Systems of healthcare and the field of physical therapy in particular are likely to come under increased stress in the decades to come as populations age faster than their workforces can handle. Much of healthcare is dependent on skilled human effort. Intelligent systems could be developed to support the efforts of healthcare specialists and enable patients and users to continue effective treatment with less human supervision, helping healthcare systems to adapt to the change in demographics and their associated rising costs. This thesis aims to work towards that goal by investigating methods of detecting mistakes made during physiotherapy exercises, which would be a strictly necessary component in any intelligent system that is able to give feedback to a user about her performance. Special consideration is given to the requirements of systems which must function in a homeenvironment without specialist supervision. For the purposes of this thesis a dataset is built by recording a set of exercises with the help from volunteer test subjects. The dataset is then used to develop a model for classifying exercises and mistakes made during the exercises based on discrete-time quaternion sequences, after which the model is tested using several validation schemes. The model manages to successfully predict exercises across test subjects and error types with high rates of accuracy given the validation schemes used. However, when classifying error types across subjects, the accuracy proves unsatisfactory. Error types are classified with high rates of accuracy when using template exercises for a given test subject. These results highlight important limitations of the proposed model.


pretreated patients with advanced BRAFV600-mutant melanoma: an open-label, single arm, dual-centre, phase 2 clinical trial. Lancet Oncol 2017; 18:464–472. 3 Robert C, Grob JJ, Stroyakovskiy D, Karaszewska B, Hauschild A, Levchenko E, et al. Five-year outcomes with dabrafenib plus trametinib in metastatic melanoma. N Engl J Med 2019; 381:626–636. 4 Gil S, Goetgheluck J, Paci A, Broutin S, Friard S, Couderc LJ, et al. Efficacy and safety of gefitinib during pregnancy: case report and literature review. Lung Cancer 2014; 85:481–484. 5 Angrisani L, Santonicola A, Iovino P, Vitiello A, Zundel N, Buchwald H, Scopinaro N. Bariatric surgery and endoluminal procedures: IFSO worldwide survey 2014. Obes Surg 2017; 27:2279–2289.


At (or near) the start of every year, it makes sense to review what has happened with your finances in the last year and to make your plans for the year ahead.


The patenting of genomics and research tools, and its effects on the development of therapeutics are attracting considerable attention. Regardless of whether one is in favor of patents for this technology, it is not specifically excluded from patenting in most countries. Accordingly, it is imperative that a suitable global patent strategy be developed and followed to maximize both intellectual property rights and returns on R&D investment.


The Vertical virescence and land virescence of Dezhou institute have been afforested is the advanced demonstration unit of Dezhou city,though is land place salt soda more serious area,but the authou in 15 years afforest have summarized a set of of successful technology in practice word,have captured,vertical virescence and land virescence quilt afforest this baffling problem.Vertical virescence and land virescence have been afforested in canpus already beginning have scale,and have shown unique canpus scenery,make this higher institution have worn green splendid attire;Have created a graceful working and learning environment for the college employee of teachers and students.


Alternative certification (AC) of teachers is an issue of interest and discussion within the 1980s education reform movement. Little empirical evaluation is available for formulating policy, however. This research describes an alternative certification program in the Dallas Independent School District. Recruitment programs resulted in 4,000 inquiries and over 1,300 applicants, 691 of whom took the entrance test, 557 who passed, and 110 who were admitted to the program. This research addresses eight topics: (a) characteristics of the program, (b) characteristics of the interns, (c) intern attitudes, (d) comparison of interns and traditionally certified teachers, (e) teaching performance of interns, (f) predictors of AC success, (g) reaction to the program, and (h) consideration of whether AC programs can contribute to the need for teachers. Policy recommendations, based on the above, are formulated.


Experimental device for studying small-scale oil tank boilover characteristics was established in order to fully understand the boilover phenomenon.The mixed crude oil was adopted as medium.The boilover start time and boilover characteristics with different experimental parameters were studied when water layer was present.The results indicated that the boilover start time is linearly proportional to the parameter Ho · D-0.5,and the fitting equation is given.The boilover process is divided into three stage: the steady combustion stage,the boilover premonitory stage and the boilover stage.Temperatures of water layer,oil-water interface,oil layer and flame of each stage are discussed in detail.The results can be used to better understand the boilover theory and guide the prevention and protection measures from boilover.


(Note: With the exception of the correction of typographical or spelling errors that could be a source of ambiguity, letters and reports are not edited. The original formatting of letters and referee reports may not be reflected in this compilation.) Thank you for your submission to EMBO reports. We have now received reports from the three referees that were asked to evaluate your study, which can be found at the end of this email. As you will see, although the referees find the study potentially interesting, they also consider it preliminary and insufficiently conclusive at this stage. All of them note that further experiments are needed to provide convincing support for your claims, and also request a number of technical improvements of the data. As the reports are below, I will not detail them here. However, it is clear that substantial additional work is necessary to causally show that RIPK1 regulates the sensitivity to external apoptosis stimuli through repression of basal autophagy by regulating TFEB. In this light, it would be crucial to strengthen the results shown in figure 4, as suggested by the referees. Please note that we would not consider a study that tones down the claims made, as mentioned by referee #2, but one that experimentally provides a causal link between the current observations and therefore conclusively supports the current claims of the study. The issues raised by the referees refer to critical experiments and should be addressed, with the exception of referee 3's third point. It would also be important to be more consistent in the use of cell lines and demonstrate reproducibility by repeating some critical experiments in multiple cell lines, including the RIPK1 knockout cells. Please note that it is our policy to undergo one round of revision only and thus, acceptance of your


The paper conjures some possibilities for a baroque method in qualitative educational research. It draws on work across a range of disciplines that has detected a recurrence of the baroque in the philosophical and literary texts of modernity. A baroque method would resist clarity, mastery and the single point of view, be radically uncertain about scale, boundaries and coherence, and favour movement and tension over structure and composure. It would open up strange spaces for difference, wonder and otherness to emerge. The paper uses baroque exemplars such as trompe l'oeil painting and the cabinet of curiosities to pose methodological questions about analysis, representation and meaning. The obstructive potential of the baroque might, it is argued, help post‐foundational research resist the bureaucratic reason that animates education policy and research. As the 'bone in the throat' of closure‐seeking systems, the baroque offers a hopeful figure for a productively irritating method.


A hybrid unsupervised learning algorithm, which is termed as Evolutionary Rough Multi-Objective Optimization (ERMOO) algorithm, is proposed in this chapter. It comprises a judicious integration of the principles of the rough sets theory with the archived multi-objective simulated annealing approach. While the concept of boundary approximations of rough sets in this implementation deals with the incompleteness in the dynamic classification method with the quality of classification coefficient as the classificatory competence measurement, it enables faster convergence of the Pareto-archived evolution strategy. It incorporates both the rough set-based dynamic archive classification method in this algorithm. A measure of the amount of domination between two solutions is incorporated in this chapter to determine the acceptance probability of a new solution with an improvement in the spread of the non-dominated solutions in the Pareto-front by adopting rough sets theory. The performance is demonstrated on real-life breast cancer dataset for identification of Cancer Associated Fibroblasts (CAFs) within the tumor stroma, and the identified biomarkers are reported. Moreover, biological significance tests are carried out for the obtained markers.


The interaction of bovine serum albumin with phenylbutazone and ibuprofen was studied by fluorescence spectrometry.The binding and thermodynamic parameters were obtained.The reasonable results were obtained by programmed calculation process based on the calculating equation established.By comparison with the results obtained by the other calculating methods,it is proved that the satisfactory results can be obtained by the proposed method.In addition,the effects of common ions on the binding of the drugs and bovine serum albumin were also examined.


This paper proposes a novel time-to-go estimation filter necessary for implementing the precise vertical homing guidance law of an anti-ship missiles with a RF seeker. By investigating the behavior of a pure proportional navigation guidance, it is shown that the time-to-go can be expressed as a Gauss hypergeometric function of the relative range, closing velocity and heading error. As an effective way to solve the time-to-go estimation problem, a recursive time-to-go estimation scheme with two-stage filter structure is taken into account. The suggested approach is able to not only consider the length of the curved homing trajectory caused by the heading error but also mitigate the unwanted time-to-go estimation errors due to the correlations among seeker measurement noises. Through the simulations for typical anti-ship missile homing scenarios, it is demonstrated that our method could provide superior time-to-go estimation performance compared to the previous ones.


A new real-time intelligent computing architecture is proposed in this paper. This architecture is more robust than the classical RCS hierachical intelligent computing architecture. It also has emergency processing and learning abilities. The rationality of this architecture is verified by its application in an autonomous land vehicle system.


Contents: 1: The Leper Hospital 2: The Tudor Palace 3: The Early Stuart Kings and the Commonwealth 4: The Later Stuarts 5: The first two Georges 6: George III 7: George IV and William IV 8: Queen Victoria 9: Four Twentieth Century Kings 10: Queen Elizabeth II


Abstract Toxicity of sugar embedded macrocycles was evaluated for their toxicity against nymphs of aphid, Aphis craccivora Koch (Hemiptera: Aphididae) in the laboratory conditions. Most of the compounds showed toxicity to A. craccivora. However, the activity of different macrocycles varied depending on the nature and position of various functional groups possess by these compounds. Results revealed that among them, compound 3c found more effective for the control of A. craccivora (LC50 = 413 mg L–1) and was followed by 3b (LC50 = 442.62 mg L−1) and 3e (LC50 = 480.19 mg L−1).


Soil organic matter (SOM) through intimate associations with clay particles forms clay bound organic matter (CBO), which contributes mainly to long-term stability of SOM in most soils. The CBO fraction contributes mainly to more meaningful carbon sequestration due to their long-term stability and hence storage. The formation and stabilization of CBO is a complex process and studies on determination of the exact composition of this fraction are meagre. In this study, an attempt was made to characterize the CBO of a soil in terms of the other SOM fractions such as fulvic fraction (FF), humic fraction (HF) and fine soil litter. The weight loss on ignition (LOI) data of extracted SOM fractions and fine soil litter were used to characterize CBO. Rate constants (k) of the oxidation reactions during the LOI were calculated using percentage weight losses at different temperatures of the FF, HF and fine soil litter. Calculated activation energies (E a ) of the other SOM fractions at different temperatures were used in a multiple regression analysis to predict the E a of the CBO fraction. The results showed that the activation energy of the CBO [E a (CBO)] was positively related to that of the fine soil litter [E a (fine soil litter)] and the FF [E a (FF)]. The relationship indicates that the CBO of the soil is composed of a mixture of fine soil litter and the FF, as also proposed in the literature.


A new vacuum measurement device was developed using the field emission of carbon nanotube(CNT).Based on the principle of vacuum measurement of ionization gauge,it is composed of a CNT cathode,anode and collector to indicate the vacuum degree in terms of the ratio of ion current to electron current.The CNT cathode used is able to be made from CNT yarns with high efficiency on a macroscale.The metrological characteristics of the device were tested in a dynamic vacuum system,and the results showed a favorable linearity that ranges from 10-4 to 10-1Pa.Taking advantage of the field emission cathode,the power consumption of the device is only about 5.5mW.Moreover,comparing it to the conventional thermionic cathode,the device has no obvious getting/outgassing effect,thus enabling the device to have broad prospects in the applications to vacuum measurement inside sealed vacuum apparatus,such as field emission display(FED).


This work will get to know the socio-cultural factors of adolescent pregnancy the same as involving multiple causes misunderstanding, emotional abuse, lack of support, lack of sex education, This will help prevent a pregnant teen parents are cannot impose a marriage believing solve the problem of teenage or sometimes cause an abortion against her will.


The objective of this work was to describe the nutrition deficiencies symptoms in calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica). Seedlings were maintained in complete nutrition solution and with omission of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sulfur (S), iron (Fe), boron (B), and manganese (Mn), totalizing 10 treatments. The first deficiencies symptoms appeared in plants cultivated in N omission, followed by treatments with omission of S, B, K, Fe, P, and Ca. Individual omissions of N and B prevented blooming, while S and K deficiencies resulted in production of small and greenish inflorescences with deformities. Reddish spots in leaves were observed in plants growing in solution with omission of P. Root development was affected either by omission of B or S. Death of the apical bud and formation of a "black center" in calla lily rhizome was caused by B deficiency. Nitrogen, B, and S are the most required nutrients for calla lily plants. The mineral composition of calla lily leaves is affected by nutritional deficiencies


There was embroidery called Seu-Ran(膝란), located along the knee area of the robes. In China Seu-Ran was used during Yuan(元) dynasty, and Dae-Ran(大란: embroidery located along the knee and hem lines of the robes) was used during the late Yuan dynasty. Both Seu-Ran and Tong-Soo-Seu-Ran(通袖膝란: embroidery along the shoulder line) was used during Yuan dynasty and Ming dynasty of china. Korean male wore Tong-Soo-Seu-Ran-Dan-Ryeong(通袖膝란團領) as the chinese male did in Ming dynasty. Korean female wore Dan-Sam(團衫), which influenced Won-Sam(圓衫). Skirts with Dae-Ran were worn in Ming dynasty and Korea, where new form of a skirt, with one Seu-Ran on it, was introduced.


Abstruct: CO2 laser has been used in the treatment of laryngeal diseases under microsurgery from 1972, Nd:YAG laser has been also used from 1985 and recently KTP laser from 1990. There are following two methods of endolaryngeal laser surgery under microscope ; 1 Micromanipulators of CO2 or KTP laser, 2 Handplaces of Nd: YAG or KTP laser. Laser irradiable area in the operation field under microsurgery is different in these methods, because of the difference between the axis of laser beam and that of microscope and the difference of the axis of laser beams itself. Lateral 1-2 mm area in the operation field can not be irradiated by micromanipulator. The whole operation field can be irradiated by handpiace, but the method has following demerits; handpiace itself disturb the operation field and the procedure of surgery is complicated. The operator should know merits and demerits of each lasers and select the method of laser surgery.


In this paper, we propose a post-processing algorithm to remove false minutiae which decrease the overall performance of an automatic fingerprint identification system by increasing computational complexity, FAR(False Acceptance Rate), and FRR(False Rejection Rate) in matching process. The proposed algorithm extracts candidate minutiae from thinned fingerprint image. Considering characteristics of the thinned fingerprint image, the algorithm selects the minutiae that may be false and located in recoverable area. If the area where the selected minutiae reside is thinned incorrectly due to noise and loss of information, the algorithm recovers the area and the selected minutiae are removed from the candidate minutiae list. By examining the ridge pattern of the block where the candidate minutiae are found, true minutiae are recovered and in contrast, false minutiae are filtered out. In an experiment, Fingerprint images from NIST special database 14 are tested and the result shows that the proposed algorithm reduces the false minutiae extraction rate remarkably and increases the overall performance of an automatic fingerprint identification system.


The key problem of the delay force-feedback teleoperation system is how to guarantee its stability and transparency.In this paper,a PID algorithm is put forward.Then,based on the liewellyn's critic of absolute stability and damp theory of electrocircuit,the restriction of the PID parameters,which guarantee the stability and transparency of the system,are got.At last,we validate them by experiment.Under the condition of 6s delay,we complete a curved surface tracing experiment successfully.Theory analysis and experiment both proved the validity of this algorithm.


Through the 17th CPC Congress report,there are many innovations and contribution in economic theory,this essay summarizes creative tasks and the relevant contents from 10 aspects.It illustrates the systemic of scientific outlook on development;the new demands on realizing comprehensive well-off society;"better and faster" goal of new economic development;the change of developing way in economy;putting energy saving and friendly environment at a significant position;fairness and efficiency even on first distribution;priority of developing education and human resource as great power;based on the mode of "incubator drives employment" and the new theory of governmental public management,establishing the preferable resource saving and environmental protection consumptive mode.These raise some profound researching tasks for industrial economists.


The dynamics of ionic fragmentation of CH4 molecules under impact of 10-keV electrons has been studied. The technique of recoil ion momentum spectroscopy is employed to obtain information about the kinetic energy release and the dissociation mechanisms of different pathways arising from the fragmentation of a CH4 dication. The results show that there are altogether eight dissociation pathways that arise from the complete and the incomplete Coulomb explosions of the CH4 2+ molecular ions. The kinetic energy release for these pathways is compared with earlier data from the literature for the impact of different charged particles, photons, and their impact energies. The present results indicate that mostly the lower electronic states of CH4 2+ are involved for the observed dissociation channels. Also, the dissociation mechanisms associated with these channels are suggested and discussed. Further, we have also estimated the relative ion intensities of different channels of fragmentation of CH4 dication produced under impact of considered energy of electrons.


The knowledge of temporal variation of global solar irradiation (Hg) has fundamental importance for many areas of study: agriculture, engineering, climate studies and renewable energy. This study aimed to analyze the temporal variability of daily global solar irradiation (Hg d ) in the region of Mata Grande (9.0°7.0'15,6"S and 37.0°44.0'9,6"W). The data used are daily for the period 2007 to 2010. Statistical analysis and geostatistical was performed using the software GS+ ® . The daily global solar irradiation showed moderate temporal dependence, with best fit to the Gaussian model.


The KFDA (Korea Food & Drug Administration) has performed a collaborative toxicogenomics project since 2003. Its aim is to construct a toxicology database of 12 compounds administered to mice at initial phase. We chose 6-MP (6-mercaptopurine) which has been used in the treatment of childhood leukemia. It was administered at low (0.224 mg/kg) and at high (2.24 mg/kg) dose (5 mice per group) intraperitonealy to the postnatal 6 weeks mice, then the serum and liver were collected at the indicated time (6, 24 and 72 h) after scarification. Serum biochemical markers for liver toxicity were measured and histopathologic studies also were carried out. The gene expression profiling was carried out by using Applied Biosystems 1700 Full Genome Expression Mouse. By self-organization maps (SOM), we identified groups with unique gene expression patterns, some of them are supposed to be related to 6-MP induced toxicity, including lipid metabolism abnormality, inflammatory response, oxidative stress, ATP depletion and cell death. The potential toxic effects appearing as gene expression changes are dependent of the time of 6-MP but independent of the dosage of it. This study would contribute to establishment of international database as well as national one about hepatotoxicity.


Procrastination comes from the Latin word procrastinatus: pro- (forward) and crastinuss (of tomorrow), and means "put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done." The goal of this study is to explore the effects and interactions between genders in the prediction of procrastination in B-school students. A sample of 108 B-school students in the age group of 21–27 years completed measures of procrastination. Descriptive statistics indicated that the major reason for procrastination was laziness, second was difficulty in making decisions followed by perfectionism. Results of descriptive statistics and t test analysis predicted that there is no significant difference gender wise with regard to level of procrastination. B-School students have to face lot of stress because of multiple tasks and shooting deadlines. This study will help B-school students to understand the reasons for their procrastinating approach and proposes actions to overcome it.


The availability of good physical quality and high seed vigor is expected to occur with good handling of storage. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of two storage periods [10 months (p1) and 12 months (p2)] and different sorghum varieties of Kawali (V1), Talaga Bodas (V2), Super-1 (V3), and Pahat (V4) on the physical quality and sorghum seed vigor. This experiment was conducted at the Laboratory of Seeds and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, the University of Lampung during November 2015 to November 2016. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with two replications. The variable damaged seed was higher by 24.19% compared to seeds stored for 10 months at 14.73%. The percentage of total normal seedling after store 12 months (59.50%) was lower than 10 months (78.00%). Speed germination of seed after store 12 months (24.58%/day) was lower than the stored 10 months (36.47%/day). Tetrazolium test for vigor showed no different results from germination test results. The variety that ha s the best seedling vigor was Super-1 indicated by primary root length and dry weight of normal seedlings.


Comprehensive hardware assurance approaches guaranteeing trust on Integrated Circuits (ICs) typically require the verification of the IC design layout and functionality through destructive Reverse Engineering (RE). It is a resource intensive process that will benefit greatly from the extensive integration of data-driven paradigms, especially in the imaging and image analysis phase. Although obvious, this uptake of data-driven approaches into RE-assisted hardware assurance is lagging due to the lack of massive amounts of high-quality labelled data. In this paper, a large-scale synthetic Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) dataset, REFICS, is introduced to address this issue. The dataset, the first open-source dataset in the RE community, consists of 800,000 SEM images over two node technologies, 32nm and 90nm, and four cardinal layers of the IC, namely, doping, polysilicon, contact and metal layers. Furthermore, a framework, based on uncertainty and risk, is introduced to compare the efficacy and benefits of existing RE workflows utilizing ad-hoc steps in its execution. These developments are critical in developing RE-assisted hardware assurance into a scalable, automated and fault-tolerant approach. Finally, the work is concluded with the performance analysis of existing machine learning and deep learning approaches for image analysis in RE and hardware assurance.


Democratic principles and values must be learned by every generation in order to solve pressing problems. The purpose of this study was to theoretically substantiate and experimentally test the pedagogical conditions for the formation of the civic position of students at higher educational institution. The object of research is the civic position of students. We have created and tested pedagogical conditions in experimental work. The sample consisted of 90 teachers, including 22 curators, 260 students of the Kuzbass State Agricultural Academy. The survey was carried out from 2016 to 2020. The paper presents the results of the pedagogical experiment, confirmed by the data of a comprehensive assessment of the formation level of the student civic position at the present stage of society development. The substantive component of the activities of teachers, students in classroom and extracurricular activities, based on the principles of citizenship, democracy, tolerance, involvement in the experience of civic action is considered. The course of organizing the activities of curators on the formation of student civic position, the development of self-government in student groups is presented. The work of the academy on the development of partnerships with the public, educational institutions, government, and business is described. Analysis of the results allows us to state that this process is controlled. The pedagogical conditions are: interaction of all subjects of the academy in classroom and extracurricular activities, their professional training, interaction with the public; the formation of temporary working teams from teachers to highlight special topics in the disciplines studied by students, issues that affect the development of student civic consciousness and behavior and the widespread use of active teaching methods in the educational process; organization of curators activities aimed at the formation of student civic position; monitoring the process of student civic position formation.


Families with low income experience high levels of economic insecurity, but less is known about how mothers and fathers in such families successfully navigate coparenting and parenting in the context of material hardship. The current study utilized a risk and resilience framework to investigate the underlying family processes linking material hardship and children's prosocial behaviors in a sample of socioeconomically disadvantaged mother-father families with preschoolers from the Building Strong Families project (N = 452). Coparenting alliance and mothers' and fathers' responsive parenting were examined as mediators. Results of structural equation modeling showed that coparenting alliance was associated with higher levels of both mothers' and fathers' responsive parenting. Subsequently, both parents' responsive parenting were associated with higher levels of children's prosocial behaviors. Material hardship was not associated with coparenting alliance and either parent's responsive parenting. Tests of indirect effects confirmed that the effects of coparenting alliance on children's prosocial behaviors were mediated through both mothers' and fathers' responsive parenting. Overall, these results suggest that when mothers and fathers have a strong coparenting alliance, they are likely to withstand the negative effects of material hardship and thus engage in positive parenting behaviors that benefit their children's prosocial development. Family strengthening interventions, including responsible fatherhood programs, would do well to integrate a strong focus on enhancing a positive coparenting alliance between mothers and fathers.


Nanomaterials will serve as the foundation of future electronics, greatly improving efficiency and capabilities due to enhanced control of interfaces at the nanoscale. In this letter, the effect of various loading conditions on the transport characteristics of Au nanoparticle–SrTiO3 interfaces is investigated with an atomic force microscope in order to understand the effect and thus sensitivity of the interface to external stimuli. Two types of interfaces are identified—one robust against applied load and the other affected by small variations in load with improved performance with increased applied load.


The use of electric vehicles and photovoltaics is perceived as a viable option to reduce the human impact on the natural environment. This paper investigates the opportunity of managing a fleet of EVs along with PV installation in such a manner that shaves the peak load in an office building. The simulation used hourly load data representative for a small office building located in Cracow (Poland). For the same location hourly irradiation data was obtained. A deterministic model was created and implemented in MS Excel software. The study showed that 30 kW installed capacity in photovoltaics can reduce the observed peak load by 36% (from 19.8 kW to 14.52 kW) in a building consuming on an annual basis 54.7 MWh of electricity. Additionally, an appropriate management of the charging process of electric vehicles can increase the energy from photovoltaics self-consumption and level the observed energy demand in normal office building operating hours.


We describe Cretobibio montsecensis, gen. et sp. nov. based on two female specimens from the Lower Cretaceous of Montsec, Spain. The new genus would key to the subfamily Pleciinae based on the presence of a short vein R2+3 and slender legs. However, some characters suggest an affinity with Bibioninae, notably the weakening of R2+3, the oblique crossvein R-M, crossvein M-Cu connected to M2 rather than the stem of M, and the shortened fore legs. We suggest this species is best considered as representing a new subfamily, Cretobibioninae subfam. nov., as sister group of Bibioninae.


The Urga manuscript (91r/28) and the Ordos MSS A (256/10), B (250/3), and C (252/8) all read bay ' district, jurisdiction ' for baya. Secondly, Schmidt, p. 232/1 has a phrase : tabun jayun sijir-iyer lcigsen doluyan erdeni, which text is found also in the Imperial edition (see Haenisch, Mitteilungen des Instituts fur Orient/orschung, n, 3, 1954, 458). Against this the Urga manuscript (76v/4) has an expanded text: tabun jayun sijir-iyer egudiigsen erdeni monggun mandal: arban sijir altaniyar kigsen doluyan erdeni, a text found with slight variations in A (214/5), B (194/10), and C (208/10). It seems as if a copyist made the clerical error of omitting a whole line between iyer and iyar. This may be only a coincidence between the text of Schmidt and that of the Imperial edition, but very probably does point to a direct connexion between the texts at some time, especially as many other similar examples can be found. The grouping of texts suggested here cannot be carried through without exception. For instance, in dating certain events in the life of Bayan Mongke, the text of Schmidt (p. 178/1-2) gives his age in figures differing by twelve years, or one whole cycle, from those given by the Urga manuscript (61v/4-5), which in this instance coincides with the Imperial print (v/36b). The general impression, however, left by a cursory comparison of these various editions is that Schmidt's edition stands very much closer to the Imperial print than do any of the four other texts, though it cannot be decided whether or not it actually served as the model for this latter. A more detailed inquiry into the relationship of Schmidt's text to that of the Imperial edition is required, as is also a comparison of the Mongol, Manchu, and Chinese Imperial editions, which might shed considerable light upon the methods of translation employed in making such parallel editions. The considerable value of the three manuscripts now published can be judged from an examination of the improvements they permitted Father Mostaert to make to those passages from Schmidt's text which he has investigated. Together with the manuscript published by Professor Haenisch they will form the basis for the much-needed new critical edition of Erdeni-yin tobci. All Mongolists will be grateful to Father Mostaert for his generosity in permitting these manuscripts from his private collection to be published, and also to the editor of the series, Professor Francis W. Cleaves, and to the Harvard University Press for a most pleasing edition.


Can implementing school-wide Positive Behavior Support (SW-PBS) in high schools be facilitated by using Team Implementation Checklists? This analysis used data for the 2003-2004 school year from 42 high schools that provided office discipline referral (ODR) information electronically, over the Internet, using the School Wide Information System (SWIS, http://www.swis.org/ ) and had given permission for its use in research. About half (20) of the schools also reported their use of the Team Implementation Checklist (TIC) (http://www.pbssurveys.org/pages/TeamChecklist.aspx ). A range of high schools serving students in grades 9 though 12 were represented and included schools from 13 states: California, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, and Oregon. A total of 38,659 students were enrolled in these schools. Two types of measures were used: (a) TIC data on implementation of PBS features and (b) ODR data on suspensions and types of behavior problems. Descriptive statistics and correlations were used to study patterns within and across the two measures. Urban high schools, as well as rural and alternative high schools, are working on implementing Positive Behavior Support. Results indicated that: (a) high schools are using tools and technology related to schoolwide PBS, (b) alternative high schools are serving students with very high rates of serious problem behaviors yet they are striving to implement PBS, (c) the TIC appears to be a valuable tool for studying on-going implementation efforts.


Nickel based single crystal has been widely used for turbine blades in aero-engines due to the excellent high-temperature creep and fatigue properties. However, in most casting process, only one crystallographic orientation of turbine blade is controlled, other two orientations are left random. Based on orthotropic elasticity three-dimensional finite element calculation and crystallographic theory, the influence of controlled and uncontrolled orientation on elastic stress state and creep life of single crystal DD3 has been investigated. Comprehensive analyses reveal that controlled orientation and uncontrolled orientation have profound influence on single crystal DD3 mechanical behavior and creep life of blade. Single crystal blade has the potential to increase creep life by controlling blade′s crystallographic orientation without adding weight.


Because of the importance of amino acids as the basic tiles of protein and their application in drug and food industries, there is a lot of interest in their separation and identification using simple and inexpensive approaches. Application of predictive models for determination of the behavior of AAs can reduce trial-and-error experiments. Here, the retardation factor (RF) of 21 protein AAs were studied using the quantitative structure-retardation factor (QSRR) model. The RF of the AAs in ethanol–sodium azide solution as the mobile phase of reversed phase thin layer chromatography (RP-TLC) was correlated with the AAs structural properties. The suggested QSRR indicated excellent fitting and prediction ability (R2train=0.95 and R2test=0.94). Furthermore, other statistical tests such as y-scrambling, cross validation and Williams plot confirmed the stability, absence of chance and the suitable applicability domain, respectively. It was shown that the sum of geometrical distances between oxygen and nitrogen atoms in AA molecule is an important factor in RF values of AAs in the ethanol–sodium azide.


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Described is how a pair of wild spawners of the critically endangered common Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser sturio L., were induced to provide progeny despite their unsuitable reproductive states. When captured, the female revealed signs of over-maturation. The male, caught in brackish water, yielded no sperm; after 5 days in fresh water and with pituitary injection, motile spermatozoa were produced. A batch of 30% fertilized eggs was produced with a two-injection sequence. As opposed to the Siberian sturgeon, A. baeri, the A. sturio L. hatchlings showed no positive phototaxis.


Soft tissue swelling and tenderness of the calf is normally interpreted as evidence of thrombophlebitis, abscess, or tumour (1, 2, 3). The purpose of this article is to present a case in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis, where an accumulation of metal corrosion products from a total knee prosthesis in a giant synovial cyst were misdiagnosed from the radiographs and computerized pictures as an intramuscular tumour.


We propose a new attribute known as Anisotropic Extended Elastic Impedance (AEEI). AEEI, can be calculated in various azimuths, but the most significant azimuths for calculation, are across fractures (AEEI┴, for ϕ = 0 Deg. in example model) and parallel to fractures (EEI for ϕ = 90 Deg. in the example model). The Factor A has the seismic anisotropy information, which modifies the Extended Elastic Impedance (EEI), for anisotropic reservoirs such as fractured plays. AEEI, parallel to fractures reduce to EEI. The attribute can be easily inverted and be used for Fracture characterization. We demonstrate this with Horizontal Transverse Isotropy (HTI) models, simulating fractured reservoirs with fluid fill in the cracks. The separation of anisotropic Factor A and EEI terms in the AEEI, where AEEI is a product of those two terms, allows us to input Factor A, extracted from azimuthal seismic data or use modelling to calculate A. The other term EEI, can be inverted from regular full fold seismic data. Therefore, AEEI allows to analyze the reservoir, in situations where either there is no azimuthal seismic data or is noisy, has low azimuthal fold and not suitable for azimuthal amplitude analysis.


a virus from the bone-marrow of 10 out of 25 patients with various leukaemias, mostly acute, and none from 13 patients with other diseases. The virus grows and produces cytopathic changes in cultures of human embryo cells, and the strains of virus from different patients are all antgenically similar. Virus-like particles are found in infected cells and are described in a second paper at page 929 by Dr. D. R. Inman, Mr. D. A. Woods, and Dr. G. Negroni. How should these important findings affect


We find that emerging markets were not spared from the 2007 global financial crisis and 2009 European debt crisis. Volatility spillovers are pronounced during these financial crises. Much of the strong volatility spillover effects were from high cross-market volatility movements in response to external shocks since the existing interdependence levels were not high. The Lehman turmoil and the European debt crisis have affected the volatility interdependence and spillover dynamics in exhibiting different directions and patterns of volatility co-movements. Finally, the southern European sovereign debt crisis has not increased the level of volatility spillover effects more than the periods following the Lehman Brothers collapse.


In the last two centuries, many observations have been gathered that pleaded for the existence of individual variations in the responsiveness or resistance to certain infections. Each individual has a unique genetic structure, made up of a huge and complex mixture of different kinds of genes that make up the human genome. Some variants may be associated with responsiveness to certain diseases, others produce resistance.


We survey algorithms and hardness results for two important classes of topology optimization problems: computing minimum-weight cycles in a given homotopy or homology class, and computing minimum-weight cycle bases for the fundamental group or various homology groups.


This paper argues that in making products and services organizations shape (create, sustain and/or change) the way workers individually and collectively think about themselves and the way they are seen by others. The empirical results are drawn from interviews, observations and periods of work shadowing in the service sector, the 'knowledge based economy' and traditional manufacturing. The findings highlight the particular ways in which organizations mould and shape worker identities. This includes the creation of new identities for workers to inhabit, the sustenance of existing identities formed elsewhere and the realignment of well established identities in the context of work reorganization.


The growth and survival of postlarval Penaeus merguiensis were examined to optimize conditions and improve farm production. Postlarvae were subjected to one of four salinities (5-35 ppt) for a period of 28 days. Results indicated maximum survival at 25 ppt while the best growth rate was obtained at 15 ppt. The highest performance index was obtained at 15 ppt. Hence, 15 ppt was found to be the optimum salinity for the production of P. merguiensis postlarvae. The fast growth rate and good tolerance of P. merguiensis larvae to a wide range of salinity in captivity indicate that P. merguiensis is a promising candidate for aquaculture.


SHAP~E was created in August 1955. From the beginning its aim has been to reduce redundant effort among various users of the IBM 704, insofar as the preparation of commonly used routines is concerned. The organization has operated on a cooperative basis-establishing a standard language of communication and exchanging a large number of programs which form the tools for effectively using the computer. This standard language of communication is that used in the SHARE Assembly Program, which was developed by United Aircraft Corporation and patterned after the first such program for the 704 which was developed under my direction by the General Electric Company. At the SHARE meeting held in December 1956, the organization anticipated the forthcoming IBM 709 which was similar in a great many respects to the machine around which the organization was originally built. In order to have a set of programs available for use upon delivery of the new machine, the organization established a 709 System Committee which was given the task of preparing a "system" for using the machine. I was made Chairman of this C ommitte e. Various installations volunteered individuals for service on this committee on a "full time basis". The authors of the papers being presented in this session were selected by the Committee Chairman and the SHARE Executive Board for participation on the committee. The initial problem facing the committee was to define what was meant by a system. The scope of the anticipated system varied greatly in the minds of the various members of the committee. After due consideration, it was decided to specify ~ complete installation operational system with all the fundamental necessities for effective machine utilization supplied. The committee would use the best experience available and advance the art of machine usage, if possible. However, it would not attempt any features of such novelty as to endanger completion of the system in the time available. Some of the objectives to be sought were simplicity, non-stop machine operation, card-tape input interchangeability, minimum programmer constraints, automatic error detection , and the ability to handle the SHARE 704 language wherever possible. The most important advance made in the system over previous developments is in the area of program debugging. It was felt by the committee that if any true advancement were to be made in this direction, especially in higher language coding situations, it was going to be necessary to make …


Nicolaides–Baraitser is a very rare clinical condition characterized by short stature, mental retardation, absent or limited speech, seizures, sparse hair, peculiar facial appearance, short metacarpals, and interphalangeal swelling. In this paper, we report a case of a 5-year-old female child belonging to the ethnic Kashmiri population with clinical features suggestive of Nicolaides–Baraitser syndrome. Clinical rarity of this condition prompted this communication.


The relationships between the yield losses of pakchoi at different growth stages in autumn and the larval quantity of beet armyworm were investigated by inputting various larval quantities.The results showed that the pakchoi yields at different growth stages gradually decreased with the number of input larvae increasing.The susceptibility of pakchoi to beet armyworm was various at different growth stages.The early-stage pakchoi was the most susceptible,and so controlling beet armyworm at the early stage was critical.It was suggested that at the early stage of pakchoi growth the larvae should be controlled when the density of 2nd-3rd instar larvae reached 0.1 head per plant or that of 4th-5th instar larvae reached 0.05 head per plant,and at the later stage of pakchoi growth the larvae should be controlled when the density of 2nd-3rd instar larvae reached 0.2-0.3 head per plant or that of 4th-5th instar larvae reached 0.5 head per plant.


Sequence‐coded polyurethanes are tested as anticounterfeiting tags for the labeling of methacrylate‐based intraocular implants. These sequence‐defined oligomers are prepared by solid‐phase iterative chemistry using two comonomers, allowing formation of a controlled 0/1 binary sequence. Tags with different sequences and chain lengths are synthesized and tested for lenses labeling. Two main methods are investigated for incorporating the tags in the intraocular implants. In the first approach, they are included in situ during the free‐radical copolymerization of 2‐ethoxyethyl methacrylate and ethylene glycol dimethylacrylate. In another strategy, premade lenses are swollen in a tetrahydrofuran solution containing the polyurethane tags and dried. Both approaches allow successful incorporation of the polyurethane labels in the methacrylate networks. In order to demonstrate this, the tags are extracted from the lenses using a solvent swelling protocol and analyzed by electrospray mass spectrometry. In all cases, the labels are found and their coded sequences can be identified by tandem mass spectrometry sequencing. These results indicate that sequence‐coded polyurethane tags represent a valid option for the labeling of implants. Importantly, it is shown in this work that the use of small weight fractions of polyurethane tag (i.e., 0.1–0.4 wt%) do not alter significantly the biocompatibility and transparency properties of the intraocular lenses.


Non-activated aryl fluorides reacted with potassium diorganophosphinites through a nucleophilic aromatic substitution (SNAr).  Remarkably, both electron-neutral and electron-rich aryl fluorides participated in the reaction with substantially stabilized anionic P-nucleophiles to form the corresponding  tertiary phosphine oxides. Quantum chemical calculations suggested a nucleophile-dependent mechanism, which involves both concerted and stepwise SNAr reaction pathways.


In Japan, retail competition has started for the large customers (about 30% of the total consumption) since March 2000 and the direction of the next deregulation scheme is under discussion among the concerned parties. In this presentation, the experiences so far acquired and the technical aspects for the next deregulation step are discussed, while focusing on peculiarities in the Japanese electricity supply system.


SMITH'S eighty-two pages contain much that is valuable, but the structure of his study is unsatisfactory. For, though its central theme is Augustan history and numismatics, special attention is devoted to a single unrenumerative silver 'coin', reading L. CINNA Mil. COS. (bare head to left) and MARTI. VLTORI (domed tetrastyle temple containing statue on base). This is not a good peg on which to hang a discussion of Augustan history and coinage because, as acquaintance or correspondence with European cabinets would have indicated, all these pieces were fabricated seventeen hundred years after the death of Augustus. I am sorry that this is so, because there is a tendency nowadays to dismiss too many peculiar Julio-Claudian rarities as false (e.g. Dr. Karl Pink's exaggerated rejection of all Augustus' 'Numa' aes). But I can see no way out of it (cf. Num. Chron., 1952, pp. 139-43). Not that Smith asserts that the piece if ancient. He merely canvasses the possibility—in colourful prose indicating a complex mind. 'I have not convinced myself that this is surely a Roman coin; I have only learned, by my own narrow escape, that it is a booby-trap for rash incredulity. Obstinately the thing makes sense, intricately coherent sense. It may be false nevertheless, and if it is, will be proved so by strictly specific ascription—if not to the scapegrace whom I had in mind [he means Claude-Augustin de St. Urbain—a very likely surmise] or some other namable forger, then to some paranumismatic group that is quite definable. . . . Even if it should turn out spurious, with the startling portrait an entirely modern mystification, it will have served a good purpose here, as an uncommonly suggestive spur to reflection on historical problems of real and great importance. . . . Though the Cinna denarius, if false, is something much worse than a mare's nest of amusingly subtle texture, being then a really dangerous ignis fatuus of delusive light, I feel perfectly free to discuss the problems to which it insists on relating itself and which, in any case it forces us to consider' (pp. 134, 158).


A series of the polysiloxanes modified with amino groups are synthesized. FTIR, 1HNMR are used to characterize the polysiloxane structure. Surface properties of the polysiloxane materials with amino groups are discussed. The results show that the polysiloxanes modified with tertiary amino groups had good flexibility and repellency to water. With increasing the amino value of the polysiloxanes, the flexibilities of the fabrics treated with the emulsion were improved. After the samples were treated with the polysiloxanes, the thermal yellowing had emerged. The whiteness of the fabrics treated with the polysiloxane decreased. The reflectance spectra of the fabrics treated without and with the modified polysiloxanes had not significant change.


The effects of Covid-19 are not only in terms of health, but many things arise along with its existence. One of them is poverty. Due to this, Universiti Teknologi MARA(UiTM) has taken the initiative to offer several financial aids to the affected students. However, the students must fill in the application form to obtain the aid. They need to provide the supporting documents such as parents pay slip, information on family dependent and so on, which will be inspected, graded and selected by the committee to determine the qualification for the financial aids. Due to this, it will be a long process to select the rightful applicants, which involves a significant length of time as it consisted of hundreds of applicants. Hence, the aim of this study is to select and rank the most eligible candidates among UiTM Perlis students with fairness, fast and accurate manner. In this study, the Fuzzy Technique for Others Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method was used to solve the problem. The model was run using Microsoft Excel. The selection of UiTM Perlis students were based on a set of criteria that had been predetermined which includes family income, occupation and the number of dependent in the family. The findings of the study showed that from 35 samples of UiTM Perlis students, the highest-ranking was student 35 (S35) with 1.0000 relative closeness. Meanwhile, the lowest ranking was student 30 (S30) with 0.6478 relative closeness. It is also shown that all samples are qualified to receive financial aid due to sufficient allocation amount provided by UiTM Perlis. As a result, the mistakes during the selection process can be reduced by using this method compared to manual selection. Thus, making it easier and faster to channel the aid. All in all, it has been demonstrated that this method is very suitable to be used in this study.


Abstract The combined effects of axial flow and eccentricity on the temporal stability properties of the Taylor–Couette system are investigated using a pseudospectral method. Eccentricity is found to stabilize the Couette flow regardless of axial advection intensity. As the axial Reynolds number ${\mathit{Re}}_{z} $ is increased for any fixed eccentricity $e\leq 0. 7$ , the critical mode switches from deformed toroidal Taylor vortices to helical structures with an increasing number of waves, and with helicity opposed to the inner-cylinder rotation. For a wide-gap configuration of radius ratio $\eta = 0. 5$ , increasing axial advection has a stabilizing effect for low ${\mathit{Re}}_{z} $ , then a weak destabilizing effect for high enough ${\mathit{Re}}_{z} $ . Centrifugal effects are always destabilizing, but axial shear is responsible for the dominance of helical modes of increasing azimuthal complexity. The modes localize in the converging gap region, and the energy concentrates increasingly into axial motion for larger ${\mathit{Re}}_{z} $ . Critical quantities are also computed for a small-gap case, and similar trends are observed, even though no destabilizing effect of advection is observed within the range of ${\mathit{Re}}_{z} $ considered. Comparison with the experiment of Coney & Mobbs (Proc. Inst. Mech. Engrs, vol. 184 Pt 3L, 1969–70, pp. 10–17) for $\eta = 0. 89$ shows good agreement, despite small discrepancies attributed to finite length effects.


The mode of human resource allocation of lean product system is important point to improve the efficiency of human resource.Because of the global economic crisis,how to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency is the key to help the manufacturing enterprise get through the crisis.This paper analyzed the mode of increase the effective work hours,multiple operation procedure and breaking fixed staff number.At last this paper put forward that the enterprise in China should comprehend and transplant the lean product system from the view of human resource management.


With the development of avionic technology,advanced data transfer protocol and technologies should be usedfor reliable and real-time information transfer among avionic equipments.ГОСТ18977 protocol is adopted by the airborne avionic equipment onboard some aircrafts in our country for data transfer.The series chips of MAXⅡ and ГОСТ18977 protocol are introduced at first.Then the design of the bus interface and the simulation results are discussed in detail.The application showed that this interface has the characteristics of low price,reliable performance and can find wide application.


Background: This study aimed to examine the reliability of larvae free index taken from periodical monitoring as compared to that of dengue hemorrhagic investigation (DHF) epidemiologic investigation at primary health centers. Methods: This was an analytic cross sectional study with a sample of all dengue fever officers stationed at ten primary health centers in Denpasar. Mean in percent difference was used to measure reliability between the two indices. Spearman correlation coefficient was used to measure the correlation between age and assignment duration with larvae free index. Results: The results found a larvae free index of 95.7%, which exceeded the expected national target of 95%. Epidemiologic investigation implemented by officers assigned at every village resulted in a larvae free index of 95.6 %. Mean difference between both larvae free indices was 0.2%. Officer's age and assignment duration had weak correlation with larvae free index, with correlation coefficient of 0.3 and 0.1, respectively. Conclusion: Larvae free index taken from periodical monitoring in Denpasar 2007 showed a high reliability with that taken from epidemiologic investigation. Larvae free index in Denpasar in 2007 was above 95%, an indication that should reduce the spread of DHF in the endemic area. Jurnal Kedokteran Indonesia: 1 (1): 83-87 Keywords : Reliability, Larvae free Index, Larvae Periodically Monitoring, Epidemiologic Investigation


Some papers have reviewed immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) associated with lymphoma [1, 2]. The prevalence of ITP was more common in chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small cell lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) and hodgkin's disease (HD) than in non-hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) without CLL [1]. Although diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBL) is the most frequent subtype of NHL, ITP associated with DLBL was rarely reported. We report a case of 11 months ITP preceding manifestation of DLBL. A 21-year-old man was referred to our hospital with the complaint of ecchymoses and gingival bleeding for 5 days. He denied fever, weight lose, or other systemic symptom. No history of infection preceded the onset of bleeding. Initial physical examination showed scatter petechias on his extremities, tongue, and soft palate. There was no hepatosplenomegaly or palpable lymphadenopathy. Laboratory test revealed his platelet count was 12 10/L, and his hemoglobin level, white blood cell counts, differentials, and mean platelet volume were normal. Serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and beta 2-microglobulin were within normal range. An antinuclear antibody was also negative. Bone marrow smear showed normal erythropoiesis and granulopoiesis, an increase in the number of megakaryocytes with dysmaturity. He was treated with prednisone in a dosage of 1 mg/kg/day, which led to an increase in his platelet count to 61 10/L after 5 days. Platelet count reached 126 10/L after 2 weeks of treatment. When the prednisone was tapered down to 30 mg daily for 1 week, his platelet count had decreased to 15 10/L. He again suffered from skin and mucosal bleeding. High dose dexamethasone (40 mg) was given for 4 consecutive days, which led to a transient increase of his platelet count to 48 10/L. Two more cycles of dexamethasone were given. Thereafter, his platelet count remained in the normal range. During the followup period, his platelet count was above 90 10/L. Eight months later, the patient was admitted to our hospital with yellow complexion, fatigue, and abdominal distension. Physical examination revealed jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, and extremity edema. Enlarged lymph node was not palpated. Laboratory tests revealed liver dysfunction, with alanine transaminease (ALT) 215.6 U/L, albumin 30.7 g/L, total bilirubin (TB) 52.4 mmol/L, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) 535.3 U/L, and LDH 1390 U/L. Complete blood count was normal. Serology was negative for hepatitis B, hepatitis C virus and cytomegalovirus. Antimitochondrial antibody, anti-liver/kidney microsomal antibodies, and antibodies to soluble liver antigen were negative. Computed tomography (CT) and MRI scans of the abdomen and chest showed multiple nodules scattered in the liver, spleen, pancreas, and bilateral kidneys (Figure 1A). They also revealed hepatosplenomegaly, porta hepatic and peripancreatic lymphadenopathy, ascites, and bilateral hydrothorax. An echocardiography showed a mass measuring 2.6 2.4 cm in the right atrium, suggesting a right atrial tumor or a thrombus (Figure 1B), but a negative D-dimer test ruled out thromboembolism. A percutaneous CT guided liver biopsy was performed. The histopathology showed diffuse lymphoid proliferation with clear cytoplasmic cells and


At present, a person with depression can be treated in several ways such as medication, electroconvulsive therapy, and psychotherapy; however, many patients still experience relapses and recurrences. Recovery from the depressive disorder is the main goal that medical personnel focus on so as to achieve favorable outcomes for patients.  Recovery from depression of patients with major depressive disorder is the process of changing attitudes, values, feelings, goals, skills, behaviors and roles. It affects adaptation and well-being even though the patient has suffered partial remission. Recovery – furthermore, referring to the meaning of life, setting goals for the new life, growth from the effect of mental illness, sense of self-esteem, and perception of self-growth until the individual can help themselves to work as effectively as possible – should be made based on the ability of an individual, and also means living happily. The nurse should have understanding about the process of recovery from depression and the factors related to recovery from depression and apply the knowledge derived from this study as the baseline data to develop clinical nursing practice guidelines to promote recovery from major depressive disorder and prevent relapses. This article presents the incidence of depression, process of recovery from depression, factors associated with recovery from depression, and the role of the nurse in promoting patients' recovery from depression. Keywords: recovery, depressive disorder, depressive symptom


Discarded milking machine liners are always greasy, swollen and misshapen. All these conditions are caused by the absorption of fat and all interfere with milking efficiency. The greasiness of the surface makes the mounting of stretched liners difficult or impossible, and causes all types to slip off the cows' teats easily, the swelling of the rubber interferes with the maintenance of proper tension, and the loss of shape causes leakage of air into the vacuum line, allowing the liners to fall off the teats. This paper describes a general investigation of phenomena associated with fat absorption along the following lines: I. The origin of the fat. II. The effect of different kinds and conditions of fat on the amount absorbed by rubber. III. The effect of tension in rubber on the amount of fat absorbed. IV. The damaging effect of fat itself on rubber. V. The re-use of old liners after the removal of absorbed fat. VI. The effect of absorbed fat on the subsequent oxidation of rubber.


The difference of the crossing over situation between 5:3 type aberrant asci and6:2 type aberrant asci was analyzed, and 6:2 asci were considered not to have transreplication-related crossing over frequently. The presence or absence of interferenceby the presence of transreplication-related crossing over was also analyzed, and it wasconsidered that the sp-mat interval may have been affected with interference is 5:3asci but may not have been affected in 6:2 asci. Somatic recombination was foundin one cross from the same of which large number of aberrant asci have been obtained.From above observations an explanation for the occurrence of 6:2 type aberrantasci was proposed. Main point of this explanation is that 6:2 type asci occurby a miscopying of new DNA synthesized in the localized pairing region of chromosomesduring mitosis instead of meiosis.


【Ibuprofen (IBU), is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, removal of fever and mild to moderate pain. Because of small dosage and very low accumulation in the body, IBU has been used to heal children's fever. However, IBU was very low solubility in a low pH and water (in water $0.03{\sim}2.5$ mg/ml). A nanoemulsion containing IBU by means of self-microemulsion drug delver system (SMEDDS) was prepared in order to enhance the solubility of IBU. The SMEDDS was composed of cosurfactant, oil and surfactant The solubility of IBU in various components such as cosurfactant, oil and surfactant was examined. $Carbitol^{\circledR}\;(386.99{\pm}20.5\;mg/ml)$ as a cosurfactant, $Labrafil^{\circledR}$ M1944CS $(90.16{\pm}1.60mg/ml)$ as an oil and $Cremopher^{\circledR}$ RH-40 $(239.01{\pm}2.8\;mg/ml)$ as a surfactant were used in this study for preparing SMEDDS. Optimized formulation of SMEDDS was obtained by phase diagram which express the section of nanoemulsion formation. The SMEDDS containing IBU had higher dissolution rate than conventional IBU sirups. Thus the SMEDDS was a potential candidate of stable conventional and effective oral dosage form for IBU.】


Binhai New Area as a forward position of developing and opening in Tianjin should emphasize oneself characteristic and develop the city type agriculture in order to realize the modernization of agriculture fundamentally and become the example of modern agriculture.The article keep a foothold of reality in Binhai New Area,analyse detailedly advantage of developing the city type agriculture in Binhai New Area,such as geographic advantages,agriculture advantages in natural resources,estate develops basis advantage etc,at the same time point out the problem and restrictive factor in the aspect of estate organizes,resource and environment,assorting mechanism,and ascertain the strategy plan,developing purpose and entirety developing thought of developing the coastal city agriculture.Finally,the article suggest six innovativing mechanisms and three guarantee measure of building the city type agriculture.


Using first-principles density-functional theory we predict a ferroelectric ground state\char22{}driven by the off-centering of the magnetic ${\text{Mn}}^{4+}$ ion\char22{}in perovskite-structure ${\text{BaMnO}}_{3}$. Our finding is surprising since the competition between energy-lowering covalent bond formation and energy-raising Coulombic repulsions usually only favors off-centering on the perovskite $B$ site for nonmagnetic ${d}^{0}$ ions. We explain this tendency for ferroelectric off-centering by analyzing the changes in electronic structure between the centrosymmetric and polar states and by calculating the Born effective charges; we find anomalously large values for Mn and O consistent with our calculated polarization of $12.8\text{ }\ensuremath{\mu}\text{C}/{\text{cm}}^{2}$. Finally, we suggest possible routes by which the perovskite phase may be stabilized over the usual hexagonal phase to enable a practical realization of a single-phase multiferroic.


VHDL-based fault injection technology is a useful method to validate the credibility of a system.Constructing fault injection tool based on VHDL is an important part of fault injection study.Firstly,VHDL-based fault injection techniques are studied.The structure of the fault injection tool and the main module function are described in detail,and the fault injection experiment is completed.Finally,fault activation rate,detection rate,recovery rate are analyzed and calculated.Fault injection tool can be used for the fault injection of the VHDL model of moderate complexity,and fault-tolerant systems analysis and verification of fault-tolerant mechanisms.


Palpitations    Palpitation is a symptom when one feels in their chest as if their heart is beating unusually rapidly or irregularly. It can be a brief sensation for only a moment or can be a sustained sensation for several seconds and occasionally even minutes and rarely longer. Palpitations can also refer to a feeling in the chest that the heart is pounding harder than usual but not necessarily faster than usual (although both sensations can sometimes occur simultaneously). Palpitations can be due to an arrhythmia, usually due to a abnormally rapid heart rate. When the pulse or heart rate is over 100 beats per minute, it is called tachycardia. One can have sinus tachycardia where the heart rate increases in a normal way due to signals from the body. When it is due to things such as exercise, fever, dehydration or excitement, it can be a normal and appropriate physiological response. Other times, the heart is responding to signals from the body that are not normal. This might signal a medical problem not involving the heart itself (such as with an overactive thyroid).


BACKGROUND
Circumferential liposuction may cause a dilution anemia due to a high volume of infiltrated tumescent. Studies analyzing the percentage of absorbed tumescent as well as the safe limit of tumescent infiltration are currently lacking.

OBJECTIVES
The objective was to calculate the average volume uptake of administered fluids in power-assisted liposuction. Furthermore, we sought to calculate a practical formula to determine the amount of fluid that can safely be administered without inducing symptomatic dilution anemia or hypervolemia.

METHODS
Patients undergoing circumferential liposuction with power-assisted tumescent infiltration were included in a prospective clinical study. All relevant administered and excreted volumes during and after the operation were collected. Preoperative versus postoperative hemogram results were compared and the hemodynamic parameters were followed for 24 hours. The average volume uptake was calculated based on the measured volumes, as well as the ratio between administered volumes and the patient's blood volume.

RESULTS
30 patients were included during September 2021. The average volume uptake was 58% for a calculated 1.11 to 1 infiltration to aspiration ratio. There was a mean drop of 1.9 g/dl and 4.6% for the postoperative Hb and Hct, respectively, with a stable Red Blood Cell level. All patients remained hemodynamically stable without the need for blood transfusion or prolonged oxygen need. The average tumescent versus blood volume ratio was 85.0%.

CONCLUSIONS
In circumferential liposuction with power-assisted infiltration, the infiltrated tumescent volume should remain below 85% of the patient's blood volume to minimize the risk of a symptomatic dilution anemia or hypervolemia.


The fractal branch and bound method was developed by the authors for optimization of stacking sequences to maximize buckling load of composite structures. The method demands an approximation of a design space with a response surface comprising quadratic polynomials for pruning fractal branches of stacking sequences. Approximation of the objective function with quadratic polynomials was confirmed for buckling load maximizations and flutter speed limit maximizations using lamination parameters as predictors. In the present study, flutter speed maximization with a constraint of buckling load is employed as an example of stacking sequence optimization by means of the fractal branch and bound method with a strength constraint. The present paper describes the theoretical background of the fractal branch and bound method. Then approximations are performed using quadratic polynomials with lamination parameters as predictors. After that, effectiveness of this method for supersonic panel flutter of composite laminates was investigated using two cases. Results indicate that the method was applied successfully; a practical optimal stacking sequence was obtained using modified response surfaces.


Immersive experiences are mostly created with desktop-based tools using flat displays, mouse and keyboard; as a result immersive experiences have a 2D look and interaction: user sit or stand looking forward, and interact with elements within reach of their arms as in a desktop. The objective of this work is to facilitate creating room-size immersive experiences that take advantage of tethered head mounted displays and hand-held controllers to create while walking freely in space with full body movement freedom. To this end we propose XRStudio, a set of tools that permit to create within an extended reality environment so that authors can walk to move objects in space or manipulate elements with hand and full body movements as in the real world.


2D articulated human pose tracking in monocular image sequences remains an extremely challenging task due to background cluttering, variation in body appearance, occlusion and imaging conditions. Most of the current approaches only deal with simple appearance and adjacent or connected body part dependencies, especially the tree-structured priors assumed over body part connections. Such prior excludes the dependencies between non-connected body parts which could actually contribute to tracking accuracies. Building on the successful pictorial structures model, we propose a novel framework for human pose tracking including more dependencies of non-connected body parts. In order to implement inference efficiently for the proposed model, we introduce a factor graph to factorize all the unary term and all dependencies that are modelled in the pairwise term of the proposed model. In this paper, we also observe that the posterior marginals of each part from the tree structure model satisfy a Gaussian distribution. Based on this property, the sampling procedure becomes straight-forward and the search space can be shrunk effectively. We incorporate a simple motion constraint to capture the temporal continuity of body parts between frames, since the positions/orientations of body parts usually change smoothly between consecutive frames. In addition, we introduce a full body detector as the first step of our framework to reduce the search space for pose tracking. We also exploit the temporal continuity of body parts between frames by incorporating constraints on the location distance and the orientation difference for each body part between two successive frames. We evaluate our framework on two challenging image sequences and conduct a series of experiments to compare the performance with the approaches based on the tree-based model. The results illustrate that the proposed framework improves the performance significantly.


In elderly patients, edema is usually associated with a multitude of symptoms such as dizziness, forgetfulness, anxiety and fatigue. These symptoms are often secondary to hypertensive or arteriosclerotic heart disease. In the elderly female, the menopausal syndrome may also play a role. The edema of hepatic disease may be much more resistant to therapy than the edema of cardiac disease. This paper is a summary of our experiences with the newer diuretics in the treatment of these disorders.


The synthesis of flexible biradical strain-gauges which could be anchored onto two sites of a deformable biological structure had been attempted. Qualitative relationships between the possible conformations of the biradicals and the observed ESR spectra provide guidelines for further synthetic work. Some of the nitroxides synthesized and characterized are: R-CO-R{sub 1}-N-(CH{sub 2}){sub n}-R{sub 2}-N-CO-R, where R is 1-oxyl-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl pyrroline bonded at the 3-position, n = 2,3 and R{sub 1,2} = -H; -C{sub 18}{sub 37}; -CH{sub 2}COOH; -CH{sub 2}COOC{sub 2}H{sub 5}; -CH{sub 2}CONH(CH{sub 2}){sub 2}N(CH{sub 3}){sub 2}; -CH{sub 2}CONH(CH{sub 2}){sub 2}N{sup +}(CH{sub 3}) -CH{sub 2}CO-imidazolide.


Objective To study epidemiological features of public health emergent events in schools from 2004 to 2009 in Anhui province,and to provide evidence for the prevention and control strategies.Methods Descriptive epidemiology method was used to analyze the public health emergent events from 2004 to 2009 in Anhui province according to the national public health emergency reporting system.Results From 2004 to 2009,a total of 348 public health emergent events in schools were reported,with 11 321 cases and 4 deaths.The infectious events were the main composition of public health emergent events in schools,which accounted for 87.1%.It consisted 94.4% of respiratory infectious diseases.Most public health emergent events in schools occurred in middle and primary schools in the countryside and from March to June or September to December.Conclusion The public health emergent events in schools are tending to increase in Anhui province.Most public health emergencies occur in schools,especially in middle and primary schools in the countryside.Surveillance should be strengthened on public health emergent events in schools,and effective measures should be taken for prevention and control.


Introduction Standard image-free navigation systems have proven to improve the accuracy of components placement and reduce the proportion of outliers for lower limb mechanical axis in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, their disadvantages include a longer duration of surgery and pin-tract related complications. More recently, pinless navigation has been developed to address these shortcomings. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of a new pinless navigation system (Zimmer® iAssist™ Knee) in TKA. Methods Power analysis was performed. To detect a significant difference in the proportion of outliers for lower limb mechanical axis at a power of 0.80, a sample size of 50 patients would be required. Between May 2013 and April 2014, 50 patients diagnosed with osteoarthritis of the knee were divided into two surgical technique arms: 1) iAssist™; 2) conventional TKA. One Adult Reconstruction surgeon performed all the surgeries. The patients were prospectively followed up and postoperative long leg radiographs were taken at one month post-surgery. Two reviewers blinded to the surgical method performed the measurements on radiographic films. Five radiographic measurements were measured: 1) Hip-Knee-Ankle Angle (HKA); 2) Coronal Femoral-Component Angle (CFA); 3) Coronal Tibia-Component Angle (CTA); 4) Sagittal Femoral-Component Angle (SFA); and 5) Sagittal Tibia-Component Angle (STA), The Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare the two groups for quantitative variables while the Fisher9s exact test was used for categorical variables. Results There was no difference between the two groups for age, BMI, gender and side of operated knee (all p>0.05). There was also no difference in the duration of surgery, postoperative drop in haemoglobin level and transfusion incidence. The median HKA, CFA, CTA, SFA and STA were comparable between both groups [Fig. 1]. Similarly, there was no difference in the proportion of outliers for lower limb alignment (HKA) and components placement (CFA, CTA, SFA and STA) [Fig. 2]. Conclusion This study does not show any statistical difference in the use of iAssist™ to reduce the proportion of outliers for lower limb alignment and component placement in TKA patients. However this is possibly contributed by the fact that all the surgeries were performed by a single experienced Adult Reconstruction surgeon instead of orthopaedic surgeons in general, thereby reducing the incidence of outliers with conventional technique. In keeping with other studies on pinless navigational systems, this study also found no significant difference in postoperative drop of haemoglobin levels with the use of iAssist™, however this study also found no significant difference in operative time when using iAssist™.


Designing, implementing, and debugging concurrency control algorithms in a real system is a complex, tedious, and error- prone process. Further, understanding concurrency control algorithms and distributed computations is itself a difficult task. Visualization can help with both of these problems. Thus, we have developed an exploratory environment in which people can prototype and test various versions of concurrency control algorithms, study and debug distributed computations, and view performance statistics of distributed systems. In this paper, we describe the exploratory environment and show how it can be used to explore concurrency control algorithms for the interactive steering of distributed computations.


The central depressant activities of 3, n-butylphthalide and a new compound, sedanenolide, were studied in mice. While neither compound affects ethanol sedation, they exhibit similar activities in both prolonging pentobarbital narcosis by prior administration of the test compounds and in inducing sleep immediately following recovery from a prior treatment with barbiturate. Weak sedative activity is also shown to reside in both compounds without potentiation.


The chief shortcoming of the old materialism is its nature of intuition.Isolated from social practice,Nature and Man were regarded as the objecets of perceptual intuition by the old materialism,which fell into the idealism in the conception of history.From 1845 to 1846,Marx and Engels made the scientific category of practice and surpassed the old materialism with the principle of practice taking the place of the principle of intuiton,"the perceptual activity" taking the place of "the perceptual object",the materialist conception of history taking the place of the idealist one.The essence of its surpassing is of the practical materialism instead of the intuitional materialism.


The interfacial and electrical properties of sputtered HfTiON on sulfur-passivated GaAs with or without TaON as interfacial passivation layer (IPL) are investigated. Experimental results show that the GaAs metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor with HfTiON/TaON stacked gate dielectric annealed at 600 °C exhibits low interface-state density (1.0 × 1012 cm−2 eV−1), small gate leakage current (7.3 × 10−5 A cm−2 at Vg = Vfb + 1 V), small capacitance equivalent thickness (1.65 nm), and large equivalent dielectric constant (26.2). The involved mechanisms lie in the fact that the TaON IPL can effectively block the diffusions of Hf, Ti, and O towards GaAs surface and suppress the formation of interfacial As-As bonds, Ga-/As-oxides, thus unpinning the Femi level at the TaON/GaAs interface and improving the interface quality and electrical properties of the device.


The radio electromagnetic spectrum is limited source for many wireless communication devices.many studies on wireless communication show that a large portion of our radio electromagnetic spectrum remains vacant all time .How this radio electromagnetic spectrum can be utilized more ? cognitive radio is a solution to this problem. The cognitive radio, based on a software-defined radio. Cognitive radio is an advanced and intelligent wireless communication system that is aware of its environment and uses the methodology of understandingby-building to learn from the environment and adapt to statistical variations in the input stimuli, with two primary objectives in


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The main aim of this article is to present the use of the concept of process management to define the processes in the leasing company. For this purpose also there was presented the leasing sector in Poland, its characteristics. Moreover, in the article are presented the main processes and supporting processes orienting the company's strategy on the quality of customer service, especially customer who decides to establish a relationship with the leasing company.


The global economy demands many changes in the analysis of the information and the countable processes of a company for the competitiveness of the local and international market, for this reason Colombia decided to follow the International laws of Financial Information from now on: NIIF, to speak the same financial language worldwide. The purpose of this work is to establish the consequences of the implementation of the NIIF for SMEs in the field: Colombian trading companies' fixed assets taking into account important formation, resources, organizational changes and consultancy costs, besides a different presentation of financial statements, not the one which used to be done and it makes the process even more difficult.


Context. The analysis of debris disk observations is often based on the assumption of a dust phase composed of compact spherical grains consisting of astronomical silicate. Instead, observations indicate the existence of water ice in debris disks. Aims. We quantify the impact of water ice as a potential grain constituent in debris disks on the disk parameter values estimated from photometric and spatially resolved observations in the midand far-infrared. Methods. We simulated photometric measurements and radial profiles of debris disks containing water ice and analyzed them by applying a disk model purely consisting of astronomical silicate. Subsequently, we quantified the deviations between the derived and the true parameter values. As stars in central positions we discuss a β Pic sibling and main-sequence stars with spectral types ranging from A0 to K5. To simulate observable quantities we employed selected observational scenarios regarding the choice of wavelengths and instrument characteristics. Results. For the β Pic stellar model and ice fractions ≥ 50 % the derived inner disk radius is biased by ice sublimation toward higher values. However, the derived slope of the radial density profile is mostly unaffected. Along with an increasing ice fraction, the slope of the grain size distribution is overestimated by up to a median factor of ∼ 1.2 for an ice fraction of 90 %. At the same time, the total disk mass is underestimated by a factor of ∼ 0.4. The reliability of the derived minimum grain size strongly depends on the spectral type of the central star. For an A0-type star the minimum grain size can be underestimated by a factor of ∼ 0.2, while for solar-like stars it is overestimated by up to a factor of ∼ 4 – 5. Neglecting radial profile measurements and using solely photometric measurements, the factor of overestimation increases for solar-like stars up to ∼ 7 – 14.


Hair loss directly impacts people's social interactions and also affects psychological well-being. Hair fall has been a rising trend nowadays due to dynamic lifestyle and pollution. In this context,the present study was performed to identify the potential of the Biofield Energy Healing (The Trivedi Effect®) Treated test item (mixture of herbal ex-tracts of Phyllantus emblica and Eclipta alba in 1:1 ratio) on the telogen skin of mice for the assessment of haircell growth and development in vivo. The test item was divided into two parts. One part was denoted as the untreated test item without any Biofield Energy Treatment, while the other part was defined as the Biofield Energy Treated test item, which received the Biofield Energy Healing Treatment by renowned Biofield Energy Healer, Dahryn Trivedi. The study parameters like anagen induction and visual melanogenesis were performed using skin biopsy technique. The experimental results of the untreated and Biofield Energy Treated test item groups showed hair growth with 50% and 60%, respectively on dorsal clipped of skin after topical application. Besides, the Biofield Energy Treated test item group exhibited 60% melanogenesis after biopsy analysis in mice skin at the end of the experiment. The overall results demonstrated that the Biofield Energy Treatment has the potential for hair growth promotion as evident via increased hair growth and melanogenesis. Therefore, the Biofield Energy Healing (The Trivedi Effect®) Treatment could be useful as a hair growth promoter for various treatments of skin injuries and skin-related disorders like necrotizing fasciitis, actinic keratosis, sebaceous cysts, diaper rash, decubitus ulcer, etc.


Energy security is one of the defining policy issues of our day. Dwindling low-cost hydrocarbon reserves, the rise of new and spectacularly hungry energy consumers such as China and India, and the specter of climate change highlight that a fundamental reordering of the global energy system is in the works. That reordering raises many fears and concerns. Unfortunately, so far most policy debates on energy security issues take on a rather myopic character. The predominant focus in policy debates on energy is on "security of supply," suggesting that states around the world are locked into a competition over access to crucial energy resources that provide the key to continued prosperity and state power. This zero-sum perspective on energy security is certainly not new. Ever since Great Britain led the way in opening the Middle East for oil production in the early 20th century, energy security has been understood as an exercise in geopolitical scheming and competition. This paradigm stands to this day, and defines analytical foci and policy prescriptions.


Due to the influence of temperature on asphalt mixture,the influence on high temperature performance of asphalt pavement is heavily discussed in aspects of aggregate gradation and asphalt amount.The rut test is carried out in combination with five types of test gradations,and dynamic stability is used to represent the high temperature performance.The reasonable optimized solution is presented,which provides reference for similar projects in the future.


panel and complete blood count were otherwise within normal limits. Chest and abdominal computed tomography (CT) imaging revealed a large loculated right-sided pleural effusion, large-volume ascites (Figure 1) without cirrhosis and a 5 cm multicystic right adnexal mass (Figure 2). Thoracentesis and paracentesis were performed, both yielding grossly bloody fluid. Cultures and gram and acid-fast stains of both fluid samples revealed no organisms, and cytology was negative for malignancy; HIV and hepatitis serologies were negative and the serum-ascites albumin gradient was less than 1.0. A right-sided chest tube was placed to facilitate further drainage (Figure 3); this was subsequently removed after several days of minimal drainage. A transvaginal pelvic ultrasound revealed a cystic right ovarian mass with thickened, nodular internal septations. CA 125 was mildly elevated, but CEA and CA 19-9 were normal. INTRODUCTION


Willa Cather and Aestheticism examines Cather's debt to the Aesthetic Movement. Some of the essays in the collection also discuss her pursuit of beauty in art more generally. While Cather's literary aesthetics have been the subject of previous studies (see, for example, John P. Anders' Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition), this volume is the first to explore Cather's relationship with the Aesthetic Movement. An opening section contains essays exploring this relationship, and some essays in later sections focusing on the visual arts and modernism contain further discussion of these connections. While the volume provides scholars with useful information about Cather's aesthetics, a collection of longer essays focused solely on her relationship to the Aesthetic Movement might have offered a more sustained analysis of this important aspect of her work. Moseley and Watson's introduction offers a good overview of Aestheticism and Cather's place within it. Of the essays in the first section of the book focusing on the Aesthetic Movement, Peter Betjemann's "Willa Cather's Time Machine" is particularly strong. Betjemann examines the interplay of "idleness and intention" (central to Aestheticism, he notes) in Alexander's Bridge and finds surprising connections between the themes of labor and time travel. Connections to the concerns of the Aesthetic Movement are more tenuous in the essays of other contributors in this first section (e.g., Nicholas Birns or co-authors Sonja Froiland Lynch and Robert Lee Lynch). Of the essays treating the subject of Cather's aesthetics more broadly, several focusing on the visual arts are strong and compelling. Joseph C. Murphy draws parallels between American tonalism and Cather's fiction, Mark Facknitz explores how the art of the Fauves and Nabis influences Cather's work, and Angela Conrad demonstrates Cather's revision of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's conventionally gendered portrayal of women. Many of the essays not specifically about the Aesthetic Movement are focused on Cather's relationship to modernism, including one by Janis P.


When searching for resources, organisms can increase the efficiency of search and exploitation behavior by using information about the quality of a current resource patch in their decision making. The search strategy used by an organism can in turn affect its performance in different landscapes. Here we examine the effect of resource quality on 2 foraging decisions: how much time to allocate to explore the environment for new resources and what search strategy to use during exploration. We used the slime mould Physarum polycephalum as our model system. Physarum polycephalum is an amoeboid organism that forages as a flowing mass of pseudopods. We quantified the search pattern of plasmodia after engulfment of food of 6 different qualities. Food quality had a significant, positive effect on how long plasmodia waited before resuming search behavior and on how long it took to abandon food disks. Food quality had a positive effect on fractal dimension, indicating that the amount of localized search performed by plasmodia increased with food quality. Our results suggest that increasing food quality results in a shift from extensive to intensive search. Next, we examined foraging performance in landscapes with different patch structures. Plasmodia in correlated landscapes (half the patches contained only high-quality food, half contained only low-quality food) gained more weight than plasmodia foraging in noncorrelated landscapes (patches contained both high- and low-quality food disks). Our results show that food quality affects exploitation and search behavior and that both behaviors influence foraging performance in different landscapes. Copyright 2009, Oxford University Press.


A quantitative study was made of the effects of 19S alpha-2 globulin $(\alpha _{2}\text{-}{\rm MG})$ on the total cellularity and cell populations, according to cell volume, of the bone marrow from normal and irradiated mice as compared to similar measurements made in control animals. An electrical device, based on the Coulter counter principle, was used as a rapid means of effecting these measurements. In the bone marrow from normal untreated mice, it was possible to discriminate between three major populations of cells. The first population contained cells between the volumes of $10-107\ \mu ^{3}$, the second between $108-214\ \mu ^{3}$, and the third between $215-425\ \mu ^{3}$. Following $\alpha _{2}\text{-}{\rm MG}$ treatment, the bone marrow from nonirradiated mice showed significant alterations in their cell populations. Particularly striking were the concomitant, but inverse, changes in the first and third populations. Following the last exposure, the second and third populations of the bone marro...


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Network security is a long-standing and well-recognized problem in the computing world. Protecting information is a main priority of a network administrator, with security techniques becoming increasingly robust. As more and more information has become digital, security of this digital information has tightened and mitigation techniques to protect the information have become more complex. While approaches to security have improved, intrusion techniques have also become increasingly complex and difficult to detect. This paper discusses two common network security attacks and two approaches to defending against such attacks, as well as an examination of honey pots (a supplemental defense), and uses these to motivate a discussion of the bigger issues involved and what the future of network security might look like.


The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health and economic crisis of a scale never witnessed before. Beginning in China, it has within a few months devastated many countries across the globe, requiring an unprecedented mobilization of health systems. The pandemic is yet another reminder that we need to ramp up national capacities to detect a disease early and respond rapidly, strengthen national institutions and rely on evidence base for policymaking. It is high time that we paid heed to these lessons and be ready for future imminent epidemics and pandemics.