The main purpose of this study is to investigate if determinants that we selected in our analysis have any effects on inflation rate in Western Balkans Countries[1] by using panel data for the period of 2001-2017, in yearly basis in total of 102 observation. The study used quantitative analysis approach and secondary data by applying the multivariate time series, respectively vector error correction model [VECM]. Multivariate time series was applied to investigate whether the budget deficit and other explanatory variable have any significant impact on inflation rate. The results from our analysis shows that three of four determinates that we used are significant on inflation rate. The model summaries statistics for inflation rate which shows that inflation rate has a moderate correlation with explanatory variables that we used in our model, that explanatory variables explain 45.5 percent of dependent variable and we can conclude that a model is a proper and fit. The results suggest that one percent point increase in budget deficit to GDP ratio is associated with about a 9.34 percent point increase in inflation rate.  The overall inference is that the ratios that we selected has a significant influence on the inflation rate in Western Balkans Countries.

[1] Western Balkans Countries: Albania, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.


Hidradenitis suppurativa (acne inversa) is a chronic, inflammatory, primary follicular disease triggered by follicular occlusion with subsequent inflammation and destruction of the skin appendage, affecting hair follicles located in apocrine gland-bearing body areas. Clinical presentation of hidradenitis suppurativa is extremely variable showing a wide spectrum of cutaneous lesions in different stages of evolution, different pattern of distribution and grades of severity. Traditionally for severity staging the Hurley clinical grading system has been used where stage I stands for mild disease while stage II and III for moderate and severe stages respectively. 2015 classification of Van Der Zee and Jemec proposed 6 phenotypes of hidradenitis suppurativa: regular type, frictional furuncle type, scarring folliculitis type, conglobata type, syndromic type, ectopic type.
We present a photogallery on this problem.


We analyzed 14 cases of new lesions inside implanted bare‐metal stents. In every case, there was no angiographic restenosis within 3 years, but a new lesion was observed inside a stented segment at long‐term follow‐up (>5 years). Fourteen cases were evaluated: 9 with Wiktor stents, 2 with Palmaz‐Schatz stents, and 3 with ACS Multilink stents. The interval from stent implantation to follow‐up angiography was 63–147 months (89 ± 23). Thirteen lesions were treated by percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and stenotic tissue was obtained by directional coronary atherectomy (DCA) in 10 cases. All retrieved samples were composed of newly developed atherosclerosis facing the healed neointimal layer, and four samples showed histopathological findings of acute coronary syndrome. Stent struts were retrieved in four cases and no inflammation was observed surrounding them. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of stent struts was performed in two cases that showed no metal corrosion. These findings suggest that new atherosclerotic progression occurred inside the implanted stent without peristrut inflammation. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


Due to the breakdown in relations between Russia and major Western countries, Moscow is compelled to take extraordinary measures to reorient its political, trade, and economic ties. Due to its large and diversified economy and geographical proximity, China is increasingly becoming Russia's primary partner. Therefore, assessing the main outcomes of Russian-Chinese cooperation in trade, finance, economics, and science is crucial while identifying their achievements and probable limitations for further development. China has been Russia's largest trading partner for over a decade, importing mainly mineral products while exporting advanced technical products. In 2022, statistics indicate that the roles of Russia and China in bilateral trade have remained unchanged. China has further solidified its position as Russia's primary supplier of high-tech equipment, while Russia continues to be one of China's primary sources of gas and oil. China accounts for around 20% of the total foreign trade volume of the Russian Federation, while Russia's share in Chinese foreign trade turnover is about 3%. Although evaluating mutual direct and accumulated investments is challenging, it can be argued that China is among Russia's largest investors, whereas Russia's direct and accumulated investments in China, while likely higher than official estimates, are still relatively insignificant. The scope of cooperation between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China in the scientific and technological sectors is narrowing, although additional incentives for expansion have emerged amid the heightened USChinese strategic rivalry and the crisis between Russia and the West. Russian-Chinese cooperation in the financial sector has had some successes, primarily the expansion of the use of national currencies in bilateral trade. However, this expansion is significantly limited by anti-Russian sanctions. In the current international climate, Russian-Chinese relations have the potential to deepen, but doing so will necessitate the creation of various mechanisms that enable large Chinese companies to avoid secondary sanctions.


Children need clothes that are suitable to play. Clothing worn not just giving comfort to move, but it will guarantee the safety of the child's body from susceptible to injury. Variety of children's clothing brand now produced according to the needs and comfort of the children. Especially in terms of design, the use of fabrics, clothing accessories capable captivate consumers, such as parents. In the process create a new ideas and design to produce specific clothing for the children play at the playground, various factors and important features should be applied. Appropriateness of clothes according to the age of the child, the use of appropriate materials and fabrics, styles and designs, use of colour and motive is very important. In addition, other factors such as safety, protection and functions of clothing should be preferred. The quality clothing is not just showing the uniqueness of design and comfort, but also has its advantages and importance to the user.


Abstract : This is the report of an analysis of the economic benefits of providing crashworthiness and other safety-related design improvements within future Army scout helicopters. The analysis was performed for use by the Advanced Scout Helicopter Project Manager (PM-ASH). The analysis baseline was all OH-58A major and minor aircraft accidents from January 1972 through December 1978. Projections are made for 11 candidate aircraft designs which may have potential use in the scout helicopter role as defined by PM-ASH. Accident rates and losses are derived for each candidate aircraft. Losses are projected for a 20-year period of peacetime operation. Projections are derived based on each candidate's design features and the effectiveness of these features under the particular conditions in each OH-58A accident. Recommendations are made regarding use of this data in an ASH development program. (Author)


This study evaluates the correlation between the intermittent blood pressure (BP) and the photoplethysmography (PPG). This study of a total of twenty-five cases is started by the partitioning of the PPG signal into a 5-minute segment. The segmented PPG is filtered by ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD). The feature extraction method, multiscale entropy (MSE) is utilized for the purified signal to achieve some information. The seventy-five scale of MSE is taken into the input of the artificial neural network (ANN) modeling. The outputs of this system are the intermittent diastolic and systolic blood pressure. Originally, thousand models are created. The best model is chosen for the best single ANN model. In advanced, the ensemble artificial neural network (EANN) model is initiated to observe the testing data. The result, compared to the best single ANN model, shows that the EANN model recognizes better the testing data by producing lower mean absolute error (MAE).


whereas Elson implies that the unprecedented labor demands effectively ended the institutional and social fluidity of the village. A final remark. One finds little quantification in this collection of essays. Since his "measurement of change" article, which as early as 1972 identified the main trends which have since then been confirmed by others, the author is of the opinion that statistics may be manipulated to bring about whatever one wants to show. For himself it proved to be impossible to extract meaning out of absolute numbers whose accuracy is often questionable (p. 63). I am less suspicious but I agree with Van Niel that it is in the discovery of new qualitative source materials that the biggest advances with regard to nineteenth-century economic history are probably still to be made.


The invention relates to a method for comprehensively treating the ecological environment of a coal gangue hill, which belongs to the field of mineral waste treatment and ecological environment restoration. The method mainly solves the problems of fire extinction, fire prevention and vegetation construction of the coal gangue hill. The method comprises the steps: the on-site reconnaissance of the coal gangue hill is carried out, and a construction operation plan is established; with fire prevention as principal and the combination of fire prevention and fire extinction, the fire prevention is crucial and is combined with the fire extinction, a thin layer of slurry is firstly sprayed on the coal gangue hill by a mechanical method to completely seal to form a sealing layer (8), transition slurry is sprayed on the sealing layer (8) to completely cover the sealing layer (8) to form a transition layer (9), slurry containing grass-shrub vegetation is spayed on the transition layer (9) to completely cover the transition layer (9) to form a planting layer (10); the contour line girdle band type operation in the spraying process is carried out from bottom to top to gradually and completely cover the hill, and different operating modes are selected according to practical conditions. The invention can not disturb the structure of the coal gangue hill, takes the fire prevention as the principal, combines the fire prevention with the fire extinction, has good and durable fire prevention effect, uses reliable and effective fire prevention and fire extinction measures as guarantee conditions to construct the planting layer, adopts grass-shrub plants, carries out hill sealing management and ensures vegetation restoration; in addition, the method uses the prior specialized mechanical devices to carry out construction operation, is easy to implement, has little difficulty, high efficiency and low investment and can ensure treatment effect.


Studies of ZnO films which have been performed at Tohoku University are summarized to describe the important role of ZnO films in their application to surface acoustooptic devices on nonpiezoelectric substrates. The ZnO film has been confirmed experimentally as one of the most suitable materials for SAW transducers which can generate surface acoustic waves with power enough to attain the maximum diffraction efficiency in surface acoustooptic devices on nonpiezoelectric substrates in VHF and higher frequencies. It has also been confirmed to be useful as an optical waveguide which is suitable for use as the interaction medium in surface acoustooptic devices.


Emergency communications technology has rarely been considered from the point of view of engineering ethics. But as recent large-scale disasters such as the World Trade Center attacks and Hurricane Katrina have shown, the failure of emergency radio systems to work as expected can lead to casualties that could have been avoided. The problem is not a purely technical one. While advanced digital communications systems are available to first-responder agencies, the way these systems are designed and procured by individual jurisdictions means that the interoperability and excess capacity needed in large-scale disasters is usually unavailable. In this paper, we show some of the main causes of emergency communications failures in major disasters, how they arise from structural and managerial as well as technical causes, and how these problems may be addressed more effectively in the future.


The interactions between Leishmania and host macrophages play a central role in the pathogenesis of infection. Parasites ability to establish a successful infection is initially related to complement system survival as well as competency to bind and enter a number of host cells. But the only cells within which parasites can replicate are the macrophages. Once the amastigote has established itself inside the macrophage and has replicated, the next step is spreading to uninfected phagocytes. Given the modest number of parasites inoculated during natural transmission (1-1000), the spread of amastigotes to uninfected macrophages is crucial to the development of the disease.
The mechanism through which this takes place is largely unknown. However it is understood that the first steps of infection take place silently and that ulceration develops few weeks to months from the sandfly bite. Since apoptosis causes cells to be phagocytosed by macrophages without eliciting an inflammatory response, we suggest it could be involved with the mechanism through which Leishmania parasites spread. Apoptotic cells are also known to be able to release "come and get me signals" which in the Leishmania model would induce movement of uninfected macrophages to the site of infection, also facilitating spreading. Moreover parasites could hide within macrophages apoptotic bodies and easily spread to neighbouring cells without having to come into contact with the complement system. Previous studies on the effects of Leishmania on host macrophages have shown negative modulation of host cell apoptosis at early stages of infection but such effect fades as infection progresses. Moreover late stages of infection have shown an increase in the number of apoptotic cells both in vitro and in vivo.
This work investigates the effect of three Leishmania species responsible for cutaneous leishmaniasis on human host cells apoptosis and also the effect of apoptosis induction on infection. Macrophages infected with various Leishmania species were studied for early apoptotic characteristics. Infection and apoptosis was detected simultaneously thanks to the use of GFP expressing parasites. The effect of apoptotic induction on infection was also evaluated. The results presented support the theory that apoptosis induction on host cells could play a role in silent parasites spreading between human host cells.


The effect of plant extracts of C. rotundus was tested on the spore germination of F. udum. An increase in percent germination, germ tube length and lateral germination was observed at increasing dilution of extracts (between 1:1 to 1:10). A characteristic bulging of spores was observed at higher concentrations. The ethyl acetate extract exhibited an inhibitory effect on spore germination at 1000μg/ml. Fractionation of this extract on silica gel column resulted in eluents rich in flavones and terpenes. Rhizome-meal-amended potato dextrose agar medium induced sector formation and profuse sporulation as compared to the potato dextrose agar medium where sectors were not formed. It is suggested that the chemical(s) responsible for the morphogenetic changes in this fungus may be present in petroleum ether/chloroform fraction(s) of C. rotundus rhizomes.


The possibility of automating the process side of the assembly aggre-gata F-3 AN-148 in Tecnomatix Plant SImulation. Results are to optimize the techno-logical process of assembly and to reduce production time


The first national certification began in 1972 with the incorporation of the Commission for Certification of Rehabilitation Counselors. In 1979, the National Academy for Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselors began certifying counselors trained in the specialty of clinical mental health counseling. Soon after, in 1984, the National Vocational Guidance Association (now the National Career Development Association)began certifying career counselors. In 1983, the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) began certification for general practice counselors. And, as this digest is being written, the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors is beginning a certification process. Clinical mental health counselors and career counselors have merged with the National Board for Certified Counselors to become a specialty certification of the general practice of counseling. Across the realm of certifications in the counseling profession is the common thread of assessing individual counselors, training, supervision, experience, and knowledge; the similarities across the processes are remarkable.


Some proposals on controlling the harmful plants in Xiqiaoshan Forest Park were discussed under the basis of field investigation and related documents. In order to control the harmful plants, the following measurements should be considered: (1) Increasing the understanding of the harmful plants in this forest park, enhancing the consciousness of ecological crisis; (2) Enhancing the basis researches for the controlling the harmful plants; (3) Enhancing the physical control, preventing the harmful plants spreading in short time; (4) Enhancing the researches of chemical control, filtrating some effective weedicide; (5) Enhancing the researches of biocontrol, building up a biocontrol technical system; (6) Enhancing the researches of eco-control technique, building up healthy plant communities; (7) Enhancing the landscape rebuilding, building up a ecological security landscape; (8) Building a plant warming system, monitoring the plant epidemic.


Mental illness is prone to occur during adolescence,thus it is one major threat to the health of college students.However,it remains to be a serious medical problem and heated research subject to effectively treat mental-disordered students in students' management affairs.This article carries out a systematic case analysis of mental-disordered students in Shandong University at Weihai from 1996-2008,and puts forwards concrete approaches and countermeasures of prevention and treatment for those specific students.It concludes that an early diagnosis of the illness,retaining of school rolls during medical treatment,good management of medical records,prevention of potential accidental injuries,and promising employment prospect prove to be conducive for the treatment and prevention of college students' mental illness.


In this paper, four self-developed user interfaces that display document search results using different methods were compared. In order to create the four interfaces, two information elements: document categories and lines from the document were used. A user study compared the four interfaces. It was found that the category addition to the interface was beneficial in both measurable and subjective measures. It was also found that displaying the relevant lines from the document increased the effectiveness and shortened the search time in all cases and tasks. It was found that the participants preferred the interface containing categories and relevant lines to all other interfaces checked. It was also the fastest in the objective time measurement. Another sub-research that was conducted showed that the most important parameter for the users was the confidence level that the answer was accurate, and the least important parameter was the feeling of comfort while conducting a search.


Semi-submersible is a type of offshore floating platform that is made up of large-sized
vertical hulls and horizontal pontoons for providing buoyancy. The wave diffraction theory
is the proper theory to be applied for the calculation of wave forces and wave damping for
large structures such as semi-submersible platforms. A validation work was performed
where the responses in term of response amplitude operators (RAOs) considering
diffraction theory were obtained by using the linear wave diffraction analysis. In this work, a
scale model was fabricated and tested in the wave tank of the offshore engineering
laboratory of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. Regular waves of various applicable
frequencies were used for the tests. The analytical responses were compared with the
measured responses of the model tests. The applicability of diffraction theory for such
platform was justified by the good comparisons obtained. By using the results of the linear wave diffraction analysis for a large number of platforms, a simpler approach to obtain the diffraction responses, the non-linear multiple regression analysis, was introduced. In this paper, a series of formulae for regression curves to predict the diffraction responses of the semi-submersible platforms for any dimension and draft within the suggested range are
presented.


We were interested in the recent editorial by Sessa and Nutt (2007), which discusses the potential medical uses of 3,4methylenedioxymethylamphetamine (MDMA) and would not argue with much of the article. Indeed, one of us commented on the probable low adverse event profile of MDMA and the problems of accurate media coverage some time ago (Green, 2004). However, their comment that "heavy recreational ecstasy" (and what does that mean in terms of animal experiments?) may be linked to "transient and reversible neurotoxicity" is a gross inaccuracy and must be challenged. There is not room to review all the work done in this area, but a recent study in rats detected damage in both cortex and hippocampus at 32 weeks (O'Shea, et al., 2006). Other studies have reported loss of serotonergic markers for up to an year in some regions of rat brain (Sabol, et al., 1996; Lew, et al., 1996), a time that could scarcely be called transient in the lifetime of a rat. These findings and others are reviewed in detail elsewhere (Green et al., 2003). Furthermore, in primates, the serotonergic toxicity in brain has been reported up to seven years after MDMA (Hatzidimitrou, et al., 1999). In some studies, there is also evidence for hyperinnervation, which can complicate evidence of "recovery" when amine levels are being measured (Lew, et al., 1996; Sabol, et al., 1996). Again, this is reviewed in detail elsewhere (Green, et al., 2003). However, we support the general point made by Sessa and Nutt (2007) that clinically there is a low likelihood of long-term adverse events when low doses of MDMA are given intermittently and can cite a preclinical study to support that contention. A modest dose of MDMA (4 mg/kg) given to rats twice weekly for eight weeks or even once daily for four days produced no loss in serotonin content, whereas the same dose given twice daily for four days did produce a greater than 50% depletion in serotonin concentration (O'Shea, et al. 1998). This suggests that low doses given infrequently are unlikely to result in long-term neurotoxicity. However, such data give no hint as to translation into what constitutes a non-neurotoxic dose in humans, merely that undertaking intermittent dosing may be feasible. It is also clear from preclinical studies that short treatments with sub-neurotoxic doses of MDMA can produce long-lasting changes in emotional responses to conspecifics or aversive contexts, as in the social interaction or elevated plus maze paradigms (Bull, et al., 2004; McGregor, et al., 2003), which may equate with changes in mood seen in humans. Acute adverse events are also unlikely at low dose, and this view is strengthened by the fact that if used in psychotherapy, MDMA would be given in a quiet, cool, uncrowded environment. It is well established in experimental animals that aggregation (grouping), loud noise, and high ambient temperatures all enhance toxicity induced by amphetamine (Gunn and Gurd, 1940; Chance, 1946; 1947). This finding was extended by confirming that in rats MDMA-induced acute toxicity is potentiated by high ambient temperature (Malberg and Seiden, 1998) and that high ambient temperature and crowding also potentiated MDMA-induced toxicity in mice (Fantegrossi, et al., 2003). Therefore, it is reasonable to suggest that many of the acute toxicity problems reported in recreational drug users are related to ingestion of MDMA while present in hot, crowded, noisy environments. The discussion of the possible value of MDMA as a psychotherapeutic drug was interesting but suffered from an incomplete discussion of the available information about the effect of MDMA on monoamine neurotransmission. Specifically, it stated that MDMA releases serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine or 5-HT) "and probably also, although to a lesser extent, dopamine and noradrenaline" and went on to link the 5-HT release with the elevation of mood and strong feelings of well-being. Although it is true that MDMA is more effective in releasing 5-HT than dopamine in studies using in-vitro brain slice or four synaptosomal preparations, this does not hold true when in-vivo techniques are used; probably because MDMA-induced dopamine efflux is regulated by 5-HT receptors (Koch and Galloway, 1997). Therefore, we will ignore the many in-vitro papers on MDMA-induced dopamine efflux as they are Letter to the Editors


Christina Stead (1902-1983) was a long-time expatriate Australian writer who lived in, and wrote about Sydney, New York, Paris, London and many other European cities--she was a 'travelling modernist' par excellence. Today this geo-political and cultural range earns her the fashionable epithet, 'cosmopolitan.' (1) But in the two decades after World War Two, when she and her American writer husband, William J. Blake, moved back to Europe and eventually settled in England, that same range earned her nothing but rejection slips and poverty. Her politicised form of modernist fiction did not travel well into the post-war period. This was especially galling because, at the time they left New York in 1946, Stead was recognised as a novelist of great originality, and her husband had published several highly successful historical novels. Yet Stead's next two 'American' novels, which appeared in 1948 and 1952, were not successful, and for the next 15 years she published no new book, although she worked on at least four novels and numerous novellas and stories during that time. Blake published two novels during the period of Stead's silence but, for the most part, he and Stead scraped together a living in London doing ill-paid literary hack work: reading manuscripts (mostly in German and French) for publishers, translating, editing, reviewing. The reasons why these two formerly successful writers fared so badly are many, but the net effect was that, until Blake's death in 1968, they lived in dire poverty. It was a dramatic case of 'riches to rags.' For the first few years back in Europe, moving from one small hotel to another in France, Belgium and Switzerland, they remained buoyant, though poor. But having decided in 1953 to settle in England after all, their literary luck failed. They occupied a series of dismal rented rooms and flats in London, except for a few years when Blake was employed as a researcher and scriptwriter by Sapphire Films, and they lived rent free in a chilly converted stable at Foxwarren Park in Surrey. It was not until the mid 1960s that Stead's luck began to turn. (2) Her major novel of 1940, The Man Who Loved Children, was re-published in 1965, with an Introduction by the well-known American poet and critic Randall Jarrell, hailing it as a masterpiece. In connection with this re-launch of Stead's career, her publishers brought out two of the books on which she had been working since 1948: Dark Places of the Heart in the USA, subsequently as Cotters' England in the UK, and a collection of four novellas, The Puzzleheaded Girl, in 1967. From the mid-1960s she was also published in Australia for the first time, with Angus & Robertson reissuing her 'Australian' novels in paperback. Tragically for Stead, this revival of interest in her work coincided with her husband's illness and death. After several unsettled years alone in London, she returned to Australia to live in 1974. The Little Hotel, published in 1973, Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife) in 1976, and the posthumously published I'm Dying Laughing in 1986, saw the bulk of the manuscripts on which she had been working during the post-war years in print. But Stead had not managed to produce any significant new work after Blake's death. She died in Sydney in 1983. It is a story that can be read pessimistically, about how a writer can be paralysed through not being read, or not read at the right time. Or it can be read optimistically, about how brilliance will eventually be recognised. Either way, for Stead the long 1950s were bad times, an age of lead (by the 'long 1950s' I mean the period 1945-1965). She was no longer the brave young woman confronting her destiny, crossing the world to find a larger stage and a man who loved her, believed in her genius, and opened up the world of Marxist politics for her. Bill Blake was no longer the glamorous radical banker he had been in the 1930s, when living with him gave her the knowledge to write her huge novel of finance capital, House of All Nations. …


Job stress is a work demand that exceeds individual ability. Currently nurses are a profession that is susceptible to work stress. The work stress is due to the increasingly complex demands of work, because the duties and responsibilities of nurses are not easy to bear. This can cause work stress on nurses. However, some of these factors do not rule out the possibility of other factors that affect performance. Because stress can play a positive role thereby increasing work productivity. Individuals have positive and significant influence on nurse performance. The better the individual, the higher the nurse's performance will be, and avoid work stress. The research design was descriptive correlation, which was a correlational study examining the relationship between variables with a total sample of 47 people, using a total sampling technique, with a questionnaire as a research instrument which amounted to 38 work stress statements with the performance of implementing nurses using the Spearman rho test. Based on the test results obtained the majority of nurses work stress is moderate (42.6%), the majority of nurses' performance is sufficient (40.4%) with p = 0.651 and the correlation coefficient r = -0.068 shows no relationship, research is negative. The conclusion of this study, work stress is a feeling of stress experienced by employees in dealing with workers, which is caused by stressors coming from the work environment such as environmental, organizational, and individual factors. Factors affecting work stress include physical demands, role demands and interpersonal demands. Performance is a function of the ability of workers to accept work goals, the level of achievement of goals and the interaction between the goals and abilities of workers. Factors affecting performance include knowledge, experience and personality.


Modeling magnetic interactions for on-chip interconnect has become an issue of great interest for integrated circuit design in recent years. This paper describes the basic concepts of magnetic interaction, loop and partial inductance, along with some of the high frequency effects such as skin and proximity effect. We also discuss and contrast options for stable and accurate window-based extraction of large-scale magnetic coupling. We analyze the required window sizes to consider the possibilities for pattern-matching style solutions, and propose three schemes for determining coupling values and window sizing for extraction via on-the-fly field solution.


The invention relates to a process of hot dry salted yolk in a hot oil medium and a drier, which is characterized in that the salted yolk is placed in edible plant oil with low viscosity for heating to realize the heat and dryness of the salted yolk in the hot oil medium. The drier comprises a hot oil tank used for filling the edible plant oil with low viscosity, a plurality of yolk baskets used for filling the salted yolk is arranged in the hot oil tank, the meshes are provided on the yolk basket for communicating the internal and external parts of the yolk basket, an oil inlet and an oil outlet are provided on the hot oil tank, and an oil material circulating system used for connecting the oil inlet and the oil outlet is provided. The process of the hot dry salted yolk in hot oil medium and the drier of the salted yolk can replace a traditional technology of the salted yolk in a hot-air drying baking tray, the purposes of reducing labor intensity and increasing the production efficiency can be realized, and no adhesion of the yolk can be realized, and a structured sphere form after heating and drying can be obtained.


By analyzing IPX protocol,puts forward a method of broadcasting conveyance in IPX that conveys the software system of one computer to some other working stations which operate the runing program,thus efficiently solves the difficult problem of installing software systems of many computers in computer labs.


Chan proposed a blind image authentication technique by generating the Parity-Check-Bits using Hamming code from a set of pixels whose bits have been reorganized. The Parity-Check-Bits generated are added by modifying other pixels. Due to this rearrangement, the most- significant bit of each suspected pixel can be determined. Using this information, the pixel can be recovered by calculating the average value and selecting one of the two possible original code words. However, calculating the average value, selects the same code word every time yielding to incorrect predictions. Moreover, use of Modulus function to facilitate improvement in quality of embedded image may alter the unused fifth position of each pixel. It is obvious that, the additional one bit or redundancy to detect the correct value may degrade the quality of the authenticated image. This paper proposes the mapping code book to generate Parity- Check-Bits and modified the embedding and recovery algorithms to avoid incorrect predictions and safeguard the fifth position of each pixel. The experimental results prove that the proposed algorithm has a greater capability to recover tampered regions with sufficiently good quality.


Total Quality Management (TQM) is regarded as a gauge of university management, in order to maintain global standards. This study examined Total Quality-Management (TQM) implementation and the practices of higher education institutions in the Philippines. It utilized a cross-sectional survey-study design to 347 respondents recruited from the total population of 3847 administrators and academic members of nine selected institutions in the Philippines. The measure of TQM adoption and practices was extracted from several sources of previous TQM researches. This study was done for six months. The analyzation and interpretation of the data were done by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results indicated that participating Filipino HEIs had a high degree of adoption on top-management commitment, Teaching and Learning Delivery Modes, campus amenities, system and process management, customer satisfaction, and linkages. In contrast, the HEIs have a modest degree of acceptance in strategic planning and Data Management. The test of differences indicated that strong confirmation to top management commitment and strategic planning as indicators of TQM is significantly more evident in private-type HEIs; and it was placed at the university level, when compared to those of the provincial and national HEIs. The findings provide some practical implications to further enhance Filipino HEIs in the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.


In the report "Nonspecific binding of complement by digestion fragments from antiviral gamma globulin" by N. E. Cremer, J. L. Riggs, E. H. Lennette, and F. W. Jensen (2 July, p. 84) the footnote sign � should have been printed after "Papain" and "Pepsin" (the controls) both places where they appear in column 1 of Table 2.


Figure 1 Brain 5-Hydroxytryptamine (Figure la) and L-tryptophan (Figure lb) concentrations in the isolated perfused rat brain. Brains were perfused with either the basal medium which contained glucose (10 mmol/l) alone (o-*) or a medium containing tranylcypromine (1 mmol/l) (o-o). In other experiments the medium contained tranylcypromine (1 mmol/l) + L-tryptophan (0.1 mmol/l) (A-,) or tranylcypromine (1 mmol/l) + Ltryptophan (1.0 mmol/1) (a-z)4. Each point represents the mean ± S.E.M. for 3-7 observations.


Minimal walking technicolor models can provide a nontrivial solution for cosmological dark matter, if the lightest technibaryon is doubly charged. Technibaryon asymmetry generated in the early Universe is related to baryon asymmetry, and it is possible to create an excess of techniparticles with charge (-2). These excessive techniparticles are all captured by {sup 4}He, creating techni-O-helium tOHe atoms, as soon as {sup 4}He is formed in big bang nucleosynthesis. The interaction of techni-O-helium with nuclei opens new paths to the creation of heavy nuclei in big bang nucleosynthesis. Because of the large mass of technibaryons, the tOHe ''atomic'' gas decouples from the baryonic matter and plays the role of dark matter in large scale structure formation, while structures in small scales are suppressed. Nuclear interactions with matter slow down cosmic techni-O-helium in the Earth below the threshold of underground dark matter detectors, thus escaping severe cryogenic dark matter search constraints. On the other hand, these nuclear interactions are not sufficiently strong to exclude this form of strongly interactive massive particles by constraints from the XQC experiment. Experimental tests of this hypothesis are possible in the search for tOHe in balloon-borne experiments (or on the ground) and for its charged techniparticlemore » constituents in cosmic rays and accelerators. The tOHe atoms can cause cold nuclear transformations in matter and might form anomalous isotopes, offering possible ways to exclude (or prove?) their existence.« less


An interpretation is provided for Section 47 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW) which prevents imposition of spousal guarantee for a married proposed debtor. An analysis is also presented that s47 of the Act is not rendered inoperative through constitutional inconsistency with Section 22 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.


cells. Furthermore, ChIP-seq for H3K27ac showed complete collapse of the super-enhancer at the TAL1 locus when the deletion affected the allele with the enhancermutation but was not affected when the deletion involved only the wild-type allele (Fig. 4B and figs. S8 and S9). We also targeted a single guide RNA to specific sequences that form part of the 12-bp insertion in Jurkat cells, which permitted us to propagate single-cell clones with a spectrum of repairinduced indel mutations directly at the insertion site (Fig. 4C). In clones with deletion of 6 bp of the 12-bp enhancer insertion, encompassing one of the two inserted MYB binding sites, endogenous TAL1 expression levels decreased by ~60%, whereas clones with more extensive deletions had endogenous TAL1 expression levels decreased by ~85% (Fig 4C). Thus, the MuTE is clearly responsible for TAL1 overexpression in Jurkat cells. Our ChIP-seq results also show that MYB and CBP were bound together at 727 of the 818 (89%) super-enhancer regions that are present in Jurkat cells. When we performed short hairpin RNA– mediated knockdown for MYB, 221 of 818 (27%) super-enhancer–associated genes decreased significantly in expression (9, 17), which suggested that MYB has an active role in regulating their transcription. These results are consistent with the interpretation that MYB-CBP binding and the subsequent formation of abundant H3K27 acetylationmarksmay be broadly involved in the formation of super-enhancers in T-ALL. Thus, the role that we have shown for MYB binding in super-enhancer formation in a subset of T-ALLs with strategically placed somatic indelmutations in all likelihood provides insight into the general question of how super-enhancers are formed at the site of genes critical for the establishment of the T-ALL cell state. MYB is known to function as amaster regulator of early and adult hematopoiesis and to undergo transcriptional down-regulation after lineage commitment and differentiation (22). An interesting area for future study will be to determine whether MYB acts in concert with CBP to regulate superenhancer formation at genes critical for defining cell identity during normal hematopoietic cell differentiation (14, 16, 23, 24). Our findings show that somatic mutation of noncoding intergenic elements can lead to binding of master transcription factors, such as MYB, which in turn aberrantly initiate super-enhancers that mediate overexpression of oncogenes. This raises the possibility that acquisition of such enhancer mutations may constitute a general mechanism of carcinogenesis used in other types of human cancers.Mechanisms of aberrant superenhancer formation in malignancy have broad implications not only formolecular pathogenesis but also for clinical management. Drugs that target key components of the transcriptional machinery, such as BRD4 and CDK7 (12, 13, 17), have recently been shown to preferentially target tumor-specific super-enhancers, which provides a novel strategy to capitalize on these abnormalities for improved cancer therapy. REFERENCES AND NOTES


Despite some two decades of research on Responsible Management Education (RME) relatively little is known about RME within business. In particular, different variants of RME in business have not be ...


Article offers the analysis of so called Lisbon saga of the Czech Constitutional Court. This court had a great opportunity to deal with the crucial questions of the basis and fundamental principles of establishment and functioning of European integration. It has expressed its opinion to the concept of conferral of competences and its relation to the question of national sovereignty. Two clear pro-European cases for sure enriched the contemporary debate on the limits of sovereignty or concept of sovereignty in connection with membership of the states in the sui generis European entity.


WISE philosopher once declared1 that an individual should reviewv his life periodically in order to study where he came from, where he was going, and how he was going to get there. This adage may well apply to the economic security program of the American Nurses' Association. It is now more than a decade since the ANA adopted the economic security program. The social climate at the time was characteristic of postwar restlessness and dreams. Organized labor and organized industry were concerned with getting back to peacetime production. Approximately 10 million men and women had to be reabsorbed in peacetime activities. But in the intervening decade, some startling changes have occurred on the social scene.


This poster explores the different open access variants made available by high impact factor medical journals, and seeks to clarify the availability of these variants to authors whose work was funded by the pharmaceutical industry.


High purity semi-insulating (HPSI) 4H-silicon carbide (SiC) was used to fabricate lateral and vertical photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSSs). The lateral PCSSs were illuminated from the frontside (fPCSS) or the backside (bPCSS). The side-illuminated vertical PCSS (vPCSS) was designed to increase the light-matter interaction volume. A 532-nm pulsed laser with adjustable energy was utilized to excite the PCSSs. The turn-on time was found to be highly dependent on the optical illumination energy, and the full-width at half-maximum of the PCSSs output waveforms was related to the peak output voltage. The output electrical pulse from the vPCSS exhibited a shorter turn-on time and a larger pulsewidth than the two types of lateral PCSSs. The vPCSS outperformed the fPCSS and bPCSS in terms of minimum <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathrm{\scriptscriptstyle ON}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-state resistance and output pulse amplitude under the same optical illumination energy. The vPCSS, which utilizes a large effective contact area to collect photogenerated carriers, also had higher photon absorption efficiency by arranging the optical path at a right angle to the carrier transport. The vPCSS exhibited a minimum <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathrm{\scriptscriptstyle ON}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-state resistance of 0.34 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\Omega $ </tex-math></inline-formula> at optical illumination energy of 8 mJ.


This paper presents the comparison of structural p roperties between silicon and porous silicon(PS) structural substrates used in the same conditions to deposition of aluminum boron co-doped ZnO (AZB) thin films of nanostructures with doping (2,4,6,8 at %.)Deposited at 450 C on silicon and porous silicon substrates by chemical spray pyrolys is in (150±5 nm) thickness. The structure of AZB nanostructure films has been found to exhibit the h exagonal wurtzite structure. The surface topography of the films and the porous silicon was studied by using the Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and the Atom ic Force Microscopy (AFM), the surface concentration shows that the roughness of the thin films increase with the increase of doping concentrations. The structural details and microstr ucture were obtained from X-ray diffraction, the results shows the grain size decreased with the inc r ase of doping concentration.


Socioscientific issues encompass social dilemmas with conceptual or technological links to science. The process of resolving these issues is best characterized by informal reasoning which describes the generation and evaluation of positions in response to complex situations. This article presents a critical review of research related to informal reasoning regarding socioscientific issues. The findings reviewed address (a) socioscientific argumentation; (b) relationships between nature of science conceptualizations and socioscientific decision making; (c) the evaluation of information pertaining to socioscientific issues, including student ideas about what counts as evidence; and (d) the influence of an individual's conceptual understanding on his or her informal reasoning. This synthesis of the current state of socioscientific issue research provides a comprehensive framework from which future research can be motivated and decisions about the design and implementation of socioscientific curricula can be made. The implications for future research and classroom applications are discussed. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 41: 513–536, 2004


A curve of cams movement trace of given cam-follower.Greatly impacts the efficiency,precision and lifespan of the cam-mechanism,so it plays an important role in cam design.In order to design cam mechanism fast and effectively,the equations of general cam were derived and summarized.Furthermore through comprehensive applications of Visual C++6.0,UG/OPEN MenuScript,UG/OPEN UIStyler and UG/OPEN API etc.development tools,based on UG software,a general cam design model with higher efficiency was developed.


The dosage of detergents in washing processes is decisive for efficiency. The optimal dosage can be determined by a measurement of the critical micelle concentration (CMC). Classical methods are not suitable for online applications in washing machines with automatic dosage because detergent concentrations cdet highly above the CMC are also needed and automatic dosage cannot be stopped in time. Optical methods are commonly used for such applications but they are expensive or imprecise. A new online detection method of CMC using impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is developed. Impedance values at selected frequencies are used to detect ccmc. The new method detects the CMC immediately and precisely when ccmc is reached so that automatic detergent dosing can be stopped in time and online measurement is possible.


The use of arsphenamin in the treatment of syphilis is one of the few specific methods of chemotherapy, and it will hardly be amiss to say that it is the only one which has been employed with uniform success in a definitely characterized infection. The fundamental difference between the action of the arsphenamin group and that of any other chemotherapeutic agent lies in the fact that the drug to be effective does not act directly on the excitants of disease. Ehrlich assumed and repeatedly gave expression to his belief that either arsphenamin therapy produces a sterilisatio magna or else it at least opens the road step by step to a sterilisatio fere absoluta. Experience has, since the introduction of arsphenamin to our therapeutic realm, contradicted this assumption. The varying effect of identical preparations on the identical excitant in various stages of the disease is ample proof that factors other than


1500 women from 83 countries attended the World Womens Congress for a Healthy Planet in Miami Florida in November 1991 which was hosted by the Womens International Policy Action Committee to affect input in the formulation of policies to be decided at the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Brazil in 1992. The 1st day of the congress centered around development of a code of Earth ethics which included a womens dimension. Participants heard from women from Kenya Brazil Barbados Canada and Liberia. The 2nd day addressed saving natural systems and positive development. Various topics included consumer power (Malaysia); economic growth development and security (New Zealand); appropriation of tribal lands by the US government; poverty (Philippines); and food security (Cameroon). The 3rd day consisted of talks on population policies family planning and sexual politics (Mexico); biotechnology and biogenetics (India); and appropriate technologies and technology transfer (UK). Participants concluded at the end of 3 days that there were considerable and interrelated problems to attack. For example developed countries with energy and other resources. Current inappropriate development produces debt poverty and land degradation. The population is growing very quickly. People leave human-made unproductive lands (e.g. decertification) and become environmental refugees. The current system depends too much on the market as a means to measure human progress. It also does not respect other human values. The congress developed guiding principles for governments international agencies private organizations and individuals centered on global equity (e.g. all people have the right to an adequate and sustainable standard of living) resources ethics (e.g. assessment and monitoring of economic policies should include social and environmental effects) and empowerment of women (e.g. governments should include women in the decision making process).


N DECEMBER I, 1902, 1 moved from Brooklyn to Princeton, whither Dr. Richardson had called me to head the catalog department of the university library. Curiously enough, after I had resigned my post at the "Poly Prep" in Brooklyn, I had two other offers at the same salary. One was from the president of the Polytechnic Institute to continue my work at a larger salary and one from the Brooklyn Public Library to become assistant librarian to Frank P. Hill. The latter offer gave me a good deal to weigh, but I finally decided for Princeton and have never regretted the decision. One factor in reaching the determination to go to Princeton was the conviction that Hill was not at all enthusiastic about having me but had yielded to pressure from Bowker and Backus in offering me the post. I am quite sure I should never have been wholly happy working under Hill, whose temperament was entirely the opposite of my own. Princeton University had celebrated its sesquicentennial in I896 and had later elected Woodrow Wilson its president. He had been inaugurated in the autumn of 1902 and was as new in office as the university was new in name. For one hundred and fifty years it had been officially the College of New Jersey, though by everyone referred to as "Princeton College." In that long life it had accumulated traditions of national service and of class loyalty which had been heavily capitalized. (I refer, of course, to academic classes, not to social distinctions.) It had come to be a national institution through the alumni's practice of sending their sons back to Princeton from literally all over the country. I recall Dr. Buttrick of the General Education Board saying that there were only two colleges whose students came in great numbers from long distances-Yale and Princeton. Whatever may have been the truth of that statement, it is notorious that there definitely was a Princeton tradition of the sons of graduates returning to the college. Under Wilson's immediate predecessor, President Francis Landey Patton, the historic connection of Princeton with Presbyterianism had been accentuated. Patton was essentially a conservative. Under him the moral tone of the undergraduate body had unfortunately deteriorated, and academically the institution had been marking time. Patton was really bought off, if gossip which prevailed when I came was even partially true. He had become president of Princeton Theological Seminary, an entirely distinct institution with a wholly separate faculty and separate trustees, and rumor had it that he had been paid a handsome bonus to retire from the headship of the college, besides retaining a professorship in philosophy. However that may be-and it was implicitly believed locally-Woodrow Wilson was not only in power but determined, from all that could be learned, to liberalize the curriculum and the methods of instruction. Princeton in I902 was essentially an American liberal arts college. Its school


London dominates the European financial services industry, being the centre-point for advanced financial services, skilled labour, and the complex array of services needed to invest beyond Europe's borders. As in other global financial centres, there is a premium on talented portfolio managers. Large and small investment companies rely upon these types of employees to produce superior risk-adjusted rates of return on the basis of asset-specific and/or style-specific investment strategies while protecting their employers against the downside risks occasioned by market risk and uncertainty. This paper presents a model of 'talent' in the investment management industry, integrating the relevant literature from economics, geography, and urban and regional studies. This is the basis for an extended discussion of the relationship between star performers and financial institutions, mediated by the size of the institution and the European market for financial services (global, national, sub-national and regional). It is argued that the market for talent in the financial services industry is geographically and institutionally segmented. It is also argued that these segments are neither self-contained nor their inter-relationships stable — there is evidence of arbitrage by investment management companies and their star performers between market segments and financial centres. Implications are drawn with respect to the status of London in the European market for investment management.


The protonations of 4-methyl-, 3,4-dimethyl- and 4,5-dimethyl-naphthalen-1-ols have been examined for fluorosulfonic acid solutions at - 50o. The C2/C4 protonation ratios are markedly dependent on the extent and position(s) of methyl substitution in the naphthalen-1-ol system.


Helminthic infection is worldwide. Recent studies have shown the impact of intestinal nemtodes on the nutritional status and cognitive development of infected children. Poor environmental hygiene perpetuates helminthiasis. The environmental status of Aba is very poor and this constitutes a serious public health problem. To assess the degree of this public health nuisance, fresh stool samples from randomly selected school children aged between 5 and 16 years were examined with the microscopes for the common helminthes: Hookworm, Ascaris lumbricoides and Trichuris Trichuria. Haemoglobin estimation was done on each subject who was interviewed for other parameters. The mean age was 10.7 + 2.3 years. Seventy-three pupils (48.6%) had stool positive for either single or mixed infections. For single infection: Hookworm 20%, Ascaris 85: Tuchuris Trichurai 6% mixed infections; Hookwarm and Trichuris 4%, Hookworm and Ascaris 10.7%. The mean haemoglobin concentration was 10.9 + 1.9 gm/dl. Fifty per cent of those with haemoglobin concentration 7.1 gm/dl and below had Hookworm infection. Type of toilet facility, parents' occupation had a relationship with the frequency of nematode infection. Helminthic infection still remains an important public health problem moreso in Aba where environmental sanitation is very poor. The rate of helminthic infection observed ranks comparatively higher with that of other areas in Nigeria. Jnl of Medical Investigation and Practice Vol.2 2001: 43-45


Objective To study the chemical constituents of the extraction of bamboo leaves of Phyllostachys nigra(Lodd.ex Lindl.) Munro var.henonis(Mitf.) Stepf.ex Rendle.Methods The compounds were isolated by chromatography on silica gel column,Sephadex LH-20,open ODS column and identified on the basis of physico-chemical constants and spectral analysis.Results Twelve compounds were isolated from EtOAc soluble fraction and n-BuOH soluble fraction of this plant and identified as β-sitosterol(1),tricin(2),daucosterol(3),butanedioic acid(4),5-methyluracil(5),tricin-7-O-β-D-glucopyranoside(6),vitexin(7),tricin-7-O-neohesperidoside(8),orientin(9),isoorientin(10),uracil(11),thymidine(12).Conclusions Compounds 4,5,6,8,11,12 are obtained from this genus for the first time.


Systems with conserved dipole moment have drawn considerable interest in light of their realization in recent experiments on tilted optical lattices. An important question for such systems is delineating the conditions under which they admit a unique gapped ground state that is consistent with all symmetries. Here, we study one-dimensional translation-invariant lattices that conserve U(1) charge and $\mathbb{Z}_L$ dipole moment, where discreteness of the dipole symmetry is enforced by periodic boundary conditions, with $L$ the system size. We show that in these systems, a symmetric, gapped, and non-degenerate ground state requires not only integer charge filling, but also a fixed value of the dipole filling, while other fractional dipole fillings enforce either a gapless or symmetry-breaking ground state. In contrast with prior results in the literature, we find that the dipole filling constraint depends both on the charge filling as well as the system size, emphasizing the subtle interplay of dipole symmetry with boundary conditions. We support our results with numerical simulations and exact results.


Effect of auxin and gibberellic acid on sporulation of a yeast, Saccharomyces ellipsoideus, was studied. When added to the sporulation media, gibberellic acid promoted sporulation. The sporulation rate was higher in the medium SGV with vitamins than in the vitamin-free SG, but the effect of gibberellic acid was more pronounced in the latter. Auxin (IAA, 2,4-D, and NAA) inhibited sporulation in SGV, but promoted it in SG. This sporulation-promoting effect of IAA was reversed by an antiauxin, 2,4,6-T.

Preculturing in the presence of added IAA increased sporulation. Added to the preculture medium, gibberellic acid alone showed little effect on sporulation, but in combination with IAA it enhanced sporulation conspicuously.

IAA and gibberellic acid were effective in sporulation promotion only when added before the nuclear enlargement occurred in sporulation culture.


Effectively managing knowledge has become a vital weapon for businesses to survive or to succeed in the increasingly competitive market. But do they perform environmental analysis when managing knowledge? If yes, how is the level and significance? This paper established a conceptual framework covering the basic knowledge management activities (KMA) to examine their contribution towards organizational performance (OP). Environmental analysis (EA) was then investigated from both internal and external aspects, to identify its effects on that contribution. Data was collected from 400 Chinese SMEs by questionnaires. Cronbach's α and factor analysis were conducted. Regression results show that the external analysis presents higher level than internal analysis. However, the internal analysis mediates the effects of external analysis on the KMA-OP relation and plays a more significant role in the relation comparing with the external analysis. Thus, firms shall improve environmental analysis especially the internal analysis to enhance their KM practices.


Objective. To estimate the contribution of obesity to maternal complications, neonatal morbidity and mortality among macrosomic births. Design. A population-based retrospective cohort design using State of Missouri maternally linked birth cohort files. Methods. Using pre-gravid body mass index (BMI), we categorized mothers of 116,976 singleton macrosomic live births as non-obese (BMI < 30) or obese (BMI ≥ 30). We used logistic regression models to generate adjusted odd ratios for pregnancy and neonatal complications. We also estimated the proportion of potentially preventable excess maternal and neonatal complications that could be eliminated among obese women with infant macrosomia at various levels of pre-pregnancy obesity reduction. Result. Obese mothers with macrosomic infants were at elevated risk for chronic hypertension (odds ratio (OR) = 6.78 [95% confidence interval (CI): 5.82–7.88]), insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, (OR = 2.60 [CI: 2.34–2.88]) other types of diabetes mellitus (OR = 2.83 [CI: 2.65–3.02]) and preeclampsia (OR = 2.49 [CI: 2.33–2.67]). Macrosomic infants of obese mothers were at greater risk for hyaline membrane disease (OR = 2.14 [CI: 1.73–2.66]), extended assisted ventilation (OR = 1.71 [CI: 1.44–2.04]), birth injury (OR = 1.58 [CI: 1.37–1.84]) and meconium aspiration syndrome (OR = 1.42 [CI: 1.09–1.87]). The proportion of preventable excess maternal morbidity was 60%, 45%, 30% and 15%, assuming an effective pre-conception intervention that could reduce obesity down to 0%, 25%, 50% and 75% of its current level, respectively. The corresponding proportion of preventable excess neonatal complications would be 40%, 30%, 20% and 10%, respectively. Conclusion. Among obese mothers with macrosomic births, a substantial proportion of maternal and neonatal morbidity could be averted through effective pre-conception interventions.


We present the results of the commissioning of the 10 m long NISUS undulator of the Deep Ultra Violet Free Electron Laser (DUV-FEL) project. The magnet and diagnostics geometry is discussed and tolerances on the beam trajectory straightness are shown. The beam-based alignment algorithm and its application to correct the NISUS field errors are described.


The peatland conservation model is generally developed based on the community. A new education-based conservation model was developed through temporary activities through seminars, workshops or non-formal learning. The aim of this research is to develop and validation a peatland conservation model through interdisciplinary science learning that connects universities, schools and communities in peatland conservation activities. The development of a peatland conservation model went through third stages following interdisciplinary research patterns. Validation was determined by content and empirical validation. The peatland conservation model consisted of three interrelated dimensions in peatland conservation, namely universities, schools and communities. The model was equipped with implementation tools in the field in the form of science learning tools. The form of a peatland conservation model book, teaching practice materials, an environmental literacy questionnaire, and an interdisciplinary thinking performance rubric were developed in this study. The validated aspects included theory, assumptions, and conceptual model representations with the Aiken score was 0.88 as a valid category and the ICC value of 0.457 showed that the reliability was not good. Empirical validation showed that the dimensions of the university, school and community constructs had internal consistency reliability and validity. The relation between dimension that universities had an influence on schools and society, and schools have an influence on society. The peatland conservation model was equipped with practical teaching learning tools that directly connected universities and schools. However, this model was also suitable for non-educational natural sciences courses or pure natural sciences to form interdisciplinary thinking skills and environmental literacy.


Vitamin A is essential for a childs normal vision growth cell differentiation health and survival. It strengthens the bodys immune response and helps the body to resist disease and infection. Children who do not eat enough breast milk liver eggs milk orange and yellow fruits and dark green leafy vegetables foods rich in vitamin A are at risk of vitamin A deficiency (VAD). VAD can cause night blindness lower ones resistance to infection and in extreme cases lead to incurable nutritional blindness. The World Health Organization does not list Thailand as a country with a clinical VAD problem. However hospital reports from 1988-91 in Yala province indicated that 31 children aged 3-15 months had become permanently blind because of VAD. Thailands Ministry of Public Health subsequently began giving high-dose capsules to all children in high-risk areas. Legislation to fortify common foods with vitamin A was enacted and enforced breastfeeding the use of vitamin A-rich foods as part of supplementary feeding were promoted and social development workers help community members increase the production and consumption of the right foods. Improved immunization coverage public health measures to control infection and income-generating projects have contributed to the programs success. No new cases of nutritional blindness have been reported to date.


A fragment ion with m / e = 152, producing the strongest line in the mass spectrum of fragments of anthracene molecule subjected to laser radiation of the 266 nm wavelength, was found to form as a result of four-photon dissociative ionization.


In this paper,as a survey we present AUTOTECH-PRO 17 which is a new generation of programm systems for the rationalization of production engineering preparation.


Aims: To analyze the fetal echocardiographic diagnosis.Methods: A descriptive study of fetal echocardiographic diagnosis at Shahid Gangalal National Heart Centre between October 2016 to September 2017.  Results: Total of 615 fetal echocardiography was performed in 607 pregnancies. Intrauterine heart disease noted in 79 cases. Echogenic intracardiac foci was the most common abnormality (6%) followed by VSD (1.3%), fetal arrhythmia (1.1%), pericardial effusion (1.6%), cardiomyopathy (0.3%), hypoplastic left ventricle (0.6%), DORV (0.3%) and tricuspid atresia (0.4%).  Similarly the most common referral for fetal echocardiography was for maternal disorder mostly diabetes mellitus.Conclusion: Fetal echocardiography is an important tool for the antenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects. Appropriate timing and judicious use increases the sensitivity and improves the perinatal outcome of newborns with congenital heart disease


The noise、poisons and other occupational hazards in the procession of oil and gas exploitation is very common to seen and they are the causes of occupational hazard,which have great impression on the works' safety and health.This paper describes the status quo of the occupational hazards in oil companies and analyses the establishment of occupational health regulatory system countermeasures as well as studies the occupational disease prevention and cure measures.


Europium-doped barium thioaluminate (BaAl2S4:Eu) is currently the most efficient blue phosphor for inorganic thin film electroluminescent (iEL) device. To produce the full-color EL device, several kinds of blue-emitting layer were attempted and tested. As a key point of blue-emitting layer fabrication, single target sputtering deposition is an effective method. In this work, new structural target is introduced and the fabricated process is expatiated. The PL spectra of as fabricated targets show that both of two, 3mol% and 5mol% europium-doped, have blue emitting property. According to the PL spectra excited by 290nm, 300nm and 320nm ultraviolet, emission peaks located in the region near 470nm. So the as-fabricated targets can be used in single target sputtering deposition on thin film of BaAl2S4:Eu. XRD pattern indicates that there are 4 different phases, barium tetraaluminum sulfide (BaAl4S7), barium sulfide (BaS), europium sulfide (EuS) and barium aluminum oxide (BaAl2O4), in target 1. Besides these four compounds, other two phases, aluminum sulfide (Al2S3) and barium thioaluminate (BaAl2S4), are detected in target 2. Considering the analysis results, especially the hydrolyzation of Al2S3, target 1 is more suitable for sputtering deposition of BaAl2S4:Eu thin film. XPS and X-ray Fluorescence patterns describe the precise molar ratio of each element. In target 1 the relative atom concentration of barium, aluminum, sulfur and oxygen can be calculated from the pattern and molar ratio is about 9:33:41:17. Molar ratio of barium and europium is about 1:0.03. In short, the barium thioaluminate doped by europium sputtering target 1 is better to be applied in the fabrication of blue-emitting layer in inorganic electro-luminescent devices.


Along with the growing energy consumption of modern society, the environmental protection of power system becomes more important. In this paper, the environmental impacts on thermal power plants are considered in optimal power flow, and a new method to determine the weight of objective function is proposed. Thermal power plant's geographical location, weather conditions and the impact of population factors are taken into consideration to form relevant impact factors which are translated into meaningful penalty factors through the emissions fine, and then the multi-objective optimization problem could be translated into a single objective optimization problem. A program based on primal-dual interior point method is used to solve the problem and an IEEE30 bus system is used to verify the validity of the algorithm.


OBJECTIVES
Alkaptonuria (AKU) is an orphan disease that has an estimated prevalence of 0.3/100,000. The disease is caused by the lack of activity of homogentisic acid oxidase (HGO), an enzyme involved in tyrosine and phenylalanine metabolism. To date, there is only one drug, the nitisinone, with orphan designation authorised by both Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medical Agency (EMA) for AKU. A clinical trial on AKU patients using nitisinone has recently been completed but it needs further investigation for long-term therapy. In recent years our group has developed a series of AKU in vitro models using cell lines, primary chondrocytes and human plasma in order to test the efficacy of new substances, mainly antioxidant compounds, for AKU therapy. Herein, we report the optimisation of an ex vivo reproducible culture method exploiting cartilage slices in order to investigate the deposition of ochronotic pigment in this kind of connective tissue.

METHODS
Human normal cartilage slices, obtained after surgery for prosthesis replacement, were cultured for several days in the presence of a sublethal concentration of homogentisic acid (HGA).

RESULTS
After two months of incubation with HGA, the peculiar melanin-like ochronotic pigmentation can be observed into the cartilage tissue.

CONCLUSIONS
This novel organo-typic ex vivo model could be extremely useful to investigate the efficacy of substances able to ameliorate the conditions of AKU patients. Moreover, it could be used for genetic and proteomic investigations to better define AKU pathophysiology.


The invention discloses equipment for processing the wastewater through a biochemical technology and a membrane separating technology, and particularly relates to external membrane bioreactor wastewater processing equipment with a self-suction jet nozzle aerating function. The equipment comprises an integrated bioreactor, a self-suction jet nozzle aerating unit and an external membrane separating unit. The wastewater processing equipment, which integrates advantages of deep aeration, a biological fluidized bed, jet aeration, membrane separation, a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) nitrogen and phosphorus removal technology and other water treatment technologies, and is high in oxygen transfer utilizing efficiency, free from air-blowing aerating equipment, low in residual sludge, and capable of realizing a long-term stable operation with low energy consumption. The equipment is good in quality of discharged water, compact in process, small in occupied area, low in investment, convenient in maintenance and easy to realize the automatic control. The equipment has a good application prospect in the field of wastewater processing and recycling.


Today the culture between west and east are dominated to shape the world. Old things and new things bring into urbanism creation of the people and their settlements. Culture is the most important thing to start new life to make the whole works. The ancient things between eastern and western become more specific to explain again in modern world. Now in 20 century the ideas based to the culture and how people behavior for daily activity more interesting than how fabrication thing worked. Europian and American people begin to seek new way to the east, how they create the culture. Diversity in many countries are welcome to make the new culture, tradition and faith bring new spirit from the actors. Actors who create new urban life, new design and new way to compose all elements.Human aspect of East people represent their character for Urban life. The development of a new concept that exist in the hands of the people who coined the concept of manu-culture for a more harmonious life in the future.


Fractional derivative and integral operators are often employed to present new generalizations of mathematical inequalities. The introduction of new fractional operators has prompted another direction in different branches of mathematics and applied sciences. First, we investigate and prove new fractional equality. Considering this equality as the auxiliary result, we attain some estimations of a Hermite–Hadamard type inequality involving s-preinvex, s-Godunova–Levin preinvex, and prequasi invex functions. In addition, we investigate a fractional order Hadamard–Fejér inequality and some of its refinements pertaining to h-preinvexity via a non-conformable fractional integral operator. Finally, we present a Pachpatte type inequality for the product of two preinvex functions. The findings as well as the special cases presented in this research are new and applications of our main results.


Title of Dissertation: SCALABLE STATISTICAL MODELING AND QUERY PROCESSING OVER LARGE SCALE UNCERTAIN DATABASES Bhargav Kanagal Shamanna Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Amol Deshpande Dept. of Computer Science The past decade has witnessed a large number of novel applications that generate imprecise, uncertain and incomplete data. Examples include monitoring infrastructures like RFIDs, sensor networks and web-based applications such as information extraction, data integration etc. In my dissertation, I addressed the challenges in managing uncertain data and developed algorithms for efficiently executing queries over large volumes of such data. First, for meaningful analysis of such data, we need the ability to remove noise and infer useful information from uncertain data. To address this challenge, I developed a declarative system for applying probabilistic models to databases and data streams. The output of such probabilistic modeling is probabilistic data, i.e., data annotated with probabilities of correctness. Often, the data exhibits strong correlations. To manage such data, I built a probabilistic database system that can manage large-scale correlations and developed algorithms for efficient query evaluation. My system allows users to provide uncertain data as input and to specify arbitrary correlations among the entries in the database. In the back end, we represent correlations as a forest of "junction trees", an alternative representation for probabilistic graphical models (PGM). We execute queries over the probabilistic database by transforming them into message passing algorithms (inference) over the junction tree. Traditional algorithms over junction trees typically require accessing the entire tree, making them infeasible for largescale correlated databases. Hence, I developed an index data structure over the junction tree called INDSEP that allows us to circumvent this process and scalably evaluate inference queries, aggregation queries and SQL queries over the probabilistic database. Next, I augmented the existing query evaluation model so that users can better understand query results. The existing query evaluation model returns output tuples along with their probability values, which provides very little intuition to the users: for instance, a user might want to know "Why does this output tuple have such high probability?" or "Which are the most influential input tuples for my query ?" Hence, I developed algorithms to compute explanations for query results and perform sensitivity analysis for users to better understand query results. SCALABLE STATISTICAL MODELING AND QUERY PROCESSING OVER LARGE SCALE UNCERTAIN DATABASES


The mechanical characteristics of gamma-ray irradiated UHMWPE specimens were investigated under various heat treatment conditions. The heat treatment was performed in the range of annealing and remelting temperatures. The annealing treatment below the temperature of hardly induced changes in the tensile strength, the strain at the failure and the hardness. However the remelting treatment above deteriorated those mechanical properties. It was shown in an FTIR analysis that the annealing treatment caused some oxidation of free radicals created by the pretreatment of the irradiation. These quantitative data represented by the behavior of mechanical properties might be used as basic informations for the design and analysis of various artificial joints.


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1-acetyl-3-[(5-bromo-2-acetoxy-phenylmethylene)-amino]-4-oxoimidazolidin-2-thione (2) and 5-acetyl-3-[(5-bromo-2-hydroxy-phenylmethylene)amino]-4-oxo-imidazolidin-2-thione(3)prepared by Acylation of 3-[(5-bromo-2hydroxy-phenylmethylene)-amino]-4-oxo-imidazolidin-2-thione(1) by different method. The reaction of 3-[(5-bromo-2-hydroxy-phenylmethylene)-amino]-4-oxoimidazolidin-2-thione (1) with bromine in presence of glacial acetic acid result the 5bromo3-[(5-bromo-2-hydroxy-phenylmethylene)-amino]-4-oxo -imidazolidin-2thione (4). The Acylation of compound (4) with acetic anhydride led to formation 5bromo-1,5-diacetyl-3-[(5-bromo-2-acetoxy-phenylmethylene)-amino]-4-oxoimidazolidin-2-thione (5). The hydrazinolysis of compound (1) with hydrazine hydrated led to formation of 2, 4-dihydrazino-3-[(5-bromo-2-hydroxy-phenylmethyl)amino]-imidazolidine (6). The condensation of compound (1) with different aldehyde led to formation of (7a-c). The action of acetic anhydride on compounds (7a-c) under reflux led to formation of (8a-c).


As in all the thermoelectric diagrams hitherto published the lines of the metals stop short at the melting points, it seemed interesting to the writer to trace the change in the thermoelectric properties of a metal as the temperature is raised to, and beyond, its melting point. The fusible metals containing bismuth or antimony were rejected, because their large expansion at the point of solidification rendered them very unmanageable; ordinary block tin was accordingly chosen.


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Thin-film plate polarizers with a polarization ratio Tp/Ts > 1000 for single laser wavelengths can be realized if a Fabry-Perot filter is used. The spectral width of the polarization region of the filter polarizer is smaller than that of the usual long-wave pass filter, but there are not the practical difficulties of depositing multilayer systems with a large number of layers having nonquarter-wave thickness. For theoretical analysis, the principle of equivalent layer is extended to the Fabry-Perot design. Experimental results of the Fabry-Perot filter polarizer for different laser wavelengths, and with different coating materials, are presented.


The aim of this observation is to describe the mathematic learning process which apply TGT cooperative type learning method to increase the mathematic proclivity and achievement of student in class VIII C SMP N 2 Sanden, Bantul. The type of this observation is Class Action Research (CAR). The Data accumulation technique in this observation using observation technique, questionnaire technique, test technique, documentation and range of activity record technique. After applied the cooperative type TGT learning method in class VIII C SMP N 2 Sanden, Bantul. The result of the observation indicated that the mathematic proclivity and study achievement of student have been advance. Its indicated by the average presentation progress of study proclivity student in pra step amounted 48,66% advance to 60,31% at the cycle I and 68,88% at the cycle II. The student mathematic achievement are advance, according to the average of pra step amounted 71,25 to 77,5 and at the end of cycle I and then 82,5 at the end of cycle II. Whereas the student presentation who get point ≥ 75 advance too. Which at pra step amounted 35,71% to 64,29% in cycle I and then 85,71% in cycle II. According to the observation teachers have to use TGT cooperative type of learning method in mathematic course especially in another material as an alternative to advance the student proclivity and study achievement in mathematic learning.


The organic Rankine cycle is a mature small-scale power generation technology for harnessing low- to mid-temperature heat sources. However, the low efficiency of the cycle still hinders its widespread implementation. To optimize the cycle's performance, it is crucial to identify the source and magnitude of losses within each component of the cycle. This study, thus, aims to investigate the irreversible losses and their effect on the performance of the system. A prototype organic Rankine cycle (ORC) with the exhaust of a diesel engine as the heat source was developed to experimentally investigate the system and ascertain the losses. The experiments were performed at steady-state conditions at different evaporation pressures from 1300 kPa to 1600 kPa. The exergy loss and exergetic efficiency of the individual component and the overall system was estimated from the experimentally measurement of the pressure, temperature, and mass flow rate. The results indicate that the exergy losses of the evaporator are almost 60 kW at different evaporation pressures and the exergy loss rate is from 69.1% to 65.1%, which accounted for most of the total exergy loss rate in the organic Rankine cycle system. Meanwhile, the highest shaft efficiency and exergetic efficiency of the screw expander are 49.8% and 38.4%, respectively, and the exergy losses and exergy loss rate of the pump and pipe are less than 0.5 kW and 1%. Due to the relatively higher exergy loss of the evaporator and the low efficiency of expander, the highest exergetic efficiency of the organic Rankine cycle system is about 10.8%. The study concludes that the maximum improvement potential lies in the evaporator, followed by the expander.


March 8, 1969 Why Discontinue the NSS Crop Survey? Reply S Naqvi S B Piliai R P Saha IN his critique of our paper (June 22, 1968) Counter-Statistician (September 7, 1968) has chosen to begin with what he calls a clarification. He has asserted that " . , even at present the official crop surveys which are carried out through the State Governments are under the direct supervision of the


While some models of computer writing environments have emerged in the literature on writing, most of them are done with the purpose of helping writers in an academic context and very few, if any, with the aim of facilitating the work of professional writers or students in professional writing. We think, however, that we can learn from the previous models to build a multi-purpose computer writing environment that will take into account the needs of the professional writers as well as those of the students learning to write. We will begin by looking at some models of writing proposed by Hayes and Flower in 1980 and also at the model of White and Arndt. Afterwards, we will review the model of professional writers developed by Clerc and link it with the previous models. We will then have to look at some computer writing environments described in the literature and see how these environments take into account the process and tasks identified in writing. Finally, we will suggest our model.


HATES H. R. jr., THORNTON J. 1..: Carcinoma of the prostatic ducts. Amer. J. Clin, Pathol., 45; 96 (1966). ENDE N., WOODS L. P., SHELLEY H. S.: Carcinoma originating in ducts surrounding the prostatic urethra. Amer, J. Clin. Pathol., -/0; 183'189 (1963). JOHNSON D. E., HOGAN J. 1\1., AYALA A. G.: Transitional cell carcinoma of the prostate. A clinical morphological study. Cancer, 29; 287'293 (1972). KARPAS C. M., MOUMGIS B.: Primary transitional cell carcinoma of prostate gland: possible pathogenesis and relationship to reserve cell hyperplasia of prostatic perilurerhral ducts. ]. Uro\., WI; 201-205 (1969). Mzt.tcow M. M.. HOLL')WELL ]. W.: Intra-urothelial cancer· carcinoma in situ Bowen's disease of the urinary system. Discussion of thirty cases. J. Urol., 68; 763'772 (1952). ORTEGA L. G., WHITMORE W. F. jr., MURPHY A. J.: In situ carcinoma of the prostate with intraepithelial extension into the urethra and bladder. Cancer, 6; 898-923 (1953). RUBENSTEIN A. B., RUBNITZ M. E.: Transitional cell carcinoma of the prostate. Cancer, 2-/; 543-546 (1969). SHMAYER T. A., KNAACK J., THt:l.MO W. 1.., WANG N. S., AHMED M. N.: Further observations on carcinoma in situ of the urinary bladder: silent but extensive intraprostatic involvement, Cancer, 36; !)l4-520 (1975)' Ul.LMAN A. S., Ross O. A.: Hyperplasia, atypism and carcinoma in situ in prostatic periurethral glands. Amer. J. Clin. Pathol., -/7; 497'504 (1963).


Linux is one kind of modern operation system multi-tasks,multi-users and multi-processors,real time dispatch is its very important function;this article presents a design of multi-thread real time dispatch project according the algorithm of linux to real time task,combing modern multi-thread programming technology.


The inventive group of satellites, distributed around the earth serves as a communication network that supports global communications subscriber stations. Potentially subscriber stations can transmit to any place on earth. At some sites, such as radio astronomy station may experience interference from transmissions from subscriber stations. Subscriber station, placed inside the areas potentially exposed to interference near a radio astronomy station forbidden to broadcast the potential for disturbing signals by receiving from radio astronomy sites beacon signal carrying no interference. The beacon periodically transmits a pilot signal synchronized with a control signal of the satellite serving the subscriber station. The information contained in the control signal beacon prohibits subscriber station to transmit.


The role of religion in contemporary suicide reduction advocacy cannot be overemphasized. Suicide, in most cases has lent itself to multidisciplinary considerations, although before now it had been largely scientific. This includes a combination of psychology, medicine, psychiatry, biomedicine, psychobiology, neurology, medical sociology and others. In most situations, religion, philosophy of religion and philosophy have not been given the rightful place in suicide consideration. This approach could be seen clearly as a negative oversight. The goal of this paper is to examine some common religious perceptions of suicide and consequently apply such in the quest for suicidology advocacy. The paper applied religious, philosophical, historical and sociological research methodologies. It is recommended that a clear understanding of some common religious perceptions of suicide would assist in formulating some panaceas for suicide reduction. Consequently, there would be a reduction in the level of suicide behavior or complete suicide in the South West in particular, and Nigeria in general


A description of transport of either heat, momentum, or mass in the transition regime is based upon third‐order constitutive equations for the fluxes. The one‐dimensional steady‐state equation which governs the dependent variable P* (either dimensionless temperature, velocity, or concentration) as a function of distance x* is the linearized fourth‐order differential equation N2(d4P*/dx*4) + (d2P*/dx*2)=0, where N is proportional to the Knudsen number. A solution is proposed based on reasonable boundary conditions for parallel plate geometry. Expressions are derived for the profile of P*, the slip or jump of P* at a wall, the effective transport coefficient, and the flux. The expressions have the proper limits for the continuum and free molecule regimes, and compare well with other theories for the transition regime and with subsonic experimental data.


A spring terminal connector (1) for clamping an electrical conductor with an insulating material housing (2) having at least one conductor insertion opening (12) for insertion of an electrical conductor, at least one clamping spring (5) having a contact leg (7), a clamping arm (10) and a the contact leg (7) and the clamping leg (10) interconnecting spring bow (8), and recorded with at least one displaceable in the insulating housing (2) actuating pusher (15) having an actuating surface (14) for resting on the clamping leg (10) and has displacement of the clamping leg (10) in the direction of the contact leg (7) for opening the clamping position upon displacement of the operating trigger (15) towards the interior of the insulating housing (2), will be described. In the insulating housing (2) is provided at least one handle opening (16) for receiving an associated actuating pusher (15) which is to an associated conductor insertion opening (12) toward opened. The pusher in this opening (16) displaceably mounted actuating pusher (15) forms part of the wall of the conductor insertion opening (12). The handle opening (16) is adjacent one of the conductor insertion opening (12) the mouth section (50) starting at which the conductor insertion opening (12) opposite the back (51) of the handle opening (16) widens out. The actuating trigger (15) is adapted in cross section at the widening contour of the press opening (16).


Across the United States, many families have become two-income households in which both parents work. For many, this creates a need for child care before their children enter the formal education system. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999, we analyze the effect of the care a child received the year before kindergarten on fall assessments of their academic proficiency. We also examine the relation between the type of care a child received and their teacher's perception of the child's academic ability. We find that children who attend center-based care the year before kindergarten achieve higher scores on ability tests, after controlling for family background. Further, the distinction in type of center-based care, such as day-care vs. nursery vs. preschool, can have additional impact on the child's ability. Mentor: Jennifer C. Lee, Department of Scoiology, Indiana University Bloomington.


In order to make sure of the QoS(Quality of Service)for the integrated service,such as voice video data,and so on,in the computer networks,it is necessary to solve the problems of priority control.So,under the condition that giving top priority to sending frames with the highest priority and ensuring the sending of lower priority frames(especially the lowest priority frames),"The Improved Polling Model" is first introduced.So that,it expands the use of the polling access model in the integrated service Bus LAN.Simulation results show that the improved protocol increases the QoS for the integrated service Bus LAN.


This paper examines how non-expert listeners perceive prominence and prosodic boundaries in Korean using the Rapid Prosody Transcription (RPT) method, developed by Mo, Cole and Lee [9] for American English. While prominence is used to mark prosodically salient or "highlighted" words and phrases, prosodic boundaries demarcate units or "chunks" of speech to mirror the hierarchical relations among prosodic structures. Confirming the findings of earlier studies on American English, nonexpert transcribers of Korean show agreement rates that are well above chance and, show higher agreement rates for prosodic boundaries than prominence. Korean listeners not only perceive prosodic boundaries at sentence-level boundaries corresponding to Intonation Phrase (IP) boundaries in the Korean Tones and Break Indices (ToBI) system, but also at clausal-level boundaries. The findings suggest that cues to boundaries are more salient than cues to prominences in Korean. For the perception of prominence, Korean listeners seem to orient to different cues including prosodic, syntactic and lexical information.


Drillstring vibrations cause premature failure of downhole tools and the drillstring itself. Also, drill bits do not drill efficiently as a result of these vibrations and this inefficiency causes a significant reduction in penetration rate and a corresponding increase in footage cost. Drill bits are a primary source of excitation; these vibrations are self-excited by the interaction of drillstring, drill bit, and formation. Results show that drag bid design, shock absorber design and bit rotational speed dictate conditions of dynamic instability


Due to their limitless possibilities and low cost, RFID systems are powerful object identication tools well-suited in everyday applications. When attempting to identify multiple RFID tags from densely populated elds within the shortest timeframe possible , the typical design characteristics of RFID systems lead to a problematic lack of adequate resources to eciently do so. After a brief introduction to RFID we present several forms of the multiple-access protocol Aloha known from networking to resolve collisions, with special focus on the variants thereof which make them attractive for deploying in RFID systems. We then review a series of commercially available or standards-dened RFID systems, and liken the contention resolution protocols used to the presented Aloha variants. The problematic of comparing the systems' performance will be addressed, and several systems briey put against one-another.


175Background: There is now good evidence that low skeletal muscle index (SMI) using established thresholds is associated with poor survival in patients undergoing surgery for CRC. However, to date...


This study investigates the causal interpretation of linear social interaction models in the presence of endogeneity in network formation under a heterogeneous treatment effects framework. We consider an experimental setting in which individuals are randomly assigned to treatments while no interventions are made for the network structure. We show that running a linear regression ignoring network endogeneity is not problematic for estimating the average direct treatment effect. However, it leads to sample selection bias and negative-weights problem for the estimation of the average spillover effect. To overcome these problems, we propose using potential peer treatment as an instrumental variable (IV), which is automatically a valid IV for actual spillover exposure. Using this IV, we examine two IV-based estimands and demonstrate that they have a local average treatment-effect-type causal interpretation for the spillover effect.


The assembly to clamp containers, and their components and segments, has at least one frame (1) with at least one rotating template (2) with an opening (3) shaped to match the container section. The template is in at least two parts, which can be opened and closed together. The template is mounted on rollers (5), with a drive (6) for at least one roller to rotate the template.


Image cytometry is mostly associated with high quality but low quantity, whereas flow cytometry is associated with high quantity but low quality. Achieving both quality and quantity in cytometry is possible in the case of automated confocal microscopy systems. We have shown that the automation of image acquisition and image processing in confocal microscopy is possible for specific tasks such as 2D and 3D FISH imaging. This paper is focused on practical problems and solutions that we have encountered during our research. We believe that our experience might be helpful to all those who decide to automate their light microscopy systems for cell studies, i.e. for image cytometry purposes.


SUBTITLE: THE RACE FOR THE LONDON MAYOR HAS BROUGHT TRANSPORT ISSUES IN THE CAPITAL SHARPLY INTO FOCUS. CONGESTION, POLLUTION AND NOISE ARE THE TRADEMARKS OF WHAT SHOULD BE A GREAT CITY. BUT TRANSPORT 2000'S NEW AGENDA FOR LONDON SAYS THINGS COULD BE DIFFERENT.