The deep-sea drilling vessel (D/V) Chikyu is a riser-equipped, dynamically positioned scientific drill ship built for the purpose of scientific research and exploratory expeditions. The vessel is designed to access scientific targets deeper than previously attempted, to depths of 7000 m below the seafloor, in order to recover core samples in the deep oceanic crust. Innovations and improvements of the drilling systems will be vital in order to withstand such extreme environments as temperatures of over 250 degree Celsius (deg. C) and pressures greater than 1000 atm. Efforts are also focused on the development of new types of coring systems including a turbo-corer as part of research into key technologies of national strategic importance. This study introduces the present status in development as well as new conceptual designs and technological work being carried out for coring systems that can achieve high performance and efficiency even under extreme drilling environments.


The invention discloses a Ti-Mn-Nb ternary alloy with a low Young's modulus and relates to alloy materials. According to the Ti-Mn-Nb ternary alloy with the low Young's modulus, the lower Young's modulus is provided, meanwhile, good tensile strength and elongation are achieved, and a harmful element to a human body is not contained. The Ti-Mn-Nb ternary alloy with the low Young's modulus comprises the following components of, by atomic percentage, 4%-12% of Mn, 2%-18% of Nb and the balance Ti. The Ti-Mn-Nb ternary alloy with the low Young's modulus is prepared by the following technical processes of compounding, electric arc melting under the protection of Ar gas, sample cutting forming and heat treating.


`Endemic' is a term ascribed to any taxonomic unit or taxon occurring in a restricted area, usually isolated by geographical or temporal barriers. The term 'endemism' was coined by Decandolle (1855) for the distribution of an organism in a limited geographical area. All endemics are classified on the basis of phytogeography irrespective of political boundaries. Engler (1882) recognised two kinds of endemism. One based on the preservation of ancient forms, which may have originated in entirely different regions and the other based on the development of new, entirely autochthonous forms.


................................................................................................ xii I.INTRODUCTION......................................................................................... 1 Background of the Problem........................................................... 1 Statement of the Problem.................................................................. 6 Purpose of the Study............................................................. 7 Variables............................................................................................ 8 Research Questions.......................................................................... 8 Research Hypotheses....................................................................... 9 Significance of the Study................................................................... 32 Operational Definitions................................................................... 33 II. LITERATURE REVIEW............................................................... 39 What is Organizational Sustainability ......................................... 39 Healthcare as a Business........................................................ 44 How HCPs View Organizational Sustainability............................ 46 Practical Tactics for Organization Sustainability........................... 57 III. METHODOLOGY...................................................................... 59 Introduction............................................................................59


Dental implants are well established as being a great option for replacing missing teeth and securing dentures. One such option, for patients who want a fixed restoration of their teeth in one day, is the all-on-4 procedure. This article explains the technique and provides a case example


The invention provides an apparatus and a method for practicing playing music on a musical instrument. The apparatus provides a stepped lesson comprised of a series of lesson steps about a subject music piece, each step providing practicing materials for a user to master for playing the subject music piece. The lesson steps are given to the user step by step. The apparatus stores a music-playing data set of a subject music piece for a reference and a music-playing data sets of the stepped lesson, and comprises a music-playing input device for the user to input music-playing manipulations. Theapparatus judges, at each of the lesson steps, the achievements of the user in comparison with the reference music-playing data. The apparatus keeps a pass/fail score table for recording pass/fail judgments about the achievements of the user with respect to the respective lesson steps. The user can practice lesson steps selectively with reference to the pass/fail score table about his/her achievements.


The urban population in India is at the interface of the process of development and environmental degradation. Concurrently the rural population continues to suffer from lack of sanitation and safe drinking water malnutrition and ecological insecurity. Although ecological degradation brings in its wake poverty and ill-health which combined jeopardize the productivity of the country the cost of their health impact was never considered seriously by the economic planners. This paper discusses the environmental and health problems of India which pose a significant challenge for the new millennium. With regard to the status of sanitation and wastewater disposal these remain a serious health risk in India with sanitation provided only as a lower priority while other areas of sanitation were neglected by economic planners. No definite approach to solid waste management has been made; housing and the peri-domestic environment of the vast majority of urban poor are insanitary; and air pollution from industrial vehicular and domestic sources has assumed extremely serious proportions in most of the major cities of the country. Moreover the burden of environmentally provoked diseases has increased and the number of noncommunicable diseases caused by air or noise pollution or chemical contamination of soil and water has risen.


The redox (Reduction-Oxidation) flow battery is one of the most promising rechargeable batteries due to its ability to average loads and output of power sources. The transient characteristics are well known as the remarkable feature of the battery. Then it can also compensate for a sudden voltage drop. The dynamics are governed by the chemical reactions, fluid flow, and electrical circuit of its structure. This causes the difficulty of the analysis at transient state. This paper discusses the transient behavior of the redox flow battery based on chemical reactions. The concentration change of vanadium ions depends on the chemical reactions and the flow of electrolysis solution. The chemical reaction rate is restricted by the attached external electric circuit. In this paper, a model of the transient behavior is introduced. The validity of the derived model is examined based on experiments for a tested micro-redox flow battery system.


In the present study, based on both morphologic and phylogenetic analyses, a new genus, Monourostylopsis n. gen., and new species, Metaurostylopsis alrasheidi n. sp. as well as a new combination, Monourostylopsis antarctica (Jung et al., 2011) n. comb. (original combination: Metaurostylopsis antarctica Jung et al., 2011), are suggested. The new genus is diagnosed mainly by having three or more frontoterminal cirri, a midventral complex with midventral pairs and a single midventral row, one right marginal row and two or more left marginal rows. The new genus can be easily separated from the morphologically similar genera mainly by having single right marginal row (vs. two or more right marginal rows). Based on live observation and protargol staining, the morphology and morphogenesis of a new species, M. alrasheidi n. sp. isolated from China, were investigated. The new species can be characterized by: two types of cortical granules; about 22 adoral membranelles; three or four frontoterminal, four or five transverse cirri; about eight midventral pairs and a midventral row of three or four unpaired midventral cirri; three or four left and right marginal rows. The main morphogenetic features of Metaurostylopsis alrasheidi n. sp. can be summarized as: (1) the entire parental ciliature, including the oral apparatus, is renewed; (2) the oral primordium of the proter probably originates within a pouch; (3) the oral primordium of the opisthe forms de novo on the cell surface; (4) the anlagen of marginal rows and dorsal kineties are formed intrakinetally, and (5) the fusion of macronuclear nodules results in an irregular branched mass prior to karyokinesis. In the phylogenetic trees, all the available Metaurostylopsis sequences cluster together in a clade with full support (ML/BI: 100/1.00) revealing that the genus is monophyletic within the large group of core urostylids.


The complicated 3 dimension electric field near the breaks in high voltage SF 6 circuit breaker is calculated by applying the charge simulation method,the distributions of equipotential and the distributing charts of the electric field in different sections are obtained. The calculation result shows that in the whole domain the electric field is uniformed remarkably by the parallel capacitors and the shield covers. The maximum field intensity is in the tip of small shield cover of stationary contact.


385 Background: Therapies targeting receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) are typically effective only when they lead to simultaneous inhibition of PI3K-AKT and MEK-ERK signaling. Cetuximab is a monoclonal antibody against EGFR that has been approved for treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC). Studies have suggested that its benefit is restricted to patients with KRAS wildtype (WT) CRC. However, even in KRAS WT CRC, the response rate to single-agent cetuximab is low, and the mechanistic basis for this is not well-understood. Methods: The ability of cetuximab to inhibit PI3K-AKT and MEK-ERK signaling in a panel of KRAS WT CRC cell lines was assessed by immunoblotting. Paired biopsies from CRC patients obtained pre-treatment and after 3 weeks of cetuximab were evaluated by immunohistochemistry and proteomic techniques to assess inhibition of PI3K activity. We preformed immunoprecipitations (IPs) of the regulatory subunit of PI3K from cell lines and primary CRCs to identify RTKs involved in PI3K activati...


The topos theory is discussed from the physical point of view. Basic ideas of topos are presented and explained. The connection with algebras of classical and quantum observables, alternative concepts of space-time, theory of relativity and quantum gravity, the generalized histories approach to a quantum theory of the whole universe are reviewed. Using developed by the authors formalism of n-regular obstructed categories the concept of a topos is properly generalized.


Random field survey was conducted to specify the in-house potable water distribution systems used in Riyadh city. A questionnaire was designed for this purpose with three different groups of questions. The first group deals with the system properties and number of outlets, the second group covers the behavior of residents with the system and the last group has general questions about the house and the resident. Survey results show different usage behaviors of the system and the main elements of the house and identify four common systems in use. Water consumption of the different systems was determined using computer program based on number of assumptions obtained from the survey. Results showed that, there are a great variation on the consumption among these systems having a consumption range between 40 and 259 m 3 /month. System number three has the lowest water consumption for all cases while system number one, which is the most popular system, has the highest water consumption. A conservative system was suggested which is similar to system number one on the way of distributing the flow but with different pipe sizes. This system provides low consumption rate compared to other systems in most cases with a maximum consumption rate less than 52 m 3 /month in extreme conditions and provides the required hydraulic conditions.


The design of controllers that can automatically compensate the effects of uncertain disturbances in a system has become an important topic in modern control engineering. The general theory of disturbance accommodating control provides a method for designing feedback controllers which automatically detect and minimizes the effect of waveformstructured disturbances. This approach has been applied on linear systems with small modeling errors and uncertainties. Based on the disturbance accommodating control theory, a control technique for nonlinear systems with time-varying modeling errors and uncertainties is presented in this paper. This control approach exploits an Extended Kalman Filter for the simultaneous estimation of the system states and the uncertain disturbances. Validity of this control approach is verified by implementing the proposed technique on a highly nonlinear wing-rock system. The simulation results indicated that the closed-loop stability of the controlled system is extremely sensitive to the user selected process noise covariance value. A Lyapunov stability analysis is conducted on a controlled linear system, which reveals a lower bound requirement on the process noise covariance norm to facilitate the asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system. This lower bound on the process noise covariance norm depends on the model uncertainties, external disturbances and the amount of noise associated with the measurements.


Considering the effect of oil transportation temperature on oil viscosity and the oil viscosity and flow-rate on pump efficiency,flow regime and economic pipe size,using the sum of the shared cost per year of pipeline and thermal insulation engineering construction investigation,the maintenance cost per year of the pipeline,the electric power and heat power consumption cost per year in pipeline running as the object function,a complete calculation model for economic pipe size of buried heated oil transportation pipeline is given in the paper.The model can satisfy oil temperature drop constraint condition along the pipeline automatically,suitable for crude oils with different viscosity-temperature characteristics,different thermal insulation materials and the pipeline of different burying depth.A calculation is carried out with the model applying Fibonacci Search Algorithm and results show that the model can reflect various factors well to the impacts on the economic pipe size and provide a theoretical basis for optimized technological design of buried heated oil pipelines.


The paper introduces an electric shock accident and its troubleshooting process in NOVAVIDA house-building project in Angola, analyzes the causes of the accident and proposes solutions according to the principle of TN protection system. In addition, some preventive measures are analyzed and promoted for such accidents because diesel generator set is now widely used as construction power supply in Angola projects.


In this article, I discuss the characteristics of comprehending silent participants and strategies for teaching them how to signal understanding and participation. The general term for students' classroom silence is communication apprehension a situationally specific social difficulty for many children and adults. Because oral language is essential to classroom learning, silent students suffer from a clear academic handicap because their behavior is misinterpreted as a sign of low intelligence, alienation, or a lack of skills. Four teaching strategies are discussed: identifying the sources of students' silence, developing alternative means for obtaining students' responses, setting routines for students to indicate their participation, and developing collaborations and communities of learning among students.


A new addition to the Cambridge Bioethics and Law series is Heather Widdows' The connected self. This is a book that challenges. It challenges Widdows because she sets a formidable task for herself...


An experiment was carried out to compare the body weight, shank length, rectal temperature, comb area, abdominal fat, blood parameters and bone traits of capon, slip and intact birds in Taiwan country chicken cockerels. One hundred and sixty-six Taiwan country chicken cockerels were randomly assigned to caponized or intact male groups. Caponized birds were surgically altered at 10 weeks old and raised to 28 weeks old. At 28 weeks of age, the capons were separated into capon and slip groups, depending on the atrophy of the comb and wattle in size. The results showed that body weight and shank length in slips were significantly (p<0.05) greater than in intact birds. Intact birds had the highest(p<0.05)feather scores and the lowest (p<0.05) rectal temperature. Compared with intact birds and slips, capons had a significantly (p<0.05) smaller comb area. Bone percentage, stress and cortical thickness, and bone and ash calcium content and plasma testosterone concentration, in intact birds were the highest (p<0.05) followed by slips and capons. However, intact birds had the lowest (p<0.05) plasma ionized calcium and phosphorus concentrations. Bone and ash manganese contents in capons were significantly (p<0.05)lower than those in others. These findings support the hypothesis that androgenic effects on secondary sexual characteristics are stronger than anabolic growth promoting response. Androgens can directly influence calcium fluxes in male chickens. Caponized caused a reduction in the bone percentage, stress, cortical thickness and bone calcium content. (Asian- Aust. J. Anim. Sci. 2003. Vol 16, No. 1 : 50-56)


ABSTRACT Response of transgenic Bt-cotton hybrids to customized complex fertilizer (CCF) grades was evaluated on rainfed Vertisols. In 2017–18, six treatments, namely, recommended dose of fertilizers (RDF), 1.2 times the RDF (1.2 RDF), physical mix of single nutrient fertilizers (PMF), CCF containing NPKS, farmers practice (FP), and the zero fertilizer control (CON) were evaluated. In 2018–19, 11 treatments, muriate of potash (MOP) and sulfate of potash (SOP) based CCFs equivalent to RDF, RDF+10% more K and RDF-10% less K, RDF, 1.2 RDF, soil test based PMF, FP, and CON were evaluated. Seedcotton yield (SCY) with CCF did not differ with the RDF and PMF in 2017. In 2018, the average yield of the RDF treatments (1902 kg ha−1) was significantly lower than the average of the CCF treatments (2407 kg ha−1). Among the CCF treatments, the MOP-based CCF (2553 kg ha−1) did not differ with the SOP-based CCF (2387 kg ha−1). Fiber quality was unchanged with the fertilizer treatments. However, compared to the present FP, the benefit to cost and the marginal cost-benefit ratio (MCBR) was greater with the CCF than the FP. MCBR was greater with the MOP-based CCF than the SOP based. Our results highlight the benefit of CCF for rainfed cotton production.


This work reports the synthesis and characterization of some Co(111), Ni(11), Cu(11), Zn(l 1), Cd(1 1) and Hg(11) chelates of the new benzothia-zolylazo Ligand ( 5-Me-BTAC ) . The compounds were Characterized by IR , electronic spectroscopy, magnetic susceptibility ,elemental analysis and molar conductance measurements . The elemental analysis suggest the formula [ ML2 ] x.nH2O where x=Cl , n=1 for M= Co(111) and x=o , n=o for the remaining metal ions Electronic spectra and magnetic susceptibility data has supported the proposed octahedral geometry of Co(111) Ni(11) and Cu(1 I) Complexes. Conductivity measurements refer to nonionic structure of these Complexes except of Co(111) .


This study aims to examine the effect of Sales Growth and Debt to Equity Ratio on Tax Avoidance in the Trade Sector. The population used in this study are large trading sub-sector companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2015 - 2019 totaling 40 companies. This study used a purposive sampling technique which was analyzed using linear regression. The results of the analysis provide evidence that Sales Growth and Debt to Equity Ratio have an effect on Tax Avoidance in Big Trading Subsector companies listed on the Indonesian stock exchange either partially or simultaneously.


This issue of Proceedings of the IEEE is the first of two special issues that will provide an in-depth treatment of the subject of reconfigurable systems as enabled through advancements in the electrical engineering field, as well as the approaches we use to manage complexity in systems having millions of fixed and programmable elements. It is our view that the frenetic evolution of the field programmable gate array (FPGA) as a preeminent digital platform will not only continue for the foreseeable future, but will serve as an inspiration/ template for other functional domains to include analog, radio-frequency, photonic, and even those not strictly electrical in nature to include thermal, fluidic, and mechanical. This issue will serve as an immersion into the subject of reconfigurable systems, both for the purposes of gaining familiarity with essential theoretical elements, the key developments in the field, and the potential future directions (not just the next few years, but decades beyond the present). Our future will depend on reconfigurability. To some degree, it already does. Every memory pattern in our computers, cameras, and phones is based on harnessing a rudimentary form of reconfigurabilityVthe binary storage of electronic charge. The power of binary reconfigurability has given us the von Neumann (stored program) computer, mass storage, and the FPGA, along applications such as software-defined radio and softwaredefined networking. But we have only scratched the surface of a vast frontier of possibilities in reconfigurability. The implications of this frontier could change our society in ways as profoundly as has the ''digital revolution.'' In the two dedicated special issues of the Proceedings of the IEEE, we explore the fundamental concepts behind reconfigurable systems, from the earliest foundations of computation to architectures of modern FPGAs. We will outline the principles through which reconfigurable systems can be understood, applied, and extended. This issue is the first of two special issues that will provide an in-depth treatment of the subject of reconfigurable systems as enabled through advancements in the electrical engineering field.


Tuberculosis of the hip, in common with that of other bones and joints, is a disease easy to alleviate, but difficult to cure. The achievement of a cure, however, is profoundly influenced by a variety of factors apart from the method of treatment. It should be remembered that tuberculosis in a bone or joint is but a sign of a generalised disease and proof of a focus elsewhere in the body which is active enough to give rise to a bacillaemia. This focus may be difficult to detect and still more difficult to heal ; but unless healed, relapses will occur, resulting in either a breakdown of the original lesion or the development of a new focus in some other part of the body. It is generally agreed that in a chronic systemic disease like tuberculosis the only adequate treatment known at the present time is rest-rest to promote healing of the primary focus, and rest, ' ' complete, uninterrupted and prolonged,' ' to heal the local manifestation in the bone or joint. This conservative r#{233}gime, with operative intervention playing a comparatively minor role, has been the principal method of treatment of bone and joint tuberculosis in this country over a long number of years following upon the teachings of Thomas, Jones and others. What results may be expected from this conservative treatment of tuberculosis of the hip? This can only be determined by the careful examination of results over a long period of time, for, as we all know, without a thorough system of follow-up a" cure" in one hospital register is often an active case in another hospital. The analysis that follows is an attempt to assess the present condition of all cases of tuberculosis of the hip treated in Wrightington Hospital during the last sixteen years and to determine the factors which influence the prognosis. It will be interesting to compare them with the results of the next ten years; for as a result of experience gained from this investigation surgery is now being employed to a much greater extent. CLINICAL MATERIAL Between 1932 and 1948, 320 patients with tuberculosis of the hip joint were admitted to the Wrightington Hospital for treatment. Of these, 200 were males and 120 were females. The right hip alone was involved in 171 cases, the left in 145; four patients had bilateral disease. At the time of admission to hospital the youngest patient was aged one year and four months, the oldest sixty-nine years. Table I shows the number of cases in each age group, and it will be seen that the majority fell into the group between one and twenty years of age. Type of organism-The diagnosis has been proved bacteriologically whenever possible, but the history and the clinical and radiological examinations had to be relied upon in most cases. A total of 102 cultures was made, and of these sixty-eight (67 per cent) were positive and thirty-four (33 per cent) negative. All the positive cultures were of the human type and in no case in which the diagnosis was proved by bacteriological examination was the bovine type of bacillus found to be responsible for the infection. A point of importance in this connection was that 22 per cent of all the cases had a positive family history of pulmonary tuberculosis. That the disease is insidious in onset is shown by the fact that symptoms had * Based on a paper read before the Orthopaedic Section at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical


There is a vast literature in developed countries that has documented an ethnic gap in academic achievement, which favors local students. This evidence has discussed individual and structural factors. Despite this, there are still gaps that need to be addressed. This study seeks to deepen into the Latin American case and delve into the relationship between the educational expectations of teachers and the ethnic composition of the classrooms with the academic results of migrant and local students. Census data of fourth-grade students in Chile are used through standardized tests in mathematics and language and analyzed with multilevel models of four levels (students, classrooms, schools, and local authorities). The results suggest that children from ethnic minorities are at a disadvantaged compared to their national peers in mathematics, but not in language. The educational expectations of teachers have a positive relationship with academic achievement. The opposite happens with the percentage of migrant students in the classroom. Interaction analyses indicate that the association between teachers' educational expectations and academic achievement is moderated in part by the ethnic composition of the classroom. Finally, possible explanations for the observed findings and contributions to public policy are discussed.


The asphalt pavement with heating cables (APHC) was widely used for snow/ice-melting. However, the adverse effects of heating cables on the interlaminar stability of APHC was neglected. Therefore, an evaluation method was developed to evaluate the interlaminar stability of APHC. Firstly, the shear fatigue life equations for APHC with different cable types were obtained through shear fatigue test results. Through the fatigue life equations, the damage model was established to describe the nonlinear shear damage characteristics of APHC, andthe safety range of cumulative strain (ϵN ) was obtained as an evaluation index. Secondly, the actual shear fatigue life (NAf ) was proposed by axial-load conversion and the number of laboratory fatigue loading. Finally, an evaluation method was developed, which has a good agreement with the field validation data. The mentioned method evaluate the interlaminar stability of AHPC from two aspects. One is ϵN should be controlled within the safe range. Another is NAf meets the number of standard axial load in transverse shear. .


Nowadays, the globalization era makes the tourism industry got the impact of globalization. The city is as destination that become one of the components can  can attract tourists. An interesting phenomenon arises that there are many kinds of cities with various tagline. One of them is The Soul of Madura. Based on the city branding processin Sumenep city, thus representation should be concerned through branding that will be done, branding process that is done requires communication, because communication is one of branding process that is done. Besides, the researcher wants to see how the communication process in the saronen music culture in the process of branding. This research used a qualitative approach in the type of descriptive research. The object in this research was saronen music culture. The result was a communication that is created in the process of city branding at saronen music culture. It included all conceptulization, even they were one-way communication processes, interactions and transactional processes.


Although there is a corpus of evidence that females of many taxa are choosy about males, there is less information on how males may react to females of different 'quality' (i.e. potential fecundity). The cricket Gryllodes sigillatus shows distinct mate guarding behaviour. We examined how long males mate guard females of different sizes (reflecting egg load and potential fecundity). We also examined the sperm number in ampullae donated to females of different sizes to see if males make a concomitant difference in investment in ejaculate. We also examined mate-guarding behaviour and ejaculate size of males mated to virgin and nonvirgin females of the same size to see if males equate size with increased age and increased likelihood of mating (increased sperm competition). The results showed that males mate guard larger females for longer but make no difference in ejaculate investment between sizes of female. Males make no significant difference in mate guarding investment or ejaculate investment between virgins and nonvirgins of the same size. There is evidence that other species of crickets do alter their ejaculate depending on the female size and mating history, but have less distinct guarding behaviour. We suggest that mate-guarding investment in G. sigillatus may serve a similar function to that of ejaculate investment in other crickets.


Abstract: The tribological performance of implant materials within the body where the pH can vary between 7.4 and 4.0, depending on whether the joint is infected or not, is extremely harsh and varies significantly from that experienced in other engineering environments. Three wear mechanisms that affect biomedical and, in particular, orthopaedic implants are regularly reported. These are adhesion, abrasion and fatigue. The wear mechanisms in biomedical implants, particularly hip joints, are reported to be a function of the following variables: type of materials used, contact stresses, lubricants and clearance, surface hardness and roughness, type of articulation due to motion, number of cycles, solution particle count and distribution, and tribocorrosion.


In today's digital era, a new life or a new world has been developed, which is called as cyber community (community/society cyberspace). This 20 th century technology offers many benefits and facilitates human activity has been limited by space and time. However, the dark side of modern technology is also increasingly widespread, even more dangerous. One is the emergence of various forms of cyber crimes that require control efforts, for example by using criminal law policy.


That's him. That's him for sure. He's sitting back on his haunches, the Harbour Bridge behind him. Colour photo, front page: they've splashed out on him. He looks painted on, though, his lips too red, his hair too perfectly sandy against the startling blue of the harbour. Blue eyes glimmering. He looks like an advertisment, but I know he really looks like that.


The invention provides a preparation process of a complex microorganism fermentation active feed, comprising the following steps: firstly preparing a liquid fermentation microorganism strain, and then inoculating the liquid fermentation microorganism strain to a solid fermentation matrix culture medium; and adopting a fermentation technique for first aerobism and second anaerobism to carry out fermentation in a staging manner, and drying after the fermentation is finished, thus obtaining the complex microorganism fermentation active feed. The complex microorganism fermentation active feed is rich in small peptide, lactic acid, immune polysaccharide, nucleic acid, protease, growth factor, active probiotics and the like. When the complex microorganism fermentation active feed is used for livestock and poultry, the complex microorganism fermentation active feed has obvious effects of improving the digestive absorption rate of animals, promoting the growth of the animals, improving the immunocompetence of animal organisms and preventing animal diseases and the like, and simultaneously plays a positive role in reducing the use of antibiotics and organic waste discharge. The complex microorganism fermentation active feed prepared by the invention has the characteristics of nature, high digestive absorption and low discharge and the like and is a new-generation environmentally-friendly product.


An extraction method for algal polysaccharide comprises the following steps: providing alga raw material; performing high-temperature high-pressure and instant pressure-release processing operations to enable the alga raw material to become an expanded alga sample; and performing extraction on the expanded alga sample by using hot water, so as to prepare a crude extractive of algal polysaccharide. The extraction method for algal polysaccharide is simple and rapid, accords with the benefit of environment protection and has no obvious algal-smell residual problem.


Almix alone at 4 g ha-1 was effective in reducing the density of non-grasses and sedges in transplanted rice. Butachlor alone at 1250 g ha−1 was effective against annual grasses. Almix at 4 g ha-1 was compatible witli butachlor as tank mixed application. Almix at 4 g ha−1 as tank. mixed or follow up application over pre-emergence application of butachlor increased weed control spectrum and efficacy and produced grain yields at par with weedfree and higher than alone application of butachlor or Almix.


Classification of the Egorov hydrodynamic chain and corresponding 2+1 quasilinear system is given in the previous paper. In this paper we present a general construction of explicit solutions for the WDVV equation associated with Hamiltonian hydrodynamic reductions of these Egorov hydrodynamic chains


Inemori Kazuo,a successful Japanese Businessman,evolves his management philosophy by assimilating human excellent cultural heritage esp.the Confucian ethics which has profound and permanent influence on Japanese People.Inemori Kazuo reforms some basic ideas in the Confucian ethics and applies them in his management and administration.The appropriate combination of Inemori Kazuo's management philosophy and the Confucian ethics is the Key to his great success in business.


Reviews the book, "The most dangerous animal: Human nature and the origins of war" by David Livingstone Smith (2007). This book asks what it is about human nature that makes it possible for human beings to regularly slaughter their own kind. It tells the story of why all human beings have the potential to be hideously cruel and destructive to one another. Why are we our own worst enemy? The book shows us that war has been with us--in one form or another--since prehistoric times, and looking at the behavior of our close relatives, the chimpanzees, it argues that a penchant for group violence has been bred into us over millions of years of biological evolution. This book takes the reader on a journey through evolution, history, anthropology, and psychology, showing how and why the human mind has a dual nature: on the one hand, we are ferocious, dangerous animals who regularly commit terrible atrocities against our own kind; on the other hand, we have a deep aversion to killing, a horror of taking human life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)


Both sexes of the new species, APOLLOTHRIPS bhattii are described, with figures and measurements. A Tabular synopsis of the features common to closely related genera, the Echinothrips complex, is provided. A new character in the endothorax, the posterior process of the mesopraesternum, is described and illustrated.


During the 1970s we frequendy heard the statement, "Johnny can't read." By the 1980s critics claimed that "Janey can't write." Along the way we also learned that neither Johnny or Janey could think, at least not at what educators judged appropriate levels. We heard the same lament at elementary and secondary schools and at colleges and universities. Many teachers found quick fixes in "writing across the curriculum" and in placing greater emphasis on "critical thinking" activities. Some of this worked, but often we added to an already increasing burden of planning, preparation, presentation, and grading. One way to relieve some of this pressure on teachers while helping students with their reading, writing, and thinking is to make better use of cooperative activities in the classroom. One such method is reader response, where students read and critique each other's writing. One of the fallacies that many teachers bring to their classrooms is their belief that students do not want to write or are scared of writing. To test this assumption, I once asked students in my college-level American history survey how they felt about writing. This certainly was not a scientific survey; I was not really interested in quantifying the findings or continuing the study over several years. I just wanted to know, "How do you feel when you are asked to write for a class?" There was some uneasiness expressed: "I would rather do something else" or "I feel nervous when asked to write in class...because I'm not confident of my writing." But these were minority comments that hardly reflected the broader sentiment. I remember being pleasandy surprised when most students said they did not shy away from writing activities. "How do you feel when you are asked to write..." brought some brief responses such as "rushed," "comfortable," and "challenged." Others responded in more detail, but generally they indicated that writing helped them learn history better. One other typical comment hardly surprised me: "I don't like [writing activities! to be very long." My response to all this was to emphasize short and simple writing activities, using a system that I call "KISSing" in the classroom, with perhaps iive or six short exercises rather than one or two term papers (1). I mix in-class and out-of-class writing activities, and I use reader response (some call it "peer review") to help students improve and polish their writing before it gets to me for reading and evaluation. The more students write, the better they feel about their writing. And the combination of several short activities and reader response assures students regular evaluation and feedback about their work from peers as well as instructors (2).


Operatives working for the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) infiltrated social media with the goal of disrupting the 2016 U.S. presidential election. We investigate how these operatives or "trolls" leveraged partisan political identities in discussing presidential candidates and parties on Twitter. Adopting a social identity lens, we conceptualize retweeting troll content as a form of identity performance and examine the message properties that led troll tweets to resonate among Twitter users. The findings highlight the importance of partisan trolls' persistence in tweeting about candidates and parties as well as their discussion of the political outgroup and incivility in the form of name-calling. The results collectively indicate that Twitter users were sensitive to messages generated by IRA trolls and responded in a manner consistent with identity performance.


In the last few decades, the methods and models of engineering design practices have changed drastically due to the introduction of better technology and sophisticated design tools. Engineers are now moving away from manual design and drafting using A4 paper sheets, rulers and tri-squares to the use of computer-aided engineering tools in designing and manufacturing. These new advances in engineering design practices have led to huge increases in efficiency gains in engineering practices that, in turn, result in better infrastructure and, ultimately, economic growth and social development. Kenya needs to pay more attention to the changes in technology and expertise in the field of engineering to improve the nation's economy. Even though Kenya, and Africa at large, are growing rapidly in technology and in the field of engineering design, there is still a big chasm between the continent and the developed countries in the practice and education of engineering design. This paper argues that more should be done in accelerating the uptake of engineering design technologies in Kenya and by the same token in the wider Africa.


Conversational agents are emerging as channels for a natural and accessible interaction with digital services. Their benefits span across a wide range of usage scenarios and address visual impairments and any situational impairments that may take advantage of voice-based interactions. A few works highlighted the potential and the feasibility of adopting conversational agents for making the Web truly accessible for everyone. Yet, there is still a lack of concrete guidance in designing conversational experiences for browsing the Web. This paper illustrates a human-centered process that involved 26 blind and visually impaired people to investigate their difficulties when using assistive technology for accessing the Web, and their attitudes and preferences on adopting conversational agents. In response to the identified challenges, the paper introduces patterns for conversational Web browsing. It also discusses design implications that can promote Conversational AI as a technology to enhance Web accessibility.


ABSTRACT While economic globalization and resource utilization continue to foster growth among nations, the Paris Convention adopted at COP21 has highlighted some imminent environmental dangers facing humanity if pertinent collective climate actions are ignored. Thus, this study assesses the links between ecological footprint and economic globalization among the E7 nations in the aftermath of COP21. This study fills the gap in the literature on the E7 bloc by accounting for the unexplored role of agricultural value-added while accounting for the impacts of resources rent, disaggregated energy use, and economic growth towards addressing environmental-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the bloc. A combination of estimation techniques, including the Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares (DOLS), Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS), and Panel-ARDL, was employed to address methodological flaws while analyzing data ranging from 1990 to 2019. The results show that globalization and agricultural activities have exacerbated ecological footprint to the detriment of the E7's environmental quality. The results further indicate that the expansion of economic activities in the E7 countries has also increased the conventional energy consumption (oil, coal, and gas for electricity generation), thereby translating to environmental deterioration via a higher ecological footprint. Overall, to ensure a sustainable environment in our increasingly globalized world, the study posits that policymakers in the E7 should facilitate proper implementation of environmental damage cost in addition to maintaining strategic resource control measures in order to increase the awareness of the explorers of natural resources and other international organizations of their economic activities beyond business as usual.


Purpose
This study aims to understand how digital storytelling advertising impacts online consumers' responses towards advertisements on Facebook considering the different story features and the different consumers' cultural backgrounds.

Design/methodology/approach
The grounded theory approach guided the development of this study that adopts an interpretivist positioning with an abductive approach that links the already existing knowledge on how storytelling affects consumer behaviour to the empirically retrieved data from two qualitative studies between France and Tunisia using a netnographic method to collect consumers' responses to culturally adapted storytelling advertising.

Findings
The results reveal similarities and differences between Tunisian and French consumers regarding the effectiveness of digital storytelling advertising in influencing their cognitive, affective, and behavioural responses. Specifically, Tunisian consumers tended to hold more cognitive reactions originating from story plot and characters features as compared to French consumers who performed more affective responses towards the story plot feature. Interestingly, only French consumers performed behavioural reactions aligned with a cognitive and behavioural engagement with the storytelling advertising generated by story plot and verisimilitude elements. Findings also highlight the impact of some cultural influences on consumers' reactions.

Originality/value
To the best of the authors' knowledge, this is the first known study to explore and compare the effects of digital storytelling advertising between Tunisia and France. The major contribution of this study lies in investigating and comparing consumers' reactions to digital storytelling advertising across countries. This study adds to the body of literature on international marketing communication by offering two frameworks associating story's elements with their outcomes in their relevant context and providing fruitful insights for future research and for brand managers to design effective storytelling content.


The author endeavours to separate the Labyrinthodont remains, distinguished by having teeth anchylosed to the jaw, from such as belong to animals having a Theriodont type of dentition. The genera founded upon cranial fragments which show the Theriodont type are Deuterosaurus, Rhopalodon, and Dinosaurus. The skull in Deuterosaurus is described from new materials, which make known the structure of the palate and other cranial structures. The palate is of Plesiosaurian type. The back of the skull is a vertical plate, and the brain cavity rises in a long vertical tubular mass to the parietal foramen. The quadrate bones descend below the foramen magnum in a way that is best compared with Plesiosaurs.


Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE) is one of the detrimental outcomes of traumatic brain injury (TBI), resulting in recurrent seizures which impact daily life. However, the pathological relationship between PTE and TBI remains unclear, and commonly prescribed anti-epileptic drugs (AED) are ineffective against PTE. Fortunately, emerging research implicates neuroinflammation particularly the tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα) as the key mediator for PTE development. Thus, this review aims to examine the available literature regarding the role of TNFα in PTE pathology and consecutively, evaluate TNFα as a possible target for its treatment. A comprehensive literature search was conducted on four databases including PubMed, CINAHL, Embase, and Scopus. Articles with relevance in investigating TNF-α expression by PTE were considered in this review. Critical evaluation of four articles that met the inclusion criteria suggests a proportional relationship between TNFα expression and seizure susceptibility, and that neutralization or suppression of TNFα release results in lesser susceptibility to seizures. In conclusion, this review elucidates the importance of TNF-α expression in epileptogenesis post-injury and urges future research to focus more on clinical studies involving TNFα which may provide a clearer insight to PTE prevention and therefore improving the lives of PTE patients.


Anzemet® (dolasetron mesylate) is being developed for the prevention of chemotherapy‐induced emesis and postoperative nausea and vomiting. Twenty‐four healthy male subjects were orally dosed with dolasetron mesylate, 200 mg, after either an overnight fast or a high‐fat breakfast. The ratio of the mean area under the plasma concentration–time curve of the reduced active metabolite (MDL 74 156) to infinity (AUC(0–∞)) values in fed compared to fasting subjects was 86.3% with a 90% confidence interval for the ratio within (80, 125)%, indicating bioequivalence. The ratio of the mean MDL 74 156 maximum plasma concentration (Cmax) values was 70.6% in fed versus fasted subjects. The time to Cmax was statistically significantly longer after the high‐fat breakfast (mean values, 1.11 h fasting and 1.80 h fed), probably due to delayed gastric emptying. It may be concluded that, although the rate of absorption was somewhat delayed, the extent of absorption did not change significantly when dolasetron mesylate was given with food. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


1H NMR spin-lattice relaxation time (T 1) studies have been carried out in the temperature range 100 K to 4 K, at two Larmor frequencies 11.4 and 23.3 MHz, in the mixed system of betaine phosphate and glycine phosphite (BPxGPI(1–x)), to study the effects of disorder on the proton group dynamics. Analysis of T 1 data indicates the presence of a number of inequivalent methyl groups and a gradual transition from classical reorientations to quantum tunneling rotations. At lower temperatures, microstructural disorder in the local environments of the methyl groups, result in a distribution in the activation energy (Ea ) and the torsional energy gap (E 01). For certain values of x, the magnetisation recovery shows biexponential behaviour at lower temperatures.


This computer program allows sizing and balancing of local exhaust ventilation branches and mains using the Velocity Pressure method as described in the ACGIH Industrial Ventilation Manual. The program is written in BASIC and is designed for use in any hand-held BASIC-programmable computer such as the Radio Shack TRS-80 Pocket Computer. The user enters branch design data and the program computes duct diameter, with an override option, actual velocity, duct velocity pressure, slot velocity pressure, hood static pressure and static pressure of each branch. It will compare branch static pressures and either identify a branch to be redesigned, or will correct the flow in the branch with lower static pressure, and will call for design data for the main. It concludes with a display of the total losses at the end of the main. A complete listing of the program and a worked-out example are given.


Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is a life-threatening condition with nonspecific symptoms. Because of that, defining a targeted therapy against SIRS in children and adults remains a challenge. The identification of diagnostic patterns from individualized immuneprofiling can lead to development of a personalized therapy. The aim of this study was to identify and analyze ethical issues associated with personalized research and therapy for SIRS in pediatric populations. We conducted an ethical analysis based on a principled approach according to Beauchamp and Childress' four bioethical principles. Relevant information for the research objectives was extracted from a systematic literature review conducted in the scientific databases PubMed, Embase and Web of Science. We searched for pertinent themes dealing with at least one of the four bioethical principles: "autonomy", "non-maleficence", "beneficence" and "justice". 48 publications that met the research objectives were included in the thorough analysis, structured and discussed in a narrative synthesis. From the analysis of the results, it has emerged that traditional paradigms of patient's autonomy and physician paternalism need to be reexamined in pediatric research. Standard information procedures and models of informed consent should be reconsidered as they do not accommodate the complexities of pediatric omics research.


The article uses examples of UK drugs research (1980–2010) to illustrate the complex relationship between research, policy and politics. It draws on literature, documentary analysis, interviews and participant observation. 'Drugs' is a contested issue and values compete with evidence to influence decisions. Research provides only one form of evidence. Sociological research became less influential in these years, reflecting the neo-liberal climate. The absence of research was also influential in shaping policy. However social research made significant contributions. It impacted initially by helping to understand a new problem; then through the construction of the 'harm reduction approach'; and then by contributing to 'the criminalisation of drugs policy'. Research helped by gathering intelligence, accumulating findings, raising questions and encouraging a culture of objectivity. Cases described indicate the role of filters as evidence percolated into or was rejected by policy-making circles. As government advisors, researchers risked being captured by politicians. But engaging in public debate could be challenging as researchers might lose control over how their findings were interpreted. The media were dominant influences in public debate and the simplification of discourse at this level was a hindrance. It is concluded that research has had impact where it linked directly to the policy market. Networks, think-tanks and policy entrepreneurs played key roles. An appropriate packaging of findings was important. Impact happened where there was a receptive audience and a window of opportunity opened, raising the issue on policy agendas. To intervene effectively, researchers had to ensure that reports were timely, to act quickly and work in alliances. Researchers who had impact often had a specific commitment to the drugs field. Beyond this, there remains a need for humanities and social science scholars to engage in public dialogue on this issue.


It is given an example of finitely generated simple algebra over a field k (char k = 0) with arbitrary odd Gel'fand-Kirillov dimension.


A theoretical perspective is a key in the categorisation, structuring, interpretation of methodological research findings, and explanation of campus sustainability studies. A comprehensive review o...


The effect of water temperature(12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26 ℃),three different body weight(0.8~1.0 g,14.0~16.5 g,340~400 g),feeding state and photoperiodson on the oxygen consumption rate and suffocation point of Esox lucius were studied.The results showed that oxygen consumption rate had positive correlation with water temperature,the correlation equation were Y=0.0245X-0.0418(R2=0.9878),Y=0.0177X-0.0394(R2=0.9935),Y=0.0034X+0.0246(R2=0.844) respectively.Suffocation point increased with water temperature increasing,but it was relatively stable when water temperature was 18~ 22 ℃.Oxygen consumption rate and suffocation point decreased with the increasing of body weight.The relationship between the oxygen consumption rate and body weight under water temperature of 12 ℃,20 ℃ and 26 ℃ could be expressed as Y=0.267X-0.2154(R2=0.9471),Y=0.5338X-0.2856(R2=0.9123),Y=0.6567X-0.2574(R2=0.9229) respectively.The oxygen consumption rate was effected significantly by feeding state.The oxygen consumption rate of satiation was 1.09,1.50 times higher than that of fasting 24,48 h respectively.The diurnal rhythm of oxygen consumption rate was effected significantly by photoperiods,the average oxygen consumption rate in day was higher than at night under natural photoperiod.Oxygen consumption rate of fish in all light was significantly higher than gradually in all dark,and it decreased gradually with the prolong of photoperiod.Oxygen consumption at 4 h before the end of the experiment was significantly lower than that at 8 h after the beginning of the experiment.


Vinyltriethoxysilane and 3-Glycidoxypropyl-triethoxy-silane were used for surface functionalization to provide more attention of cotton fibre in textiles. The process was carried out in ethanol-water medium which accelerates the crosslinking reaction between cotton fibre and silane monomer and was optimized carefully as a function of fibre weight gain. The purpose was to enhance the tensile strength and softness properties of the cotton, by introducing a more flexible Si-O bond between the silane coupling agents and the cotton fibre. The modification of cotton fibre enhanced the tensile strength and water repellency properties due to higher flexibility of Si-O bond and fibre matrix interfacial strength properties. The optimized condition of modification for VTES and GPTES was 400% on the weight of fibre in ethanol/water mixture (60:40) containing surfactant by maintaining pH 3.5 at 35  C for VTES and 30  C for GPTES in the fibre-liquor 0 ratio of 1:40. It was observed that swelling behavior and moisture absorption of modified cotton fibres were decreased in polar solvents whereas increased in nonpolar solvents. Fourier transform Infrared spectroscopy was used to identify the incorporation of silicon-containing molecules. Energy Disperse X-ray analysis determined the quantities of atomic silicon which directly reflects its valence bond with organic moieties. Scanning electron microscopy and thermogravimetric analysis were used to investigate the surface morphology and thermal behavior of the modified fibre, respectively .


This paper first presents two implementations of parallel Gaussian elimination using MPI, one uses cyclic data mapping and pipelined point-to-point communication, the other one uses blocked data mapping and MPI collective communication. Then, theoretical performance analysis for the two implementations is given, and the impacts of different data distribution and communication methods are compared.


A cross-relaxation energy-transfer scheme using the $5d$ state of ${\text{Tm}}^{3+}$ as the donor and the $4{f}^{13}$ states of ${\text{Tm}}^{3+}$ as the acceptor is proposed. The scheme is tested in the host ${\text{KY}}_{3}{\text{F}}_{10}$ doped with several concentrations of ${\text{Tm}}^{3+}$ as a potential vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) excited blue phosphor of quantum yield greater than unity. Emission and diffuse reflection spectra along with studies of the time evolution of the $5d$ and $4f$ populations of ${\text{Tm}}^{3+}$ in ${\text{KY}}_{3}{\text{F}}_{10}$ crystals and powders under UV and VUV excitations are reported and analyzed. The results show that the proposed quantum cutting mechanism occurs but the ${^{1}I}_{6}$, ${^{1}D}_{2}$, and ${^{1}G}_{4}$ acceptor levels cross relax rapidly to lower-lying levels by an additional cross-relaxation energy transfer and that this effectively quenches the blue emission. Based on the temperature dependence of the spectra, an interesting heat-assisted relaxation process involving intersystem crossing is observed above 300 K.


The transition from undergraduate study to a postgraduate career can be an anxiety provoking experience for many students. In this study, we explore the shared experience of five "anxious" undergraduate students as they transition from higher education towards their postgraduate careers. Using a qualitative methodology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with five female undergraduate students from different courses at a UK university. A thematic analysis revealed two overarching themes: perceived pressure without sufficient support, and concerns about next steps. The findings suggested the final year is emotionally demanding, and students felt as though there was a lack of provision to manage their transition to postgraduate work or study. Possible implications for policymakers are detailed and areas for research are discussed.


Background: Cisplatin is a common chemotherapeutic drug often causes ototoxicity attributed to the formation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species damaging critical inner ear structures. Steroids have been shown to reduce the formation of reactive oxygen species, and thus, may reduce ototoxicity. In this study, intratympanic corticosteroid injection is proved to help the recovery of cisplatin ototoxicity. Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of intratympanic corticosteroid injection in the treatment of cisplatin ototoxicity. Patients and Methods: This study was applied on 20 patients that have sensorineural hearing loss caused by cisplatin, which was used as a chemotherapeutic agent for the treatment of their malignancies. All cases were subjected to intratympanic corticosteroid injection. All patients were exposed to pure-tone audiometry before and after the procedure. Results: Significant increases in the average pure-tone thresholds (PTTs) at 8000 Hz were found in both the study and control groups after the cumulative dose: 43.15 ± 15.557 dBHL and 55.7 ± 13.2589 dBHL, a value of P = 0.0004 and <0.001, respectively. Significant increases in the average PTTs at 6000 Hz were found in both the study and control groups after the cumulative dose: 39.7 ± 11.885 dBHL and 52.6 ± 7.456 dBHL, a value of P = <0.001 and <0.001, respectively. Conclusion: Intratympanic corticosteroid injection appears to have the only minimal therapeutic effect to cisplatin-induced hearing loss, especially for 6000 and 8000 HZ.


Nomads were, no doubt, the most important one of the societies who constituted sandjak of Aksaray. Although they were given different tribal names at the beginning of the 16. century, there were efforts to combine them under the name of "yiizdeci-ler" in the second half of the century. In addition, although the population who led a nomadic life, was highly dense in the beginning, it is understtod that they adopted settled way of life and established villages in the third and fourth quarter of the century due to the settlement policy of the Ottoman state at that time.


Power transformers are vital part of electrical power system network that needs to be continuously monitored during its operation. After years of service, the transformer oil show deterioration in electrical, thermal and physico- chemical properties. To avoid early failure of equipment, condition monitoring of transformer oil is important. Nowadays fluorescence spectroscopy is extensively used due to better diagnostic capability compared with conventional methods. In the present study degradation in service aged transformer oil has been studied using breakdown voltage measurement. The results are correlated with fluorescence spectra and viscosity of the samples. Furthermore, effect of thermal ageing, the presence of moisture and nanoparticle were confirmed through fluorescence spectroscopic measurements.


We revisit the classic object tracking problem with a novel and effective, yet straightforward distributed solution for resource-lean devices. The difficulty of object tracking lies in the mismatch between the limited computational capacity of typical sensor nodes and the processing requirements of typical tracking algorithms. In this paper, we introduce an in-network system for tracking mobile objects using resource-lean sensors. The system is based on a distributed, dynamically-scoped tracking algorithm which alters the event detection region and reporting rate based on object speed. A leader node records the detected samples across the event region and estimates the object's location in situ. We study the performance of our tracking implementation on an 80-node test bed. The results show that it achieves high performance, even for very fast objects, and is readily implemented on resource-lean sensors. While the area is well-studied, the unique combination of algorithmic features represents a significant addition to the literature.


Objectives To evaluate nucleated red blood cells (nRBCs) as a prognostic value in critically ill neonates. Background nRBCs are premature red blood cells, are an indicator of hematopoiesis in a newborn infant, and have been known to be associated with intrauterine hypoxia. Patients and methods This cohort study included 94 newborn infants who presented to the neonatal ICU in Menoufia University and Shebin El-Kom Teaching Hospital and fulfilled the following inclusion criteria: infants with sepsis, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, necrotizing enterocolitis, patent ductus arteriosus, and preterm infants. Infants were only excluded if they did not perform a complete blood count during their admission. All of them were subjected to full history taking, physical examination, and laboratory investigations including C-reactive protein, complete blood count, and blood film stained with Leishman stain for counting of nRBCs manually. Results In our study, among all patients admitted to the neonatal ICU, the presence of an elevated nRBC value was associated with increased mortality in a quantitative manner (P < 0.05), with high sensitivity to predict mortality (87.5% of nonsurvivors presented with nRBCs in the blood film in comparison with 61.5% of survivors), which was statistically significant. Conclusion nRBC count may be used as a prognostic factor in critically ill neonates.


BACKGROUND/ PURPOSE The role of the cruciate ligaments of the knee in joint stability is well established. MR imaging is the technique of choice to evaluate cruciate ligaments of the knee. The PCL is usually injured as the result of tensile forces with some degree of posterior tibial translation. While the MR imaging diagnosis of cruciate ligament rupture in the acute setting is not challenging, structural alteration of tissues that may alter biomechanical properties of the joint have not been widely addressed in the imaging literature. In the orthopedic literature, the concept of tissue structural failure leading to microinstability has been introduced, emphasizing the importance of intact infrastructure to maintain normal biomechanics, thereby lessening the likelihood of mechanical causes for degeneration. Quantitative methods have been developed to probe early degenerative changes for the cartilage, and more recently applied to menisci. T2 values are thought to mainly be influenced by the organization and concentration of collagen fibers, whereas T1rho values are correlated with the concentration of glycosaminoglycans (GAG), the influence of collagen on T1rho values remaining controversial. As in cartilage and menisci, ligaments are mainly composed of collagen GAGs. We sought to evaluate the feasibility of conventional and novel UTE quantitative techniques for T1rho measurements of the PCL, and study the effect of the selective removal of GAG molecules by an enzymatic digestion. MATERIAL AND METHODS Five cadaveric PCL specimens were imaged before and after 2 days of enzymatic digestion of the GAG content (trypsin). Imaging was performed on a 3T clinical scanner using a custom-built quadrature birdcage coil with an inside diameter of 2cm and a length of 10cm was used. The imaging protocol included a novel UTE T1rho technique, associated with variable preparation times (0.04,3,8,16,32,50 msecs) and a constant TE (8 microsecs), as well as a spiral T1rho (TSL: 0, 10, 20, 40 60, 80) measurement. In an attempt to minimize dipolar interactions, the ligaments were stretched and their long axis was placed parallel to B0 (Fig. 1). To reproducibly image the same area at each imaging session, the PCLs were imaged in an axial plane equidistant from its ends. As a control, one PCL specimen was placed in saline for two days, and quantitative imaging sequences were performed in the same fashion as for digested specimens. RESULTS/ DISCUSSION No change was noted in the T1rho values of the control specimen. T1rho values increased significantly after digestion, both with conventional and UTE techniques (19.5 vs. 26.3 and 6.9 vs.12.1 respectively), as was expected (Fig 2). The values obtained with UTE technique were significantly lower than those with the conventional technique (9.01 vs 21.96), which is expected as UTE techniques take into account shorter T2 components (Fig 2). CONCLUSION Both conventional and UTE techniques allow quantitative T1 rho assessment of the PCL. The UTE technique measurements appear to reflect GAG population in short T2 tissues. T1rho values increased with UTE and standard techniques after the enzymatic digestion of GAG molecules indicating the loss of GAG achieved through enzymatic digestion. REFERENCES 1. Grover JS, Bassett LW, Gross ML, Seeger LL, Finerman GA. Posterior cruciate ligament: MR imaging. Radiology. 1990;174(2):527-530. 2. Rodriguez W, Vinson EN, Helms CA, Toth AP. MRI Appearance of Posterior Cruciate Ligament Tears. Am. J. Roentgenol. 2008;191(4):W155-159. 3. Bosch U, Gässler N, Decker B. Alterations of glycosaminoglycans during patellar tendon autograft healing after posterior cruciate ligament replacement. A biochemical study in a sheep model. Am J Sports Med. 1998;26(1):103-108. 4. Lemoine JK, Lee JD, Trappe TA. Impact of sex and chronic resistance training on human patellar tendon dry mass, collagen content, and collagen cross-linking. Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol. 2009;296(1):R119-124. 5. Real-time ultrasound analysis of articular cartilage degradation in vitro. Nieminen HJ, Töyräs J, Rieppo J, Nieminen MT, Hirvonen J, Korhonen R, Jurvelin JS. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2002 Apr;28(4):519-25. 6. Quantification of the optical surface reflection and surface roughness of articular cartilage using optical coherence


Organizational culture has been very important in the field of organizational behavior research for the past decade. Although there has been a growing interest in the organizational culture and organizational performance, there was few research in healthcare organizations. The objective of this study is to identify the relationship of organizational culture based on the Quinn`s competing values approach, with job satisfaction and intention of turnover perceived by national hospital employees. The study setting was the national hospital. Data were collected by self-administered questionnaires. The study sample consisted of 555 hospital employees. Structural Equation Modeling(SEM) analysis was conducted to find the causal relationship of organizational culture, job satisfaction and intention of turnover. The major results of this study are as follows: the consensual culture, rational culture, and developmental culture in national hospital showed a strong relationship with job satisfaction and intention of turnover in contrast to other previous studies. This finding showed that task oriented and human related climate is more effective on job satisfaction than hierarchical culture in national hospital settings.


"Every aspiring and practicing nonprofit executive should read and reread this book."--Nancy Axelrod, executive director, National Center for Nonprofit BoardsPresents strategies used by effective executives to position their organizations and offers guidance on how executives can work more productively with their boards.


Philosophical debates on punishment mainly - and exhaustively - revolve around the traditional dipole "retribution - deterrence"; or, lately, seek for some alternative counterproposal (e. g. the contemporary topic of "restorative justice"). In all sides of the debates, Kant is standardly depicted as the advocate of a traditional, outmost punitive theory of justice; the kind of heritage modern-day "retributivists" seek to reassess, while "preventive" or "restorative" justice defenders aim to abandon. In the present paper, we intend to scrutinize Kant's own views on crime and punishment, as an integral part of his overall legal-practical philosophy; and, by doing so, to address that Kant is not at all the blind retributivist the above theorists perceive; what is more, he sets a philosophical framework that is able to overcome the flaws of all three, standard conceptions of criminal justice (retributive, preventive and restorative). Finally, in the light of the above, we bring forth the aspects of this Kantian framework, that are useful in assessing current legal systems and required legal reforms.


In Indonesia, peanuts are one of the important sources of the plant is rich in protein. Peanut consumption that was ingredients processed in various forms of food such as cakes, snacks, or other processed products. In developed countries peanuts are also a source of oil plant (Adisarwanto, 2000). In Indonesia, most peanuts are cultivated in paddy field in dry season, peanuts can be planted on light textured or heavy soil, that can absorb water well, so there is no puddle. However, the most suitable soil is the lightly textured soil of good dranase, crumbs and loose. Peanuts can also produce in clay soils, although high risk, that is dead by flooded, and the soil is difficult to remove from the International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 7 Number 08 (2018) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com


The Kraishte zone of western Bulgaria, represents part of the South European margin which was involved in the Alpine orogeny. This zone is bounded to the northeast by the upper Cretaceous Srednogorie volcanic arc. To the southwest is the high-grade metamorphic unit of the Serbo-Macedonian crystalline "massif", deemed to be part of the Rhodope. The aim of this work was to reconstruct the tectonic evolution of the region using U-Pb SHRIMP (zircon), Ar/Ar (mica and hornblende) and fission-track analysis (zircon and apatite), combined with structural and sedimentological observations. The Kraishte zone is composed of two main tectonic units, the Morava nappe and the Struma unite. The Morava unit, with a presumed continental basement and an Ordovician to Devonian sedimentary cover, was thrust upon the Struma during the early Cretaceous. The Struma unit consists of a heterogeneous assemblage of variably deformed and metamorphosed continentand ocean-derived rocks of Vendian early Cambrian age together with a Permian to lower Cretaceous sedimentary cover. Combining data from single grain U/Pb age measurements on zircon (Graf, 2001) with the U/Pb SHRIMP analysis from this work, an age of 569 544 Ma has been obtained for the protolith of the crystalline basement of the Struma unit. For these rocks no highgrade metamorphic event could be established, southwest of the line Zlogosh-Koniavo, up to the early Cretaceous. A Variscan metamorphic event may have affected the basement northeast of this line. Therefore it is tentatively suggested that the front of the internal zones of the Variscan orogen was positioned within the Struma unit. The early Cretaceous thrusting of the Morava unit over the Struma unit yielded lower amphibolite facies metamorphism in the basement of the latter. This thrusting occurred between 135 Ma, constrained by the age of the youngest sediments involved in the thrusting, and 112 Ma, the oldest Ar/Ar cooling age of the amphibolite facies rocks. A rapid cooling phase at about 96 Ma predicted from Ar/Ar and zircon fission-track ages, may have been related to extension at that time. Such extension is documented by the development of the Gurbino-Zlogosh low-angle normal fault (Ivanov, in press) and the normal faulting along the Contact C2 (Bonev et al., 1996). 10 Abstract The Cenozoic tectonic history of the Kraishte is related to the exhumation of the Osogovo-Lisets complex along the Eleshnitsa and Dragovishtitsa detachments. The extension started before 47 Ma and was contemporaneous with the extension in the Rhodope (Burg et al., 1996). Between 47 and 35 Ma, acceleration in the cooling rate of the Osogovo-Lisets core is documented by fission-track data. The extension was accompanied by the development of sedimentary basins in the hanging wall position where syn-detachment clastic sediments were deposited. Rapid uplift of the hotter footwall induced heating in the hanging wall and the sediments. By the late Eocene the detachments were no longer active and were sealed by post-detachment marine sediments. Post-sedimentary (Miocene?) deformation was associated with SW-NE followed by NNW-SSE extension. It is still difficult to say whether the extension in the Kraishte and the Rhodope was caused by synto post-orogenic collapse or was related to the retreating subduction zone. Synto post-collisional extension is suggested for the late Cretaceous, whereas the Cenozoic extension may be more likely subduction-related.


The existence of public space is an indication of good urban spatial planning. Activities in green open spaces are a simple way to improve mental and physical health. In post-pandemic conditions, people's preference for choosing public spaces, especially green open spaces as places for activities, socializing, or cheap recreation in the city center, has decreased. Therefore, a study was conducted to see the quality and characteristics of green open spaces which are the preferences of the people of Malang City in carrying out activities in these spaces. The research focuses on two types of green open spaces, namely sports recreation parks and children's playgrounds located in Trunojoyo Park, Malang City. This research uses a rationalistic study approach, with primary data from observations and interviews and secondary data through an assessment of 10 success criteria for public spaces according to Carmona (2019), namely evolving, diverse, free, delineated, engaging, meaningful, social, balanced, comfortable, robust. The study result shows that people's preferences in choosing green open spaces are the completeness and condition of the facilities in them.


To observe the clinical efficacy and safety of ligustrazine together with heparin sodium at low dose and ursodeoxy-cholic acid (UDCA) on chronic cholestatic hepatits. Fifty six patients with chronic cholestatic hepatitis were randomly divided into treatment group and control group. Twenty nine patients were treated with 120 -200mg ligustrazine, 6250u heparin 2 times daily and 150 -250mg UDCA 3 times daily. While twenty seven patients were treated with Kuhuang once daily by intravenous drip for 5 -8 weeks. Effective rate in treatment group were 86. 2% and significantly higher than that in control group (P 0. 05 ) . TBil, ALT, ALP and GGT in treatment group were significantly lower than that in control group. The results showed that ligustrazine together with heparin sodium at low dose and UDCA had steady therapeutic effect on chronic cholestatic hepatitis, and it was cheap, safe and adapted to clinic application.


Traditionalists view the concept of individuals enforcing international law as an oxymoron, because, they insist, only sovereign states can create or apply international law. Within the United States, defenders of a centralized vision of foreign policy view individual efforts to enforce international law as undermining the constitutional assignment of foreign affairs to the exclusive control of the political branches of the government – the executive branch and Congress. Both of these concerns have been invoked to challenge a series of federal lawsuits seeking damages for violations of international law. Critics charge that such legal actions distort the structure of international law and the balance of power among the branches of our federal government, while threatening to undermine the measured progress of foreign relations, an impact that has been labeled "plaintiff's diplomacy." Despite these somewhat apocalyptic claims, however, dozens of such lawsuits have been litigated without any evidence that they have threatened the coherence of international law or U.S. foreign policy. The overblown complaints about human rights litigation overlook the role that individuals have long played in both the enforcement of international law and the development of foreign policy. This article explores the historical role of individuals in international law and foreign affairs, both on the international stage and within the United States and other domestic legal systems. It is important to note that these actions are not extralegal mechanisms. Individuals are not taking the law into their own hands, hunting down perpetrators and subjecting them to popular justice. Rather, each of these actions are lawful, state-sanctioned enforcement mechanisms, through which national and international bodies have empowered individuals to assist in the enforcement of the rights granted to them by international law. In some measure, these mechanisms reflect the recognition that human rights are ultimately too important to be left to the unscrutinized domain of governments and government officials. Pragmatic politicians need to be confronted by citizens who oppose the compromises of power. So-called private attorneys general, proudly practicing "plaintiff's diplomacy," are not just an unavoidable nuisance, but rather an essential tool in the protection of basic human rights.


vii TABLE OF CONTENTS ix LIST OF FIGURES xiii CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1.0 Study Background and Literature. 1 1.2.0. The Terms Traditional and Vernacular 8 1.3.0 Dynamics of Transformation of Vernacular Architecture 11 1.4.0 The Research Strategy and structure 14 1.4.1 The Objectives of the Research. 14 1.4.2 Significance of the Study 14 1.4.3 Limitations of the study 15 1.4.4 Choise of case study area 16 1.4.5 Methodology 17 The Archival Information 17


The main design concern for the long-term stability of geosynthetics-reinforced soil structures is the prediction of the creep behavior of the geosynthetics under the design loads. The long-term strength prediction is usually based on 10,000-h extension creep tests. Conducting creep tests at elevated temperatures can accelerate testing duration to a reasonable time frame, for example 1,000 h, and the results can be extrapolated to longer time intervals. The paper presents the current state of practice in creep testing of geosynthetics and the development of testing equipment and procedures for accelerated creep tests at elevated temperatures. Creep tests were performed on high density polyethylene (HDPE) and polyester (PET) geogrids (geotextiles) typically used in soil reinforcement applications. Creep behavior was first evaluated in 10,000 h tests, conducted at room temperature, at various creep loading levels (from 10 to 45% of ultimate strength of the geogrid T sub max). Accelerated creep test were then conducted for 1000 h at various controlled temperatures ranging from 24 degrees C (75 degrees F) to 72 degrees C (160 degrees F). These tests were conducted at the same loads to evaluate the time-temperature-creep relationships of the geogrid.


This study aimed to identify the existing situation and the extent to which digitization of governance contribute in enhancing the role of health institutions in preventing the spread of epidemics by managing and containing the risks resulting from the spread of the Corona virus and reducing its risks. It was applied to a representative sample of health institutions workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which included (50) members. The data was analyzed using the statistical analysis program, statistical packages for the social sciences, and many results and recommendations were presented. The results revealed that there is a clear tendency towards digitization of governance in health institutions in the Kingdom, which resulted in a superior ability to manage risks during the pandemic, limit its spread and reduce its risks, as it was found from the statistical tables for the respondents' response to the elements of the hypothesis related to the first factor (governance of formulating plans for risk management) and the second element (The digital governance of health institutions) reflected positive responses by more than (90%) of the total responses.


THE INVENTION CONCERNS A SUSPENSION WITH INDEPENDENT WHEELS. IT RELATES TO A SUSPENSION MOUNTED ON A TRANSVERSAL BODY OF SUPPORT 22 AND HAVING A DIFFERENTIAL 62 WHICH CAN PIVOTE WITH THE TRANSVERSAL SUPPORT DEVICE AROUND A TRANSVERSE AXIS OF PIVOTING 30. TWO ARMS 90 CONNECT THE WHEELS 80 TO THE TRANSVERSAL SUPPORT DEVICE. THE DIFFERENTIAL AND THE WHEELS MAY PIVOTE AROUND OSCILLATION AXES 124, AS WELL AS AROUND THE TRANSVERSE AXIS 30 OF PIVOTING, IN RELATION TO THE CHASSIS. APPLICATION TO SUSPENSION OF MOTOR VEHICLES.


The effect of addition of NaOH on the pyrolysis of rice straw and properties of its product were investigated. The pyrolysis was examined by means of the thermogravimetric (TG) analysis, and the pyrolysis product was characterized by the elemental analysis, GC and GC-MS. The result showed that addition of NaOH can significantly change TG and DTG peak of the pyrolysis of rice straw. As a result of the catalysis, significant difference in the properties of pyrolysis products was also observed. The addition of the catalyst promoted the increase of the hydrogen content of the gaseous product (from 1.6% to 53.37%), as well as that of the H/C and O/C ratios of solid residue. GC-MS analysis indicated that the liquid product was mainly made up of ketones, phenols and furfural, and NaOH addition did not change the main constitute of the liquid product, but changed their relative content.


Toxoplasma 'Nicolle et Manceaux' has been examined in the electron microscope in thin sections of infected tissue cultures. The intracellular forms, single or in rosette formations, show that the parasite has no flagella, cilia or other organelles for locomotion. It is covered by a double membrane which is especially well denned at the two poles. A ring-like formation, often slightly protruding, can be seen at one end of the parasite, and in connexion with this, long, homogeneous, dark-stained inclusions of still unknown nature. At the opposite pole a distinct opening has been found. Mitochondria and strands of an endoplasmic reticulum are also present in the cytoplasm and a fine striation in the region of the periplast. No dividing forms have been observed. Near the nucleus, in the region of what may correspond to the centrosome and the Golgi apparatus, a few extremely fine granules and a spiral-like formation of fine striae or tubules have been observed. This work has been partly supported by the National Research Council of Brazil. The cost of reproduction of figures was defrayed by the Institute de Biofísica da Universidade do Brasil.


The services of next generation networks are envisioned to be potentially capable of seamless mobility in spite of the heterogeneity in underlying access technologies. It is undoubted that to accomplish seamless services across heterogeneous networking environments gets harder in case of simultaneous mobility. In this article, we propose a mobile‐initiated network‐executed (MINE) session initial protocol (SIP)‐based handover mechanism to facilitate simultaneous mobility in IP multimedia subsystem over heterogeneous accesses. The novelty of the proposed approach is that no changes are required to the existing network infrastructure since handover decision is fully made by the mobile host (MH) and handover execution is performed by a new‐added application server called mobility server (MS). When the MH decides to initiate a handover and obtains a new IP address, it will send a SIP Publish message to trigger the MS to carry out the handover execution. With the network‐executed design of the MINE, the MS can perform third‐party registration for security re‐association and third‐party call control for session re‐establishment in parallel. Moreover, the Master–Slave Determination procedures derived from H.245 are used in the MS to handle fairly the racing conditions resulting from simultaneous mobility such that redundant message flows are eliminated. Mathematical analyses present that the MINE can shorten the handover latency and reduce power consumption, as observed from a comparison with the integrated solution of an optimized macro‐mobility mechanism and a receiver‐side simultaneous mobility approach. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Population‐based incidence and mortality studies of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) have been few owing to the commonness of the disease, and rare deaths making accurate mortality statistics difficult.


Research on language acquisition has recently focused on the interaction between quantifiers and negation. One generalization presented in the literature is the so called Observation of Isomorphism, the observation that children's semantic scope coincides with syntactic scope (see Musolino (1998)). The most recent con tribution to the debate on scope resolution is due to Gennari and MacDonald (2005/2006) (G&M henceforth). Their proposal attempts to derive the Observa tion of Isomorphism from the distributional properties of the input to which chil dren are exposed. The article presented here evaluates the proposal by G&M. First, we review the existing findings on children's interpretation of negative quantified sentences. The findings show that the generalization presented by Musolino (1998) is incor rect, thereby calling into question any attempt to derive that generalization. Sec ond, we highlight children's ability to go beyond the input, an issue that must be addressed by G&M if they want to derive any generalization about child language from the properties of the input.


Abstract : The paper describes an investigation of the path of carbon incorporation from ((14)C)methanol, ((14)C)formate, and ((14)C)bicarbonate into cell constituents during growth of this organism on methanol or formate. Similar experiments, involving ((14)C)methanol and ((14)C)bicarbonate, were performed with methanol-grown Hyphomicrobium vulgare, and the data obtained with the two organisms are compared. (Author)


Many high-rise buildings, bridges, and transmission towers are constructed on steep slopes in Hong Kong and are supported by large-diameter piles. These structures may be subjected to large lateral loads, such as those caused by typhoons, earthquakes, and high-speed vehicles. The margin of safety of the slope may decrease as a result of stresses transferred from the piles to the slope. To minimize the transfer of lateral load from the buildings to the shallow depths of the slope, an annulus of compressible material (sleeving) is sometimes formed between the piles and the adjacent soils. In this paper, a three-dimensional analysis is carried out to investigate the effects of unsleeved and sleeved single piles and pile groups on the stability of a cut slope. Mechanisms of load transfer from the piles to the slope are studied. The stability of the slope is evaluated using the strength reduction technique. The evolution of slope failure is examined and the factors of safety for both initiation of instability ...


Conventional student-led evaluation is now an orthodox feature of the North American, UK and Australian higher education landscape. Increasingly, it is guiding major institutional decisions around educational quality, academic promotion and more recently institutional funding by government. Yet significant research around student-led evaluation has demonstrated that this form of student opinion-based evaluation remains highly fragile and susceptible to multiple forms of influence. This paper argues that student-led evaluation of itself is not sufficiently robust to appropriately inform notions of educational quality or pedagogical capability of academics. An alternative approach to evaluation in higher education is proposed, broadly drawing on the conception of fourth generation evaluation. The model foregrounds academic collaboration in shaping a professional evaluative framework at an activity level (i.e. programme or sub-discipline level) based on an ongoing dialogue between peers and with students, as well as qualitative evaluation of student learning. The model attempts to make tensions and conflicts in the teaching and learning context more explicit and the active focus of evaluative efforts to devise appropriate and sustainable responses to improve the quality of learning and professional practice. This paper presents some preliminary research on the effectiveness of this model in its initial piloting in postgraduate programmes in an Australian university.


This paper proposes a general framework for detecting unsafe states of a system whose basic real-time parameters are captured by multiple sensors. Our approach is to learn a danger-level function that can be used to alert the users of dangerous situations in advance so that certain measures can be taken to avoid the collapse. The main challenge to this learning problem is the labeling issue, i.e., it is difficult to assign an objective danger level at each time step to the training data, except at the collapse points, where a definitive penalty can be assigned, and at the successful ends, where a certain reward can be assigned. In this paper, we treat the danger level as an expected future reward (a penalty is regarded as a negative reward) and use temporal difference (TD) learning to learn a function for approximating the expected future reward, given the current and historical sensor readings. The TD learning obtains the approximation by propagating the penalties/rewards observable at collapse points or successful ends to the entire feature space following some constraints. This avoids the labeling issue and naturally allows a general framework to detect unsafe states. Our approach is applied to, but not limited to, the application of monitoring driving safety, and the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach.


The graft polymerization of acrylic acid (AA) on PA6 yarn was examined. Prior to the grafting process, the fibers were activated with a benzene solution of benzoyl peroxide. The effects of the main process parameters and auxiliary additives on the degree of grafting, quantity of the homopolymer formed during grafting, effectiveness of grafting, extent of conversion, and grafting ratio were determined. The resultant fibers, containing carboxylic groups in their structure, were additionatly modified with penicillin, neomycin, or gentamycin to obtain antibacterial fibers in relation to Gram-positive and Gram-negative microorganisms (Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa). This was confirmed in vitro by measuring the stunted growth zones of the above-mentioned bacteria. The modified fibers show different activities in relation to the microorganisms, being dependent on the type and quantity of the added biocide. The kinetics of antibiotic release into water was examined and described by means of a mathematical equation. The release of antibiotics into solution proceeds for quite a long time after which there is still enough antibiotic on the fibers to provide them with antibacterial properties.


A ZAR120 million state-of-the-art surgical skills simulation laboratory opened on the Tygerberg campus of Stellenbosch University this July, replicating real-time theatre scenarios and turbo-boosting healthcare for the entire sub-Saharan region. It is geared to train 1 200 physicians in its first year of operation.


The Kurds: An Encyclopedia of Life, Culture, and Society is a single-volume resource that attempts to fill the gap in Southwestern Asian literature of comprehensive, critical, and timely information specific to the Kurdish people. The Kurds are a stateless minority split among Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria, as well as other nations in the wider diasporic community. A multidisciplinary team of scholars and researchers have divided chapters regarding the historical, sociocultural, and political contexts of the Kurdish people's struggle into three sections.


Transactions have been valued for their atomicity and recoverability properties that are use ful to several systems ranging from CAD environ ment to large scale databases Unfortunately the performance of transaction based systems is usu ally limited by the magnetic disks that are used to hold the data In this paper we describe how to use the collective main memory in a Network of Workstations NOW to improve the perfor mance of transaction based systems We describe the design of our system and its implementation in two independent transaction based systems namely EXODUS and RVM We evaluate the performance of our prototype using several database benchmarks like OO and TPC A Our experimental results indicate that our system delivers up to two orders of magnitude performance improvement compared


The purpose of this study was to determine the effe cts of core stability exercises program on physical fitness of children with mental retardation. Subjects were divided randomly into two groups, training (TRN: n= 17) and control (CTL: n=14). Training group performed a core stabil ization program for 6 weeks and three times per wee k. Preand post-tests measurements were taken for cardiovascul ar endurance, muscle endurance, speed, static balan ce and agility was done for two groups afterward. Results showed that training group improved in sign ificantly (p<0.05) in five dependent variables. Core stability exercises appea r to be a viable and effective way to improve physi cal fitness capacity of the children with mental retardation.


The invention discloses a rinsing device for silicon wafer fragments. The rinsing device comprises a rinsing tank and a pipeline which is connected with the rinsing tank and used for providing the rinsing tank with pure water. An overflow port is arranged at the upper end of the rinsing tank, and a water pump for increasing pressure of the pure water in the pipeline is connected onto the pipeline. The rinsing device for the silicon fragments has the advantages of short rinsing time, reduced water consumption, fine rinsing effect and convenience for package after rinsing.