A nuclear power plant(NPP) is a structural system that is of high complexity with strict safety demands.The conventional threshold method is usually used for fault detecting for nuclear power plant.In order to solve the problem that existed in conventional fault diagnosis method for nuclear power plant,a new fault diagnosis approach based on RBF(radial basis function) neural network was proposed.In the proposed method,the operational parameters,which are important to nuclear safety,were chosen as the input signals of neural networks and the monitoring data of normal operation modes and typical fault modes coming from nuclear power plant were used as the training data of neural networks.The orthogonal least square algorithm was used to train the network.In order to demonstrate the feasibility of proposed method,the monitoring data of nuclear power plant operation was used for testing.The results reveal that the RBF network is successful in fault detecting and is effective for fault diagnosis.


We report the case of a 13-year-old girl born to non-consanguineous parents who presented to the dermatology with a 3-year history of asymptomatic warty lesions over the back and inner thigh. These were initially skin colored but progressively became more erythematous. The patient has a significant history of immunodeficiency secondary to primary intestinal lymphangiectasia diagnosed at 4 years of age. She first presented with repeated episodes of infections including recurrent right-sided bronchitis and gastroenteritis starting at 23 months of age. Further workup revealed both decreased B and T cell counts ([CD3 312, [normal 1934–2948], CD4 111 [normal 1037–1784], CD8 141 [normal 657–1179], CD20 282 [normal 570– 1392], CD56 299 [normal 275–567]) with slightly low IgG immunoglobulin levels (3.48 mg/dl, normal 4.20–10.90). Her serum albumin level was decreased at 17 g/l (normal 38–48). At age 2, she developed progressive abdominal distension with watery stools. Stool fat globules was less than 60 per high-powered field (normal). An esophagoduodenoscopy with duodenal biopsy performed at age 4 revealed dilated lymphatic spaces consistent with intestinal lymphangiectasia. Because of malnutrition from chronic intestinal malabsorption, the patient was subsequently treated with intravenous immunoglobulin with home total parenteral nutrition (TPN) three times per week via a chest port. Cutaneous examination revealed multiple 1–2 mm clear fluidfilled and hemorrhagic vesicles arranged in annular and arcuate fashions predominantly over the upper and mid back (Figs. 1 and 2). Similar lesions were seen over the right thigh and buttock. The lesions were not erythematous or tender. A diagnosis of cutaneous lymphangiectasia was made; however, the patient refused to have a skin biopsy done to confirm the diagnosis, citing impaired wound healing as per her previous experiences. Skin hygiene was thus advised, and the patient was monitored closely.


The latent growth model has been widely used to analyze longitudinal data in social science research. The model examines the development of subjects on one or more outcome variables over time and captures subject differences in development by using the latent variables (random effects). Missing values in the analysis of longitudinal study often occur as dropout. If data has a large proportion of dropout and if dropout is not at random, the analytic result tends to be biased without paying attention to the dropout process. The present study develops a Bayesian analysis of the latent growth model with informative dropout data. The key idea is to combine the Lee's Bayesian approach (Song and Lee, 2002; Lee and Tang, 2006) with the data augmentation and the MCMC and the dropout process approach taken by Diggle and Kenward (1994). The simulation study confirms the accuracy of the Bayesian estimates. We then bring the method to the Longitudinal Study of American Youth math data and compare the performance of the proposed method with that based on more traditional EM algorithm.


Objective:To explore the related effect factors of bone mineral density(BMD) of femoral bone in rural women.Methods:A questionnaire about living style was used to survey 349 rural women.Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry was used to scan the femoral bone of the investigated rural women,then multivariate linear regression model was used to analyze the relationship between general characters,physical intensity,smoking,alcohol,drink tea,menopause and BMD of femoral bone.Results:BMD of femoral bone of 349 investigated rural women was(940.79±202.87) mg/cm2,there was a negative correlation between age and BMD of femoral bone,while there was a positive correlation between body height,BMI and BMD of femoral bone;after adjusting related risk factors,physical intensity and alcohol could increase BMD of femoral bone(P=0.045,P=0.006),but smoking and menopause could reduce BMD of femoral bone(P=0.021,P0.001).Conclusion:There is significant correlation between age,body height,BMI,physical intensity,alcohol,smoking,menopause and BMD of femoral bone among rural women.


In the context of the linguistic study of authentic documents, the present work deals with verbal forms in –rait in the language of law, more precisely in a normative legislative discourse. The aim of this study is to interrogate the syntactic configurations and the semantic uses of this form in a normative legal corpus, in this case the French Civil Code, and to study them at the intersection of syntax and semantics to see if the syntactic contexts of use of this verb form have consequences in the semantic uses which are examined.


BACKGROUND/AIMS
Although adjuvant chemotherapy has demonstrated small but significant survival benefit in locally advanced gastric cancer in several meta-analyses, optimal chemotherapy regimen remains to be determined.

METHODOLOGY
We retrospectively analyzed the survival of 207 gastric cancer patients (stage IB: 19, II: 65, IIIA: 58, IIIB: 28, IV: 37) who underwent 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), mitomycin-C (MMC), and polysaccharide-K (PSK) chemoimmunotherapy (CITX) after curative resection (FM group). The survival of FM group was compared with that of historical control cohort of 103 patients with almost identical stage distribution who received 5-FU and doxorubicin-based chemotherapy (FA group).

RESULTS
Five-year disease-free survival and overall survival (OS) of FM group were 58.7% and 59.1%, respectively. Frequent perineural invasion was significantly associated with poor OS (p = 0.01) in multivariate analysis. There was no statistically significant difference in 5-year OS (59.1% vs. 56.2%, p = 0.637) between FM and FA groups. FM group showed superior 5-year OS (84.4% vs. 67.6%, p = 0.019) compared with FA group in stage IB or II patients without significant difference (p = 0.222) in stage IIIA to IV.

CONCLUSIONS
5-FU, MMC, and PSK CITX is as effective as 5-FU and doxorubicin-based chemotherapy. Moreover, frequent perineural invasion seems to be an important poor prognostic factor.


UV–vis steady-state and time-resolved emission techniques were employed to study the ultrafast relaxation path of all-trans-retinal. We found that the steady-state emission spectrum consists mainly of two bands that we assign to the allowed transition from the state and the forbidden transition from the (ππ*) state. The time-resolved emission signal is dependent on the excitation wavelength, and is composed of three decay components. The short-time component of less than 80 fs, irrespective of the solvent, is assigned to the transition from the state. The intermediate-time decay component is assigned to the transition from the (ππ*) state, depends on the solvent's polarity and not on the existence of hydrogen bonds between the solute and the solvent or the viscosity of the latter. It has a lifetime of ~1 ps in polar solvents, and of 0.6 and 0.4 ps in the non-polar solvents n-octane and cyclohexane, respectively.


THE DEVELOPMENT of bone-marrow hypoplasia, depression of erythropoiesis, and aplastic anemia following ingestion of chloramphenicol have been well documented. 1 This report presents the previously undescribed development of marrow hypoplasia following the use of chloramphenicol eye drops in a patient with a family history of fatal aplastic anemia produced by ingestion of chloramphenicol. Report of a Case A 36-year-old white male, director of personnel, presented with complaints of intermittent epistaxis for three months, daily bleeding of the gums for three weeks, and weakness for one week. His history revealed the use of chloramphenicol eye drops, 0.5% in an aqueous solution, prescribed when he complained that his eyes appeared reddened. For the past 23 months, he used these eye drops on an average of two out of three days, estimating that the original prescription was refilled about 25 times without medical supervision. The eye drops produced no local inflammation or evidence


Physically disabled people belong to a stigmatised group that is subject to negative societal stereotypes of incompetence and dependency on others. In order to maintain a positive sense of self, as well as receive needed support from others, physically disabled people need to continually navigate the stigma associated with disability. In so doing, they may face a number of dilemmas about how to express their disabled identity to others. The core argument of this thesis is that managing these identity dilemmas can have implications for support-seeking behaviour, as well as individual health and well-being. To develop this argument, this thesis aimed: first, to investigate the way in which physically disabled people experience their identity; second, to explore the role of stigma in shaping the experience and expression of identity among disabled individuals; and third, to elaborate a model of identity performance to describe how physically disabled people enact their identities in ways that navigate the twin concerns of stigma and accessing needed support. Before presenting a series of studies designed to address these aims, Chapters 1 through 3 explore the existing literature and develop the rationale for the present work. Chapter 1 presents a substantive review of previous research into stigma and physical disability. This review includes studies of general attitudes about disability and toward disabled individuals from the perspective of the non-disabled, and studies documenting the experience of stigmatisation from the perspective of disabled individuals themselves. Chapter 2 presents the social identity approach as a general framework for understanding identity in the context of stigma, and for theorising links between these processes and individual outcomes in terms of health and well-being. This chapter extends the basic social identity approach by incorporating recent


Dynamic model of Rare-earth Permanent Magnetic Spring is introduced,ANSYS,the FEM software,is used to simulate the Dynamic Characters of Rare-earth Permanent Magnetic Vibration-isolator(RPMV),the simulation results are compared with results of the theory and the test.Then,the dynamic character of RPMV is studied based on the above analysis.The curve between the available force provided by RPMV and the displacement of moved magnetic is nonlinear when the distance between two fixed magnetic is long.As the displacement of moved magnetic is large,the stiffness of RPMV is much stiffer than that of small displacement.But the relationship between the displacement of moved magnetic and the available force of RPMV are linear when the distance between two fixed magnetic is short.At the same time,the stiffness of RPMV is bigger.


1. The grand chant of the trouveres: an Introduction 2. The Manuscript Tradition: Sources and Notation 3. The Melodic Art of the Trouveres: Orality and the Question of Melodic Variants 4. The Lyric Art of the Trouveres: The Counrtly chansons of Gautier de Dargies 5. The Later Trouvere Tradition: Continuation and Innovation 6. The Interaction of Oral, Written, and Literate Processes


Parallel welded steel truss component is widely used in construction, tower, bridges, aerospace and other fields. And the welding residual stress is distributed complicatedly in many areas and directions, which will definitely deform the welded steel truss or even crack it. So, it is necessary to do aging treatment to avoid such thing happened, as well as improve the accuracy and reliability. Vibratory stress relief (VSR) is a new kind of technology which may eliminate the residual stress in metal component with high efficiency, energy-saving, environment protection and low cost compared with thermal stress relief (TSR). But its technical effects vary with the vibration parameters. To the parallel steel truss structures, the excitation parameter of VSR is determined by welding residual stress distribution and the natural mode of vibration. The residual stress concentration areas can get enough vibration, if the parallel steel truss component vibrates with different kinds of natural mode of vibration, which will obtain good effect of eliminating stress. Firstly, the inherent vibration mode of parallel welded steel truss component is measured by the modal analysis technology. Secondly, multiple intrinsic modes are chosen according to principle of making all the welding residual stress concentration regions and directions get enough vibration and then main technical parameters are determined such as excitation frequency, excitation point and support point. In this paper, two examples are given out: the specimen 1is treated with the transverse bending vibration mode and torsion vibration mode respectively according to the above method. As for specimen 2, it is treated with 3 exciting frequencies which are located automatically by the vibration aging machine. The residual stresses of the two specimens are measured before and after their vibrations with blind holes method. Results show that after vibration aging, the welding residual stress peak figure of the Specimen 1 is reduced by an average of 48.65% and the mean value of that dropped by an average of 32.50%. Correspondingly, the residual stress peak value of the Specimen 2 shows a decline of 3.38%, its average fell by an average of 2.55%.


Stigma and discrimination in relation to dementia has a range of implications for people living with dementia and their families worldwide, including help-seeking, quality of life, social rejection and isolation. Few studies consider the perceptions and stigma towards dementia from multiple perspectives, such as people living with dementia, carers, general public and health-care workers. South Africa has limited evidence on the stigmatisation of people living with dementia, with responses to people living with dementia being driven by poor understanding of the condition, cultural beliefs about causes and social interaction problems associated with memory and cognitive impairment. This study explored the experiences of stigma among people living with dementia and their carers through understanding their own knowledge, attitudes and beliefs as well as those of the public and health-care workers. Qualitative data (N = 52) were collected across two provinces and in four languages (English, Afrikaans, Sesotho and isiZulu), with semi-structured interviews and focus groups with the following stakeholder groups: people living with dementia and their carers, the general public and health-care workers. Inductive thematic analysis generated themes across stakeholder groups. The study shows that people living with dementia and carers experienced high levels of internalised stigma, related to negative public attitudes, which were associated with high levels of isolation, health system unpreparedness and limited access to support. The study contributes to the evidence base needed in South Africa but also extends its relevance by contributing to a growing global evidence base on stigma and dementia in low- and middle-income contexts.


We evaluated the longitudinal dynamics of antibody response to the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine CoronaVac and the effect of a booster dose of BNT162b2 vaccine. We found a robust antibody response after the second dose of CoronaVac that wanes over time. The response was recovered by BNT162b2, which boosted anti-spike antibody titers.


The experimental possibility of driving a floating self-propelled rotator by using the Moses effect is demonstrated. A steady magnetic field with a magnitude on the order of B ≅ 0·5 T formed the ne...


Abstract An efficient synthesis of 2-(N-arylaminomethyl)indole derivatives 5 in good yields in four steps from 2-bromomethyl-3-phenylthio-1-benzenesulfonyl indole1 is reported. Palladium acetate mediated cyclisation of 5 gives benzo and naphtho-s-carbolines (6 & 7).


This paper examines the responses of two groups of high school students to Isaac Julien's film The Darker Side of Black and theorizes what these responses might suggest for how students imagine and argue for community. It explores the tension that is produced as students argue for community as continuous and stable in the face of discontinuity and difference in the diaspora. The paper raises the possibilities for how pedagogy may occupy the space of tension that emerges from competing notions of community. It calls attention to the pedagogic constraints that come from the practice of privileging difference between communities, which might well compromise engagement with difference within. The trope of culture as the attribute of social groups that has come to structure debates on multicultural and antiracist education is critiqued.


The idea of using commercially available cascade lasers for stand-off detection of alcohol vapors in moving cars was presented. Special experimental setup was built to investigate the idea. It was shown, that using cascade lasers, alcohol vapors inside a car can be successfully detected.


This paper discusses best practices in developing and tuning the performance on Intel architecture of Web applications based on the ASP.NET * platform. We provide an overview of the ASP.NET platform and discuss a number of optimizations that can be applied to this class of applications based on our findings from developing and characterizing an e-commerce workload. We also want to disseminate our knowledge to the industry on optimal software configuration and the use of the rich feature set provided by ASP.NET and Common Language Runtime (CLR). Our major emphasis has been to characterize and improve the performance of these applications. To do this effectively the design of the application and configuration of the infrastructure to host this software application are discussed. The description of the application shows the components participating in request processing and response generation. We also present the analysis of performance problems and tradeoffs facing ASP.NET developers. Finally, we discuss the evolution of the workload to include different distributed computing scenarios using emerging technologies such as Web Services and .NET Remoting *. * Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners.


Infections caused by diverse bacteria represent a major problem that threats the health of humans. This stimulates the scientists to find new solutions for treating these diseases by clarifying the interactions of antibacterial compounds with the biological medium. In this context, the chapter presents some basic concepts regarding the antibacterial drugs. The synthesis routes of novel compounds and specific design techniques with polymer materials are described in correlation with the in vitro and in vivo activity of antibacterial substances. Essential data about the mechanism of action, selected in vivo efficacy and mechanisms of resistance to the most used antibacterial drugs are reviewed.


Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly emerging as the next generation of communication infrastructure, where myriad of multi-scale sensors and devices are seamlessly blended for ubiquitous computing and communication. The rapid growth of IoT applications has increased the demand for experienced professionals in the area. Since few, if any, dedicated IoT courses are currently offered, most Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) students will have limited or no exposure to IoT development until after graduation and entrance into the workforce. Moreover, there is a little room for adding additional courses into existing STEM curriculum. Therefore, we propose to transform STEM core courses by integrating IoT-based learning framework into their corresponding lab projects. The design challenges of the new learning framework is summarized in the paper. Subsequently, we propose the effective learning approaches to address those challenges. Moreover, in this paper, we present a case study by incorporating IoT-based learning framework into a Software Engineering (SWE) embedded system analysis & design course. Specifically, we introduce a lab development kit composed of Raspberry Pi/Arduino boards and a set of sensors with Zigbee supporting to provide wireless communication in the class lab section. We adopt module design method to design the course labware. Well-developed modules are presented and one sample module is illustrated in the paper. The labware is evaluated through survey questions. The majority of the students provided positive feedback and enjoyed the IoT-based lab development kit.


Four methods of treating granulating wounds on the dorsal aspect of the metacar-pophalangeal and metatarsophalangeal joints of ponies were evaluated. The following treatments were used: Group 1—excision of the granulation tissue with no further treatment; Group 2—cryosurgery; Group 3—excision of the granulation tissue and pressure bandage; and Group 4—excision of the granulation tissue and immobilization of the limb with a plaster cast. The wounds in Group 1 healed fastest, without producing exuberant granulation tissue and with only moderate scar fibrosis. The wounds in Group 2 healed without producing exuberant granulation tissue but with marked scarring. Wounds in Groups 3 and 4 took longer (p < 0.001) to heal compared to wounds in Groups 1 and 2. Wounds in Groups 3 and 4 produced exuberant granulation tissue, but the resultant scars were the least fibrotic.


153 Calculated overwrite results, Fig. 1, approximate measured values for an inductive head, Fig. 2, with 2 5 8 trimmed from both sides of the track for both background and new data. A minor modification of intermediate results gives the nonlinear transition shift, NLTS, of isolated dipulses. An example is plotted in Fig. 3 with pessimistic, previous results4 as dotted curves. 'J. Fitzpatrick and X. Che. IEEE Trans. Magn. 32, 3869-3871 (1996). *M. Williams and R. Comstock, 17th Annual AIP Conf. Proc., Vol. 5, 'B. Baker and M. Koziol. IEEE Trans. Magn. 17, 3123-3125, 1981. 4H. Bertram. Theon of Magnetic Recording, Cambridge, 1994. 738-742 (1971). FIG. 1. OW at three frequencies


The rules and presence of the game of ṭāb have been described for only a few parts of the Near East. In recent years, occasional attestations of game boards have been found in rock surfaces corresponding with geographical locations at the outer borders of the Ottoman Empire, such as Sudan and Oman. In those locations, the game boards were differentiated from Roman gaming practices. This survey of the archaeological region of Petra in Jordan reveals an unusually large number of ṭāb playing boards carved in rock surfaces. The study presents the implications of these finds for our understanding of the game, as well as the importance of this game for the history of the region. The history and distribution of the game known as ṭāb has been linked to the expansion of Islam.1 It is almost exclusively associated with areas that are part of the Muslim world, and is not found in sub-Saharan Africa or beyond the Near East. Early references to the game are not necessarily conclusive, as they do not include playing rules, but Thierry Depaulis2 has argued that Franz Rosenthal's3 mention of a game found in an early fourteenth century poem is a reference to ṭāb.


Use of antibiotics in animal feeds was banned hence researches on alternative natural products that can modulate ruminal fermentation have been intensified. Plant extracts are considered as natural compounds that can replace antibiotics as safe and sustainable alternatives. Extracts contain some plant secondary metabolites (PSM) that are a natural resource and are largely unexploited in 'conventional' animal production systems. They are considered as a source of antinutritional factors and not as a source of exploitable performance-enhancing compounds. Recent and continuing changes to legislation controlling the use of animal feed additives have stimulated interest in bioactive PSM as alternative performance enhancers. Interest is largely on their manipulative role in digestive and absorptive processes of the hindgut. The aim of the present review is to discuss the use of plants and their extracts to manipulate the rumen microbial ecosystem to improve the efficiency of rumen metabolism. The bioavailability of PSM and their actions on peripheral metabolism will be considered with a view to improve animal performance. In order to fully exploit their bioactive properties for the benefit of animal performance, modes of action need to be understood.


The objective of this paper is to present an optimal design of Fuzzy Logic Controllers (FLCs) by Genetic Algorithms (GAs). As part of this objective, the design of input and output Membership Functions (mfs) of FLC is carried out simultaneously with input and output Scaling Factors (sfs). FLC since can be subjected to a range of set points, so the step size for mutation of alleles, and fitness function are adapted based upon Set Point Change (SPCs) commands, and besides, bounds of either input and output mfs or else of sfs are SPC-adapted; the latter two adaptations are demonstrated to be equivalent. Tuning is based upon maximization of a comprehensive fitness function constructed as inverse of a weighted-average of Integral Square Error (ISE), Peak Overshoot (Mp), Rise Time (tr) and Settling Time (ts), wherein weights for ISE and Mp are adapted. GA-evolved FLC (henceforth GAFLC) shows better closed-loop performance on linear and nonlinear stable and unstable systems as compared to a hand-designed FLC and a GA-designed PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative Controller). This performance is almost fully preserved by GAFLC, under a wide range of SPCs, for linear systems (and the PID is demonstrated to share this property) and is better preserved by GAFLC than by PID for nonlinear systems. Some future directions are listed.


The purpose of the work was to estimate the dynamics of blood trace elements under the use of personalized vitamin and mineral complex. Methods. The study aimed to the estimation of the effect of a personalized vitamin and mineral complex on the blood parameters of practically healthy people (n=252), first of all on microelement homeostasis. Each of the surveyed individuals was taken twice to determine the concentration of trace elements (before the course and immediately after its completion). The duration of the course was fixed and was 30 days with a daily single admission. The composition of the vitamin and mineral complex was selected individually based on the results of initial testing for those components that were present in deficient or pre-deficient concentrations in a particular patient. Determination of the level of trace elements in peripheral blood was performed by atomic absorption spectrometry on the apparatus "Shimadzu AA7000" (Japan). Results. The study allowed to demonstrate the presence of a deficit or pre-deficit state in the blood content of trace elements in the considered group of practically healthy people. The analysis of the effectiveness of the course individualized vitamin and mineral complex, has allowed to establish its beneficial effect on the metabolism of some trace elements. In this preliminary study we observed this tendency on the example of particularly iron, copper, selenium and zinc.


The remote sensing instrument MIPAS-STR (Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding - Stratospheric aircraft) measures 2-dimensional cross sections of many atmospheric trace gases relevant to the climate and ozone chemistry. It is operated on board of the high-altitude aircraft M55-Geophysica. A limb sounding technique is used to detect mid-infrared emission spectra at several elevation angles. The quality of the measured spectra and the vertical resolution of the derived cross sections is strongly dependent on the stability and accuracy of the elevation angle. This thesis shows how the MIPAS-STR stabilisation was realised. The stability and accuracy information of the elevation angle contained in the measured spectra will be presented. The attitude of the MIPAS-STR instrument is measured by an inertial navigation system of high precision. In the first part of this work the navigation system is compared with the navigation system used by the M55-Geophysica, so that the precision of the navigation systems could be analysed. For compensation of the attitude variations, the incoming radiation is directed into the instrument using a controlled rotating mirror. The second part of the thesis focuses on the calculation of the rotation angle to be set and on the control circuit. The functional dependence of the elevation on the rotation angle, the static installation, and the measured attitude is derived. The rotation angle is obtained by inverting the function. This angle is extrapolated in time, so that the time of the attitude measurement is taken into account. Further, the determination of the installation angles by measurements is shown. The third part of the thesis demonstrates how the spectral information can be used to determine the true elevation angle. The concentration of CO 2 is well known in the atmosphere and can be verified by in-situ measurements. The CO 2 lines in the spectra can therefore be used to determine at least one of the three unknowns: pressure profile, temperature profile and elevation angle. Pressure and temperature profiles can also be obtained from the ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) data. It is shown, that the error of the elevation control is negligible compared to the error of attitude measurement. The elevation angle error due to the attitude measurement can be determined from the atmospheric spectra. By considering this elevation error, the trace gas retrieval is improved considerably.


Cloud Computing is a technological development that has been warmly discussed in recent years and has seen significant increases in usage, especially on the IAAS Cloud Computing model. The high rate of development of IAAS Cloud Computing model is in line with the high number of crimes involving IAAS Cloud Computing model on server virtualization. When a computer crime occurs and a digital forensic investigation will be carried out to uncover the case, it raises issues related to the acquisition of digital evidence. Because the acquisition model in general, it is done only to one operating system, while in virtualization there is more than one operating system, so the acquisition technique in general cannot be used because it takes only one operating system involved crime, and cannot acquire the whole data server related privacy data in other virtual operating systems. Therefore, research to make the acquisition system of server virtualization is needed. The focus in this research is to make system acquisition in server virtualization Proxmox using the live forensic method to produce a system that can acquire virtualization without disrupting the overall data server and in accordance with the principle of digital forensics. The resulting acquisition system can be a reference for investigators to investigate the IAAS Cloud Computing model on Proxmox virtualization and facilitate the investigator's work in the use of the system because the investigator simply chooses which virtual operating system to acquire, after which the system will work on its own the acquisition.


The present flora describes all desmid taxa known from the Netherlands and adjacent lowland areas: over 500 species and more than 150 additional varieties. Because of the predominantly cosmopolitan nature of most species the flora may also be of use outside this geographic region


Acoustic emission (AE) during tensile deformation and fatigue crack growth (FCG) of austenitic stainless steels has been studied. In AISI type 316 stainless steel (SS), AE has been used to detect micro plastic yielding occurring during macroscopic plastic deformation. In AISI type 304 SS, relation of AE with stress intensity factor and plastic zone size has been studied. In AISI type 316 SS, fatigue crack growth has been characterised using acoustic emission.


2553: Measuring functional recovery after chronic denervation of peripheral nerves: A novel rat forelimb model Amy Quan, Joseph Lopez, Joshua Budihardjo, Sara Mermulla, Tariq Jawadi, Howard Wang, Ahmet Hoke, Sami Tuffaha, W. P. Andrew Lee, and Gerald Brandacher Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) Laboratory, Baltimore, MD, USA Background Functional outcomes after vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) depend on nerve regeneration. After transplantation, the recipient peripheral nerve axons slowly grow and reinnervate the graft. Meanwhile, the target composite tissues (i.e., muscle, nerves) are chronically denervated, causing significant damage to axons, Schwann cells, and muscle, which leads to decreased nerve regeneration potential. There are currently no studies that reliably measure the effects of chronic denervation (CD) on graft function. Thus, we have developed a novel nerve injury rat model that optimizes the measurement of functional recovery after CD. Methods In our forelimb chronic denervation model, the median nerve was transected at the mid-humerus level and left in discontinuity for 0, 8, or 12 weeks. After the period of CD, the distal median nerve stump was coapted to the proximal end of a freshly axotomized ulnar nerve. Group 1 rats underwent 8 weeks of CD (n D 8); Group 2 underwent 12 weeks of CD (n D 8); Group 3 (positive control) did not undergo CD but instead underwent immediate ulnar-median neurorrhaphy (n D 8); and Group 4 (naive control) did not undergo any surgery (nD 8). Functional recovery was monitored weekly by measuring grip strength, feeding ability, and compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs) in median nerve-innervated muscles. Animals were sacrificed at 14 weeks after ulnar-median neurorrhaphy for assessment of axonal regeneration and degree of muscle atrophy.


Purpose : Supplementation with dietary forms of vitamin D is commonplace in clinical medicine, elite athletic cohorts and the general population, yet the response of all major vitamin D metabolites to high doses of vitamin D is poorly characterized. We aimed to identify the responses of all major vitamin D metabolites to moderate and high dose supplemental vitamin D 3 . Methods : A repeated measures design was implemented in which 46 elite professional European athletes were block randomized based on their basal 25[OH]D concentration into two treatment groups. Athletes received either 35,000 or 70,000 IU.week -1 vitamin D 3 for 12 weeks and 42 athletes completed the trial. Blood samples were collected over 18 weeks to monitor the response to supplementation and withdrawal from supplementation. Results : Both doses led to significant increases in serum 25[OH]D and 1,25[OH] 2 D 3. 70,000 IU.week - 1 also resulted in a significant increase of the metabolite 24,25[OH] 2 D at weeks 6 and 12 that persisted following supplementation withdrawal at week 18, despite a marked decrease in 1,25[OH] 2 D 3 . Intact PTH was decreased in both groups by week 6 and remained suppressed throughout the trial. Conclusions : High dose vitamin D 3 supplementation (70,000 IU.week -1 ) may be detrimental for its intended purposes due to increased 24,25[OH] 2 D production. Rapid withdrawal from high dose supplementation may inhibit the bioactivity of 1,25[OH] 2 D 3 as a consequence of sustained increases in 24,25[OH] 2 D that persist as 25[OH]D and 1,25[OH] 2 D concentrations decrease. These data imply that lower doses of vitamin D 3 ingested frequently may be most appropriate and gradual withdrawal from supplementation as opposed to rapid withdrawal may be favorable.


The importance of opiate dependence or abuse is increasing in the context of the increasing number of cancer survivors and patients with chronic cancer pain. Cancer patients are likely to have psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances. It is important to distinguish these psychological disorders from opiate dependence or abuse. We report a case of a cancer patient with major depressive disorder who was initially suspected of opiate dependence or abuse. (Korean J Med 2013;84:860-863)


A 17-year-old boy with meningomyelocele, hydrocephalus with functioning shunt, seizures, and severe depression was treated with electroconvulsive therapy. His depression and social-scholastic behavior improved; no side effects or sequelae were seen.


In her Fauna of Ancient Mesopotamia, Mrs. van Buren pointed out that if elephants in the Middle East did not become extinct till about 800 B.C., then it was strange that there are not more representations of them. There is a lapis amulet from Kish which is rather indistinct, a miniature vase of sandstone and quartz decorated with a row of three elephants which was bought in Mosul, two cylinder seals which are related to seals of the Indus Valley type, and a Hittite seal found at Beth Shan which has been dated to the fourteenth century B.C. A terracotta from Diqdiqqeh near Ur shows an elephant being ridden and should probably be dated to the late third millennium B.C. An elephant-shaped cult stand and an elephant-shaped vessel come respectively from fourteenth century Beth Shan and from Hilani I at Zincirli where it can be dated to the time of Esarhaddon, Finally, an elephant is depicted together with monkeys and Bactrian camels on the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III in the ninth century. The earliest accounts of actual live elephants are found in Egyptian records of the middle of the second millennium B.C. under Thutmoses I (1525–1495) and of the middle of the fifteenth century B.C. when Thutmoses III killed a herd of 120 elephants "near the water-hole of Niy" or, according to an alternative reading, "for the sake of their tusks." The water-hole at Niy is probably the Lake of Apamaea.


Curcumin (Curc) is well
known for its anticancer activity, but its poor solubility in aqueous medium is
a major concern for little therapeutic outcome. Therefore, the effort to
improve its bioavailability is a major research interest. The current study
aimed at conjugation of Curc to serum albumin (Alb) to increase aqueous
solubility of the former without affecting its drug action on cancer cell lines
and primary cells in culture. Conditions for preparation of albumin-curcumin
(Alb-Curc) conjugate were standardized to obtain pure and stable drug. The
product was obtained in sufficient quantity to test its effect on cells in
culture at different doses. Briefly, the conjugate was prepared by mixing Curc
dissolved in DMSO with the Alb dissolved in phosphate buffered saline;
conjugate was purified by gel filtration chromatography and was analyzed using
UV-Vis spectroscopy for characteristic peaks of both molecules. The conjugate
was added to culture medium to identify the effect of conjugate on cell cycling
and apoptosis. Albuminated curcumin that showed 100-fold higher solubility than
free Curc was stable and inhibitory to proliferation, induced cell cycle arrest
and apoptosis. The conjugate showed apoptotic effects on endothelial cells
indicating its anti angiogenic property. Primary fibroblast growth was also
inhibited but at the higher dose. The in
vitro results suggest that
Alb-Curc which is free of insoluble native drug may find application in cancer
therapy after appropriate in
vivo evaluations.


Based on the introducing of the design for the synthetic subsidence observation station of the 13-1 coal seam first exploiting face in GuQiao and GuBei coal mine,the basic flow of plane conterminous survey by GPS technology that is during the course of conterminous and comprehensive survey is stressed.The following four aspects are the contents that included in this paper: designing of the observation scheme;solving of the baseline vectors and the in-specting of the field work quality;adjusting of the GPS network in space and the evaluating of the resultant quality;and the transforming of the GPS network in plane and evaluating the transformed quality.The flow of height conterminous survey by leveling is introduced briefly.The mathematical models of data processing and analyzing that are including in the course of the conterminous survey are given in reference literatures of this paper.


Purpose The positioning accuracy of each component is important to ensure the image quality of cone‐beam CT. However, accurate positioning is not easy and requires experience and time. The option is to calibrate the geometric parameters and then plug them into a reconstruction algorithm which is the preferred solution in practice. In this case, the image quality is determined by the accuracy and precision of the calibration method. This work describes a method to independently calibrate an imaging system in each pose (projection angle) for a cone‐beam CT with a nonideal circular trajectory. Methods The calibration method uses a phantom with 12 beads on 2 planes that are observed on the radiographic images. This pose‐independent calibration method (PIC) can decorrelate the relationships among the geometric parameters so that the parameters can be estimated one‐by‐one. This simplifies the calibration process. Besides the pose‐independent calibration method, this paper also describes an extended calibration method with additional constraints on the system geometry. Both methods are validated with numerical simulations and then experimentally on a practical system with a scanning object loosely supported by rotating wheels. The object rotates during the CT data acquisition. The angular and pose information of the CT system are not accurately known a priori in this case. Results The numerical simulations and the experiments both provide satisfactory results. The relative error of the calibrated source‐to‐detector distance in the simulation is less than 0.1%. The errors in the calibrated roll, pitch, and yaw angles are less than 0.04°. A sensitivity study using various bead position uncertainties in random directions shows that the pose‐independent calibration method is robust to measurement errors. Tests were also done with a nonideal circular trajectory for further validation. Images reconstructed using the geometric parameters from both the pose‐independent and the extended calibration methods were free of artifacts and blur from misalignment. All these results demonstrate the effectiveness of these methods. Conclusions The PIC method can be used to independently calibrate the geometric parameters of a cone‐beam CT view‐by‐view. Thus, the PIC method can be implemented on commonly used systems such as circular, nonideal circular or C‐arm cone‐beam CTs. The PIC method can also be useful for some irregularly configured CT systems to fulfill special imaging requirements, for example, a CT system when the x ray source or the rotating platform cannot be easily located. The PIC method will reduce the costs of ensuring very precise mechanics and the labor in fine tuning CT systems.


SoC has been the key component in embedded system design, and the key step of SoC design is verification which engrosses more than 60 percents time during SoC design. Using definite purpose test equipment and JTAG interface ect which are main SoC verification means were deficiency when SoC in system couplet verification. We introduced one in circuit SoC verification interface design method, This verification method fetch up the deficiency of the main SoC verification method in SoC verification, and enhance the efficiency of SoC verification.


In this paper,by using the fixed point theory in the cone,the existence of positive solutions for a class of third order singular boundary value problems is established.


The purpose of this study was to examine if and the way in which a central argumentative discourse schema, as a cognitive tool, was appropriated by an English language learner. There has been little research on the development of L2 written argumentative discourse after a period of instruction and no study, to my knowledge, examining and detailing a systematic pedagogy for L2 learners. Grounded in both C-BLI (concept-based language instruction) and cognitive-process theory of writing (Bereiter and Scardamlaia, 1987), the present study details the appropriation of a central Toulmin (1958/2003) SCOBA, 'schema for complete orientating basis of an action,' (Gal'perin, 1989: 70) to mediate the cognitive processes leading to the production of texts that feature argumentative discourse features. The central Toulmin SCOBA and the text generation artifacts that were (co-) constructed during C-BLI will be examined and evidence will be provided for the effectiveness of the SCOBA. There will be a theoretical and empirical discussion of how the SCOBA and its related artifacts made the-rule-of thumb (Negueruela, 2003) and amorphous idea (Vygotsky, 1986) of thesis-support scientific and discrete. In order to guide the teaching-learning of written argumentative discourse, the cognitive processes of writing were conceptualized as mental actions (Gal'perin, 1989). The findings indicate that the learner's cognitive processes of composing and the quality of his texts improved during and after instruction.


Supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) of 2-chlorophenol (2CP) is very effected in the presence of 0.02 M Na+ that reduces the formation of by-products (higher chlorinated phenols). The undesired by-products in the SCWO of 2CP catalyzed by CuO in zeolites Y, ZSM-5, and ZSM-48 is also reduced extensively. Chlorine-bonded CuO species in the channels of ZSM-5 are not observed by EXAFS (extended X-ray adsorption fine structure) spectroscopy.


Tripl3t and Zeuska are siphoviral bacteriophages that were isolated from Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2 155 and contain double-stranded DNA genomes 53,565 bp and 53,598 bp in length, respectively. Tripl3t and Zeuska were annotated by students at Bluff Dale High School (Bluff Dale, TX) and Tolar High School (Tolar, TX) in community engagement with Tarleton State University. ABSTRACT Tripl3t and Zeuska are siphoviral bacteriophages that were isolated from Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2 155 and contain double-stranded DNA genomes 53,565 bp and 53,598 bp in length, respectively. Tripl3t and Zeuska were annotated by students at Bluff Dale High School (Bluff Dale, TX) and Tolar High School (Tolar, TX) in community engagement with Tarleton State University.


VANET (Vehicular Ad-hoc Network) is an ad hoc networks technology formed by vehicles mounted with wireless gadgets. Routing plays an important role in forwarding the required data to the nodes or vehicles. There are two types of topology based routing protocols in VANET proactive and reactive. The performance of routing protocols can vary with the various parameters such as speed, pause time, node density and traffic scenarios. The performance of reactive protocols AODV and DSR and proactive protocol DSDV has been analyzed by means of packet delivery ratio & average end-to-end delay with varying pause time and node density under TCP connection using NS-2 simulator and investigate. Similarly, the performance evaluation of reactive routing protocols AODV and DSR and proactive routing protocol such OLSR in urban city traffic scenario and network performance using NS-3 to find an appropriate protocol by using network parameters such as packet delivery ratio, throughput and delay. The performance of AODV is better than other routing protocols in VANET simulation scenarios.


Table of Contents The 4 new chapters will be worked into the structure where appropriate: exact order to be decided * Managing Supply Chain Relationships * Product Design in the Supply Chain * Matching Supply and Demand * Creating a Sustainable Supply Chain Chapter 1 : Logistics, the Supply Chain & Competitive Strategy Chapter 2 : Logistics & Customer Value Chapter 3 : Measuring Logistics Costs and Performance Chapter 4 : Creating the Responsive Supply Chain Chapter 5 : Strategic Lead-Time Management Chapter 6: The Synchronous Supply Chain Chapter 7 : Managing the Global Pipeline Chapter 8: Managing Risk in the Supply Chain Chapter 9: Overcoming the Barriers to Supply Chain Integration Chapter 10: Entering the Era of Network Competition


ABSTRACT Assume that two competing general linear models with fixed coefficients and identical parameter restrictions are given by adding new or deleting existing unknown parameters. In this situation, estimators of the parametric functions in the contexts of the two competing models are not necessarily the same. We consider the relationships between the best linear unbiased estimators (BLUEs) of parametric functions under these two competing constricted general linear models, and derive necessary and sufficient conditions for their BLUEs to be equal.


It is shown that the charge pumping technique allows the study of the slow traps in the oxide of MOS transistors. The results on virgin devices are in agreement with those obtained on state-of-the-art MOS transistors. On virgin and stressed devices, they are in agreement with those obtained from drain current transient measurements.


Dendritic development and arborisation show aberrant or anomalous patterns in aging process and in various central nervous system diseases, such as brain trauma, schizophrenia, neurodegenerative diseases, epilepsy, malnutrition in developing brain, infections, mental retardation, hydrocephalus, cerebral ischemia, and exposure to alcohol and other toxins.1–48 The formation of meganeurites in human neuronal storage diseases,4,8 the existence of more branched dendrites in neuronal elderly individuals,49,50 and the appearance of new dendritic growths in Alzheimer disease,1 reveal that the adult human neuronal system appears capable of responding to various stimulus, and exhibits the potential to modify existing neuronal connections. Abnormal dendritic development and dendritic spine "dysgenesis" have been reported in mental retardation,28,51,52 and severe protein-calorie malnutrition.27 Aberrant dendritic growth and aberrant patterns of spine morphology have been reported by Machado-Salas53 in Bourneville's disease. Marked atrophy of basal and apical dendrites of neurons of layer 3 and 5 of cerebral cortex in Tay-Sachs disease was reported by Takashima et al.12 Loss of Purkinje cell spines, cactus-like thickenings and atrophy of Purkinje cell dendrites may be found in Menke ́s disease,51 and in experimental encephalopathy induced by chronic application of valproate.36 Abnormalities of dendritic arborization have been observed by light microscopy in a variety of cerebral malformation, such as microgiria and lisencephaly.10


................................................................................................................. xxv CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................ 1 1.1 Background ............................................................................................................ 1 1.2 Objectives and scope ............................................................................................. 3 CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................................. 5 2.1 Enterococcus faecalis Endocarditis and biofilm-associated pili (Ebp) .................... 8 2.1.2 Sortase-catalysed transpeptidation ................................................................ 16 2.1.3 Regulation of Ebp expression ........................................................................ 17 22.214.171.124 Endocarditis and biofilm-associated pilus regulator (EbpR).................... 17 18.104.22.168 Environmental factors ............................................................................. 17


This paper deepens in thw study of the transition experience to democracy of the former Communist Bloc Countries of Eastern and Central Europe, wich is a very important topic in the study of local governing in the European Context. As we know, thw former Communist Bloc Countries have a similar past under the communist regime, and in this context it is of interest to study the relationship between centralization and decentralization, as an important aspect of governing in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The almost uniform structures of transition and the aim to meet the standarts of democracy is the other orientation wich brings us plenty approaches to local problems. In this context, particular attention is paid to the organization of the Regional Development Agencies, which are presented as non-governmental and non-profit organizations. They are just managed by the National Council for Regional Development, whose president is the prime minister. The experience of the countries of the former communist bloc can stop even more the tendencies of political regionalism, which paves the way for federalism. In this case the requests of Transylvania can be taken as an example.
 DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n3p185


We have been engaged in research and development concerning high power Nd:YAG laser equipment and overall application technology for welding, cutting and drilling. Especially, development of the technology and the system are required for to establish stable welding process. Higher the laser power used, the more laser beam interacted with material, leading to increased vapor, plume and spatter ejection from molten metal. They contaminate and damage the optical systems that are constructed by lens and cover glass plate. In general, in order to protect the optical system, shielding gas flow rate is controlled. But if the gas flow rate exceeds the proper value, molten metal does not protect from oxidation. Therefore we developed a new type co-axial nozzle device. We welded various material (mild steel, stainless steel and aluminum alloy) using new type nozzle and 4 kW YAG laser (MW4000). As the results of experiment, it was cleared that we can weld, within the speed range from 25 mm/min to 2 m/min, stably and easily.


During the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, there are many plants spreading from foreign country. It appears a lot of phenomena that the same type of the plants has many different names while multiple kinds plants have the same name.Thus, it brings many difficulties for the agriculture and the traditional Chinese pharmacology. Here we discuss the name of fourteen kinds of"oversea plants",and probe into the ancient culture which is implicated in them, dividing into three sides.


Aim To get the impact of combination of dissolved pore-intergranular pore on ultra low permeability reservoir physical property.Methods Through the application of casting section,scanning electron microscope,rate mercury injection apparatus and nuclear magnetic resonance and other advanced experimental methods and systematic analysis of laboratory data,micro,quantitative analysis of various pores and characteristics of its pore structure,as well as the impact of reservoir properties.Results Because Zhuang 58 develop combination of dissolved pore-intergranular pore,the throat radius(0.1~2.6 μm)of reservoir are bigger than the throat radius(0.1~1.0 μm)of Chang 8 reservoir of Qingyang district,the porosity(11.5%)of reservoir is better than the porosity(10.9%) of Qingyang distric,the permeability(1.17×10-3μm2) of reservoir is better than the permeability(0.68×10-3μm2).Conclusion The reservoir physical property is good,where the combination of dissolved pore-intergranular pore is developed.


Genetic variability, heritability, interrelationships and diversity analysis for seed yield and its components were estimated in 31 genotypes of chickpea grown under rice fallow conditions. Highly significant differences existed among the genotypes tested for all the traits. Traits such as seed yield per plant, biological yield, number of effective pods, total number of pods, 100-seed weight, harvest index and number of secondary branches showed high phenotypic and genotypic coefficient of variation, heritability and genetic advance as percentage of mean. Significant and positive correlations were found between seed yield and biological yield, total number of pods per plant, harvest index, number of effective pods, 100-seed weight, number of secondary branches, number of primary branches and number of seeds per plant, while negative with phenological traits. Protein content showed significant negative correlation with 100-seed weight. Ideal plant type in late sown under rice fallows would be early in phenological traits having high biomass, harvest index and more number of effective pods. D2 analysis grouped 31 promising lines into thirteen clusters. Genotypes JSC55, AKG 70, BGD 1064, BG 256, RVSSG 8, H 07–120, Phule G 00–108, BG 3005, JG 92–3974, CSJ 313 and BGD-1056 were identified as promising donor lines which may be utilized for chickpea improvement.


This paper relates Karl Barth's demonology to an exorcism performed by a minister of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. Despite receiving a theological education in the Reformed tradition, the minister had not formally studied demonology from a Reformed perspective. Karl Barth, a Swiss Reformed theologian, illuminates what it was that the minister encountered and how this exorcism can be understood within a broader Christian cosmology. In addition, Barth's nuanced theological approach helps the minister to chart a path forward so the possessed young woman can experience freedom and life in all of its fullness.


Locations of Cu 2+ ions exchanged into H-SAPO-5 and interactions of Cu 2+ ions with water, ammonia, and methanol have been investigated by electron spin resonance and electron spin echo modulation techniques. It has been determined that Cu 2+ ions locate at a position inside a 12-ring channel, close to the center of a 6-ring window in hydrated, ammonia-adsorbed, and methanol-adsorbed CuH-SAPO-5 samples


This paper proposed an improvement program of solving intelligential course Scheduling problem efficaciously, aimed at Genetic algorithm slow convergence, easy to fall into local optimal dilemma. Curriculum arrangement is a complicated process, for arranging the special curriculum is manually, while general course adopts automatic way. Before the automatic arrangement for some parameters to initialize, schedule is generated after can be manually adjusted.


The hexagonal grid is a reasonable approximation of the human vision grid, is more suited to natural scenes than the square grid and avoids the 4neigbor/8-neighbor problem. Skeletons are good representations of digital shapes, and can be used for storage and shape editing. We compute efficient skeletons on the hexagonal distance transform. The computations can be performed either in parallel or sequentially, since only local operations are used.


Power capacitors are widely used in converter stations as the main element for AC/DC filters and shunt capacitors.Here introduce how many capacitors are used,what are their condition,how they operates in 5 converter stations subject to State Grid Co.of China.Analyses are done regarding capacitors leakage,capacity value modification,and connectors heating.Improvement suggestions are put forward to increase capacitors reliability.


The LSND experiment has observed a 3.8 sigma excess of anti-nu_e events from an anti-nu_mu beam coming from pions at rest. If confirmed, the LSND anomaly would imply new physics beyond the standard model, presumably in the form of some additional sterile neutrinos. The MiniBooNE experiment at FNAL-Booster has further searched for the LSND anomaly. Above 475 MeV, the nu_e result is excluding the LSND anomaly to about 1.6 sigma but it introduces an unexplained, new 3.0 sigma anomaly at lower energies, down to 200 MeV. The nu_e data have so far an insufficient statistics to be conclusive with LSND's anti-nu_e. The present proposal at the CERN-PS is based on two strictly identical LAr-TPC detectors in the near and far positions, respectively at 127 and 850 m from the neutrino (or antineutrino) target and focussing horn, observing the electron-neutrino signal. This project will benefit from the already developed technology of ICARUS T600, well tested on surface in Pavia, without the need of any major R&D activity and without the added problems of an underground experiment (CNGS-2). The superior quality of the Liquid Argon imaging TPC and its unique electron - pi-zero discrimination allow full rejection of the NC background, without efficiency loss for electron neutrino detection. In two years of exposure, the far detector mass of 600 tons and a reasonable utilization of the CERN-PS with the refurbished previous TT7 beam line will allow to collect about 10^6 charged current events, largely adequate to settle definitely the LSND anomaly.


Tcl is a language specifically intended for generic application control. By using it, application programmers escape the dilemma of whether to design sophisticated application-specific languages or whether to build tools more quickly but that are limited in flexibility. Tcl is easy for application programmers to use, however, up to now, there has been no general-purpose debugger for application users. This paper describes an implementation of a debugger for Tcl applications. The debugger has a typical front-end but with some extremely unusual commands, in part because of the features and limitations of Tcl. The debugger is modeless, allowing users to issue Tcl and application commands along with debugger commands. Each type of command may invoke the other, allowing debugging to be programmed, dynamically or in advance. The debugger is written in C and is very fast. When linked in but not used, it does not slow applications at all. The debugger requires no modifications to the Tcl core, and can be plugged into applications with little effort.


As the title of the paper indicates empowering women through SHGs. This paper tries to explore how SHGs can help empower women. Also this paper tries to explain what SHGs are with a special reference to the scheme of Bihar government-Bihar Rural Livelihoods promotion Society also known as JEEVIKA. For the purpose of the study we have adopted a case study method conducted on the beneficiaries of this scheme. Analysis was done on that basis and results & suggestions are being given. Conclusion of this paper lies in the fact that there is considerable increase in the living standard of the participants thus they are being empowered in many ways be it social status or financial status.


In 1905 and 1906, a potato blight (Phytophthora infestans) epidemic infected potato crops throughout New Zealand. It had a particularly devastating effect on Mäori, many of whom, by the end of the nineteenth century, had become dependent on the potato as their primary food source. This study of the blight epidemic, and how it affected Mäori, is preceded by a discussion on the evolution of traditional Mäori horticulture. The paper is presented in two parts. Part 1, Mäori horticulture — from prosperity to poverty, is an overview of Mäori horticulture, from the introduction and adaptation of the tropical kümara or sweet potato to the temperate climate of Aotearoa and the adoption and commercial production of European crops, including the potato, to the decline of Mäori crop production and the circumstances leading to the dependence of Mäori on the potato. Part 2, Te Paraiti — the blight, looks at the arrival of the blight and the extent and duration of the epidemic, its effects on Mäori communities and the effectiveness of a range of initiatives undertaken by the government to provide assistance to Mäori. While the effects of the epidemic were not as catastrophic as the series of blight epidemics that devastated Europe, and in particular Ireland, 60 years earlier, it was nevertheless a signifi cant event in New Zealand's history.


This paper presents a microstructure optical fiber based on an hexagonal structure for dispersion compensation in a wideband transmission system. According to simulation, negative dispersion coefficient of - 562 ps/(nm.km) and relative dispersion slope (RDS) close to that of single mode fiber (SMF) of about 0.0036 nm-1 is obtained at 1550 nm wavelength. Besides the proposed hexagonal microstructure optical fiber (H-MOF) offers high birefringence of 3.06×10-2. Due to having better optical properties, this proposed fiber can be effectively used in broadband dispersion compensation and sensing applications.


This society has been founded in September 1944 and unites 81 scientists at present. The society's activities at various periods are described and the principal papers written by its members listed.


SuperMatrix out-of-order scheduling leverages high-level abstractions and straightforward data dependency analysis to provide a general-purpose mechanism for obtaining parallelism from a wide range of linear algebra operations. Viewing submatrices as the fundamental unit of data allows us to decompose operations into component tasks that operate upon these submatrices. Data dependencies between tasks are determined by observing the submatrix blocks read from and written to by each task. We employ the same dynamic out-of-order execution techniques traditionally exploited by modern superscalar micro-architectures to execute tasks in parallel according to data dependencies within linear algebra operations. This paper provides a general explanation of the SuperMatrix implementation followed by empirical evidence of its broad applicability through performance results of several standard linear algebra operations on a wide range of computer architectures.


The research was conducted investigate the ability of extract of green cincau leaf (Cyclea barbata L.Miers), as a medicinal plant for healing wounds incision in mice. Research using 25 mice with weigh of ± 25 grams, devided into five treatment groups, a negative control group, positive control (Povidone iodine 10%), the test group of green cincau extract of 40%, 60% and 80%. Observation of wound healing was characterized by wound closure of epithelial tissue. Medication was conducted twice a day that morning and evening. The data were statistically analyzed by Kruskal-Wallis test and then followed by Mann-Whitney test to analyzed the mean value of wound healing, and the data analyzed by ANOVA and followed by Duncan test to showed the time of wound healing. The results showed significant differences (p <0.05) between the control group with the other treatment groups. And the best results are shown by the test treatment of green cincau leaf extract with a concentration of 60%. Therefore, green cincau leaf extract exhibited faster wound healing rates than povidone iodine 10% used as the reference drug.


Materials were evaluated which had been used previously as ultraviolet (UV) protectants or feeding stimulants for other insect pathogens. Dar-mol molasses, Shade, and Coax provided good protection at a 5% concentration. Materials were also evaluated which are active ingredients in sunscreens for human usage. All materials, with the exception of homomenthyl salicylate and 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone, at least doubled viral persistence. All p -aminobenzoic acid compounds enhanced persistence 2.2 tp 2.6-fold, whereas benzilidine sulfonic acid enhanced persistence 3.6-fold at a 5% concentration. Excellent results were obtained with benzilidine sulfonic acid, whether diet or red oak seedlings were used as the test substrates. A high positive correlation (r = + 0.84) existed between UV B absorbance (280 to 320 nm) and UV protection among the water soluble sunscreens.


Seroma is an important complication of breast surgery. This study investigated the effects of fixation of the flaps and obliterating the dead space on seroma formation. Materials and methods: Patients undergoing modified radical mastectomy were separated into 2 random groups of 50 according to wound closure methods: either flap fixation/mechanical obliteration or standard wound closure group. The fluid that collected under the flaps assessed at the physical examination after the drains were removed was accepted as seroma. The patients' characteristics, duration of the operation, drainage amount, removal time of the drains, flap necroses, and infection were recorded. The groups were compared via chi-square and Levene tests. Significance was determined for P


Objective:To study the biotoxicity of chlorobenzene and some of the intermediate products. Methods:Mixture toxicity index (MTI) was used to evaluate the joint toxicity. Results:The results showed that the intermediates para benzoquinone had a higher toxicity, while the toxicity of the other intermediate products was much lower than that of chlorobenzene. The toxicity of intermediate products such as p-chlorophenol, hydroquinone and phenol was all decreased, and with the chloride ion substituted by the OH radicals, the phenyl broke down to the small molecules like organic acids, the toxicity of which was even more lower. Conclusion:The joint effects of the intermediate products were mostly additive action and synergistic action.


Currently, titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) have been widely used in various applications including cosmetics, food additives and biomedicine. However, there are few reports available using TiO2 NPs to treat ocular diseases. Posterior capsular opacification (PCO) is the most frequent complication after cataract surgery, which is induced by the proliferation and migration of lens epithelial cells. Thus, inhibiting the proliferation of lens epithelial cells will efficiently reduce the occurrence of PCO. In this study, we investigated the effects of TiO2 NPs on HLE B‐3 cells with or without ultraviolet B (UVB) irradiation in vitro. We found that TiO2 NPs can inhibit HLE B‐3 cell growth, cause the elevation of intracellular [Ca2+], produce excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS), further reduce Ca2+‐ATPase activity and decrease the expression of plasma membrane calcium ATPase 1 (PMCA1), finally disrupt the intracellular calcium homeostasis and induce cell damage. Importantly, UVB irradiation can apparently enhance these effects on HLE B‐3 cells in the presence of TiO2 NPs. Taken together, the generation of excessive ROS and the disruption of intracellular calcium homeostasis may be both involved in TiO2 nanoparticle‐induced HLE B‐3 cell damage under UVB irradiation.


Symmetrical three-phase circuits are fundamental models of power systems. Although the circuits have structural symmetry, asymmetric patterns of oscillations have been observed in real power systems. This paper describes an approach to understanding typical patterns of oscillations in the three-phase circuits using symmetry. In order to figure out oscillation patterns, we introduce a three LC ladder circuit which has a higher symmetry than the three-phase circuit. Using only the symmetries of the three LC ladder circuit, we classify periodic oscillations and construct a lattice of those modes. Further, extending the method to almost periodic oscillations, we decompose and characterize typical almost periodic oscillations by their symmetry. Finally, by observing a global phase space in the three LC ladder circuit, we confirm typical oscillations in the three-phase circuit.


This paper presents a clustering-based class decomposition approach to improve the performance of classifiers. Class decomposition works by dividing each class into clusters, and by relabeling instances contained by each cluster with a new class. Several case studies used class decomposition combined with linear classifiers. While there is an essential improvement in classification accuracy because of class decomposition, the most effective clustering algorithm is not obvious. The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of two clustering algorithms, K-means and hierarchical, on class decomposition. In this work, we study class decomposition when combined with the Naive Bayes classifier using four real-world datasets. Experimental results show an improvement in classification accuracy for most of the datasets when class decomposition using both K-means and hierarchical clustering is performed. The results also show that class decomposition is not suitable for all datasets.


Summary I feel that I have had a successful reference encounter if I have: (a) used effectively my knowledge of reference sources, (b) properly negotiated the sometimes intricate psychological thicket of the reference interview, and (c) made the user feel positive about the reference department even if no answer was found to a particular question. Conversely, if I neglect one of these factors, I may have failed to help a user. If I am too tired, inattentive, or preoccupied to pay full attention to a reference question I am likely to forget a resource or a reference technique that would answer the user's question. Failure can be intellectual, psychological, or ethical, or some combination of these. I can forgive myself for simply forgetting a reference source. But it is more troubling to neglect to pay full attention to a question because something about the user irritates or threatens me. If I let a personal response to a user interfere with my professional obligation to listen nonjudgmentally to a questi...


BACKGROUND
Disease-modifying therapy in cancer can be defined as long-term treatment that has a beneficial outcome on the course of cancer, affecting the underlying pathophysiology. The anticancer potential of polyphenols is widely studied. However, there is a significant gap between experimental data obtained in vitro and in vivo and the current polyphenol role in cancer therapy.

OBJECTIVE
In this article, the reason for this inconsistency is discussed, which might be in the design of polyphenols clinical trials. The approach of long-term polyphenol disease-modifying therapy in cancer is encouraged.

CONCLUSION
As the physiologic concentrations of polyphenols are not sufficient for reaching the cytotoxic levels, the immune-modulatory effects and effects on cancer intrinsic signal transduction pathways should be considered in polyphenol clinical trials design. Such effects apparently can not cause the rapid regression of the disease. However, more likely, they can modulate the course of the disease, leading to favorable changes in the patient's condition in case of long-term treatment that can be considered to be cancer disease modification.


By examining only dysfunctional conflict and ignoring functional conflict, empirical research in marketing has presented only part of the story. This research offers the first systematic look at the antecedents and consequences of both functionaland dysfunctional conflict in intraorganiational relationships. The authors develop and empirically test a causal model for key organizational antecedents of new product strategy quality and market performance. They find that dysfunctional conflict in the decision-making process has deleterious consequences for quality of strategy and market performance, whereas functional conflict improves both quality of strategy and performance. Specifically, organizational design characteristics such as formalization, interdepartmental interconnectedness, low communication barriers, and team spirit improve new product performance by enhancing functional conflict, whereas centralization and high communication barriers lower new product performance by increasing dysfunctional conflict. A post hoc test for common method bias or variance suggests that bias or variance alone cannot explain these findings.


Nairobi city in Kenya is an example of the many cities in Africa
experiencing rapid growth and too many environmental impacts, including the
urban heat islands (UHI) phenomenon. UHI develops and escalates under
outrageous hot periods, such as during heatwave, which can affect outdoor
microclimate, human thermal comfort, and health and also increase the energy
demand for cooling. This study used the MUKLIMO_3 model to reveal the spatial
heterogeneity and temporal variability of 2 m
air temperature fields and thermally sensitive areas within Nairobi
city. The model reproduced the potential summer day conditions through
idealized simulations of temperature, wind, and relative humidity based on the
urban topography and local climate zones (LCZs) data at a spatial resolution of
200 m. The aim was to expand knowledge of urban climate change based on the
accompanying extensive modification of land use and land cover that are
critical for the local-scale atmospheric circulation. The model results
revealed intricate spatiotemporal patterns of 2 m air temperature fields, which
accrued from terrain-induced flows and land surface heterogeneity as described
by the LCZ parameters. The variation in canopy layer UHI was a joined impact of
the unfavorable location of the town and urbanization process, which added to
the formation of excessive urban heat load. The study concluded that the
enhancement of urban heat load in Nairobi city could be linked to the concept
of rapid urbanization process and its
historical development. Therefore urban planning strategies such as
optimization of mixed building heights and the introduction of green & blue
infrastructure were critical to mitigating heat-stress across Nairobi city.


Xiaoping Ma, MD, PhD, Marina Amitina, MD, Todd D. Rozen, MD, Philadelphia, PA

A 32-year-old woman with a history of neurofibromatosis type I presented with a subacute onset of left hemiparesis, neck pain, and urinary retention. Neurologic examination …


Based on the need of energetically kicking for the robots of MSL RoboCup; solenoid electromagnet—the core of the magnetically impelled kicker is designed. Experiential formula is used in preparatory design; later, electromagnetic finite unit analysis software is used to simulate the kicking process and optimize the design parameter; in the end, the kicker is designed based on the selected parameter. The experiment shows that the kicker has the maximum kicking speed of 12.9m/s, and it satisfies the need in match.


We investigated the effect of H2S annealing on Ag–In–S thin films prepared by vacuum evaporation. In thin films annealed above 350 °C, diffraction peaks except chalcopyrite AgInS2 phase were not observed for a starting material ratio of 1.0 but observed for that of 1.2. Thin films annealed at 400 °C with a starting material ratio of 1.5 contained several phases. We found that the Ag/In ratios of the films could be controlled by changing the starting material ratio. Grains of films with composition ratios of 1.0 and 1.2 were nonuniform, whereas those with a composition ratio of 1.5 were uniform.


In this study I describe the communication rules that inform how particular bar patrons use mobile device technologies to shape particular types of small groups. Mobile devices have increasing been naturalized into the communicative landscape and the effects of this need to be explored. I focus on a college bar, MVF, to answer the following research questions: (1) What are the sets of rules surrounding mobile device use in small groups at MVF during late afternoons and evenings? (2) What are meaning(s) users and other group members attribute to the use of mobile devices at MVF during late afternoons and evenings? (3) What particular type of small group does the use of mobile device technology enable and mediate? I argue that mobile device technologies enable and mediate the presence of three types of social groups, specifically, "suspended groups," "procured groups," and "transitory groups."


The control functions of each structural unit and the measure of their responsibility have been determined. The types of on-farm control at the enterprise and their role and significance for the economic activity of the enterprise have been determined.
Internal control is carried out at each enterprise by all economic and technical services. Given that in modern economic conditions, the main thing is to ensure the interests of the owner, the main purpose of internal control is to prevent shortcomings.
One of the most important objects of control are production costs, since control over them is a necessary element of enterprise management, without which it is impossible to fully implement other management functions. In our opinion, the organization of internal cost control in modern conditions should be considered as a process that follows and is derived from the financial structure of the enterprise. And in this sense, this process is authentic to the cost accounting process. However, the process of on-farm cost control has its own characteristics.


A ten‐year‐old girl with middle face hypoplasia, cleft lip and palate developed severe hyponatraemia on the first day following surgery. Final diagnosis was inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) and complete hormonal investigation revealed partial deficit in growth hormone secretion. The incidence of hormonal deficiency associated to midline facial malformations is discussed.


The achievement of efficiency enhancement in small-orbit gyrotrons by using depressed collector techniques requires precisely configured magnetic field profiles which present adiabatic as well as non-adiabatic transitions to the spent beam. The effect of adiabatic changes can be evaluated analytically. That of complex non-adiabatic transitions, however, must be studied by numerical simulation of the particle trajectories. A single-particle code has been used to study a variety of profiles such as steps, troughs, and peaks. Results are presented showing the influence of the parameters of the field profile on the ratio of perpendicular to parallel components of velocity. Beam heating effects are also considered and examples are given of how they can be minimized.


The modification of the system of the pre-marriage physical examination ("PPE") is focused by various communities of the society, which results in two contradictory standing points: those supporting compulsory PPE and those supporting voluntary PPE. However, despite of the two different points, it is commonly accepted that the PPE itself shall be promoted and encouraged. That is to say, it is not a problem whether the PPE should exist or be abolished. It is a problem of the enforcement of the PPE. It is a problem whether the PPE should be implemented through social interference or should count on being actively obeyed by the social parties. Through analysis of the purpose of establishment of PPE system and the comparison of the voluntary and compulsory PPE, and through a double check of the judgment of value underlying PPE and the further suggestion for the supplement this system, the author points out that the compulsory PPE should not be abolished at random. Rather, the more wise measure is to strengthen the PPE system on the compulsory PPE basis.


In view of the reality that low industrial concentration has become the explicit problem that constrains China's iron and steel industry,this article explores the relationship between industrial concentration and profitability and conducts an empirical analysis on this relationship for China's iron and steel industry with VAR model.The results show a long-term steady equilibrium between industrial concentration and profitability for China's iron and steel industry with differences in short-and-long-term causal relationships and the mutual impact of the extent and direction between industrial concentration and profitability in different sub-industries.Thus China should adopt measures to improve iron and steel industry concentration.


INTRODUCTION With Chelsea Manning's case making headlines (1) and the hit television show Orange Is the New Black highlighting the struggles of a trans woman in prison, (2) the public is slowly becoming aware of the complex issues facing transgender prisoners. Although it is difficult to determine the precise size of this population, (3) a 2009 study by Brown and McDuffie estimates that approximately 750 prisoners in the United States identify as transgender. (4) This is a relatively small portion of the U.S. prison population, (5) but it represents a sizable portion of America's transgender population. Nearly one in six transgender Americans--and almost half of the African American transgender population--has been incarcerated in a state or federal prison. (6) Although the issues and concerns of this population have gained more attention in legal scholarship, academia, public policy, and social discourse in recent years, many issues are still largely unresolved for transgender inmates, including their access to medical care. Transgender individuals have struggled to gain access to comprehensive medical care for decades, and this difficulty is only exaggerated by the confining and often life-threatening conditions of prison. (7) Prison officials routinely prevent transgender prisoners from receiving access to transition-related health care such as hormone therapy or sex-reassignment surgery. (8) Given the history of incarceration in the United States, this issue largely affects those who are multiply-marginalized, (9) not only by their gender identity but often also based on their race and socioeconomic status. (10) The dominant legal argument used to secure medical treatment for transgender prisoners is rooted in the Eighth Amendment's language regarding "cruel and unusual punishments." (11) Specifically, legal advocates have argued that gender dysphoria--the state of distress brought on by a disconnect between one's gender identity and biological sex--constitutes a "serious medical need" (12) and therefore cannot be deliberately ignored by prison staff. Although gender dysphoria has been found to be a serious medical need in some cases, there is no unanimous agreement among courts on this issue, and the United States Supreme Court has not addressed the question. While the progress some courts have displayed in finding that gender dysphoria constitutes a serious medical need is encouraging, there is a serious flaw in the analysis that many of these courts apply. Specifically, in the vast majority of cases in which a court has found gender dysphoria to constitute a serious medical need, the plaintiff has resorted to extreme and incredibly dangerous actions of self-remedy--attempted suicide and/or genital self-mutilation. (13) There is simply no reason that a prisoner should have to reach this level of physical and psychological trauma before a court will categorize his or her (14) condition as serious enough to warrant treatment. While the case law around this issue certainly does not state that gender dysphoria only meets the standard of "serious medical need" upon the attempt of these acts of self-harm, the case history strongly suggests that these incidents play a critical role in the courts' findings. (15) In fact, few cases that are brought on Eighth Amendment grounds lack mention of attempted suicide or genital mutilation. (16) This pattern poses a great harm to the transgender prison population and minimizes--if not fully disregards--the serious nature of gender dysphoria in and of itself. Furthermore, framing this argument within the context of medical need necessarily pathologizes the transgender community by describing non-conforming gender identity as an illness, and creates a difficult tension between securing access to treatment and advocating for the acceptance of transgender individuals and their gender identity. Part I of this Note will provide a background on gender dysphoria and will introduce the concept of prison as a uniquely and problematically gendered space. …


Latin American indigenous movements increasingly speak of "plurinationalism" in demands for state transformation. The concept—as yet solidified in legal or territorial orders—exists in tension with disputed meanings of "autonomy," raising questions about indigenous territorial rights, citizenship, and natural resources. Bolivia's new constitution elevates both concepts to official status in the context of struggles over natural gas. Following David Maybury-Lewis's call for rethinking the state, I consider how Bolivians are rethinking historicities of space to transform cartographies of a "plurinational state." Though raising fears of ethnic partitioning, the Guaraní case suggests that hybrid plural and indigenous territorialities are emergent.


The JRockit Java virtual machine has a built-in capability to produce recordings of the runtime behaviour of an application environment. It is a light-weight system with a very low performance cost, which can give valuable insights as to how the JVM and application interact in production. The JRockit Runtime Analyzer (JRA) is a tool for analyzing these recordings by graphic visualization.


Pre-breakdown current traces obtained during high pressure gas breakdown and vacuum surface flashover show similar signatures. The initial pre-breakdown current spike, a flat constant current phase, and the breakdown phase with voltage collapse and current surge differ mostly in magnitude. Given these similarities, a model, consisting of the initial current spike corresponding to a fast precursor streamer (ionization wave led by a photoionizing front), the flat current stage as the heating or glow phase, and the terminal avalanche and gap closure, is applied to vacuum surface flashover. A simple analytical approximation based on the resistivity changes induced in the vacuum and dielectric surface is presented. The approximation yields an excellent fit to pre-breakdown time delay versus applied field for previously published experimental data. A detailed kinetics model that includes surface and gas contributions is being developed based on the initial approximation.


The article by Jack Goldstone, Dating the Great Divergence, has the merit of discussing both the wide panorama of recent global history and the conclusions stemming from specific northEuropean long-term series of GDP.1 The article's main target is the deeply rooted idea that Modern Growth was the continuation of previous trends of GDP growth. Goldstone's opinion is that the rise of the West, in the frame of global history, occurred only from the late-eighteenth century or the beginning of the Nineteenth, not earlier. At the time, a true divergence among World economies did not exist. Modern Growth is different from previous periods of expansion not merely in the degree but also in the nature. Pre-modern examples of growth were episodic and not sustained; they represented temporary 'efflorescences' rather than long upward rises.2 It is apparent that, in such an approach to growth, problems of definition are crucial. Since the modern rise is deemed to be different from past 'efflorescences' of sporadic growth, what is, according to Goldstone, the primary feature of "modern" in comparison with 'pre-modern'? The definition of Modern Growth adopted by Goldstone is the classical one put forward in economics and historical research primarily by Simon Kuznets:3 it is characterised both by strong increases in population and production; growth in production is, however, higher than in population. The result is then a rise in per capita product or intensive4 growth. This rise is sustained for long periods of time and primarily derives from modern technological growth. This definition of Modern Growth, rapidly recalled by Goldstone in his present article, had been more widely discussed in his previous article on efflorescences and economic growth in World history.5 In the following, I will deal with the differences between modern and pre-modern growth and later with the concept of technological progress in relation to the rise of the West. I will focus primarily on Europe and the Mediterranean and will include extra-European macroareas at the end.


The surgery obstruction a^{f, b) e Ljn^X)) of an n-dimensional degree 1 normal map {f,b): M -* X (in the sense of Browder [1] and Wall [7]) was formulated in [6] as the quadratic Poincare cobordism class of a pair (C, i/>) consisting of an n-dimensional Zln^Xyi-modute chain complex C and a chain level quadratic structure ijj inducing N Poincare duality H"~*(C) ^ H*(C). If the manifold M = (J M, is the disjoint union of i = 1 manifolds M, it is natural to seek an expression for the surgery obstruction of (/, b) in terms of quadratic structures defined by the restrictions (fh bt) = (/, b)\: Mt -> X, which are normal maps of degree dt with


Sodium carbonate and sodium sulfate cause problems by forming scales in black liquor evaporators, reducing heat transfer and cleaning intervals. An experimental investigation of the crystallization behavior during evaporation of different aqueous solutions of sodium carbonate and sodium sulfate has been carried out. The analysis is based on changes in heat transfer coefficients and crystal masses. The results from this work show large variation in the distribution of the crystal mass, depending on the composition of the solution. Solutions with the crystalline form of either dicarbonate or sodium carbonate exhibit high propensity to form scales on the heat transfer surface. Solutions with the crystalline form of burkeite, however, do not show the same attraction to the heat transfer surface; they are more likely to crystallize in the circulating solution. Thus, the heat transfer is not as affected as for dicarbonate or sodium carbonate.


PURPOSE: To improve storage stability of a fuel oil, and to make the fuel oil usable as a white oil, by adding benzotriazole and methylbenzotriazole (amine salt) to the fuel oil containing a cracked oil of hydrocarbon fraction. CONSTITUTION: 10W500ppm of one or more of (A) benzotriazole, (B) methylbenzotriazole, and (C) a methylbenzotriazole amine salt is added to a fuel oil containing a cracked oil of hydrocarbon fraction. A compound shown by the formula (R 1 , R 2 , and R 3 are H, alyl, or alkanol) is preferable as the component C. Preferably the addition agent is dissolved in acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, etc., and directly added to the fuel oil at 10W200°C before the fuel oil is brought into contact with air. COPYRIGHT: (C)1986,JPO&Japio


Abstract Regioselective reaction of lithium diene-and triene-diolates 1 and 2 with O-diphenylphosphinyl hydroxylamine affords unsaturated α-amino acids 3 and 4. Addition to DEAD leads selectively to γ-hydrazino unsaturated acids 5 and 6.


The study of contemporary China has long suffered from a scarcity of detailed case studies of Chinese work organizations. Most of our studies of factories and offices have been conducted at a rather general level, using the Chinese press and China trip visits, and as a consequence it is hard to get a feel for day-to-day organizational realities. For this reason this new work by Blecher and White is particularly welcome. The volume concerns a technical unit operating in an interior province in China. The need for confidentiality prevents the authors from being precise about the unit and its work, and this is one factor that makes the book less than fully satisfactory as a case study. The study is based entirely upon detailed interviews conducted in Hong Kong with a " Mr Ji," who worked in a technical post within the organization from 1968 until about 1973. Blecher and White use Mr Ji's recollections to describe the situation in the unit before the Cultural Revolution, the dynamics of that campaign within the unit, and the ways in which the organization was and was not altered by the Cultural Revolution. There is much in this study that is of interest. For instance, there are descriptions of wage scales and various types of promotion, discussions of the divergent social origins of the three main occupational groups in the unit (technicians, administrators and workers), and an account of the Party reconstruction campaign in the early 1970s. The bulk of this slim volume, however, is devoted to analysing the social roots of participation in the contending factions that arose within this unit during the Cultural Revolution. This analysis is supported by a myriad of tables where we see factional allegiance arrayed against a large number of explanatory variables.


A research about muslim employees to see how far religion plays a role in commitment towards the organization and the relationship with the work attitude and life satisfaction. The research is vital because Islam perceive work as part of deeds, thus employee must fulfill the job diligently and honestly. Generally, the muslim employees are committed to the organization, however their work behavior and life satisfaction varies though their belief is one. This phenomenon had caused an interest to the researcher to understand why it happens and to further see the linkage between each other.The research was done through quantitative method and analysed using the SPSS. The result obtained showed that the variables are positive but in a weak relationship. It is because the understanding and practice of the respondents towards Islam is not wholly, it is only the relationship between an individual and the creator or towards the compulsory deeds only. Thus, the exposure about the knowledge on religion that covers the organizational aspect and work must be explained throughout, as well as the steps towards loving their organization.


A consultant obstetrician and leading advocate of natural birth has been cleared of wrongdoing by the General Medical Council, after she was accused of failing to arrange a timely caesarean section for a patient whose labour showed signs of becoming problematic. The baby was later delivered stillborn by caesarean section.

Susan Bewley, of St Thomas' Hospital, was also accused of failing to adequately examine the mother and child on the morning of 30 December 2004, when she led the morning round in the hospital's birth centre. The GMC alleged that she failed to examine the mother's cervix, failed to use a sonicaid to listen to the baby's heart, failed to obtain a cardiotocograph reading, and failed to arrange delivery.

Hospital notes showed …