Since September eleven, 2001, substantial attention has been dedicated to the study of terrorism even though intellectual analysts of the topic have really been active for many decades. With this exaggerated focus, terrible confusion has arisen on the meaning of terrorism. Additionally, there are many competitive theories in reference to the causes and effects of terrorism, with contributions coming back from economists, sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists. The study of terrorism is really a multidisciplinary endeavour. This paper provides a review of the discussion concerning the definition of terrorism, presents its historical samples  supply's context, and introduces the first theoretical and empirical contributions of major researchers in the field. It's widely accepted that terrorism has become a threat to humankind. Besides India, totally different countries across the world arefacing the scourge of terrorism. Some advanced countries like America, France, and Australia arealso thereon the list. the first major brutal attack(9/11 ) of terrorism within the USA, Paris Attack on Nov thirteen, 2015, serial attacks in India, Pakistan, City of Westminster attack (London)March 22, 2017, etc. are some of the  major instance of terrorist attacks that have snatched thousands of innocent lives.


The amino and total nitrogen and sugar content of fructification and substrates (sawdust, straw, bark) was analyzed Fungi were found to have a high nutritive value.


Objective To study the different responses of cells to arsenic-induced genotoxicity and its possible mechanisms.Methods Single cell gel electrophoresis (SCGE) assay was used to study the arsenic-induced DNA damage in human promyelocytic HL60,DMSO-differentiated HL60 (DMSO-HL60),PMA-differentiated HL60 (PMA-HL60) and unstimulated human lymphocytes.Results Significant dose-effect relationship and time-course were found between arsenic exposure and DNA damage in the treated cells.The sequence for the sensitivity of cells to arsenic-induced genotoxicity was obtained as follows.PMA-HL60 > DMSO-HL60 > HL60 > human lymphocytes.A same result was obtained by counting the classes of the comet tail and by measuring the tail moment in human lymphocytes.The same significance was achieved using nonparametric Mann-Whitney multiple comparisons for visual classes of comet tail and parametric Tukey multiple comparisons for Tail moment.A higher correlation was shown between the comet tail of Class 5,than between total positive comet tail,and doses of arsenic.Conclusions Micromolar amount of arsenic induces DNA damage in human cells.Different populations of cells had different responses to arsenic-induced genotoxicity.SCGE assay is a economic,rapid,sensitive and economic method detecting genotoxicity.It could be applied in all levels of monitoring and study on environmental pollution and human diseases (arsenic pollution).


Unhealth living habits can promote occurrence of type Ⅱdiabetes, especially in lacking of exercise. Aerobic exercise may decrease its danger factors and incidence of the disease, ameliorate glucose and lipid metabolism, increase insulin sensitivity and amend heart function. So aerobic exercise is taken as one of the powerful measures in preventing and curing typeⅡdiabetes.


SUMMARY Java Just-in-Time compilers have to satisfy a number of requirements in conflict with each other. Effective execution of a generated code is not the only requirement, but compilation time, memory consumption and compliance with the Java Virtual Machine specification are also important. We have developed a Java Just-in-Time compiler keeping implementation labor little. Another important objective is developing an adequate base of following researches which utilize this compiler. The proposed compilation techniques take low compilation cost and low development cost. This paper also describes optimization methods implemented in the compiler, for instance, instruction folding, exception handling with signals and code patching.


This paper analyzes the uses of the Inquiry Page (www.inquiry.uiuc.edu) in the National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellowship Program*, where scientist-fellows and K-12 teachers partner to integrate the use of computer-based modeling, scientific visualization, and informatics in science and mathematics education. The Inquiry Page is a web-based, knowledge-building tool that facilitates and fosters real-world application of inquiry-based learning. By creating "Inquiry Units" teachers and learners collaboratively engage in the inquiry path, building new knowledge as well as a resource for other teachers and learners. By offering structures for inquiry teaching and learning, a-synchronous community-building is occurring with teachers/learners being able to draw upon and share their own applications of inquiry-based teaching. The Inquiry Page, then, becomes the nexus between theory and application. It emerges as a "portal" for the scientist-fellow, teacher, and students in the classroom; facilitates communication between the teacher/scientist team and other educators both at the school and in the larger education community; supports inquiry-based teaching in the real world of the classroom; and nurtures the development and professional growth of the teacher and scientist/fellow by engaging in reflective educational theory and practice. *The EdGrid GK-12 Fellowship Program supports annual teaching fellowships for graduate student scientists from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and is administered by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Evaluation methods: The GK-12 Evaluation team is adopting a situated evaluation approach to gathering data at each high school site, using online formative and summative evaluations of students, teachers, and fellows in addition to observation, videotaping, and interviews. Teacher and fellow reflections are thus captured quantitatively and qualitatively. Artifact/products of students, teachers, and fellows are reviewed. Key to the evaluation process is an understanding of and sensitivity to each site's context and dynamics. Of particular interest for the Inquiry Page is identifying its uses and utility, and this is determined by units created and interviews with teachers/fellows. Sites: Site 1 is located in a suburb of a large city. It was formed to offer alternative (i.e., vocational) education for students grades 10-12 to supplement their regular high school curriculum. Site 2 has approximately 2,325 students and offers a traditional collegeprepatory high school curriculum. It is located in a comparatively wealthy cosmopolitan suburb of a large city. Site 3 has approximately 1600 students and is located in an industrial district. The school offers a diverse curriculum that includes two "academies" specializing in medical science or math/engineering/information technology for accelerated students. Site 4 is located in a twin-city that is home to a large university. It offers a traditional collegeprepatory curriculum. The Inquiry Page: The Inquiry Page (www.inquiry.uiuc.edu) is a five-year-old project developed initially as a supportive tool for teacher development by Dr. Bertram Bruce at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. It has since evolved into a web-based tool and collaboratory to facilitate inquiry-based learning and teaching within much broader contexts. Evaluators, teachers, and scientist-fellows participating in the GK-12 Program have used the Inquiry Page, identifying its utility for their needs. Facilitating Inquiry in Teaching/Learning: Each site differed in its adoption of the Inquiry Page. Two of the fellows found it unusable in their specific classrooms: one fellow noted teacher disinterest in learning methodologies or new technology, while another fellow noted a sense of it not being relevant to his/her teachers' subject/learning context. Each of the other fellows, however, employed the Inquiry Page as (1) a lesson planning tool for teachers, including tutorials, resources, and personal reflections in their role as fellow/teacher in the classroom; (2) an archive for their own work and reflections on their particular GK-12 site, including site-specific resources; and (3) as a way to more deeply understand inquiry-based learning and engage in a "co-learner" relationship with their teacher. The model identified by the fellows in their mid-year evaluation as most successful was one in which the teacher and fellow worked collaboratively in teaching/learning. The Inquiry Page facilitated this type of relationship in and out of the classroom; with units serving as new points of communication with educators both within and outside of the individual district/sites. The GK-12 Evaluation team initially thought the Inquiry Page could be used to document their observations; however, they found that it was more useful as an artifact of the teacher/fellow teams' evolving teaching models. Unexpectedly, the Inquiry Page has been used as a presentation tool with the units being demonstrated at NSTE, NABT, TeachIT, and various district meetings. Perhaps most interesting is the Inquiry Page's role in introducing inquiry-based learning to the fellow/scientists and giving a "name" to what teachers were already doing or wanted to do in the classroom. Although all had heard the term, and had an intuitive sense of what it meant, it was during the process of creating units that points of recognition and understanding of real-world application occurred. Essential features of classroom inquiry in the sciences as defined by the National Research Council are identifiable at each of the sites; particularly at one site, where the scientist fellow/teacher/students are generating new research questions that are being incorporated into the scientist-fellow's dissertation work. The Inquiry Page is bridging the gap between education pedagogy and real-world applications in the classroom, creating a framework for scientists and teachers to collaborate—to the benefit of both.


Translation has been a core of controversies on whether it can be a valid and effective instrument in second language (L2) teaching. This work advocates the movement that tries to restore translation as a practical and efficacious pedagogical tool. In order to do so, the reasons why translation was rejected are presented with a focus on the ban of the L1 use in L2 educational settings. However, this study also presents some contemporary debates about the use of L1 in language pedagogy and its productive role in language teaching. Therefore, drawing on ideas from discussions on the role of L1 and the explicit instruction, are able to review the translation status, and that its use is pertinent in L2 teaching and learning in a justified, organic and contextualized manner.


Emerging video applications are being developed where multiple views of a scene are captured. Two central issues in the deployment of future multiview video (MVV) systems are compression efficiency and interactive video experience, which makes it necessary to develop advanced technologies on multiview video coding (MVC) and interactive multiview video streaming (IMVS). The former aims at efficient compression of all MVV data in a ratedistortion (RD) optimal manner by exploiting both temporal and inter-view redundancy, while the latter offers a viewer the ability to freely interact with MVV data, such that she can periodically request her desired viewpoint as the video is played back. Based on the observation that MVC and IMVS are fundamentally different MVV problems, in this thesis, we focus on developing different algorithms for practical MVC and IMVS designs. The first part of the thesis focuses on our research works on MVC. We first develop projective rectification-based view interpolation and extrapolation methods and apply them to MVC. Experimental results show that these schemes can achieve better RD performance than the current joint multiview video coding (JMVC) standard as well as view interpolation and extrapolation-based MVC schemes without using rectification. To explain the experimental results, we also develop mathematical models for the rectification-based view interpolation and extrapolation, from which we develop an improved theoretical model to compare the performances of various MVC schemes. Simulation results can verify the experimental results very well. In the second part of the thesis, we propose three major technological improvements to existing IMVS works to enhance its interactivity experience and implement it in a realistic network condition. First, in addition to camera-captured views, we make available additional virtual views between each pair of captured views for viewers' selection, by transmitting both texture and depth maps of neighboring captured views and synthesizing intermediate views


This is a cultural history based on a semi-quantitative method. Adriaan C. van Oss was a historian who, together with B.H. Slicher van Bath, developed this method to analyse 'cultural' data. His major study was published after his sudden death in 1984 by the Cambridge University Press: Catholic Colonialism: A Parish History of Guatemala, 1524-1821. It was recognized as an important work on the history of parish formation and composition, as well as on ecclesiastical imperialism in a peripheral area. His articles and manuscripts were directed to a much broader focus. In general, Van Oss rejected the traditional mercantilist views of colonial Spanish America that had emphasized long-distance trade and imperial connections. He suggested instead models of local self-sufficiency, unified by the Church and by various forms of cultural adaptation. The present collection is a selection of his work, some published, others not. A few chapters are based on collections of series of data on population, economic production, church building, and maps, to reconstruct the characteristics of Central America as an autarkic colony, the development of colonial bishoprics over South America and mendicant expansion in New Spain. The picture that emerged was of rapid expansion of colonial power, but slow change of cultural characteristics. The reconstruction of the features of New Spain and early Venezuela turned out to be historical geographies. Another field of interest was the development of the colonial city in Spanish America, which also inspired Van Oss to look at one colonial city in particular, Acambro. The history of the Church in the Mexican State of Hidalgo during the aftermath of the Revolution suggests how the picture of the colonial data could be confirmed for the early twentieth century.


Aim The present study aimed to investigate the bio-function and mechanism of cellular repressor of E1A-stimulated genes(CREG) protein on the migration of vascular smooth muscle cells(SMCs). Methods Human wild-type and glycosylation mutant CREG proteins(named wtCREG or mCREG) were transfected and purified in human 293F cells.Human SMCs with CREG knocked-down expression(named OB2) were used to evaluate the effects of two kinds of recombinant CREG protein.The migration of OB2 cells was evaluated by wound-healing assay.The expression and activity was detected by Western blot and gelatin zymography.The differentiational marker proteins of SMCs were identified to express by Western blot analysis.Furthermore,using soluble mannose-6-phosphate/insulin-like growth factor-2 receptor(M6P/IGF2R) fragments and M6P/IGF2R neutralizing antibody,the blocking analysis was finished by detecting the migration of OB2 cells. Results Both wtCREG and mCREG(400 nmol/L) inhibit the migration of OB2 cells.Meanwhile,the expression and activity of matrix metalloproteinase-2(MMP2) and matrix metalloproteinase-9(MMP9) were identified to reduce in OB2 cells when treated with recombinant CREG protein.Reversely,the expressions of myocardin,smooth muscle α-actin(SM α-actin),myosin heavy chain(MHC) and caldesmin were detected to enhance obviously.Further blocking experiments using soluble M6P/IGF2R fragments and M6P/IGF2R neutralizing antibody suggest that two kinds of recombinant protein are adequate for modulating SMC migration by binding to domains 11-13. Conclusion These data suggest that soluble CREG protein can exert its biological function via binding to cell surface M6P/IGF2R,and thereby provide novel insights into CREG modulation of SMC phenotypic switching from contractile to migration.


Abstract The calorimetric method for examination of the kinetics of solid phase dissolution is presented. The thermograms are interpreted by considering the heat evolution due to the reaction as well as the heat transfer in the calorimeter. The kinetic interpretation is based on the change of particle surface area during the dissolution process. The experimental results confirm the applicability of the proposed method. The rate constant and the enthalpy of dissolution of solid CaCO 3 in aqueous EDTA and NaOH solutions are determined. The experiments show that the process is the first order with respect to the surface area, indicating that the detachment of EDTA complex from the surface is the responsible mechanism.


OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of statins in the treatment of essential hypertension.METHODS:Retrieved from Cochrane library,Pubmed,EMbase,CBM,CNKI,VIP and Wanfang database,RCTs about the efficacy and safety of statins in the treatment of essential hypertension were collected completely in China.Methodological quality of included studies was evaluated,and effective data was extracted.Rev Man 5.1 software was used for data analysis.RESULTS:A total of 15 RCTs were included,involving 1 241 patients.Results of Meta-analysis showed that statins could reduce the levels of SBP [MD=-6.38,95%CI(-9.70,-3.06),P0.01],DBP[MD=-3.11,95%CI(-5.65,-0.57),P=0.02] and PP [MD=-4.65,95%CI(-6.12,-3.19),P0.01],at the same time they could reduce the level of TC [MD=-1.33,95%CI(0.12,-0.54),P0.01],TG [MD=-0.33,95%CI(-0.44,,-0.23),P0.01] and LDL-C[MD=-0.83,95%CI(-1.17,-0.48),P0.01],while increase the level of HDL-C [MD=0.12,95%CI(0.05,0.18),P0.01],there was significant difference between 2 groups.CONCLUSIONS:Statins are effective and safe in the treatment of essential hypertension.Because included studies are limited in quantity,results of the review want discretion and high-quality multiple-centered large-scale RCTs are required.


We have investigated morphologic and histochemical characteristics of serotonin‐containing epithelial cells in tracheas from adult rabbits, using the Falck‐Hillarp freeze‐dried formaldehyde vapor technique. An intracellular formaldehyde‐induced fluorescent substance was identified as serotonin by microspectrofluorometric techniques. Fluorescence microscopy and subsequent histochemical staining of the same sections demonstrated that serotonin‐containing cells were argentaffin‐, argyrophil‐, and ferric ferricyanide‐positive. The serotonin‐containing epithelial cells were more numerous in ventral than in dorsal aspects of trachea. The number of detectable fluorescent cells was reduced after reserpine administration but was not affected by injecting the amine precursor L‐dihydroxyphenylalanine (L‐DOPA). The emission peak of the fluorophore was not significantly shifted after L‐DOPA injections. The cells may regulate tracheobronchial‐pulmonary function by releasing serotonin or other as yet unidentified biologically active substances.


This article examines the argument that using design-build-operate (DBO) contracting instead of traditional approaches (such as contract operations) to expand the private sector role in the management of municipal water and wastewater systems will lead to more efficient investment and operational practices. Privatization research reviewed in this article suggests that capturing and maintaining the benefits of market competition on the cost of service under a DBO contract may be an elusive objective. For cities considering long-term DBO privatization, the research and case studies presented demonstrate the importance of investing in the necessary expertise to (a) plan and structure a procurement process that generates meaningful price competition, (b) develop contract terms that give the public owner input into and control over key design criteria for capital improvements, and (c) realistically assess the impact of changing circumstances on future costs to develop accurate long-term cost projections.


The present disclosure comprises a system, catheter and method for measuring the cross-sectional areas and pressure gradients in any hollow organ, Such as, for example, blood vessels. One embodiment of such a method includes the steps of introducing an impedance catheter into a treatment site, providing electrical current flow to the treatment site, inject ing a first Solution and measuring a first conductance value, injecting a second solution and measuring a second conduc tance value, and calculating the cross-sectional area of the treatment site, in part, based on the first and second conduc tance values.


We introduce an efficient algorithm for reducing bond dimensions in an arbitrary tensor network without changing its geometry. The method is based on a quantitative understanding of local correlations in a network. Together with a tensor network coarse-graining algorithm, it yields a proper renormalization group (RG) flow. Compared to existing methods, the advantages of our algorithm are its low computational cost, simplicity of implementation, and applicability to any network. We benchmark it by evaluating physical observables for the two-dimensional classical Ising model and find accuracy comparable with the best existing tensor network methods. Because of its graph independence, our algorithm is an excellent candidate for implementation of real-space RG in higher dimensions. We discuss some of the details and the remaining challenges in three dimensions. Source code for our algorithm is freely available.


INTRODUCTION Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) is the fifth most important cereal grain crop in the world and reportedly feeds over 500 million people on a daily basis in the developing world providing dietary starch, dietary protein and some vitamins and minerals. Traditionally, sorghum grain is used for thin and thick porridges, noodles, tortillas, flatbread, biscuits, snacks, couscous, and traditional beer. Sorghum is mainly grown in the Semi-Arid tropic of the world, particularly under rain fed conditions. Although the production is highly influenced with changing environmental conditions (Showemimo 2007). Melia azedarach is indigenous to north-west India along the sub-Himalayan tract, but now is naturalized throughout the tropics where it is cultivated in the arid and semi-arid and also in the semi-moist areas (Luna 2005). It is also found in Iran, Pakistan, Burma, Malayasia, Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, Cuba and China (Anon 1981). It is a moderate-sized deciduous tree with a straight cylindrical bole. The bark is dark grey and flowers are lilac or pink colored. Medicinally the tree is used for leprosy, anthelmintic, diuretic, rheumatism and seed oil as antiseptic for sores and ulcers, skin diseases and malaria fever (Ramya et al. 2009). Poor soil fertility and low moisture content are the major factors limiting crop production in arid and semi-arid region. In agroforestry system, silvipastoral system appears to be the most appropriate technology for cultivated soils, as one of the alternate land use to options in these areas (Kaushik and Kumar 2003). In this system forage and firewood yield from the alley components serves as an insurance against total crops failure due to aberrant weather and other conditions. The increased productivity under the tree canopy was believed to be due to improved soil fertility (Young 1989) and ameliorative influences of shade in a hot dry environment reducing temperature and evaporation (Bunderson et al. 1990). Thus, in dry area like Indian arid region, introduced trees can reduce the soil and plant water loss by reducing the under storey temperature and evapotranspiration (Belsky and Amundson 1992). Agroforestry systems have number of beneficial effect for constitute sustainable land use pattern and some of these are evidence in the world (Nair 1987, Young 1989). Many countries through agroforestry practices minimize the land degradation as well as increased the production also (Mishra and Sarim 1987, Swaminathan 1987). Land degradation problems in hill are common i.e., water erosion, soil fertility depletion, flood etc. The hilly soils are the most susceptible to water erosion. About 75% of the hilly areas have very high susceptibility to erosion, 20% have high susceptibility and 5% have moderate susceptibility to erosion (BARC 1999). Faulty 'Jhum' cultivation in hilly area causes gully erosion and losses of soil ranges from 10 to 120 tons per ha per yr. (Farid et al. 1992). Effect of Melia azedarach L. intercropping on Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench varieties in hills of Mizoram


ABSTRACT Four years of field data on subsurface drain flows and water table elevations from two experimental sites in Iowa were used to compare the predicted values by DRAINMOD, a water management model. DRAINMOD simulations conducted for Nicollet silt loam and Kenyon loam soils of Iowa predicted water table elevations within an average deviation of 15 cm and 19 cm, respectively. The subsurface drain outflows predicted by DRAINMOD were within an average deviation of 0.065 cm/day.


Alerces National Park, created in 1937 to protect temperate forest ecosystems in Argentina's southern Andes, contains 42 families within its borders. Grazing is the principal livelihood strategy of most park inhabitants. Domesticated animals, however, are not compatible with the conservation objectives of park authorities, who are promoting tourism as a sustainable alternative to livestock. Park inhabitants are less enthusiastic about tourism. They lack a meaningful role in negotiating rights to land and resources, and they have been marginalised from conservation planning. This could be alleviated by titling parts of Alerces National Park to park inhabitants and providing them with shared management responsibilities.


In this Letter, we develop a microscopic theory to describe the close proximity between the insulating antiferromagnetic (AF) order and the d-wave superconducting (dSC) order in cuprates. We show that the cuprate ground states form a configuration of coherent pairing states consisting of extended singlet Cooper pairs and triplet $\pi$ pairs, which can simultaneously describe AF and dSC orders.


The auto-compensation principle of the single-axial rotation inertial navigation system(INS) was introduced. The effect of the gyro's and accelerometer's bias,fixing error and scale-factor error on the single-axial rotation was indicated. The effect of the rotating velocity on the system errors was analyzed by simulation. The selection of the rotating mode and velocity need considering the gyro's bias and the scale-factor error. The single-axial rotation experiment was implemented by the IMU at lab,and the position error of the system is less than 1 nm/24h. The study results offer the academic basis for optimizing and designing of single-axial rotation INS.


The age-46.5 gene of Escherichia coli is induced by nitrate ion and regulated by Fnr, NarL, and NarP during anaerobic growth. aeg-46.5::lacZ fusion gene shows its maximum expression in narL host after two hours of aerobic to anaerobic switch in M9-Glc-nitrate medium. Fnr and NarP act as positive regulators, and NarL acts as a negative regulator. The control region of the aeg-46.5 was identified and the binding sites of regulator proteins have been predicted (Reznikoff and Choe (1993)). It has two symmetry regions. One is located at -52~-37 bp from the anaerobic mRNA 5'-end, which is the binding site of NarL and NarP. The other is located at +37~+56 bp from the 5'-end of mRNA. In this study, the downstream symmetry region from the mRNA 5'-end was investigated by site-directed mutagenesis. The destruction of the symmetry region increases the expression level of aeg-46.5. We propose that the symmetry region interferes with the expression of aeg-46.5 possibly by forming a stem-and-loop structure.


The paper described the application of the craft of aerobic precipitation integration biochemistry pond in the printing and dyeing wastewater,The result indicated that the water can reach the Level emissions standard of "Integrated Wastewater Discharge Standard"(GB8978-1996).The craft has the compatibility strongly,the effect stable,the sewage treatment investment expenses low,the operating cost low,the energy conservation,the operation simple and so on.so,it has the good prospect in the printing and dyeing wastewater.


KYU is the second largest Government University in Uganda. It was established in the year 2003, after a merger of three different institutions namely a Teacher Education institution, a Technical institution and a National Institute for Teachers who handle learners with disabilities, with a mission to advance and promote knowledge and skills in Science Technology, Education and other fields. With this background KYU offers programmes in Teacher Education, Engineering, Pure Sciences, Social Sciences, Creative Art, Performing Arts, Environmental Science, Business studies and Special Needs Education. The programmes range between Masters Degrees, Bachelors degrees and Diplomas for Day Evening and Distance Learning students. There are also Certificate programmes conducted in the evenings only, designed to meet specific needs in the areas of Kindergarten Teacher Education, Financial Management, Human Resource Management, Institutional Management, Teacher Technical Education, Guidance and Counselling, Project Planning and Management.


Companies as profit institutions always have a way to increase the wealth of shareholders, one of which is by increasing the value of the company in the eyes of the public. However, to achieve this the company is required to demonstrate its performance through financial reports. This study aims to analyze firm value in the food and beverage business group by looking at the company's financial fundamentals, such as assets, capital and profitability. The research method uses quantitative with the concept of multiple linear regression statistical analysis. The data were collected purposively, namely the sampling technique which applies the requirements for the collection. The results showed that the company's financial fundamentals had a real contribution to the increase in firm value. Interestingly, the simultaneous model shows a positive direction. This means that the value of companies in the food and beverage business group is strongly influenced by the company's financial condition, particularly assets, capital and profits.


With the rise of tools for clinical decision support,there is an increased need for automatic processing of electrocardiograms (ECG) documents. In fact, many systems have already been developed to perform signal processing tasks such as 12-lead off-line ECG analysis and real-time patient monitoring. All these applications require an accurate detection of the heart rate of the ECG. In this paper, we present the idea that the image form of ECG is actually a better medium to detect periodicity in ECG. When the ECG trace is scanned or rendered in videos, the peaks of the waveform (R-wave) is often traced thicker due to pixel dithering. We exploit the pixel thickness information, for the first time, as a reliable feature for determining periodicity. Results are presented on a database of 16,613 12-channel ECG waveforms, which demonstrate robustness and accuracy of our image-based period detection method on these ECGs of various cardiovascular diseases. 94.5% of bradycardia and tachycardia patient records are correctly identified using our estimated heart period as the disease criteria.


Determining the position and orientation of the camera is a crucial problem with the rapidly developing technology in visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), augmented reality and 3D reconstruction. Solving the PnP (perspective-n-point) problem is an effective method to calculate the pose of the camera and is also the most widely used method in many applications. In this paper, the methods for PnP problem, including special PnP problem and general PnP problem are summarized firstly. Then, due to importance of performing PnP methods in practical applications, ability to handle outliers for PnP methods is studied. Finally, the main problems of the current researches on PnP problem are presented.


The lack of segmentation by pages and lines creates severe problems with scholarly citation of digital documents - in spite of all advantages of digital texts Not only citation, but the whole editorial work of identifying, comparing, manipulating and annotating text make use of reference to distinctive parts of text - and also the programs that support such tasks. The paper propagates to base reference in digital texts entirely on a structure of meaningful entities like sentences or words. Based on such a structure most annotational markup can be handled "stand-off". I refer to an implementation of my own and to "Watson", a very ambitious project of annotation. Using it a computer won in Jeopardy, a prominent US Quiz-Show.


The Transfer Function (TF) relates the structure-borne noise level of the hull with the Underwater
Radiated Noise (URN). Therefore, the acoustic noise generated by the vibrations of the hull of a
ship could be estimated from real measurements of the structure-borne noise levels of the hull by
applying the TF in real time. This function depends on the material of the hull of the ship. In this
paper, real measurements of the structure-borne noise level of the hull and URN of two ships
constructed of steel and Glass fiber Reinforced Plastics (GRP) are used to estimate the TF of the
hull.


Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2703 is a marine sediment collected at the mouth of the Baltimore Harbor. SRM 2703 is primarily intended for use in evaluating analytical methods for the direct determination of selected elements in solid samples of marine or fresh water sediment and similar matrices. Direct and slurry sampling, as well as dissolution techniques using typically milligram size samples (<10 mg), can employ this SRM in the user's procedures; all certified and reference values are based on measurements using a samples size of at least 0.7 mg. Techniques using large samples (100 mg) should use SRM 2702 Inorganics in Marine Sediment. All of the constituents for which certified, reference, and information values are provided in SRM 2703 were naturally present in the sediment material before processing. A unit of SRM 2703 consists of a bottle containing 5 g of radiationsterilized, freeze-dried sediment material.


Seddon and Bearpark present a creative and exciting observation of a reversed Doppler effect when an electromagnetic shock propagates through a transmission line ([ 1 ][1]). We find that the physical origin of this anomalous effect is fundamentally different from the one suggested by Seddon and


Objective To develop of a new type of PLGA microspheres drug delivery system of Chlorpheniramine.Methods The PLGA sustained-release microspheres were made by double emulsion-solvent evaporation technique.The contents and the drug release were determined by ultraviolet spectrophotometry.Results The mean diameter of PLGA microspheres is(112±57)μm,the contents of the drug is(798.33±145.00)μg,and the drug loading is(0.32±0.12)%.Drug accumulate release in 9 days can reach 87%.Conclusion The Chlorpheniramine PLGA sustained-release microspheres are easily made,and the drugs can achieve long-term sustained release.


Applicative constructions refer to those in which an underlying indirect object or oblique is realised as a coreargument. The applied argument replaces P and in most languages becomes the direct object. In mostinstances, the verb usually bears a distinctive inflection expressing the semantic relation borne by the directobject. In Javanese applicative constructions could be intransitive-based and transitive-based, and theyinvolve oblique to 2 advancement or 3-2 advancement. The N- prefix on the verb, the deletion ofpreposition, and the suffix –i/ni or –ake mark the advancement to direct object. The suffix –i/ni is used tomark locative, recipient and destination advancement, whereas the suffix –ake is used to mark benefactiveand instrumental advancement. It is also possible that advancement to direct object is not marked with anysuffix.


Equipment for radio diagnostics is one of the most expensive spending areas of health care budget. In the basis of defining needs of different Treatment and Health Entities in such equipment should be included principals of correspondence of material-technical provision to clinic goals in a concrete institute as well as adequacy of this provision to organizational-personnel structure and specialist's qualification.


The article is devoted to one of the major challenges of the development of agricultural sectors in Russia on the basis of agro-industrial integration. At present the main lines of forming the integration ties in agroindustrial complex are organization of processing enterprises by agricultural producers; organization of associations for co-processing and marketing by agricultural producers and processors; forming competitive inter-regional organizations; and establishing the agro-industrial units by different industries. Today agro-industrial integration is seen as a guideline for forming the financially independent systems with internal self-government and the efficient allocation of financial resources and investment. The paper identifies the objective causes of development of new forms of the integrated structures in the horticultural industry. The issues of the improvement and management of such structures in terms of cooperation and integration are considered. Gardening is a traditional industry of the country regions; in order to restore it, the author proposed a model for a new integrated formation, contributing to the development of economic relations at the meso- and macro levels. The authors have proved the dependence of the horticultural enterprises effectiveness on th e validity and efficiency of horticultural ties and relations between industries based on cooperation and integration as well as the nature of existing ties at the industry and inter-industry production levels.


This thesis introduces the application of solar position and shadowing information to robotic exploration. Power is a critical resource for robots with remote, long-term missions, so this research focuses on the power generation capabilities of robotic explorers during navigational tasks, in addition to power consumption. Solar power is primarily considered, with the possibility of wind power also contemplated. Information about the environment, including the solar ephemeris, terrain features, time of day, and surface location, is incorporated into a planning structure, allowing robots to accurately predict shadowing and thus potential costs and gains during navigational tasks. By evaluating its potential to generate and expend power, a robot can extend its lifetime and accomplishments. The primary tasks studied are coverage patterns, with a variety of plans developed for this research. The use of sun, terrain and temporal information also enables new capabilities of identifying and following sun-synchronous and sun-seeking paths.
Digital elevation maps are combined with an ephemeris algorithm to calculate the altitude and azimuth of the sun from surface locations, and to identify and map shadows. Solar navigation path simulators use this information to perform searches through two-dimensional space, while considering temporal changes. Step by step simulations of coverage patterns also incorporate time in addition to location. Evaluations of solar and wind power generation, power consumption, area coverage, area overlap, and time are generated for sets of coverage patterns, with on-board environmental information linked to the simulations. This research is implemented on the Nomad robot for the Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search. Simulators have been developed for coverage pattern tests, as well as for sun-synchronous and sun-seeking path searches. Results of field work and simulations are reported and analyzed, with demonstrated improvements in efficiency, productivity and lifetime of robotic explorers, along with new solar navigation abilities.


Summary Infection of mice with Friend Disease Virus prior to or simultaneous with immunization with sheep red blood cells resulted in a marked suppression of appearance of antibody forming cells, as determined by a localized hemolytic plaque technique in agar gel. Infection with virus had a marked suppressive effect on the number of 19S hemolysin forming cells in mouse spleen tissue at the peak of the expected immune response and during a period of two weeks or longer thereafter. Appearance of low efficiency 7S hemolysin forming cells late in the immune response, following a single injection of sheep red cells. Was also depressed in infected mice. Animals infected 3 days to a week or longer prior to immunization had the lowest number of detectable 19S or 7S antibody-forming cells. The number of plaque forming cells per million leukocytes tested was most suppressed in those mice which had obvious splenomegaly due to virus infection.


Ad-hoc data models like Json simplify schema evolution and enable multiplexing various data sources into a single stream. While useful when writing data, this flexibility makes Json harder to validate and query, forcing such tasks to rely on automated schema discovery techniques. Unfortunately, ambiguity in the schema design space forces existing schema discovery systems to make simplifying, data-independent assumptions about schema structure. When these assumptions are violated, most notably by APIs, the generated schemas are imprecise, creating numerous opportunities for false positives during validation. In this paper, we propose Jxplain, a Json schema discovery algorithm with heuristics that mitigate common forms of ambiguity. Although Jxplain is slightly slower than state of the art schema extractors, we show that it produces significantly more precise schemas.


Adhesion between metals and ceramics plays a critical role in many materials applications. Good adhesive properties are especially important in microelectronics or in the formation of protective coatings for metals. One clear example of this is the poor adhesion of copper to aluminum oxide. One of the problems faced in the industrial use of these composite materials is the fragile nature of the interfaces formed by compounds with interesting properties. Enhancing adhesion of metals to ceramics would open a wide range of new applications for these composite materials. The effect of doping [alpha]-Al[sub 2]O[sub 3] with an electron acceptor (Cr[sup 3+]) on adhesion to first row transition metals is studied by tight-binding extended Hueckel band structure calculations. Charge transfer from the metal to the partially filled t[sub 2g] levels of the dopant enhance the metal-ceramic interface interface strength. A predicted side effect is the weakening of the Cr-O bonds in the ceramic, leading to a possible adhesive failure in the first layers of the oxide phase. The adhesive energy is predicted to increase with dopant concentration, although not showing a simple linear dependence. 30 refs., 7 figs., 3 tabs.


Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases in the world. Artemisinin-Based-Combination-Therapy (ACT) an antimalaria recommended by WHO, is starting to experience resistance in Asia. Meanwhile the natural-product-immunoprotective and antimalaria-effect may benefice for malaria. Objective of this study was to determine the effect of combination of ethanolic-extract from Songga-wood-stem (EESWS) and ACT on IL-10, a protective-cytokine against malaria-immunopathology. This experimental-study used post-test-only-randomized-controlled-group-design. The thirty-Swiss-webster-mice were grouped into 5 groups. The one-group of healthy-mice (K1), and the four-groups infected with Plasmodium berghei ANKA (PbA) which were untreated-K2-group, ACT-treated-K3-group, EESWS-treated-P1-group, and EESWS-ACT-combination-treated-P2-group. IL-10-level of stimulated-splenocytes-culture was examined by ELISA-method. Data-analysis-used was One-Way-Anova-Welch-test and Post-hoc Games-Howell. P1 and P2-groups had higher IL-10-levels than K1 (p=0.038). Groups of P1 and P2 showed lower IL-10-levels than K3 (p=0.001). IL-10-level of P2-group was not different than P1 (p=0.135). The conclusion is the EEWS or EESWS-ACT-combination-therapy restrains the increase-splenic-IL-10-production above normal value in the healing phase of malaria infection.


A novel doubly decoupled bulk micromachined lateral gyroscope, proposed in our former work, can efficiently suppress the undesired mechanical coupling, while remaining symmetric in structure. Both theoretical simulations and experiments are carried out to analyze the decoupling property of this gyroscope. The simulated results show that the driving and sensing mode frequencies are 3.821 kHz and 3.956 kHz, respectively. Furthermore, the displacements of the driving mode and sensing mode are also simulated by ANSYS™. In driving mode, simulation result shows that the mechanical coupling from the driving mode to sensing mode is 8%. Similarly, in sensing mode, the mechanical coupling from the sensing mode to driving mode is 0.9%. Micro Laser Doppler vibration meter is employed to detect mechanical coupling in the sensing mode. The test result is about 2%, close to the simulated value.Copyright © 2007 by ASME


Emotional learning involves two stages. The first is to acquire reinforcers from stimuli and the second is to associate such reinforcers with emotional responses. Both stages can be found occurring in the amygdala. LeDoux's fear circuit model [1] suggests two routes, a subcortical route and a cortical route, for emotional information entering the amygdala for associative learning. It can be used to explain how the actual recognition of emotions from facial expressions can be processed in the brain. Based on the model, a neural architecture is proposed using the stochastic Helmholtz machine (SHM) with the wake-sleep algorithm. In this paper, the results of three experiments about the subcortical emotional learning are reported, where different configurations of SHMs are involved. The first two experiments are to identify a suitable way to allow behavioural responses entering the central nucleus of the amygdala for association. However, both experiments show symptoms of overfitting, where some weights and biases of neurons are observed that will unusually increase during training. Therefore, the final experiment is designed to maintain the range of weights between −1 and +1 in order to solve the overfitting problem. The last experiment shows that the neural architecture with the new weight policy holds a lot of potential for modelling subcortical learning.


Liu, Q., Huang, Q., Liu, H., He, F-J., Liu, J-H., Zhou, Y-Y., Zeng, M-T., Pei, Q and Zhu, H. SUMOylation of methyltransferase-like 3 facilitates colorectal cancer progression by promoting circ_0000677 in an m6A-dependent manner. J. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 2020; 37: 700–13. The authors wish to bring the readers' attention to the below errors in the above article. In Figure 6, VDR should be VCR. Below is the correct Figure 6. doi:10.1111/jgh.15985


The intergranular attack (IGA) that affects alloy 600 tubes in the tube sheet crevices of PWR steam generators is hard to simulate in laboratory studies. For this study, a special apparatus was designed with a range of representative materials, mechanical conditions and geometry. The design also took account of sludge piles, thermal fluxes and water chemistry. During a first series of seven model boiler tests, chemical parameters and test procedures were adjusted to finally obtain a field prototypical degradation of tubing over a significant length within the tube sheet crevice for the case of caustic pollution. IGA was not produced for the river water in-leakage case. A second series of model boiler tests also showed the possibility of producing a representative IGA by initially filling the tube sheet crevices with concentrated caustic solutions. A third series of five model boiler tests aimed at studying in the effectiveness of remedial actions on either virgin of IGA affected tubing. Tube sheet crevice flushing operations using the natural circulation procedure showed a poor efficiency for moving concentrated contaminants, but they succeeded in forcing chemicals additives (acetic acid or boric acid) within the non-occluded portions of crevices. This off-line treatment resulted in a reductionmore » in the progression rate of the pre-existing IGA by a factor of 2 to 3. Simulation of this treatment on virgin material showed that this result was obtained because acetate or borate shifted the cation-to-anion equivalent ratio to well under one. However this off-line treatment could not prevent the occurrence of intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) near the top of crevices, since caustic continued to hideout under full power operation. The best remedial action consisted of a combination of off-line and on-line boric acid treatment. IGSCC was prevented both on virgin and IGA affected tubes. 3 figs., 3 tabs.« less


Habitat fragmentation may cause population subdivision, affecting genetic variation, leading to heterozygosity loss and increased inbreeding, and contributing to population extinction. However, some genetic models have shown that under some conditions, population subdivision can favor heterozygosity and allelic diversity, and small populations may adapt to inbreeding. Here I investigate the relationship between population subdivision and genetic diversity for the marsupial Micoureus paraguayanus (Tate, 1931) using the program Vortex. Hypothetical populations of 100 and 2000 individuals were partitioned into 1, 2, 5 or 10 populations that were linked by varying rates of dispersal and also by sex-biased dispersal. Results suggested that heterozygosity and allelic diversity declined rapidly when a population was subdivided. Genetic and demographic stochasticity diminished the effectiveness of selection against recessive lethal alleles. Dispersal partly reversed the impacts of population subdivision. However, even high rates of dispersal did not eliminate demographic fluctuations or prevent extinction. Although gene flow largely prevented genetic divergence between populations, dispersal did not prevent heterozygosity from being lost more rapidly in subdivided populations than in single populations of equivalent total size. The dynamics of small, fragmented populations were critically dependent on interactions between demographic and genetic processes. Populations of M. paraguayanus may have to be relatively large and continuous to avoid significant losses of genetic diversity.


Background: The effectiveness of cystatin C as a biomarker in acute hemorrhagic/ischemic stroke is being studied recently. It is due to accumulating evidence indicating a link between vascular disease of the kidney and brain. In this study we have investigated the association of serum cystatin C with first onset acute stroke. Methods: A total of 45 patients with first onset stroke, aged more than 30 years, were selected for the study based on history, detailed clinical examinations, neuro-imaging and other related investigations. The patients were presenting within 72 hours after onset of symptoms. Results: Serum cystatin C levels were significantly elevated (p<0.0001) in cases (1.60±0.88 mg/l) when compared with controls (0.82±0.11 mg/l). Serum creatinine levels were also significantly elevated (p<0.001) in cases (1.77±1.23 mg/dl) when compared with controls (1.05±0.18 mg/dl). Among lipid profile parameters, total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL and VLDL cholesterol were all significantly increased in cases when compared with controls.


Sir, body habitus of Caucasians. In this respect, we would be interested to know if Tsai et al found any correlaWe read with interest the recent paper by Tsai et al describing ultrasound evaluation of plantar fasciitis. tion between body mass index and plantar fascial thickness in their study group. In stating that ''much of the literature pertaining to plantar fasciitis re ects studies that recruited only Accepting a plantar fascia thickness of 3 4mm (as suggested by Tsai et al ) as an easily remembered small numbers of cases and often also lacked good comparison to well-controlled subjects'', Tsai et al universal discriminator of abnormal plantar fascial thickness seems reasonable provided one accepts that (1) failed to mention the main study on this subject to date by Gibbon et al (2). Gibbon et al studied 48 a minority of controls or patients may have values slightly greater or less than 4mm respectively (table control subjects (96 heels), 190 patients with idiopathic unior bilateral plantar fasciitis (297 painful, I ). A plantar fascia thickness of 3 4mm should 83 non-painful heels) and 131 patients (214 heels) encompass all symptomatic heels for Caucascians and with a variety of related conditions (rheumatoid the majority of symptomatic heels for Chinese (as factor negative spondyloarthropathy, rheumatoid Tsai et al state in their paper that 10 out of 123 arthritis, Achilles tendonitis and prior ankle injury). symptomatic heels had a plantar fascia thickness of For each examination, an average of three separate less than 4mm). In this sense, it would be interesting measurements of the plantar fascia was obtained. to know the complete range of values obtained by It is interesting to compare these two studies, Tsai et al for diŒerent subgroups rather than the one of which was conducted on a predominantly mean plus one standard deviation. Causcasian population, the other of which was conRegarding the possible etiology of plantar fasciitis, ducted on a predominantly Chinese population. Very two interesting features have emerged from these good concordance for plantar fascia thickness was studies. F irst, Gibbons et al documented increased found in the diŒerent subgroups studied (table I ). In plantar fascial thickness in patients with Achilles both studies, the plantar fascia was found to be least tendon disease (as well as an increased incidence of thick in control subjects, slightly thicker in the asympAchilles tendon disease and retrocalcaneal bursitis in tomatic heel of patients with unilateral plantar fascipatients with idiopathic plantar fasciitis). This may itis (statistically signiŽ cant in the study by Tsai et al, be explained by the integrated action of the planar not statistically signiŽ cant in the study by Gibbon fascia and the calf muscles (via the Achilles tendon) et al ) and thickest in patients with unior bilateral during heel raise. Disease aŒecting one structure may plantar fasciitis (table I ). In all subgroups there was produce abnormality of the other (and visa versa). a trend for the plantar fascia to be marginally thicker Second, it appears that plantar fasciitis may be a in Caucasians than Chinese. This increased plantar bilateral disease even in patients with unilateral sympfascial thickness may be a re ection of the increased toms (though this has not been statistically conŽ rmed in the study by Gibbon et al ). Alternatively, it could be argued that changes seen on ultrasound in the Table I. Thickness of plantar fascia (PF) in control subjects and symptoasymptomatic heel of patients with unilateral planmatic and asymptomatic heels of patients with plantar fasciitis. *The stated range represents mean +SD. tar fasciitis simply re ect a response to increased weightbearing on this heel due to pain in the conPatients with unilateral PF tralateral heel. In the absence of longitudinal evidence to indicate that patients with unilateral plantar fasciControl Painless Painful Bilateral itis eventually develop bilateral disease, is there really subjects side side PF a need to adopt a preventative program as suggested Gibbon 3.3 (2.4± 4.3) 3.6 (2.3± 4.6) 5.9 (4.3± 8.1) 6.0 (4.1± 9.1) by Tsai et al? et al The method applied by Tsai et al when predicting *Tsai 3.2 (2.8± 3.6) 3.8 (3.1± 4.5) 5.6 (4.4± 6.8) 5.5 (4.4± 6.6) the sensitivity and speciŽ city of ultrasound in the et al detection of plantar fasciitis seems  awed as no reliable comparative gold standard was applied. They James F Gri th, Department of D iagnostic Radiology & Organ appear to have adopted clinical criteria as the gold Imaging, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong. standard which is not correct given the recognized lack of speciŽ city of clinical Ž ndings in this instance Received 28 December 2000 Accepted 8 March 2001 (1). Clinical criteria can only be applied after


The latest development of sulfuric acid alkylation technology are introduced,the different acid hydrocarbon mixed techniques are described in detail according to the characteristics of sulfuric acid alkylation technology,which will provide the reference for the improvement and development of sulfuric acid alkylation process.


With the general public's concerns over BSE set to topple this present government, it is strange that they turn to health minister, Stephen Dorrell, for answers.


The present investigation was carried out it in the farm "Los Cabuyos" which belongs to the Santa Rosa county; the objectives of the present work were: 1. To determine the production cost of a pound of cheese in the farm "Los Cabuyos"; 2. to evaluate the profitability of the cheesemaker production; 3. to analyze the commercialization of the cheese that was produced in the farm during the last year. During 30 days were obtained data of production as financial. The cost of pro-ducing one of a pound of cheese is $ 1,50, while the sale price is of $ 1,75; generating a profitability or net utility in the year of $ 4 188, 59; the sales are not carried out it taking the product from the facilities toward to warehouse, but rather the buyer arrives and it proceeds to place the cheese in bags with the own logo and it takes away them for the respective commercialization. The point of annual balance in prod-uct units is of 8 079 pounds while the monetary one is $ 20 198,42.


Taking the 39th world gymnastics championship as research object,the author researches to the new characteristics of the Beijing Olympic Games world female balance beam development pattern.The result shows that the difficulty of whole set movement average is 6.34,proportion of skill and the dance movement is approach 6: 1;in the skillful movement the forward somersault occupies six tenths.Thrusting forward and the forward somersault and its swivel and the group body forward somersault nearly is each athlete compulsory exercise.All the athletes takes back somersault while fall to the ground;The quality of completion of the skillful movement is unsatisfactory,average of deduction of the whole set reaches as high as more than 1.253;the next primary mission will be to enhance completes the movement quality on the ground of difficulty of movement.The key point is to enhance the controlling force and the stability skillful movement.


Based on first principle QCD arguments, it has been argued in (1) that the vac- uum expectation value of the Polyakov loop can be represented in the hadron resonance gas model. We study this within the Polyakov-constituent quark model by implementing the quantum and local nature of the Polyakov loop (2, 3). The existence of exotic states in the spectrum is discussed.


Abstract : This report describes TACOM's Thermal Imaging Model (TTIM). The model allows measured or modeled scenes to be viewed by a simulated imaging sensor. The resulting scene is then displayed for observer evaluation. Currently, the model is operating on a Digital Equipment Corp. VAX 11/750 computer at US Army Tank-Automotive Command (TACOM) in Warren, MI. Keywords: FLIR modeling; Thermal imaging system modeling; and Image simulation.


Twin-screw pumps due to their particular capabilities, offer u nique b enefits in comparison to other types of pumps. They can also recover wasted energy from the fluid system when run in a reversed way, i.e., in turbine mode. In this study, the possibility of benefiting twin-screw machines instead of conventional control valves in order to recover energy is investigated. Flow physics and energy recovery are analyzed experimentally and by 3D flow simulations in both, pump and turbine mode. Pump and turbine characteristics under different operating points are experimentally measured for low and high viscous fluids, i.e., water and oil, respectively. It is observed that for higher viscosity the dependency of volume flow rate on the pressure difference imposed on the pump is reduced. This observation indicates the significant effect of viscosity on the gap flow. Based on a simulation method by means of overset grid technique, unsteady 3D flow simulations with a high grid quality and a high spatial resolution particularly in gap regions in terms of y + < 1 are conducted and results are validated against experiments. The profound assessment of gap flow based on the simulation results shows that for highly viscous fluids such a soil, the rotational speed of spindles as well as the direction of rotation have a significant effect on gap flow characteristics and consequently on the pump and turbine performance. From the experiments, it is clarified that with a lower rotational speed of spindles and a higher pressure difference, a higher amount of energy up to about 50% of the fluid energy in the piping system can be recovered instead of being dissipated by a conventional control valve.


The media coverage of women migrations has played an important role in shaping public opinion and governmental policies. This article aims at exploring the media portrayals of Syrian Migrant Women in Turkey. For this purpose, the research data were collected from the three Turkish online newspaper websites, Hurriyet, Birgun and Sabah, each of which has different editorial policy in representing migration, during one year period. The findings of quantitative content analysis of the news stories regarding Syrian migrant women would provide an understanding of the gender dimension of migration in Turkey. It concludes that Syrian Migrant Women in Turkey generally are reported on crime news and are framed as victims or perpetrators. However, the newspapers rarely report their hard living conditions.


Musaicing (music mosaicing) aims at reconstructing a target music track by superimposing audio samples selected from a collection. This selection is based on their acoustic similarity to the target. The baseline technique to perform this is concatenative synthesis in which the superposition only occurs in time. Non-Negative Matrix Factorization has also been proposed for this task. In this, a target spectrogram is factorized into an activation matrix and a predefined basis matrix which represents the sample collection. The superposition therefore occurs in time and frequency. However, in both methods the samples used for the reconstruction represent isolated sources (such as bees) and remain unchanged during the musaicing (samples need to be pre-pitch-shifted). This reduces the applicability of these methods. We propose here a variation of the musaicing in which the samples used for the reconstruction are obtained by applying a NMF2D separation algorithm to a music collection (such as a collection of Reggae tracks). Using these separated samples, a second NMF2D algorithm is then used to automatically find the best transposition factors to represent the target. We performed an online perceptual experiment of our method which shows that it outperforms the NMF algorithm when the sources are polyphonic and multi-source.


In this paper, we first recall and apply the fundamental techniques of con-structingbadNoetherianlocaldomains,duetoC.Rotthaus,T.Ogoma,R.C.Heitmann, and M. Brodmann and C. Rotthaus, to show several basic examples: Next we present a unified version of Brodmann and Rotthaus's and Ogoma's meth-ods in order to obtain a particular local domain A with a specified prime element x such that the local domain A/xA is the bad Noetherian local domain given above: FinallywefollowOgoma'sconstructionoffactoriallocaldomainswhosecompletions are designated complete local domains. Then, we gather some examples of bad factorial local domains.


Imagine being called into your manager's office to be told that you had been accused of roughly handling patients and were being suspended. Worse, despite the lack of any evidence, your name would be forwarded to the government for inclusion on a list of those barred from working with vulnerable adults.


The low-carbon economy is an economic state with different kinds of uncertainties,which carries out uncertain influences on the traditional economic growth and outputs.Therefore,the economic growth models under the conditions of certainties are quite limited in the research on the low-carbon economic growth.The use of stochastic differential analysis of the Abstract stochastic process of economic growth may make very important conclusions for the macroeconomic policies under the conditions of low-carbon economy.


Diacerein is one of the interleukin(IL)-1 receptor blockers, which has the effects of anti-inflammation, antipain, antipyretic and so on. It can promote cartilage formation and is a commonly used anti-inflammatory drug for bone and joint. At present, it has been found that it can improve insulin signal transduction, insulin resistance and islet cell injury, and enhance insulin sensitivity. Therefore, based on the current research literature at home and abroad, from the aspects of mechanism, basic and clinical trial research, adverse reactions, etc., the introduction of research progress of diacerein in the treatment of type 2 diabetes could provide a scientific reference for clinical treatment.

Key words:
Diacerein; Inflammatory factor; Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Insulin resistance


Cross sections for intramultiplet mixing in the lowest 2P states of alkali atoms (K, Rb, Cs) in collisions with He atoms are calculated in body fixed coordinates. The cross sections for transitions that maintain or change the magnitude of the projection of the electronic angular momentum are compared with very simple semiclassical models for radial (R1) and angular (R2) coupling of electronic states. The angular mixing model uses a hard sphere interaction. The agreement is good for the total cross sections and for the transition probabilities for different partial waves. The total cross sections are compared with experimental and other theoretical results, and cross sections are presented for collisions of polarized 2P3/2 atoms. The quantum mechanical equations are integrated with a constant step size Magnus method, and we find uniform convergence O(h2) for small step sizes. The error rapidly increases for steps large enough to allow propagation of a channel by half of a de Broglie wavelength.


Since psychopathology may be linked to substance abuse behavior, one aspect of that relationship should have an effect on the development and consequences of the other. This study sought to determine whether psychopathology would decrease after a 28-day period of alcoholism treatment. Thirty Caucasian adults who had sought inpatient treatment for alcoholism were randomly selected and tested. Results indicate that psychopathology did significantly decrease on all six symptom categories, particularly depression, anxiety, and interpersonal sensitivity. Likewise, all three global indices of a test designed to reflect the psychological symptom patterns of psychiatric patients also showed some decrease. The least significant result was obtained for Obsessive/Compulsive scores. The data demonstrate that inpatient alcohol treatment can be effective in decreasing psychopathology. It is argued that the randomization strategy in this study controlled for many other variables that might have had an effect on the decrease of psychopathology, such as gender effects, number of previous treatments, and severity of alcoholic symptoms. While it is conceded that the lack both of a control group and of a multiculturally diverse sample limited this research, it is hoped that future studies will be able to address these and other concerns. Contains 14 references. (RJM) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *-AAAAAAAAAAAAAA, ,AAAAAAAAA:.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADDICTION AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN A SAMPLE OF INPATIENT ADULT ALCOHOLICS


In this study, transparent AlON ceramics were produced by reactive spark plasma sintering by using Al2O3 and AlN as starting powders. Y2O3, La2O3 and MgO were used as additives in different amounts and the effects of additives, sintering temperature and pressure on the phase composition, mechanical properties and transparency of AlON ceramics were investigated. Two different amount of additive mixtures were used as 8 wt.% Y2O3 + 2 wt.% La2O3 in Group A and 0.08 wt.% Y2O3 + 0.02 wt.% La2O3 in Group B. 0.1 wt.% MgO was codopped in each group. In the presence of high amount of additive mixtures, XRD analysis indicated that AlON phase was formed along with some amorphous phase. The nearest density value to theoretical AlON density for Group A samples was the sample SPSed at 1450 °C for 30 minutes under 40 MPa pressure. The usage of MgO as a codopant in Group A resulted in spinel formation in addition to lantanium aluminate and YAG phases as secondary phases along with AlON phase. The highest relative density was obtained as 99.15 % with sample SPSed at 1500 °C for 30 minutes under 50 MPa pressure. X-Ray diffraction analyses indicated that AlON formation in the samples of Group B, the small amount of unreacted AlN besides AlON phase were detected for 1450C sintering temperature. Increasing SPS temperature to 1500°C resulted in full AlON conversion without any secondary phase formation. However, spinel formation was observed in samples containing MgO as a codopant. The highest hardness value was obtained as 22.7 GPa in Group A for sample containing unreacted Al2O3 and AlN. The highest transparency value was obtained as 41.55 % inline transmittance in 1100 nm for the sample containing high amount of Y2O3 and La2O3 sintered at 1450C for 30 minutes under 40 MPa.


A novel wide-band wide-beam dielectric resonator antenna is presented. With decreased metal ground and introduced air gap, wide-band wide-beam characteristics can be achieved. From simulation results, the impedance bandwidth (|S11|< −10 dB) of the antenna is from 2.8 to 4 GHz. The 3dB beam-width of H-plane is larger than 180°.


Curanderismo, a Mexican folk practice, is a prevalent subject in Mexican American literature. Because much of the presence of curanderismo in Mexican American literature is only explored in ethnographic studies, the purpose of this study is to examine the artistic representation of curanderismo in the novels Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya; So Far From God by Ana Castillo; and Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma, also by Ana Castillo.


Charge pump circuit for generating a plurality of voltages from a supply voltage, comprising: a first group of cascaded charge pump stages each having an input and an output, the input of a first of the first group of cascaded charge pump stages is controlled by the supply voltage and the input of each of the following from the first group of cascaded charge pump stages from the output of the preceding stage is driven from the first group of cascaded charge pump stages, a first output stage having an input, which is driven by the output of a last of the first group of cascaded charge pump stages, and having an output which is connected to a first voltage node, a second group of cascaded charge pump stages each having an input and an output, the input of a first one of the second group of the cascaded charge pump stages is controlled by the output of the last from the first group of cascaded charge pump stages, the input of each following out .. ,


New product development represents a core process within the fashion industry: it is a knowledge-intensive set of tasks that needs to be improved in order to enhance a company's competitive advantage. In this context, through product lifecycle management (PLM) product data are shared amongst the various actors and processes in the different phases of the product lifecycle. A descriptive exploratory research allows the authors to recognise the importance of PLM in the fashion industry, after an in-depth analysis of the existing literature. PLM includes modules supporting many industry-specific processes, reducing time-to-market, lead times and inventory. It is not just a product centric lifecycle-oriented business model, but it also represents a strategic approach that is spreading in the recent years also in a complex industry, as that of fashion.


Existing and newly developing community resources are frequently designed to provide needed care or support, not otherwise available, to individuals in the community. It is important that the practical value of such community resources be appraised, and with respect to home care services or projects, their practical value is hard to assess because of difhculties associated with the selection and follow-up of an appropriate control group of patients.


The aim of this research is to reveal the prospective social studies teachers' cognitive structures regarding creative drama through the Word Association Test (WAT). The study group of the research consists of 85 prospective social studies teachers, as the final year undergraduate students attending the course of drama at Faculty of Education in Nigde Ömer Halisdemir University, in the spring term of the academic year 2015-2016. In the research, as data collection tool, Word Association Test was used. To the prospective teachers, WAT was implemented as pretest before the course of drama and as posttest after a 14-week-drama course. According to the findings obtained, the word which the prospective social studies teachers associated with the key concept creative drama at most was play in the pretest; however, it was improvisation in the posttest. Moreover, it is seen that the prospective teachers have associated the key concept creative drama with more words in the posttest, when compared to the case in the pretest, and some certain concepts incorrect in the pretest have been eliminated in the posttest. This situation shows that the prospective teachers have had a conceptual development regarding creative drama at the end of drama course; additionally, new and correct concepts have been acquired instead of the incorrect ones. Also, it can be stated that word association test is an effective technique in detecting misconceptions and prospective teachers' conceptual development.


Learning and remembering words is the basic way to learn language and is also the precondition to use language. Besides, learning English words begins from their pronunciation, spelling and basic definition, and the semantic meaning of word should especially be paid attention to. The article attempts to expound the importance of semantic meaning in word learning from the angle of the semantic relation of word.


Introduction. Abernethy malformation (CEPS) is a rare condition in which portomesenteric blood bypasses the liver through a partial or complete shunt into the inferior vena cava. This pathology is extremely rare in children. Clinically, it can occur almost asymptomatically or under the guise of other diseases. It is manifested by signs of hepatic encephalopathy, pulmonary hypertension or hepatopulmonary syndrome. Mesoportal bypass surgery is an option for correcting portocaval shunts with the restoration of physiological blood flow in the liver.Since 2016, a center for treating developmental anomalies in the hepato-pancreato-biliary system in children has been operating in Filatov Municipal Children's Hospital (Moscow). To date, the center has performed more than 1,500 surgical interventions on the organs of biliopancreato-duodenal zone. For the period from 2016 to 2022, an endovascular occluder was used in 13 children with congenital portocaval shunts; surgical dressing – in 6 children.Description of clinical observation. This article describes a clinical case of a child with a congenital portocaval shunt. A comprehensive instrumental examination revealed a complete absence of portal blood flow in the liver of a newborn baby . The spleen vein and superior mesenteric vein flowed into the inferior vena cava as a single trunk. It is believed that liver transplantation is the only effective treatment for this type of pathology. Despite the ambiguous anatomy of liver vessels, the child was operated on for the mesoportal bypass. The architectonics of child's liver was restored, and he returned to an absolutely normal life without any life-threatening factors.Conclusion. This clinical case demonstrates the only described case of complete surgical cure of a complex liver vascular defect.


The Urban Dispersion Program is a multi-year project, funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, to better understand the flow and dispersion of airborne contaminants through and around the deep street canyons of New York City. The first tracer and meteorological field study was a limited study conducted during March 2005 near the Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan. Six safe, inert, gaseous perfluorocarbon tracers were released simultaneously at five street-level locations during two experimental days. In addition to collecting tracer data, meteorological data were also collected. Brookhaven National Laboratory conducted the bulk of the tracer and meteorological field efforts with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Stevens Institute of Technology assisting by measuring the vertical profile of winds. The Environmental Protection Agency worked with Brookhaven National Laboratory in accomplishing the personal exposure component of the study. This report presents some results from this analysis. In general, different release locations showed vastly different plume footprints for tracer materials, and the situation was made very complex with upwind and/or crosswind transport of tracer near street-level for the different release locations. Overall wind speeds and directions upwind and over the city were generally constant throughout each of the two experimental periods.


New contributions of capillary waves to the density–density correlation function H(z1,z2,k⊥) are calculated in the Gaussian approximation and compared with those found earlier "experimentally" in a MD simulation. The k⊥ dependence of the correlation function or of the scattering factor is examined and compared with the dominant 1/k⊥2 form. General equations valid to all orders in the gradients of the density profile are given and the k⊥ dependence of the structure factor (in the Born approximation) is found. The latter may be different from the 1/k⊥2 form. Regularization of the integrals is examined with two procedures applied.


Summary form only given. Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element methods are a powerful solution technique for nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws, such as those that arise in the modeling of plasma. DG-FEM can be applied to achieve high-order spatial accuracy; however, one drawback of classical DG-FEM with explicit time-stepping is their poor CFL restriction compared to high-order finite difference or finite volume counterparts. In kinetic models of collisionless plasma, i.e. kinetic Vlasov models, this small time step problem is further exacerbated due to the possibility that some particles in the system may travel at moderate to large velocities. In this talk I will describe two high-order DG methods for the Vlasov-Poisson system for circumventing the small time-step restriction of explicit DG schemes. The first is an operator split semi-Lagrangian DG method, and the second is an implicit spacetime DG method. Both of these methods are unconditionally stable. In both methods we make use of a Taylor series in time approximation of the electric field in order to locally linearize the evolution operators. In the semi- Lagrangian case this allows us to develop a high-order time discretization based on series of operator split steps that are each one-dimensional constant-coefficient advection steps. In the space-time DG case the Taylor series in time approximation of the electric field allows to solve in each time slab a linear algebra problem rather than a nonlinear one. For these methods we also consider positivity-preserving limiters on the discrete distribution function that guarantee that the algorithms produce physically meaningful approximations. The proposed methods are applied to several test cases.


The strategy of vehicle vibration is quite different between a convertible and a sedan in the view of vehicle structure due to the limitations in design concept. An investigation has been carried out to solve the problem of design concepts of a convertible using FEM. The design concept of a convertible is applied to normal mode analysis and forced response analysis compared with a sedan. The static and dynamic stiffness of a convertible vehicle is much lower than those of a sedan. It is found that vibration levels in steering wheel and seat track are very high based on the forced response analysis. These vibration levels are caused by the first vibration mode of body that is very important to get NVH target. Finally the dynamic absorber is applied to reduce the vibration levels and to enhance the dynamic stiffness.


Much of the literature up to the 1990s makes little, if any, reference to tongue-tie and its impact on breastfeeding. For a baby to successfully breastfeed it must latch on to the mother's areola with his or her upper gum ridge, buccal fatty pads and tongue. A consultant paediatric surgeon at Southampton General Hospital, has been 'snipping' tongue-tie for many years and will shortly be publishing his research. The author spent a day at the clinic in Southampton and observed three cases.


We examine the motion of the two concentric immiscible liquid spheres with different viscosities in an electrically conducting fluid in the presence of transverse magnetic field. The inner sphere is assumed to move at a constant velocity. The Stoke's equation along with the Lorentz force is considered to model the resulting fluid flow, analytical solutions being obtained by the similarity solution method in terms of modified Bessel's functions. Streamlines related to the fluid circulation in the annulus between the two liquid spheres and inside the inner liquid sphere are presented for different combinations of the governing non-dimensional parameters.


With improved large mass method and displacement method respectively,the total response and quasi-static components of the internal forces in structures under seismic excitations are obtained directly,and then the dynamic components can be separated by subtracting quasi-static components from total components.This technique for quasi-static/dynamic components presented in the paper can yield results that are identical to those of theoretical method.Based on this technique,the dynamic response analysis of a bridge subjected to non-uniform seismic excitations has been carried out,and the quasi-static/dynamic components of internal forces are separated.It reveals that the quasi-static components depend on the relative displacements between the pier foundations.The seismic responses of structure members can be magnified or decreased irregularly by the resonance or counteraction of the quasi-static components and dynamic components.


This article contributes to the current discussions calling for more reflexivity in Participatory Design (PD). We offer an account of our experiences with reflexivity from a study in which a social ...


Searching for and tracking multiple moving targets has many civilian applications including search and rescue in disaster scenarios, environmental monitoring, air traffic control and surveillance. The use of multi-robot systems is advantageous in these scenarios due to their parallelism and distributed sensing as well as their ability to dynamically adapt their spatial distribution according to target movements. Swarm robotic systems in particular are suitable for real-world applications due to their high scalability, flexibility and robustness. This work considers a realistic scenario a swarm of aerial robots tracking a large crowd in an urban environment. Since people in a crowd or animals in a herd tend to move towards common destinations collaboratively, it is intuitive that it would be more efficient to track clusters of targets in such scenarios. This thesis introduces a distributed search and tracking algorithm where the robots first identify target clusters and then decide on a cluster to follow. Through numerical experiments using a simulated evacuation scenario, it is demonstrated that the algorithm is able to successfully track large crowd groups without using any prior information about their positions or movements. For two very different simulated crowd patterns the algorithm demonstrated equally good performance values (over 80% coverage over time), indicating the algorithm's ability to handle variations in the target movements. The algorithm also showed good performance (over 70% coverage over time) over a range of different parameter values which showed that the algorithm can run on different hardware configurations.


Background: We sought to combine digital photogrammetry with computer-assisted design/computer-assisted manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques to develop biocompatible tissue-engineered auricular reconstructions that would more closely mimic the normal anatomy of the patient-specific external ear and the complex mechanical behavior of native elastic cartilage, while avoiding the morbidity and poor aesthetic outcomes typically associated with traditional reconstructions. Methods: The three-dimensional structures of normal pediatric ears were digitized using the Cyberware 3D Digitizer. Images were converted to virtual solids using Geomagic Studio and translated into volume models for mold design. Image-based synthetic reconstructions of these ears were fabricated under sterile conditions from collagen type I hydrogels cast from these three-dimensional molds. One group of constructs was seeded with 2.5x10^7 bovine auricular chondrocytes. Cellular and acellular constructs were implanted subcutaneously in nude rats and harvested after 4weeks. Results: Post-implantation, cellular constructs effectively maintained the anatomical features of the external ear including tragus, lobule, helix, and antihelix. Post-harvest weight of cellular specimens was significantly greater than that of acellular specimens (4.2±0.29g v. 0.80±0.12g, p= biocompatible patient-specific human-sized tissue-engineered constructs for ear reconstruction. The cellular constructs' life-like biomechanical properties and maintenance of volume, shape and topographical characteristics over time can be attributed in part to their unique type I collagen composition. Furthermore, this material chemistry allows for chondrocyte survival and the in vivo deposition of elastic cartilage. We believe our approach to auricular tissue engineering holds tremendous promise for translation to the clinical realm. References 1. Shieh, S.J., Terada, S., Vacanti, J.P. Tissue engineering auricular reconstruction: in vitro and in vivo studies. Biomaterials 25: 1545-1557, 2004. 2. Bichara, D.A., O'Sullivan, N.A., Pomerantseva, I., et al. The tissue-engineered auricle: past, present, and future. Tissue Eng Part B Rev 18: 51-61, 2012. 3. Haisch, A., Klaring, S., Groger, A., et al. A tissue-engineering model for the manufacture of auricular- shaped cartilage implants. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 259: 316-321, 2002. 4. Rodriguez, A., Cao, Y.L., Ibarra, C., et al. Characteristics of cartilage engineered from human pediatric auricular cartilage. Plast Reconstr Surg 103: 1111-1119, 1999. 5. Liu, Y., Zhang, L., Zhou, G., et al. In vitro engineering of human ear-shaped cartilage assisted with CAD/CAM technology. Biomaterials 31: 2176-2183, 2010. Disclosure/Financial Support This work was supported in part by the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (T32 HL083824-05) Institutional Research Training Grant (Dr. Reiffel). None of the authors has a financial interest in any of the products, devices, or drugs mentioned in this manuscript.


We give a brief introduction of developments of seismic methods in the studies of marine gas hydrates. Then we give an example of seismic data processing for BSRs in western Nankai accretionary prism, a typical gas hydrate distribution region. Seismic data processing is proved to be important to obtain better images of BSRs distribution. Studies of velocity structure of hydrated sediments are useful for better understanding the distribution of gas hydrates. Using full waveform inversion, we successfully derived high-resolution velocity model of a double BSR in eastern Nankai Trough area. Recent survey and research show that gas hydrates occur in the marine sediments of the South China Sea and East China Sea. But we would like to say seismic researches on gas hydrate in China are very preliminary.


This paper describes the harmonious atmosphere of the basic elements of the classroom,raised the number of classroom construction of a harmonious stractegy of a harmonious stractegy.


The purpose of this study was to develop of performance psychology inventory on understanding approach game in elementary school. The development of inventory used open questionnaire for sampling factors after operating own manufactured understanding approach game with 569 elementary students. The students who attended open questionnaire also attended first and second preliminary examination. The questions based on inductive contents analysis of open questionnaire data and preceeding researches were gathered and developed for this study. Some questions which caused to drop Cronbach's a removed through basic statistic analysis and inter-item consistency analysis after twice preliminary examinations for increasing validity. Exploratory factor analysis used for proof structure of selected questions. The validity of inventory was proved by Confirmatory factor analysis for suitability of questionnaire. The results of this study are as follows: - The maximum likelihood estimation was used for selecting factors of performance with understanding approach game. 5 factors which was over 1 in eigen value were selected. These factors appeared Interest factors(7questions), Intelligence factors(6questions), Anxiety factors(4questions), Cooperation factors(5questions), Accomplishment factors(4questions). - The Cronbach's a was from .710 to .814. It showed appropriative validity value. As a results of exploratory factor analysis, Q value was .888. It meaned that the selected factors could speak for other Questions which composed them. - Q, GFI and AGFI in developed of performance psychology inventory on understanding approach game were each .118, .981 and .977. It showed that it was adequate level in measured model. Most indexes were over standard at adjustment. So, this inventory approved structural validity. - Results analysis of inter correlation within confirmatory factors did not work independently. So, these showed that these worked complex correlation in performance psychology factors.


During the period 2019-2021 fecal samples of domestic cats and dogs from the regions of Sofia, Bulgaria, were investigated by the ovoscopical methods of Fulleborn, serial sedimentations and modified technique of Bearman. Most of the registered parasites were nematodes (22% in cats; 23.8% in dogs), followed by protozoa (8% in cats; 9.5% in dogs), and cestodes (4% in cats; 4.8% in dogs). Parasites were found in 30% of the 50 fecal samples obtained from cats: Aelurostrongylus abstrusus (10%), Capillaria aerophila (2%), Toxocara cati (16%), Dipylidium caninum (4%), Cystoisospora sp. (8%). Parasites were found in 38% of the 21 samples from dogs: Toxascaris leonina (9.5%), Trichuris vulpis (9.5%), Uncinaria stenocephala (14.3%), D. caninum (4.8%), Cystoisospora sp. (9.5%). Morphometric features of eggs and larvae of the established parasites were described in present materials. Some of data concerning A. abstrusus were supplied for the first time in materials from Bulgaria.


In this paper, Bayes estimates for the parameters k, c and reliability function of the Burr type XII model based on a type II censored samples under asymmetric loss functions viz., LINEX and SQUAREX loss functions are obtained. An approximation based on the Laplace approximation method (Tierney and Kadane, 1986) is used for obtaining the Bayes estimators of the parameters and reliability function. In order to compare the Bayes estimators under squared error loss, LINEX and SQUAREX loss functions respectively and the maximum likelihood estimator of the parameters and reliability function, Monte Carlo simulations are used.


The objective of this work was to determine the biology and life table of Tetranychus bastosi on physic nut (Jatropha curcas). The experiment was carried out under controlled conditions at 26oC and 75% RH, with photophase of 12 hours. The eggs used in the experiments were obtained from stock culture. Evaluations were performed twice a day for the biology of the mite, and once a day for reproductive parameters. The average life cycle of females was 9.63 days and that of males was 8.94 days. The sex ratio was 0.65, and the mean longevity of females was 16 days, with average production of 59 eggs per female. The life table parameters obtained were: liquid reproduction rate (Ro), 45.41 individuals; average generation length (T), 12.66 days; intrinsic growth rate (rm), 0.0538 female per female per day; finite growth rate (λ), 1.023 female per female; and time required for doubling the population (TD), 3.15 days. The spider mite T. bastosi develops well and presents a high reproductive potential on leaves of physic nut.


Regional geomagnetic maps are widely used in geomagnetic navigation and magnetic anomaly detection. However, the complexity of geomagnetic spatial trend changes and the spatial sparseness of the geomagnetic data affect the accuracy of regional geomagnetic map construction. In order to improve the accuracy of regional geomagnetic maps, this paper proposes the Support Vector Machine Residual Kriging method (SVMRKriging). First, Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used to fit the geomagnetic trend changes, then the residual component is interpolated by ordinary Kriging, and finally these two parts are added to construct a regional geomagnetic map. Experiments were performed using geomagnetic grid data and aeromagnetic data. The experiment results show that SVMRKriging method can improve the accuracy of regional geomagnetic maps with geomagnetic trend changes.


Pathogenesis Theoretically, thyroid hormone deficiency can arise because of a failure of any part of the hypothalamicpituitary-thyroid axis (Fig. 1). However, thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) deficiency (tertiary hypothyroidism) has not yet been convincingly described in dogs. Naturally occurring thyrotropin (thyroid stimulating hormone, TSH) deficiency (secondary hypothyroidism) is rare and usually the result of a congenital abnormality or a pituitary tumour.The most common cause of hypothyroidism, accounting for over 95% of cases, is adult-onset primary disease resulting from lymphocytic thyroiditis or idiopathic atrophy, each of which occurs with approximate equal frequency (Fig.2).Other congenital or acquired forms of primary hypothyroidism (thyroid dysgenesis, dyshormonogenesis, neoplasia) are rare.


This paper narrates the connotation of Chinese traditional culture, Chinese folkloric psychology and people's belief's role in folkloric psychology. It mainly focuses on Chinese traditional culture's influence on modern folkloric psychology.


The invention discloses a method for improving and conditioning quality of spiced duck tongues, belonging to the technical field of fine and further processing of table poultry products. The method mainly comprises the processes of: defrosting and trimming duck tongues, boiling according to a formula, dipping and balancing in a water-activity reducing reagent, draining, carrying out vacuum microwave freezing together with vacuum microwave drying on the duck tongues till the a certain moisture content (or water activity) is achieved, packaging in vacuum and then sterilizing at high temperature. The method has the advantages that the spiced duck tongue products with good quality and longer quality guarantee period can be obtained by the operations of adding monascus colors, applying the water-activity reducing reagent and jointly drying by combining the microwave freeze-drying and vacuum microwaves so as to reduce the water activity of the products; meanwhile, the texture and the chewiness of the products are improved, and the high-quality semi-dryness spiced duck tongue products are finally obtained under the premise of prolonging the shelf life of the products.


Chemical investigation of the stem bark of Anthocephalus cadamba has resulted in the isolation of anthocephaline (1), a new indole alkaloid, along with strictosamide (2), vincosamide (3) and cadambine (4). The structures of the isolated alkaloids (1-4) were established by detailed 2D NMR spectral analysis. Cadambine (4) exhibited potent DNA topoisomerase IB inhibitory activity.