This study aims to examine the effect of education level, business size, length of business, and the lead time of the company towards the use of accounting information on UMKM in Aikmel Sub-district of East Lombok. Therefore, this research variable consists of 4 (four) independent variables, namely education level (X1), business size (X2), business length (X3), and lead time of company (X4) and its dependent variable is the use of accounting information (Y). The population in this study is all UMKM located in District Aikmel East Lombok recorded in the Department of Cooperatives and UKM East Lombok regency. The sample was taken using simple random sampling that is random sampling. The data were obtained by spreading 55 questionnaires to 55 respondents in Aikmel sub-district of East Lombok which then given to the owner, manager or staff who have the highest rank on the UMKM which is sampled. The data were analyzed using multiple linear regression which was processed using SPSS softwere to know the influence of factors together or one by one against the use of accounting information. The results of this study indicate that the variable level of education, size of business, length of business, and lead time of the company have a significant effect on the use of accounting information partially or simultaneously.


Everyone can agree that the mystery of the Incarnation is difficult to believe and to understand, and yet it is precisely what Christians do not cease to profess. The most innocent questions concerning the "carnal consistency" of the Resurrected One today are omitted for want of a suitable and contemporary anthropology for us to ask them. But that a body made of "flesh and bones" can indeed now claim to appear and reappear in what we ordinarily call a horizon of reality or objectivity goes against our faculties of thought and even imagination. Philosophy must aim to render comprehensible this mystery of a God made body.


The authors present a novel approach for routing path delay estimation and manipulation in wide area networks. Routing is an important functional aspect of a data communication network that handles data packets during their transit from source to destination. The efficiency of a distributed dynamic routing algorithm depends on how well it adapts to the traffic and topology changes in the network. The nodes in the network periodically exchange information regarding these changes for efficient routing. The information used by the algorithms to arrive at the routing paths suffers from uncertainty due to a variety of reasons. Certain aspects of fuzzy sets are applied to model the uncertainty in the delay information and this new delay representation is used to improve the performance of one particular class of routing algorithms in computer networks. The results of some simulation studies of these algorithms are presented.<<ETX>>


We consider the Schr\"{o}dinger map initial-value problem in dimension two or greater. We prove that the Schr\"{o}dinger map initial-value problem admits a unique global smooth solution, provided that the initial data is smooth and small in the critical Sobolev space. We prove also that the solution operator extends continuously to the critical Sobolev space.


This paper explores the role of judges in authorising the extension of placements in solitary confinement in Israeli prisons for lengthy periods of time. It qualitatively examines, through content analysis of 354 Israeli court decisions, how judges negotiate and rationalise the harmful effects of solitary confinement when balanced against the prison authorities' reasoning for subjecting prisoners to it. Finding an overall tendency to defer to the expertise of prison authorities, we examine what Sykes & Matza termed 'techniques of neutralisation' used by judges to distance themselves from the responsibility for solitary confinement placements and the hardship they inflict. The paper further discusses the socio-legal and organisational structures and contexts which incentivise the prioritisation of prison security/discipline over the protection of prisoners from the 'pains of solitary confinement'.


250 Background: Despite maximal local therapies (MLT) (radical prostatectomy followed by radiotherapy [RT]), 20-30% of men will have incurable progression of prostate cancer (PC). Most recurrences in this scenario are characterized by continuous PSA rises and failure of standard imaging (bone scan [BS] and computed tomography [CT]) to detect recurrence sites. We conducted a phase II trial for men with rising PSA after MLT using 18F-DCFPyL PET-MR followed by targeted ablation of PET positive foci. We report the results of our pre-defined analysis. Methods: Patients with rising PSA (0.43.0 ng/mL) after MLT, negative BS/CT and no prior salvage ADT were eligible. All patients underwent 18F-DCFPyL PET-MR followed by immediate PET-CT acquisition. Those with limited disease, where possible, underwent stereotactic ablative RT (SABR) or surgery. No ADT was used. The primary endpoint was biochemical response rate (complete [undetectable PSA] or partial [PSA decline ≥50% compared to baseline]). A Simon's two stage study design was employed. Stage 1 included 12 response evaluable patients, requiring 1 or more responses in the absence of grade 3+ toxicities to proceed to stage 2 (additional 25 response evaluable patients). Results: After a median of 58 months (range 29-120) post MLT, 20 patients underwent PET-MR/CT to have 12 response evaluable patients. Median PSA at enrollment was 1.3 ng/mL (range 0.4-2.8). Three patients had negative PET-MR/CT, while 17 had positive scans, of which 12 (60%) were amenable to response evaluable ablation. The median number of detected lesions in those treated was 2 (range 1-5). Ten patients underwent SABR (27-30 Gy/3 fractions) and 2 had surgery. One patient (8%) had complete and 4 (33%) had partial PSA responses at a median of 3.3 months (range 2.8-6.0) after ablation, while the remaining 7 (59%) did not have biochemical response. No grade 3+ toxicities were observed. Conclusions: 18F-DCFPyL PET/MR has high detection rates in men with rising PSA after MLT. We observed favorable early results with SABR or surgery (41% RR). Trial completion will inform if this approach offers potential for cure in an early molecularly-defined PC oligometastatic state. Clinical trial information: NCT03160794.


Exploring the notion of critical thinking in relation to teacher educator's professional judgment within Teacher Education in Sweden and the Republic of Ireland


Summary was made on achievements of research on improved seedless varioties,seedless mechanism,virus-free technique,medicinal component of Citrus reticulata cv.Suavissima in China.Propositions were adviced for further study on medicinal component,pharmacology drug efficacy,fruit storage and standard cultivation technique.


This study aims to clarify a history and its external conditions of collegiate education of architecture in Korea from 1945 to 1961. To reveal the process of formation of architectural education of this period, my analysis is chiefly concerned with the organization and of its curriculum in terms of policies of Ministery of Education, especially focused in case of Dept. of Architecture in Seoul National University, I attempted to describe the complex interactions between the structural conditions and results within and without the education system and the more general social, economic, and political contexts that pertained during those years, 8.15 Emancipation, Korean War, and Post-war Rehabilitation period. We may summarize them in part by saying the reception in Korea of the American influence was done through educational ideas, policies, systems, and various aid programs. The social raison d'etre of architectural education in Korea has been to produce technologically skilled man in the sense of engineer.


Consider a set of people who are all members of a Rotating Savings and Credit Association (ROSCA). The de ning characteristic of this ROSCA is that every period every member contributes some amount of money to the ROSCA, and, taking turns, every period a single member takes the pot , receiving the entire sum of members' contributions to the ROSCA that period. ROSCAs of this sort are very common in low income countries. But they seem to be designed to make total income less smooth for any given member, which seems odd, given the importance that smooth consumption is given in other parts of the literature on nancial arrangments in low income settings. It's often argued that ROSCAs are important because they make it possible for members to make occasional purchases of indivisible durable goods, but it's been understood since Besley, Coate, and Loury (1993) that the ordinary use of credit markets appears to make similar indivisible purchases feasible at a lower cost. On the other hand, the ROSCA seems to be admirably well-designed if its function is to permit the occasional purchase of indivisible goods in a setting in which borrowing and saving is infeasible (or perhaps just very expensive). Problems with credit markets in low-income countries are widely documented. Why savings should be infeasible is less clear, though apparent constraints on savings have been carefully documented in a variety of settings (e.g., Dupas and Robinson 2013; Adams and Fitchett 1992). However, Anderson and Baland (2002) argue that di erences in desired savings within households may provide an explanation. They collect data from households in a large slum in Kenya, and from the ROSCAs to which people in these households belong. Some stylized facts about the ROSCAs they observe: married women are the most likely participants; reports from some of these women indicate that they're motivated to participate in ROSCAs because they need to save


This study explored the ways company profiles of tow big batik companies in Solo establish their credentials as a means of showing credibility. The data used were words, phrases, and clauses taken from he company profiles of batik written in Bahasa Indonesia. The research used theories of genre analysis focusing on patterns of rhetorical organization and genre-specific language features. In terms of data analysis, this study employed the multi-dimentional and multi-perspective model of analysis focusing on textual, socio-cognitive and ethnographic aspects of the texts. However, the present study only focuses on the textual layer of the texts analysis. Based on the findings, this study arrives at three conclusions. Firstly, the effectuvely used to create a favorable image of the company. Secondly, the most distinctive feature that differentiated establishing crentials in English and that of moral obligation to preserve the native culture. Finally, this study has shown how the wider culture and the culture of the discourse community contribute to the framing and formatting of company profiles of batik in terms of lexico-grammar and cognitive structuring. Keywords: establishing credentials; rhetorical organization; genre-specific language features.


First, the data refer to those from 15 to 24 years old. But this age group consists of two sub-groups with very different characteristics. The "teenagers" (15-19 years old) should mostly still be in school; if not, they are likely to be very low skilled – and thus to have difficulty finding a full-time job even in good times. Fortunately, this group is rather small (and has been declining in size over time).


A tunable solid state laser system has been developed emitting visible light in the region from 710 to 775 nm, which can be used for medical applications. The laser head of this system is composed of alexandrite crystal rod, two dielectric mirrors, and a tuning element. The maximum reached output energy in the free running multimode regime was 400 mJ with the pulse duration of 70 micrometers . The output laser radiation was guided via a multimode quartz fiber or via a special fluorocarbon polymer-coated silver hollow glass waveguide. At first, this radiation with laser fluency of 2.5 J/cm2 was used for the ablation of dental calculus. Next, the laser radiation propagation in the root canal and its effect on bacteria was proved. The dissipated energy measurement was made inside and outside the tooth. Hence, the alexandrite laser could be useful for medical applications in dentistry.


In recent years channel research has focused on the importance of developing and maintaining long term relationships. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the suppliers' use of both power sources and influence strategies on distributors' satisfaction with the exchange relationship. Two studies conducted in the beer industry compare the use of power sources and the use of influence strategies to explain variation in satisfaction. Both studies drew random samples from the same universe, and are comparable in terms of geographic representation and job titles represented. The results suggest that the use of power sources is a better predictor of satisfaction than the use of influence strategies.


In the spreadsheet error community, both academics and practitioners generally have ignored the rich findings produced by a century of human error research. These findings can suggest ways to reduce errors; we can then test these suggestions empirically. In addition, research on human error seems to suggest that several common prescriptions and expectations for reducing errors are likely to be incorrect. Among the key conclusions from human error research are that thinking is bad, that spreadsheets are not the cause of spreadsheet errors, and that reducing errors is extremely difficult.


In this paper, the feature of government office is pointed out first. Combine with the realization experience of some government office automatic system, a detail introduce is given on how to plan and design a government office automatic system. In the end, the system implementation based on domain/notes is described.


v1e is a language kernel for textual variability modelling built on top of the language-development system DjDSL. As a language kernel, v1e provides a minimal but extensible set of abstractions to implement language families for textual variability modelling. v1e provides for a small and versatile abstract syntax to encode variability models using multiplicity constraints and canonical semantics. v1e offers built-in analysis support via BDDs, such as configuration validation. A derived language becomes realised as a collection of extensions dependent on the language kernel. We showcase the design and implementation of a v1e-based implementation of TVL. We conclude the paper by pointing out current limitations (e.g., representing attributed variability models) and future directions (e.g., analysis support beyond BDD).


The use of social media has exploded over the last five years and has changed the waytravellers and tourists search, find, read and trust information about activities,accommodation and destinations. Little is known about how to use social media as acommunication tool in the context of Norwegian national parks. This thesis sets out toexplore the visitors use of social media as an informat ion source and to what extent theyshare their experiences through social media. It does so by collecting quantitative data fromthe visitors in Rondane National Park and buffer zones. The material is then analysed byusing the visitor experience model. Findings show that the visitors do use social media as asource of information and a place for where they share their experiences. However, due to thelow respons rate it is difficult to make any final conclusions. Future research is recommendedbefore making any final decisons regarding the implementation of social media as aninformation tool.


A three month long experiment was conducted to observe the effect of stocking density on the growth of Pangasius sutchi in net cages. The size of each cage was 1m³.The three stocking densities used were 40, 50 and 60 fishes/m³ and designated as treatment T1, T2 and T3 respectively. Each treatment had three replicates. All the fishes were of same age group having mean length and weight of 7.13 ± 1.37 cm and 2.46 ± 0.12 g respectively. The fish in all the net cages were fed a diet containing 34% protein. The result of the study showed that fish in the treatment T1 stocked at the rate of 40 fish/m³ resulted the best individual weight gain followed by T2 and T3 respectively. The specific growth rate (SGR) ranged between 3.51 and 3.09, the food conversion ratio (FCR) values ranged between 1.73 and 2.04 with treatment T1 resulting the lowest FCR. The protein efficiency ratios (PER) values were 1.69, 1.16 and 1.43 for treatment T1, T2 and T3 respectively. There was no significant (P>0.05) variation among the survival rates of fish which ranged between 92 and 95%. The net productions in different treatments were 2189, 2343, and 2283g for treatment T1, T2 and T3 respectively. The result of the present study indicated that the best individual growth of P. sutchi was obtained at a density of 40 fish/m³ but the highest total production was obtained at a stocking density of 50 fish/m³ in net cages.


The world's population is increasing by an average of 80 million people per year, in 2025 there will be 8 billion people on the planet. The population of the Republic of Uzbekistan is increasing by 650-670 thousand people per year, it will reach 47 million by 2026. This research was aimed at developing a scientifically based system of organic fertilizers in the cultivation of ecologically clean high-grain crops from white and red amaranth varieties of the amaranth plant in the organic farming method. The results showed that According to the results of the phenological observation of the plants, the germination of white amaranth in the control (without fertilizer) option was 82.4%, and it was determined that it was 95.1% in the option of applying 5.0 tons of biohumus per hectare, and 90.9% in the option of applying 20.0 tons of organic fertilizer (manure) per hectare.


In 1922 designer and educator W. R. Lethaby wrote an article titled 'The Need for Beauty'. Four years after the end of the First World War, in the same year that newly-elected Prime Minister Andrew Bonar-Law described the country's 'crying need for tranquillity and stability', Lethaby made a passionate case for what he called 'the common art'. The common art, he wrote, out of which all great art emerges, 'is concerned with all the routine things of life – laying the breakfast table and cleaning the doorsteps of our houses, tidying up our railway stations, and lighting the High Streets of our towns'.
This paper introduces a little-known collection of domestic objects and amateur crafts informed by this idea and put together in the same period. The Greg Collection of Handicrafts of Bygone Times was given to Manchester City Art Galleries by collector Mary Hope Greg, also in 1922. Intended as both a material history of everyday life in the past and a spur to creative practice in the future, it was a response to the devastation of war, founded on Mrs Greg's personal belief in the redemptive capacity of everyday creative practice. The collection is still held by Manchester Art Gallery, where it has, in recent years enjoyed a significant renewal of interest. This paper thus considers both the historical origins of the collection, in the context of interwar concepts of the 'everyday', and its relevance within a contemporary context, informed by 21st century approaches to creativity, health and wellbeing.


I. INTRODUCTION For millennia the Basque people have inhabited a small inverted triangle of land in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains. Long regarded as rugged and persevering, the Basques are often portrayed one-dimensionally as fierce and primitive in their desire to preserve their heritage.1 Subsumed by the nation-building efforts of Spain and France, Basque society in the late nineteenth century gave rise to a strong nationalist movement that has steadily grown louder and more demanding. Perhaps the most visible manifestation of Basque nationalism is ETA, a leftist group that uses violence to advocate for full independence from Spain. ETA stands for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, which means Basque homeland and liberty.2 Today, despite the fact that the majority of Basque society does not support armed resistance3 and, in fact, attempts to engage violent nationalistic factions in political discussion,4 the image of the Basque Country presented to the world is increasingly one of a violent, contentious society.5 The reaction to a recent proposal by the president of the Basque regional parliament, Juan Jose Ibarretxe, to hold a referendum on whether the Basque region will renegotiate the current arrangement with the Spanish state has highlighted the dissension that increasingly characterizes Basque culture today. The concepts of increased autonomy and independence enjoy wide, but by no means full, support in the region. A significant portion of citizens living in the Basque Country do not identify with or support nationalist initiatives. This divide in the community is quite marked; tolerance for those who do not support the nationalist cause is in many ways very limited, as evidenced by the large number of Spanish-sympathizing citizens who require bodyguards. The Spanish national government has been very successful at controlling discourse regarding the situation in the region, refusing to negotiate or even to acknowledge that there is an issue to be discussed.6 The bias of the Spanish national media and the lack of viable alternative fora for negotiating a political solution with Madrid mean Basque nationalists must work within alternative, discursive frameworks to advance their cause. In what is perhaps an unintentional alliance, the moderate nationalists in the Basque regional government and the violent separatist movement effectively neutralize and ostracize opposing constituencies by appropriating Basque culture and identity and equating them with Basque nationalistic fervor. The political debate, in the end, centers on how best to achieve recognition of the Basque nation and culture by the Spanish state and the international community, on how much power the nation should have vis-a-vis the State, and on what it means to be Basque. These questions increasingly may be used to define who is inside and who is outside Basque culture. For some actors, to be a Basque is to be a nationalist. For others, to be Basque may also allow one to be Spanish or French or may merely signify that an individual lives in the Basque region. This comment will attempt to deconstruct the stance of each group, examining exactly what political end each seeks to achieve, how each proceeds toward its goals, how each conceptualizes and characterizes Basque culture, and how control of the parameters of Basque culture may be used as a political tool, appealing to or alienating portions of the electorate. Part II will provide a brief geopolitical and historical context within which to consider the problem. Part III will analyze each faction in order to clarify the political objectives each espouses and the assumptions each makes about Basque culture and identity. Part IV will consider how the existing power structures-both legitimate and terrorist-attempt to delineate what it means to be Basque and how this contested definition determines who is cast as part of Basque culture and who is considered anti-Basque. It will consider the deleterious effect the polarization of Basque society and culture has on those who may live in and identify themselves with the region but choose not to support the nationalist movement. …


V. O. Chidambaram port, formerly Tuticorin port, is one among the 12 major ports in India with regular services to United States, Europe, China, Red sea port and Mediterranean countries and so serving as gateway for bioinvasion. Ascidians belonging to the Class Ascidiacea of sub-Phylum Tunicata are abundant in many ports around the world and most of them are non-indigenous. They are one of the key ecological groups because of their invasive potential and ability to thrive in eutrophic environments. During a survey of the port area over the past three years (2011-2013), sixteen species of ascidians were identified belonging to diverse families: Ascidiidae (4), Styelidae (2), Pyuridae (4), Polycitoridae (2), and Didemnidae (4). Among the identified species, Phallusia nigra,


We study the problem of distance-preserving graph compression for weighted paths and trees. The problem entails a weighted graph $G = (V, E)$ with non-negative weights, and a subset of edges $E^{\prime} \subset E$ which needs to be removed from G (with their endpoints merged as a supernode). The goal is to redistribute the weights of the deleted edges in a way that minimizes the error. The error is defined as the sum of the absolute differences of the shortest path lengths between different pairs of nodes before and after contracting $E^{\prime}$. Based on this error function, we propose optimal approaches for merging any subset of edges in a path and a single edge in a tree. Previous works on graph compression techniques aimed at preserving different graph properties (such as the chromatic number) or solely focused on identifying the optimal set of edges to contract. However, our focus in this paper is on achieving optimal edge contraction (when the contracted edges are provided as input) specifically for weighted trees and paths.


PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the existing relations between the management of public bonds on the dynamics of debt, term structure of interest rates and economic cycle, through a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (DSGE), which was estimated through Bayesian inference techniques using data from Brazil.Design/methodology/approachThe model developed was used to investigate the effects of the public debt average maturity management when the economy faces a monetary policy shock. For this, three management scenarios are evaluated, including Brazilian securities average term.FindingsContrary to what might be inferred from DSGE models that limited the analysis of the debt term by imposing only one-period bonds, a contractionary monetary policy shock does not necessarily cause public debt to increase significantly. Debt term structure plays a crucial role in this result since the government does not need to roll the debt over at higher costs when the debt term profile is longer, reducing the debt service costs and then the impact on the overall debt.Originality/valueDespite the relevance of this theme and its implications for the dynamics of the economy, there is still a gap to be filled in the literature when using DSGE models, since most part of the work that used this methodology limited the analysis of the debt term by imposing that government issues only one-period bonds. This paper differs from the others insofar as it promotes an investigation focused on the role played by debt maturity management on the performance of the contractionary monetary policy. This approach can generate a better understanding of debt management policy and its interaction with fiscal and monetary policies.


The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, is a global health problem that has radically transformed public and private healthcare organizations around the world [1]. To limit COVID-19 transmission, precautions must be taken, such as adopting careful personal hygiene, and wearing masks and gloves, as well as applying the so-called 'social isolation'. COVID-19 mainly affects the lower respiratory tract and causes several flu-like symptoms, but in severe cases, pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome can occur, causing also the death of the patient [2]. Neurological symptoms/signs, including hyposmia, headaches, weakness, altered consciousness, as well as encephalitis, demyelination, neuropathy, and stroke, have been also reported, due to both severe hypoxia and hypoxemia and the direct/indirect effects of the virus on the neurons [3]. It has been observed that the long period of intensive care and anoxic damage can cause spatio-temporal disorientation, memory disturbance, and even deficits in multiple cognitive functions, especially in the elderly and severely affected patients. Moreover, viral invasion of the brain may particularly target and alter brainstem and thalamic functions, resulting in sensorimotor dysfunctions and psychiatric disorders [3]. This health emergency and the consequent adaptation of healthcare facilities negatively influenced the rehabilitative treatments of non-COVID pathologies, with a negative impact on the quality of life of patients (especially those with cognitive symptoms) and their families. In our opinion, neuropsychology represents a fundamental activity, which must be included in the rehabilitation programs of COVID and nonCOVID neurological patients [4]. In this regard, telerehabilitation could help support both the cognitive and psychosocial needs of all patients, independently from their geographical area [5]. In recent years, it has been shown that the use of telerehabilitation leads to clinical improvements that are at least equal to the conventional faceto-face rehabilitation program [6]. This is particularly important in the period of covid pandemic, in which the management of neurological diseases, both for adults and children, represents a great challenge for the national health systems worldwide [5,7]. In this editorial, we analyze the role of cognitive telerehabilitation following the journalistic '5W', taking into account the growing interest in this matter in the 'Covid Era'. 1. WHAT?


Many factors contribute to patellofemoral instability. Surgical intervention may include additional procedures to reconstruct the medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL). This review attempts to ascertain from the literature whether there is a threshold for when an isolated MPFL reconstruction will suffice and when an additional procedure would be required.


In analysing this opinion the writer tends to use the viewpoint of each other. It is caused the knowledge and the way writer thinks is different. So that, in opinion articles can be useful if the topicalitation and discourse genre in Kompas's newspaper on July's edition 2015 are investigated and its implementation in learning indonesian in Senior High School's level. The aims of this study is to explain the form of topicalitation of text structure , to describe discourse genre and to explain the implementation of topicalitation of text structure and discourse genre of opinion articles in Kompas's Newspaper in learning Indonesian. The method used listening technique and record technique to collect the data. To make the data valid, the writer used triangulation theory. Triangulation theory is used to compare the data with the existing theories. The distribution method is used to analyze the data. The results of this study are topicalitation of text structure, discourse genre, and its implementation. In topicalitation of text structure there are some scopes the found topic of political administration, economic, law and justice, the politic of the local elections, social-community, religion and culture. In this study, the found discourse genres: reports genre of opinion articles, exposition genre, description genre, explanation genre and discussion genre. The implementation of the study is used to learning process that is based on the topicalitation text structure and discourse genre in Kompas's newspaper. The result of topicalitation of text structure are applied in learning Indonesian material the opinion texts at 12th grade, report texts are applied in learning Indonesian at 10th grade, exposition texts are applied applied in learning Indonesian at 10th grade, and explanation texts are applied in learning Indonesian at 9th grade.

Keyword: discourse genre, implementation, and topicalization.


The article considers the design principles of the Soviet working settlements of the 1920s and their concept difference from Howard's ideas on the city-garden.


Intra-ventricular dyssynchrony (IVD) in the left ventricle (LV), the asynchronous activation of the LV walls, has been identified as a novel target for therapy in heart failure patients. Current guidelines for resynchronization therapy rely on measures that do not reliably predict successful patient response to treatment, in part due to poor characterization of IVD. We present a two-class statistical pattern recognition approach for the detection of IVD in the LV from routinely acquired short-axis MRI sequences depicting complete cardiac cycles. First, the LV endocardial and epicardial boundaries were extracted from 33 studies, including dyssynchronous and non-dyssynchronous LVs. A pose normalization procedure was then applied to align the resulting spatio-temporal characterizations of LV wall motion, before training a classifier using principal component analysis plus linear discriminant analysis. Classification results provided a correct detection ratio of 90.9%, compared to just 62.5% provided by current determinants of patient eligibility for therapy


The Global Positioning System(GPS) is used widely to estimate the vehicle position for vehicle navigation systems. However, because of the various unknown disturbing noise, the estimated position data has been departured sometimes the road which car is running. To solve this problem, It is very desirable and effective to use a digital road map to correct the position error, In the paper a novel map matching method based on Fuzzy Radial Basis Function Neural Network (FRBFNN) is proposed. This method integrates digital road map informations and GPS data, two important variables are selected as the FRBFNN input signal, they are the projection distance from positioning point to candidate road and the comparability between positioning trajectory and candidate road. A four layer FRBFNN was designed, the improved learning rule is fetched for the FRBSNN. Some experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has very good performance for matching the position of car to correct road under normal traffic conditions.


A reaction of aromatic halides bearing electron-withdrawing groups with tertiary amines in the presence of an iridium catalyst under blue light irradiation is described. Products of the aromatic substitution of the halide by the dialkylamino fragment are obtained. The interaction of aryl radicals with tertiary amines to generate zwitterionic radical species is believed to be the key factor responsible for the reaction efficiency.


The convolutional neural network (CNN) has achieved great success in the field of scene classification. Nevertheless, strong spatial information in CNN and irregular repetitive patterns in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images make the feature descriptors less discriminative for scene classification. Aiming at providing more discriminative feature representations for SAR scene classification, a generalized compact channel-boosted high-order orderless pooling network (GCCH) is proposed. The GCCH network includes four parts, namely the standard convolution layer, second-order generalized layer, squeeze and excitation block, and the compact high-order generalized orderless pooling layer. Here, all of the layers are trained by back-propagation, and the parameters enable end-to-end optimization. First of all, the second-order orderless feature representation is acquired by the parameterized locality constrained affine subspace coding (LASC) in the second-order generalized layer, which cascades the first and second-order orderless feature descriptors of the output of the standard convolution layer. Subsequently, the squeeze and excitation block is employed to learn the channel information of parameterized LASC statistic representation by explicitly modelling interdependencies between channels. Lastly, the compact high-order orderless feature descriptors can be learned by the kernelled outer product automatically, which enables low-dimensional but highly discriminative feature descriptors. For validation and comparison, we conducted extensive experiments into the SAR scene classification dataset from TerraSAR-X images. Experimental results illustrate that the GCCH network achieves more competitive performance than the state-of-art network in the SAR image scene classification task.


A novel molecular connectivity index mG based on the adjacency matrix is derived in this paper. The index is easy to calculate, and has good discrimination between isomeric benzene halides and esters.  mG is used to study benzene halides and esters, the water solubility Sw, and the partition coefficients Kow. The result shows that the water solubility and noctanol/water partition coefficients are correlated with molecular connectivity index. Molecular connectivity indices method has been used to established correlation equations. The estimated value are well fitted with observed.


Crystallized α-globulin of sesame seed sedimented as 13S component in 1 m NaCl at pH 8.0, Basic and acidic subunits of the globulin were separated by ion exchange chromatography. The molecular weights of the subunits were estimated to be 21,000 and 28,600, respectively. The basic subunit contained glycine and the acidic one leucine (or isoleucine), as N-terminus. The amino acid analysis indicated that the basic subunit was rich in methionine, 4.5%. The 13S globulin showed a temperature-dependent dissociation phenomenon. Only when the globulin had been frozen, it dissociated into 7S component in 1 m NaCl solution at 4°C, but not at 20°C.


The Gaussian map and its allied visibility map on a unit sphere find wide applications for orientating the workpiece for machining by numerical control machines and for probing by coordinate measurement machines. They also provide useful aids in computerized scene analysis, computation of surface-surface intersection, component design for manufacturing and fabrication procedures. Spherical convex hulls and spherical circles are two geometric constructs used to approximate the Gaussian maps and the visibility maps. The duality and the complementarity of these spherical maps are examined so as to derive efficient algorithms.


The article is a personal testimony of a Serbian language and literature teacher with twenty seven years of experience of work in the Highschool in Čačak. The questions of teaching methodology, reading and students' vocabulary are in the focus of the analysis. Special attention is paid to the lack of reading attention in today's students, due to the triumph of technology, more precisely of what is called the 'digital dementia'.


This report describes the methods, analyses, results, and conclusions of two different aging studies. The first analysis consists of a survey of light water reactor component failures associated with selected safety and support systems. Tables are presented, indicating the systems and the components within those systems most affected by aging. Also provided are engineering insights drawn from the data. The second analysis consists of identifying and categorizing the reported failure causes of component failures. The systems used in the failure-cause analysis were service water systems and Class 1E electrical power distribution systems for Babcock and Wilcox Company pressurized water reactors and service water systems for boiling water reactors.


Liquid-like multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) were prepared with as-received carboxylic MWNTs-COOH and poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(propylene oxide)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO-b-PPO-b-PEO) through hydrogen bonding. The sample has liquid-like behavior above 58°C. The MWNTs content is 26.6 wt%. The liquid-like MWNTs nanofluids were incorporated into epoxy matrix with solvent-free process and dispersed well. When the liquid-like MWNTs nanofluids content is up to 1 wt%, the impact toughness of the nanocomposite is 153% higher than the pure epoxy matrix.


As a popular renewable energy generation technology, wind turbine system has become a critical enabler for building the sustainable cyber‐physical system (CPS). The main shaft bearing is an important part of the wind turbine CPS and often runs under variable working conditions. Thus, the reliable bearing diagnosis method can timely discover the main shaft bearing fault, which reduces the maintenance cost of wind turbines. Inspired by the idea of domain adaptation, we combined domain adversarial neural network and residual network and proposed a novel deep domain adversarial residual neural network (DDA‐RNN) for diagnosing bearing fault and improving model performance on the unlabeled dataset. This proposed software and hardware co‐design method was evaluated by our bearing dataset, which was collected from two wind turbine CPSs from Sanmenxia in Henan Province. Besides, F1 score and accuracy are served as model metrics, which reflect the diagnosis performance. Compared with other methods, the experimental results show that DDA‐RNN can improve model performance. Meanwhile, DDA‐RNN extracts diagnosis knowledge from labeled dataset and improves the model performance on the unlabeled dataset under different working condition. Therefore, the proposed method can be potentially used to benefit many practical scenarios in the future.


ABSTRACT Herpesviruses are large DNA viruses that utilize the host nucleus for genome replication as well as capsid assembly. After maturation, these 125 nm large capsid assemblies must cross the nucleoplasm to engage the nuclear envelope and bud into the cytoplasm. Here we summarize our recent findings how this motility is facilitated. We suggest that herpesvirus induced nuclear remodeling allows capsids to move by diffusion in the nucleus and not by motor-dependent transport.


Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in wireless communications allows the network provider to control the scattering, reflection, and refraction characteristics of the electromagnetic signals. Different research results have shown (RIS) can effectively control the properties of the wireless waves like Amplitude and Phase without complex equalization and decoding at the receiver. Nevertheless, configuring the surface under practical frequency selective fading channel must be considered over the whole bandwidth consequently we took into consideration the wideband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system based on practical (RIS) setup with different phase shifts per each element in the surface. We used the communication setup considered in the IEEE signal processing Cup 2021 to investigate the user data rate enhancement of such (RIS) surfaces using different discrete phase shifts with equal spacing. Simulation results have shown that the data rate improved when using high resolution of discrete phase shifts per each RIS element.


ABSTRACT Interruptions are a salient component of healthcare care work. While there is a significant amount of literature studying interruptions in inpatient care, most of it focuses on retrospectively assessing their frequency and impact on processes. Strategies to address interruptions often do not completely eliminate them. There is a need to identify strategies that can be proactively used by practitioners to address the interruptions they face during care. This article describes an analysis of the potential effects of interruptions at different stages of a primary task (patient assessment). An Interruption-Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (I-FMEA), where interruption-related failure modes are evaluated in terms of risk, worker efficiency, and patient satisfaction, is proposed. This approach helps to identify interruptions that could be postponed (i.e., representing relatively low-risk, average impact on patient satisfaction, and average added work). It also helps to identify higher-risk tasks that should always be finished before addressing any interruption. The strategies identified in this research depend on the specific primary task, type of interruption, and performance metric to optimize. The proposed approach can be used to identify general recommendations when the provider lacks experience. It can be adapted to analyze other primary tasks and their associated interruptions.


ABSTRACT This article describes recent studies of atmospherically relevant reactions using spectroscopic techniques by our group at the Wadsworth Center. Heterogeneous reactions of SO2 with either HOBr or HOCl on ice have been studied using a coated-wall flow reactor coupled with differentially pumped quadrupole mass spectrometer, and the reaction of NO2+HI has been investigated using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). Reaction probabilities or rate constants have been determined at relevant atmospheric temperatures. Specular reflection-absorption infrared spectroscopy and the temperature programmed desorption technique were employed to study the adsorption of oxalic acid on a Cu surface at 175 K. Reflection-absorption infrared spectroscopy showed that oxalic acid is molecularly adsorbed on the Cu surface. The results obtained from these studies provide a better understanding of atmospheric reactions at a molecular level and enable an assessment of the relative importance of the reactions in the atmosphere.


X he way people are treated (or mistreated) depends largely on whether their bodies have status as subjects, or whether they are viewed as objects. Unequal power relations are often characterized by a conception of certain types of bodies (female, colored, impoverished, sick) as objects. Conversely, liberation from abuse and the right to be treated with dignity are often accompanied by an insistence that bodies be treated as subjects rather than as objects. Such a movement from object to subject is pro foundly redemptive, both psychologically and physically. In this


Solitary polling technique is not a better choice to get rid of multiple queuing problems for getting enhanced performance against single server. Enhanced and reliable performance upon multi queued traffic can be achieved through the utilization of right selection of joint polling schemes. The complexity of polling design is directly proportional to its performance. Exhaustive polling scheme is outperformed by limited service polling policy but under average load of traffic both contain same mean transfer delay. Several polling methods are the part of literature but the question of their optimal utilization in joint manners against multiple queue buffers is still open. In this paper, we build a complete analytical framework for mixed exhaustive and limited service polling model based on G/M/1 queuing system. We build the Markov chain and extract the closed form expressions of packet delay for multiple classes of self-similar traffic. We further experimentally implement four queues model with different arrangements of mixed polling schemes to conclude the most optimal joint polling model for modern 4G wireless network through analyzing the co-relation between delay and Hurst parameter.


:  This article explores the creative mutual interaction between Christian theology and the natural sciences through five key issues: (1) the relation between creation ex nihilo and Big Bang cosmology; (2) biological evolution and continuous creation; (3) the search for non-interventionist objective divine action in light of physics and biology; (4) the problem of suffering in nature and with it the turn to redemption theology via the bodily Resurrection of Jesus; and (5) the challenge raised for its eschatological implications by scientific predictions for the future of the universe. The article concludes with a brief suggestion for the ways Christian theology, reformulated in light of these sciences, might offer creative suggestions for future scientific research, and, in doing so, complete the loop promised by the phrase "mutual creative interaction."


Most states in East Asia (Northeast and Southeast Asia) are ethnically diverse and have experienced or are currently experiencing ethnic conflict. Although, intrastate ethnic conflicts are in the domain of domestic politics, they often become "internationalized", when an external state becomes involved. How can the difference in the behaviour of East Asian states regarding intrastate ethnic conflicts in other states of the region be explained? Scholars of international relations (IR) have come up with a variety of explanatory factors for a state's decision whether to intervene. This paper presents an overview of the major theories and evaluates their explanatory power for IR in East Asia after the end of Cold War. The results presented in this paper lay the groundwork for the future qualitative empirical research.


This article taking a case of a university in Jilin Province,investigating the effectiveness and related matters of university students' commenting on their teachers" teaching online through questionnaire and interviews.According to the results,college students confirm the necessity of this,but there exists differences in the level of evaluation and evaluation are higher than what they really think;and there also exists an unhealthy phenomenon that more or less exists kindness or maliciousness in part of college students.Based on this,the author puts forward developmental strategy from people-orientation when making comment on teachers' teaching.


An analytic investigation is made of the conductive heat transport properties of a cold plasma blanket, where the heat conductivity has been increased by turbulence due to a current-convective instability. Explicit scaling laws are given for the width of the blanket as function of all relevant physical parameters. The effect on the heat transport of a constant particle flux is also investigated.


In the era of globalization and competition, the European Union for many years trying not to fall behind the world's economic powers, including in the field of ICT. Since 2000 EU prepares strategy for its sustainable growth. The growing demand for data will entail to all sectors of the economy by digital elements. However, to be able to do remotely, quickly and effectively use the benefits of ICT must first establish a consistent, multi-sectoral and interoperable model of cooperation and regulation, which will be Single European Digital Area. Its creating is a long and complicated process that requires mainly homogeneous and obligatory legal regulations related to the cooperation countries at the institutional level and national level within the EU. Digital Single Market is one of the most important elements of Single European Digital Area. Its the result of strategy aims of European Union from 2010 to 2020. Digital Single Market is helping in European firms development in the World and in consequences to guarantee position global electronic leader for EU. An important step in achieving the objectives Single European Digital Area is adopting a regulation eIDAS, the needs of cross-border authentication. It is legal act that guarantee certainty and clarity law on electronic identification and it is modern tools of authentication of electronic data.


This paper studies optimal tracking and regulation control problems, in which objective functions of tracking error and regulated response, defined by integral square measures, are to be minimized jointly with the control effort, where the latter is measured by the plant input energy. The problems are solved explicitly by deriving analytical expressions for the best achievable performance. Besides the plant nonminimum phase zeros, time delays, and unstable poles, the results reveal and quantify how the lightly damped poles, the anti-resonant zeros, and the bandwidth of the plant may all affect the performance. These effects are nonexistent when the control effort is not taken into account.


Use of trails in rural communities across the country has surged since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper explores implications of increased trail use during COVID-19 for rural communities including trail and environmental management, health and economic implications, equity and access.


A novel tetrastilbene, davidol A, was isolated from the stems of Vitis davidii together with the previously known resveratrol, (+)-epsilon-viniferin; ampelopsin C; ampelopsin E; vitisin A and hopeaphenol. Its structure was elucidated mainly by 1D and 2D NMR analyses.


This study evaluates the environmental impacts of a hypothetical 103 megawatt, parabolic trough, wet-cooled concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in the U.S. Southwest with 6.3 hours of thermal energy storage by means of a hybrid life cycle assessment. Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, cumulative energy demand, and water consumption associated with the manufacture, construction, operation, dismantling, and disposal of the power plant are evaluated and disaggregated by major systems and components. The reference CSP plant emits 26 g CO2eq per kWh of electrical output across its life cycle, cumulatively demands 0.43 MJeq /kWh of energy, and consumes 4.7 L/kWh of water. The majority of water is consumed by the power block for evaporative cooling. Sensitivity analyses are performed on several key assumptions and design elements: the configuration of the thermal energy storage system (i.e., thermocline), the heat transfer fluid, the nitrate salts, the cooling system type (i.e., dry-cooled) and the energy required for construction and end-of-life dismantling. Our base case results are robust to alternative assumptions regarding the heat transfer fluid and energy required for construction and dismantling; however, the total life cycle impacts are strongly influenced by the type of cooling system and nitrate salts employed.Copyright © 2010 by ASME


Aim To compare of pancreatic beta-cell function and insulin resistance in impaired glucose tolerance(IGT)patients and type 2 diabetes patients(T2DM) and investigate the association between insulin secretion and serum glucose levels and the time of maximal insulin value by using oral glucose tolerance test(OGTT).Methods A total of 139 patients were divided into IGT(n=29) and T2DM(n=110) based on 1999 WHO diagnostic criteria for diabetes and OGTT.The correlation of serum glucose levels and insulin secretion,the time of maximal glucose value,homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance(HOMA-IR) and beta-cell function(HOMA-β) were calculated.Results Correlation test demonstrated that there was a significant inverse correlation between levels of fasting blood glucose and insulin secretion at 2h and peak in subjects with IGT and T2DM(rs=-0.644,P=0.000,rs=-0.529,P=0.003,rs=-0.518,P=0.004).There was a significant inverse correlation between levels of fasting blood glucose and fasting insulin in subjects with T2 DM whose fasting glucose concentration exceeded 12mmol/L.The insulin levels reached peak at 60min and 120min.the level of HOMA-IR in subjects with IFG was significantly lower than HOMA-IR in subjects with T2DM(t=3.238,P=0.002),but level of HOMA-β in the former was significantly higher than that in the latter(t=-3.032,P=0.005).Conclusion The function of beta-cell is impaired and the sensitivity of insulin is reduced in the patients from IGT to T2DM.Therefore,it is particularly important to strengthen the monitoring and intervention of IGT patients.


The Big Bad Wolf is on trial, and everyone is convinced he's guilty. After all, he looks just like the wolf who blew down the Three Little Pigs' house, he's been seen in the woods talking to Little Red Riding Hood, and he has a scar on his tummy where the woodcutter pulled out Little Red Riding Hood. Who's telling the truth?


Retirement leads to changes in daily life that may affect health positively or negatively. Existing empirical evidence is inconclusive: While a few studies identify negative health effects, the majority of studies find no or positive effects of retirement on health. The mechanisms behind these effects remain unclear, as is the question of which parts of the population benefit most from retirement. Recent studies indicate that retirees use their increased leisure time for healthier behavior.


A failed management relationship is a primary cause of poor performance, work dissatisfaction and loss of talent as well as other organizational ills. Dramatic improvement in management quality, with its associated operational and financial benefits, requires an accurate understanding of the core drivers of management failure. This article reviews seven of the prime culprits in this organizational drama, accompanied by prescriptions for improvement.


by a more recent clinical experience. The headings, selected by the author, under which patients may be assessed, constitute a very personal point of view with which some might disagree. For instance, "Viscosity, approximating to colledothymia" or "Weakness of developmental-behavioural urge" described as . . ." a psychologically neutral, organismal lack, a poverty of "system principle" . . . governing the holistic system of personality". Dr. Earl was obviously a man of considerable erudition and wide interests. His short historical and critical reviews at the beginning of various chapters stimulate the appetite. He appears to have been an eclectic able to join happily for his purpose Krechmerian and Sheldonian typology with psychoanalytic insights and dynamic outlook. He managed to present his material and discuss the cases in such a way that they are stimulating for psychiatrists who regrettably often consider the field of Mental Retardation unrewarding. After discussing general problems of "Subnormality", typology, maturation, motricitv, consciousness, etc. the nine selected aspects of personality are presented. There is also a very interesting chapter on subnormal language. Dr. K. Soddy in his excellent Foreword to the "Subnormal Personalities" points the conclusion that our present procedure in the ascertainment of subnormal children is technically unjustifiable. I can endorse this view which finds such an extensive support in Dr. Earl's book. Intelligence tests should not be used as a sole means of identifying feeblemindedness or mental subnormality-careful clinical methods should be used in diagnosis. "It is the patient's whole personality which should be considered, not only, or even mainly the level of his intelligence". British Royal Subnormal Personalities, Their Clinical Investigation and Assessment. C. J. E. Earl. Macmillan of Canada, 1961. 338 pages. $5.00. I must confess that I opened the "Subnormal Personalities" with suspicion. Approach to Mental Subnormality through study of abnormal personality is excellent and should give more depth and insight than the usual socio-intellectual assessment. But how can several, arbitrarily 'chosen, aspects of such a cornplex phenomenon represent an unbiased picture of the functioning whole?-And why "Schizoidia", "Viscosity", "Weakness", and so on? On first impression semantically twisted terms covering author's private theories for Mental Retardation. In spite of this handicapped start, it was a real pleasure to "discover" this book on reading it. From the first pages Dr. Earl's clarity of thought, logic and straightforwardness matched by a clear and economic style makes one follow him sympathetically to the end. Dr. Earl had a lot to offer from his experience and wisdom. His "Subnormal Personality" corresponds approximately, but not entirely to the concept of Mental Subnormality ... "patients whose social and scholastic failure is believed to be largely due to failure of development in one or more aspects of personality".-But it should not be considered as diagnostic category and his concern was with the clinical evaluation of the individual case.


The creation of supercritical xenon within a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber as a novel platform for nonlinear optics is shown by observing changes in the fiber's guidance properties with increasing pressure of xenon.


The Copepoda, a subclass of the Maxillopoda, are one of the largest and most diversifi ed group of crustaceans, including over 13,000 species (Boxshall & Defaye 2006), nearly half of them living in symbiotic relationships with other organisms. At present copepods comprise 10 orders (Boxshall & Halsey 2004), four of which (Calanoida, Cyclopoida, Gelyelloida and Harpacticoida) include freeliving freshwater representatives. Copepods are typically small and fragile organisms that do not fossilise well. The fi rst true fossils found were reported by Palmer (1960); these include few cyclopoids and harpacticoids discovered in North and South America in Miocene and Pleistocene lake deposits. The recent discovery of Kabatarina pattersoni Cressey & Boxshall, 1989, a parasite found on the gills of a fossil fi sh from Brazil, extends considerably the known fossil records of copepods to the Lower Cretaceous (110 to 120 MYA: Huys & Boxshall 1991). During their long evolutionary history, copepods spread over all the continents and successfully colonised almost all of the available water habitats. They successfully colonised all salinity regimes, from very soft freshwaters, like small glacier pools on metamorphic rocks, to hyperhaline coastal basins, and all temperature regimes, from subzero polar waters to hot thermal springs (Huys & Boxshall 1991). Copepods occur from depths of over 10,000 metres in the Marianas Trench to an altitude of over 6000 metres up in the Himalayan glaciers (Kikuchi 1994). Freshwater habitats range from large lakes to ephemeral water bodies, including tree-holes, leaf axils, wet mosses and very small containers (Reid 2001), benthic substrates in running waters (DoleOlivier et al. 2000), as well as every kind of subterranean habitat (Galassi 2001). Moreover, free-living cyclopoids and harpacticoids may form an important component of the cryptozoic fauna in moist forest litter (Fiers & Ghenne 2000) and wet campos (Reid 2001).


Marshall Nirenberg relayed his daily requests to his laboratory with the use of audio recordings called "belts". These recordings would then be transcribed into notes for the various members of the laboratory. In this belt, Nirenberg writes
 a draft for a letter to Howard University. This letter announces his lecture at Howard University titled "Genetic Versus
 Neural Information Processing Systems".


This working paper proposes a discussion about examining the demographic and psychographic profiles of Mainland Chinese ecotourists. Despite the fast-growing Chinese ecotourism market, little is known of the Chinese ecotourists' demographic and psychographic information. This research will be conducted using quantitative methodology involving questionnaires at giant panda viewing sites in China. Results from this study may provide important implications in ecotourism planning and practice. It is hoped that by understanding Chinese perspectives on ecotourism, ecotourism markets can be better understood, ecotourism experiences can be enhanced, and ecotourism destinations can be better managed for the Chinese visitors worldwide.


Statistical Analysis ● Demographic and stroke measures were compared across SES groups using ANOVA: Two Factor Without Replication run on XLMine Analysis Toolpak. ● Regression analysis: to ompare SES to SRS, SES to discharge NIHSS, and SRS to discharge NIHSS to determine if SES is predictive of stroke risk, stroke outcome and if stroke risk is predictive of stroke outcome among our cohort. Outcomes Discussion


The article argues that not only Jaina poetic fiction, but also the genres of Jain history, even 'plain' chronologies, are shaped by the imperatives of religious pragmatics. It demonstrates how through the rhetorical device of 'communicative self-reference', where a text points at its own communicative context, a variety of different Jaina narrative genres can function as conversion stories. A standard feature of Jain narratives is that the listener to a religious discourse frquently finds him/herself in a conventional speech situation, a sermon for instance, which mirrors the narrative frame in the text, and thus facilitates identification with the conversion experiences and soteriological trajectories typically highlighted in Jains texts. The article offers a solution for the conundrum of the frequent tropes of violence in Jaina stories by arguing that these are deliberately used to force conversational implicatures on the listener for the purpose of evoking experiences of religious insight, through techniques of defamiliarization, displacement, and the violation of expectations.


The present longitudinal study is aimed at analyzing how adolescents change their dysfunctional attitudes towards their body and eating behaviors in relation to personality characteristics across a six-month time span. Via multiple regression analyses we investigated whether MMPI-A Obsessiveness, Low Self-Esteem, Depression, Family Problems and Concern for health are temporal antecedents of EDI-2 eating disorders, and vice versa. Our main findings revealed a bidirectional relationship between eating attitudes and personality. In fact, Obsessiveness, Low self-esteem, Depression, and Family problems significantly predicted changes in different dysfunctional eating attitudes, but also EDI-Interpersonal distrust and Ineffectiveness predicted changes in different MMPI-A scale scores. All together, findings suggest that personality development in adolescence is sensitive to attitudes towards eating and body appearance, and vice versa.


Through retrospective analysis, a methodological construction is developed which provides a basis for analysing the factors and for monitoring the current process of international industrial specialization in the photovoltaic business sector. In this regard, its market and non-market incentives are observed with the aim of deriving competitive advantages from the international trade in photovoltaic systems.


Objective:To investigate the indications and results of breast conserving therapy(BCT) Methods:Sixty-eight pationts with breast carcinomas underwent BCT were retrospectively analyzed from January 1997 to December 2005.The indications include:① The tumor size ≤3.0 cm in diameter and classification with stageⅠand part of stageⅡpatients;② The multicentre cancer or the extensive calcification were exclude by preoperative mammograms;③ The distance between tumor edge to aerolar edge was≥2.0 cm;④ The ratio of tumor and breast was appropriate;and ⑤ Patient had the desire to preserve her breast.The manner of surgical tretment was wide excision of tumor or quadrantectomy plus axillary dissection.Adjuvant irradiation,chemotherapy and hormone therapy were given postoperatively.Results: The breast specimens were examined and no infiltrating margin was found.The median time of follow-up was 37 months(range 2~99 months).Sixty-five cases healthily surrived.Local recurrence were found and died in 2 cases.Cerebral metastasis was found but still survived in 1 case.About 86.7% patients who received BCT 12 months previously showed good cosmetic results.Conclusion: For early stage breast carcinoma and part of local advanced breast cancer,the result of BCT is satisfactory.The keys are standard excision,postoperative irradiation and systemic treatment are crucial to BCT.


The total download traffic by broadband subscribers in Japan is increasing by about 50% annually due to, for example, wider use of video streaming services using smartphones and tablets.(1) In addition, with the coming of the IoT society, a large number of various devices will be connected to the network and communication traffic will increase further. In fixed broadband services, there were 29 million FTTH access lines as of end-December 2016,(2) of which many use a 1G-EPON system with a maximum bandwidth of 1 Gbit/s. We have been selling optical line terminals (OLTs) and optical network units (ONUs) to telecommunication carriers both in Japan and abroad since 2005 when we launched a 1 Gigabit Ethernet PON (1G-EPON*1) communication system. In recent fixed broadband services, not only data services (Internet) but also other services, such as voice with different communication quality (telephone), video (TV broadcast and video on demand), and services for business, are constantly provided and play a key role as social infrastructure. Particularly for video services, along with the progress in high-definition video technology from 2K to 4K/8K video, the video data bandwidth is increasing significantly. In addition, since it is necessary to support multi-channel broadcasting services, there are high expectations for a 10G-EPON system, which has about 10 times higher access line speed than the existing 1G-EPON system, to stably distribute large quantities of video data and support service expansion in the future. We have been developing elemental technologies and equipment for 10G-EPON since fiscal 2006 and recently commercialized 10G-EPON OLT, which is reported here. 2. Requirements for OLT and the System Structure


A realistic appraisal of insect and mite control on apple suggests that the existing status of almost total reliance on chemicals is very precarious. During the past 10 to 15 years integrated systems of biological control of mites and chemical control of insects have been developed. The most common integrated system makes use of predacious phytoseiid mites resistant to insecticides used for the control of major pests.

In the United States, there are currently 4 federally funded apple pest management projects (Washington, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New York). While there are differences among these in their scope and structure, they all aim at implementing new pest management systems on a commercial level and to train fruit pest managers.

Summary

The pest problems on apples in North America, which include insects, mites, fungal, virus and bacterial disease organisms, weeds and mammals, are very complex and difficult to solve. Chemical control of insects has been practised on this fruit since before 1900 with considerable success but there have been problems of acquired resistance and destruction of parasites and predators by certain insecticides and fungicides. As a result mites and a few insects have become greater problems than formerly. Currently organophosphates are being used as the basic control agents for most insects. Phytophagous and some predacious mite species are now resistant to these materials. Chemical control is needed in all commercial apple planting to prevent severe fruit damage.

During the past 10 to 15 years successful integrated systems of biological control of mites and chemical control of insects have been developed in several widely scattered apple-growing areas. Fruit growers are using these more or less depending upon the severity of mite problems and the availability of effective acaricides. The most common integrated system makes use of predacious phytoseiid mites which have developed resistance to insecticides essential to controlling major insect pests of apple. All pesticides known to be harmful to these mites are avoided during critical periods. In Pennsylvania an integrated system employing the chrysomelid beetle, Stethorus punctum, is used. In this case, the predator is preserved by using reduced dosages and limited spray coverage.

Considerable progress has been made in recent years in reducing the quantity of insecticide used on apple. The basis for the reduction has been the use of very effective insecticides which essentially eliminate major pests from orchards. This level can be maintained by reduced schedules, i.e., applying treatments only when pests are present as indicated by monitoring and inspections. The development of sex pheromone traps has enabled excellent progress in this direction.

Currently there are 4 federally funded pest management projects in important apple-producing regions. The objectives are to implement new pest management systems on a commercial level and to train fruit pest managers.


Ethnological records are valuable references to our studying the origin of arts. But they can only be regarded as analogy materials rather than proof materials. The primitive tribes in modern world and the primitive peoples as civilized man's ancestors have outstanding and essential differences in the thought pattern,IQ,the selected culture and the development degree. The primitive arts of the modern world's backward tribes are completely different from the primitive arts,the prehistorical arts. It means the lack of sufficient logical basis to interpret the primitive culture of modern civilized man singly basing on the modern primitive tribes' culture and to interpret the primitive arts of modern civilized man singly basing on the modern primitive tribes' arts.


The mental models people construct and use to think about magnetic phenomena were investigated. The study was carried out in Brazil and involved secondary students, technical school students, physics teachers, engineers, and practitioners whose daily jobs are related to electricity and electromagnetism. Interviews, based on the sequence of prediction‐observation‐explanation, were conducted. Five models are proposed, following a progression from a simple description of effects to a field model.


Summary form only given. To date, the record power in X-band and millimeter-wave band is realized relativistic multiwave devices. The best result (15 GW in X-band) was obtained in the multiwave Cerenkov generator (MWCG). Design features of MWCG are the following: a) 3-D oversized electrodynamics system: b) the generation frequency is determined by the interaction between electron beam and electromagnetic field at the frequency close to the cutoff of periodical system; c) focusing static magnetic field plays important role in the interaction process. The possibility to use PIC-codes for analysis of multiwave devices has appeared just recently. In this paper the results of computer simulations of two-section MWCG are presented. Parameters of electron beam and electrodynamics system correspond to the experimental device. Spatial distribution of the RF field in the MWCG was tracked from generation start up to the maximum of beam current. The influence of the operating mode in the first section on the evolution of radiation spectrum was studied. Operating mode depends on the reflection of electromagnetic wave from the cathode. It was showed that two modes can be realized mainly. Each of them has specific spatial distribution of electromagnetic field. In the first mode, the stationary radiation lasts for 50-60 ns. It's frequency is about 11-12 GHz. After this time mode hopping takes place. In the second mode, the spectrum of radiation and power remain constant during 100 ns.


INTRODUCTION: The red blood cell distribution width is a measure of the variation of red blood cell volume. Recently, elevated levels have been associated with several disease processes such as heart disease and septic shock outcomes. Some have attributed this increase in red blood cell distribution width as a result of occult inflammation. In normal pregnancies red blood cell distribution width increases during the last 4 weeks before delivery. We therefore hypothesized that as a result of inflammation, preterm patients would have higher red blood cell distribution width compared with term women in a control group. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In a retrospective case–control study, we compared 150 randomly selected patients who spontaneously delivered before 37 weeks of gestation with 150 patients who delivered at term during the last 10 years at our hospital. Red blood cell distribution width, hemoglobin, hematocrit, and white blood cell count were compared at the day of admission and day of delivery. We excluded individuals with known infection, inflammatory diseases, and hematologic disorders. RESULTS: Ages were similar in each of the groups (preterm 25±4.9 years, term 26.1±6.1 years). The average gestational was 33.1±4.6 weeks in the preterm group and 39.1±1.9 weeks in term. Red blood cell distribution width did not differ between the groups (preterm 13.7±0.98, term 14.2±1.9). Subanalysis of preterm patients with premature preterm rupture of membranes (n=52) or gestational age less than 35 weeks (n=72) did not result in a significant difference when compared with women in a control group. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this is the first study to look at red blood cell distribution width in preterm patients. Red blood cell distribution width does not appear to be a significant marker for preterm delivery at this time.


The dynamics of a turbulent plasma not only manifests the transport of energy from large to small scales, but also can lead to a tangling of the magnetic field that threads through the plasma. The resulting magnetic field line wander can have a large impact on a number of other important processes, such as the propagation of energetic particles through the turbulent plasma. Here we explore the saturation of the turbulent cascade, the development of stochasticity due to turbulent tangling of the magnetic field lines and the separation of field lines through the turbulent dynamics using nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations of weakly collisional plasma turbulence, relevant to many turbulent space and astrophysical plasma environments. We determine the characteristic time $t_{2}$ for the saturation of the turbulent perpendicular magnetic energy spectrum. We find that the turbulent magnetic field becomes completely stochastic at time $t\lesssim t_{2}$ for strong turbulence, and at $t\gtrsim t_{2}$ for weak turbulence. However, when the nonlinearity parameter of the turbulence, a dimensionless measure of the amplitude of the turbulence, reaches a threshold value (within the regime of weak turbulence) the magnetic field stochasticity does not fully develop, at least within the evolution time interval $t_{2}<t\leqslant 13t_{2}$ . Finally, we quantify the mean square displacement of magnetic field lines in the turbulent magnetic field with a functional form $\langle (\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}r)^{2}\rangle =A(z/L_{\Vert })^{p}$ ( $L_{\Vert }$ is the correlation length parallel to the magnetic background field $\boldsymbol{B}_{\mathbf{0}}$ , $z$ is the distance along $\boldsymbol{B}_{\mathbf{0}}$ direction), providing functional forms of the amplitude coefficient $A$ and power-law exponent $p$ as a function of the nonlinearity parameter.


Biometric frameworks are broadly utilized for checking a singular personality because of its different benefits. Unique mark examination has been utilized for ID of suspects in numerous violations in recent years. Unique mark matching is one of the promising techniques introduced in different associations. The image inpainting procedure is utilized in unique mark recovery works based on the exhibition of finger impression confirmation/matching framework. This research work implements a novel image inpainting method to perform unique finger impression recovery. The outcomes show that the image inpainting approach can be utilized to recreate the damaged piece of unique finger impression, which assists the working process of finger impression check/matching framework.


Abstract : This thesis examines the future of India's nuclear weapons posture. Since testing a nuclear device in 1974, India been able to produce weapons material within its civilian nuclear power program. Despite having this nuclear weapons capability, India prefers to maintain an ambiguous nuclear posture. New pressures in the post-cold war era -- the loss of the Soviet Union as a strategic ally, the indefinite extension of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, the rise of Hindu nationalism, and India's growing participation in the global economy -- have the potential to derail India's current nuclear policy. This thesis identifies the domestic and international pressures on India, and assesses the prospects for India to retain its ambiguous policy, renounce the nuclear option, or assemble an overt nuclear arsenal.


In Dead Ringers , the question of gestation is central. In this paper, through the frame of the medical and filmic gazes, I examine how visual scientific knowledge and the maternal body explore and contain the inherently dangerous and threatening nature of pregnancy. The use of male subjects in this film acts as a primary defense against the implications of gestation. I examine the use of visual technologies as they structure the bodies and subjectivities involved in these processes of reproduction. I argue that the collision of maternity and visuality in these male bodies attempts to contain the visual import and physiological and material reality of the pregnant female body. The fluid nature of its materiality and, by implication, its subjectivity, disturbs the boundaries of all these frames and allows us to see that visual technologies itself cannot confine or determine the edges of the gestating body.


This presentation is grounded in research on parental participation in educational decision-making, offering experiences and perceptions based on singular insight that can make a valuable contribution to SEN debate. The presentation refers to a large scale study of parents with a child with SEN in Northern Ireland. The findings show that although parents are broadly satisfied with current statutory arrangements for their child's SEN, they had some reservations in relation to policy and practice. The findings also show that parents do not consider themselves partners in the decisions taken on their child's education which has implications for collaborative practice.


Abstract : Although much information on high-temperature tensile and stress-rupture properties for various columbium-base materials is readily available, only limited information concerning the more useful creep behavior of columbium alloys has been reported. These data are widely scattered throughout the literature, and little attempt has been made to rationalize the creep behavior of columbium alloys. The purpose of this memorandum is to compile and review existing creep data for columbium alloys to gain insight into their merits and limitations for time-dependent structural service. (Author)


This paper will argue journalists have a moral duty to generate awareness by uncovering and addressing unsavory practices and behavior in society. The agency problem will be applied to media to show, when principal agent relationships form between media and the public, moral hazard arises. The current structure of media does not support public service reporting. By using the lens of economic theory and data about current media, this paper will predict how media content may lose its moral force if the current structure is not adjusted. This paper suggests a structural solution. Moral hazard between the media and the public can be reduced by forming two branches of journalism—one dedicated to local, breaking news and the other to investigative news. With this two-branch structure, media will be able to survive in the current commercialized climate while still fulfilling their moral duty to the public. Public Service Reporting in the Era of Commercialized Media 3


[Objective]To observe the effect of Xuanfudaizhe decoction(XD)on 5-HT APUD cells'number,dimension,average grey values of gastric antrum tissues in low gastric motility rats.[Methods]Seventy Wistar rats were divided into normal group(10rats)and model group(60 rats)at random.Rats of model group were administrated with liquorice decoction(10g/kg)and divided into model group of 3days,model group of 7days,low-,middle-,and high-dose XD groups,and domperidone group.Immuno-histochemical method was used to test 5-HT APUD cells'number,dimension,average grey values in gastric antrum tissues.[Results]Liquorice decoction could induce rat model of low gastric motility.Middle-and high-dose XD increased 5-HT APUD cells'number and dimension and decreased 5-HT APUD cells'average grey values(P 0.05or0.01).[Conclusion]XD could treat disease of gastrointestinal dismotility by increasing 5-HT APUD cells'number in gastric antrum tissues of low gastric motility rats.


Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects such as steam injection into an oil reservoir are usually analysed using composite reservoir models consisting of two regions separated by a vertical front. This simplification may lead to errors in the estimates. To overcome this, analytical models have been recently proposed taking into account some of the effects such as gravity, heat loss and gradual change of properties that are overlooked in the conventional models. In this paper, description and comparison of the recent models is given showing the differences due to different ways of treating gravity effect and variation of properties in the intermediate region(s). For a better representation of the composite reservoirs, it is suggested to apply these new models with tilted fronts and smooth change of the properties in type curve matching for improved well test analysis. Multi-region multi-layer composite model is an extension of the conventional models that can be improved by adding more intermediate regions and thin skin at the front locations. This model can reasonably match the recently developed models and should be used instead of the simpler models in the case of application of the conventional well test analysis. Keywords— well test analysis, composite reservoir, gravity override, heat loss, tilted front


Passive Optical Network (PON) and Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) are two emerging broadband technologies for the next-generation (NG) access networks. Integration of PON and Mobile WiMAX might be an efficient solution to broadband network access that can take advantage of the bandwidth benefit of fiber communications, and the mobile and non-line-of-sight features of wireless communications. By leveraging the advantages of both of these access technologies combined on an integrated architecture platform, NG converged-access solutions can meet the demand for mobility, bandwidth, reliability, security, and flexibility. By combining the practically unlimited capacity of optical fiber networks with the ubiquity and mobility of wireless networks, NG Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) networks will enable the support of a wide range of emerging and unforeseen fixed-mobile applications and services independent of the access infrastructure. PON and 4G Mobile WiMAX integrated architecture enables differentiated bandwidth allocation to end users that can provide more network capacity at reduced operational cost as compared to other existing technologies.


This paper examines the stress distributions in friction welded joints of dissimilar materials of copper and stainless steel under cyclic tensile stress. The thermoelastic stress analysis method is used to measure the stress distribution. This technique for stress measurement is based on detection of the temperature changes by thermoelastic effect. The stress distributions in the bonded joints of dissimilar materials on an elastic modulus are also calculated from the elastic stress analysis using the finite element method. The experimental results indicate that this technique is very useful for stress analysis on friction welded joints of dissimilar materials. Because the stress distribution map is quickly and directly obtained. The tendency of stress distribution is similar to the results obtained by elastic stress analysis. Particularly, near the interface for plate specimen, the experimental resut agrees with the result of three dimensional elastic stress analysis. The stress distribution in copper near the interface on the surface for round bar specimen differs from the result of elastic stress analysis due to the effect of change in mechanical properties and microstructures produced by friction welding. The results of elastic stress analysis considering anisotropic area near the interface agree with the experimental values.


History, status and plans of the search for critical behavior of strongly interacting matter created in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron is reviewed. In particular, it is expected that the search should answer the question whether the critical point of strongly interacting matter exists and, if it does, where it is located.
First, the search strategies are presented and a short introduction is given to expected fluctuation signals and to the quantities used by experiments to detect th The most important background effects are also discussed.
Second, relevant experimental results are summarized and discussed. It is intriguing that both the fluctuations of quantities integrated over the full experimental acceptance (event multiplicity and transverse momentum) as well as the bin size dependence of the second factorial moment of pion and proton multiplicities in medium-sized Si+Si collisions at 158A GeV/c suggest critical behaviour of the created matter.
These results provide strong motivation for the ongoing systematic scan of the phase diagram by the NA61/SHINE experiment at the SPS and the continuing search at the Brookhaven Relativistic Hadron Collider.


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With the aid of 3-dimensional topological analysis methodology,relationships among phage regions on the isothermal section of the Nd-Fe-B phase diagram at 1000℃ and those on vertical sections of the Pr-Fe-B phase diagram passing through Pr_2 Fe_(14)B point have been re-discussed and modified.


Abstract The 'Research Agenda for General Practice/Family Medicine and Primary Health Care in Europe' summarizes the evidence relating to the core competencies and characteristics of the Wonca Europe definition of GP/FM, and its implications for general practitioners/family doctors, researchers and policy makers. The European Journal of General Practice publishes a series of articles based on this document. The previous articles presented background, objectives, and methodology, as well results on 'primary care management' and 'community orientation' and the person-related core competencies of GP/FM. This article reflects on the general practitioner's 'specific problem solving skills'. These include decision making on diagnosis and therapy of specific diseases, accounting for the properties of primary care, but also research questions related to quality management and resource use, shared decision making, or professional education and development. Clinical research covers most specific diseases, but often lacks pragmatism and primary care relevance. Quality management is a stronghold of GP/FM research. Educational interventions can be effective when well designed for a specific setting and situation. However, their message that 'usual care' by general practitioners is insufficient may be problematic. GP and their patients need more research into diagnostic reasoning with a step-wise approach to increase predictive values in a setting characterized by uncertainty and low prevalence of specific diseases. Pragmatic comparative effectiveness studies of new and established drugs or non-pharmaceutical therapy are needed. Multi-morbidity and complexity should be addressed. Studies on therapy, communication strategies and educational interventions should consider impact on health and sustainability of effects.


The results of a study of the influence of color photostimulation on the dynamics of the number of Bacillus subtilis during cultivation are presented.


A time-accurate explicit time-integration finite element code is used to simulate the dynamic response of synchronous belts-drives. The belt is modeled using beam or truss elements. The sprockets are modeled as cylindrical rigid bodies. Normal contact between the belt and a sprocket is modeled using the penalty technique and friction is modeled using an asperity-based approximate Coulomb friction model. The belt teeth/grooves are assumed to be located at the belt nodes (every fixed number of belt nodes). The nodes in-between teeth are subjected to the normal contact and tangential friction forces. The belt and sprocket teeth are assumed to be trapezoidal. The equivalent belt-sprocket tooth stiffness and damping coefficients in the normal tooth contact direction are used to calculate a normal tooth contact force at the belt teeth nodes. The tooth contact model also includes the effect of the tooth engagement tolerance. For validation purposes, a two-sprocket drive is modeled and a comparison is made between tooth loads predicted by the finite element model and experimental data available in the literature. Reasonable agreement between the simulation and experimental results is found of the drive's tooth loads. Also, the dynamic response of a hybrid sprocket – flat pulley belt-drive is studied.Copyright © 2005 by ASME


Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems monitor and supervise our daily infrastructure systems and industrial processes. Hence, the security of the information systems of critical infrastructures cannot be overstated. The effectiveness of unsupervised anomaly detection approaches is sensitive to parameter choices, especially when the boundaries between normal and abnormal behaviours are not clearly distinguishable. Therefore, the current approach in detecting anomaly for SCADA is based on the assumptions by which anomalies are defined; these assumptions are controlled by a parameter choice. This paper proposes an add-on anomaly threshold technique to identify the observations whose anomaly scores are extreme and significantly deviate from others, and then such observations are assumed to be "abnormal". The observations whose anomaly scores are significantly distant from "abnormal" ones will be assumed as "normal". Then, the ensemble-based supervised learning is proposed to find a global and efficient anomaly threshold using the information of both "normal"/"abnormal" behaviours. The proposed technique can be used for any unsupervised anomaly detection approach to mitigate the sensitivity of such parameters and improve the performance of the SCADA unsupervised anomaly detection approaches. Experimental results confirm that the proposed technique achieved a significant improvement compared to the state-of-the-art of two unsupervised anomaly detection algorithms.


Since the electronic power conditioner (EPC) is a crucial part of a space traveling-wave tube amplifier (STWTA), its reliability issue must be considered. The most effective way to prevent insulation breakdown is potting. Silicone elastomers are commonly used as an encapsulant for the EPC because of their good physical and electrical properties. The properties of the encapsulant and the interfaces change under the influence of γ-radiation, which may result in the failure of the potted modules. In this work, a comprehensive evaluation methodology is proposed for silicone-based potted modules, where besides physical and electrical properties, the effect of γ-radiation on the encapsulated interface is also considered. The results show that with the increase of the irradiation dose, the crosslinking density, hardness, elastic modulus, volume resistivity, dielectric constant, and storage modulus are increased by 301.6%, 76.3%, 289.7%, 396.1%, 5.0%, and 589.8%, respectively. In contrast, the elongation at break and dielectric loss factor are decreased by 83.8% and 57.8%. In addition, the tensile strength and breakdown strength first increase and then decrease, while the coefficient of thermal expansion of the interface shows the opposite trend. Since the interface bonding state does not change and the electric field strength of the tip decreases slightly with an increasing dielectric constant, the average value of the partial discharge inception voltage increased slightly.


Performance of granular insecticides and granular plus liquid insecticide combinations against SRA were evaluated in small plot trials near Maynard, Minn. Sugar beets were planted on 23 Apr in a field planted the previous year with sugar beets. Each treatment consisted of four 50-ft rows on 22-inch centers, with plants thinned to 8 inches. Treatments were arranged in a randomized complete block design with 4 replications; 1 untreated row bordered treatments on either side. Granular insecticides were applied on 9 and 10 Jul in a 7-inch band on both sides to the base of plants using a Noble applicator. Liquid insecticides were applied 30 Aug in a directed spray at the base of the plants using a CO2 backpack sprayer delivering 27 gal/A. Five plants from each replication (20/treatment) were dug on 6 Aug and 11 Sep and 10 plants from each replication (40/treatment) on 4 Oct at harvest. SRA colonies on the beet surface and surrounding soil within 2 inches of the beet surface were collected and total aphids counted.