The library at SMA Negeri XI Jambi City in data processing still uses a recording system or conventional. In the process of processing the data by taking notes on books for members who want to borrow books from the library. And students sometimes forget when to return the book. Based on this, it is necessary to develop an information system that can provide accurate data, process data quickly and provide information to students to finally return  books using a website information system. Development of this information system is the best solution in solving existing problems. at SMA Negeri XI Jambi City, as well as with a computerized system, an effective and efficient activity can be achieved in supporting activities in processing library data at this school.


A new whipray, Himantura randalli sp. nov., described from material collected off Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, appearsto be endemic to the Persian Gulf. It has been frequently confused with forms of the more widely distributed whipray Himantura gerrardi Gray and other presently unidentified species from the Indian Ocean. Himantura randalli sp. nov. isdistinguished from these species by a combination of characters, i.e. disc shape, morphometrics, squamation (includingits rapid denticle development and denticle band shape), plain dorsal disc coloration, and whitish saddles on a dark tail inyoung. It is a medium-sized whipray with a maximum confirmed size of 620 mm disc width (DW) and a birth size ofaround 150–170 mm DW. Males mature at approximately 400 mm DW. Himantura randalli sp. nov. is relatively abundantin the shallow, soft-sedimentary habitats of the Persian Gulf from where it is commonly taken as low-value or discarded bycatch of gillnet and trawl fisheries.


The varying wireless channel conditions necessitate the use of error control mechanisms for reliable transmission of video streaming applications. Forward error correction (FEC) and automatic repeat request (ARQ) mechanisms are used at the data-link layer of IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks to avoid and recover from the channel errors. In this paper, a three-dimensional absorbing Markov chain model is presented to accurately calculate the packet transmission time when both the FEC and ARQ mechanisms are used. Based on the calculated packet transmission time and given maximum number of transmission attempts, the number of redundant FEC packets is adjusted to achieve an optimum tradeoff between network overhead and delay. Numerical results show that the three-dimensional absorbing Markov chain model accurately captures the packet delivery dynamics for a given maximum number of transmission attempts at the data-link layer. With the knowledge of accurate packet transmission time, the FEC parameter is adjusted to achieve higher quality video at the terminal devices. The adjustment of the number of FEC packets based on the proposed three-dimensional model brings the combined advantages of reduced network overhead and enhanced video quality.


The present study based on secondary data reveals that the net sown area, gross cropped area and cropping intensity have increased over the period of T.E. 1986-87 to T.E. 2012-13, despite of deceleration in gross irrigated area. Land holding pattern have remained more or less unchanged over the entire period and characterised by the domination of marginal and small farmers. Food grains continue to dominate the cropping pattern, but its share has declined by 15.56% and the high valued fruits, vegetables and spices have consolidated position by increasing share to the tune of 14.78% of the gross cropped area. Per ha Consumption of nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers has reduced and the use of potassic fertilizers has been more than doubled during this period. All the major crops have registered significantly positive growth rates with varying magnitudes in area, production and productivity, but associated with moderate to high instability. Area effect is the primary source of output growth for food grains crops and total vegetables except rice whereas yield is the major contributor to the production increase of total fruits and total spices. Development of region specific crop varieties and production techniques and extensive training programmes along with improvement in irrigation, communication and marketing facilities are urgently needed to accelerate the growth with more stability in agricultural sector of the state.


Peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) is an uncommon group of diseases that shows distinct racial and geographic variation. Given disease rarity and biological heterogeneity, advances in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment have lagged behind diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). However, numbers of new therapies have been studied for patients with PTCL. The activities of new drugs have been described in studies specifi cally for PTCL, and attempts at novel combinations are beginning.


In order to better solve the problem of the metric distortion,this paper proposed a robust watermarking algorithm based on the features of image content.The algorithm used wavelet transform to extract the image feature information,and make the watermark of each image independent by feature selection and adaptive coefficient embedding strategy.The detection of watermark does not require prior knowledge of the original image,and less redundant information is passed.Experimental results show that the degradation caused by the proposed algorithm is neglegible,and the watermarking scheme is very robust to common image processing on the original image and has high practical value.


Due to the size and volume of solder joint interconnection in electronic packaging structures continue to be much smaller and smaller, many properties and behaviors of microscale solder joints are obviously different from those of bulk solder materials, that is, so-called solder joint size/volume effects occurs for the ever-increasing miniaturization trend of modern electronic products. In this paper, the influence of solder size and volume on the intermetallic compounds (IMCs) formation reaction (i.e., interfacial reactions), growth, evolution at the solder/substrate interface and the mechanical properties (e.g., tensile property, shear property, creep property and fatigue property) of microscale solder joint interconnections were reviewed. In addition, a few development trends of size and volume effects in electronic packaging were also proposed.


The high temperature friction reduction and anti-wear performances of MoS2 are investigated by using multifunctional SRV tester.The results show that the coefficient of friction of MoS2 is very low and about 0.06 at 200 ℃ to 400 ℃ under point contact.The anti-wear performance of MoS2 is better than that of colza oil at different test temperatures,especially,the anti-wear performance of MoS2 shows special superiority at 200 ℃ to 400 ℃ for MoS2 adsorbing mostly on the friction surface.Therefore,MoS2 may be used for the lubricant in the exceeding lubricating design of the friction surface.


The National Institute of Occupational Health, Denmark, has constructed a database for PCs, named PLASTBASE. The database is based on relevant chemical and toxicological informations from the international literature. This paper describes the database for users.


: Decision support systems for predicting innovation activity at the macro level are not yet widely used, and the authors have not been able to find direct analogues of such a system. The relevance of creating the system is due to the need to take into account heterogeneous structured and unstructured information, including in natural language, when predicting innovation activity. The article describes the process of designing a decision support system for predicting innovation activity, based on the system for integrating macroeconomic and statistical data (described by the authors in previous articles) by adding a module of decision-making methods. The UML diagram of use cases and the UML diagram of the components of this module, the general architecture of the prototype of the decision support system, are presented. It also describes an algorithm for predicting innovation activity and its impact on the potential for economic growth using DSS.


It has been found that a cloud building energy management system (BEMS) alone cannot support increasing numbers of end devices (e.g., energy equipment and IoT devices) and emerging energy services efficiently. To resolve these limitations, this paper proposes Fog BEMS, which applies an emerging fog computing concept to a BEMS. Fog computing places small computing resources (fog nodes) just next to end devices, and these nodes process data in real time and manage local contexts. In this way, the BEMS becomes distributed and scalable. However, existing fog computing models have barely considered scenarios where many end devices and fog nodes are deployed and interconnected. That is, they do not scale up and cannot be applied to scalable applications like BEMS. To solve the problem, this paper (i) designs a fog network where a list of functionally heterogeneous nodes is deployed in a hierarchy for collaboration and (ii) designs an agent-based, modular programming model that eases the development and management of computing services at a fog node. We develop a prototype of a fog node and build a real-world testbed on a campus to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed system. We also conduct experiments, and results show that Fog BEMS is scalable enough for a node to connect up to 900 devices and that network traffic is reduced by 27.22–97.63%, with varying numbers of end devices.


DOI: 10.1002/int.22428 When the article titled "Semi‐Selfish Mining based on Hidden Markov Decision Process." was first published in International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Volume 36, Issue 7, pages 3596‐3612, April 2021). Unfortunately, the original version contains an error due to typesetting errors. We misused the expression of "mining". According to the relevant policies of Guizhou University, we are expected to make the expression more precise since we are studying an attack, not mining. To correct this error, authors want to replace "mining" with "attack" all through this paper. Authors prove that this is not an update of the topic, but a corrigendum. Although this error do not affect the conclusions of the paper, the authors apologize for the mistake and any confusion this may have caused.


A time-domain boundary element method is applied to simulate the matrix crack propagation in composite with inclusions under impact loading. The crack-growth direction is determined by the maximum circumferential stress criterion, and the instantaneous velocity is approached by a bisection technique. New crack-tip elements of inconstant length are added to the moving crack-tip to simulate the unsteady growth at each propagation time step. The interactions of a crack with various clusters of inclusions are investigated.


Sensing angular vibration motion using only self-referencing sensors has been gaining interest in various mobile applications. An example is long distance communication and tracking tasks on motorized vehicles. There is a lack of availability of infrastructure and externally referenced sensors like position sensitive detectors are not suitable. Hence, such applications can only rely on self-referencing sensors. Gyroscope is a good candidate for such applications. However, the drawback of gyroscope is the drift after integration. Most of the conventional filtering techniques introduce phase difference and is not ideal for real-time compensation applications. Several novel band-pass that do not introduce phase difference have since been introduced. However, such zero-phase band-pass filter works well for the velocity domain, but not in the displacement whereby there is significant drift after the numerical integration. To address this, a near zero-phase filtering algorithm is proposed. The proposed method first filter the drift or voluntary motion signal in the low frequency domain with recursive least square (RLS) based adaptive modeling. Weighted Fourier linear combiner (WFLC) is then used as zero-phase band-pass filter to estimate the angular displacement. Real experimental data is collected and the results demonstrated that the proposed method out-performs several other filtering techniques.


In this paper permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance machines are investigated for low power industrial drives. Several drive applications require a constant power demand over a wide speed range up to high rotational speeds. Therefore, electrical drives are usually operated in the flux weakening range. In addition, a high efficiency, a high power factor, low product as well as low operational costs are reasonable demands for future electrical drives. The proposed machine type without rare earth material is a potential candidate for such requirements. The level of pre-magnetization at permanent magnet assisted synchronous machines is not only the key parameter to reach high torque densities, but also mainly responsible to adjust the machine power and the power factor in the flux weakening region. By finite element analysis the V-shape and straight magnet arrangement type rotors with three flux barriers are discussed. Different types of ferrites and the amount of magnets are varied to show the influence on the machine parameters and performance. Further, for a sufficient operation at high speeds a mechanical stress analysis is included. The anti-demagnetization behavior is discussed and results in a limitation of the V-shape topology. Index Terms-Synchronous Reluctance Machine, Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine, Industrial Drive


We have carried out a microstructural study of the 〈100〉 dark line defect that forms during degradation of II‐VI blue‐green light emitters. We find that these defects lie in or near the ZnCdSe quantum well and do not correspond to a readily observable dislocation network in transmission electron microscopy studies. We speculate that they may consist of point defects or small point defect complexes. We have also carried out estimates of point defect migration rates during device operation that can give rise to such degradation.


In the February 1982 Bulletin Loren Graham discussed developments in the funding and direction of Soviet science since about 1964, highlighting the significant progress that has been made as well as the persistent and more recent difficulties, some of them peculiar to the Soviet system. We resume our series with Harley Balzer's related discussion of technical education in the Soviet Union, based in part on extensive interviews with Soviet emigre scientists and engineers. In both cases the result is a much more mixed picture of Soviet scientific and technical achievement than is usually presented in the U.S. media.A more general study of interest here is Mervyn Matthews, Education in the Soviet Union: Policies and Institutions Since Stalin (London and Winchester, Mass.: Allen and Unwin), which has just been published.James Cracraft Special Editor


The complex effort of cleaning up the Hanford K Basins is separated into several individual projects. Fluor Hanford and Fluor Federal Services modeled key elements using a 3D parametric modeling program for mechanical design with training animations.


This study found that the impact of domestic urban short video on college students tourism behavior is mainly concentrated in four aspects: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, tourism attitude and tourism behavior. In order to study this influence relationship more accurately, the author proposes a model based on the influence mechanism of urban short video, which includes the above four independent variables, in order to obtain better research results. By combining network research and questionnaire survey, it is found that urban short video has a significant impact on college students tourism behavior, especially in improving college students tourism decision-making effect and stimulating tourism interest. In order to better promote the development of urban short video and college students tourism industry, this paper puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions. It is hoped that this study can provide new perspectives and inspirations for urban short video producers and college students tourism industry, and provide some suggestions for promoting sustainable development and innovation in related fields.


Aims: We investigated the performance of a semi-automated arterial contour algorithm by CT angiography (CTA) for assessing total coronary atheroma burden in patients with suspected coronary artery ...


Educators are faced with an ongoing challenge of creating engaging, student-centered learning situations that relate classroom topics to practical application. As a result of their comfort with the use of information technology, contemporary students and teachers can find traditional classroom methods of lecture and guided laboratory experiments limiting. Recently, the need for increasing the number of students graduating in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields United States has been recognized as a threat to continued economic development. This need, coupled with increasing technological literacy, has created an opportunity to leverage leading edge cyberinfrastructure in an outreach program targeting secondary school teachers. This paper demonstrates the implementation of a targeted outreach program that engages pre- and in-service teachers of mathematics and science using state-of-the-art virtual design and earthquake engineering technologies. The research places teachers into a intimate workshop-based program that uses engaging experiences to develop content knowledge and provide connections between education standards and practical application of theoretical concepts.


In this paper we look at isometry properties of random matrices. During the last decade these properties gained a lot attention in a field called compressed sensing in first place due to their initial use in \cite{CRT,CT}. Namely, in \cite{CRT,CT} these quantities were used as a critical tool in providing a rigorous analysis of $\ell_1$ optimization's ability to solve an under-determined system of linear equations with sparse solutions. In such a framework a particular type of isometry, called restricted isometry, plays a key role. One then typically introduces a couple of quantities, called upper and lower restricted isometry constants to characterize the isometry properties of random matrices. Those constants are then usually viewed as mathematical objects of interest and their a precise characterization is desirable. The first estimates of these quantities within compressed sensing were given in \cite{CRT,CT}. As the need for precisely estimating them grew further a finer improvements of these initial estimates were obtained in e.g. \cite{BCTsharp09,BT10}. These are typically obtained through a combination of union-bounding strategy and powerful tail estimates of extreme eigenvalues of Wishart (Gaussian) matrices (see, e.g. \cite{Edelman88}). In this paper we attempt to circumvent such an approach and provide an alternative way to obtain similar estimates.


Abstract Experimental data on the ambient and elevated temperature tensile and fracture toughness properties of unirradiated, thermally aged and neutron irradiated hot isostatic (HIP) and vacuum hot (VHP) pressed S-65 and S-200F beryllium grades are assessed with respect to the effects of material, test and irradiation variables. The limitations of the existing data are acknowledged and the additional investigations required to clarify some of the present uncertainties are summarised.


The Nakdong River Estuary Barrage (NREB) was constructed in 1987 to prevent saltwater intrusion and to provide the sustainable water supply in the upstream channel of the NREB. The upstream channel of the NREB has experienced sedimentation problems requiring annual dredging operation after the construction. The main purpose of sediment dredging is to prevent flooding during late summer. According to the past records, the annual average dredging volume is about 524,170 m 3 in the upstream channel of the NREB. Fluvial changes and sedimentation problems have been continued due to urbanization and development in the watershed as well as construction and management (sediment dredging) of the NREB. However, the sufficient field monitoring and researches for sedimentation characteristics and bed changes have not been performed after construction of the NREB. Therefore, bed elevation changes for 14 years (1990–2003) after construction of the NREB were analyzed using the Hec-6 model and relatively short term changes of bed elevation were simulated using RMA2 and SED2D programs with field data to review the superficial changes. Field survey before and after sediment dredging was conducted at various points of time to examine the natural flushing effect of sediment by moderate and high discharge before flood season (late July to early September) during low tide.


Many asthmatics fail to understand the profound dangers of not having their condition under control. PS talks to the experts about how you can assist.


Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a new class of regulators. LncRNAs are defined as endogenous transcribed RNA molecules with transcript length of >200 nt. Accumulating evidence has shown that lncRNAs are involved in many physiological processes such as cell cycle regulation, and survival, cancer migration and metabolism.


In the article the problem of formation and development of Steppe boards self-governence institutions of Buryats in the period of Russian Empire are considered.


Vehicle seat, in particular for a motor vehicle seat, having fittings (7) comprising a first fitting part (11) and a second fitting part (13) and a backrest structure (19) with side cheeks (21) and at least one of the side cheeks (21) connecting the beam ( 23, 25), wherein the first fitting part (11) having a seat portion (3) of the vehicle seat (1) is firmly connected, especially by means of an adapter (15) and the second fitting part (13) for adjusting the inclination of a backrest (3) of the vehicle seat (1) between several use positions relative to the first fitting part (11) is rotatable, and the backrest structure (19) with the second fitting part (13) via a second adapter (17) is fixedly connected, wherein the side cheeks (21) of the backrest structure (19) are constituted by open sections, characterized in that the open profile is closed in a middle region of the side cheeks (21) by at least one transverse connection (27) which is fixedly connected to the side cheeks (21) and that the side cheeks (21) along its longitudinal direction on both sides a ...


The principal goals of health care are to help people "live longer and live better," that is, to optimize both survival and health. In the American Heart Association's (AHA) special report, "Defining and setting national goals for cardiovascular health promotion and disease reduction: the American Heart Association's strategic Impact Goal through 2020 and beyond," the AHA set the following goal:

> "By 2020, to improve the cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20% while reducing deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20%." 1

The emphasis on improving cardiovascular health is laudable, yet it raises the question of how cardiovascular health is best measured. Indeed, the metrics of cardiovascular health have not been well delineated compared with other cardiovascular mortality and morbidity outcomes.

The AHA's strategic goals primarily focus on ideal health behaviors (eg, not smoking) and ideal health factors (eg, blood pressure control) as metrics of cardiovascular health.1 Although these are of clear import, they do not directly address the World Health Organization's definition of health as "… a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being."2 Moreover, the Institute of Medicine identified patient-centered care as 1 of the 6 domains of high-quality health care, wherein patient-centered care supports clinicians in "attending to their patients' physical and emotional needs, and maintaining or improving their quality of life."3 The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute emphasizes the goal of "focusing on outcomes that people notice and care about such as survival, function, symptoms, and health related quality of life."4 Recent concepts of value in health care and the "triple aim" center on improving patients' health and experience with health care while reducing costs; each reinforces the importance of assessing the impact of disease and medical treatment on patients' functional status and quality of life.5,6 The definition …


The reading that Picasso has done of Velazquez's portrait Las meninas demonstrates evidences of a process of distortions which is shown on the fifty-eight canvases that he had painted inspired in the abovementioned masterpiece. This text intends to mark that those distortions, which - according to Jacques Lacan - are typical from an anamorphics process, went deeper as Picasso moved away from the original and allowed his own enunciation to come out.


Abstract Purpose: Nestin is expressed in various tissues of the embryo in patients with placenta previa, while the regulatory mechanism still unknown. Materials and methods: All participants terminated pregnancy. Among them, 75 patients with placenta previa were assigned to the case group and 80 healthy pregnant women with normal placenta were assigned to the control group. Expression of nestin and CDK5 in foetal spinal cord tissues was detected by Western blot and quantitative real-time RT-PCR methods. The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to determine the serum expression of some pro-inflammatory cytokines in placenta previa patients. The interaction between nestin and CDK5 was evaluated by immunoprecipitation and siRNA inhibition of nestin was performed to estimate its effect on NF-κB activity in foetal spinal cord tissues. Results: Along with increased expression of nestin and CDK5 in foetal spinal cord tissues in the case group, IL-1β, IL-6, TNF-α and IFN-γ were increased in the serum of placenta previa patients. siRNA inhibition analysis indicated that nestin interacted with CDK5 and regulated NF-κB activity in foetal spinal cord tissues. Conclusions: Nestin is highly expressed and the interaction between nestin and CDK5 might lead to the progress of placenta previa through its regulation on NF-κB.


This article explores four accounts of fire in texts that have become influential to theological epistemology, written by Luce Irigaray, Rene Descartes, George Fox, and Blaise Pascal. Each of these fires represents an epistemological conversion to a particular way of knowing about God. While the authors of the Keller and Schneider volume resist a strict binary opposition between polydoxy and orthodoxy, the book as a whole—whether inadvertently or inescapably—functionally reduces orthodoxy to a single epistemological viewpoint, diagnosed by Irigaray as the Logic of the One. This singular view of orthodoxy has two drawbacks. First, it is inadequate to the multiplicity of Christian orthodoxies. It cannot account for the fires of Fox and Pascal, or for the orthodoxies that threatened them. Second, polydoxy itself is limited. Reading all orthodoxies through the lens of Irigaray's critique re-inscribes the Logic of the One that she protests. Furthermore, this pattern belies the relationality that polydoxy emphasizes. Thus, the continuing development of polydoxy might require attending to the specific multiplicities of orthodoxy itself.


Like Hoel, I too think that the new female working class has come to stay; in spite of the growing unemployment rate in the last few years, women have not been willing to abandon their jobs and return to their homes. By drawng our attention to the women at the bottom of the job hierarchy, Hoel's book is a necessary reminder to us that sex differences may add another dimension to the union movement in years to come. Watch out LO!


In order to unveil the nature of charge carriers in a doped polythiophene, a sterically isolated polythiophenene, poly(1EDOT), was electrochemically synthesized on electrodes. Generation of charge carriers was induced upon controlled electrochemical doping and investigated through various spectroscopic methods; the charge carriers were identified based on spin concentration (ESR spectra), aromatic character (Raman spectra), and electronic transition (UV–vis–NIR absorption spectra) of the polythiophene. Peculiarity of this study lies in the fact that the electrochemistry of the poly(1EDOT) reflects the p-doping process of a single polythiophene wire because interwire interaction (i.e., π–π stacking) is effectively prevented; therefore, the results should be essential and informative to understand polythiophene-based materials and devices. Upon electrochemical doping, ESR active polarons were generated. Further doping concentrated the polarons, which led to the formation of polaron pairs. Eventually, the po...


In 1966, S. Hoffmann boldly argued that nation-states, often inchoate, economically absurd, administratively ramshackle and impotent, yet dangerous in international politics, remain the basic units in spite all the remonstrations and exhortations. Is it still the case considering the European Union and the financial crisis it had to react to? This article argues that the European states are transnational integrated and that with each phase of European integration, they redefine their national sovereignty. In doing so, it discusses the new institutional architecture of the European financial supervision using the lenses of the multi-level governance theory. The final statement of the article is that nation-states continue to exist, yet in a cross-cutting framework of flexible governance.


Objective To study the efficacy of different treatment methods for stage Ⅱ~Ⅲ laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma(LSCC).Methods 74 stage Ⅱ~Ⅲ LSCC patients were retrospectively analyzed.Of the 74 patients,42 were treated with surgery alone and 32 were treated with surgery and postoperative radiotherapy.The overall survival rate were observed.Results The 3 and 5-year overall survival rates were 74.32% and 68.92%,respectively.The 5-year survival rates were 72.50% in glottic carcinoma and 43.75% in supraglottic carcinoma and were 71.43% in surgery alone and 65.63% in surgery and radiotherapy group.There was no significant difference between surgery alone group and surgery plus radiotherapy group(P0.05).Conclusion The overall survival rates of surgery and radiotherapy and surgery alone are not different.


This issue is a full one. It is not just the quantity of inclusions here which is new for Other Education —with a large special issue on German Alternative Free Schools guest edited by Other Education's editorial assistant Robert Hamm, as well as non special issue peer reviewed work and book reviews—but a feature of difference "allowed" for the first time: publications in a language other than English. ...


We analysed digital still photographs of two interacting free-living male zebra sharks. The recorded behaviours are similar in appearance to some male - female courtship and mating patterns in elasmobranchs and several of the posi- tions are similar to or resemble reproductive behaviours known from other species. We discuss two possible hypotheses that may explain the interaction, sexual behaviour and an agonistic behaviour. We reject the same-sex hypothesis and pro- pose that the event was of agonistic nature.


The major policies of central government in the Qing Dynasty in Tibet,which have a certain inheritance and development for the previous Dynasties,itself innovation and attempt,established in the Qian Long of the Qing Dynasty befor.On the basis of historical facts,the author in this paper chiefly presented a complete picture of central government for Tibetan policies in the Qing Dynasty,through concrete management institution formed by the Qing Dynasty,its function and system pursued by the Qing Dynasty's govenor.


Chemotherapy induced hart problems are undesirable when treating cancer patients. Yet cardiotoxicity is a serious adverse effect of many conventional anti cancer drugs. In this study we explore cardiotoxicity through observation of sarcomere structures in cardiomyocytes. We notice these adverse effects through malformations or a reduced number of sarcomeres. We use a high-throughput microscope to gather the input images. Our aim is to develop a method for delineating sarcomere structures using a deep learning algorithm. Usually, sarcomere structures are annotated using a set of imaging filters on microscopic images of cardiomyocytes. This kind of analysis reaches an 80% accuracy. Our approach involves experimenting with a set of deep learning algorithms that might be capable of more accurate results. We find that U-Net is very good at this task and and can reach to a comparable performance as rule-based method. In the future we want to compare our results against a small set of manually delineated sarcomeres as ground truth.


Designing correct-by-construction controllers for cyber-physical systems is difficult. Synthesis aids the controller designer by automating this process once the controller's specification and the dynamics of the environment have been formalized. Most classes of system dynamics have undecidable synthesis problems, which is commonly mitigated by computing a discrete abstraction of the system dynamics and synthesizing a controller that works correctly under all environment behaviors captured by the abstraction. Abstractions can be made at varying levels of granularity. If the granularity is too fine, the abstraction grows too large to be suitable for current synthesis approaches. If the granularity is too coarse, it is insufficient for computing a controller that satisfies the specification. In this paper, we present a new abstraction computation process that facilitates working with coarser abstractions in synthesis while retaining the controllability of the system. Our approach takes a fine-grained abstraction and processes it to a coarser abstraction in which the controller is only offered actions that minimize the amount of non-determinism in the abstraction. We demonstrate that our approach helps to find a good balance between precision and controllability in CPS controller synthesis on two case studies.


The service quality evaluation of agricultural business-to-customer (B2C) e-commerce is viewed as a multiattribute group decision-making (MAGDM) activity. Thus, a useful MAGDM process is required. Based on the grey relational analysis (GRA) process and the interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy set (IVIFS), this study defines an interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy (IVIF) GRA process to depict the service quality of agricultural B2C e-commerce. This is important to agricultural B2C e-commerce because this industry increases rapidly and many new services are innovated. In this article, some necessary definitions related to IVIFSs are reviewed. Additionally, criteria weights are derived using the Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation method (CRITIC). Subsequently, the GRA method is extended to incorporate IVIFs to obtain a final service alternative. All alternatives can then be ranked, and the best service quality option can be identified and promulgated. Finally, a numerical example and some useful comparative studies are obtained. The analysis results show that the defined algorithm is effective for identifying the service qualities of agricultural B2C e-commerce, which provide a new assessment method for MAGDM.


The object of the present paper is to study $\eta $-Ricci solitons on $\eta $-Einstein $(LCS)_n$-manifolds. It is shown that if $\xi $ is a recurrent torse forming $\eta $-Ricci soliton on an $\eta $-Einstein $(LCS)_n$-manifold then $\xi $ is (i) concurrent and (ii) Killing vector field.


Objective The change of the outer membrane permeability which affected the sensitivity of Escherichia Coli for drugs was studied.Methods The measurement by suction filtration of the outer membrane permeability of 125 I-Amoxycillin in multiple-antibiotic-resistant(MAR) mutants of Escherichia coli strains without production of β-lactamase.Results The most MAR strains had low outer membrane permeability, while sensitive strains had high outer membrane permeability.Conclusion It is demonstrated that the outer membrane permeability of Escherichia coli is correlated with drug resistance.


The microstructure of the Fe-8.8Al-30Mn-5Cr-1.2Si alloy have been investigated by means of transmission electron microscopy. In the as-quenched condition, the extremely fine D03 particles were formed within the ferrite(α ) matrix during quenching by a continuous ordering transition. When the alloy was aged at temperatures ranging from 450C to 950C, the phase transformation sequence as the aging temperature increases was found to be (α+D03+α-Mn)→(α+D03+β-Mn)→ (α+β-Mn)→α, in which no evidence of B2 phase could be detected. This is quite different from that observed in the Fe-Al-Mn-Si alloy. In the present study, the coexistence of the D03 phases with coarse and extremely fine size has never been found by other workers in the Fe-Al-Mn-Cr-Si alloys before.


Nowadays, the quality of an IT product/service is increasingly based on the development process, not only on development costs and on time. This trend fosters the software process quality certification, focusing on the entire life cycle, and the adoption of agile software development processes, which rely on a self-organizing culture for creating tailored products. In parallel, the business of IT companies is evolving into a "software factory" model, to increase productivity and reduce development costs. Accordingly, the development of a software project is distributed among different factories, depending on their specialties and workload. This highly industrialized development process requires appropriate methods for management control and accountability. Different factories, and different project managers in the same factory, may adopt different software development processes, and a number of factors may disrupt the process execution. In the software production domain, there is a large availability of systems recording audit trails about process execution. A fundamental challenge is to assess from audit trails if an IT solution is developed through the appropriate procedures, as well as to discover the procedures actually adopted without imposing any management practice. In this study, we adopt Process Mining techniques based on the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) for the automatic discovery of the software development processes. Our approach can be used to measure the alignment of people and processes, to investigate causes of disruption, as well as to generate a process model from audit trails. The paper illustrates the proposed techniques and discusses their application through a pilot real-world case study.


Herein, a comprehensive investigation into the optical, local chemical state, and electrical properties of the less explored magnesium oxide (MgO) are presented for resistive switching data storage applications in reference to the well‐documented hafnium oxide (HfO2). The observed local chemical state from X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis yields a nonlattice oxygen peak in O 1s spectra, indicating the resistive switching potential of polycrystalline MgO analogous to the amorphous HfO2 as‐deposited thin films. The optical investigation through UV–visible spectroscopic and photoluminescence examination reveals the high transmissivity of HfO2 (84–98%) and MgO (86–88%) thin films in visible and near‐infrared domains, with a high bandgap of 5.6 and 4.2 eV, respectively, implying the possibility of two distinct stable states essential for resistive switching phenomena. Additionally, the electrical characterization manifests bipolar switching phenomena in HfO2 and MgO metal–oxide–metal stacks with SET transitions at 0.6 and 0.5 V, followed by RESET transitions at −0.6 and −0.5 V, respectively. Both oxides in respective stacks exhibit dominant Ohmic conduction in high‐resistive and low‐resistive regions during positive and negative bias. These observations propose MgO as a preferable resistive switching material for nonvolatile data storage applications, showing similar properties of widely studied HfO2.


We use archival data from the Phoenix Deep Survey to investigate the variable radio source population above 1mJy/beam at 1.4GHz. Given the similarity of this survey to other such surveys we take the opportunity to investigate the conflicting results which have appeared in the literature. Two previous surveys for variability conducted with the Very Large Array (VLA) achieved a sensitivity of 1mJy/beam. However, one survey found an areal density of radio variables on timescales of decades that is a factor of ~4 times greater than a second survey which was conducted on timescales of less than a few years. In the Phoenix deep field we measure the density of variable radio sources to be $\rho =0.98\mathrm{deg}^{-2}$ on timescales of 6 months to 8 years. We make use of WISE infrared cross-ids, and identify all variable sources as an AGN of some description. We suggest that the discrepancy between previous VLA results is due to the different time scales probed by each of the surveys, and that radio variability at 1.4 GHz is greatest on timescales of 2 - 5 years.


Four merchants and philosophers in 1783 the first abolition association, 1783-87 the London Abolition Committee, 1783-88 investigations, examinations, publications, 1788-91 the abolitionist breakthrough, 1791-92 the abolitionist breakdown, 1792-98 success, 1803-7 three merchants philosophers in retirement, 1807-27 significance. appendix: family histories of Joseph Woods, Samuel Hoare, James Philip, and George Harrison.


The glucuronidation process is generally believed to be not impaired by renal disease (Reidenberg, 1977). Recent reports, however, indicate that the elimination of drugs such as clofibric acid and diflunisal is slowed in these patients (Faed & McQueen, 1979; Gugler, 1979; Verbeeck et al., 1979) despite the fact that these compounds are mainly eliminated in man by glucuronide conjugation. Possible explanations for the impaired elimination of these drugs in renal failure include: (1) systemic deconjugation of accumulating glucuronides (Faed & McQueen, 1979; Faed, 1980; Gugler, 1979); (2) biliary excretion of drug glucuronide followed by hydrolysis in the gut and reabsorption of parent compound (Levy, 1979) and (3) impaired glucuronidation (end-product inhibition or defect glucuronlytransferase system) of the parent compound (Perrier, Ashley & Levy, 1973). Lorazepam is eliminated in man almost exclusively by glucuronidation (Schillings, Russel & Ruelius, 1975). It has been shown in an earlier study that the elimination of a single oral lorazepam dose was not influenced by chronic renal failure (Verbeeck et al., 1976). However, excessive accumulation of lorazepam glucuronide was found in the same study. The present communication describes the elimination of lorazepam following single and multiple oral administration in two patients with chronic renal failure. Two patients with chronic renal failure gave their informed consent to participate in this study. Patient I (57 years old, male, left nephrectomy for renal lithiasis, hydronephrosis of right kidney, CICR < 5 ml/min, BUN: 181 mg/100 ml) received four doses of oral lorazepam (2.5 mg) with an interval of 12 h. Patient II (28 years old, male, congenital ureter achalasia, CICR < 5 ml/min, BUN: 275 mg/100 ml) received three consecutive oral doses of 2.5 mg lorazepam and was then released from the hospital. Lorazepam was interrupted due to progressive sleepiness. Upon rehospitalization for ureter surgery a few days later, lorazepam intake was started again and five consecutive doses were administered with a 12 h interval. Plasma concentrations of lorazepam were measured by GC-ECD as previously described (Verbeeck et al., 1976). Lorazepam half-life values after the first dose were 10 h and 12 h in patient I and patient II respectively. Both values correspond well with previously reported half-lives in both healthy subjects and chronic renal failure patients (Greenblatt et al., 1979; Verbeeck et al., 1976). Following subchronic oral administration of lorazepam, however, its elimination half-life was greatly prolonged in both patients (Figures 1 and 2). In patient II the surgical procedure may have influenced the disposition of lorazepam but the half-life 4 4 4


Eco-efficiency of arable land utilization (EALU) emphasizes efficient coordination between land use systems and ecosystems. It is therefore of great significance for agricultural sustainability based on the systematic assessment of EALU. This study took carbon emissions and non-point source pollution resulting from arable land utilization into the measurement system of EALU, and a super-SBM model, kernel density estimation and Tobit regression model were used to analyze regional differences and influencing factors of EALU for 31 provinces in China from 2000 to 2019. The results showed that there was an upward trend in EALU in China from 0.4393 in 2000 to 0.8929 in 2019, with an average annual growth rate of 4.01%. At the regional level, the EALU of three categories of grain functional areas generally maintains an increasing trend, with the highest average value of EALU in main grain marketing areas (MGMAs), followed by grain producing and marketing balance areas (GPMBAs) and main grain producing areas (MGPAs). There are obvious differences in EALU among provinces, and the number of provinces with high eco-efficiency has increased significantly, showing a spatial distribution pattern of "block" clustering. In terms of dynamic evolution, kernel density curves reflect the evolution of EALU in China and grain functional areas with different degrees of polarization characteristics. The results of Tobit regression show that natural conditions, financial support for agriculture, science and technology inputs, level of industrialization, agricultural mechanization, and the living standards of farmers are significant factors resulting in regional disparities of EALU. Therefore, this study proposes the implementation of differentiated arable land use/agricultural management strategies to improve the sustainable utilization of arable land.


The research deals with assessment of water quality of Euphrates River which passes through the middle of Iraq, samples were taken from three sites on river. The distance covered by these sites is about (30)km (between Al Mussayeb and Al Hindiya cities). In these sites, the river suffers from different sources of pollution. The paper included a study of some physical, chemical, and biological properties (Water Visibility, salinity, electrical connectivity, pH, DO, BOD5, and Chlorophyll). The results are analyzed by using the GIS which requires building a network database which is linked to GIS to make benefit from its analysis power and geographical distribution of data across the study area. The clear data display enables the environment interests of understanding and interpreting the actual results and responding by taking actions the preserve the natural features of the river and its dependences accordingly. The database used to keep tracking the physical, chemical, and biological pollutants and archiving their behavior through the time.


The magnetic properties of any substance in nature can be condensed into a unique parameter: the volume magnetic susceptibility <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\chi $ </tex-math></inline-formula>. Its value and sign indicate if a given material is diamagnetic, paramagnetic, or ferromagnetic. Accurate measurements of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\chi $ </tex-math></inline-formula> for paramagnetic or diamagnetic substances are generally performed with high-tech devices with relatively complex methods. Simple methods proposed to determine <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\chi $ </tex-math></inline-formula> for everyday materials result in inaccurate measurements (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ge 50$ </tex-math></inline-formula>%). Here, we propose a simple, practical, and low-cost method to accurately obtain <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\chi $ </tex-math></inline-formula>, via measurements performed with an ordinary balance and a set of neodymium magnets. The force exerted by the magnets on a given sample is sensed by the balance and, via comparison with exact numerical calculations of the magnetic force on the whole sample, the magnetic susceptibility can be determined. The shape, size, and position of the sample relative to the magnets as well as the number of neodymium magnets are optimized to maximize the magnetic force on the sample and, therefore, minimize the experimental uncertainties in the determination of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\chi $ </tex-math></inline-formula>.


This paper analyzes the connotation of symbol and its extension meaning, and it emphatically elaborates the basic concept of color symbol, the emotion that colors deliver to people, and people's identity of colors. Through analyzing color symbol and combining with the understanding of the general procedure of product color design, it proposes to make use of color symbol editing, decoding, and color quantitative inductive analysis to guide the idea of color design of products. In particular, it expounds that reasonably sorting out the color system of relevant products can be used for color design of subsequent products, so as to perfectly combine color application with product design, to make colors give strong life and power to products.


Abstract Cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) for human and autonomous self-driving aims to achieve active safe driving that avoids vehicle accidents or traffic jam by exchanging the road traffic information (e.g., traffic flow, traffic density, velocity variation, etc.) among neighbor vehicles. However, in CACC, the butterfly effect is encountered while exhibiting asynchronous brakes that easily lead to backward shock-waves and are difficult to remove. Several critical issues should be addressed in CACC, including (i) difficulties with adaptive steering of the inter-vehicle distances among neighbor vehicles and the vehicle speed, (ii) the butterfly effect, (iii) unstable vehicle traffic flow, etc. To address the above issues in CACC, this paper proposes the mobile edge computing-based vehicular cloud of the cooperative adaptive driving (CAD) approach to avoid shock-waves efficiently in platoon driving. Numerical results demonstrate that the CAD approach outperforms the compared techniques in the number of shock-waves, average vehicle velocity, average travel time and time to collision (TTC). Additionally, the adaptive platoon length is determined according to the traffic information gathered from the global and local clouds.


Objectives this research to evaluate the relationship between workload, working position, andmusculoskeletal complaints in coconut farmers in Essang, Talaud Regency, North Sulawesi. Method: Across-sectional study using rapid entire body assessment (REBA), Nordic Body Map (NBM) questionnaires,and guidelines for workload assessment from the Indonesian National Standard (SNI). Data werecollected between April 1 and May 31, 2021. Dependent variable is musculoskeletal complaint scoresaccording to NBM, while independent variables include workload based on assessment using SNI, andworking position according to REBA scores. Dependent and independent variables relationships aredetermined through Spearman correlation analysis. Results: Samples were 57 male farmers with amedian age of 46 (IQR 28-56) years. Musculoskeletal problems mainly affect the upper back and lowerextremities. Working position scores are generally at moderate risk (score 4-7; 42%) or very high (score11-15; 28%). Median workload score was 348 (IQR 250-505). The correlation of workload and workingposition with musculoskeletal complaints was moderate (r=0.33; p<0.05) and strong (r=0.76; p<0.01),respectively. Conclusion: Musculoskeletal complaints have a positive relationship with workload andworking position. Prevention of excessive workload and bad working position is important to considerfor the improvement of musculoskeletal complaints.


A 32-year-old male patient reported with a painless swelling over right cheek and is slowly growing in size for the past 2 years. Incisional biopsy revealed the lesion as Ossifying fibroma (OF), which is not very common in the maxilla. Surgical excision and primary closure was successfully carried out with no postoperative complications. The case was followed for a period of 3 years with no evidence of recurrence.


A method for judging the interaction between a first protein and a second protein, wherein the method includes: a step for expressing in a cell or introducing into a cell a first fusion protein that includes the first protein, a crosslinkable protein, and a fluorescent protein, and a second fusion protein that includes the second protein and a crosslinkable protein; a step for detecting a fluorescent bright spot produced by the association of the first fusion protein and second fusion protein in the cell; and a step for judging the interaction between the first protein and second protein on the basis of the detection of this fluorescent bright spot.


We have developed a new technique1 for direct optical observation of domain wall (DW) polarity (direction of midwall magnetization M) in order to determine the location of vertical Bloch lines (VBL) in LPE bismuth based garnet films with perpendicular anisotropy. A polarizing light microscope with slope illumination of the sample (one‐side dark‐field observation technique) and a quartz quarter wave plate, placed behind the objective, were used for phase corrections so that some DW (or segments) are shaded. Equations describing intensity distributions of the light diffracted by magnetic inhomogeneities were obtained from diffraction theory. 1 The phase relations between complex amplitudes E p and E s of the diffracted wave were shown to be a function of the DW polarity. According to this theory, the diffracted light from domain walls of opposite polarity will exhibit a dark light for suitable conditions of polarizer and quarter wave plate orientation. The theoretical results were experimentally verified. The proposed magneto‐optic (MO) technique where the image contrast depends on the polarity of DW segments differs from that of Refs. 2 and 3 since we used the phase correction (plate λ/4) and an electronic or computer processing of the image were not needed.


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We propose a transmission type dual beam splitter based on all-dielectric encoded metasurface. In order to improve the efficiency of the device, we propose to construct the coding metasurface using double-sided all-dielectric cylindrical cell structure. Based on the electromagnetic dipole resonance characteristics of the all-dielectric resonator, two all-dielectric elements with transmission phase difference π were obtained, and 1-bit coded metasurface was constructed to achieve beam splitting characteristics of incident waves. Based on the finite integral method, we numerically simulate the far-field scattering characteristics of coded metasurface beam splitter. It is found that the number of digital repeats of coding unit particles has a great influence on beam splitting when constructing coding metasurface due to the coupling effect between particles. The energy ratio of double beam splitting can be continuously regulated by changing the incident angle. The dual-beam splitter we designed also has broadband characteristics.


Objective To study clinical significance of amino-terminal portion of brain natriuretic peptide levels in elderly patients emergency with dyspnea.Methods 182 elderly patients with dyspnea were divided into cardiogenic dyspnea and pulmonary dyspnea group.Plasma NT-proBNP content and cardiac ultrasound doppler were examined and compared between the 2 groups,then the connection between the content of NT-proBNP and left ventricular ejection fraction correlation was analyzed.Results It contained 108.5±25.7 pg/ml NT-proBNP in the pulmonary dyspnea group and 945.1±143.8 pg/ml in the cardiogenic dyspnea group(P=0.001).Correlation analysis showed that NT-proBNP and left ventricular ejection fraction was negatively correlated in the elderly cardiogenic dyspnea group(r=-0.62,P0.01).Conclusion NT-proBNP has certain clinical significance for the differential diagnosis in elder patients with dyspnea.


Computer science (CS) as a field is characterized by significant disparities in the representation of people groups from minority populations. In this phenomenological study we sought to understand how middle school boys from minority groups perceive CS and related careers with the goal of identifying the factors that contribute to their career intentions. Specifically we sought to answer the following questions: How are salient factors reported by middle school boys related to CS career aspirations associated with their cultural values? How do perceived barriers shape their career intentions? And how do high CS interest and negative perceptions interact to affect CS career intentions? Although CS was not the first career choice of any of the students interviewed in this study, the results of interview analyses revealed differing attitudes. Several participants self-identified with the field and activities associated with the profession. Those who identified with CS saw CS as a career option accessible to everyone. CS career intentions were associated with students' interest and self-identification with CS. These, too, were associated with student perception of the field as "difficult." Finally, while negative CS stereotypes generally dissuaded students from the field, surprisingly, in the case of "computer scientists are not athletic", this had the opposite effect. Participants seemed to view this specific stereotype as a compelling myth to disprove.


Segmented all‐electron relativistically contracted (SARC) basis sets are presented for the elements 37Rb–54Xe, for use with the second‐order Douglas–Kroll–Hess approach and the zeroth‐order regular approximation. The basis sets have a common set of exponents produced with established heuristic procedures, but have contractions optimized individually for each scalar relativistic Hamiltonian. Their compact size and loose segmented contraction, which is in line with the construction of SARC basis sets for heavier elements, makes them suitable for routine calculations on large systems and when core spectroscopic properties are of interest. The basis sets are of triple‐zeta quality and come in singly or doubly polarized versions, which are appropriate for both density functional theory and correlated wave function theory calculations. The quality of the basis sets is assessed against large decontracted reference basis sets for a number of atomic and ionic properties, while their general applicability is demonstrated with selected molecular examples.


The 1-step and multiple-step KCl extraction technique was used to evaluate quantitatively the distribution of adsorbed NH 4 + in the 0-5 cm strata of 2 intertidal muddy structures from Marennes-Oleron Bay, France. KCl extraction efficiency was higher in the reconstituted sediment slurries and decreased significantly in the presence of porewater ions, leading to underestimations of the size of the pool of adsorbed, easily desorbed NH 4 + . Various pools of adsorbed NH 4 + were displaced from the sediment after reaction with KCl in multiple steps. Pools of tightly bound NH 4 + were much larger in runnels as opposed to ridges, and accounted for up to 32% (ridge) and 40% (runnel) of the NH 4 + desorbed from the sediment. These pools have important implications for the calculation of the K D value, the dimensionless NH 4 + distribution coefficient. Differing relationships between easily desorbed NH 4 + or tightly bound NH 4 + , on the one hand, and the sediment grain size, CaCO 3 and N content, on the other, suggest multiple origins for particulate matter in the sediment.


PAPUANS OF THE TRANS-FLY. By F. E. Williams. Clarendon Press. 1936. 30J. THE BLENDING OF CULTURES. By F. E. Williams. Government Printer, Port Moresby. 1935. ^^' The petition of Government Anthropologist in Papua, with Sir Hubert Murray as one's chief, is no sinecure, and Mr. Williams deserve every credit for his industry in continually adding to the series of the Territory's Anthropological Reports, of which these are the fifteenth and sixteenth. The first is a book, a record of field-work among comparatively untouched tribes in the south-west, carried out in conditions of great physical discomfort. It gives a good general account of the major aspects of the native life, and the author is to be congratulated on having made a valuable addition to Papuan ethnography. Considering that he could spend only ten months in the field altogether, on five separate expeditions, and that he worked through interpreters, his material is of surprising depth, and is documented with many examples fi-om personal observation. A brief chapter on ethnic grouping is useful in clarifying our knowledge of the distribution of linguistic and cultural types in the area, while it shows also how much intercommunication and social exchange takes place between these scattered tribes. To this an added value is given by Dr. Haddon's introduction, which relates Williams' material to what is known of other tribes of the extreme west. The analysis of the kinship organization of the Keraki shows a curious three-section division which is aligned also in a moiety arrangement; in several respects, such as the ascription to the moieties of differences of physical type, this structure resembles that of east Australian tribes. The author insists that an explanation of this organization in terms of present relationships is impossible, and puts forward as a hypothesis of origins the well-worn theme of contact between an indigenous and an immigrant people. The difficulty is that such a hypoth^is does not go far to provide the answer; supplementary hypotheses are immediately required to explain the sporadic distribution of a dual organization in other parts of Papua, and its absence in areas where there appears to have been at least as clear a cultural admixture and contact of peoples as in the Keraki field. It might be equally well argued that this moiety arrangement was not developed in New Guinea but was introduced in toto, and this view could be supported by reference^to the Australian parallels, to the native statemients that the two places of mythic origin of the people are not separate dispersal centres of the two moieties, and to


The purpose of this study was to extract gelatine from skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) head bones, which is an abundant by-product of tuna canning factories. Acid-hydrolysis method was used. Used extraction condition was 70 ◦C, 90 min and 0.4% HCL. The gelatine sheets yield of raw material and gel strength were respectively 6.50% and 37.35 g. The results of chemical properties of the skipjack tuna (K. pelamis) head gelatine were 83.70% protein, 6.58% lipid, 6.09% moisture and 1.13% ash contents, and the pH, viscosity at 60 ◦C, gelling point, and melting point values were 4.7, 6.0 cP, 4-10 ◦C, and 25-27 ◦C, respectively. According to the results, skipjack tuna (K. pelamis) head gelatine complies with the physicochemical and functional requirements of Iranian National Standardization Organization for an edible gelatine. Therefore, skipjack tuna (K. pelamis) heads of tuna canning factories are a potential source for producing good quality gelatine that could be used in food and introduced for pharmaceutical applications.


The purpose of this paper is to test the validity of the purchasing power parity (PPP) doctrine in Brazil. Historical data for the period 1855–1996 are considered. The period 1855–1990 is also analysed in order to compare the results with those obtained by Zini and Cati (1993) using the conventional cointegration analysis. This article uses fractional cointegration analysis, a flexible methodology which allows for more subtle forms of mean reversion. The tests performed are those of Geweke and Porter-Hudak (1983), and of Hurvich and Ray (1995). The critical values for both tests are generated by simulation because they are non-standard. The empirical results do not support the absolute PPP hypothesis but the relative PPP holds in the long run.


Starting from the analysis of the salt tax, by expatiating on the policy making and the operation of the Government of the Republican China, this thesis attempts to analyze the various restricting factors that disconnect the policy and its applications. The thesis also evaluates the positive and negative effects-of the salt tax by applying theoretical approaches in financial studies and taxation studies. The analysis lays bare the fact that raising the tax rate was a main means of reforms, and that the Kuomingtang Government paid hardly any attention to the national construction and the strengthening of taxation foundation. As a result, the studies show that the Kuomingtang Government practiced its policy only for the sake of the ruling class, and that the consequences and the orientation of the policies are correlated.


The infrared ans spontaneous Raman spectra of the cyanine dye 3,3'-diethyloxadicarbocyanine iodide (DODCI) and its six analogues, 3,3'-diethylthiacarbocyanine iodide (DTCI), 3,3'-diethyl-9-methylthiacarbocyanine iodide (MDTCI), 3,3'-diethylthiacarbpcyanine iodide (DTDCI), 3,3'-diethylselenacarbocyanine iodide (DSCI), 3,3'-diethyloxacarbocyanine iodide (DOCI), and 3,3'-diethyloxatricarbocyanine iodide (DOTCI), have been measured


Humans develop substantially post-birth, and the nature of their development is significantly influenced by complex interactions between genes and environments. This paper explores the nature of genetic effects, the value of distinguishing between common and unique (non-shared) environments in twins and siblings, and considers some of the specific developmental events which impact on a child's developing nervous system. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Background: In Egypt, cannabis is on the top list of the substances abused according to statistics of Fund for Drug Control and Treatment of Addiction. Its widespread use translates to greater access for children. Cannabis intoxication in young children can cause encephalopathy and coma. Aim: to evaluate the prevalence of acute cannabis intoxication in pre-school children (less than 6yrs) in Egypt; analysis of different factors related to the problem, clinical picture, management, assessment of severity and outcome of the problem by poison severity score (PSS). Method: prospective observational cross sectional study carried on all pre-school children (less than 6yrs) of both sex who admitted to PCC-ASUH, during the period from first of March 2019 to the end of December 2019, with history of acute cannabis intoxication and confirmed by cannabis positive screen. Results: The prevalence of acute cannabis intoxicated pre-school children (less than 6yrs) was 89.9%.The mean age was (17.38 month ±8.75). Fifty four percentages were males. As regard PSS, the majority of patients (55.1%) were of group II, while (31.4%) were of group I & (13.5%) were of group III. Regarding clinical manifestations; tachycardia observed in (5.8%), hypertension in (13.5%), tachypnea (18%), drowsiness (31.4%), muscle rigidity (21.5%), extra-pyramidal manifestations presented in (21.5%), coma grade I in (67.7%), coma grade II in (0.9%), respiratory distress in (1.8%), vomiting in (17.9%), mydriasis in (13%), miosis in (18.8%), flushed skin (12.1%) and respiratory acidosis (26.5%) of patients .ICU admission occurred in (68,7%) of patients and the majority were admitted ≥24 hours (65.9%). Conclusions: The prevalence of acute cannabis toxicity in pre-school children (less than 6yrs) has dramatically increased. Severity of acute cannabis intoxication in pre-school children(less than 6yrs) can be evaluated simply by using PSS. Recommendation: Public education is very necessary to decrease the problem. Early arterial blood gas analysis with careful neurological examination could help in identifying patients at risk.


The diagnosis of a bleeding Meckel's diverticulum was made by angiography in a 22-year-old man who presented with lower gastrointestinal bleeding. The diagnosis was confirmed by barium examination. Angiographic findings included abnormal-appearing embryonic branches of the superior mesenteric artery, hypervascular areas thought to represent ectopic gastric mucosa, and contrast medium accumulation within the wall of the Meckel's diverticulum itself.


Estrogen Sulfotransferase (EST/SULT1E1) is a phase II conjugating enzyme which catalyzes the sulfonation of estrogen and estrogen like compounds. EST belongs to a large class of cytosolic sulfotransferases that are widespread in human and animal tissues, and facilitate sulfoconjugation through a donor co-substrate, 3′-phosphoadenosine 5′-phosphosulfate (PAPS). EST is an estrogen preferring sulfotransferase; among all human sulfotransferases it has the highest affinity for Estradiol (E2).
The goal of this dissertation is to determine whether and how EST plays a role in human adipogenesis. Adipogenesis is the process whereby preadipocytes are stimulated to differentiate into functional mature adipocytes. The role of EST in adipogenesis has been studied in rodents, however in humans no studies have been published that address the role of EST in adipogenesis. In this dissertation we have uncovered a novel role for estrogen sulfotransferase in human adipogenesis. By using human primary adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) and whole-fat tissues from the abdominal subcutaneous fat of obese and non-obese subjects, we showed that the expression of EST was low in preadipocytes but increased upon differentiation. Overexpression and knockdown of EST in ASCs promoted and inhibited differentiation, respectively. The pro-adipogenic activity of EST in humans was opposite to the anti-adipogenic effect of the same enzyme in rodents. Mechanistically, EST promoted adipogenesis by deactivating estrogens. The pro-adipogenic effect of EST can be recapitulated by using an estrogen receptor (ER) antagonist or ER alpha knockdown. In contrast, activation of ER in ASCs inhibited adipogenesis by decreasing the recruitment of the adipogenic peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR) onto its target gene promoters, whereas ER antagonism increased the recruitment of PPAR to its target gene promoters. Linear regression analysis revealed a positive correlation between the expression of EST and body mass index (BMI), as well as a negative correlation between ER alpha expression and BMI. We conclude that EST is a pro-adipogenic factor which may serve as a druggable target to inhibit the turnover and accumulation of adipocytes in obese patients.


The dissertation examines how globalization and digitalization concur to rewrite the notion of «media system» in overcoming national boundaries. For many years, in fact, there has been a coincidence between boundaries of media systems and those of national states; nowadays, the growth of supranational organizations, non-state actors and transnational relations made possible by the development of digital media led to a change of paradigm.
The research dwells on cases of Spain and Italy, two countries that belong to the "pluralist-polarized model" (Hallin and Mancini, 2004) and that share some characteristics of communication system, in the belief that a comparative analysis focused on "most similar systems" (Przeworski and Teune, 1970) can help to highlight the difference between them. Both media systems have been related to globalization and digitalization degrees and analysed in a macro perspective according to four crucial dimensions: internationalization of media ownership, development of new technologies, supranational references in media laws, language legacies and diffusion of Hispanic and Italic media worldwide.


Background: Hallux valgus (HV) has been previously associated with psychological disorders. Thus, the purposes of this study were to associate kinesiophobia and pain intensity with HV deformity degrees, as well as predict kinesiophobia and pain intensity based on HV deformity and demographic features. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out recruiting 100 subjects, who were divided into HV deformity degrees, such as I-no HV (n = 25), II-mild (n = 25), III-moderate (n = 25), and IV-severe (n = 25) HV. Kinesiophobia total and domains (activity avoidance and harm) scores and levels were self-reported by the Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK-11). Pain intensity was self-reported by the numeric rating scale (NRS). Results: Statistically significant differences (p < 0.01; η2 = 0.132–0.850) were shown for between-groups comparison of kinesiophobia total and domain scores (activity avoidance and harm) and levels, as well as pain intensity among HV deformity degrees. Post hoc comparisons showed statistically significant differences with a large effect size (p < 0.05; d = 0.85–4.41), showing higher kinesiophobia symptoms and levels and pain intensity associated with greater HV deformity degrees, especially for III-moderate and/or IV-severe HV deformity degrees versus I-no HV and/or II-mild deformity degrees. Both statistically significant prediction models (p < 0.05) for kinesiophobia (R2 = 0.300) and pain intensity (R2 = 0.815) were predicted by greater HV deformity degree and age. Conclusions: Greater kinesiophobia symptoms and levels and pain were associated with higher HV deformity degrees, especially severe and/or moderate HV with respect to no and/or mild HV. The kinesiophobia and pain intensity were predicted by greater HV deformity degree and age.


Satellite system has many frequency bands, Ku-band is the most used bands in satellite services like DVB, DAB, Internet. The ionosphere influences specially, Rain along the transmission path is the major weather effect of concern for satellite communications operating at frequencies above 10 GHz. Raindrops absorb and scatter radio wave energy, which degrades the reliability and performance of the communication link. Rain effects are dependent on frequency, rain rate, drop size distribution and drop shape, which are determined by the type of rain rain has the direct effect on the satellite signal and causes decrease in the received signal. This paper is an attempt to study, calculation of rain effect in Iraqi Kurdistan region. As shown in the results presented that the horizontal polarized signals affected more than vertical polarized signals, also, the location of the earth station. This paper give the simulated data bout the rain effect in  Iraqi Kurdistan region for the five Governorates in order to compensate the loss caused by the rain. Finally, some solutions and recommendations presented to reduce the rain effect hope be useful for any satellite system users in any locations to minimize this effect, improvement and increase in the received signal.


The paper outlines some ideas on teaching geometry at technical faculties as well as various possibilities and advantages of the application of Math- ematica in teaching. A few examples demonstrate the use of Mathematica vi- sualizations in teaching geometry at the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Zagreb. These examples are extracts from lectures, internet pages and students' projects on algebraic ruled surfaces and on Gaussian and mean curvature.


Sulfur hexafluoride is the most commonly used insulation gas in electrical systems. Gas insulated systems are widely used in the electric power industry for transmission and distribution of electrical energy. Major companies of the electric power industry for transmission and distribution of electrical energy are developing new products on applied for Ultra High Voltage, compact, cost-effective, Large-capacity, High-reliability. In addition, studies using environmentally friendly products instead of SF6 gas insulated or are looking for ways to reduce the use of SF6 gas, but the most important part of the product is applied to the compact insulation material. It needs to be addressed primarily to the downsizing goals of GIS[1] The compact size does not meet the insulation when the insulating performance to basically have a GIS. Also if there is a particle inside has a significant effect on insulating properties This paper presents a study on Improvement of Spacer's Insulation performance for compact of High voltage power apparatus. This study is the purpose of performance enhancement through the change of the insulating material. After evaluating the electrical and mechanical performance to determine the applicability of the product.


Critical information related to a software developer'scurrent task is trapped in technical developer discussions,bug reports, code reviews, and other software artefacts. Muchof this information pertains to the proper use of code elements(e.g., methods and classes) that capture vital problem domainknowledge. To understand the purpose of these code elements, software developers must either access documentation and online posts and understand the source code or peruse a substantial amount of text. In this paper, we use the context that surrounds code elements in StackOverflow posts to summarize the use and purpose of code elements. To provide focus to our investigation, we consider the generation of summaries for library identifiers discussed in StackOverflow. Our automatic summarization approach was evaluated on a sample of 100 randomly-selected library identifiers with respect to a benchmark of summaries provided by two annotators. The results show that the approach attains an R-precision of 54%, which is appropriate given the diverse ways in which code elements can be used.


PURPOSE
To implement a common database structure and user-friendly web-browser based data collection tools across several medical institutions to better support evidence-based clinical decision making and comparative effectiveness research through shared outcomes data.

METHODS
A consortium of four academic medical centers agreed to implement a federated database, known as Oncospace. Initial implementation has addressed issues of differences between institutions in workflow and types and breadth of structured information captured. This requires coordination of data collection from departmental oncology information systems (OIS), treatment planning systems, and hospital electronic medical records in order to include as much as possible the multi-disciplinary clinical data associated with a patients care.

RESULTS
The original database schema was well-designed and required only minor changes to meet institution-specific data requirements. Mobile browser interfaces for data entry and review for both the OIS and the Oncospace database were tailored for the workflow of individual institutions. Federation of database queries--the ultimate goal of the project--was tested using artificial patient data. The tests serve as proof-of-principle that the system as a whole--from data collection and entry to providing responses to research queries of the federated database--was viable. The resolution of inter-institutional use of patient data for research is still not completed.

CONCLUSIONS
The migration from unstructured data mainly in the form of notes and documents to searchable, structured data is difficult. Making the transition requires cooperation of many groups within the department and can be greatly facilitated by using the structured data to improve clinical processes and workflow. The original database schema design is critical to providing enough flexibility for multi-institutional use to improve each institution s ability to study outcomes, determine best practices, and support research. The project has demonstrated the feasibility of deploying a federated database environment for research purposes to multiple institutions.


In an experiment at Quinta da Cavadinha, Sabrosa, Douro Region the behaviour of the varieties Touriga Nacional (TN), Tinta Barroca (TB), Touriga Franca (TF) and Tinta Roriz (TR), grafted onto the rootstocks Rupestris du Lot, R110, R99, 1103P and 19617, respectively, was accessed over 11 years (2001-2011). The main results point to a significant influence of the environmental conditions in different years, especially those providing reduced water availability and greater heat stress: 2004, 2005, and 2009. Crop yields followed the sequence TR, TF, TB>TN, with highest oenological aptitude for TN and climate adaptive capacity to the TF. In terms of the rootstocks we confirm the lower production induced by R. Lot compared with R99, whilst 196-17 offered a good compromise between yield and quality for a large range of climate conditions.


Protection of induction motors can be enhanced with today's microprocessor-based protective relays and a slip- dependent thermal model. This paper briefly introduces the concept of the thermal model and explains how to apply a slip- dependent thermal model to better protect motors in retrofit applications, where very little data are available. In such cases, assumptions must be made to estimate safe locked-rotor times based on historical motor starting times and electromechanical relay settings. These assumptions are then checked by reviewing motor start report data collected on the initial starts of the motor. Thermal capacity measured during start is used to validate the improved protection and settings may then be revised without the risk of a trip on normal starts. The motor start reports from multiple motors will be presented, along with the protection settings produced in this manner. The paper describes how microprocessor-based protection is successfully provided for all conditions in this application, replacing the thermal overload protection, which had been blocked for two minutes during starting because of the difficulties in starting high-inertia loads.


The Iqro' has been proven as an effective method to improve literacy for reading Hijaiyah letters which are the fundamental skill for reading the Qur'an. The Iqro method relies on a mentor to evaluate the accuracy of the student's pronunciation of the Hijaiyah letters. With the advancement of mobile technology, many mobile apps are available to assist the learning process. However, the existing solution that is available on the market only provides a one-way learning experience where users only focus on enhancing vocabulary, writing, and reading ability with a simple true-false assessment. Although enhancing the vocabulary and reading ability is important, training the correct Makhraj (Arabic pronunciation) is also essential in fundamental Hijaiyah learning. This paper presents the feasibility investigation of the usage of the pitch, volume, and rhythm as the more comprehensive audio assessment parameters in the voice recognition module to evaluate the student's ability to pronounce the Hijaiyah letter in an m-learning implementation. Instead of just presenting the true-false output, the proposed method will calculate the Makhraj correctness in the range 0 to 100. Experimental results with 10 respondents show that the sample correlation coefficient using Pearson between a manual assessment by Ustaz and the application result for Iqro' level 1 is 0.51 which means this approach is acceptable for future implementation.


The financing problem in promoting socialization endowment in Anhui rural was analyzed.It was thought that selecting financing pattern should fully refer to successful experience of new type rural cooperative medical system promotion in Anhui,implementing financing pattern of "total accumulation,defined contribution",integrating all kinds of endowment security resource,so as to achieve the goal of complementary advantage.


There are number of oil and gas export pipelines in Absheron peninsula, Azerbaijan, which cross the Kura River downstream of the important road and railway bridges. The investigated area of pipeline crossing the river stream is located at the North-West of Azerbaijan. Prior to the pipeline construction at the investigated area an island was formed and continued growing in the center of the river, downstream of the bridges and near the river crossing. The formation and growth of the island has a significant impact on the channel morphology. It resulted with certain effects to the linear system integrity.


The paper analyses the efficiency of extension programs in the adoption of chemical fertilisers in Ethiopia between 1994 and 2004. Fertiliser adoption provides a suitable strategy to ensure and stabilize food production in remote vulnerable areas. Extension services programs have a long history in supporting the application of fertiliser. How-ever, their efficiency is questioned. In our analysis, we focus on seven villages with a considerable time lag in fertiliser diffusion. Using matching techniques avoids sample selection bias in the comparison of treated (households received extension service) and controlled households. Additionally to common factors, measures of culture, proxied by ethnicity and religion, aim to control for potential tensions between extension agents and peasants that hamper the efficiency of the program. We find a considerable impact of extension service on the first fertiliser adoption. The impact is consistent for five of seven villages.


The purpose of the study to determine small differences in income trader before and after the extension of credit at the bank BRI Branch Tenggarong Kutai regency. Summary of the study is whether earnings results in different small traders before and after the extension of credit in the bank BRI branch Tenggarong City Kutai. Basic theory used in this study Financial Management covers the meaning, purpose, people business credit, micro and small business income. From the results of research using formulas growth (growth) with Yt-1 that is income before using Credit of People with an average of Rp 3.338.095,238. and Y, is income after using Credit of People with an average of Rp 4542857.143 to create interval obtained Rp 1,204,761.90. Reveals that there is a difference, or rather positive growth in revenue after using Credit of Representatives with an average growth of 39.87% which indicates that the contribution of Bank BRI units Tenggarong have a positive value or it can be said as the higher earnings before using Credit of Representatives (KUR) then will the higher the income level changes that will be recovered operators micro and Small Enterprises (UMK in Sub Tenggarong will also increase)


This paper is under the research background of a switch machine production enterprise informatization projects, and the production schedule is mainly based on customer orders and sales forecasts. This paper mainly studies the combination of similar order processing sheets according to the similarity of types and specifications of products in an order processing sheet, and the experience of master production scheduling personnel, to generate the master production scheduling methods and techniques. Finally, studies the material requirements planning methods based on nested components, focusing on the configuration of parts and components of such products in the product configuration.


Objective: This study considered the unique and interactive roles of social norms from parents, friends and schools in predicting developmental trajectories of adolescent drinking and intoxication. Design and outcome measures: Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which followed adolescents (N = 18,921) for 13 years, we used discrete mixture modelling to identify unique developmental trajectories of drinking and of intoxication. Next, multilevel multinomial regression models examined the role of alcohol-related social norms from parents, friends and schoolmates in the prediction of youths' trajectory group membership. Results: Results demonstrated that social norms from parents, friends and schoolmates that were favourable towards alcohol use uniquely predicted drinking and intoxication trajectory group membership. Interactions between social norms revealed that schoolmate drinking played an important moderating role, frequently augmenting social norms from parents and friends. The current findings suggest that social norms from multiple sources (parents, friends and schools) work both independently and interactively to predict longitudinal trajectories of adolescent alcohol use. Conclusions: Results highlight the need to identify and understand social messages from multiple developmental contexts in efforts to reduce adolescent alcohol consumption and alcohol-related risk-taking.


This study aims to determine the effect of flipped-classroom based on guided inquiry learning system on students' learning outcomes of class XI students in SMA Negeri 8 Padang. The subject in this study were students of class XI MIPA 2 as the experiment class and students of class XI MIPA 1 as the control class using purposive technique sampling. The type of research is experimental quasi-equivalent control study design groups. The technique of data analysis used is two means similarity test (t-test). The object of this study is students' learning outcomes on reaction rate material. The instruments of this study is used in the formative test consists of the initial test (pretest) and the final test (posttest) with 17 numbers of multiple choice questions based on the learning objectives. The difference between the pretest and posttest scores for experiment class is 48,77 while for the control class is 41,18. Data analysis shows that the subject are normally distributed and homogeneous so the t-test can be done, and the value of thitung obtained is 1,71. This proves that the learning outcomes between experiment class and control classes have significant differences. Based on data analysis, it shows that flipped-classroom based on guided inquiry learning system has proven the improve students' learning outcomes significantly.


The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). International travels to Australia during the early stages of the pandemic prior to border closure provided avenues for this virus to spread into Australia. Studies of SARS-CoV-2 biogeographical distribution can contribute to the understanding of the viral original sources to Australia.

 This study aimed to investigate the clonality and ancestral sources of Australian SARS-CoV-2 isolates using phylogenetic methods.

 We retrieved 1,346 complete genomes from Australia along with 153 genomes from other countries from the GISAID and NCBI nucleotide databases as of the 14th May 2020. A representative dataset of 270 Australian and international sequences were resulted from performance of nucleotide redundancy reduction by CD-HIT. We then constructed a median-joining network by Network 10.1.0.0, and phylogenies by IQ-Tree, BEAST and FastTree. The Bayesian statistical dispersal-vicariance analysis (S-DIVA) and Bayesian interference for discrete areas (BayArea) built in RASP were used to reconstruct ancestral ranges over the phylogenetic trees.

 Two major clusters, from Europe and from Asia, were observed on the network of 183 haplotypes with distinct nucleotide variations. Analysis of ancestral area reconstruction over the phylogenies indicated most Australian SARS-CoV-2 sequences were disseminated from Europe and East Asia-Southeast Asia.

 The finding is genetic evidence for the geographic origins of the Australian SARS-CoV-2 sequences. Most Australian sequences were genetically similar to those from Europe and East Asia-Southeast Asia, which were also suggested as two main sources of introduction of SARS-CoV-2 to Australia.


STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF EMPLOYING WIND SCREENS AS A MEANS FOR PREVENTING VEHICLE ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY HIGH-VELOCITY CROSSWINDS. AN EXPERIMENTAL WIND SCREEN WAS INSTALLED ON A MOUNTAIN BRIDGE WHERE TRUCK TRAILERS HAD BEEN OVERTURNED BY SPORADIC GALE-FORCE CROSSWINDS. THE 10-FT-HIGH SCREEN WAS MADE OF 9-GAGE GALVANIZED STEEL CHAIN-LINK MESH FENCING WITH ALL OF THE APERTURES FILLED WITH CRIMPED ALUMINUM SLATS VERTICALLY PLACED. THE SPACES BETWEEN THE SLATS RESULTED IN A POROSITY OF 20 PERCENT.THE SCREEN HAS BEEN COMPLETELY SUCCESSFUL IN PREVENTING EITHER THE OVERTURNING OF VEHICLES OR LOSS OF DRIVER CONTROL DURING A 2-YEAR TEST PERIOD. THIS PAPER SUGGESTS OTHER TYPES OF LOCATIONS THAT MAY BENEFIT FROM WIND PROTECTION AND OFFERS BASIC DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS. /AUTHOR/


This study is motivated by the need to understand the determinants of performance in women-owned enterprises. We examine the relationship between strategic capabilities and firm performance with demographic characteristics as moderators in women-owned enterprises in Nairobi, Kenya. Results show that strategic capabilities have a significant effect on the overall performance. Further, IT capabilities and technological capabilities have a positive and significant relationship with performance. Only age has a negative and significant moderating effect. We recommend enhancement of technological capabilities among women entrepreneurs so that they can better direct their capabilities toward firm performance. Copyright © 2016 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Epidemiological studies indicate that the beneficial effects on cardiac disease of a moderate consumption of wine, particularly of red wine, are due at least partly to non-alcoholic compounds. This phenomenon, called the French paradox, has been attributed to polyphenolic compounds, called flavonoids, which are capable of playing a part in the prevention of atherosclerosis and in reducing thrombotic risk, an important trigger in cardiac attacks.


Assorted real life examples are indispensable to teaching, however, most engineering vibration textbooks are deficient in such examples, and most of them are exclusively mass-spring systems, especially the multi-degree-of-freedom case. To enrich lecture content, some triple-pendulum instances are presented. The parameters of these instances are tuned to have closed-form solutions. The principal vibration and free vibration of one instance are presented. These examples can be illustrated clearly and promptly in limited time and writing space.


A Research Project Submitted to Chandaria School of Business in Partial Fulfilment for the Award of Master of Science in Organizational Development Degree (MOD)


Mouthguards can reduce the risk of sports-related injuries, but the sheet material and thickness have a large effect on their efficacy and safety. This study was intended to predict the changes in thickness of molded products by clarifying the effect of the time interval between repeat moldings during the continuous use of a vacuum-forming machine. Ethylene vinyl acetate mouthguard sheets were used for thermoforming with a vacuum-forming machine. The working model was trimmed to a height of 23 mm at the maxillary central incisor and 20 mm at maxillary first molar. Five molding conditions were investigated: 1) molding was carried out after the sag at the center of the softened sheet was 15 mm (control); 2) sheet heating was started 5 min after the molding of the control (AF5-Re1); 3) sheet heating started 5 min after the molding of AF5-Re1 (AF5-Re2); 4) sheet heating started 10 min after the molding of the control (AF10-Re1); and 5) sheet heating started 10 min after the molding of AF10-Re1 (AF10-Re2). Sheet thickness after fabrication was determined for the incisal edge, labial surface, cusp, and buccal surface using a special caliper accurate to 0.1 mm. Thickness differences of the molding conditions were analyzed by two-way analysis of variance. Significant differences between the control and AF5-Re1 were observed at all measurement points (p < 0.01), but not between the control and AF10-Re1. AF10-Re2 became thinner than AF10-Re1 (p < 0.01). Reproducible molding results were obtained by waiting 10 min between the first and second moldings, but the third molded mouthguard was significantly thinner, despite this 10 min wait interval.


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Objective:To explore the new trends of incidence and treatment patterns of DCIS of the breast.Methods:479 patients with DCIS of the breast,who were diagnosed and treated at Hartford Hospital between 1982 and 1995,formed the population for this study. Retrospective study had been done via charts review and patients follow up.Results:The percentage of DCIS of the breast of all the breast cancer patients has steadily increased from 3 30% in 1982 to 17.35% in 1995.The upward trends are observed in all age groups above 40 years, but chiefly in the age group of 40-49 years, whose rates is higher than that of other age groups. Trends in management of DCIS patients include a decreasing reliance on mastectomy(from 100.00% to 21 95%) and increasing utilization of excision with or without irradiation (from 0.00 to 78.05%). Conclusions:In the last two decades, DCIS of the breast represents an increasing percentage of all breast cancer diagnoses.The percentage of DCIS of the breast has been steadily increasing between 1982 and 1995. The trend suggests a slightly younger patient population as compared with our entire breast cancer population. Mostly the conserving surgery with radiation therapy is the first choice for DCIS of the breast.