Air pollution is a significant public concern worldwide, and accurate data-driven air pollution prediction is crucial for developing alerting systems and making urban decisions. As more and more cities establish their monitoring networks, there is a pressing need for coldstart model training with limited data accumulation in new cities. However, traditional spatial-temporal modeling and transfer learning schemes have been challenged under this scenario because of insufficient usage of available source data and suboptimal transferring strategy. To address these issues, we propose a meta-learning-based spatial-temporal adaptation solution for coldstart air pollution prediction. Our approach is a model-agnostic framework that enables a given backbone predictor with adaption ability across different space and time locations. Specifically, it learns a factorization of the available source data distribution and recognizes the target city as one of its components, greatly reducing the data accumulation requirement and providing coldstart capability. Furthermore, we design a novel bidirectional meta-learner that can simultaneously leverage task embeddings learned from data and features constructed based on prior knowledge. We conduct comprehensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world air pollution datasets of four distinct pollutants. The results demonstrate that our proposed method achieves a 5.2% lower 24-hour prediction mean absolute error (MAE) than pretraining and fine-tuning solutions when facing a new city with only 200 hours of data, which empirically verifies the effectiveness of our approach as a coldstart training solution.


The effect of phosphorylation on the hormone‐binding capacity of the estrogen receptor (ER) was investigated in hormone‐dependent (HD) and hormone‐independent (HI) mammary carcinomas of GR mice. Tumor cytosols were incubated with ATP under conditions previously used to study the tyrosine kinase which confers hormone binding to phosphatase‐treated or in vitro‐synthesized ER. The ATP‐dependent increases in hormone‐binding capacity of 8 out of 20 HI tumors ranged from values of 23 to 124 fmol/mg cytosol protein. The enhancement by ATP of hormone binding to ER was significantly less marked in HD and HR tumors than in HI tumors. In only 3 out of 13 HD and HR tumors was an increase ranging from 15 to 20 fmol/mg protein detected. Analysis by Scatchard plot of estradiol binding to ER showed that cytosol incubation of HI tumors with ATP markedly increased the hormone binding without any change in affinity. The data suggest that ER of HI tumors is less phosphorylated in vivo than the ER of HD/HR tumors, so that the receptor of HI tumors is more susceptible to γ32P‐ATP phosphorylation and ATP‐induced hormone binding in vitro. Western blot of ER with antiphosphotyrosine antibody showed that, in HI tumors, the large ATP‐induced increase in hormone binding to ER was associated with phosphorylation on tyrosine of the receptor itself. Our findings indicate that the process of activation‐inactivation of binding through tyrosine‐phosphorylation/ phosphotyrosine‐dephosphorylation of ER observed in estrogen target tissues is altered in some HI mammary tumors. © 1992 Wifey‐Liss, Inc.


Introduction A major trend in current pedagogic thinking, and in its corresponding implementing practices, is based on the fundamental concepts of integration and competence. This evolution is the logical outcome-as demonstrated by a member of our team (Roegiers, 2001)-of several pedagogic trends that have influenced the teaching practices of the twentieth century. In particular, educators have endeavored to respond to the main criticism of pedagogy by objectives, which was that it disintegrates a subject matter into isolated objectives, a process some call-not without humor-the saucissonnage (slicing of a sausage). The great merit of pedagogy by objectives is its emphasis on the fact that the student can learn to "do" something, beyond the simple acquisition of knowledge and facts. The risk, however, is that it may lead to learning (mastering) a series of individual know-hows, all equally important but isolated from each other, while failing to form an integrated whole that can prepare the student to cope adequately with real-life situations. Here is where the concepts of competence and of competence and integration fit in. After establishing a theoretical background on the pedagogy of competence integration, this article presents a case study of a textbook elaboration project in Vietnam, one of many contexts where teachers have traditionally focused on knowledge transmission rather than on competence integration. This case may serve as a model for other textbook revision projects by educators who also favor competence integration over knowledge transmission. Competence and Integration After decades of wavering with the concept of competence in education, most authors today tend to agree on the definition of competence as the spontaneous mobilization of a set of resources in order to apprehend a situation and respond to it in a more or less relevant way (Crahay, 1997; De Ketele, 2000, 2001; DoIz & Ollagnier, 2002; Fourez, 1999; Jonnaert, 2002; Le Boterf, 1994; Legendre, 2001; Rey, 1996; Perrenoud, 1997; Roegiers, 1996, 2001, 2003; Tilman, 2000). This definition indicates that a competence can only exist in the presence of a specific situation, through the integration of different skills, themselves made up of knowledge and know-how. These three elements are essential to develop a competence. For example, to be able "to drive to work," an individual may have acquired the necessary skills (he/she knows how to shift gears, slow down, assess distances...) but not attained the required competence because these skills are not integrated. If he/she lacks one of the required skills, he/she will be equally incompetent. In short, the person may be competent in a specific situation (i.e., driving under normal conditions), but incompetent in a different one (i.e., driving in snow-covered roads). After De Ketele (1996), the following formula can illustrate the components of competence: Competence = {capacities x content} x situation = {objective} x situation In the equation of De Ketele, we add accodances {}, to insist on the fact that it is about an integrated unit. To master competence, it is not enough that the objectives are juxtaposed; it is necessary that they interact to form a unified whole. The use of the sign "x" goes in the same direction: it is enough that one of the terms has a zero value so that competence is null. In short, an objective is the exercise of a capacity (or activity) on contents-for example, to trace (capacity) two perpendicular lines (content). An education focused on learning (mastering) competences, as opposed to the simple juxtaposition of skills, is requisite for the implementation of pedagogy of integration (Roegiers, 2001). The goal of such pedagogy is to enable the learner to master those situations he/she will have to deal with in his/her professional and/or private life. To this effect, pedagogy of integration has four objectives: * Making sense of the learning process, by placing the learning process within a meaningful context that makes sense to the student in relation to the real-life situations he/she needs to face in life. …


The primary objective of this study was to examine the possible influence of in-situ heat treatment on char reactivity. The postulate is, therefore, one of ''rapid graphitization'' (heat treatment results in graphitization), and it will be amply supported if the results, from the heat treatment experiments in the high intensity flame, show that by introducing a short heat treatment time there is a shift in the reaction dominating mechanism from diffusion control, as was found by Farzan and Liu, to kinetic control. Overall, the hypothesis of rapid graphitization is supported. This conclusion can be drawn from the results since, for all the coals, unstaged combustion produced fast reactions, with boundary layer diffusion being the rate determining step. When staging was introduced, the reaction, after the heat treatment, became very slow and the chemical kinetics seemed to be the rate controlling mechanism then. Therefore, the very short heat treatment times, of the order of a few hundred milliseconds, reduced the reactivity of the flame-formed char. An exception to this general conclusion was for heat treatment in a highly fuel-rich environment where the char retained its initially high reactivity, even after significantly long heat treatment times. Further work is needed to understandmore » the mechanism for this behavior, though it appears that the lower temperatures in the fuel rich mixtures may be responsible for this deviation. 52 refs., 66 figs., 6 tabs.« less


To numb the jaw and surrounding soft tissues , different anesthetic techniques are employed by regional nerve block of the lower alveolar , lingual and buccal nerves. Thus , all jaw hemiface interventions can be performed using one of these techniques, evidently following their correct indications. Nonetheless, 15-25 % of failures are related to the incorrect mastery of the techniques. Even when they are properly applied there is a 30% margin of failure. There are several techniques that have been created with the purpose of promoting regional anesthesia of lower alveolar , lingual, and buccal nerve block , and its variation reduces the percentage of failures. Proposition : The purpose of this task is to present the different anesthetic techniques for regional nerve block of the lower alveolar , lingual and buccal nerves , where success is critical for its indication and intervention. Materials and Methods : A literature review through scientific papers , obtained from websites and publications . Conclusion : According to literature review, a profound knowledge and mastery of anesthetic techniques and anatomical situation , anesthetic failures drop significantly. The regional blockage is quite advantageous because it blocks the nerve on its branch , thus numbing a wide area, providing greater security to the professional and a significant comfort to the patient . Another conclusion is that extraoral techniques are less used , due not only to the psychological trauma caused to the patient , but also to the largest number of failures , leading to intraoral techniques .


Background Activation of the complement system has been proposed to play a role in the pathophysiology of stroke. As the specific involvement of the complement proteins may be influenced by stroke etiology, we compared plasma C3 and C3a levels in patients with cardioembolic (CE) and small vessel disease (SVD) subtypes of ischemic stroke and control subjects and evaluated their association to outcome at three months and two years. Methodology/Principal Findings Plasma C3 and C3a levels in 79 CE and 79 SVD stroke patients, sampled within 10 days and at three months after stroke, and age- and sex-matched control subjects from The Sahlgrenska Academy Study on Ischemic Stroke were measured by ELISA. Functional outcome was assesed with modified Rankin Scale. In the CE group, plasma C3 levels were elevated only in the acute phase, whereas C3a was elevated at both time points. The follow-up phase plasma C3 levels in the upper third were associated with an increased risk of unfavorable outcome at three months (OR 7.12, CI 1.72–29.46, P = 0.007) as well as after two years (OR 8.25, CI 1.61–42.28, P = 0.011) after stroke. These associations withstand adjustment for age and sex. Conversely, three-month follow-up plasma C3a/C3 level ratios in the middle third were associated with favorable outcome after two years both in the univariate analysis (OR 0.19, CI 0.05–0.82, P = 0.026) and after adjustment for age and sex (OR 0.19, CI 0.04–0.88, P = 0.033). In the SVD group, plasma C3 and C3a levels were elevated at both time points but showed no significant associations with outcome. Conclusions Plasma C3 and C3a levels are elevated after CE and SVD stroke but show associations with outcome only in CE stroke.


Diabetes Regular eye screening is vital for people with diabetes, and nurses have an important role to play in encouraging attendance at screening, says Anne Phillips


The reactivity of two hydroxy groups in some multioxygenated cyclohexanoids was examined for basic study of the synthesis of the cytotoxic marine natural product pericosine B and related compounds. Differences in reactivity for O-methylation or O-acylation among substrates were observed.


Abstract Leukocyte adhesion deficiency is an inherited defect of neutrophil function reported in man, dogs and cattle. In cattle it was first described in 1983 and to date is found only in Holstein Friesians where it is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. The neu-trophils of affected calves are less able to migrate from blood vessels to sites of inflammation, thus greatly compromising their ability to fight infection.


To study the epidemiological aspects of the trichophytia in Astana Materials: The analysis of reported cases of Trichophytia in Astana from 2007 to 2011.


A plant factory is typically considered to be an exceedingly advanced product management system characterized by higher crop yields and better quality control. The pH value of the nutrient solution is crucial for determining the health and productivity of crops. However, the nutrient solution process exhibits inherent complexity, such as parameters uncertainty, multi-disturbances, and strong nonlinearity. Therefore, the traditional control method cannot meet the necessary requirements. The main objective of this paper is to address the issues of parameter uncertainty, strong nonlinearity, and multiple disturbances in the regulation process of the nutrient solution while achieving accurate control of the nutrient solution pH in a plant factory. This is performed so that a dynamic model of a nutrient solution for pH is developed and a nonlinear adaptive controller is presented, which comprises a linear adaptive generalized predictive controller, a nonlinear adaptive generalized predictive controller, and a switching mechanism. The parameters of the controller are adjusted by generalized predictive control (GPC) laws. In this approach, an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is used to estimate the unmodeled dynamics to depress the influence of nonlinearity on the system. The experiments show that the mean errors and standard errors for gain-scheduling the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control strategy are 0.1388 and 0.4784, respectively. The mean errors and standard errors for the nonlinear adaptive controller are 0.1046 and 0.3009, respectively. Simulation results indicate that the presented method can acquire a better control effect in the case of various complex situations. Therefore, by achieving precise control of the pH value, it is possible to provide a suitable growth environment for crops, promoting healthy crop growth and increasing crop yield.


A moreria is a small business that fabricates and rents the costumes, props, and masks used in traditional dance-dramas. An effort that bridged ethnic divisions and involved both local and national institutions rescued the beleaguered Moreria Nima' K'iche', transferring ownership from a family to the community. This article explores the conversion of the Moreria Nima' K'iche' and how the resulting institution accommodates both cultural revitalization and tourism. (K'iche' Maya, revitalization, tourism, traditional dance) The largest open public area in the center of San Miguel Totonicapan, Guatemala, normally employed as a bus terminal, was full of people but no buses. An unusual mix of local K'iche' Mayas and national and international tourists mingled in what was once the community graveyard: a stone-paved square framed by the colonial facade of the church and the neoclassical facade of the closed-for-perpetual-renovations municipal theater. Pine-covered mountains and a deep blue sky provided a picturesque backdrop. As people chatted and surveyed the wares of local vendors, rapid bursts of fire came from long strings of cohetes (firecrackers) to signal the beginning of festivities. The entrance of the dancers garnered attention and brought order to the mingling crowd. Each performance group claimed an area in the square, assembling the undifferentiated crowd into distinct audiences. Cowboys, Mejicanos, conquerors and resisters, migrant workers and landowners: characters of all sorts, human and animal, became the center of attention. It was the 1994 Festival de Bailes Tradicionales (traditional dances). Held in the untraditional month of July, the festival drew dance groups from all over the department of Totonicapan. The public performance of traditional dances is normally reserved for the fair in honor of the patron saint of a local town. The titular fair in Toto (as San Miguel Totonicapan is known locally) takes place in mid-September. One of the participating groups normally performed during January. Many traditional dances are as much plays as dances, with involved story lines and complex sets of characters, their dialogue somewhat muffled by wooden masks. A complete performance can last the entire day (with a break for lunch). In Joyobaj, El Quiche, a single performance of The Dance of the Conquest requires several days, with the story picking up in the morning where it left off the night before. The presence of dramatic elements suggests that the term "dance-drama" is more accurate than simply "dance." Traditional dance has had various degrees of importance in Maya communities. Several factors (discussed in more detail later) have led to a general diminishment of dance performance. The civil war and its eruption into widespread violence in the early 1980s played a large part in the near disappearance of traditional dance-drama. The dance festival was and remains an effort to help preserve The Dance of the Conquest, The Dance of the Mexicans, The Dance of the Monkeys, and many other dance-dramas. Some of the dances are historic, some are comedic, and some have origins in pre-Colombian rites. Why were dancers performing outside their communities and outside the titular fair? The Casa de la Cultura Totonicapense (Institute of Arts), with support from the Guatemalan National Tourism Institute (INGUAT), had sponsored the festival and provided costumes, masks, an arena, transportation, and food. Perhaps most central to this unusual presentation was the Moreria Nima' K'iche'.(1) Located within and as a part of the Casa de la Cultura, the Moreria Nima' K'iche' provided the costumes, masks, and props used by most of the performers. The head of the moreria (morero),(2) apprentice tailors, and volunteers worked for weeks to have everything ready. Through the previous night and into the small hours of the morning, highly adorned costumes, various props, and hand-carved masks were assembled into bundles for scores of different characters, and the morero sorted the bundles into groups for each dance. …


An analytical formulation to interpret the quantized electrical conductance in multiwalled carbon nanotubes with defects is presented. In this formulation, free-electron theory is utilized in order to calculate conductance which is found to be fractional according to an inverse proportionality law with respect to the number of layers involved in a given multiwalled tube. Our results agree well with experimental observations.


A new Penta-Band Low Noise Amplifier (PB-LNA) for vehicular communication applications that works simultaneously at navigational frequencies viz., 1.2 GHz, 1.5 GHz and wireless Communication frequencies viz., 2.4 GHz, 3.3 GHz and Dedicated Short Range Communication frequency (DSRC), 5.8 GHz is designed and analysed. Frequency transformation method is adopted for the input matching network of the designed PB-LNA. The output matching circuit is designed with a LC matching network by applying load-pull methodology. The LNA is unconditionally stable for the desired frequency bands. The power gain of PB-LNA is in the range of 10 dB to 12 dB. Noise figure (NF) below 2dB is achieved in the band of interest.


In this study, poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) and poly(arylene ether nitrile) (PEN) polymer alloys with different mass ratios were prepared by solution casting method. The morphological, thermal, dielectric, mechanical, and rheological properties of the obtained polymer alloys were systematically studied. Scanning electron microscopic images showed that the polymer alloys exhibited two-phase system with PEN dispersed in PVDF matrix, which was consistent with the Cole–Cole plots obtained from rheological study. With the introduction of PEN, the crystallinity of the alloys decreased obviously, the dielectric properties of the alloys were stable before the melting temperature. When the content of PEN increased to 7 wt%, both the tensile strength and elastic modulus reached the maximum values (35.1 MPa and 1545.3 MPa), with an increment of 24% and 31% compared with those of PVDF, respectively. Rheological studies showed that the addition of PEN could obviously broaden the linear viscoelastic region of PVDF. Furthermore, the complex viscosities and storage modulus of polymer alloys increased obviously with the addition of PEN.


Owing to the non-linearity of the figure factor and the location precision,it must study the new calculation method and the precision estimation method when many time-difference lightning location local area networks had been connected into the large lightning detection network.This paper establishes the lightning location model and analyzes the figure factor for large-scale lightning detection network.The calculation results show that the solution model and the precision assessment have higher applicability.And it makes a theoretical basis to constitute correlative standards.


The paper shows the advances of effects of CO2 enrichment and climate change on the agriculture inside and outside the country including the impacts of elevated CO2 on crop productivity,interactive effects of temperature increase and atmospheric CO2 concentration,and interactive effects of water availability and atmospheric CO2 concentration.The study shows that the crop productivity,such as economical yields and biomass,and water utilization efficiency,increases with CO2 concentration increase,but high temperature may have negative effect on the crop productivity.The effects of CO2 enrichment and climate change should need further research.


In this paper, we present a shape recovery technique in 2D and 3D with specific applications in visualizing and measuring anatomical shapes from medical images. This algorithm models extremely corrugated structures like the brain, is topologically adaptable, is robust, and runs in O(N log N) time where N is the total number of points in the domain. Our two-stage technique is based on the level set shape recovery scheme and the fast marching method for computing solutions to static Hamilton-Jacobi equations.


Background:
 The AHA/ACC guidelines algorithm for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) does not include echocardiographic evaluation in the assessment of chest pain. Such patients may be subjected to interventions based on ECG leading invasive procedures which may prove unnecessary. This study was performed to determine if a bedside echocardiography would help identify the conditions that do not need intervention and might possibly change the treatment pathway at the right time.

 Methods:
 In a prospective observational study design, adult patients presenting to acute emergency care with chest pain were included in the study. Patients exhibiting a significant ST change on a 12-lead ECG were subjected to bedside echocardiography, i.e. 2D transthoracic echocardiography (2D-TTE) The findings of echocardiography were correlated with ECG and coronary angiography for possible percutaneous coronary intervention.

 Results:
 Among the 385 patients in the study, 312 suffered acute coronary syndrome. In 18.7% patients presented to acute emergency care with chest pain, ST-T changes and were found to have causes other than ACS; and bedside echocardiography (2D-TTE) was able to identify 90.4% of those cases. From this study we conclude that bedside echocardiography had high specificity (90.4%) and sensitivity (97.43%) in identifying regional wall motion abnormality (RWMA) due to ACS and exclude non-ischemic causes of chest pain.

 Conclusion:
 Bedside echocardiography is recommended in patients with chest pain and ST-segment abnormality to avoid unnecessary delay in diagnosis and invasive interventions in non-acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Hence it is reasonable to include bedside echocardiography in either box 3 or 4 in the ACS algorithm.


Magnetorheological (MR) damper is one of the most promising smart devices for dissipating seismic energy and reducing structural vibrations. The MR dampers with multiple coils are widely adopted to enhance the output damping forces and seismic performance. In order to study the dynamic characteristics of multicoil MR dampers from a micro to macro viewpoint, a three‐coil MR damper was designed and manufactured in this paper. The performance tests of the three‐coil MR damper under different excitation currents, displacement amplitudes, frequencies, and coil combinations were conducted. Assuming that the distance between two adjacent ferromagnetic particles meets chi‐square distribution, the two‐column micromodel for the MR fluid was modified by introducing a distribution parameter. The modified MR fluid micromodel was verified by comparing the damping forces calculated by this model with experimental data. Combining the modified micromodel for the MR fluid and the double‐sigmoid model for MR dampers, a mathematical model for the three‐coil MR damper was proposed. The microstructure‐based sigmoid model considers the effects of yield shear stress of the MR fluid and internal magnetic induction intensity on the damping force. The comparison of the proposed model and the performance test data shows that the microstructure‐based sigmoid model can finely describe the dynamic characteristics and magnetic saturation properties of the three‐coil MR damper under different excitation currents and loading conditions, which provides a good basis for control strategies and dynamic analysis of structures with multicoil MR dampers.


Optical trapping is accomplished by means of polymeric micro-axicons, a sort of conical lenses with great depth of focus. A survey of several applications will be given.


Objective: The present study characterizes bacteria with biodegradation ability and optimize the growth conditions of Myo-inositol hexakisphosphate phosphohydrolase (MIPH). Methods: Out of the 15 bacterial isolates, one strain SM01 showed the highest MIPH activity was selected based on the diameter of halo zone formation on calcium phytate plates. SM01 strain was identified as a Serratia marcescens with the highest phytate activity which was further confirmed by partial sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. Results: MIPH enzyme was purified from Serratia strain which was found to exhibit a highly-specific MIPH activity and high specificity to the phytic acid but negligible activity against the other substrates tested. The purified MIPH enzyme had an isoelectric point of 6.8 and Molecular weight to 60 kDa. The degradative ability of Serratia marscescens shown that both the culture and the purified enzyme had maximum MIPH activity at the 36 h of incubation. 0.5 U/ml concentration of the purified MIPH enzyme was found to show similar activity as the 108 cfu/ml culture tested. Conclusion: Serratia marcescens SM01 strain was capable of degrading hydrocarbons due to their varied strategies to produce the MIPH enzyme. This could be made useful in the biodegradation of polluted soils and the environment.


The pin load distribution of scarfed lap joint was studied using ABAQUS software.The connects between countersunk rivet and sheet,upper and lower sheets were simulated by introducing the static state contact arithmetic.The friction between jointed sheets,the clamping force of the countersunk rivet,interference-fit as well as the boundary conditions of the whole modes were considered comprehensively in the analysis.The calculated results agree well with experiment data.It is proved that using static state contact arithmetic with ABAQUS software to simulate the pin load distribution is feasible.The study shows that reducing the minimum thickness of jointed sheet can average.Meanwhile,the local stress concentration is reduced remarkably.


The learning of scientific concepts is one of the main research subjects in science education. Although little used, the theory of conceptual profiles allows to study this knowledge, taking into...


Abstract: Optimal problem is often met in engineering practice. As the couple r-link of linkages can produce useful motions that are desired in many eng ineering applications, research on coupler-link motion has attracted the attention of various inves tigators for over a century. The basic theme of thi s paper is the kinematic optimization of six-bar link age -with the assumption that all the links are rig idfor the problem of function generation. The optimiz ation methodology developed here is based upon a minimization of the linkage errors defined as the d ifference between the prescribed coupler-point (positions, velocities, accelerations) and the actu l ones attained by the linkage.


Based on the actual demand, the Aloe peeling and dicing system is designed and developed to solve the time-consuming problem of peeling and dicing step, enhance the effect of peeling and keep the continuous process with the capacity of 5000 kg/hr. To do this, three mechanisms of filleting, peeling, and dicing are designed and development. In this paper, the methodology to design to analyze the mechanical mechanisms as well as electrical system are presented. The design process is described in detail and some tests are performed to give an overview about the Aloe peeling and dicing system. In conclusion, Aloe peeling and dicing system is successfully designed and developed to meet the requirement of market.


Uniform wüstite Fe0.6Mn0.4O nanoflowers have been successfully developed as an innovative theranostic agent with T1‐T2 dual‐mode magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), for diagnostic applications and therapeutic interventions via magnetic hyperthermia. Unlike their antiferromagnetic bulk counterpart, the obtained Fe0.6Mn0.4O nanoflowers show unique room‐temperature ferromagnetic behavior, probably due to the presence of an exchange coupling effect. Combined with the flower‐like morphology, ferromagnetic Fe0.6Mn0.4O nanoflowers are demonstrated to possess dual‐modal MRI sensitivity, with longitudinal relaxivity r1 and transverse relaxivity r2 as high as 4.9 and 61.2 mm−1s−1 [Fe]+[Mn], respectively. Further in vivo MRI carried out on the mouse orthotopic glioma model revealed gliomas are clearly delineated in both T1‐ and T2‐weighted MR images, after administration of the Fe0.6Mn0.4O nanoflowers. In addition, the Fe0.6Mn0.4O nanoflowers also exhibit excellent magnetic induction heating effects. Both in vitro and in vivo magnetic hyperthermia experimentation has demonstrated that magnetic hyperthermia by using the innovative Fe0.6Mn0.4O nanoflowers can induce MCF‐7 breast cancer cell apoptosis and a complete tumor regression without appreciable side effects. The results have demonstrated that the innovative Fe0.6Mn0.4O nanoflowers can be a new magnetic theranostic platform for in vivo T1‐T2 dual‐mode MRI and magnetic thermotherapy, thereby achieving a one‐stop diagnosis cum effective therapeutic modality in cancer management.


The order and chronology of the temporary tooth eruption is an expression of the child's growth and influences his later dental development. Having knowledge about the average age of emergence of each tooth is useful to establish a diagnosis, prevention and treatment of malocclusions, for which the objective of this research is to characterize the pattern of emergence of primary dentition in children in Cerro district, Havana, Cuba. For this, a descriptive observational study was designed in 370 children of both sexes between 0 and 36 months of age, in said clinic during September / 2017 to January / 2020. The variables were studied: age, sex, tooth, hemiarcade and chronology of the dental outbreak. Frequency distributions were made to all the variables under study and the results are presented in statistical tables. The t-Student test was used to verify significant differences. The main results obtained were that the teeth of the maxillary arch erupted before those of the mandibular, except for the central incisors and the lower left lateral incisor. Although the fact that the dental flare began first in males in both arches (5,86 months in the maxilla, ± 0,92; and in the mandible 4,92 months ± 1,09), the time period of outbreak was somewhat faster in females (19,83 months in the maxilla and 21,64 months in the mandible) and males (20,26 months and 22,16 months), but without significant differences (p <0, 05). It is concluded that the eruption pattern was similar to that described in the literature, except for slight advancement for the central incisors and delay in second primary molars.


This short note describes and proves a connectedness property which was introduced in Blocher et al. [2023] in the context of data depth functions for partial orders. The connectedness property gives a structural insight into union-free generic sets. These sets, presented in Blocher et al. [2023], are defined by using a closure operator on the set of all partial orders which naturally appears within the theory of formal concept analysis. In the language of formal concept analysis, the property of connectedness can be vividly proven. However, since within Blocher et al. [2023] we did not discuss formal concept analysis, we outsourced the proof to this note.


Objectives: The objectives of this study were to determine if serum albumin level is an independent predictor of nosocomial pneumonia in stroke patients.
Methods: Relevant medical data of 500 consecutive ischemic stroke patients admitted within 24 h of stroke onset during the study period were analyzed. Serum albumin level was measured within 36 h after stroke onset. Nosocomial pneumonia was foundin 10.5% of stroke patients. SPSS (Version 22.0) was used for analysis.
Results: Patients with pneumonia had significantly lower serum albumin level than those without pneumonia (31.5 ± 7.3 g/l vs. 35.3 ± 6.4 g/l) and serum albumin level was associated with risk of pneumonia on multivariate analysis (OR: 0.95, 95% CI: 0.90–0.97).
Conclusion: Our results show that serum albumin level is an independent predictor of nosocomial pneumonia in stroke patients.


According to the selection standard of physical education students entering higher education in our country in the new era, the new orientation of the talent training program in colleges and universities, find the contradiction between the study and training of senior high school students, analyze the problems existing in culture study and after-school training of senior high school students, put forward the corresponding countermeasures to solve the problems, maximize the chance of success of senior high school students, lay down the potential of self-learning development of senior high school students in the later period, and provide the full theoretical basis and corresponding countermeasures.


The cold and hot reacting flow measurement was performed in low-grade-coal-fired 1 025 t/h boiler with en- hanced ignition-dual register (EI-DR) burners to solve the slagging problem of furnace.The results show that slagging oc- curs in the burners region of the boiler with EI-DR burners;in full load the slagging is more frequent than in low load,but in low load that slagging ash blocks fall more frequently than in full load.In the burners region the temperature in the front was were higher than that in the rear wall.Both EI-DR burner and central-fuel-rich swirl coal combustion burner can a- chieve a moderate central recirculation zone and divergent angle of the air jet.The slagging can be avoided in the boiler of which 8 EI-DR burners at the bottom row were retrofitted to the central-fuel-rich swirl coal combustion burners.


In this research, the authors examine whether the relocation of nursing home residents following Hurricane Katrina is associated with subsequent lower physical or mental health. All nursing homes in Louisiana that were closed following Hurricane Katrina (N = 12) were used, with 439 residents who could be followed to a new location. The authors compare the subsequent health outcomes of these residents to that of a matched sample of other nursing home residents in Southern states, with the match based on prior health status as well as other resident and facility characteristics. Relocated residents were more likely to die than non-relocated residents. In addition, relocated residents were more likely to have pressure ulcers; they were, however, less likely to be physically restrained. Relocated residents were also less likely to have behavioral health issues. These results would appear to have both practical and policy relevance.


On the basis of analyzing the relationship between SCM and BPR(Business Process Reengineering),the paper studies the rules,methods and steps of business process reengineering in the environment of supply chain.


Objective: To investigate the dynamic expression of proteaseactivated receptor1 (PAR1) after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and the intervention effects of Naoxuekang (NXK) on the expression. Methods: Seventytwo rats were randomly divided into normal group, ICH model groups (ICH 6 hours, 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days), Naoxuekang treatment groups (NXK, 6 hours, 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days). ICH models were reproduced with induction of collagenase type ⅦS in the rats. PAR1 protein was detected by immunohistochemical method and PAR1 mRNA was detected by reverse transcriptionpolymerase chain reaction (RTPCR) technique in brain tissue around the haematoma at different time points in different groups. Results: PAR1 protein and mRNA were mildly positive in normal group. In model groups, intensity of PAR1 expression began to enhance at 6 hours, and enhanced more at 24 hours, peaking at 3 days, then declined, and was obvious at 7 days. At 6 hours, 24 hours, 3 days and 7 days, the increase of PAR1 protein positive cells and PAR1 mRNA optical density (A value) in rats of NXK treatment groups and ICH model groups were significant, compared to those of the normal group (P0.05 or P0.01). The decrease of PAR1 protein positive cells and PAR1 mRNA A value in rats of NXK treatment groups were more significant, compared to those of the rats in ICH model groups (P0.05 or P0.01). Conclusion: After ICH, PAR1 is continuously activated by the stimulation of thrombin. The function of thrombin after ICH may be mediated by PAR1. NXK may improve praxiology by inhibiting the activation of PAR1. It may be one of the main mechanisms of NXK facilitating the recovery of nervous function.


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Recently, the Saudi government is giving a renewed attention to promoting SME's, as well as the insurance sector, which faces additional challenges of stiff competition, and the need to satisfy customers' high standards and expectations. This study sought to provide insight into how SME managers in the Saudi health insurance sector deal strategically with the issues they face. Five case studies were made, and the selected firms were analysed based on Mazzarol's strategic management framework, which involved identifying characteristics pertaining to entrepreneurship, innovation, strategic networking, growth vector, and the strategic triangle. All of the firms are exhibiting growth, the newer ones had relatively more dynamic entrepreneurship and innovation, and there is evidence of more long-term strategic planning in two of the latter. None of the selected firms appear to be struggling in the way that is commonly described for SME's generally, as they were found to be strategically prepared to cope with the challenges.


Anyone can adopt a child. In Indonesia this can be done if the child to be taken meets the requirements, this of course must be in accordance with applicable laws. However, legal protection in child adoption varies in each region according to customary law that applies in an area. The purpose of this study is to analyze whether a court order can provide legal protection for adopted children. This research is normative legal research with legal data. The results of the study show that the child adoption procedure in Indonesia actually fulfills the principle of legal certainty in accordance with Indonesian law. Laws on adoption include the Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 23 of 2002, Law of the Republic of Indonesia No.23 of 2006, and Government Regulation Number 54 of 2007.


The present article was prepared in order to present the expected legal effects of the single elements of a regulation affecting credit activity. The first part of the article collects the current data of the MNB, and then it selects the recent changes in the legal system and their effects on lending activity.


This article is based on analysis of responses to a questionnaire seeking views on the experience of international education from students in the final (pre-university) year of attending an international school. Responses have been analysed by course of study being followed (International Baccalaureate, European Baccalaureate, French Baccalaureate, Advanced (A) Level, Advanced Placement (AP) and those who were not working towards external examinations) with a view to arriving at a clearer indication of the possible influence of course of study on the perceived importance of various dimensions of an international education.


Purpose: Intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are severe neurovascular diseases in which the arterial branches of an area of the brain communicate directly with venous circulation through a network of dilated vasculature (nidus) which significantly increases the risk of hemorrhage. Treatment plans typically incorporate direct embolization with liquid materials delivered via micro-catheters under fluoroscopy. Currently, the progression and success of this procedure are qualitatively evaluated using digitally subtracted angiographic (DSA) sequences. This study sought to validate the use of Angiographic Parametric Imaging (API) for quantitative analysis of the hemodynamic changes caused by embolization treatment using imaging biomarkers. Materials and Methods: 36 patients with AVMs were selected randomly from a list of patients with known symptoms at presentation. For each, at least one set of frontal and lateral angiograms were analyzed using API. Parametric maps were calculated for five imaging biomarkers, including time to peak (TTP), mean transit time (MTT), time to arrival (TTA), peak height (PH), and area under the curve (AUC). Regions of interest (ROIs) were selected over the feeding arteries, AVM nidus, and draining veins. Average ROI parameters were calculated and changes in flow due to embolization were quantified through a percent change analysis. Results were verified using correlation coefficients across AVM vasculature at multiple sites following normalization. Results: Frontal to lateral correlation coefficients; TTP, 0.54±0.07; MTT, 0.24±0.09; TTA 0.60±0.06; PH, 0.33±0.08; AUC, 0.22±0.09. Nidus to principle draining vein (PDV) correlation coefficients; TTP, 0.75±0.03; MTT, 0.64±0.04; TTA, 0.80±0.02; PH, 0.32±0.06; AUC, 0.68±0.04. PH and AUC values affected by DSA inversion. Conclusions: The study concludes that the API software is reliable in determining the flow parameters throughout the AVM, provided that the selected ROI is consistent between frontal and lateral scans and DSA selection is optimal.


Summary The 99mTc microcytotoxicity assay is a simple and sensitive means of assessing cell-mediated immunity in vitro. The short labeling time and high binding affinity of the nuclide are significant advantages over other radioisotopic assays which have been described. The short half-life is adequately compensated for by the high labeling efficiency and specific activity of the isotope. We thank Ms. K. Gollahon and L. Wickens for expert technical assistance and Ms. K. Phipps and L. Conaughton for secretarial assistance.


Investigation of the conductivity mechanisms in ferromagnetic Fe67Cr18B15 metallic glasses with clusterized structure reveals anomalies in the behaviour of resistance and magnetoresistance (MR) in a narrow temperature interval, T = 3.6–3.1 K. The anomalies are seen as a sharp decrease of the sample resistivity in this range, with a rate equal to 3.6% K − 1, i.e. 200–500 times more than the rate 0.008–0.021% K − 1 in the range of 300–4 K. MR in the same range increases with a rate 1000 times larger (4% K − 1 at T ∼ 3.1–3.6 K) than in the 300–4 K range (<0.0015% K − 1). We explain this result by the appearance of local superconductivity in the large-scale layered clusters of metallic Fe–Cr phase, 150–200 Å in size, with ferromagnetic Fe2Cr core and nonmagnetic FeCr2 superconducting shell. The superconducting phase, which occupies 0.4–0.5% of the sample volume, provides a resistance jump Δρ/ρ≈1.5% that corresponds to calculation. The superconducting state of the clusters collapses if the magnetic field exceeds 20 kOe.


A two-level dynamic-thermodynamic sea ice model is used to simulate the growth, drift and decay of sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere during a 30-year period, 1951 to 1980. The model is run with a daily timestep on a 222 km grid and is forced by interanually varying fields of geostrophic wind and temperature-derived thermodynamic fluxes. The objective is a quantitative description of large-scale sea ice variability in terms of the dynamic and thermodynamic processes responsible for the fluctuations, especially in the North Atlantic where sea ice represents a substantial input of fresh water. The fields of ice velocity and thickness contain strong seasonal as well as interannual variability. The mean drift pattern results in thicknesses of 4 to 5 m offshore of northern Canada and Greenland, while winter thicknesses of approximately 2 m are typical of Alaskan. Eurasian and East Greenland coastal waters. The 30-year mean fields are characterized by ecessive ice in the North Atlantic during winter and by a summer retreat that is more rapid than observed.


We describe the design of a novel geometry for implementing a resistive voltage divider for use in metrology, in the range of voltages from 0 to 100 V and frequencies from DC to 100 kHz. The resistors are placed inside a three metallic plate structure that not only produces a potential gradient accompanying that of the resistors themselves but also serves as bandwidth compensation and heat sink. The use of no dielectric substrate promises high linearity and very low parasitic effects. This work presents the theoretical background and a simple mathematical model.


Three recipes for tissue constituent-equivalent phantoms of water and lipids are presented. The phantom optical characterization showed good homogeneity and reproducibility. Estimates of composition by time-resolved spectroscopy were also performed.


This article is based on costumes and the strategies used by artists that have made of it the main element of their work and that help to try to understand some keys of their


A novel optical receiver module using a plastic package, a glass V-groove substrate, an edge-illuminated refracting facet photodiode and a Si bipolar preamplifier IC has been developed. Its signal lines were designed using a three-dimensional electromagnetic field analysis. For a fabricated module, a frequency response of 7.7 GHz and a sensitivity of less than -14 dBm at 10 Gbit/s were achieved.


After noticing poor rock penetration performance during pile excavation works, contractor induced additional site investigation to support his claim on higher rock strength than previously inspected. Results of 115 point load tests and 97 uniaxial tests were fitted to Weibull and Gamma probability density functions. One-sided confidence interval with confidence level of 95% (CI95) for strength value which is higher than 95% of population (i.e. 95% percentile) was obtained with "Likelihood Ratio Confidence Bounds" method. Suggestion on number of specimens is given for percentile interval estimation in future geotechnical investi-gation works.


The present invention provides a closed-loop control system and method for dynamically adjusting bandwidth, module for detecting convergence status, wherein at least one loop bandwidth parameter decides the loop bandwidth parameter of the loop control system. First, periodically detecting an error signal which denotes the convergence status of the output signal of the closed-loop control system. Then, dynamically adjusting at least one bandwidth parameter based on the error signal in order to adjust the loop bandwidth of the closed-loop control system. The closed-loop control system and method for dynamically adjusting bandwidth, module for detecting convergence status of the present invention have two merits that the quick convergence speed and high output signal can be obtained at the same time.


This study examines glycosaminoglycan (GAG) density and aggregate compressive modulus HA of engineered cartilaginous implants. Culture parameters were developed to cause the goat articular chondrocyte seeded type II collagen scaffolds to generate 25 and 50% of the natural biochemical content of articular cartilage, with an overall goal of identifying construct compositions that might provide the most favorable response when implanted into defects in articular cartilage. Several scaffold cross-link densities were compared across constructs cultured in vitro to several time-points. The compressive modulus HA was measured through unconfined compression. One group of scaffolds averaged a compressive modulus one order of magnitude below that of natural tissue. Histological analysis verified that a chondrogenic phenotype was maintained and revealed a concentration of tissue development in the center of most scaffolds. This work includes a design for an original mechanical test apparatus for measuring the Poisson's ratio of the samples, enabling meaningful interpretation of indentation test results. Thesis Supervisor: Myron Spector Title: Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery (Biomaterials), Harvard Medical School


Water shortage is an environmental stress that affects the growth, quantity and quality of sweet potato production. The study objective was to analyse the effect of drought stress on the quantity and quality of orange-fleshed sweet potato. Field research has been carried out in April to July 2019 in the greenhouse. This research used a randomized block design with two factors, the first factor was sweet potato cultivars (Beta-1 variety, Perbaungan cultivar, Cengkeh Turi cultivar and Tanah Seribu cultivar) and the second factor was drought stress with different watering level namely severe drought (watered until 1 month and until 2 months with 10 days interval, respectively) and control (watered until 4 months with 10 days interval). The results showed that the orange-fleshed sweet potato cultivars produced significantly different average tuber weights, the number of tubers, beta carotene content, starch content and tuber moisture content were not significantly different. Drought stress influences the yield and quality of tubers which causes a very significant decrease in the parameters of number of tuber, tuber weight, beta carotene content, starch content and tuber water content. The higher the level of drought will cause a decrease in the quantity and quality of sweet potato production.


This paper establishes new existence and welfare results for the Kiyotaki-Wright model [1989] considering mixed strategies that do not restrict agents to play a unique strategy for each opportunity set. For a general version of the model, I construct many stable equilibria in which goods with poor storage properties are widely accepted while better goods are less accepted. Furthermore, I show that these equilibria may be socially desirable because more trade occurs that in the alternative equilibria in which better goods are those which are widely accepted. The nontechnical intuition is that if intrinsically attractive objects have great acceptance, people would be very reluctant to trade them away. In contrast, if intrinsically unattractive objects are the objects that are widely accepted, people would be less reluctant to trade them away and, consequently, more trade may occur. By analogy, those results may be helpful in analyzing historical episodes in which a society faced the choice of a commodity standard; say, the election between a gold standard and a silver standard. For instance, my welfare results may help us to evaluate the controversial rush after 1867 to adopt the gold standard, the appreciating standard, by the great commercial nations of the time. In fact, we may have a reconstruction in a general equilibrium model of the so-called crimes of 1873 in US and France (see Friedman [1990 b] and Flandreau [1996]). That is, my results may suggest that keeping (as in China, India, Mexico, etc.) the silver standard, the depreciating standard, was a sound economic policy decision as discussed for some protagonists. Therefore, we may have some support to the alleged claim of some silver advocates that the "worst standard was the best;" that is, perhaps with more precision, that the intrinsically worst commodity standard may be the socially best one.


Base analysis of ϕ-MC deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) revealed the presence of equimolar amounts of adenine and thymine, and of guanine and cytosine; the latter two comprising 45.5% of the bases. The thermal denaturation profile of the isolated DNA indicates that ϕ-MC DNA is double stranded and has a melting temperature of 87.8°. Neither an unusual base nor glucose was detected in ϕ-MC DNA.The origin of phage ϕ-MC DNA in mitomycin C induced cultures of P. aeruginosa cells has been studied. About 74% of the viral DNA was derived from the medium after induction. This result was compared with that of a virulent phage, ϕ-2 infection in the same host, and it was found that about 55% of the ϕ-2 DNA was derived from the medium.The primary adsorption sites for ϕ-MC were at the terminal ends of host cells. This characteristic appeared to be a unique property of this phage, since other Pseudomonas phages attached uniformly over the entire surface of the cell.


The efficacy of fish emulsion in enhancing plant growth and suppressing seedling damping-off diseases caused by Rhizoctonia solani and Pythium aphanidermatum was investigated on peat mix and soil. Fish emulsion (1%–4%; m/m peat mix) or equivalent inorganic fertilizer (N–P–K) was incorporated into pathogen-infested peat mix and incubated in plastic bags for 1, 7, 14, and 28 days prior to planting radish or cucumber seeds. Plants were rated 14 days later for incidence and severity of damping-off. Negligible protection of seedlings from damping-off occurred in peat mix incubated for 1 day with fish emulsion. After 7 days incubation, however, 70%–80% of the seedlings remained disease-free in peat mix amended with 4% fish emulsion. After 28 days, equivalent levels of disease protection were found with all concentrations of fish emulsion. As the inorganic N–P–K treatment was adjusted to reflect N–P–K levels in the fish emulsion, no disease control was obtained, indicating that disease protection was not due to increased plant nutrition. Incorporation of 0.5% (m/m soil) fish emulsion into soil 5 days before planting radish provided effective control of damping-off disease. Fish emulsion (2% and 4%; m/m muck soil) also effectively and consistently suppressed damping-off of cucumber seedlings in muck soil naturally infested with damping-off pathogens. Pasteurization of the peat mix followed by re-infestation with R. solani resulted in a much higher level of disease than that obtained in unpasteurized infested peat mix. Addition of fish emulsion resulted in restoration of disease suppression within 7 days. These results suggest that fish emulsion may not be toxic to the pathogens but may create a biological climate in peat substrate or soil that is suppressive to the disease. Fresh and dry mass measurements of plants produced in 4% fish emulsion were 2 to 3 times greater than in nonfertilized peat but were comparable with those receiving equivalent N–P–K. The results suggest that fish emulsion has both nutritive value for plant growth as well as disease suppressive properties. Thus, it may be an ideal product for use in organic or conventional transplant production.


I was recently surprised by a patient's daughter who I bumped into in the hallway. I had just stepped out of the angiography suite after a long embolization of a complex ruptured dural arteriovenous fistula. I don't usually have conversations in front of the elevator, but she was understandably anxious to hear the results of her mother's procedure. I quickly found out that she was a family medicine nurse practitioner, we had been in practice about the same amount of time, and she clearly understood her mother was critically ill. Despite her education and experience, we were not on the same page when it came to her neurologic diagnosis. I explained that her mother had an intracerebral hemorrhage – a stroke from an arteriovenous malformation, specifically a dural arteriovenous fistula. She seemed confused about the use of the word stroke. Didn't her mother have a 'blood clot', that is what the resident had told her. No one had used the words stroke or arteriovenous malformation. By the end of our conversation the daughter was clear that her mother indeed had a stroke. However, I was troubled how …


Time is a fundamental quantity in physics and its definition has generated many problems starting from Newton's philosophical absolute time. Einstein searched for giving an operative definition of time through the use of unreal ideal clocks and of rays of light. In this paper we will search for giving a physical definition of time pointing out the necessity of avoiding in physics mistakes connected whether with Newton's exclusively philosophical definition, taken out of the scientific context, or with Einstein's operative definition through unreal clocks. We will prove nevertheless also the use of real clocks raises generally problems because of their real working and of the inadequacy of measuring instruments.


Members of minority groups in Germany were subjected to extreme forms of repression and in some cases extermination at the hands of the Nazis. Today, for many different reasons, members of minority groups are living in West Germany again. This paper presents the experience of minorities in West Germany since 1945 in light of the following factors: German history, living conditions, language skills, educational situation, political organizations, cultural activities and contributions, and the way minorities see themselves within the society. Minority-majority relations are especially considered as they constitute significant indicators for the political culture of West Germany or any other country. Four different minority groups are examined: Jews, Sinti and Roma (gypsies), Danish, and labor immigrants. The increasing ethic and cultural diversity of West Germany, and, indeed, all of Europe, is already a fact, but its consequences will depend on the attitudes of the citizens and the public policies pursued. Major policy areas include: the legal status and political rights of minorities, the equality of opportunities in terms of equal access to public goods, and the promotion of minority cultural activities. A 121-item bibliography is included. (DB) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** MINORITIES IN GERMANY AFTER 1945 Bundeswehr University Hamburg School of Education and Social Science


Inequality between men and women in cinema has remained stable from its beginnings. Both behind the cameras and on-screen representation, women have been systematically invisible, underrepresented and objectified. Feminist efforts arose in the 1970s to visualize and subvert the existing power order, working through two axes: the critique on patriarchy and patriarchal cinema industry, and the development of feminist counter-cinema. Despite their efforts, women's situation has not been greatly improved. However, from the 90s a stream of female authors considered feminists by the critic disowning feminism has spread out. Their films are led by strong capable women, no longer representing women's struggles but assuming their victories and creating from them. New categories of analysis such as post-feminist cinema have been developed for those films. Nevertheless, I question whether these are essentially feminist representations since they are building alternative models of femininity. If they are, does this mean that a feminist consciousness is not necessary to make feminist films? In order to address this question I analyze gender representation in Bollain's filmography, and see whether their films fit in any feminist category despite her denial to the term, and the implication this could have.


The United States of America ratified the Anti-genocide Convention only thirtysix years after its initial signature. It was passed to the Senate for the first time by President Harry Truman in 1949. It evoked great controversy as it was perceived as something that might be favorable to communist regimes and possibly be an attack on the basic rights of US citizens. Successive attempts to pass it began much later in 1970 due to the support from Richard Nixon who backed the ratification initiative. The main reason for the reluctance to pass the convention was its record on international jurisdiction on persons responsible for genocide.


Neural dynamics coupled by adaptive synaptic information transmission provide a very powerful tool for biologically inspired visual processing systems[4]. Currently, progress is limited by the computing time needed to evaluate the underlying equations and by the high number of parameters necessary to tune to achieve the desired system performance. In this contribution we apply Autonomic Computing techniques to overcome these limitations. We approach the computing time problem with an error model of the differential equations allowing for self-optimization of the evaluation step size and the parameter problem with a self-configuration heuristics to keep neural activation in working range.
 We show the equivalence of system behavior compared to the case without self-management, the performance gain achieved by the self-optimization and the stability achieved by the self-configuration.


The road infrastructure in Peru may be a limiting factor in farm production expansion. Peru has considerably lower road density compared to developed countries with an average travel time to towns with 50,000 inhabitants or more of about 4 hours. In this paper, we estimate farm technical efficiency using a stochastic production function to assess whether greater road infrastructure helps to decrease farm technical inefficiency. To do so, we use national agricultural survey of 2017 for Peru, and geographic information on road network and travel time to the nearest town with 50,000 inhabitants or more (accessibility). Our findings suggest that greater road network decreases farm technical inefficiency; higher road density (travel time) decreases (increases) farm technical inefficiency. Regionally, western provinces are less efficient compared to eastern provinces. These results might be associated to input markets, extension and output markets.


During the winter of 1996, a heavy storm crossed the coasts of the Azores. A comparison of wave-exposed and wave-sheltered samples of the intertidal planktonic developing periwinkle Littorina striata (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda), collected before and after this storm revealed: (1) an overall difference in relative and absolute aperture area between wave-exposed and wave-sheltered samples; and (2) depending on the technique used a storm (MANOVA/CDA/1994 vs 1996 nested ANOVA) or no storm (1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, nested ANOVA) effect was noted. Preference should be given to the latter analysis as it is more correct in the present context. Nesting of the factor 'year' in the factor 'storm', allows detection of the true storm effect, disentangling it from other year exposure interactions, while the inclusion of more than one pre-storm sample allows differentiation of storm effects from 'normal' temporal variation.


Ketoconazole failed to cure cutaneous lesions caused by Leishmania braziliensis in two patients. A prior study had suggested that ketoconazole was efficacious against this form of leishmaniasis.


Objective: To review the perioperative management of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) operation. Methods: 178 cases consecutive coronary artery bypass graft operation were reviewed. There were 153 males and 25 females with a mean age of (57 7±7 5) years. 104 patients had the history of myocardial infarction (58 1%), 112 cases with unstable angina (62 6%). Left ventricular aneurysmectomy were performed in 14 patients (7 9%),concomitant valve replacement in 5 and endarterectomy of coronary artery in 31 (17 4%). Results: There were 4 pastoperative deaths with hospital mortality of 2 2%. 8 cases experienced postoperative myocardial infarction(4 5%). Conclusion: Proper selection, early detection and correct management of postoperative complications are important to improve surgical outcome.


: This paper investigates for the first time sea waves during Novaya Zemlya bora— a downslope windstorm on the western coast of the archipelago during eastern winds—using a statistical and case-study approach. Statistical analysis of altimeter data o ff the western coast of Novaya Zemlya during bora shows that, despite strong wind forcing, the frequency of hazard wave heights was low due to the limited fetch. This result was confirmed by the high-resolution numerical simulations of two severe bora episodes. However, the influence of bora on sea waves in some cases was significant: bora increased wave height at a distance from shore greater than 200 km and wave height anomaly was up to 2–3 m. The influence of the wind input parametrization choice during bora is great in the coastal region; however, parametrizations with fetch-limited modifications and strong-wind adopted aerodynamic drag coe ffi cient do not improve the modeling results in the open sea where altimeter data are available.


Fort Lauderdale, FL—A fluocinolone acetonide intravitreal implant led to an improvement in visual acuity of 3 or more lines at 36 months in a significant proportion of patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) enrolled in a multicenter clinical trial.


Rejuvenator content needed for recycling reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) is now mostly determined by considering the penetration or viscosity criterion of the blend of aged asphalt with added rejuvenator. In the study, a comprehensive approach stressing the performance-related properties of the blend, is attempted for determining the rejuvenator content according to strategic highway research program (SHRP) binder specifications. To this end, a series of dynamic shear rheometer and bending beam rheometer tests were carried out on the blends in three states and different temperatures of different aged asphalts with various rejuvenator contents. It is clearly indicated that the performance-related properties of the blends at three different temperatures specified by SHRP binder specifications were effectively changed with rejuvenator content, and the relationships between the properties and rejuvenator content were quite linear. Rejuvenator content needed for recycling RAP is thus able to be reasonably determined when all the requirements specified by SHRP binder system at the three temperatures are satisfied.


The mass transfer theory is considered at electrochemical processing. Optimization of the dynamic equation of me-chanics of liquid environments taking into account modes of movement of electrolyte is carried out. Researches allow to reg-ulate parameters of technological process with the set speed and accuracy of processing of details


A senior bridge engineer for the Nevada Department of Transportation, who is also certified as a commercial deep sea diver, conducts underwater bridge inspections throughout Nevada, looking for signs of deterioration. Diving in Nevada's rivers requires the engineer to contend with waste, litter, and alligators, as he charts a bridge's life story and records changes. With inland commerical diving, he is usually less than 50 ft (15 m) deep, as he keeps tabs on more than 1,200 structures.


Myxoid neurothekeoma, also known as dermal nerve sheath myxoma, is a rare tumor of presumed nerve sheath origin, which affects adolescents and young adults. A middle-aged woman came with the complaint of inferior displacement of left eyeball for 4 years. She was diagnosed previously as pseudotumor and treated with systemic steroids twice before, following which symptoms were relieved for short duration. There is a history of ptosis surgery done in childhood. Orbit examination showed firm, nonmovable, nonreducible mass below superior orbital margin. Computed tomography scan of orbit showed a round well-circumscribed, isodense mass located in the suprabulbar extraconal space. Surgical excision of mass through anterior orbitotomy was performed. One large size nodule with rest small daughter nodules was removed. Histopathological examination revealed myxoid lobules and fascicles of spindle cells with no atypia, suggestive of nerve sheath myxoma. It is so far rarest tumor in the orbit.


In this paper, we reflect on the disciplinary foundations and dominant practices in the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) from the perspective of our own experience of working interdisciplinarily and drawing on colleagues' ongoing work that transcends disciplinary boundaries. As a part of this reflection, we explore possibilities for the field's theoretical and methodological expansion, which we contend is needed, given the rapid expansion of robotic technologies in the real world settings. We argue the field of science and technology studies (STS) can be a valuable collaborator and contributor in the process of negotiating disciplinary boundaries of HRI and advancing the field beyond common narratives of technological solutionism and determinism. We frame STS as a field with a strong tradition of studying social and political embeddedness of science and technology, and how these are co-constitutive and co-emergent. STS also investigates the roles and responsibility different actors share in this process. To further explore how the interfacing between STS and HRI can be enacted, we sketch out three modes of interdisciplinary collaboration we call i) Borrowing, ii) Poking and iii) Entangling. We argue that each of these modes comes with advantages, disadvantages and challenges. In the conclusion, we engage the notions of "thinking with care'' and disciplinary reflexivity, as an invitation to fellow scholars to consider which disciplinary assumptions are brought to the table when enacting different modes of interfacing between HRI and STS, and how these are entangled with the goals and (desired) outcomes of research practices.


Accurate estimation of vehicle states is extremely crucial for vehicle stability control. As a reliable estimation methodology, the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) has been widely utilized in vehicle control. However, the estimation accuracy still needs to be improved caused by the unpredictable measurement and process noise. In this paper, a novel modified UKF state estimation methodology combined with the ant lion optimization (ALO) is proposed for the stability control of a four in-wheel motor independent drive electric vehicle (4WIDEV). First, the optimal performance of the ALO algorithm is analyzed, where both unimodal and multimodal optimization test functions are selected and optimized by GA, PSO, and ALO, respectively. ,e results indicate that the ALO algorithm has good global optimization capability and applicability. Second, the ALO algorithm is merged into the UKF to adjust the statistical properties of noise information for the ALOUKF estimator design without extra sensor signals. At last, the simulations on the Matlab/Simulink-CarSim co-simulation platform and the road test based on an A&D 5435 rapid prototyping experiment platform (RPP) are carried out to verify the proposed method. ,e simulation and experiment results demonstrate that the ALOUKF estimator can improve state estimation accuracy and resist the vehicle nonlinearity even in the case of the complicated and emergency maneuvers.


The work is devoted to the issues of reformation of higher education in Russia. The main goal of the proposed work is to give a clear interconnected views on modern directions of transformation of the Russian University, allowing you to establish a definite Outlook of the participants of educational process. It is shown that in the course of training of bachelors and masters profile «Technological mechatronics and robotics» is used all material technical base of the Department «Technology of mechanical engineering», which includes laboratories and their structural elements. It is revealed that research activities in BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov is one of the main directions of development of the educational environment of the University. During the development of the basic educational programs of a bachelor degree and a magistracy on the profile of the «Technological mechatronics and robotics» is defined types educational and work practices, requirements to organization and planning of scientific student´s work, which promotes formation of common cultural and professional competences. The conclusion was that in BSTU named after V.G. Shukhov, in accordance with the Bologna agreement, formed a complete training program on a two-tier education system, which allows bachelors and masters fully realize their abilities, ambitions and obtain appropriate skills and qualifications.


It is well recognised that traumatic events can cause psychological disorders in those who experience them. The most common disorders suffered are depression and substance misuse; others include acute stress reactions, anxiety states and personality changes. One disorder following trauma that has


The purposes of the study were: (1) to identify the pattern of lesson study implementation for course that was offered in blended setting, (2) to test the impact of lesson study in blended setting on students' skills in producing educational electronic cinema. During the study, the Lewis Model was used to research the lesson either in face to face or in online classrooms. In addition the roles of observers in online classroom were assigned based on selected online platform. To test the impact of lesson study in blended setting on students' skills in producing educational electronic cinema, the quasi experimental type post-test control group research design was used. Two groups of the student were involved, one as a control group and the other one as an experimental group. The control group was given lesson in blended setting without research lesson and the experimental group was given lesson in blended setting with research lesson. Data collection methods were: observation, interview, questionnaire, documentation and test. Based on the methods, the following instruments were used: observation sheet, interview guidelines, questionnaire sheet, document, and rubric. The collected data were then analysed by using descriptive technique and t-test. Findings of the research are detailed as follows: (1) the pattern of lesson study implementation that was offered in blended setting refers to the design of blended learning that is flipped classroom setting. (2) Lesson study in blended setting brought an impact although not significant on students' skills in producing educational electronic cinema. It is suggested that lesson study should be conducted continuously, not only in face to face course but also in an online course to promote the best aspect of blended learning.


Recently, the small world network model has been popular to describe human social relations and networks formed by biological entities such as neurons. The network model achieves small diameter with relatively few links as measured by the ratio of clustering coefficient and the number of links. It is quite natural to consider email communication as similar to social network pattern. Quite surprisingly we find from our empirical study that email network follows a different type of network model that falls into the category of scale-free network. We propose new network models to describe such communication topology.


1) The suspenion of E. coli was heated under the environment of oxygen with from 1 to 10 absolute atmospheric pressure (aap). At each temperature, the decimal reduction time showed a peak at 1aap, and then decreased as the pressure rose.2) When E. coli was cultivated under the hyperbaric oxygen, the lag time was delayed with the increase of pressure up to 4aap. At 5aap or more of oxygen, no bacterial growth was observed. Generation time increased linearly with the pressure of oxygen up to 3aap.3) The pretreatment with hyperbaric oxygen had not effect on the growth rate thereafter.4) When the culture was oxygenated during the growth phase, the following relationship was observed between the number of the microbes (N) and oxygen pressure (p)N=N0e(3.7-0.8p)t(t: time in hour)5) The amount of final growth showed the peak at 1aap. Exceeding 1aap, the amount diminished remarkably with the rise of the pressure.6) Hyperbaric nitrogen showed no effect on the growth of bacteria.7) Reducing agents added to the media had no protecting effect against the oxygen action on E. coli.8) Antimetabolites showed the synergic, antagonistic and indifferent attitude toward the effect of hyperbaric oxygen depending on the mode of action of the chemicals.


A. Physiological, Biochemical and Morphological Aspects.- 1. The Arterial Wall - Transport Properties.- Discussion.- 2. Morphology of the Myocardial Microcirculation.- Discussion.- 3. Flow Properties of the Blood.- 3.1 Flow Properties of the Blood: Erythrocytes.- 3.2 Platelets in the Haemostatic Process.- Discussion.- 3.3 Platelet Vessel Wall Interaction in Coronary Artery Disease.- Discussion.- 4. Coronary Microcirculation.- 4.1 Extravascular and Intravascular Resistance.- 4.1.1 The Effect of Increases in Cardiac Oxygen Need on Adenosine Formation and Coronary Blood Flow in the Steady State and During the Cardiac Cycle 39.- 4.1.2 Sites of Adenosine Formation in the Heart During Hypoxia.- 4.2 Flow in the Terminal Vascular Bed of the Myocardium.- 4.2.1 Methods for the Direct Evaluation of the Terminal Vascular Bed of the Yen tricular Myocardium.- 4.2.2 Pressures and Dimensions in the Terminal Vascular Bed of the Myocardium Determined by an New Free-Motion Technique.- 4.2.3 Patterns of Regional Blood Flow Following Reperfusion of Ischemic Myocardium.- Discussion.- 5. Changes in Capillary Permeability.- 5.1 Changes in Capillary Fine Structure and Function in Acute Myocardial Ischemic Injury.- Discussion.- 5.2 Microcirculatory Impairment Follwing Transient Myocardial Ischemia.- 5.3 Endothelial Diffusion Limitation of Cardiac Substrate Supply and Transport Mechanismus Supporting Substrate Exchange.- Discussion.- 5.4 Myocardial Capillary Recruitment Studied by Indicator Dilution Curves.- Discussion.- 6. Oxygen and Substrate Supply of the Myocardium.- 6.1 Oxygen.- 6.1.1 Oxygen Supply to the Myocardium.- 6.2 Substrates.- 6.2.1 Substrate Delivery in Ischemic Myocardium.- Discussion.- 6.2.2 Pyruvate Oxidation in the Hemoglobin-Free Perfused Guinea Pig Heart: Effects of Pressure, Work, and Noradrealine.- 6.2.3 Metabolic Changes in the Ischemic Myocardium. A Tool for Detection and Quantification of Ischemic Areas in the Heart?.- B. Clinical Implication of Disturbances in Coronary Microcirculation.- 1. Pathophysiology.- 1.1 Microcirculatory Determinants of Infarct Dimensions.- 1.2 The Three-Dimensional Geometry of Regional Myocardial Ischemia: The Role of the Coronary Microcirculation in Determining Patterns of Injury.- Discussion.- 2. Diagnosis - Methods for Evaluating Myocardial Microcirculation in Patients.- Discussion.- 2.2 Assessment of Regional Myocardial Perfusion.- 2.2.1 N-13 Ammonia for the Noninvasive Evaluation of Myocardial Blood Flow by Positron Emission Computed Tomography.- Discussion.- 2.2.3 The Relationship Between Coronary Artery Disease, Myocardial Ischemia and Angina.- 2.3 Relative Regional Fractional Myocardial Oxygen Extraction in Dogs Using Oxygen-15-Water and Either Oxygen-15 Deoxyhemoglobin or Oxygen-15-0xyhemoglobin.- Discussion.- 2.4 Noninvasive Measurement of Regional Myocardial Glucose Metabolism by Positron Emission Computed Tomography.- Discussion.- 2.5 Regional Myocardial Metabolism of Free Fatty Acids.- C. Clinical Manifestations in Disturbance of Coronary Microcirculation.- 1. Small Vessel Disease.- 1.1 Morphology.- 1.1.1 Small Vessel Disease, Morphology.- Discussion.- 1.2 Clinical Diagnosis.- 1.1.2 Structural Changes of the Coronary Microcirculation Coarctation of the Aorta.- Discussion.- 1.2.1 Clinical Diagnosis of Small Vessel Disease.- 1.2.2 Coronary Hemodynamics in Systemic Arteriopathies.- Discussion.- 2. Syndrome X.- 2.1 Morphology.- 2.1.1 Morphology of Heart Muscle Cells and Myocardial Microcirculature in Patients with Angina Pectoris but Normal Coronary Arteries (Syndrome X).- 2.1.2 Studies in Patients with Abnormal Electrocardiogram of Unknown Etiology 288 288.- 2.2 Clinical Diagnosis.- 2.2.1 Reduced Coronary Reserve and Impaired Exercise Left Ventricular Performance in Patients with Syndrome X.- Discussion.- D. Therapeutic Implications.- 1. Effect of Drugs on Myocardial Microcirculation.- 1.1 The Effect of Coronary Vasodilators on the Microcirculation of the Ventricular Myocardium.- Discussion.- 1.2 Drug-Induced Changes in Myocardial Blood Flow Following Acute Coronary Artery Ligation.- 2. Rheological Aspects.- 2.1 Blood Rheology and Cardiac Microcirculation: Is There a Place for Hemodilution in Coronary Insufficiency?.- Discussion.- 2.2 Effects of Hemodilution on Myocardial Blood Flow.- Discussion.


The invention discloses a building strengthening method, which comprises the following steps of: 1) clearing the surface of a structure to be strengthened to expose a hard part; 2) carrying out water spray wetting on the structure to be strengthened; 3) implanting pins connecting a reinforcing steel bar net and the structure to be strengthened, and bonding the reinforcing steel bar net; 4) spraying an interface agent coating on the surface of the structure to be strengthened; and 5) spraying a polymer modified cement mortar bond layer and a polymer modified cement mortar protective layer by layers on the interface agent coating. The method can effectively improve the bearing capacity of the structure to be strengthened, improves the rigidity of the structure to be strengthened, and has less occupied space; a molded surface strengthening structure and the structure to be strengthened have the advantages of reliable bond, compactness, no crack, waterproofing, permeability resistance, fireproofing, high-temperature resistance, Cl-corrosion resistance, carbonization prevention, rust resistance and good durability; and a construction process is simple, formworks are not needed to be built, the speed of improving the strength of polymer modified cement mortar is high, and a construction period is greatly shortened. The method can be simultaneously applied to repairing and strengthening of the existing concrete structures and masonry structures, and solves the problems of breakage and aging of materials and insufficient structural strength of an old building.


We have further examined the characteristics of resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner in a strain of Colorado potato beetles, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say). We compared the toxicity of CryIIIA toxin of transgenic potato plants containing the CryIIIA gene to each larval stage of susceptible and resistant strains of Colorado potato beetle. In bioassays, resistance ratios for resistant 2nd in stars were substantially higher than ratios for the other instars. Second instars from strains of Colorado potato beetles resistant to chemical insecticides were susceptible to transgenic potatoes. For all strains, 1st instars were sensitive to B. thuringiensis toxins, whereas 3rd instars were typically insensitive. Second and older instars of the B. thuringiensis -resistant strain had much higher survival compared with the susceptible strain after 96 h exposure to transgenic potatoes. Second and older resistant instars gained weight on transgenic plants, but at a significantly slower rate than on conventional foliage. Larvae of the susceptible strain typically lost weight when they fed on transgenic foliage. Adult beetles from the resistant strain experienced ≈;25% mortality in 14 d while feeding on transgenic potatoes, whereas the susceptible adults died.


Mxene is a typical two-dimension material which have widely applied in many fields. Following the design strategy of electrostatic adsorption, coupled with bimetallic LDH, the layered Mxene is successfully used in electrochemical system. A large number of negative groups on the surface of Mxene are used to let Mxene monolayer adsorb on self-supporting materials. The comparison of the electrocatalytic performance before and after the adsorption of Mxene showed that a small amount of absorbed Mxene did have the effect on the reaction activity. The different bimetallic LDH synthesised by hydrothermal method was supported on this new material NF@Mxene. After exploring various combinations, the NF@Mxene with NiFe LDH was proved to be the best OER catalyst. This strategy will provide possibilities for subsequent Mxene electrocatalytic applications.


Based on the co-evolution theory, this paper establishes the mathematical model of heterogeneous populations, and joins the chaos function concept in the model, which makes the function have the effect of turning iterative nature of chaos, and designs computer digital output algorithm. In order to study the validity and reliability of the designed algorithm and mathematical model in this paper, with the combination of BSIM3 and MOSFET model, the paper designs a computer automatic control circuit, and the circuit is studied by numerical simulation. The Md-Vds curve can be seen that the numerical simulation result is consist with experimental results, which verify the validity of the algorithm. The computer control circuit I-VTH characteristic curve can be seen that the peak value of circuit fluctuation is consisting with the theoretical situation, which verified the reliability of the algorithm.


【Objective】 To investigate the differences of brain spontaneous activity in resting state between adolescents with conduct disorder(CD) and matched controls using function magnetic imaging(fMRI). 【Method】 11 cases diagnosed with DSM-IV and 11 normal controls underwent resting-state fMRI,the data were analyzed using a newly reported method called Regional Homogeneity(ReHo) to analyze fMRI data between CD and normal controls. 【Result】 Compared with normal controls,CD showed decreased ReHo in bilateral frontal lobe and left inferior parietal and precuneus and increased in left temporal lobe and left fusiform gyrus and right anterior cingulated. 【Conclusion】 The results suggest that CD showed abnormal activity in resting state compared with the normal controls.


Abstract : The following summary outlines the accomplishments under this grant. It was determined: (1) There are significant variations in body-wave and surface wave excitation for explosions of comparable magnitude detonated in similar source media and located only a few kilometers apart at NTS (Yucca Flats and Pahute Mesa). These observed differences in excitation and energy partitioning imply either a rapidly varying tectonic stress field in the source region and/or strongly varying patterns of near-source fracturing. Source- generated P-wave code of two minutes duration or more are observed at NORSAR to vary significantly in strength and character among nearby Yucca and Pahute events, possibly due to short-period surface wave to P-wave scattering; (2) that relatively few SRO-type stations can be used to compare source mechanisms for suites of events of varying size in a given source region. For example, foreshocks and aftershocks of the Utah-Idaho border and Oroville, California sequences of 1975, as recorded at the Albuquerque SRO station, have been analyzed and compared; in both cases the principal foreshock exhibited the same mechanisms as the main shock, while the aftershocks are more varied in mechanism. For both sequences we were able to match the observed Love and Rayleigh waveforms and spectra as the mechanisms changed. Average path dispersion (Hence structure is a useful by-product of the anlaysis.


In this study, we tried to find the subject to inhibit H. pylori from Cheongmoknosang mulberry leaves extracts and to purify and identify them. Total phenolic compounds of hot water and 80% ethanol extracts are 17.6 and 16.1 mg/g. The activity of H. pylori inhibition at 80% ethanol extracts was determined as 15mm clear zone. The purification of inhibitory compounds were carried on column and MCI-gel CHP-20 column chromatography which were used a gradient procedure as increasing ethanol in . The chemical structure of purified inhibitory compounds on H. pylori were identified chlorogenic acid, caffeic acid, and rosmarinic acid by FAB-MS, , and IR spectrum.


With eleven other translators,LI Defeng adopted the "reader-oriented translation approach"in translating into Chinese Jeremy Munday 's Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications in 2006. The author of this article,one of the readers or users of the translated work,identifies the strategies adopted by the translators for translating the terms on translation studies to comply with their translation criterion. The most significant findings can be stated as follows: 1) Consistence is the strategy for the translation of the central term of"translation studies"repeatedly used in the book; 2) TT with ST( Chinese version with English original) for some key translation studies terms put in brackets is a strategy for the reader's reference; and 3)An E-C table for translation studies terms is available for the reader in the appendix.


There are numerous social innovation networks and initiatives worldwide with the ambition to contribute to transformative change towards more sustainable, resilient and just societies. Many of these have a specific vision on the economy and relate to alternative visions of a 'New Economy'.


Extracted from text ... CME January 2006 Vol. 24 No.1
The lowdown on the new CPD system
A randomly selected audit by the Health Professions Council
of South Africa (HPCSA) will be conducted twice a year to
check if health care practitioners are complying with the
new Continuing Professional Education (CPD) system.
This will eventually mean that every practitioner is audited
at least once every 5 years.
This is how the long-awaited new HPCSA CPD system,
piloted from July to December last year (2005) by medical
technologists, optometrists and optical dispensers, will be
enforced.
The new system will probably kick in for doctors and ..


Fire has caused great damages to China,especially when it happens during Spring Festivals.According to the fire accident statistics between 1999 and 2010,the four index data is characteristic of time sequence,volatility,and vagueness.Based on time series model and topology prediction,this paper aims to predict the rules,according to which fire happens during Spring Festivals,and moreover,to predict its other circumstances.It turns out that,the mean absolute error in the time series model is smaller,and the fitting precision of gray topology prediction model are established to achieve "good" standard.Therefore,the result is reasonable and reliable,if we based the fire damage prediction on a methodology which combines time series model with grey topology prediction.The result can be referred as precautions to fire damages for the fire department and related research projects.


The problems happened frequently in the trade contract inspection items in the construction contractor laboratory in the nuclear power construction project were showed,the reasons to these problems were analyzed,and the solutions were suggested to strengthen the management of the laboratory,and it can provide good service to the construction project.


This study aims to examine how to instruction design to optimize the potential of learners. The result of study showed that the design instruction to optimize the learners needs to do several steps, namely: (1) multiple intelligences research; (2) mapping class based on learning style. Furthermore, teachers prepare learning design based on both aspects. Teacher consultation with the supervisor in preparing instructional design based on multiple intelligences, in consultation teacher discusses basic competencies to be taught and strategies in accordance with the tendency of learners in the classroom. The next phase is the observation supervisor in the classroom and the last step is the confirmation. Based on the results of this study, the researchers recommend to teachers to always pay attention and develop the potential that exists within the self-learners early on. Intelligence is not just limited to the intelligence of mathematical logic and language, but also kinesthetic, music, interpersonal, intrapersonal, spatial, and naturalistic intelligence.Keywords: Design, Instructional, Multiple Intelligences


In this study, Yang et al. show that the translation initiation factor eIF4E1b protects specific maternal mRNAs and promotes their translation during oocyte-to-zygote transition. This jump-starts critical zygotic chromatin remodeling and genome activation, the loss of which results in female infertility due to developmental arrest in the two-cell embryos.


The complex permittivity of Halton Till, a soil recovered from a landfill site in Ontario, Canada, is measured using a custom developed apparatus in laboratory in the frequency range from 0.3 MHz to 1.3 GHz. The soil is mixed with liquids including distilled water, NaCl, copper and zinc salt solutions, and compacted at various water contents, densities and degrees of saturation. A database consisting of 122 soil specimens is established and artificial neural networks (ANNs) are adopted for data processing. Three ANN models are trained, verified and tested to predict the soil water content, degree of saturation, and dry density. The results show that the three models perform well as judged from statistical analyses. The performance of the networks can be further improved by enhancing the database. The principle and results of this study provide encouraging information for the further development of an in-situ measurement system for characterization of soil subsurface.


The hot-film anemometer and its associated electronics have now been brought to a high level of performance and reliability. Enough measurements of one-dimensional turbulent spectra have now been obtained to establish with sufficient reliability the form of the high-wave-number spectrum. According to the Kolmogoroff hypothesis, this form is universal in shape and its scaling parameters depend only upon the kinematic viscosity v and the rate of energy decay per unit mass ∈. Thus, when v is known, measurement of any part of the spectrum permits determination of ∈. In the presence of masking noise, an upper limit may be placed on ∈. These concepts are illustrated with some measurements taken near the sea surface in the presence of waves.


Tertiary education has become more competitive in recent years due to reductions in government funding and higher student fees. As the nature of the environment grows more competitive, the role of marketing, previously non‐existent in most universities, has grown significantly. One of the key pieces of information that would assist a university's marketing effort is an understanding of what determines a student's university preference. Examines university preference using a form of conjoint analysis, known as adaptive conjoint analysis (ACA), to investigate the importance of a number of attributes to high‐school leavers in Australia. Results indicate that the four most important determinants of university preference were course suitability, academic reputation, job prospects, and teaching quality, which has significance for education managers developing marketing strategies and programs.


We assume that to zero order in the Knudsen number the deviation of the entropy from a background value vansishes. We then show that adding a super-Burnett term we obtain a stable state of rest. The resulting equations have the same form as the Burnett equations but with the value of some coefficients changed. In particular the result applies to nonlinear acoustics. We consider a slightly rarefied gas. To first order in the Knudsen number, Kn, the Navier-Stokes equations are valid. Burnett [1] derived the corresponding equations to second order in Kn. Bobylev [2] showed that the state of rest is unstable for the Burnett equations, see also Uribe et al. [3]. In this contribution we make the assumption that the deviation of entropy from a background value is of the order of KnMa, where Ma, is the Mach number. This is the case for nonlinear acoustics, where Ma ∼ Kn. We show that with an error Kn 3 the Burnett equations in this case can be replace by equations which are linearly stable. In the one-dimensional case, the Burnett expressions for the xx component of the pressure tensor P and the heat current q are, see Chapman & Cowling [4] (the dots indicate nonlinear Burnett terms)