Plasticized polyvinyl chloride extruded strips have been found useful for color marking birds. Craighead and Stockstad (J. Wildl. Mgmt., 20:331332. 1956) described this material and a procedure for making neck bands. Recently their design was modified by Downing and Marshall (J. Wildl. Mgmt., 23:223-224. 1959). A new method for attaching such strips was devised for use on redwinged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus). A /4-inch slot was punched longitudinally near the center of a strip m4 inch wide, 13/4 inches long, and 0.062 inch thick. Through this slot a U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service numbered aluminum size 2 band was inserted and closed around the tarsus of the bird (Fig. 1). The efficiency of this method of color marking was tested on both caged and free-flying redwings and compared with neck banding. Confined birds with neck bands thrashed about the cage and stepped on their own neck bands. Other birds in the cages pecked at the hanging strips. Because of disturbance caused by neck bands, I removed them after 12 hour. Birds with leg strips pecked at the strips, as they commonly do at metal leg bands when first attached. Leg strips caused no other discomfort or interference with normal activities. No apparent injury was caused by the leg strips on captive birds held for 6 months. Two male redwinged blackbirds marked with leg strips were observed on their territories over a 3month period. They always exhibited behavior typical of unmarked birds. Six other males were marked, but only three of them were sighted after being marked. These six males probably were not resident birds. One female redwing seen on its nest was not impeded by a leg strip. A territorial male redwing with neck band and colored celluloid leg bands (not strips) behaved normally but lost the neck band in a month's time. At the end of the month, its neck feathers showed extreme wear. The colored leg bands were lost within a year. No loss of leg strips was noted on the birds studied. Because of the pliability of the strips, the birds are not likely to become entangled. The plastic retains its original shape and color and does not tear or break. It is usually visible when the bird is either standing or flying. Red, orange, or yellow strips 1/4 inch wide usually can be seen readily at 50 yards without binoculars. The plasticized material is available in other colors. If different combinations are desired, a strip can be put on each leg. An unnumbered band may be used for attaching the second strip.


Design length and performance of heat exchangers for ground source heat pumps strongly depend on the thermal conductivity of the backfill material. Laboratory studies were undertaken to determine means of improving thermal conductivity of cementitious backfill grouts. The influence of fillers and admixtures was examined. Significant improvement of grout thermal conductivity was readily achieved through appropriate materials selection and mix design. Fillers such as silica sand, alumina grit, steel grit, and silicon carbide increased the thermal conductivity to values ranging from 1.7 to 3.3 W/(m ·K) (0.98 to 1.9 Btu/h·ft·°F). Neat cement grouts had conductivities of 0.80 to 0.87 W/(m ·K) (0.46 to 0.50 Btu/h·ft·°F). Filled cementitious grouts had better retention of thermal conductivity under drying conditions than bentonites and neat cements. The reduction in required bore length possible with cement-sand grouts was predicted theoretically for an example heat pump system and found to be 22 to 37%, dependi...


In article are produced the results of studying the problem of origin the sanitary work with the pupils during the holidays (end of XIX-beginning of XX century). Existence of years school colonys in the explored season possible was extreme due to the public initiative. The basic sources of financing were casual donations, collectings from charitable concerts, markets, evenings, mass walk, public lectures, the disbursement raised from colonists for stay in colony.


WHY THE RAT? The word hippocampus does not occur in Snyder's Music and Memory (our main text). His conscious decision was to leave the " nuts and bolts " of the brain largely out of his discussion. But it is the nuts and bolts of neuroscience that are driving current research, so we need to at least peek into the workshops of brain researchers. My suggestion is to peek in four stages. Stage one is to read the remaining pages of this guide, which contain an adaptation and abridgment of the Wiki-pedia article on the hippocampus. Stage two is to read an editorial in Science (it is in the parts of the two pages highlighted in light blue): Stage three is to read a paper discussed in the stage-two editorial. It describes important findings about rats: Stage four is to read a paper discussed in the stage-two editorial. It describes important findings about humans: Rats have long been a testbed for ideas about the human brain. A classic paper in cognitive psychology by Edward Tolman is cited below (see < I shall devote the body of this paper to a description of experiments with rats. But I shall also attempt in a few words at the close to indicate the significance of these findings on rats for the clinical behavior of men. Most of the rat investigations, which I shall report, were carried out in the Berkeley laboratory. But I shall also include, occasionally, accounts of the behavior of non-Berkeley rats who obviously have misspent their lives in out-of-State laboratories. Furthermore, in reporting our Berkeley experiments I shall have to omit a very great many. The ones I shall talk about were carried out by graduate students (or underpaid research assistants) who, supposedly , got some of their ideas from me. And a few, though a very few, were even carried out by me myself.


Decadal prediction using climate models faces long‐standing challenges. While global climate models may reproduce long‐term shifts in climate due to external forcing, in the near term, they often fail to accurately simulate interannual climate variability, as well as seasonal variability, wet and dry spells, and persistence, which are essential for water resources management. We developed a new climate‐informed K‐nearest neighbour (K‐NN)‐based stochastic modelling approach to capture the long‐term trend and variability while replicating intra‐annual statistics. The climate‐informed K‐NN stochastic model utilizes historical data along with climate state information to provide improved simulations of weather for near‐term regional projections. Daily precipitation and temperature simulations are based on analogue weather days that belong to years similar to the current year's climate state. The climate‐informed K‐NN stochastic model is tested using 53 weather stations in the Northeast United States with an evident monotonic trend in annual precipitation. The model is also compared to the original K‐NN weather generator and ISIMIP‐2b GFDL general circulation model bias‐corrected output in a cross‐validation mode. Results indicate that the climate‐informed K‐NN model provides improved simulations for dry and wet regimes, and better uncertainty bounds for annual average precipitation. The model also replicates the within‐year rainfall statistics. For the 1961–1970 dry regime, the model captures annual average precipitation and the intra‐annual coefficient of variation. For the 2005–2014 wet regime, the model replicates the monotonic trend and daily persistence in precipitation. These improved modelled precipitation time series can be used for accurately simulating near‐term streamflow, which in turn can be used for short‐term water resources planning and management.


Using a diffraction grating with elliptically curved grooves engraved at the top of an aluminum slab, surface plasmons in the terahertz frequency range are efficiently excited with an incoming parallel beam and focused over the metal surface down to the diffraction limit. At 0.5 THz, the lateral confinement of the surface plasmon is 1 mm while its extension in air is 0.74 mm, much smaller than the calculated value for a semi-infinite substrate having the conductivity of bulk aluminum.


On assuming that the exotic exchange reaction pi -p to Sigma -K+ occurs as a result of multiple non-exotic exchanges pi -p to rho 0n to Sigma -K+, the author finds that the imaginary parts of the invariant amplitudes A and B for the above reaction show Odorico zeros at almost fixed and small value of momentum transfer. The recent phase shift analysis of Langbein and Wagner supports his result.


flexibility of cloud service composition Abstract. The cloud manufacturing (CMfg) is a new manufacturing paradigm that can realize the added-value and on-demand use of manufacturing resource and ability in the form of manufacturing cloud service (CS). In order to realize the added-value of cloud service (CS) through cloud service composition (CSC) in CMfg, there are two issues to be solved, i.e. there always exist correlations among CSs and dynamic changes during CSC, which can both affect the implement of CSC. Considering the ablve two issues, this paper presents a six-layer framework for CSC supporting life-cycle in CMfg. Meantime, the involving key issues in this framework are preliminarily discussed as well.


Editor:We would like to comment on the recently published articleby Drs Sheiman and Brophy (1). The authors describe a 100%success rate of percutaneous thrombin injection for the treat-ment of simple pseudoaneurysms, whereas their success ratefor complex pseudoaneurysms was only 56% (five of ninepseudoaneurysms). Complex pseudoaneurysm architecturewas associated with a procedure failure. Because of realisticconcern about possible native vessel thrombosis or emboli-zation if the lobe directly connected to the native vessel wasto be injected, Drs Sheiman and Brophy elected to inject thefarthest removed lobe first and then perform a second injec-tion in the directly connected lobe if persistent or recurrentflow was observed. It is noted that "...wecannot excludethe possibility that direct injection into this lobe (directlyjoined to the native vessel) could cause thrombosis, eliminateflow in the more distal lobe, and lead to total spontaneousthrombosis of the entire pseudoaneurysm."Comparison of this report with our recent experience with14 patients who had iatrogenic femoral pseudoaneurysmsmay be useful in helping to determine the most appropriatetechnique for this emerging new therapy. We performedpercutaneous topical thrombin (Thrombin-JMI; Jones Medi-cal Industries, St Louis, Mo) injection after obtaining localinstitutional review board approval. All patients failed a trialof nonguided external compression that was continued for aminimum of 2 and a maximum of 9 days. Heparin therapywas discontinued prior to thrombin injection but was recom-menced immediately afterward in four cases. Four of the 14patients had a complex pseudoaneurysm, three of whom hadtwo interconnecting lobes, one had four interconnectinglobes, and all had a single neck. None of these patients werereceiving anticoagulant therapy, but two were receiving an-tiplatelet drugs. The median pseudoaneurysm volume of 7.5cm


A few years ago, specifically the biennium 2013/14, a scenario of water crisis became real in São Paulo, which is located in the Paraná basin. The watersheds are management units, being in the basin where all types of activities occur (industrial, human, agricultural, among others). In this way a hydrological study of the basin allows the decision making in relation to water resources to be more effective. In this context, the objective of this work was to conduct a multitemporal analysis of water storage in the Paraná basin between 2002 and 2014. For this, water storage data provided by the GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) mission was used. For a more detailed analysis, the Paraná basin was divided into six sub-basins, being "Grande", "Paraná Verde", "Paranaíba", Paraná Paranapanema"," Paraná Tietê" and "Paraná Iguaçu ". Correlation of water storage data with TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) and MOD16 (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) orbital data was also performed, aiming at identifying the periods of greater drought occurrence, as well as quantifying the reduction along the basin. Due to the high reliability of the data used, it was possible to verify that the water crisis of 2013/14 was the most pronounced in recent years. It was possible to verify that the GRACE data are better suited for larger areas, without disregarding the shape of the area.


This paper is concerned with how we should understand the distinctive contribution of music to Christian worship. It considers two contrasting views that have powerfully influenced contemporary church music – the pursuit of musical excellence by highly competent performers on the one hand, and the adoption of simpler, popular and more inclusive musical forms on the other. This contrast is explored against the background of a biblical understanding of prayer and sacrifice, and in the light of some philosophical issues surrounding both the idea of divine service and the nature of music.


Adaptive array beamforming achieves high resolution and sidelobe suppression by producing sharp nulls in the adaptive beampattern when using sample matrix inversion (SMI). In the presence of source motion, the adaptive processor often cannot provide sufficient nulling of the interferer, given the number of snapshots available, and this results in a masking of the desired target signal. The null broadening approach, originally developed to improve the robustness of adaptive beamforming for a stationary problem, is extended to the snapshot-deficient problem arising from the nonstationarity of the background interference. Null broadening allows strong interferers to move through resolution cells and increases the number of degrees of freedom, thereby improving the detection of weak stationary signals. Numerical simulations demonstrate the robustness of the null broadening approach.


We present several recent and novel results on the formulation
and the analysis of the equations governing the evolution of
electromagnetic fields in chiral media in the time domain. In
particular, we present results concerning the well-posedness and
the solvability of the problem for linear, time-dependent, and
nonlocal media, andresults concerning the validity of the local
approximation of the nonlocal medium (optical response
approximation). The paper concludes with the study of a class of
nonlinear chiral media exhibiting Kerr-like nonlinearities, for
which the existence of bright and dark solitary waves is shown.


Gesture detection is an important aspect of intelligent human-computer interactive systems. Recently, device-free gesture detection in wireless local area networks (WLANs) has been proposed to reduce the detection cost and complexity, whether using (1) the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI), or (2) the more reliable Channel Side Information (CSI) . In this paper, we use CSI information extracted from packet transmissions to detect certain gestures and further distinguish between detected gestures by their strength. Experimental results establish the efficacy of the proposed techniques.


Introduction Delayed gastric emptying and feed intolerance occur frequently in the critically ill. In these patients, gastric motor responses to nutrients are disturbed. Peptide YY (PYY) slows gastric emptying. The aim of this study was to determine fasting and nutrient-stimulated plasma PYY concentrations and their relationship to cholecystokinin (CCK) in critically ill patients. Methods Studies were performed in 19 unselected mechanically ventilated critically ill patients (12 males; 48 ± 7 years old) in a randomised, single-blind fashion. Subjects received a 60-minute duodenal infusion of Ensure® at either 1 or 2 kcal/minute. Blood samples were collected at baseline and at 20, 40, 60, and 180 minutes following commencement of the nutrient infusion for the measurement of plasma PYY and CCK concentrations (using radioimmunoassay). Patient data were compared to 24 healthy subjects (17 males; 43 ± 2 years old). Results Fasting PYY concentration was higher in patients (P < 0.05), particularly in those with feed intolerance (P < 0.05). Plasma PYY concentrations were higher in patients during nutrient infusion (area under the curve [AUC] at 1 kcal/minute: 2,265 ± 718 versus 1,125 ± 138 pmol/l.min, P < 0.05; at 2 kcal/minute: 2,276 ± 303 versus 1,378 ± 210 pmol/l.min, P = 0.01) compared to healthy subjects. The magnitude of PYY elevation was greater in patients during the 1 kcal/minute infusion (AUC: 441 ± 153 versus 186 ± 58 pmol/l.min, P < 0.05), but not the 2 kcal/minute infusion. Fasting and nutrientstimulated plasma CCK concentrations were higher in patients (P < 0.05). There was a relationship between plasma PYY and CCK concentrations during fasting (r = 0.52, P < 0.05) and nutrient infusion (r = 0.98, P < 0.0001). Conclusion In critical illness, both fasting and nutrientstimulated plasma PYY concentrations are elevated, particularly in patients with feed intolerance, in conjunction with increased CCK concentrations. Introduction A number of hormones released from the small intestine in response to nutrients modulate gastric emptying and energy intake [1-3]. Peptide YY (PYY) is an important humoral mediator of the entero-gastric feedback mechanism, which leads to a slowing of gastric emptying and small intestinal transit [4-6] and possibly to a suppression of energy intake [1,7,8]. PYY release from the distal small intestine is stimulated both directly by luminal nutrients, particularly the digestion products of fat which activate PYY-secreting cells [7], and indirectly by neuro-endocrine mechanisms, including the release of cholecystokinin (CCK) and insulin-like growth factor-1 [8]. The initial release of PYY after food intake [2,9] is likely to be mediated by CCK [9] and its subsequent release is likely to be mediated through stimulation of PYY-secreting cells by luminal nutrients [9]. Exogenous administration of PYY slows gastric emptying [3,10], which is associated with an inhibition of antral motility [10]. This may contribute to a reduction in energy intake and


Whether ice ages would occur in absence of astronomical forcing is a question that is difficult to answer convincingly. For example, a same autonomous system may either be excitable or exhibit a limit cycle depending on the value of its parameters. In this case the two regimes are separated by a bifurcation, for example a Hopf bifurcation in the van der Pol oscillator. However, as the system is being forced by, say, a periodic forcing (to keep things simple), the description of the system must be adapted. For example, the relevant bifurcations may now be torus bifurcations. Furthermore, the parameters that originally produced distinct regimes (excitable and limit cycle) in the autonomous case, may well belong to a same regime in the forced system, and hence


This article aims to present the entrepreneurship of single mothers, taking into account the multiple aspects of this phenomenon. The first part outlines selected definitions and classifications of entrepreneurship and characteristics of an entrepreneur. Then, an attempt is made to analyse the basic conditions for the development of entrepreneurship in the social group in question and examples of various forms of support in Poland are described. This paper forms a conceptual overview contributing to the discussion about entrepreneurship in the changing social conditions connected with the new model of family functioning. The author is aware that a thorough analysis of this phenomenon requires detailed and in-depth analyses and research.


It is well known that strongly minimal groups are commutative. Whether this is true for various generalisations of strong minimality has been asked in several different settings (see Hyttinen [2002], Maesono [2007], Pillay and Tanovi\'c [2011]). In this note we show that the answer is positive for groups with locally modular homogeneous pregeometries.


This systematic review and meta‐analysis aimed to evaluate whether the absence of electrocardiographic (ECG) left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) was associated with poor outcome in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).


Ambient Networks is a new networking concept that targets forthcoming dynamic communication environments; characterized by presence of a multitude of different wireless devices, radio access techno ...


The purpose of this paper is to present how teachers build capacity within a learning community. Two participant researchers, acting as facilitators and co-teachers in an Ontario elementary public school literacy initiative, applied a learning community model for professional development to determine its impact on teachers' capacity, and on students' standardized test scores. Data collection included meeting notes from weekly modelling sessions and bi-weekly learning community meetings, field logs, reflection statements from teachers and principal, and documents (such as team-constructed lesson plans and lesson materials). Findings indicated that the use of a learning community to promote collaborative planning, sharing of effective or best practices for teaching, and modelling of literacy components, was valued by teachers. As well, the collaborative learning experience encouraged teachers to take on increasing responsibilities for planning and delivering lessons, promoting a cohesive learning situation for students, as indicated by significantly improved standardized test scores as measured by the Education Quality and Accountability Office Test (EQAO Test), and staff attitudes towards the use of the learning community, as a means of professional development.


The phase of the wavefunction on the lowest adiabatic potential energy surface of a T(X) τ2 Jahn-Teller system is studied, and a mapping for the lowest energy states is proposed. Methods of calculating the tunnelling splitting at strong coupling are discussed, and tested by application to a soluble one-dimensional equation.


Rockburst is a phenomenon,which is a release all of a sudden in potential energy according to accumulation of elastic deformation of rock mass under certain con-ditions.There will be a explosion of rock mass under the conditions of appropriate geost-aticstress,lithological conditions and certain depth and so on with the effects of factors solely or synthetically.This paper makes a analysis of AHP-FUZZY,a forecast and Shape Control Law.In AHP-FUZZY,the Key factor is the determination of the evaluation factor and the rationality of rtatistical analysis.Harmonic hole is the best choice of all the holes in Shape Control Law.


Minimal 1-saturating sets in the projective plane P G(2, q) are considered. The classification of all the minimal 1-saturating sets in P G(2, q) for q ≤ 8, the classification of the smallest minimal 1-saturating sets in P G(2, q), 9 ≤ q ≤ 13 and the determination of the smallest size of minimal 1-saturating sets in P G(2, 16) are given. These results have been found using a computer-based exhaustive search that exploits projective equivalence properties.


The station-less shared traffic system removes the restriction on rental and return at the predetermined stations. How to minimize the cost of vehicle maintenance and dispatch remains a big concern. This paper proposes a genetic algorithm based on the features of station-less shared traffic system to optimize the multi-objective problem to achieve minimized system deviation and cost, by redesigning coding method and fitness function. We took it into practice in the operation of smart cars in Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University, making a schema which has the minimum deviation 6.2 and has at least 17.29% cost cut over other schemas having the same deviation.


John Dewey's first academic appointment was to the department of philosophy at the University of Michigan where he taught from 1884-1894. Toward the end of that period he became engaged in an arduous re-examination of his whole philosophical outlook. One aspect of this process was a transition from a position of religious idealism to the social ethic of democracy. We wish to call attention to two papers in this early phase of Dewey's career which indicate this shift: "Christianity and Democracy" (1893) and "The Ethics of Democracy" (1888).


In Rumaila oilfield, many electric submersible pumps (ESP) have been found plugged during commissioning shortly after the new pumps were installed. After these failed plugged pumps have been replaced through workover rigs, the new pumps still face the same problem. Based on the result of root cause failure analysis, this paper describes the potential root cause of pump failure, the solution to treat the plugged pump, the operation steps and application effects of using ethylenediaminetetraacetate acid (EDTA) to dissolve calcium sulphate (CaSO4) deposits for plugged ESP wells in Rumaila oilfield, providing references for solution of similar issue and application of this technology.


structures are submarine resources production pipeline, reactor core structures of nuclear power plants, high-speed trains passing thorough a tunnel, a piping system in the field of ocean mining, and so on. The relation between the annular axial flow velocity and the unstable dynamics of structures are clarified. We have compared two analysis methods which can evaluate the dynamic instability of such structures. In first analysis method, the fluid is treated as viscous fluid, and is governed by the Navier-Stokes equation, and the beam structure is treated as the Euler-Bernoulli beam. This is called as the viscous fluid solution namely NS solution hereafter. In second analysis method reported by (Rinaldi and Paidoussis, 2012), the fluid is treated as ideal fluid. Then the viscosity effect is added to the equation of motion. This is called as the ideal fluid solution namely R&P solution hereafter. The complex eigenvalue analysis of the fluid structure coupled equation of motion is performed in order to clear up the dynamic instability. Performing the parametric studies, the comparison between both solutions is investigated. When the fluid viscosity becomes large, the difference in the critical velocity between the viscous fluid solution namely NS solution and the ideal fluid solution namely R&P solution is found to be generated. The destabilization effect appears due to the fluid viscosity force terms of the added stiffness of the fluid-structure coupled equation only in the viscous fluid solution.


This paper was presented at the conference \\"Economic Statistics: New Needs for the Twenty-First Century,\\" cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, and the National Association for Business Economics, July 11, 2002. According to the 1980 Monetary Control Act, the Federal Reserve Banks must establish fees for their priced services to recover all operating costs as well as the imputed costs of capital and taxes that would be incurred by a profit-making firm. Since 2002, the Federal Reserve has made fundamental changes to the calculations used to set the imputed costs. This article describes and analyzes the current approach, which is based on a simple average of three methods as applied to a peer group of bank holding companies. The methods estimate the cost of equity capital from three perspectives_the historical average of comparable accounting earnings, the discounted value of expected future cash flows, and the equilibrium price of investment risk as per the capital asset pricing model. The authors show that the current approach also provides stable and sensible estimates of the cost of equity capital over the past twenty years.


Electronic devices are widely used in various industries, their temperature distribution cannot be obtained by traditional test methods. In recent years, simulation softwares are used to simulate the thermal characteristics of electronic devices and play a positive role on the reliability improvement, on the contrast, their validity cannot be verified. In this paper, the chip temperature rise process is simulated by ICEPEAK software. Some factors that change thermal characteristics are analyzed. The actual working temperature obtained by the thermal microscope is compared with the simulation temperature. The validity of simulation temperature is tested and the relation is built between the actual temperature and simulation temperature. Finally, it is pointed that thermal microscopes are the development direction on the electronic devices design and reliability testing.


The role of the monarchy and institutional changes in England's precious development is one of the most debated topics in economic history. We provide new insights by studying the trade of the English East India Company. Our key premise is that changes in the monarchy represented a shock to the quality of political governance when the monarch was unconstrained in the 1600s, but not in the 1700s when it was constrained by parliament. As support, the Company's history reveals numerous instances of forced loans and extraordinary taxes on the part of the English monarch in the heyday of its control. In our empirical analysis, we focus on the exit and sailing decisions for ships trading in East Indies. Our treatment is based on the return date to England, which exposed some ships to changes in the monarchy and others not. We show that ships before 1700 were more likely to exit the trade if they were exposed versus not. We also show the probability of exit differed systematically across monarchs before 1700 but not after. Finally we show that ships were more likely to delay than exit the trade after 1700 if they were exposed. More broadly, our evidence shows that responses to political shocks differed greatly across institutional environments, suggesting that constraints on the monarchy played an important role in the England's development.


Environmental magnetism is a relatively new field of geophysics and a versatile methodology applicable to a wide range of environmental studies and contexts.It is the use of magnetic measurements to identify the nature and concentration of Fe-containing minerals in environmental materials,which is an ideal tool for environmental studies in a variety of environments.This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of previous studies and concepts concerning environmental magnetism.Significant progress has been made using environmental magnetism,in reconstructing climatic change and environmental records in Chinese loess studies.However,there are still some issues not well understood,e.g.,what is the contribution of dust to the magnetic susceptibility in loess? Why are there significant differences in magnetic parameters for loess from monsoon regions and from the western wind region? Does the dust from different origins have the same magnetic characteristics? Which magnetic parameters are most suitable for the reconstruction of the climatic and environmental history in arid regions? All of the above are important and urgent academic issues in the study of environmental and climatic changes in arid regions.To answer these questions,it is necessary to study the environmental magnetic processes occurred in the vast arid and semi-arid regions that are the origins of Chinese loess.Using magnetic techniques also might resolve these issues in characterizing dust and surface soil deposits from different geomorphologic settings(i.e.sand desert,oasis,Gobi and dry lake)in Northwest China.


The Technical Program Committee, under the direction of Ellen Yoffa has assembled an excellent program of 116 papers from the nearly 450 that were submitted. Tom Pennino has loaded this y ar's Designer Track (formerly called the User Track) with papers and panels on how to use EDA effectively and where the industry is headed. Tutorial Chair, Randy Bryant, has arranged for six full-day tutorials on Friday, on topics of interest to DA developers and Electronic Designers alike.


The results of the numerical solution of the problem of the combustion rate of a coal-propane-air mixture are presented. The physical and mathematical formulation of the problem is based on the approaches of the dynamics of multiphase reacting media. The method for solving the problem is based on the algorithm for the decay of an arbitrary discontinuity. The dependences of the visible and normal combustion rate of the coal-propane-air mixture on the radius and the volumetric content of propane in the gas are obtained.


Geophysical investigation using electrical sounding technique was carried out in Tanke community Ilorin, in order to characterize or explore ground water potential. The top soil resistivity values vary from 68.1Ωm to 65.1Ωm and thickness varying between 1.7m to 9.9m. The second layer resistivity values varies from 32.9Ωm to 651.1Ωm and the thickness vary from 2.9m to 12.7m.The third layer is the weathered basement with resistivity and thickness values varying between 22.6Ωm to 9562.6Ωm and 7.8m to 51.1m.The fourth layer is the partly weathered and fractured basement with resistivity and thickness values varying between 101Ωm to 2100Ωm and 80.1m to 124m while the fifth layer is apparently fresh basement whose resistivity values vary from 154.9Ωm to 7130Ωm with an infinite depth. The study further reveal VES 3, 4, and 5 as productive fractures within the weathered basement while other VES points are not productive.


ABSTRACT In this essay, I respond to Alana Lentin, Yair Wallach, David Renton and Andrew Sloin, who have each written reviews of my book Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution for this symposium. Taken together, I suggest that their contributions raise important issues in the study of antisemitism past and present. In particular, their commentaries draw attention to the ever-pressing issue of the relationship between antisemitism and other forms of racism. Further, they touch on the importance of understanding the role of identity (in this case, Jewish identity) in political confrontations with antisemitism and in anti-racism more broadly. Finally, through a discussion of the work of Moishe Postone, I discuss the limits and possibilities of deploying theories of antisemitism across time and space in empirically driven historical sociology.


On Friday, October 10, 2008, a group of first-grade children from the Creative Arts Charter School in San Francisco took a field trip to City Hall.2 The children's first-grade teacher, a lesbian, was set to marry her longtime girlfriend that morning. The director of the charter school saw the wedding as a "teachable moment"?an opportunity for the children to witness firsthand the progression of civil rights in America.3 Many same-sex marriage advocates heralded the first graders' excursion as another step toward the full acceptance and integration of same-sex individuals in society.4 But other supporters worried that the field trip, while well intentioned, was ill timed and potentially damaging to the same-sex


The austenite precipitation and dynamic recrystallization behaviors of 17Ni‐0.2C martensite steel during isothermal tempering at 500°C followed by isothermal warm compression at 8.3� 10 � 4 /s were investigated in situ using neutron diffraction. The Rietveld analysis of Time-Of-Flight neutron diffraction profiles revealed that the austenite amount increased by about 1.5% during 10 min isothermal holding while the warm compression at 500°C accelerated the austenite precipitation. Splitting of the austenite (111) peak occurred and then disappeared during warm compression. Based on integrated intensities obtained by single peak fitting of neutron spectra, it was found from the axial neutron spectra that the ferrite (110) peak intensity rapidly decreased and the ferrite (200) and (211) peak intensities slowly increased during warm compression; the occurrence of dynamic recrystallization led to an evident deviation from this trend. The comparison between lattice strains and texture indexes of austenite and ferrite suggested that the austenite was harder than the ferrite at 500°C. Thus, heterogeneous deformation occurred in the ferrite, leading to accelerated dynamic recrystallization.


Selection indices for yield were constructed on the basis of five different criteria (Viz, ha, G.A., rg, h-rg and P values) based on 1-9 characters using 30 varieties of greengram (Vigna radiata Wilczek,). Expected genetic gain in yield due to the indices were computed and their efficiency over direct selection for yield per se was assessed. In all the five groups the efficiency of the indices increased gradually with addition of characters to the indices, Combined direct and indirect selection was found to be more effective than indirect selection alone. The direct effect component (p.) of the characters on yield was found to be the best criterian for selection of characters for inclusion in the indices. The 6-character index based on pods/plant, 1000-seed wt., seeds/pod, reproductive period, clusters/plant and yield/plant was found to be most efficient index in realising genetic advance in yield, Inclusion of characters like length of pod and plant height did not add much to the efficiency of indices.


This article summarizes a part of an action-research work about the educational potential of
games in Physical Education within the school context, that we have been developing over the
last 18 years. In this context, in this paperwe pay special attention to the emergent ideas around
the topic thatwe call "good game". Restricting ourselves to educational contexts,we explain how
important is to make an effort to transform the participants' personal logic, instead of (or
previous to) the inner logic of the games. To promote this change, we work with game situations
that pose problems; then, we identify the key points to be improved (regulatory issues,
interrelations, safety); now, to develop de game, we share the criteria in order to enhace the
implication of the students, their overcoming of the problematic situations, and their ability to
assess changes.


SUMMARY Up till now, the STS education has not managed to discern rightly between science and technology. In the paper, this status is briefly described, and we analyze three criteria to clarify the confusing panorama existing in this domain: the specific characteristics of the technological knowledge; the attitudes towards publications; and the purposes of the academic and industrial research laboratories.


William J. Hausman, Peter Hertner, and Mira Wilkins. Global Electrification: Multinational Enterprise and International Finance in the History of Light and Power, 1878–2007. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xxiv + 487 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-88035-0, $80 (hardcover).


To protect the right of the labor compensation for part-time employees mainly reflects in two items: the minimum hourly wage and the protection of the payment of the labor compensation.Many differences in the element of the minimum hourly wage rate in different areas can not directly reflect the level of employee's labor compensation.So we should introduce the principle of equal remuneration,which serves as the guiding principle,integrate the local legislation and unify the element of the minimum hourly wage rate.The above mentioned are the first strategies of regulating and promoting the development of part-time labor.


Introduction: The high rate morbidity associated with preterm birth, which gestational period is less than 37 weeks, frequently demands the hospitalization of the newborn in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The period of hospitalization triggers in the parent's feelings of insecurity, sadness, stress, and anxiety. The multi-professional staff that accompanies the newborn and his family plays a key role in supporting parents. Occupational Therapists have developed comprehensive and interactive programs to help parents deal with anxiety about the baby's hospitalization in the NICU by conducting activity groups. Objective: To know the contributions of Occupational Therapy groups in the anxiety levels of mothers with preterm newborns admitted in the NICU. Method: Forty mothers of hospitalized newborns who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria participated in the study. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) was applied with an I-STAI scale (A-state) before and after the performance of the activity group. Finally, a Focal Group with a semi-structured interview was carried out. Results: The inventory showed reductions in scores Contribuições do grupo de terapia ocupacional no nível de ansiedade das mães com recém-nascidos prematuros internados nas unidades de terapia intensiva neonatal Lorena Azevedo Correia , Ludmila Laranjeiras Barros Rocha , Érika da Silva Dittz  Hospital Sofia Feldman, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. a Autor para correspondência: Lorena Azevedo Correia, Hospital Sofia Feldman, Rua Antônio Bandeira, 1060, Tupi, CEP 31844-130, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil, e-mail: email@example.com Recebido em Abr. 01, 2018; 1a Revisão em Out. 16, 2018; 2a Revisão em Fev. 24, 2019; Aceito em: Abr. 15, 2019.


Janus is a multiple‐function edge probe used to diagnose the Alcator C limiter shadow plasma whose components include two sets of identical diagnostics, each set facing a different direction. Included within each set of diagnostics are a retarding‐field energy analyzer (RFEA), Langmuir probe, and calorimeter. Janus is constructed to make measurements both parallel and antiparallel to a magnetic field. It can withstand high heat fluxes and can be scanned perpendicular to the magnetic field in the limiter shadow. The RFEA can alternatively sample both the ion and electron parallel energy distribution functions during a tokamak discharge. From the Langmuir probe, one can infer electron temperature, density, and the plasma floating potential. The calorimeter independently detects the total parallel heat flux incident on an electrically floating plate. Together these three diagnostics enable detailed, localized edge plasma studies on Alcator C. This paper presents the design considerations for each of the diagnostics along with a brief summary of the analysis techniques. Some experimental results obtained using Janus will also be presented.


This research examines the importance of domestic risk characteristic to multinational companies (MNCs) in their foreign direct investment strategies in Malaysia. The study
concentrates on qualitative analysis using research questionnaires distributed to over nine hundred multinational companies located in Malaysia from different industries with headquarters from all over the world. Result from the two hundred and ten fully responded sets found significant characteristics that MNCs take into consideration when making strategic investment strategies. They can be divided into eight risk categories: political, social and cultural, financial, geographical/infrastructure, economic, government regulations, legal and market risks when making investment decisions. The paper also attempts to provide recommendations to governments of developing countries in overcoming the logistics and transportation problems, to provide more value added FDI, quality human resource and ensuring safety to the investors through emphasizing on the availability of appropriate geographical and infrastructure facilities and the availability of technology and skilled labor as the improvement of quality of human capital, that would provide an edge for the firms to be located in Malaysia.


Application analysis of processed tangerine peel in a mixture with T grade coal (lean) as a fuel for hot water boilers is presented. Technical characteristics, as well as conditions and ignition delay times for such mixed fuels at different mass concentrations of the initial components, have been experimentally determined. The experiments were carried out in air at temperatures from 600 ° C to 800 ° C. Record of ignition and combustion processes of composite fuel samples was carried out using a high-speed video camera (image format — 1024 × 1024 pixels, frame rate — up to 1000000 per second), which ensures high discretization of the recording results of characteristic process times. A temperature limit has been identified for the stable ignition of such fuels. It has been established that an increase of tangerine peel proportion in the mixture leads to acceleration of ignition processes of the studied mixed fuels. Reasons for application of fuel mixtures based on bituminous coal and food waste in the small energy sector have been provided.


We present rest-optical spectroscopic properties of a sample of four galaxies in the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Hubble Ultra Deep Field (ALMA HUDF). These galaxies span the redshift range $1.41 \leq z \leq 2.54$ and the stellar mass range $10.36\leq\log(M_*/{\rm M}_{\odot})\leq10.91$. They have existing far-infrared and radio measurements of dust-continuum and molecular gas emission from which bolometric star-formation rates (SFRs), dust masses, and molecular gas masses have been estimated. We use new $H$- and $K$-band near-infrared spectra from the Keck/MOSFIRE spectrograph to estimate SFRs from dust-corrected H$\alpha$ emission (SFR(H$\alpha$)) and gas-phase oxygen abundances from the ratio [NII]$\lambda 6584$/H$\alpha$. We find that the dust-corrected SFR(H$\alpha$) is systematically lower than the bolometric SFR by a factor of several, and measure gas-phase oxygen abundances in a narrow range, $12+\log(\mbox{O/H})=8.59-8.69$ ($0.8-1.0\: (\mbox{O/H})_{\odot}$). Relative to a large $z\sim 2$ comparison sample from the MOSDEF survey, the ALMA HUDF galaxies scatter roughly symmetrically around the best-fit linear mass-metallicity relation, providing tentative evidence for a flattening in the SFR dependence of metallicity at high stellar mass. Combining oxygen abundances with estimates of dust and molecular gas masses, we show that there is no significant evolution in the normalization of the dust-to-gas ratio DGR vs. metallicity relation from $z\sim0$ to $z\sim2$. This result is consistent with some semi-analytic models and cosmological simulations describing the evolution of dust in galaxies. Tracing the actual form of the DGR vs. metallicity relation at high redshift now requires combined measurements of dust, gas, and metallicity over a significantly wider range in metallicity.


Role is one's status and behavior mode in a certain social relations. It reflects social expectancy and necessity to person . Role is the deeper structure of psychological quality. The perceptions of the professional role of the students come from teacher role education at school. There are some ways for student on role education. First, it depends on school leadership and teachers' educational thought and every aspect of school activity and the value guidance. Second, it depends on the internalization of students themselves and self-construction. On the market economy, only if students have gotten correct view on value, balanced the relations between person and society, between contributions and claim, and he has the willingness to be a teacher and to be a better one, it is possible for him to change social expectancy to personal necessity, then to be in the role.


The Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) which has globally impacted the social ecosystem is a combination of public health and environmental crises. Amidst the challenges faced in dealing with the consequences of the crises, the pandemic has unintendedly revealed the significance of the current environmental law system to protect human health from pollution. The pandemic has also heightened the realisation that environmental threats are driven by human activities. Consequently, COVID-19 has underscored the need of securing safe and clean surroundings and has emphasised the importance of having measures to protect human health. For Malaysia, strategies aiming at environmental protection could be found within the provisions of the Environmental Quality Act 1974 (EQA). Using the library-based research methodology on primary and secondary sources of law, this paper seeks to examine the scope of the EQA on public health protection and pollution control. Against the backdrop of sustainability, the research concludes that the interlinkages of environmental conservation and public health protection mean that the EQA is the most relevant law to attain these two interrelated objectives. It is submitted that COVID-19 has re-emphasised the importance of environmental law within the realm of health protection, which is in turn essential for the sustainable development agenda.


"Phonetic Metaphor" has not been taken into wide research since its initiation.The possible reason is that its initiator gives phonetic metaphor a too narrow definition,which in turn restricts its application in research field.This paper tries to interpret the phonetic rhetorical devices in English idioms through phonetic metaphor in order to find the cognitive and psychological basis for the idioms with special phonetic features and expand the research scope for phonetic metaphor.


In modern large-scale positron emission tomography (PET) systems, transferring the digitized raw detector data at high count rates to a centralized processing unit is a challenge. Processing data on field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) close to the detectors can reduce data early on and improve scalability of the PET system. We present and evaluate an FPGA implementation of gradient tree boosting (GTB) for 1-D position estimation of gamma interactions in the scintillator. GTB is a supervised machine learning algorithm based on building ensembles of binary decision trees. Models were trained offline and inferred in an FPGA (XC7K410T-2FFG676 Kintex-7). Input features and GTB parameters influencing both positioning performance and model size were varied while evaluating the inferred models concerning data throughput and FPGA resource consumption as well as positioning performance. We achieved throughputs per detector between <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2.94\times 10^{6}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$4.55\times 10^{6}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> gamma interactions per second. For an optimized GTB model, resource consumption could be reduced by factors of 17 and 10 to less than 1% (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2.51\times 10^{3}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> look-up tables) of available logic and 1.26% (20 BRAMs) of memory resources, while maintaining a positioning performance of 98.63% when compared to the model with the best positioning performance. The presented framework can be easily adapted to other photosensors and scintillator influencing.


Abstract. Urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa are growing at an unprecedented pace. Much of this growth is taking place in informal settlements. In South Africa more than 10% of the population live in urban informal settlements. South Africa has established a National Informal Settlement Development Programme (NUSP) to respond to these challenges. This programme is designed to support the National Department of Human Settlement (NDHS) in its implementation of the Upgrading Informal Settlements Programme (UISP) with the objective of eventually upgrading all informal settlements in the country. Currently, the NDHS does not have access to an updated national dataset captured at the same scale using source data that can be used to understand the status of informal settlements in the country. This pilot study is developing a fully automated workflow for the wall-to-wall processing of SPOT-5 satellite imagery of South Africa. The workflow includes an automatic image information extraction based on multiscale textural and morphological image features extraction. The advanced image feature compression and optimization together with innovative learning and classification techniques allow a processing of the SPOT-5 images using the Landsat-based National Land Cover (NLC) of South Africa from the year 2000 as low-resolution thematic reference layers as. The workflow was tested on 42 SPOT scenes based on a stratified sampling. The derived building information was validated against a visually interpreted building point data set and produced an accuracy of 97 per cent. Given this positive result, is planned to process the most recent wall-to-wall coverage as well as the archived imagery available since 2007 in the near future.


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The ImpedanceMatching Coefficient (IMC),concerned with the performances of products,is the important parameter for balance transformers. Such performances as the utilized efficiency of materials,secondary impedance voltage drops of deltoidal windings,and secondary twophase voltage drops for balance transformers were analysed when the IMC is 2.732,1.0 or 0.2128 respectively.The study result indicates that the IMC is 2.732 when performances are the most optimal.


Abstract : We have made considerable advances in the development of optical-limiting systems based upon two-photon absorption processes. To accomplish this, it has been essential to develop an understanding of basic structure-property relationships for conjugated organic materials. To this end, we have investigated a range of phenylene-vinylene-based materials substituted with various combinations of donor and acceptor moieties. We now have a more thorough understanding of how to design materials with very high two-photon cross-sections in any part of the visible spectrum, opening the possibility for broad-band optical limiting based on a combination of these materials. We have used the dioxaborine moiety as an acceptor in a variety of conjugated systems and have found that in certain molecular architectures, this can lead to very high two-photon cross-sections. Some of the dioxaborine moieties also show very high electron mobilities, suggesting applications as charge carriers in photorefractive polymer composites. New carbazole-based materials have been designed and synthesized and are anticipated to be more photostable than related bis(diarylamino)biphenyls, whilst retaining the charge carrying and optical-limiting properties of the latter class of materials. Finally, the charge-transporting and optical-limiting bis(diarylamino)biphenyl group has been incorporated into new polymers, that can readily be cast into thermally stable films.


Increasing numbers of women seem to be choosing to reject the maternity services in pursuit of a more 'normal' birth experience in the belief that our maternity care culture does not facilitate and in some cases actively hinders the normality of childbirth.


In order to realize real-time management of large scale chips test,this paper introduces a testing system,divides the testing work into modules and manages the chip test according to processes and phases,realizes summary and hierarchical state monitoring.Experimental result shows that the algorithm has the characteristics of less producing test data and time consumption to effectively solve the real-time test problem of large scale chip.


Estrus refers to the reproductive stage of cattle during which ovulation occurs. The day of estrus plays an important role in the reproductive life of a cow. Inseminating cow at perfect time of ovulation was a big deal for farmers. Bovines that undergo Silent Estrus will not show any mounting behaviors or physical signs. So detecting estrus in cows undergoing silent estrus is also a challenging task. The main aim of this study is to propose a simple method to detect the estrus in cow by classifying cows into estrus and non-estrus groups, using machine learning algorithm based on correlating the milk parameters such as fat, pH, SNF, specific gravity, density and the age, amount of milking, frequency of milking and breed of the cow. For estrus cows, milk parameters like pH and fat show high significant change whereas SNF and density shows moderate significant change. The selected parameters are fed into machine learning algorithms like Decision Tree Classifiers. The classification based on the selected parameters specifies higher performance for Decision Tree with accuracy 98%. Thus, Decision Tree classifier is defined as an effective classifier and a simple method to detect estrus in cow by utilizing milk parameters.


A method for human face shape matching algorithm based on shape context.First,detect the image where has the oval shape,and market them as the "candidate head area".Then,use the shape context algorithm to cut up the "candidate head area" from the image,put them to match with face template,and calculate the log polar histogram,then,get the Cs value of the image.Finally,judge the size of Cs value to determine if the template and the target to be detected are matched,output the final mark results.The algorithm has a feature of two-dimensional invariance,it will be able to provide a reliable basis for target marking.


The soils have anisotropic properties in the deposition process,so regarding the soil as anisotropy medium is more reasonable.Considering the interaction of the soil and lining,and based on the theory of saturated porous medium and elastic,the harmonic coupled vibrations of the transversely isotropic soil and lining with a partially sealed circular tunnel are investigated subjected to the harmonic load in the frequency domain.The analytical expressions of the displacement,stress and pore water pressure of the transversely isotropic soil and lining are obtained by the stress continuous in the inner boundary of the lining and stress and displacement coordination at the interface of the soil and lining.The boundary conditions for partial permeable of the tunnel are established by the fluid velocity equality at the lining and soil.Then,the specific expressions of undetermined coefficient are given.The influence of material and geometric parameter of the soil and lining are studied by the numerical example,it is shown that the elastic modulus in the transversely isotropic plane has a great influence on the system dynamic responses,while the influence of elastic modulus vertical the transversely isotropic is smaller.In addition,the relative permeable coefficient and the lining thickness have big impacts on the responses amplitude,while the influence of poisson's ratio of lining is smaller.


Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has become a chronic and costly disease, since the launch and long-term use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors, including imatinib. Evidence for imatinib's cost-effectiveness impact were largely based on preference-based quality of life (QoL) measured from randomized controlled trials, however, little is known aboutthe feasibility of QoL measured as a follow-up indicator in real life. This commentary describes our experiences in exploring the QoL measures and attributes influencing QoL in Taiwanese CML patients who were receiving imatinibtreatment.


An abstract spcification method of concurrent object family was presented. Temporal logic CTL was used as the base of language to specify dynamic behavior of object and synchronic between them. Using this method, object data and its behavior can be specified in one object model. Furthermore,object semantic can be checked formally and automally with this method.


With seven-league boots through the Internet - when you take a stroll through the physical world in this wireless LAN footwear, you might meet people who happen to be spending some time in a chat-room. Their virtual conversations are made audible as spoken text coming out of the boots. The piece Seven Mile Boots augments reality by introducing a new layer of communication to an everyday task: spoken chat. Virtual crowds are met equipped with an intentionally basic interface.


This paper describes the development of the UK-NEES network incorporating the university laboratories at Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge in the UK; and in particular focuses on the activities at Bristol University. The purpose of developing a UK-NEES network is to provide the main UK earthquake engineering experimental laboratories at Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge universities with the necessary equipment to become nodes of the NEES network allowing them to benefit from the data-sharing and teleparticipation aspects of the NEES system. UK-NEES has built on the software and hardware systems developed by the US network and has been created to allow teleparticipation by remote users in tests performed in any of the three laboratories, to provide open access to consistently formatted data from tests in the three laboratories, to enable both synchronous and asynchronous distributed tests between the three laboratories, to maximising the size of structure that can be tested, and to allow the laboratories to link into the US NEES network. The main activities at Bristol have been the procurement and commissioning of the basic NEES and AGN equipment, the integration of control and data acquisition systems at Bristol with the NEES software and the development of evaluation and demonstrator tests for the system including high speed distributed tests. All these activities are discussed in this paper.


We developed 'mediastinoscopic esophagectomy with lymph node dissection' (MELD), performed under pneumomediastinum via a trans-bicervical and transhiatal approach using cadavers. A clinical trial on the feasibility and safety of MELD showed it to be useful for complete mediastinal lymph node dissection. We report the indications and novel aspects of MELD.
 MELD was indicated for patients of thoracic esophageal cancer without bulky primary lesions or lymph node metastases. MELD was performed in 16 patients. First, 101R and part of the 106recR lymph nodes were dissected in open surgery. After attaching an APS electrode for intraoperative nerve monitoring (IOMN) to the right vagus nerve, open surgery was changed to the pneumomediastinal method. The dorsal side of the esophagus was dissected along the visceral sheath. The 106tbL lymph nodes and the106recR lymph nodes were dissected using a right trans-cervical pneumomediastinal approach. The 106recL lymph nodes were dissected using a left trans-cervical pneumomediastinal approach.
 The median pneumomediastinal operation time was 320 minutes. The median amount of bleeding was 230 mL, and the median postoperative hospital stay was 16 days. Regarding complications, eight patients developed recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy (right, n = 3; left, n = 2; bilateral, n = 3), but no patients required conversion to thoracotomy, and no leakage, pneumonia, or operative deaths occurred. After incorporating the use of IOMN, the incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy was drastically reduced recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy was drastically decrease.
 Previous clinical trials shown that MELD can retrieve the mediastinal lymph nodes at the same level as thoracoscopic esophagectomy. The incidence of recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy was reduced by IONM; thus, MELD is considered a feasible procedure for radical esophagectomy.


For the prevention of TA-GHVH in patients who received a allogeneic stem cell transplant is mandatory the gamma irradiation of the all cellular blood components. This irradiation is usually done with Cesium 137 and with a special blood bank irradiators. However these devices are expensive; because that, in developing countries, is frequent the utilization of Cobalt 60 and the same device that is used in the radiotherapy department, instead of blood bank irradiators. We present our experience with this technique. From Dec 2002 to Dec 2005 thirty patients received a allogeneic stem cell transplant and 28 were analysed. The stem cells source was: peripheral blood 25, unrelated cord blood 2, and bone marrow 1. The irradiation of the blood was performed with Cobalt 60–1.24 Mev- (theratron 780 C); the irradiation field was calculated for covering all of the bag surface and a dose of 3.5 Gy was administered to the mild plane of the bag. 158 blood concentrates were transfused, 68 red cell (X:2.5 per patient), and 90 platelets (3.2 per patient). The pre transfusion median hemoglobin and platelet levels were 7.63 g/dl and 12.000/ul; after transfusion was a median increase of 2.3 gm/dl (0.6–4.7) in hemoglobin and 18.000/ul (0–140.000) in platelets. There was no any case of TA-GVHD. Four patients developed pos transplant aGVHD, in all of the cases the disease began 50 days or more after the last transfusion, there were no pancytopenia and the aGVHD was resolved completely with the treatment. Conclusion In receptors of allogeneic stem cell transplant the gamma irradiation of blood components with Cobalt 60 and with the same device which is used for patients radiotherapy is 100% effective and safe in the prevention of TA-GVHD. This is a good alternative in centers without blood bank irradiator


USBI and NASA have been testing and investigating the use of high pressure water for coating removal for approximately the past 12 years at the Automated TPS (Thermal Protection System - ablative materials used for thermal protection during ascent and descent of the solid rocket boosters) Removal Facility located in the Productivity Enhancement Complex at Marshall Space Flight Center. Originally the task was to develop and automate the removal process and transfer the technology to a production facility at Kennedy Space Center. Since that time more and more applications and support roles for the waterjet technology have been realized. The facility has become a vital part of development activities ongoing at MSFC. It supports the development of environmentally compliant insulations, sealants, and coatings. It also supports bonding programs, test motors, and pressure vessels. The most recent role of the cell is supporting Thiokol Corporation's solid rocket motor program in the development of waterjet degreasing and paint stripping methods. Currently vapor degreasing methods use 500,000 lbs. of ozone depleting chemicals per year. This paper describes the major cell equipment, test methods practiced, and coatings that have been removed.


The intention-superiority effect is the finding that response latencies are faster for items related to an uncompleted intention as compared with materials that have no associated intentionality. T. Goschke and J. Kuhl (1993) used recognition latency for simple action scripts to document this effect. We used a lexical-decision task to replicate that shorter latencies were associated with uncompleted intentions as compared with neutral materials (Experiments 1 and 3). Experiments 2-4, however, demonstrated that latencies were longer for completed scripts as compared with neutral materials. In Experiment 4, shorter latencies were also obtained for partially completed scripts. The results are discussed in terms of the activation and inhibition that may guide behavior, as well as how these results may inform theories of prospective memory.


The spectral functions of the vector current and the axial-vector current have been measured in hadronic τ decays using the OPAL detector at LEP. Within the framework of the Operator Product Expansion a simultaneous determination of the strong coupling constant α s , the non-perturbative operators of dimension 6 and 8 and of the gluon con-densate has been performed. Different perturbative descriptions have been compared to the data. The Contour Improved Fixed Order Perturbation Theory gives α s (m 2 τ) = 0.348±0.009 exp ±0.019 theo at the τ-mass scale and α s (m 2 Z) = 0.1219±0.0010 exp ±0.0017 theo at the Z 0-mass scale. The values obtained for α s (m 2 Z) using Fixed Order Perturbation Theory or Renormalon Chain Resummation are 2.3 % and 4.1 % smaller, respectively. The 'running' of the strong coupling between s 0 ≃ 1.3 GeV 2 and s 0 = m 2 τ has been tested from direct fits to the integrated differential hadronic decay rate R τ (s 0). A test of the saturation of QCD sum rules at the τ-mass scale has been performed.


SC-OFDM (single carrier orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) has demonstrated excellent performance in multipath fading channels with very low peak to average power ratio (PAPR). Similar to other multi-carrier transmission technologies such as MC-CDMA and OFDM, SC-OFDM also suffers significant performance degradation to inter-carrier interference (ICI) when there is a frequency offset between the transmitter and receiver or in a high mobility environment. In this paper, we analyze the effect of ICI on SC-OFDM system and propose a novel modulation scheme called Magnitude Shift Keying (MSK) for SC-OFDM system. The MSK modulation provides SC-OFDM system immunity to ICI and significantly outperforms SC-OFDM system and OFDM system with Phase Shift Keying (PSK) modulations in severe ICI environment. Simulation results over AWGN channel and multi-path fading channels with different ICI confirm the effectiveness of the proposed system.


By means of Riccati transformation techniques, we establish some oscillation criteria for a second order nonlinear dynamic equation on time scales in terms of the coefficients. We give examples of dynamic equations to which previously known oscillation criteria are not applicable.


Because of the great demand for fluorescent materials, fluorescent dyes, semiconductor quantum dots, and carbon-based quantum dots have been studied extensively. However, the poor photostability and potential biological toxicity need to be resolved. In this study, we demonstrated the synthesis of a new biomass quantum dot, the polydopamine dot (PDADs), via a simple hydrothermal method under an acidic environment. This new biomass quantum dot showed not only remarkable photoluminescence properties (quantum yield = 0.93) but also a high stability and low toxicity. Moreover, these PDADs could be used as a fluorescent probe for the rapid detection of Cr(VI) (response time = 0.01 s). The detection limit (1 × 10−11 M) is the lowest detection limit reported for Cr(VI) fluorescent probes. The mechanism efficient quenching progress could have been due to the fast redox progress between the PDADs and Cr(VI). Moreover, we also showed a practical application of PDADs for Cr(VI) detection in vitro. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2017, 134, 44784.


ATTEMPT ON ELABORATION OF TECTOFACIES ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE WEST SUDETEN AREA

Summary
The paper deals with an attempt on elaboration of tectofacies in Sudeten on the example of the West Sudeten area. In the region of study some interrelation between the development of tectonical phenomena and the kind of existing accumulation may be observed. Characteristically developed tectotypes distinctly define, in majority of cases, their belongings to the definite tectofacies. The tectofacial development of the West Sudeten and that of the portion of the fore-sudetic block is here only fragmentarily outlined for both the Pre-Cambrian and the Silurian periods; for the younger periods, however, it is presented more completely and precisely.


In a simultaneous translation task subjects were required to translate a message, which they received in one ear, into another language. In the other ear these subjects received an irrelevant message in either of the two languages used in the experiment. It was thought that the irrelevant message would exert some influence over the translating procedure if the same dictionary units and possibly the same thought units had been involved. The results seemed to support the hypothesis in so far as the word omission rate of the translated product appeared dependent on the language of the irrelevant message. No particular conclusion could be drawn regarding the different types of prose utilised in the irrelevant message. It seemed that : (1) subjects do worse with the inputs in the same language than in a different language ; (2) when the input languages are the same, prose from different novels results in more omissions than prose from the same novel ; (3) when the input languages are different they seem to do better with prose from a different novel.


The hierarchy of fermion masses and electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking without elementary Higgs is studied on the basis of strong gauge-field distributions governing the EW dynamics. The mechanism of symmetry breaking due to quark bilinear condensation is generalized to the case, when higher field correlators are present in the EW vacuum. Resulting wave functional yields several minima of quark bilinears, giving masses of three (or more) generations. Mixing is suggested to be due to kink solutions of the same wave functional. For a special form of this mixing ("coherent mixing") a realistic hierarhy of masses and CKM coefficients is obtained and arguments in favor of the fourth generation are given. Possible important role of topological charges for CP-violating phases and small masses of the first generation is stressed.


In this study, we report on the synthesis of formate anion containing graphitic carbon nitride and its dramatically enhanced activity and stability on Cr(VI) photoreduction under visible light. We found that the incorporated formate anions could not only trap photogenerated holes to produce more photogenerated electrons, but also change two-step superoxide ions mediated indirect reduction to one-step direct photogenerated electron reduction of Cr(VI) over graphitic carbon nitride under visible light through inhibiting surface dioxygen adsorption and thus enhance Cr(VI) photoreduction. This study could not only develop a novel strategy to improve the Cr(VI) photoreduction activity and stability of semiconductors but also shed light on the deep understanding of the relationship between intrinsic structure and Cr(VI) photoreduction activity of semiconductor photocatalysts.


Ferromagnetism in transition metals is very often discussed by means of the itinerant electron model and the related Slater‐Pauling‐curve. In this model the density of states of 4s and 3d electrons at the Fermi level with spin up and spin down is responsible for the magnetic moment of the sample. In the present inverstigations we tried to change the Fermi level by electric charging of the sample, following former experiments of Steenbeck1. The ferromagnetic sample forms one of the electrodes of a capacitor. Its surface can be charged with electrons thus changing the position of the Fermi level in a very thin (≈ 0.5 A) surface layer. Changes of the magnetic moment therefore are to be expected only for the first atomic layer at the surface of the ferromagnetic sample. To observe the related moment of the whole sample requires experiments with very thin films.


Simultaneously improving efficiency and stability is critical for the commercial application of non‐fullerene acceptor polymer solar cells (NFA‐PSCs). Multifunctional solid additives have been considered as a potential route to tune the morphology of the active layer and optimize performance. In this work, photoinitiator bifunctional bis‐benzophenone (BP‐BP) is used as a solid additive, replacing solvent additives, in the PBDB‐T:ITIC NFA system. With the addition of BP‐BP, the intermolecular π–π stacking of PBDB‐T and morphology is improved, leading to more balanced carrier transport and more effective exciton dissociation. Devices fabricated with BP‐BP show a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 11.89%, with enhanced short‐circuit current (Jsc), and fill factor (FF). Devices optimized with BP‐BP show excellent reproducibility, insensitivity to thickness, and an improved thermal stability under atmospheric conditions without encapsulation. This work provides a new strategy for the application of solid additives in NFA‐PSCs.


ABSTRACT In this study, a Geographic Information System (GIS) was used as a decision-making tool to target potential geothermal power plant sites in Sabalan geothermal field, Northwestern part of Iran. The aims of the study are to identify suitable areas to establish a geothermal power plant (GPP), as the base study for the future investigations and development. After comprehensive study about available data in the area, and required data layers for site selection project, firstly, the available data layers for GPP siting in 1:25000 scale are categorized in three datasets; Physical dataset (slope, hydrology and faults), socioeconomical dataset (population centers, land use and access roads) and technical dataset (anomaly area, wells locations and hot springs). Secondly an integration model in GIS environment was programmed and run, and then the areas were marked as GPP suitable sites. In this knowledge-driven GIS method, from evidence layers, some factor maps were generated and then the Boolean integration methods were used for the combination of the factor maps. ArcMap, consisting of geoprocessing and model builder tools were used for running the GIS Model for Geothermal Power Plant Siting (GM-GPP). Finally, 7 suitable sites, around 1% of the study area were selected.


Applying vibratory stimulation to humans to enhance their capacities has been
increasing its popularity over the last 15 years. This type of training has been used with different
goals and over a variety of subjects. Nevertheless, when it has been applied to athletes the results
have been ambiguous. This article presents a deep review of all the studies published on this topic.
Research on acute effects shows contradictory results, but it seems to help prepare the athletes' muscles.
Research on long-term effects indicates that vibration training has no significant effects on the
strength or the speed of athletes that already follow a resistance training program. It does seem to
help significantly in the development of flexibility.


Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one of the most serious public health problems,while the detailed mechanisms underlying its pathology remain obscure.MicroRNAs (miRNAs),which are single-stranded noncoding RNAs,are considered to be involved in various pathological processes,especially in T2DM.MiRNA has become a noval player in insulin resistance,islet dysfunction,and even in the diabetes related complications.

Key words:
microRNA ;  Diabetes mellitus, type 2 ;  Insulin resistance;  Islet dysfunction;  Diabetes related complications


An empirical model of the ball milling response of Baban Tsauni (Nigeria) lead-gold ore was developed in this work by applying factorial experimental design. The four factors considered were, mill speed, steel ball diameter, grinding time and the ratio of mass of ball to mass of ore samples. The factors were treated at two levels and the measurable ball milling response was the size reduction ratio. The student t-test was used for determining the significance of the factors. All the factors were found to have both main and interactive effect on ball milling response. Predicted values calculated using model equation were in good agreement with experimental values of the response (R 2 = 0.997). The mathematical model indicated that ball milling output increased with increase in grinding time, ball mass to ore sample mass ratio and very slowly with increase in mill speed. The response decreased with increase in ball size. This work established a model for selecting the parameters required for a desired size reduction ratio. The work also indicated that ball milling response is a function of the feed particle size.


Evaluation of water balance at the watershed scale is a fundamental step for estimating streamflow in watersheds. Mean annual water balance of 17 watersheds across Michigan were evaluated by comparing observed streamflow with simulated streamflow estimated using Fu's Equation, which is based on the Budyko Hypothesis. The Budyko Hypothesis describes mean annual water balance as a function of available water and energy. Impact of long-term climatic controls (e.g., precipitation, potential evapotranspiration (ETP)) on mean annual water balance was also investigated with Fu's Equation. Results indicated that observed streamflow ranged from 237 to 529 mm per year, with an average of 363 mm per year in the study watersheds during 1967–2011. On average, 40% of long-term precipitation in the study watersheds was converted into surface runoff. The performance of Fu's Equation in estimating mean annual streamflow resulted in Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) value of 64.1 mm/year. Mean annual streamflow was sensitive to changes in mean annual precipitation, and less sensitive to changes in mean annual ETp in the watersheds. With the increase of baseflow index (BFI), mean annual streamflow was less sensitive to climate change. Overall, different contributions of baseflow to streamflow modified the impact of climate controls on mean annual water balance in the baseflow-dominated watersheds.


The phenomenon of interpretation as the general ability of the individual is investigated in the article. The main function of interpretation is the realization of man's own standpoint and opinion in regard to any phenomenon. The interpretation is also conductive to the development of man's attitude to oneself. A particular challenge for adult is the development of attitudes to his own professional activity, the profession in general, opinion of oneself as a specialist. Results of empirical research of professional and teaching activities interpretation by teachers of technical universities are presented. It was found that teachers of engineering and natural sciences interpret the teaching profession as important for development of society, youth, certain economic branches, scientific thought. It was revealed that the teaching profession is first of all intended to the scientist in teachers' image. The basic standpoints of professional teachers were determined: professional of technical industry and, only then, professional teacher.


Low-light image is easily degraded by real noise, which brings great challenges for image enhancement task because the enhancement process will amplify the noise. To address this problem, we propose an amplified noise map guided network (AMG-Net), which simultaneously achieves the low-light enhancement and noise removal by extracting amplified noise map to guide the network training. Specifically, we build an encoder-decoder network as the basic enhancement model to get a preliminary enhanced image that usually includes amplified noise. Subsequently, we fed the preliminary enhanced image into a noise map estimator to continuously estimating the amplified noise map during the enhancement process by adopting residual connection. Finally, a residual block with adaptive instance normalization (AIN) is used to build a denoising model, which is guided by the noise map estimator to remove the amplified noise. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed AMG-Net can achieve competitive results compared with the existing state-of-the-art methods.


The issue of providing healthy movement for patients with lower limb amputations requires using of a well-designed lower limb prosthesis. The purpose of this work is to boost the passive prosthesis to a microcontroller-based prosthesis to provide a rotational speed that suits the function for which it is used, the boost focuses on providing a knee mechanism design by using Maxon EC motor, a socket and foot that can be obtained from previous designs. The study required to be achieved some of the basic criteria, as the proposed knee joint must have sufficient strength to bear up the weight of the amputee's body and also have the ability to flex the knee to 900.The single parts of the knee joint was designed by using Solid Works software. The mechanism of the knee joint will be simulated after assembling each part of the design for envisage the motion of the knee prosthesis. Three materials were selected, taking into account the properties of these materials, Aluminum alloy 6061T6, Aluminum alloy 2024 and AISI4130 Steel. To find out whether the proposed model can withstand the loads, Finite element analysis using (ANSYS computer program software) the results were discussed and the model was evaluated.


Early stage arrhythmia detection is very important to prevent progress. However, under COVID-19 hospital accessibility deeply decreased and the risk of arrhythmia raised. Thus, we attached our activity sensor and environmental sensor attached to commercial tonometry system: Daeyomedi lifeplus. Tonometry system is one of the most accurate cardiovascular diseases detection system but it is very hard to make it portable. Photoplethysmogram sensors are less accurate than tonometry system but they are very small and can fit into the watch size. Environmental sensors are collecting additional data, temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide level, micro dust and Volatile Organic Compounds. Our IoT sever system collects all data from DMP lifeplus, activity sensor and environmental sensor. Processing data with implemented algorithms for service was developed as well. We successfully attached DMP lifeplus to our activity and environmental sensor. This work shows that our activity and environmental sensors can be attached to other medical system and enlarge the medical service area.


by Jiazhuo Wang Pathologists rely on histology information for disease diagnosis and patients treatment. However, the process of disease characterization by visual examination of histology tissue images is often labor intensive and requires expert knowledge. In this dissertation, we present algorithms for automatic identification of various biological structures at different scales, for example, tissue regions, immune cells, and subcellular structures. These biological structures of interest are closely related to the diseases, and are needed to be identified first, so that properties of these biological structures can be extracted to analyze the diseases. However, in histology tissue images, these biological structures usually have large variations with respect to, for example, shape, size, and color, both across different images, or within the same image. Also, the biological structures are embedded in a very complex tissue background, which is quite noisy and possibly has considerable artifacts. Therefore, it is very challenging to identify these biological structures. The proposed algorithms are based on combinations of computer vision and machine learning (including deep learning) techniques, to resolve or alleviate the challenges. As a result, the proposed algorithms not only provide useful tools for automatic identification of biological structures (which greatly releases the burden of visual examination of histology tissue images from pathologists), but also introduce an opportunity for quantitative


1/f fluctuations have been discovered in a number of time series collected in psychological and behavioral experiments (e.g. Beltz & Kello, 2006, Gilden, 2001; Torre, Lemoine & Delignières, 2007). This ubiquity is per se an intriguing phenomenon, and the origin of such fluctuations remains in question. One considers that this very specific kind of fluctuation plays an essential role in the stability of behavior, and in the adaptability and flexibility of organisms. A number of hypotheses have been proposed for accounting for this phenomenon. Currently, two categories of explanations can be discerned:


Three field experiments were performed to determine the effects of fall nitrogen fertilization and post-harvest mechanical stubble removal (to 2.5 cm) on seed yield in Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L. 'Nugget'). In all experiments, N fertilization and stubble removal increased seed yield. Increases were greater in a 3-yr-old than in a 5-yr-old stand. Nitrogen fertilization increased panicle density, panicle weight, shoot height and straw yield. Stubble removal increased panicle density, reduced panicle weight, shoot height, and straw yield and increased harvest index.Key words: Nitrogen, stubble removal, seed, Kentucky bluegrass


Without the Great Depression, the United States would not have adopted deposit insurance. While the New Deal's anti-competitive barriers have largely collapsed become" deeply rooted. This paper examines how market and political competition for deposits raised the level of coverage and spread insurance to all depository institutions. A comparison of the cost of federal insurance with a counterfactual of an insurance-free system shows that federal insurance ultimately imposed a" higher cost but achieved political acceptance because of the distribution of the burden.


This paper focuses on the Japanese students' learning process when they study Spanish as a second language. First, it mentions some students' profile characteristic and their interests in learning a new language. Second, it describes the learning language system in Japan, the students' behavior in the language classes, and which activities they prefer to do in class. In addition, it describes different kinds of learning methods that could be applied depending on the students' interests and cultural differences. Finally, the author considers that teaching Spanish to Japanese students raises several issues that have to be attended in order to achieve success. Since learning a language implies hard work and effort, teachers must try different methods and approaches relying upon scientific evidence based on one fundamental assumption: people learn by doing things themselves.


Dear Editor: Calcinosis cutis, a rare disorder, is characterized by the deposition of insoluble calcium salts in the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Based on the etiology of calcium deposition, calcinosis cutis can be classified into four types: dystrophic, metastatic, idiopathic, and iatrogenic. Dystrophic calcinosis cutis is the most common and is frequently associated with connective tissue disorder, particularly dermatomyositis and systemic sclerosis. Primary Sjögren's syndrome is a systemic autoimmune disease, characterized by lymphocytic infiltration of the secretory glands. This process leads to sicca syndrome, characterized by a combination of dryness of the eyes, oral cavity, pharynx, larynx, and vagina. Extraglandular manifestations may also be prevalent in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome, including cutaneous, musculoskeletal, pulmonary, renal, hematological, and neurological involvement. A 60-year-old woman was presented to our emergency department with fever and pain in the right buttock that had developed over the past day. Physical examination revealed swelling and tenderness with local heat in the right-buttock area. In addition, multiple firm, irregular, and nontender lumps over the bilateral thigh were noticed (Figure 1A). Blood tests revealed an elevated white blood cell count of 16 880/μL, with 83.4% neutrophils, and a C-reactive protein level of 59.24 mg/L (normal range, <5.0). Computed tomography revealed abscess formation in the right gluteal region and extensive subcutaneous calcification in the bilateral gluteal-pelvic region and thighs (Figure 1B). Incision and drainage were performed at the emergency department along with empiric antibiotics for right gluteal abscess. The patient was then admitted to our ward for further antibiotics treatment. According to her medical history, she had been receiving intramuscular analgesic injections in the bilateral gluteal regions more than 15 times per month from 1990 to 1995. In 2000, she was diagnosed as having Sjögren's syndrome, with symptoms of dry eyes, dry mouth, sialoadenitis, and positive Schimer's test result. All these symptoms occurred some years after calcified deposition. In addition, persistent bilateral lower-leg lymphedema, noted since her youth, significantly worsened after cervical cancer stage IB treated through hysterectomy in 2001. Based on the comparison of her abdominal computed tomography results in 2001 and 2018, the calcification in her bilateral gluteal-pelvic regions and thighs had become more severe over the years (Figure 1C-H). Between 2001 and 2018, the patient was admitted to our hospital five times under the impression of bilateral lower-leg cellulitis and underwent antibiotics treatment. Thus, the calcification deposition progressed for nearly two decades without surgical intervention, intralesion injection, or medication treatment. Other systemic disorders, such as parathyroid disease, kidney failure, or possible metastatic calcification, were also surveyed extensively. The laboratory test results demonstrated the following: creatinine, 0.86 mg/dL (normal range 0.44-1.03 mg/dL), calcium, 4.53 mg/dL (normal value 4.6-5.32 mg/dL); phosphorus 2.8 mg/dL (normal value 2.5-4.6 mg/dL); and absence of antinuclear antibody (titer <1:40) and of Jo-1. Dystrophic calcinosis cutis can occur in association with various connective tissue disorders, most commonly dermatomyositis and systemic sclerosis. However, dystrophic calcinosis cutis associated with Sjögren's syndrome is extremely rare. Only three cases of calcinosis cutis associated with Sjögren's syndrome have been reported thus far: (a) a 55-year-old Peruvian woman who was diagnosed as having Sjögren's syndrome 9 years before calcification nodules appeared on her fingertips, (b) a 28-year-old Japanese woman diagnosed as having Sjögren's syndrome 6 years after calcification nodules appeared on her elbows and knees, and (c) a 74-year-old man diagnosed as having Sjögren's syndrome 5 years after calcification nodules appeared on his palm. Dystrophic calcinosis cutis should be treated promptly, particularly in patients with Sjögren's syndrome. Treatment options for dystrophic calcinosis cutis include medical therapy or surgical intervention. In a previous case of dystrophic calcinosis cutis associated with Sjögren's syndrome, diltiazem partially alleviated the patient's cutaneous lesions, but was ineffective in alleviating subcutaneous lesions. However, surgical excision is limited to small lesions related to the stimulation of further calcification, which may worsen patient condition. Because our patient presented with extensive dystrophic calcinosis cutis in both thighs along Received: 2 March 2019 Accepted: 30 May 2019 DOI: 10.1002/kjm2.12103


The administration of the exo-polymer (200 mglkg BW) reduced the plasma glucose level by as much as 21.5%, and increased plasma insulin by 22.1% as compared to the control group. It also lowered the plasma total cholesterol and triglyceride leyels by 25.1 and 44.5%, respectiyely. Ge] chromatography of the exo-polymer reyealed a single peak which is like]y to have been a glycoprotein with a molecular weight of 52 kDa and was found to contain 83.5% carbohydrate and 16.5% protein. The Sugar and amino acid compositions of the exo-polymer were analyzed in detail.


Hydroquinones have been found to be useful as reductants for one-step hydroxylation of aromatic compounds by nonheme iron complex with activation of O2 in anhydrous organic solvents. The iron complex is easily prepared by mixing FeCl3, pyrocatechol, and pyridine. The efficiency of hydroquinones as reductants is greatly dependent on the substituent: t-Bu- > 2,5-t-Bu2- >> H-hydroquinone.


The serial concatenation of standard convolutional codes with differential space-time modulation is considered for fast flat fading multiple antenna channels. Decoding is performed iteratively by passing symbol-wise a-posteriori probability information between the decoders of the inner space-time code and the outer convolutional code. An input-output extrinsic information transfer analysis is used to predict thresholds for outer codes or various memory orders. Simulation results show that this system can achieve bit error rates below 10/sup -4/ at less than 2.5 dB from the Shannon capacity or the multiple antenna channel.


BACKGROUND
The purpose of this study was to elucidate why odontogenic keratocysts (OKC) can form cystic lesions but not tumor masses, notwithstanding their prominent proliferative activity.

METHODS
We investigated cellular proliferation, cell death, and expression of apoptosis-related proteins in the lining cells of OKCs and of dentigerous cysts (DGCs).

RESULTS
TdT-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labeling (TUNEL)-positive cells were observed in the surface layers of OKCs and of DGCs. However, no TUNEL-positive cells were seen in the basal or intermediate layers of both cysts. Ki67-positive ratio in the intermediate layer was the highest in OKCs. The p53-positive ratio of the intermediate layer was highest in OKCs. Bcl-2-positive cells were discernible exclusively in the basal layer of OKCs.

CONCLUSIONS
These results suggest that cellular proliferation and death is regulated in association with apoptosis-related proteins in the lining epithelia of OKCs, and subsequently those cysts are seen as cystic lesions but not as tumor masses.


In view of security issues, this paper studies how to track the target at the metro construction site accurately and effectively. It is proposed to replace the tracking module in the TLD(Tracking-Leaning-Detection) algorithm with the GOTURN algorithm, to enhance the tracking robustness of the original algorithm in response to the target's illumination changes, rotation, occlusion, etc. To solve the problem of inaccurate sample division in the TLD algorithm learning module, a sample constraint mechanism is introduced to divide positive and negative samples more objectively and accurately. The sample deletion mechanism of weighted model matching is introduced to delete samples that are weak in characterizing the current target, which improves the tracking accuracy and efficiency of the algorithm. The experimental results show that the improved algorithm can well reduce the interference that is caused by the target pedestrian's illumination change, turning, occlusion, etc. It can accurately track the target pedestrian for a long time, and has good robustness and real-time performance.


This paper has analyzed the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Spain, using the GEI (global entrepreneurship index). In this paper, first, the existing literature on entrepreneurship in Spain is reviewed, followed by a review of the EE concept (Entrepreneurial Ecosystem). After that, the level of entrepreneurship in Spain is analyzed with the help of indicators such as Self-employment and TEA. To analyze both individual and institutional indicators, the GEI (Global Entrepreneurship Index) has been utilized. The EE in Spain is compared with France and Germany, it is found that Spain is lagging in 12 pillars of GEI sub-indices in contrast with these countries. Then based on Penalty for Bottleneck methodology, policy suggestions have been made for Spain.