The invention discloses a recognition device and method for the driving state of an unmanned vehicle. The recognition device comprises an information analysis device and a display device, wherein the information analysis device is used for receiving information of an operating system of the unmanned vehicle and sending a corresponding driving state signal according to the information; and the display device is used for receiving and displaying the driving state signal sent by the information analysis device. According to the recognition device, driving conditions of various vehicles on roads are taken into full consideration, the driving state of the unmanned vehicle is displayed for vehicles and pedestrians around visually and strikingly, and road driving safety is improved; and the recognition device is simple in structure, convenient to install, low in cost, and suitable for batched application and popularization.


Green marketing is defined as a partnership of all interested stakeholders to sustainable development. This form of marketing is a relatively new form of social responsibility in Serbia and as such it is subject of this paper. The necessity of integration of green marketing in a social responsible behavior is justified by the fact that purely commercial marketing business ignores the possible conflict between short-term desires and long-term benefits of market entities and society, with regard to global environmental problems. The laws are the lower limits of business and the community social responsibility, which includes green marketing, a higher level. Whereas, the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia in May 2009. adopted 16 laws on environmental protection which is called the 'Green Package'. Laws were passed with the aim of regulating the business and social responsibility and green marketing and development. The aim of this analysis is the 'Green Package' as a basis for application of green marketing in Serbia. The work will result in efficiencies that are realized by applying the law of "green package" and point to existing gaps.


Abstract : From the inception of the Near Term Prepositioning Ships (NTPS) in 1980 to the enhanced Maritime Prepositioning Force, MPF(E), and the Army Flotilla, the sea basing idea has been extensively explored but not yet achieved. The refusal of Turkey to allow the 4th Infantry Division to offload and transit their country in Operation Iraqi Freedom has given the sea-basing concept additional impetus. This monograph was written to explore the sea basing concept and assess the future capabilities. There are several alternatives that are being explored that could give U.S. forces a fully functional, joint sea base. Research included investigating the inception of the Maritime Prepositioning Force in the early 1980's through its employment in Desert Shield/Desert Storms and how its success influenced the DOD to mandate that the Army acquire a preposition capability of its own. Since OIF the sea basing idea has generated significant discussion within the DOD. Attempts to realize the sea bases' full potential include constructing a huge Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) and improvements to the current Combat Logistics Fleet (CLF) and the planned advancements to be attained with the future Maritime Preposition Force or MPF(F). The latter course of action promises to deliver the best capability. The United States does not want to have a situation that would prevent its awesome military power from being projected in pursuit of American national interest and the sea basing concept promises to substantially reduce that risk. This monograph concludes that the MPF(F) promises to deliver the best capability.


An integrated development and maintenance environment for the C programming language is discussed. The environment has been designed to take advantage of recent advances in platform and user-interface technology and provides unique capabilities not found in traditional computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools. SMART system is an integrated, multiuser software development, maintenance, and reverse engineering environment which provides advanced capabilities for C programmers. The user's program source, modifications, and all derived data are stored in an object-oriented database. SMART system has a soft user interface that allows a high degree of user customization. Unlike existing CASE tools, which have been largely concerned with capturing specifications and designs for new products, the SMART system is concerned with the analysis, modification, and management of code. By providing tools that address programs as entities, as well as tools that operate at a finer granularity. SMART system allows the user to approach programming issues at the proper level of abstraction.<<ETX>>


Transfer learning has gained increasing attention due to the inferior performance of machine learning algorithms with insufficient training data. Most of the previous homogeneous or heterogeneous transfer learning works aim to learn a mapping function between feature spaces based on the inherent correspondence across the source and target domains or labeled instances. However, in many real world applications, existing methods may not be robust when the correspondence across domains is noisy or labeled instances are not representative. In this paper, we develop a novel transfer learning framework called Transfer Learning via Feature Isomorphism Discovery (abbreviated to TLFid), which owns high tolerance for noisy correspondence between domains as well as scarce or non-existing labeled instances. More specifically, we propose a feature isomorphism approach to discovering common substructures across feature spaces and learning a feature mapping function from the target domain to the source domain. We evaluate the performance of TLFid on the cross-lingual sentiment classification tasks. The results show that our method achieves significant improvement in terms of accuracy compared with the state-of-the-art methods.


Microgrids are local electric and load networks which can be used by chip-level materials to form part of a broader power infrastructure or an individual power grid. Micro-grid will help the business transition from non-renewable to reliable and renewable energy. Their implementation in current chip-level systems will be updated. Currently, 25-50% of the electricity generated in power plants is wasted in transmission and distribution. The replacement of chip-level hardware technology of small DC micro grids drives operational performance, efficiency and network stability in order to offset the exhaustion of the global power system. This paper is intended to create an automated IoT device which constantly monitors and regulates failure clearance under failure conditions, i.e. current flow and voltage flow through different branches of the DC Micro grid. In the event of several errors, the customer should be informed today.


The subject matter of this paper is workforce diversity. Diversity in the workplace may result in deficient communication and conflict if employers fail to manage it. Many organizations observe gender, ethnicity, and education background as the most commonly diversified demographic variables among its workforce. Accordingly, identifying the effect of workforce diversity on employee performance is essential for any organization's reputation, productivity, and profitability.


In Electromyography studies, the motor unit is considered as the anatomical and functional unit responsible of the electrical activity related to the contraction of the skeletal muscle. This paper is aimed at showing biomedical engineering master students how to model and study the electrical potentials produced by the activation of the motor unit. The proposed model is based on a mathematical concept familiar to engineers, the convolution. By using computer simulations based on this model we illustrate how to study the effects of changes in the motor unit parameters on the characteristics of generated electrical signal. The paper is useful in showing the students how to identify the different aspects involved in the analysis of biological phenomena.


The method involves acquiring location information by an acquisition module (MACQ) of a terminal (TRM), where the module is external to a secure module (MSEC) i.e. subscriber identity module card. The information is stored in the secure module. The location information of the terminal is obtained from a memory (MEM) e.g. RAM(102), of the secure module by reading a temporary mobile subscriber identity (TMSI) or location area identification (LAI) field of a localization file. An application e.g. payment application (API), is selected from the location information. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) a terminal (2) a computer program comprising instructions for executing a method for selecting an application partially executable by a secure module when the computer program is executed by a processor (3) a recording medium readable by a computer for recording a computer program comprising instructions for execution of steps of a method for selecting an application partially executable by a secure module (4) a secure module comprising a microcircuit.


Semi-analytic models of galaxy formation typically form the spheroidal components of galaxies ("bulges"), solely through galactic major mergers. However, it is possible that non-merger events (e.g. a "fly-by" by a smaller halo) can perturb a galaxy--halo system sufficiently to form a bulge. We present a preliminary investigation into the frequency of major changes in halo and galaxy spin direction, which could be signatures of such events.


A method has been developed to measure solubilities in supercritical carbon dioxide. The solubilities of 2-nitroanisole and 3-phenyl-1-propanol have been determined in the temperature range 313 K to 333 K and in the pressure range 8.0 MPa to 20.0 MPa. These solubilities have been fitted using the model proposed by Chrastil.


Earlier work at unsupervised playground computer kiosks in rural India, popularly called 'hole-in-the-wall', showed that children exposed to these kiosks learn to use computers on their own and that they are able to clear school examinations in computer science, without any classroom teaching for it. Extending this, our recent research work examines the possible impact on attainments in other curricular subjects, arising from self- directed use of these kiosks. This paper investigates the impact of use of the playground computer kiosk, on school examination results, of students in a rural school in India over a 2.5-year period from 2002-2004. A comparative study was conducted, of students from a kiosk school and a non-kiosk school, as well as of frequent and infrequent users of the kiosk. The study covered groups of a total of 161 students who were aged 13-14 in 2004. Students were measured for differences in their intelligence, creativity potential, leadership potential, and frequency of kiosk use. The school results show a significant impact of kiosk usage on Mathematics achievement.


High-profile recent conflicts involving lucrative natural resources in such countries as Angola and Sierra Leone have drawn increasing attention to the link between natural resources and violence. While recent strategic, media, and academic attention has understandably focused on Iraq, the United States currently imports 15 percent of its crude oil from Africa, a figure that is forecast to increase to 25 percent by 2015. The Gulf of Guinea is poised to grow in strategic importance for the United States, and senior military and diplomatic officials are reportedly in advanced discussions with Sao Tome e Principe about establishing a regional U.S. Navy base there. This article argues that natural resource–related conflicts in places like West and Central Africa are not well understood. While such conflicts are unlikely to pose substantive operational risks to U.S. military forces, a failure to understand the dynamics underlying them risks exposing U.S. forces to smaller-scale Somalialike military problems and, perhaps more importantly, to serious public relations and reputational risks. One of the factors that makes natural-resource conflicts especially noteworthy is the alleged role played in them by leading private-sector actors. The sovereign governments of Angola and Sierra Leone both hired the services of Executive Outcomes, a private military company. De Beers has faced mounting pressure over its purchase of diamonds from these Scott Pegg is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. He received his Ph.D. in political science in 1997 from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Dr. Pegg previously taught in the Department of International Relations at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. He is the author of International Society and the De Facto State (1998) and the co-editor of Transnational Corporations and Human Rights (2003). He has also published journal articles in the Washington Quarterly, Security Dialogue, and Third World Quarterly.


In this paper, we talk about the application of fuzzy control techniques to the nonlinear systems. We propose a new scheme of fuzzy optimal control techniques in which T-S (Takagi-Sugeno) fuzzy model is used for the modeling. We adopt the PDC (parallel distributed control) as our controller which is also modeled by fuzzy rules. Both the discrete system case and the continuous system case are discussed. The controller design procedure is to solve a set of LMI (linear matrix inequality) conditions. With the eecient LMI solving algorithms, this can be done eeciently. It is also shown in this paper that various control performance speciication can be incorporated into this framework. Finally, this fuzzy optimal control scheme is applied to TORA system, a benchmark problem in nonlinear control.


'Abstract'Sperm DNA was isolated from vaginal fluid and/or endocervical mucoid plugs at various postcoital intervals. Samples were obtained from 25 volunteer couples. DNA was also prepared from the blood and semen of the couples. The DNA was amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) with DlS8O primers. The Fragment length polymorphism of the amplified products (AMP-FLP) was analysed by acrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by ethidium bromide staining. The AMP-FLP of the vaginal fluid was identical to that of the blood of the male partner within 10 hours after coitus. Thereafter, the male DNA recovery rate reduced as the collection interval extended. After 76 hours no male DNA profile was detected in the vaginal sample. Therefore, AMP-FLP analysis of the DlS8O can be used to exclude to determine the probable identity of an assailant in rape cases.


Introduction Alcohol-based hand sanitizers containing ethanol or isopropanol are being used in order to prevent person-to-person transmission during the COVID-19. Early signs and symptoms of this ingestion include nausea, vomiting, headache, abdominal pain, blurred vision, loss of coordination, and decreased level of consciousness. After hand sanitizer ingestion we have to suspect about methanol poisoning, monitoring the start of anion-gap metabolic acidosis, seizures, and blindness is essential. Treatment includes supportive care, acidosis correction, and the administration of an alcohol dehydrogenase inhibitor. In servere cases hemodialysis may be required. Objectives To present a case of an 29-year-old woman who was taken to the emergency department after voluntary ingestion of alcohol-based hand sanitizer in a suicide attempt. To describe the most common side effects of hand sanitizer ingestion and the literature review. Methods Clinical case presentation and literature review of similar cases. Results A 29-year-old woman, with diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and previous suicide attempts was taken to the emergency department after 3 hours of voluntary ingestion of an unknown quantity of alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Initial laboratory findings showed laboratory a blood methanol concentration of 66 mg/dL, with an anion gap of 30 mEq/L, arterial blood pH of 7.2, serum bicarbonate concentration of 12 mEq/L. Patient complained of abdominal pain and nervoussness. Conclusions Most common signs and symptoms of alcohol-based hand sanitizer ingestion include nausea, vomiting, headache, abdominal pain, blurred vision, loss of coordination, and decreased level of consciousness. Treatment includes supportive care, acidosis correction, the administration of an alcohol dehydrogenase inhibitor and sometimes may be required. Disclosure No significant relationships.


Methods of treating, inhibiting, or ameliorating an autoinflammatory disorder, disease, or condition in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to a subject in need a therapeutic amount of an interleukin 1 (IL-1) antagonist, wherein the autoinflammatory disorder, disease, or condition is treated, inhibited, or ameliorated. The IL-1 antagonist is a molecule capable of binding and inhibiting IL-1. The therapeutic methods are useful for treating a human adult or child suffering from Neonatal Onset Multisystem Inflammatory Disorder (NOMID/CINCA), Muckle-Wells Syndrome (MWS), Familial Cold Autoinflammatory Syndrome (FCAS), familial mediterranean fever (FMF), tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic fever syndrome (TRAPS), or systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (Still's Disease).


The work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 71501135, 71771156), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2016T90863, 2016M602698), the Fundamental Research Funds for the central Universities (No. YJ201535), and the Scientific Research Foundation for Excellent Young Scholars at Sichuan University (No. 2016SCU04A23).


The two single-carrier line codes which have recently been considered for VDSL standards are quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and carrierless amplitude/phase modulation (CAP). They have the same signal constellation and transmitted spectral shape. However, experiments have shown that the equalizer convergence rates for QAM and CAP can be different. These convergence rates can impact both the training sequence length requirements and the equalizer tracking ability for time-varying channels. We investigate a variety of equalizer architectures and algorithms and study the training sequence equalizer convergence behavior of QAM- and CAP-based VDSL systems by using both theoretical analysis and Monte Carlo computer simulations. We show that the particular equalizer structure and channel have important effects on the convergence behavior. Based on our simulations for various VDSL test loops, we recommend using the CAP matched filtered phase-splitting equalizer due to its good convergence speed and relatively low complexity


Cytogenetic studies have been carried out for the first time in a population of Cryptochironomus_sp. collected from a sewage drain located in the Gadigarh locality of Jammu region, J&K state, India. The karyotype of the species has been presented and a photomap of polytene chromosome complement (2n=6) prepared with detailed banding pattern in each chromosome. The chromosomal polymorphism with respect to structural changes in the chromosomes has been compared with another species of the genus.


This paper investigates the relationship between the labor market behavior of females and their attitudes towards traditional gender roles. An attitudes index is constructed by employing individuals' responses to statements related to the role of women and examined to determine whether it is correlated with individual characteristics. The paper examines whether these attitudes influence human capital attainment and whether they are weakly exogenous to educational attainment. It also focuses on the impact of these traditional attitudes upon labor supply and the return to education. The results are dramatic. It is found that females' attitudes towards working women are developed in their youth and result in substantial reductions in their human capital investment, labor supply and rates of return to education. Furthermore, it is found that these attitudes are determined outside the educational process. Copyright 1994 by The London School of Economics and Political Science.


We have developed an algorithm by attaching the camera to the end-effector of an industrial 6 axis robot which determines position and orientation of the camera system from cartesian coordinate. When the camera is attached to the end-effector of an industrial robot with a calibration mask that has more than 8 points, it has been proved that it is possible to determine the position and orientation of the camera system even without special measuring equipment.


The maximum possible earthquake magnitude ( ) calculation is indispensable in many seismic/engineering applications. It is obligatory for earthquake engineering community, disaster management agencies and the insurance industry. However, there is no universally accepted practice for estimating the value of (Kijko and Singh, 2011).The maximum magnitude is dened as the upper limit of earthquake magnitude for a given region and is synonymous with the magnitude of the largest credible. It assumes a sharp cutoff magnitude at , so that, by denition, no earthquakes are to be expected with magnitude exceeding . Presently, deterministic and probabilistic based approaches are being used for estimation. These approaches are based on the frequency magnitude distribution, seismicity data and maximum observed magnitude ( ) of seismic study area (SSA) which have lots of uncertainty. These approaches are suitable for the regions having long seismicity data and high seismicity rate. Furthermore, these are inconsistent with the selection of radius of SSA and most of them would not account regional rupture phenomenon which depends upon the energy released during an earthquake event. In this study, an alternate approach has been proposed for estimating the largest possible magnitude considering the regional rupture character of the SSA. The source criterion which inuenced the fault rupture is the density and shear wave velocity of the crustal rock at rupture. These parameters directly related the rupture rock strength. The is usually estimated for each seismic source considering the empirical relation presented by Wells and Coppersmith (1994) (WC94) between subsurface rupture length (RLD) and moment magnitude ( ). This relation is quite old and many signicant earthquakes were reported after 1994 and also the WC94 correlations haven't accounted down dip dimension (RW) precisely and earthquake events associated with subduction zone are excluded. It is renessary to update WC94 relation between RLD and . In this study a new correlation between RLD and has been derived considering the worldwide database of 221 reliable earthquakes from 1857 to 2013 consisting of 10 largest subduction zone earthquakes since 1990 along with 12 events having which have occurred before 1994 and excluded by WC94 and 32 new events after 1994. The regression relation between RLD and for all the data is shown in Figure 1 (a) and different fault types [strike slip (SS), reverse (R) and normal (N)] is shown in Figure 1 (b). The proposed related is different from WC 94 relation. Even though RLD versus relation gives possible rupture length in the region. REGION SPECIFIC MAXIMUM MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION CONSIDERING THE NEW CORRELATION BETWEEN RUPTURE LENGTH AND MOMENT MAGNITUDE


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: When designers are tasked with the role of future forecaster, they engage in speculative acts that can be aided through prototyping. These tangible analogues act as a platform for building ideas as well as empathy in an effort to approximate the future activities and experiences of end users. The emergence of space tourism as a viable industry in the near future, will require designers to develop prototyping strategies that emulate these future experiences. To that end this paper reports on the development of a modular prototyping system for the design of space vehicle interiors. As a means of evaluating the effectiveness of this experimental prototyping platform it was deployed in a student class studio setting where designers utilized these elements throughout a team project. The results from this experiment indicate that a modular structure has several advantages across multiple phases of the design process that can translate to future space vehicle design.


The purpose of this article is to compare concepts of defect nucleation based on bifurcation of equilibrium solution and on damage modelling. The nucleation criterion is defined as a bifurcation of the equilibrium solutions of the perfect body and of the imperfect one when the size of the defect vanishes. The defect is considered as a small volume which evolves as a damaged zone. To study the influence of geometry of the defect on the critical loading governing its initiation, we consider the particular cases of a linear elastic composite sphere and of a linear elastic composite cylinder, for which the equilibrium solutions are known when the radial distribution of elastic bulk modulus is given simultaneously with a uniform shear modulus. The initial defect is a small sphere or a small cylinder, respectively, it can be a cavity or a kernel made with an elastic material with lower mechanical properties.


The genesis of human movement involves a complex series of events that depend on the integrated physiology of the neural, muscular, skeletal, metabolic, respiratory and cardiovascular systems. Since each of us has a unique set of physical attributes, such as muscle strength, aerobic capacity, and skeletal structure, our movement patterns serve as another set of "fingerprints". For instance, we can often tell that it is our friend in the distance by the characteristic way that they walk. Key to our ability to distinguish such movement patterns is the way in which the patterns evolve over time. If someone showed you a cine film depicting your friend's walking silhouette, but first chopped up the film, shuffled the pieces around, and glued the film back together, one would likely fail to identify the person in the video as their friend because crucial temporal relationships would be lost.


The study focus on the income stability of pooled annuity fund members. We derive a mathematical expression to find the number of people who can receive lifelong stable income with a certain probability in a given pooled annuity fund. To solely study the idiosyncratic risk, we fixed the investment return and ignore the systematic risk. In the homogeneous case, each fund members are identical to each other, the trade-off between group size and income stability is studied. Then, we extend the method to the non-homogeneous case. In the non-homogeneous case, fund members are differ in initial account values. And the focus is on quantifying the effect of the composition of fund members with different initial account values on income stability. 1. Background There has been a transition from defined benefit pension plan(DB) to defined contribution pension plan(DC) in the US pension system under the increasing labor mobility and regulation changes. Under the DC plan, the risks are transferred to sponsors to employees since they are no longer guarantee a fixed, lifelong retirement income. Defined benefit pension plan(DB) becomes less popular under the increasing labor mobility. The number of mobile workers in the US has been increasing in the past decades. DB plan is less attractive to mobile workers. On the one hand, the income calculation of DB is partially based on the length of service, which means long-tenured workers can benefit more than mobile workers. On the other hand, DB plans are not portable between different sponsors, which can cause accrual loses to mobile workers when they are changing employers. Regulation changes triggered the transition from DB to DC. The U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) issued a series of regulatory restrictions on firms to protect workers' benefits and reduce discrimination. The new regulation


Objective:To explore the clinical pathologic characteristics and differential diagnosis of papillomatosis and ductal carcinoma in situ(DCIS) of the breast.Methods:HE and immunohistochemistry(IHC) were used to determine the expression of SMA,34βE12,ki-67 and p53 protein in 14 cases with mild papillomatosis(MP),4 cases with serious papillomatosis SP and 8 cases with DCIS.Results:The positive rates of 34βE12 protein expression were 85.7% in MP,75.0% in SP and 25.0% in DCIS,respectively.The positive rates of ki-67 protein expression were 21.4% in MP,25.0% in SP and 75.0% in DCIS,respectively.The positive rates of p53 protein expression were 12.8% in MP,25.0% in SP and 87.5% in DCIS.The status of ki-67 protein was positively correlated to p53,negatively correlated to SMA and 34βE12.Conclusion:SP is animportant pre-cancerous lesion,SMA,34βE12,ki-67 and p53 can be useful in differential diagnosis of MP,SP and DCIS of breast.


A time analyzer for neutron time‐of‐flight studies is described. An ``accordion'' feature permits different channel widths in adjacent time regions. Eight independent selections of channel width for each of the 16 regions of 256 channels are provided, ranging by factors of 2 from 125 nsec to 16 μsec. A channel width multiplier increases all the widths by a factor of 8, 4, 2, or 1. Deadtime is 5 μsec per event stored. Channel capacity is 262 143 counts. Readout is punched paper tape, followed by verify in a tape reader.


We report a quantitative proteomic study to investigate the changes induced in membrane rafts by the inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase‐3. Sensitive quantitation of membrane raft proteins using isobaric tagging chemistries was enabled by a novel hybrid proteomic method to isolate low‐microgram (10–30 μg) membrane raft protein preparations as unresolved bands in a low‐density acrylamide gel. Samples were in‐gel digested, differentially tagged and combined for 2‐D LC and quantitative MS. Analysis of hippocampal membrane preparations using this approach resulted in a sixfold increase in sensitivity and a threefold increase in the number of quantifiable proteins compared with parallel processing using a traditional in‐solution method. Quantitative analysis of membrane raft preparations from a human neuronal cell line treated with glycogen synthase kinase‐3 inhibitors SB415286 or lithium chloride, that have been reported to modulate processing of the Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein, identified several protein changes. These included decreases in lamin B1 and lamin B receptor, as well as increases in several endosome regulating rab proteins, rab5, rab7 and rab11 that have been implicated in processing of the amyloid precursor protein in Alzheimer's disease.


The myth of Hermes is well rooted in the Parisian intellect which has always shown interest in the doctrine of Hermes Trimesgisto. This has been the case irrespective of whether we situate the origins of the myth in the Hermaphroditic Greek statues (in which according to Winckelmann and Gautier the ideal form, the beautiful in itself resided), or whether these origins emanate from the famous "Hermes of Olympia" in 1877, or the complete translation of the Hermes Trimegisto by L. Ménard in 1866 (this translation was preceded by a study on the origin of the hermetic books). The figure of Hermes leads us, therefore, from the 19th century to the present day, towards a doubleness that allows differences to be interconnected and to an ambiguity that suggests that the established duality of genres should disappear.


The complexity of systems incorporated in newly designed transit rail systems has increased dramatically over the past several years. As a result, more of the responsibility and workload for maintaining a safe and reliable transit system has shifted from the train operator to the Operations Control Center (OCC) operator. Consequently, in order to make a significant impact on improving the safety of a transit system, one should examine ways to improve the performance and reliability of the OCC operator. This paper will provide a systematic approach to assessing human factors issues associated with a typical OCC and identify methods for reducing human error rates in rail transit operations.


Seven patients with suppurative arthritis of the knee have been surgically treated from 1979 to 1986 in our hospital. The factors of joint infection were the intra-articular injection of corticosteroid (5 cases), skeletal traction (one case), and hemotogenous infection (one case). The infection organisms were staphylococus aureus in three patients, pseudomonas aeruginosa in one, and unknown in three.Follow-up lasted from seven months to six years. Six cases out of seven have had no relapse due to suctionirrigation and chemotherapy. One case after more than one year since his operation has suffered a relapse. Post synovectomy, advanced age, and delaying of operation were seriously poor prognoses.


Summary Preliminary studies on a murine lymphoma induced by neonatal infection with reovirus type 3 are reported. In the mature animal, the lymphoma has a restricted host range while in the neonate such restriction does not operate. The development of lymphoma is associated with the intact primitive living lymphoblastic cell which has a definite storage time. All attempts to isolate a murine leukemia virus have proved unsuccessful as have attempts to locate complete infectious reovirus type 3. The organ distribution of the lymphoma and some associated immuno-logical features are discussed with consideration of a possible relationship to Burkitt's African lymphoma.


From Aden to Hong Kong, British Imperialism and the Roots of National Resistance By Justin Chen This paper addresses the colonial presence and effect of the British Empire, facilitated through the trade ports established to promote the interests and thoughts of the Western empire, and its implications for the course and narrative of history. This paper places the individual routine and dimension into the context of British imperialism with the macro scale events being constructed from the realities of the situation on the ground. Examining trade manifests and the writings of Englishmen in Aden and Hong Kong, this paper demonstrates that a socially imbedded belief, cultivated by British global hegemony, changes in reaction to social or political events to become larger historical events, or as a result of them. As a result, nationalism inevitably emerges from the weakening of the "invincible" West, which as a continuation of long-term beliefs is historically and socially charged. Specifically building off of Akahitsu Shigeru's interpretation of Wallerstein's World System Theory, I find capitalism, the connection between political diplomacy, and economic enterprise as the primary factor of British Imperialism as an action. Through understanding the British colonial system, and applying its broad structures as a factor in the course of events in the locale, I find the roots and underlying perspectives of the Chinese and Arab's nationalist resistance and contact with the Occidental West, specifically Britain and later the United States.


The objective of this study was to determine the best concentration of adding canarium nuts to produce cookies. This study used a completely randomized design with the addition of canarium nuts as the independent variable and 6 levels of treatments, including AO: without canarium nuts, Al: 10%, A2: 20%, A3: 30%, A4: 40%, and A5: 50%. The findings demonstrated that adding 10% canarium nuts can produce cookies with moisture content, ash content, protein content, and fat content that meet cookie quality standards, can also increase protein value, and was organoleptically preferred by panelists for taste, color, texture, and overall and was more cost-effective.


The city of Meknes is rich of various cultural heritages built between the XVIth and the XIXth centuries and notably it's most important ramparts (more than 40 km length). It was protected in 1995 by UNESCO as World Heritage. These earthen walls are between 1.20 to 3 m wide and 7 to 12 m high. The ramparts have been constructed in rammed earth according to a traditional Moroccan method. A detailed observation of the ramparts of the city revealed that they suffer from many different damages and they are in very bad state, some of them are disappeared. We noted that they show some alterations like fissures and more important detachment. The study of the origins of the alterations shows that they mainly depend on the environment, like the water impact, the building techniques and the nature of the bedrock. In order to point out the importance of capillary rising of water in the degradation of walls built of rammed earth, we took the example of Sidi Baba rampart. The analysis of the degradation of Sidi Baba rampart shows that he mostly suffered from a disorder related to a wet pathology. Thus, the solutions circulations, highlighted by the test water levels and changes in petrophysical parameters and the mobility of chemical elements along this profile are responsible for the phenomena of dissolution and crystallization. Alteration and loss of construction material, on the first meters from the ground, are attributed to capillary rising.


This chapter describes how a £1million research project on exploring the role of 'cultural intermediaries' and 'hard-to-reach' communities was perceived when carried out in practice. A low-income community in Salford, NW England was a prime target for research. However questions about 'culture' among those already living precariously on very limited incomes and with few options for work produced a strong and negative reaction. These perceptions stimulated a project redesign to match local priorities and so ultimately generated enthusiastic engagement and participation in the research. The adaptive and responsive approach to project design and delivery helped achieve impact through our research activities and the Ordsall Method was born from that experience.


We perform a dynamical calculation of the $\Delta\Delta$ dibaryon candidates with $IJ^{P}=03^{+}$ and $IJ^{P}=30^{+}$ in the framework of two constituent quark models: the quark delocalization color screening model and the chiral quark model. Our results show that the dibaryon resonances with $IJ^{P}=03^{+}$ and $IJ^{P}=30^{+}$ can be formed in both models. The mass and width of $IJ^{P}=03^{+}$ state are smaller than that of $IJ^{P}=30^{+}$ state due to the one-gluon-exchange interaction between quarks. The resonance mass and decay width of $IJ^{P}=03^{+}$ state in both models agree with that of the recent observed resonance in the reaction $pn \rightarrow d\pi^{0}\pi^{0}$. The $IJ^{P}=30^{+}$ $\Delta\Delta$ is another dibaryon candidate with smaller binding energy and larger width. The hidden-color channel coupling is added to the chiral quark model, and we find it can lower the mass of the dibaryons by 10-20 MeV.


The invention discloses a code matching-free testing method and a code matching-free testing device for a Bluetooth product. The method comprises the following steps of pre-storing a Bluetooth address code and the LINK information of a Bluetooth product testing mode, pre-storing a Bluetooth address code and the LINK information of a Bluetooth testing adaptor, and presetting a pairing marker bit for identifying whether the Bluetooth product is paired with the Bluetooth testing adaptor or not; initializing a Bluetooth protocol stack of the Bluetooth product, detecting the pairing marker bit, and reading the Bluetooth address code and the LINK information of the testing mode if the pairing marker bit indicates that the Bluetooth product is not paired with the Bluetooth testing adaptor; connecting the Bluetooth product with the Bluetooth testing adaptor according to the Bluetooth address code and the LINK information; and when the Bluetooth product is successfully connected with the Bluetooth testing adaptor, entering the testing mode. According to the method and the device, the Bluetooth address code and the LINK information are preset, so that 2 to 3 minutes required by the pairing of the Bluetooth product and the Bluetooth testing adaptor are shortened, the Bluetooth product can be quickly connected with the Bluetooth testing adaptor within 2 to 3 seconds, the production efficiency is greatly improved, and a great number of Bluetooth products can be quickly shipped.


The cloned DNA fragment encoding the F7, timbrial subunit from the uropathogenic Exherichia coli strain AD1 10 has been identified. The nucleotide sequence of the structural gene and of 196 bp of the noncoding region preceding the gene was determined. The structural gene codes for a polypeptide of 188 amino acid residues, including a 2 l-residue N-terminal signal sequence. The nucleotide sequence and the deduced amino acid sequence of the F7, gene were compared with the reported sequences of the pupA gene (Baga et al., 1984). Both genes code for subunits of fimbriae that are involved in mannose-resistant hemagglutination (MRHA) of human erythrocytes. The available data show that there is absolute homology between the noncoding regions preceding both genes over 129 bp. The two proteins are homologous at the N terminus and C terminus; there is less, but significant, homology in the region between the N and C termini.


The present study investigates the effect of dispersed CdS on the αand βrelaxation processes of Poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). Dynamic Mechanical Analyser (DMA) have been employed at fixed frequency 1Hz at temperatures from –80 °C to 150 °C to study the dynamics of films of thickness ~ 0.05 mm of PMMA and CdS-PMMA composite. Amorphous PMMA polymer exhibits two relaxation processes. A primary (glass, or α-) relaxation process commonly referred as glass transition or α-relaxation process and a low-temperature relaxation process associated with the hindered rotation of the side group usually referred to as the β-relaxation process. CdS dispersed PMMA composite also shows α and β relaxation process and are observed at higher values of temperature as compared to pure PMMA. The higher values of glass transition temperatures are attributed to the more rigid structure of the CdSPMMA system over the pure PMMA.


In distributed environments, especially those where asynchronous work is the main rule, organizations need to protect their information's integrity and persistence from the manipulation of shared information resources performed by multiple users. To deal with this scenario the divergent information management aims to support and solve (whenever possible) concurrent manipulation relative to shared information artifacts. Though several approaches can deal with this situation, none of them aims directly at knowledge management or organizational memory creation. In this paper we capitalize on earlier divergent information management approaches, presenting a divergent information model, based on information structuring rather than locking mechanisms over shared resources, as a means for reinforcing the connection between distributed collaboration, decision-making and knowledge management, by enhancing document expressiveness (its persistence and linking). We then use this model as a basis for a computer-supported system to handle divergent information and present detected problems and guidelines for future research.


A process for water purification, intended for the purification of impure water to drinking water condition, composed of mixing 20-50 mg/l of a coagulant and 2-5 mg/l of an activated charcoal with a quantity of impure water, passing the water through a filter medium composed of thoroughly cleaned plastic fibers of polyacrylonitrile having a fineness of 4.5-9.0 deniers and a staple fiber length of 100-150 mm and a porosity of 78-85%, and treating the filtrate with active chlorine in an amount sufficient to render the filtrate potable and filtering apparatus to carry out the process.


Contribution to the Standardization of Methods for the Ash Determination in Starches and Hydrolysis Products.

Experiments on ash determination in potato, wheat and maize starch as well as in glucose syrup have shown that the ashing temperature of 525°C as recommended in various analytical methods at least with the two first mentioned starch species does not produce carbon-free ash and thus cannot lead to accurate results. An ashing temperature of 800°C is recommended as white pulverous ashes at a minimum variation range of results were thus obtained. With starch hydrolysis products the suitability of the sulphate ash method at 525°C has been confirmed, provided that ashing time is extended from 2 to 4 hours.


ABSTRACT F-richterite based glasses in the SiO2-CaO-MgO-Na2O-F system were investigated by X-ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry and field emission scanning electron microscopy to ascertain the influence of fluorine content on preferential crystallization mechanism and on the spatial position of crystals developed in the initial steps of glass devitrification. The results highlight that both surface and volume mechanisms occur in the crystallization of fluorrichterite glasses. However, these glasses preferentially devitrify by a surface crystallization mechanism, although an increase of fluorine content leads to a modification in the location of the first developed crystals.


We show that the dispersion of a hollow-core photonic band-gap fiber is anomalous throughout most of its transmission band. We generate Raman-shifted solitons in air and non-self-frequency shifted solitons in Xe with mewatt peak powers.


Abstract: Any activities conducted within. Juvenile justice process, should be based on a principle, for the welfare, interests and future. front of them, of course, without, reducing attention to the interests of society. So when the child becomes a suspect protection is needed, which not only juridical but also non-juridical, which includes protection in the social, health, and education. It dimaksdukan to ensure children's rights as the nation's future generations.


In the study, the plant-mix cold recycling technology of foamed asphalt (PCRTFA) was applied to a reconstruction project of a highway in Hainan province, China. The mix proportions of the raw materials and related parameters of PCRTFA were analyzed firstly. Then, the pavement construction test was carried out. After that, the reconstruction project of the highway was performed. At last, the construction technology and quality control were expounded. The case study shows that the PCRTFB can achieve the purpose of reusing resources and save construction costs. This study can provide technical reference for other similar pavement reconstruction projects in Hainan province.


We studied histological samples and clinical data from 111 breast carcinoma patients originally treated in 1975-1977 who did not have distant metastases at the time of diagnosis. A multivariate survival analysis using the Cox model selected the studied variables in the following order according to their prognostic association (breast cancer deaths, or deaths from any cause): axillary lymph node status, tumor size, mitotic index, and DNA ploidy status. The association of the different variables to the prognosis in respect to breast cancer deaths was evaluated 1-10 years after treatment by stepwise logistic regression. Lymph node status, tumor size, mitotic index, and DNA ploidy all showed significant relation to the prognosis but this association varied considerably with time of observation.


Livestock and Poultry sector not only provides livelihood for small and marginal farmers but also contributes much to the Indian economy. Backyard poultry gives a standard income to the small farmers. Nowadays many improved varieties of desi chicken have been developed in India like Kavery, Grammapriya, Aseel and so on.  It is essential for the farming community to have a minimum knowledge on the process of incubation and hatching management. Though the poultry sectors have seen a rapid growth in two decades, the interest towards the back yard rearing still exists. A brief discussion on incubation and hatchery management of chicken, quail and turkey has been made for easy understanding to the farmers.


Single- and multi-core MgB2 wires have been fabricated by an internal Mg diffusion (IMD) process. Wires uniformity after drawing and/or rolling deformation has been studied by optical microscopy and x-ray micro-tomography. Several short samples taken lengthwise between both ends of the wire were annealed and their critical current measured. It was found that I c of the single-core barrier-free MgB2/Fe wire with high fill factor (32.5% of MgB2) vary by 100% towards the averaged I c. Multi-core wire having ∼15.0% of MgB2 and Cu outer sheath shows better uniformity with 25% deviation of I c over the 10 m length, which is still quite low and needs some improvements. It is expected, that improved in-length uniformity can be reached only for filamentary IMD wires with optimized deforming process and mechanically stronger outer sheath.


As wireless sensor network (WSN) technologies become mature, an increasing number of large-scale WSN-based long-term monitoring systems are deployed. However, data quality, especially sensor drift, is affecting the trustworthiness of sensor data. In this paper, we proposed an online algorithm to blindly calibrate sensor drift using signal space projection and Kalman filter. By utilizing data correlation among sensors, the proposed method neither requires sensors to be densely deployed nor needs prior knowledge of data models. Simulation results showed the proposed method can detect and calibrate sensor drift successfully. The mean square error of estimated drift is less than 1%, which is more accurate than existing prediction-based methods. The proposed method is also robust to measurement noise, multiplicative drift, and signal subspace estimation error.


Objective To explore the clinical characteristics of primary renal tubular hypokalemic alkalosis.Methods Eight patients with primary renal tubular hypokalemic alkalosis were selected in the Children′s Hospital of Tianjin.There were 4 patients with Bartter syndrome(BS) and 4 patients with Gitelman syndrome(GS).Clinical data,biochemical tests,therapy and outcome were retrospectively analyzed.Results The onset age of BS were at infancy stage.The main symptoms included diarrhea,vomiting,dehydration and growth retardation.And the onset age of GS ranged from 10 to 15 years old with the main symptoms of weakness,paralysis and tetany.They had normal blood pressure.The biochemical tests showed hypokalemic,metabolic alkalosis,increase of urine potassium and urine chlorine in all patients.Four patients with BS had hyperreninemia and hyperaldosteronism.Angiotonin was elevated in all 4 patients with GS,while rennin was elevated in 3 patients of them and aldosterone was obviously elevated in 2 patients.The urine Ca/Cr ratio in BS was elevated(0.2),while patients with GS had hypomagnesaemia and low level of urine Ca/Cr ratio(0.2).B-type ultrasonic wave showed that both kidneys′s resonance had even reinforce in 2 patients with BS,and one of them had left pyelectasis.All symptoms resolved after treatment with potassium or combined magnesium supplementation,indomethacin,spironolactone and captopril.Conclusions Primary renal tubular hypokalemic alkalosis is characterized by hypokalemic,metabolic alkalosis,hyperreninemic,hyperaldosteronism and normal blood pressure.Measured level of serum magnesium,urine potassium and chlorine and Ca/Cr ratio,rennin angiotonin and aldosterone can help make diagnosis.There are differences in onset mechanism,clinical manifestation,treatment and prognosis between BS and GS.


Large-scale manufacturing enterprises have complex business processes in their production workshops, and the edge-edge collaborative business model cannot adapt to the traditional computation offloading methods, which leads to the problem of load imbalance. For this problem, a computation offloading algorithm based on edge-edge collaboration mode for large-scale factory access is proposed, called the edge and edge collaborative computation offloading (EECCO) algorithm. First, the method partitions the directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) on edge server and terminal industrial equipment, then updates the tasks using a synchronization policy based on set theory to improve the accuracy effectively, and finally achieves load balancing through processor allocation. The experimental results show that the method shortens the processing time by improving computational resource utilization and employs a heterogeneous distributed system to achieve high computing performance when processing large-scale task sets.


Simple Summary Surgical resection is the optimal treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), despite a high risk of recurrence. We performed a retrospective analysis of survival after recurrence (SAR) of HCC after liver resection. Time to recurrence and treatment at recurrence are major prognostic factors of SAR. However, after curative treatment at recurrence, Overall survival is not significantly different between patients who recurred or not, whatever the time of recurrence. Abstract Surgical resection is the optimal treatment for HCC, despite a high risk of recurrence. Few data are available on patient's survival after resection. This is a retrospective study of tumor recurrence occurring after hepatectomy for HCC from 2000 to 2016. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to identify prognostic factors of survival after recurrence (SAR). Among 387 patients, 226 recurred (58.4%) with a median SAR of 26 months. Curative treatments (liver transplantation, repeat hepatectomy, thermal ablation) were performed for 44.7% of patients. Independent prognostic factors for SAR were micro-vascular invasion on the primary surgical specimen, size of the initial tumor >5 cm, preoperative AFP, albumin and platelet levels, male gender, number, size and localization of tumors at recurrence, time to recurrence, Child–Pugh score and treatment at recurrence. In subgroup analysis, early recurrence (46%) was associated with a decrease in SAR, by contrast with late recurrence. However, the overall survival (OS) of patients with early recurrence and curative treatment did not significantly differ from that of non-recurring patients. For late recurrence, OS did not significantly differ from that of non-recurring patients, regardless of the proposed treatment. Aggressive and repeat treatments are therefore key to improve prognosis of patients with HCC.


In "Party Pieces in Joyce's Dubliners," I analyzed Joyce's complex depiction of the Irish trope of "party pieces," and of performance generally, in his first fictional text. 1 After writing the first fourteen stories of Dubliners in a style he called "scrupulous meanness," Joyce felt that he had given short shrift to the Irish tradition of expansive hospitality and to a Dublin that was, as Mary and Padraic Colum put it, "oral as no other [city] in Western Europe was" (Colum 57). So in "The Dead" Joyce depicted a more complex and nuanced social world, one whose ambiguities derive in part from his treatment of "party pieces," which become cultural, political, and moral barometers, especially for Gabriel Conroy, whose after dinner speech (a form of singing for one's supper) engages the host /guest economy, while both praising and exposing the dying tradition that Joyce sought to recuperate. For all of his and its failings, Gabriel's generous-spirited speech, and especially his praise of Aunt Julia's singing as a "revelation," underscores the privileged status of party pieces in this story and leads both to Gretta's praising him for generosity and to his own potentially life-transforming revelation at the end. In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which as his brother Stanislaus says is "almost autobiographical, and naturally as it comes from Jim, satirical" (CDDSJ 12), Joyce further complicates the moral valance of performance that he depicts in Dubliners. He does so primarily by fictionalizing his relationship with John Joyce not as it was


Persian oak (Quercus Brantii Lindl) is the most abundant tree species in Zagros mountain range that is affected by western dust storms and harsh droughts in recent years. The lack of spectral-temporal information about these trees has caused limitations on the usage of remote sensing images to make a synoptic estimation of damages caused by dust storms and drought. The objective of this research is to analyse the spectral-temporal behaviour of Persian oak under the stress of water deficiency and dust storms. The aim is to improve the competitive abilities of experts on modelling the stress of water deficiency and dust storms on trees using remote sensing images. For the purpose of this experimental investigation, a greenhouse laboratory has been built. Analysis of the experiments was carried out using 54 two-year-old oak tree seedlings; Fieldspec-3-ADD; and wind tunnel at the greenhouse of the faculty of agriculture of the Tarbiat Modares University in 2016. Results show that the water stress could be modelled much better using geometrical indices extracted from continuum removed spectrum. Area and the depth were best indices. Water stress has been modelled better that dust stress.


Due to the disadvantage of traditional instruments of communication measurement,using LabVIEW to design Virtual Instruments of communication measurement,Combined with the modern communication network,can easily construct remote communications measurement system conveniently.Thereby,increase the flexibility of communication measuring instruments,reduce the cost of equipment investment,and achieve the sharing of information resources.Build a simple remote measurement system with oscilloscope,basic signal generator and analog filter,and parameters obtained through the network testing are the same as actual values.


Objective To explore the application and curative effect of paracentesis and adjustable suture in trabeculectomy.Methods A follow up for six to eighteen months observation was carried out for total 57 cases(77 eyes) who had trabeculectomy with paracentesis and adjustable suture which include 26 cases of acute angle-closeure glaucoma,18 cases of chronic angle-closure glaucoma,6 cases of open-angle glaucoma,7 cases of refractory glaucoma.Results Four eyes had post-operative visual acuity increased by 1~2 lines;67 eyes had no improvement in visual acuity;the post-operative visual acuity of 6 eyes was decreased by 1~2 lines.The average intraocular pressure was about 12.26 mmHg by the time of discharge;it was about 13.26 mm Hg at two weeks of post-operation and it was about 15.69 mm Hg 6~18 months of post-operation.There was no case developed durative shallow anterior chamber.Conclusion Paracentesis of anterior chamber and Adjustable Suture combined with Mitomycin could effectively reduce intraocular pressure,control post-operative shallow anterior chamber and improved surgical success rate.It is a safe and effective filtration surgery for glaucoma.


50 Ah LiFePO_4 polymer Li-ion single cell was prepared by using LiFePO4 and mesocarbon microbeads(MCMB)as positive and negative active materials.The results of overcharge and nail penetration showed that the single cell had fine safety performance.The results of discharge at different rates,1.00 C cycle and discharge at different temperatures showed that the single cell had fine electrical performance and cycle performance,its energy density and specific energy were 236.2 Wh/L and 134 Wh/kg,respectively.


The present article describes a number of characteristics of Russians in conditions of instability and economic crisis, which are revealing themselves in the increase of the egocentric orientation of the individual and can be described by the following egocentric phenomena: invulnerability, uniqueness, imaginary audience, omnipotence. Emotional experience features of these phenomena depend on the status and sense of identity and personal stories of people.


. The rapid development of emerging information technology and the increasing abundance of teaching resources in colleges. The course reform based on Problem Based Learning teaching method can enable students to build a broad and flexible knowledge base and improve the quality of our training course. The necessity and existing problems of Project Management Simulation Training course are analyzed. The feasibility and adaptability of Problem Based Learning teaching method applied to Project Management Simulation Training course are also discussed. The implementation and application effect of this new teaching method are discussed emphatically by online application software. In this study, the online platform questionnaire software "Questionnaire Star" was used to generate online questionnaires, which were distributed online to 92 students in 3 classes. 92 questionnaires were collected. For the collected questionnaire data, the online platform statistical analysis software SPSSAU is used for data reliability analysis in this study. The results show that the data reliability coefficients are all higher than 0.8, and the data reliability quality is high, which can be used for further analysis. Further analysis results show that this new teaching method is beneficial to cultivate students' comprehensive quality, innovative practice ability and teamwork ability. With the help of online application software, the research and analysis results prove that the implementation of this new teaching method is effective.


Based on the theories of marketing channel behaviors and relationship marketing,by testing hypotheses,this paper explores the impact of relationship marketing orientation on a firm's marketing channel behaviors.It found that,firstly,relationship marketing orientation has a positive effect on a firm's exercises of noncoercive power,and has a negative moderate effect on the positive relationship between firm's power and its exercises of coercive power.Secondly, relationship marketing orientation positively affects a firm to adopt joint-problem-resolution approach.In addition,it found the interactions among various control mechanisms.It finally discusses the research findings,and indicates the theoretical contributions and practical implications of the findings.


Autophagy, a conserved lysosomal degradation pathway, can degrade intracellular waste, such as damaged organelles or misfolded proteins, to meet the metabolic needs of cells and maintain the homeostasis of the intracellular environment (1). In addition, autophagy also plays an essential role in immunity. First, autophagy can be induced by invading virus and provides a way for the host to limit or eliminate the intracellular virus; second, autophagy can also control inflammation by regulating interactions with natural immune signaling pathways, removing endogenous inflammasome agonists, and influencing the secretion of immune mediators; third, autophagy involves in antigen presentation and T polarization (2, 3). The virus typically enters host cells via endocytosis and thus remains enclosed in the endosomes during the early stages of infection, making it difficult to identify by the host cellular autophagy. There is unknown how the virus can be specifically identified as selective autophagy cargo so as to be eliminated by host cellular autophagy and how does virus-induced autophagy occur in mammalian cells. Recently, Dong et al. found that the endosomal protein sorting nexin 5 (SNX5) is critically required for virus-induced, but not for other factor induced autophagy (4).


The present text on formation of professors of physical education recoups, on the other hand, data of the situation of the education and of the sport in Brazil and for another one it evidences the strategy and the tactics, for the approval and implementation of the lines of direction of the physical education being distinguished it analysis that allows to recognize what approximately to make front to the necessary curricular reorganization of the 650 existing courses of physical education in Brazil. It has as objective to register given - developed activities, taken positions, defended conceptions - in period (2000 the 2006) but, also, to indicate the theoretical debate around the problematic one of the formation of professors of physical education. It does not only portray the position of the majority and its tactics to reaffirm the hegemonic one - disqualification in the academic formation for the division in the courses in teaching degree and graduation in physical education -, but, it presents indications of tactical actions for the formation of professors in the perspective of the emancipation human being.


43 Niche divergence is expected for species that compete for shared resources, including migrants that 44 occupy similar regions during the non-breeding season. Studies of temperate seabirds indicate that 45 both spatial and behavioural segregation can be important mechanisms for reducing competition, but 46 there have been few investigations of resource partitioning by closely-related taxa in low productivity, 47 tropical environments. We investigated niche partitioning in three gadfly petrel taxa, Pterodroma 48 leucoptera leucoptera (n = 22) , P. leucoptera caledonica (n = 7) and P. pycrofti (n = 12) during their 49 non-breeding season in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean by combining tracking data from 50 geolocator-immersion loggers with remotely-sensed environmental data in species distribution models 51 (SDMs), and by comparing feather stable isotope ratios. The three taxa showed spatial partitioning; 52 two foraged in the North Equatorial Counter Current and one in the South Equatorial Current. This 53 reflected differences in their realised habitat niches, with significant taxon-specific responses to 54 thermocline depth, sea surface temperature and bathymetry. There were also differences among taxa 55 in activity patterns, and all birds spent a much larger proportion of time in flight at night than during 56 the day, suggesting predominance of nocturnal foraging behaviour. Comparison of stable isotope 57 ratios in feathers suggests that P. leucoptera leucoptera and P. pycrofti mainly consume vertically58 migrating mesopelagic fishes, whereas the diet of P. leucoptera caledonica also include some lower 59 trophic level including crustaceans and squid. Unique insights can be gained from studies of the 60 foraging ecology of tropical pelagic seabirds, in comparison with temperate and polar waters, and are 61 urgently required for understanding and protecting tropical avifauna in key marine habitats 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69


Minimization of the total potential energy of a system of interacting atoms is a classical challenging problem in physics. Standard quantum mechanics calculation of the total potential energy is a very time consuming task. The article reports preliminary results of our new investigation of using data driven models as a means of approximating the total system energy. Such models include feedforward artificial neural networks and linear least squares models using radial basis functions and polynomial basis functions. So far, we have considered a system of two atoms and used the two-body Lenard-Jones potential to generate training data. We have found several types of basis functions that are suitable for the approximation.


Abstract Background Patients with cirrhosis suffer from a complex multiorgan disturbance and their prognosis is influenced by the development of portal hypertension and systemic circulatory dysfunction. Although non-invasive techniques such as transient elastography aid in early detection, there is an unmet need for reliable markers of these clinically significant complications. Methods We conducted an exploratory single-center study investigating dipeptidyl peptidase-3 (DPP3) concentrations in various vascular beds in a cohort of 48 patients with cirrhosis and 16 healthy controls. Liver vein catheterisation with sampling from femoral artery and femoral, renal and hepatic veins as well as measurement of hepatic pressure and liver function via indocyanine green and galactose elimination tests were performed. Results DPP3 concentrations were higher in cirrhotic patients compared to controls (12.6 vs. 7.4 ng/mL, p = 0.006) and increased according to the severity of cirrhosis. DPP3 associated with MELD-Na score, Child class, indocyanine green clearance, increased DPP3 with the increased hepatic venous pressure gradient (p = 0.015) as well as increased heart rate and reduced systemic vascular resistance. DPP3 concentrations predicted the presence of clinically significant portal hypertension in cirrhotic patients (AUROC 0.78, 95% CI 0.65–0.9). Conclusion DPP3 is a promising marker for portal hypertension and systemic hemodynamic changes in cirrhosis.


summaries English In Britain, the range of new resources developed in the 1960s and early 70s for science teaching in secondary schools have achieved considerable success. However, there are still widespread criticisms by both students and teachers that school science curricula tend to be inward‐looking, divorced from human considerations and unrelated to the influences of technology. Evidence that attitudes to technology among secondary school teachers may be changing is provided by the existence of three new projects; two covering the 13‐16 age range and one the 16‐18. The three projects, although organized quite differently, have much in common. Thus each is developing new kinds of teaching materials which take into account not only the applications of science but also economic, social, ethical and aesthetic considerations as well. The introduction of these new resources will require teaching approaches some of which are at present unfamiliar to many students and some teachers. The development of techn...


This study evaluates and presents the reliability and availability of a power plant, Akute Power Plant, Ogun State, Nigeria, during the period of January – December, 2015. Time series load data on each generating unit were collected from Akute Power Plant daily operational log book from January to December 2015. Outages were classified into types, frequency and durations. The operational data for the above period was collected and analyzed using Reliability methods. Reliability conditions are defined with the collected data and types of the failure faced by each generating units. The most important reliability indices like mean time to repair (MTTR), mean time to failure (MTTF), mean time between failures (MTBF), repair rate (μ), failure rate (λ) were determined based on the loss of load approach. The reliabilities of each generating unit were evaluated on monthly basis for one year and the average availability of G1, G2, G3, and G4 were 0.9701, 0.9726, 0.9767, and 0.9707 respectively, while the reliability indices for G1, G2, G3, and G4 were 0.9860, 0.9880, 0.9854, and 0.9840 respectively. Suggestions were made to minimize system unavailability in order to improve the reliabilities of the network. Keywords: Reliability Methods, Mean Time To Repair, Mean Time Between Failure, Failure Rate


The research on the pathogenesis of multiple myeloma (MM) and the wide application of new drugs have put forward further requirements for the detection methods and efficacy evaluation of MM. In the 2018 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting, low-dose CT was recommended instead of plain X-ray as a screening method for the skeletal involvement in newly diagnosed MM patients. In terms of treatment, the status of monoclonal antibodies in MM treatment was further consolidated, and the chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) immunotherapy was fully developed.

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Multiple myeloma; Diagnosis; Immunotherapy


The 2004legislative elections in Kazakhstan were monitored by three international organizations engaged in election observation. One might expect that the supervision of electoral processes by multiple organizations would increase the amount of information on election quality available to votersl but the three participating organizations came to quite different conclusions regarding the credibility of the elections. 1he Council of Europe ( COE) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE) criticized the election, alleging that serious irregularities occurred and condemning the electoral process. Yet in contrast, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) delegation concluded that minor shortcomings in the electoral process did not affect either voters' free choice or the election results, coming to an overall positive assessment. 1 ClearlYi additional reports did not necessarily improve the quality of available information about this election's regularity, and Kazakhstan is not an isolated case. On the contrarYi incumbents concerned about negative observer reports can often expect a beneficial cacophony of friendly and critical observer opinions if they invite more than one observer group.Z Inviting organizations of varied quality would in this perspective be strategically advantageaus by allowing governments und er domestic pressure to highlight more positive assessments and selectively cite more critical oneseven if some observer organizations find serious irregularities. For instance, the Kazakh Electoral Commission's website for the 2004 elections includes a lengthy quote by the head of the CIS delegation endorsing the election and cites morefavorable portions from the OSCE and COE statements and reports, but it omits the more critical elements from these reports.3 In these elections, inviting a mix of observer organizations appears to have worked in favor of the government. Despite allegations of major fraud and irregularities by opposition parties and some monitoring organizations, election results giving President Nazarbayev's party more than 60 percent of the votes were left unchanged, and popular protests failed to materialize.


When the NC machine tool is in the condition of heat,it suffers the temperature stress which could lead the structure occuring small deformation.The process of thermal performance analysis of machine tool is introduced by ANSYS.Which includes building continuous area of the machine tool model,meshing generation,difference functions,parameter setting and boundary constraint setting.Through an analysis of supporting components of machine tool by topology optimization design,the results show the optimization results is well.


Background. Patients with adenocarcinoma of the prostate treated with prostatectomy who have tumor at the margins of the surgical specimen or tumor involvement of the seminal vesicles have a high risk of local recurrence and metastastic disease. It is unclear whether postoperative irradiation improves their outcome.


Sarcoma botryoides of uterine cervix is a malignant neoplasm of cervix which accounts 0.2% of all the malignant tumours of the uterus and its peak incidence is between 14−18 years. Here we report a case of a 16-year-old newly married girl who presented with the complaint of vaginal bleeding for one and half months. Histopathology from cervical tissue revealed sarcoma botryoides grade 2, score 5. She was treated by neo-adjuvant chemotherapy and surgery. She was alive for three years from diagnosis and died due to lung metastasis. J Enam Med Col 2018; 8(1): 50-52


This note describes a very simple modification to Prolog's Definite Clause Grammar1 (DCG) formalism which allows a menu system with the flavor of Texas Instruments' NLMenus2 to be easily implemented.


Traditional methods of determining the extent and thickness of passive fire protection (PFP) on offshore platform structures are simplistic and provide little opportunity for design optimisation. This paper presents a review of alternative methods of determining the use of PFP which have been tried to overcome these disadvantages. This method progressed and used for North Everest and Lomond was based upon the modelling of credible fire scenarios, the calculation of steel temperatures and the progressive collapse analysis of topsides structure under rising temperature. The selected method allowed the design engineer to optimise the use of PFP while instilling confidence that the design met specific safety objectives.


Aim. To develop a new method, which has a good reproducibility of the experimental results, is fast, cheap and provides safe working conditions during the analysis, in order to determine the activity of cholinesterase.Experimental part. The light absorption of the test and control samples was measured using a CPhC-3-01 photoelectric photometer (420 nm, l = 3 cm). The reaction rate was characterized by the value of the optical density of the solution in 10 min (the fixed time method). Measurements were performed at +37 °C, the temperature of the reaction mixture was maintained by thermostatіng in water, the pH of the solutions was monitored potentiometrically using a glass electrode. The determination was repeated five times with each solution of a certain concentration of the enzyme. According to the average values obtained, the calibration graph of the specific activity of the enzyme (in international units – activity unit (AU/mg) – kmol/min to 1 mg of the substance) on the optical density of the solution was constructed. Using the mean value of five measurements of the optical density of the test solution the specific activity of the enzyme (U) was found by the calibration graph.Results and discussion. The essence of the method is the photometrical measurement of the rate of the enzymatic hydrolysis of acetylcholine in a buffer medium using 3,3′,5,5′-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB). The enzymatic hydrolysis reaction of the substrate was performed at pH 8.3, and in 10 min after the start the rate of enzymatic hydrolysis of acetylcholine was measured. The linear dependence of the optical density on the specific activity of the enzyme (U) was observed in the range of 3.5 – 28 AU/mg (activity unit/mg). The activity of the enzyme, according to the average results of 5 measurements, was 27.9 AU/mg. The declared activity the enzyme in accordance with the quality certificate was 28 AU/mg. The limit of quantification was 0.2 AU/mg. Metrological characteristics of the method were as follows: RSD = 1.8 % (n = 5; P = 0.95), accuracy – 0.45 %. These values indicate that the method proposed for determining the activity of cholinesterase is characterized by high sensitivity, reliability and reproducibility of the results. At the same time, it was proven that there was no systematic error in determining the activity of cholinesterase by the method developed.Conclusions. As a result of the research conducted a new method for determining the activity of the cholinesterase enzyme has been developed; it is characterized by high sensitivity, reliability and reproducibility of the results, and also provides safe working conditions during the analysis.


The syndrome of rheumatic fever, with its major manifestations of polyarthritis, heart disease and chorea, is becoming increasingly important from the standpoint of public health. 1 Yet with the causation, diagnosis and treatment still poorly defined, compared for example with those of a disease such as syphilis, a wholly satisfactory method of coping with this infection remains to be found. One approach to a better understanding of the nature of rheumatic infections has been provided by an analysis of hospital admissions for this disease. The most comprehensive recent reports of this sort have dealt with Philadelphia, 2 and New Haven, 3 where the records of all hospitals were examined. Studies covering an entire city have been infrequent because of the difficulties involved in reviewing the records of a large number of hospitals. One of the values of such a study is that it provides a basis for estimating the number


Following the deliberate releases of anthrax in the United States last autumn, the World Health Organization (WHO) identified a need to review existing emergency plans and implement further actions to allow member states, WHO and other international organisations to prevent, prepare for and respond to deliberate releases of chemical and biological agents (1). Previous WHO guidance on the threat of bioterrorism, specific activities at European Union level, and the coordinated international initiative to improve global health security, have been described in Eurosurveillance Weekly (2-5).


This study aimed to determine: (1) The definition of international law, (2) The history of international law, (3) The role of international law in resolving conflicts between countries. The data processing and analysis techniques in this article used a qualitative method with a literature review design. The results of the study indicated that International Law is one type of law that is important in its existence in a legal system. Therefore, we as students majoring in law, need to know the basics of this international law such as knowing the meaning, history and sources of law. In addition, international law is also useful for every country in the world, especially for countries that are experiencing conflict. This international law can be used to solve these problems so that peace between countries can be created.


An over-the-ear microphone comprises a C-shaped over-the-ear part hanging over the ear of the user, a lead rod part integrating with the over-the-ear part, and a microphone arranged at one end of the lead rod part. A butt part pushing against the back of the ear of the user is arranged at the other end of the over-the-ear part; a socket communicating with the microphone is arranged on the butt part; a plug corresponds to the socket; one end of the plug is connected with a signal wire and the other end inserting in the socket communicates with the microphone; in particular the C-shaped over-the-ear part is also provided with an elastic band, two ends of the elastic band are respectively connected with the C-shaped over-the-ear part and enable the C-shaped opening relatively close. The elastic band can help the over-the-ear to resile and keep the chucking power, in this way, the over-the-ear part does not lose the chucking power and influence the use quality and the mood of the microphone users because the users wear for the long time or the users with different ear shapes wear.


Seco-tetracyclic and seco-pentacyclic triterpenoids are a special class of triterpenoids with ring/rings cleaved on the original skeleton structures. A class of important triterpene derivatives, seco-tetracyclic and seco-pentacyclic triterpenoids, have long stimulated the interest and attention of botanists and natural products chemists. There is no systematic and comprehensive review for them. This review is focused on the phytochemical investigations and biological activities of seco-tetracyclic and seco-pentacyclic triterpenoids from nature, covering the literature from 2000-2019. This review describes 310 seco-tetracyclic and 139 seco-pentacyclic triterpenoids discovered from 154 species belong to 97 genera, which cover the chemical structures, types, sources, and bioactivities of compounds. The literature from 2000-2019 is reviewed and 208 references are cited.


The unprocessed bio-oil obtained by the pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass comprises hundreds of oxy-components which vitiate its quality in terms of low heating value, low stability, low pH, etc. Therefore, it has to be upgraded prior to its use as transportation fuel. In this work, guaiacol, a promising compound of the phenolic fraction of unprocessed bio-oil, is considered as a model component for studying its hydrodeoxygenation over a Pt3 catalyst cluster. The production of catechol, 3-methylcatechol, m-cresol and o-cresol from guaiacol over a Pt3 cluster is numerically investigated using density functional theory. Further, the kinetic parameters are obtained over a wide range of temperature, i.e. 473–673 K at an interval of 50 K. Briefly, results indicate that O─H and C─H bond scissions determine the reaction rates of 'guaiacol to catechol' and 'catechol to 3-methylcatechol' reactions with activation energies of 30.32 and 41.3 kcal mol−1, respectively. On the other hand, C─O bond scissions determine the rates of 3-methylcatechol to m- and o-cresol production reactions, respectively. The kinetics of all reactions indicate that ln k versus 1/T plots are linear over the entire range of temperature considered herein.


Some of the excerpts from the speeches of Mr. Sam Goldbloom and Reverend Alfred Dickie at a dinner to celebrate his retirement as Chairman of the Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament are discussed.


Background & Aim: When the level of free radicals is increased and also when both the enzymatic systems and low molecular antioxidants are not sufficient to protect the organism, it seems necessary to get antioxidants from external sources. This study aimed to evaluate the antioxidant potential of different parts of Catharantus roseus Experimental: The antioxidant potential of ethanol extracts of roots, stems, leaves, flowers, seed pods and seeds of C. roseus plant were measured based on 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) free radical scavenging, inhibition of linoleic acid peroxidation by ferric thiocyanate (FTC), and malondialdehyde inhibition by thiobarbituric acid method (TBA) against the standards: Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and ascorbic acid. Results & Discussion: The phenolic content in the root (61.61 ± 2.58 µg of gallic acid per mg of dried weight extract) according to Folin–Ciocalteu


Balabac Island, located at the southernmost portion of Palawan province, was visited on September 12-15, 2006 in connection with a biodiversity conservation project of Conservation International in partnership with Palawan State Universitys Center for Strategic Policy and Governance, Inc. (CSPGI), the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development (PCSD), and the local government of Balabac. A workshop was conducted to identify threats to biodiversity in the municipality. Among the host of threats identified, an unrehabilitated copper mine opened way back in the 1970s was identified as one of the local peoples concerns. An ocular investigation of the old mine, located about two kilometers south of Balabac poblacion revealed that the mine site is devoid of vegetation, a greenish liquid from the mine site effuses into a nearby stream, and pungent odor reeks from the ground. No discernible freshwater life could be observed swimming in the stream or living among the rocks and pebbles. Key informants noted that people living near the mine site were thinner than those living away from it and there had been cases of people who had been ill due to ingestion of water in the mine site. Also, calcium carbonate-secreting organisms, normally attaching themselves underneath the boat were absent. Since the operation of the mine commenced before a series of environmental laws were enacted especially the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) System under Presidential Decree 1586, questions on the accountability of mine site effects remain unresolved and a resource management challenge to the local government.


The design of IIR digital filter is researched emphatically.The comparison of four types of low pass,high pass,band pass and band-stop filtering modes is respectively simulated with Butterworth,Chebysheve I,Chebysheve II and elliptic filters.The design features of the various filters are offered through the comparison of different design methods.The separation of mixed-signal spectrum was achieved with Butterworth filter.A good simulation effect was obtained.


In article one of the main problems of the present bound to anthropogenous activity is considered these are emissions of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide. Improvement of an ecological situation in Ukraine in today's time connect with forest ecosystems, they have ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere and for a long time it to connect in themselves, and also to produce oxygen in the atmosphere. In today's time is almost not studied the role of the shelterbelts forest plantations Quercus robur L. in carbon absorption. Therefore, in the researches we concentrated attention on studying of elevated phytoweight of an oak and amount of the carbon absorbed by them. On the basis of studied data in the Right-bank Forest-steppe of Ukraine, a correlation analysis between the volume of fractions of phytoweight of a trunk and bark with taxation indexes height and diameter of a tree is carried out. This analysis showed close interrelation between these indexes that gave the chance to simulate the dependence equation. From the regression analysis by establishing two-factor dependency we have developed complex mathematical equations overground phytomass components for individual factions, namely, trunk, bark, branches, leaves. On the basis of the obtained data informational and normative tables of an assessment of elevated phytoweight and carbon content in field-protecting oak afforestations are made. For an assessment of a bioproductivity of an oak ordinary the one-factor mathematical equations of conversion coefficients depending on age of planting are worked out. Using conversion coefficients, they gave the comparative characteristic of accumulation of phytoweight and the absorbed carbon oak field-protecting plantings and large afforestations in conditions of the Right-bank Forest-steppe of Ukraine.


This concept paper is a review of academic literature on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and provides a comprehensive bibliography by seeing the development or usefulness of the definition about CRM. Around two hundred and fifty online databases were searched and out of which only fifty articles were found directly relevant to look into the development of CRM definition. Further, it provides a comprehensive idea developed on CRM from its populated period (1990s) to-date (2012). Identified articles were classified into three periods 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. These articles were reviewed independently to see the conceptual development of the phrase CRM. Papers and researches on CRM falls on various categories like, General, Marketing, Sales, Service and Support, and IT and IS and further number of sub-categories. Here, it is considered only General category related papers which is very common among the research publications. It was found how the CRM phrase considered and importance was given from its populated period to day today (2012).


Back pain and facial pain are rarely fatal, but these common complaints may be disabling to the elderly patient, both somatically and psychologically. A variety of pathologic conditions may cause either type of pain, and nerve blocks are useful tools for differential diagnosis. Once the correct diagnosis is made, nerve blocks often can be used in combination with other therapeutic technics to manage pain and pain behavior.


The extraction of fuzzy rules is always a difficult problem to fuzzy system. After the deep study of weighted fuzzy neural networks and genetic algorithm, this paper presents a pruning algorithm to optimize the fuzzy rules, which determine the structure of the FNN based on the effective rules obtained through fuzzy rules searching. Experiments haves proved the method is applicable and efficient.


This thesis studies systematically the phase separation of mixtures of 2-propanol and water induced by addition of NaCl and CaCl2. We have utilized the unique physicochemical properties of the salting-out phase separation for the selective extraction of gold(III), thallium(III) and cobalt(II) in the presence of several precious metals, other triply charged ions and transition metals into the 2-propanol phase without using any extracting reagents. The results obtained are as follows: The mixture of 2-propanol with water has been employed to extract Au(III) along with other precious metals such as Pd(II) and Pt(IV) by using NaCl in the concentration range of 2.5-4.0 mol dm. Upon the addition of NaCl within this concentration range (2.5-4.0 mol dm) phase separation was attained. Gold(III), which was originally present in the aqueous phase, at different concentrations of NaCl, was quantitatively extracted into the 2-propanol-rich phase. The extraction efficiencies of the other metals such as Pd(II) and Pt(IV) were much lower than for Au(III). Thus a maximal selective separation of Au(III) from these metals could be attained using the mixture of 2propanol with water. A reaction mechanism involving the ion-pair of Na and [AuCl4] has been proposed to explain this extraction. Thallium(III) that is present with other trivalent metals such as gallium, indium, bismuth and antimony in aqueous solution was quantitatively and selectively extracted into 2-propanol phase of a mixture of 2-propanol and water by addition of NaCl ranging at 2.5-4.0 mol dm. The extraction efficiencies of gallium, indium, bismuth and antimony were much lower than that of thallium(III). Thus a maximal selective separation of thallium(III) from these metals could be attained using the mixture of 2propanol with water. Thallium(III) was extracted into 2-propanol phase as [TlCl4] with Na. The detailed extraction mechanism involving the chemical species of the metal ions in the presence of chloride, water content in the organic phase and counter ions is discussed. Selective separation of cobalt(II) in the presence of manganese(II), nickel(II) and copper(II) was studied by using the mixture of 2-propanol with water by addition of CaCl2 in the concentrations range of 3.0-6.5 mol dm. Cobalt(II) was extracted to extent of 94.4% into the 2-propanol phase at 6.5 mol dmof CaCl2. The extraction of


In this paper, some key technologies related to advancement of the IGBT module and IPM family, have been reviewed. Changing requirements from various application fields and projections of future technologies related to power modules that can comply with such needs are also discussed highlighting on newer power chip and packaging technologies. In the final part of the paper, discussions on status and possibilities of silicon carbide based power semiconductors for future power conversion applications are also included.


The m-phenylenediamine was preparated by m-dinitrobenzene under 3.5-4.5 MPa of hydrogen in a polar organic solvent.The purity of product is over 99.0 % and the yield of product is up to 90.0 %.


The miscibility of LLDPE and LDPE blends and the influence of mixing temperature (Tmix) are discussed. Adequate amounts of antioxidants were added during melt blending. Dynamic and steady shear measurements were carried out at 190°C in a Rheometrics Mechanical Spectrometer 800. The dependence of rheological properties on blend composition indicated that blends of LLDPE (butene) and LDPE mixed at 190°C and 220°C are only partially miscible; immiscibilty is likely to occur around the 50/50 composition and in the LDPE-rich blends. Blends at 190°C are likely miscible in the LLDPE-rich range. Increasing Tmix did not improve the miscibility of LLDPE/LDPE blends at 190°C or influence the dynamic shear properties (�� or G� ) of the "pure" resins or blends. It is suggested that the molecular order [see Hussein and Williams, J. Non-Newt. Fluid Mech., 86, 105 (1999); Hussein and Williams, Macromol. Rapid Commun., 19, 323 (1998)] and mismatch of the molecular conformations of different polyethylene structures provide an explanation for the immiscibility of polyethylenes. Agreement was observed between the measured dynamic properties and theoretical predictions of Palierne and Bousmina-Kerner emulsion models.


The carrier removal rates and the minority carrier diffusion length changes due to 1‐MeV electron irradiation have been measured for n‐ and p‐type GaAs single crystals. Initial carrier concentration and conductivity‐type effects on the electrical properties in the irradiated GaAs are clarified. These results can be well explained by taking into account the electron irradiation‐induced electron and hole traps identified in previous work.


Introduction Warfarin has been in use for more than 60 years; however, it has serious side effects including major bleeding. The high interpatient variability in the required dose impacts the sensitivity and responsiveness to warfarin in different patients. This study aims to assess the influence of CDHR3, CACNAC1, and LTA gene polymorphisms on the variability of warfarin dose requirements and susceptibility to coronary heart disease in the Jordanian population. Methods This study was conducted in the anti-coagulation clinic in Queen Alia Heart Institute in Amman, with 212 patients in total. Three SNPs were genotyped within CDHR3 (rs10270308), CACNAC1 (rs216013), and LTA (rs1041981) genes. Results Our findings revealed that patients with LTA polymorphism are more prone to warfarin sensitivity than others. Furthermore, carriers of the LTA polymorphism needed a lower initial dose of warfarin and are associated with less variation in doses required to achieve target INR. Conclusion The current study could help in understanding the role of genetic variability in warfarin dosing and matching patients to different treatment options. Clinical applications of these findings for warfarin treatment may also contribute to improving the efficacy and safety of warfarin treatment in Jordanian patients with cardiovascular disease.