind power generator blade tip and tower drum clearance measurement method. A 2D laser scanner is installed on the external wall of a tower drum, and the height is the position of being higher than the lowest point of a blade tip for one meter when the blade sweeps through the tower drum. The 2D laser scanner acquires the distance and the angle between the 2D laser scanner and the blade through rotating scanning, the acquired data are transmitted to a data acquisition device through a data line, and the data acquisition device calculates the clearance distance between the blade and the tower drum according to the acquired distance between the 2D laser scanner and the blade and the scanning azimuth angle of the laser scanner so that real-time dynamic measurement of the clearance distance between the blade tip and the tower drum when the wind wheel sweeps through the tower drum under all the operation conditions of a wind power generator can be realized, and synchronous storage is performed with the operation data of the wind power generator and real-time data post-processing is performed. According to the measurement method, system application is convenient, installation on the wind power generator under various complex terrains can be met and blade tip and tower drum clearance data measurement can be performed under various operation conditions of the wind power generator.


Abstract This article investigates the changing meaning of educational equity as a result of the growth of technology, especially computer-mediated networks and learning environments. The work is grounded in an overview of educational equity and access in U.S. history and the changed meaning of access in a digital age. Perhaps the most important point made is the need to broaden our definition of access and equity and to focus on connections between leadership, teaching, and technology.


(247 WORDS) The aim was to examine the effects of replacing self-reported leisure time sedentary behaviour with sleep, light-to-moderate, or vigorous physical activity on incident diabetes among Danish adults using isotemporal substitution modeling.


When handling explosives, or related surfaces, the hands routinely become contaminated with particles of explosives and related materials. Subsequent contact with a solid surface results in particle crushing and deposition. These particles provide an evidentiary trail which is useful for security applications. As such, the opto-physico-chemical characteristics of these particles are critical to trace explosives detection applications in DOD or DHS arenas. As the persistence of these particles is vital to their forensic exploitation, it is important to understand which factors influence their persistence. The longevity or stability of explosives particles on a substrate is a function of several environmental parameters or particle properties including: Vapor pressure, particle geometry, airflow, particle field size, substrate topography, humidity, reactivity, adlayers, admixtures, particle areal density, and temperature. In this work we deposited particles of 2,4-dinitrotoluene on standard microscopy glass slides by particle sieving and studied their sublimation as a function of airflow velocity, areal particle density and particle field size. Analysis of 2D microscopic images was used to compute and track particle size and geometrical characteristics. The humidity, temperature and substrate type were kept constant for each experiment. A custom airflow cell, using standard microscopy glass slide, allowed in-situ photomicroscopy. Areal particle densities and airflow velocities were selected to provide relevant loadings and flow velocities for a range of potential applications. For a chemical of interest, we define the radial sublimation velocity (RSV) for the equivalent sphere of a particle as the parameter to characterize the sublimation rate. The RSV is a useful parameter because it is independent of particle size. The sublimation rate for an ensemble of particles was found to significantly depend on airflow velocity, the areal density of the particles, and the particle field size. To compare sublimation studies these parameters must be known.


Using carbon dioxide as carbonylation reagent,and producing corresponding intermediates by reacting with 1,6-diaminohexane,then adding dehydration reagent and intermediates to get the HDI,examined the temperature and time of the reaction and the influence of different dehydration reagent toward productivity.Experimental results showed that the optimum process conditions to synthesize HDI are as follows:n(dehydration reagent)∶n(HDA)= 1.5∶1,the temperature of the reaction is 5 ℃;with oleum as dehydration reagent,before adding oleum reacted for 40 minutes,and after adding oleum reacted for 50 minutes.Used chemical titration to determine its productivity and used infrared spectra to characterize the representation products.In these conditions,the yield of the HDI reached 71.2%.


It is first time to study on Gaussian pulses transmission over ultra high PMD fiber.Gaussian pulses are broken into a series of deformed pulses when they are transmited over ultra high PMD fiber.The walk off deformed pulses caused by ultra high PMD is explained.Transmitting experiments have been done by using fiber with 225ps/km 1/2 PMD coefficient.Also adaptive PMD compensation has been done by making SOP of input pulses to aim at PSP of transmission fiber.The deformed pulses can be restructured.


Sensory impairment raises interesting questions regarding the brain's ability for functional reorganization. One particularly interesting instance of this reorganization is the remarkable remapping (called cortical plasticity) of visual areas in the blind population. Previous neuroimaging studies have demonstrated activation in visual areas of blind subjects in response to feeling tactile stimuli (Sadato et. al, 1996, 1998; Cohen et. al, 1997; Buchel et. al 1998). In this experiment, we further investigated the role of the traditional visual areas of the brain in tactile pattern recognition and shape discrimination in blind and sighted people. While the literature demonstrates some level of functional reorganization in the brains of blind individuals, many questions remain unresolved. In particular does tactile stimulation result in:


I suppose . . . that the root ofmy uneasiness with the Western revisionism generally is that the revisionists would like us to believe that they were more or less the first to notice, or at least to emphasize, how violent, how terrible, and how hard winning the West actually was. My own reading, as well as my boyhood among the old-timers, leads me to exactly the opposite conclusion: everyone noticed how hard it was. Larry McMurtry2


Travel switch for working machines with multi-stage gearboxes, of a manual shift lever (1) for selecting gear stages and the direction of travel, has to forward the signals to an electrical control device via the switch (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) are actuated, wherein between latched positions (7, 8, 9), forward (7), neutral (8) and reverse position (9), can be selected by the manual shift lever (1) about a pivot axis (10) is pivoted and (in at least one of these positions 7, 8, 9) by lateral jogging movement (12, 13) about a different pivot axis (11) in a direction (14), an upshift and (in a different direction 15), a downshift is achieved characterized in that a plurality of gear stages with a lateral tilting motion (12, 13) are switchable by operating at a lateral tilting motion (12, 13), a certain point is suppressed or by the manual shift lever (1) over a defined time at a turning point (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22) content s will.


The tabulated results of a 2005 study are presented in which thirty individuals, fifteen males and fifteen females, were asked to first give three different definitions, one for 'hot sex', one for 'cold sex', and one for 'ambient sex'; and second, using the finalized list of ninety definitions, to pick the top three best definitions, in their own opinion, said to be best representative of hot, cold, and ambient sex, not including their own definition, per each temperature range. The scored results were then tabulated in ranked descending order from hot-to-ambient-to-cold to yield a verbalized gradient representation of a sexual temperature. Using this verbal scale as a basis, a numerical 'degrees sex' (˚S) temperature scale was affixed to the verbal scale, using the set point of 0 ˚S as the point of peak ambientness, being the most-favored description of a room-temperature-likeness of the temperature of the sex, below which negative values were assigned, indicative of increasing measures of cold sex, above which positive values were assigned, indicative of increasing measures of hot sex, with a maximum and minimum values of +30 ˚S and -30 ˚S, respectively. Results are discussed in the context of modern human chemical thermodynamics and difficulties on the numerical conversion of degrees Sex into degrees Kelvin are outlined.


This research was motivated by the low speaking ability of early childhood in Pisang Village, Kinali District, Pasaman Regency. It is suspected that one of the reasons is because the communication applied in the family is not quite right. This study aims to: 1) describe the communication that occurs in the family; 2) describe early childhood speech skills; and 3) looking at the relationship between communication within the family and the speaking ability of aged children in Pisang Village, Kinali District, West Pasaman Regency. This research is correlational quantitative research. The population in this study were 26 housewives who had children aged 4-5 years. The sample amounted to 19 people with sampling using a simple random sampling technique. The data collection technique used a questionnaire and a check for the observation of the development of speech in early childhood. The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive analysis and the correlation formula of the Sperman Rho correlation. The results of this study indicate: 1) the communication that occurs within the family in Pisang Village is in the wrong category; 2) the speaking ability of early childhood in Kampung Pisang is still low; and 3) there is a significant relationship between communication within the family and the speaking ability of early childhood in Pisang Village, Kinali District, West Pasaman Regency. Research suggestions are: 1) it is hoped that the family can implement good, dynamic, intensive, and harmonious communication with children, to improve their speaking ability in children; and 2) it is hoped that further researchers will be able to examine other variables that affect the development of children's self-speech abilitiesKeywords: communication, speech application, early childhood, family education


Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that affects millions of people worldwide. A most challenging aspect regarding diabetes therapy is the way to calculate the insulin bolus amount to inject before meals. The artificial pancreas (AP), combining both blood glucose monitoring and automatic insulin delivery, has demonstrated its effectiveness in T1D treatment. However, one of the limitations of current AP devices is the fact that the patient needs to insert manually the amount of insulin to be released and the bolus is calculated on the estimated carbohydrate intake, while other nutritional factors of the patient's meal are not taken into account. To overcome this issue, in this paper, two innovative algorithms to predict the postprandial blood glucose concentration after the meal in T1D patients on AP systems are presented. The proposed algorithms, which cover a time span of prediction of 180 minutes, take into account not only the carbohydrates amount in the meal but also other selected nutritional factors. More specifically, the proposed algorithms are based on feed forward multi-layer neural networks (FFNNs) and long short-term memory networks (LSTMNs) with a specific hyper-parameter configuration. The output of the proposed architectures consists of a predicted glycemic curve. The algorithms were validated by comparing the predictions of the networks performed on a test dataset with the measured glycemic values recorded by the hybrid closed-loop systems worn by the patients.


Sequential perspective views have been generated from a single 2D image to synthesize holographic stereograms (HS). First, an image of a building photographed with a 35mm camera was recorded on a photo-compact-disk read-only memory (photo-CD-ROM). Second, the relative size of the building was reconstructed using a shape reconstruction technique, and subsequently, texture mapping data were extracted from the single building image. Then, rotating a viewpoint and a projection screen around a reconstructed building model, 100 frames of perspective views were calculated using the ray-tracing method. After HS synthesis using these data, a reconstructed image was observed from the HS with laser light illumination. Moreover, the stereoscopic effect which should be obtained in image reconstruction has been verified by means of computer simulation.


In patients with lymphedema, the disruption of the lymphatic network increases skin turgor and fibrosis of subcutaneous tissue, delays wound healing, causing recurrent ulcerations and infections. In these cases, management of ulcers can be challenging.


Glutinone (1), coixol (2), friedelin (3), glutinol (4), and betulinic acid (5) were isolated from the plant Scoparia dulcis. Their structures were identified using mass and 1D- and 2D- NMR techniques. All the compounds were tested for their immunomodulatory potential in oxidative burst assay. Compound 1 showed a significant inhibitory effect on the release of reactive oxygen species (ROS) from zymosan activated cells from whole blood (IC50 = 4.3 ± 0.6 μg/mL) as well as from isolated PMNs (IC50 = 5.0 ± 0.3 μg/mL) as compared to standard drug ibuprofen in whole blood (IC50 = 11.2± 1.9 μg/ mL) and in isolated PMNs (IC50 = 2.5± 0.6 μg/mL) shows that it is more active in whole blood as compared with isolated PMNs. Compound 1 when further tested for its effect on pro-inflammatory cytokines TNF-α, IL-1β and on nitric oxide (NO), was found to moderately inhibiting the production of TNF-α (19%) at a concentration 25 μg/mL. On the other hand a weak inhibitory effect of this compound was also observed on the production of IL-1β and NO production, whereas, compounds 2-5 showed no effect (IC50 = >100) on the release of ROS from zymosan activated cells.


The invention relates to a feeding positioning device and a feeding positioning method of a laminator. The feeding positioning device comprises a positioning fixture, a drive device, a controller, a sensor and a transmission device, wherein the positioning fixture and the sensor are arranged right above the transmission device and sequentially arranged in the transmission direction of the transmission device, the sensor is electrically connected with the controller, the controller is electrically connected with the drive device, the drive device is provided with a drive shaft, the positioning fixture is provided with a first fixture and a second fixture which is opposite to the first fixture, the second fixture and the first fixture form a storage groove, and the second fixture is connected with the drive shaft. Through the interaction of the sensor, the drive device and the second fixture, the gap between every two adjacent products on a protection film is identical, and the waste of the material is avoided; each product is enabled to be relatively parallel to each other, so that accuracy in positioning is realized, the subsequent cutting procedure is simpler, and the working efficiency is improved.