Agriculture is still the occupation of the majority of Thai people, despite the share of industry and services rising constantly. In terms of agricultural lands, Thailand is also one of the largest countries in the world, especially in Asia. Fruits and field crops make up for the most of vegetable products, rice being the leading crop. Currently, the market demand for organic food is increasing mainly due to consumer perceptions of quality and safety of these products. The primary goal of organic agriculture is to optimize the health and productivity of interdependent communities of soil life, plants, animals and people. Organic agriculture is expected that this requirement will continue to grow in the near future. On the other hand, energy is used in many organic agricultural inputs, including irrigation, mechanization and fertilizer. Both organic and conventional farming systems are mainly dependent on fossil energy, which is particularly crucial given rapidly growing energy costs. However, renewable resources are abundant. Many commercial technologies are available to connect these resources, and with suitable support, additional technologies could be brought to market. The aim of this research review is to investigate the utility of renewable energies for organic agricultural activities. In this concept, solar energy, biomass energy, wind energy, geothermal energy and hydropower are discussed by application. There is significant potential for organic agricultural involvement in the production and consumption of solar, wind, geothermal and biomass energy.


Mr. Engler is a vice president for industrial technology in a major publishing firm increasingly concerned with the adapta tion of newer media of communication to education. He sees the supposed conflict between humanism and technology as a red herring. He calls for getting on with the use of technology to further humanize education and to achieve the goals of sup porters of the humanities. any objective. It is a tool, and like all tools, it is morally and philosophically neutral. Historically, curriculum, by which we mean the sum total of the content of education, has been largely un affected by any changes in technology. Motion pictures, radio, phonographs, television, and other widely used hard ware have had no significant effect on the curriculum. Where they have been used, it has been to deliver the exist ing curriculum. On the other hand, changes in cur riculum have rarely required any changes in instructional technology. The vast curriculum reform movement of the past decade led to substantial changes in the goals and the content of many subject matter areas, but virtually all of these reforms relied on the traditional technology. Modern mathematics was taught through the same technology with which tradi tional mathematics had been taught. In retrospect, one would be hard put to cite an example of significant curriculum change that was the result of any new technology. This is be cause decisions about curriculum are largely value judgments, and tech nology, being value-free, is simply not very meaningful in making such value judgments. Thus, to raise questions about the conflict between humanism and tech nology is to tilt at windmills. There can be no curriculum, humanist or otherwise, without some means of de livering instruction to the learner and some strategy that will facilitate learn ing on his part. There can be no cur riculum without an instructional tech nology. The real question is: Can we devise an instructional technology that will further humanize our curriculum? To answer this question we must first consider the extent to which our curriculum is now humanistic, as well as the extent to which our prevailing instructional technology facilitates the transmission of that humanistic curric There is a widespread and unfortu nate tendency in education these days to regard instructional technology as being synonymous with such things as computers, teaching machines, and audio-visual devices of all sorts, and to express concern about the possibil ity that the advent of such machines will mechanize and therefore de humanize education. The image of the machine, cold and impersonal, ma nipulating our children as it manipu lates rats and pigeons in the laboratory, is a haunting reminder of Huxley, Orwell, and others who have painted for us the frightening picture of the demise of humanism. This is an unfortunate tendency, because in focusing on the machine as a threat to humanistic education, it is pursuing the scent of the red her ring and ignoring the real problems of technology, humanism, and their relationship to each other. Our thesis here is that the conflict between a humanist curriculum and instructional technology is more ap parent than real; that it is, in fact, the product of semantic confusion and fuzzy definitions; that it is based on the assumption that we now have a humanistic curriculum but do not utilize instructional technology, an as sumption which on both counts is at best debatable and at worst funda mentally erroneous; that, in fact, we must deal with a problem that is not technological but rather is ecological. Let's consider first our definitions. Instructional technology is defined in two rather different ways. First, and most commonly, it is defined as hard ware ? television, motion pictures, audio-tapes and discs, textbooks, black boards, and so on; essentially, these are implements and media of communi cation. Second, and more significantly, it is defined as a process by means of which we apply the research findings of the behavioral sciences to the prob lems of instruction. Defined either way, instructional technology is value-free. Gutenberg technology, which is widely used but not often recognized as a technology in schools, can produce the Bible, Mein Kampf, and Portnoy's Complaint with equal indifference. Television can present brilliant insight into the hu man condition as well as mindless and


This critical review focuses on the preparation methods of a variety of the silica nanotubes by self-assembled organogels and the recent development of silica-based organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials for use as chemosensors in environmental studies as well as adsorbents for inorganic guest molecules and in biological applications for delivery of organic guest molecules (127 references).


A laboratory platform and flow chart for simulating process of sorption of volatile organic compoumds(VOCs) by using a novel inorganic membrane tube as a sorbent was created.The influence of the airflow rate and VOCs concentration,which is represented by ethanol concentration on the entrapping rate of the membrane tube was studied.The entrapping rate of the membrane tube increases with the increase of the VOCs concentration,the relation between the entrapping rate and the VOCs concentration follows Boltzmann distribution.The entrapping rate of the membrane tube increases with the decrease of the airflow rate,the relation between them follows the law of the exponential attenuation.The inorganic membrane tube as well has the ability of entrapping the volatile aromatic compounds.If the properties of the membrane tube were improved to make the capillary condensation to be the controlling step of the entrapping rate of the membrane tube,it would be possible that a new gas sampling method with the inorganic tube to collect the VOCs.


Cotton fabrics were treated with a mixture of water soluble silk fibroin and 1, 2, 3, 4-butanetetracarboxylic acid and a mixture of water soluble silk fibroin and urethane resin. The crease recoverability, water absorption and photoyellowing behavior due to ultraviolet irradiation were investigated for treated fabrics. The crease recovery of the fabrics was enhanced and the water absorption was reduced by the treatment with the mixture of water soluble silk fibroin and 1, 2, 3, 4-butanetetracarboxylic acid suggesting the occurrence of crosslinking between the cotton fibrils. The photoyellowing of silk fibroin was suppressed by the urethane resin.


Studies on the operation of DSG DQ381 robotic gearboxes installed on passenger cars were carried out during operation in urban traffic jams. Features of their work, the reasons for failures are established. Recommendations to reduce the frequency of failures have been developed. The proposed measures will reduce the number of failures by 33%.


Representatives from industry, scientific institutions and the German Federal Railway are collaborating in this programme which is promoted by the German Federal Republic's Ministry for Research and Technology. Current studies are in the field of track and vehicle dynamics and interaction, driving techniques, and environmental problems. Middle-term task and research planning covers a four-year period. Test installations for the study of transport techniques are also needed in conjunction with this programme.


Subsynchronous resonance may occur when transmitted power is improved through the line with series compensation capacitor in wind farm.This paper analyzes the mechanism of subsynchronous resonance in wind farm,as well as the effect of SVC in suppressing the subsynchronous resonance of wind farm.Then SIMPLEX algorithm is integrated with fuzzy control technology of single membership functions for designing SVC additional damping controller based on fuzzy control of single membership functions.Compared with the conventional fuzzy controller,this proposed controlling scheme is superior in suppressing subsynchronous resonance rapidly.The simulation results verified its superiority.


This paper analyses the importance of Information Systems (IS) in the Healthcare Sector. IS include any electronic software that is used to gather data, process and analyse it and consequently produce valuable information. Every business can benefit from the information it has for its clients because it can then use it to reach differentiation and competitive advantage. But more specifically, how do ISs affect the businesses that run in the Healthcare Sector? The paper describes and analyses some of these impacts. For example, IS can be used to generate information related to the tendency of each disease, so that the clinics can be prepared beforehand to serve the patients at different times of the year. Furthermore, IS can be used to generate patient information and identify certain patterns in the data. This helps to generate new ways for diagnosing illnesses, understanding disease risks and causes and helps in identifying ways in how to improve tailored clinical care. Some other beneficial effects include: demonstrating the safety of certain treatments, providing patients' health history and scheduling appointments. By taking all these into consideration it can be said that the usage of IS in the Healthcare Sector has numerous advantages. These include all-time access to the patient data, error reduction, cost minimisation, improved data security and improved patient care. Unfortunately, this technique has its own disadvantages too. Setting the system up and later on, maintaining it requires time and money. Also, it can be hard to train employees on how to use the IS. Cybersecurity risks are also present, as in any other form of computer software. Nevertheless, clinics that are part of the Healthcare Sector are making daily use of IS. Some of the most used ISs are: Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Electronic Health Record (EHR), Clinical Information Systems (CIS) and Practice Management Software (PMS). It was concluded after analysing a detailed questionnaire sent to 16 Albanian clinics that IS systems are the future for the medical sector in Albania, even though it is not currently widespread in its adoption.


Metasurfaces consisting of an array of planar sub-wavelength structures have shown great potentials in controlling thermal infrared radiation, including intensity, coherence, and polarization. These capabilities together with the two-dimensional nature make thermal metasurfaces an ultracompact multifunctional platform for infrared light manipulation. Integrating the functionalities, such as amplitude, phase (spectrum and directionality), and polarization, on a single metasurface offers fascinating device responses. However, it remains a significant challenge to concurrently optimize the optical, electrical, and thermal responses of a thermal metasurface in a small footprint. In this work, we develop a center-contacted electrode line design for a thermal infrared metasurface based on a gold nanorod array, which allows local Joule heating to electrically excite the emission without undermining the localized surface plasmonic resonance. The narrowband emission of thermal metasurfaces and their robustness against temperature nonuniformity demonstrated in this work have important implications for the applications in infrared imaging, sensing, and energy harvesting.


AbstractGenomic sequencing studies have uncovered alterations of checkpoint cell cycle regulators (CDK4/6, CDK2NA) in diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG) and high-grade gliomas (HGG). Ribociclib (LEE011) is an orally bioavailable, small molecule inhibitor of CDK4/CyclinD1 and CDK6/CyclinD3 complexes resulting in hypophosphorylation of RB and cell cycle arrest. In a feasibility, phase II study, patients with newly-diagnosed DIPG or HGG received radiation therapy prior to enrollment. All HGG patients and any DIPG patient who had undergone biopsy were screened for total RB protein by immunohistochemistry. Ribociclib was administered daily for 21 of 28 days at 350 mg/m/day. Feasibilty endpoints included toxic death, Grade 3/4 toxicities possibly related to ribociclib resulting in drug discontinuation, > 2 weeks delay in the start of any course or discontinuation of the protocol therapy even after appropriate dose modification. Efficacy was measured by the overall survival distribution for DIPG and HGG. Of the 10 patients enrolled (median 6.5 years; range:4–20), 9 received treatment (8 DIPG, 1 HGG) and one developed leptomeningeal disease prior to therapy. To date, the median number of courses are 4.5 (range: 1–10). Ribociclib was well-tolerated; three patients required dose reduction for grade 4 neutropenia; no patients have come off therapy for toxicity. The most common adverse events were leukopenia, neutropenia, lymphopenia, nausea, vomiting, and fatigue. MRI evaluations in 2 patients revealed increased T2 FLAIR signal with new neurological symptoms within the first 2 cycles of therapy. These patients were responsive to steroids and remain on study. Six patients remain on active therapy at a median of 9 months post diagnosis (range: 3–12). The preliminary analysis demonstrates that ribociclib, administered post radiation therapy is well-tolerated in children and young adults with DIPG and RB+ HGG. Analyses for efficacy and correlative studies will be presented at the meeting.


Paper bricks – moulds of brick made of recycled paper as a primary composition – have already been tested and used (although limited) as good sources of domestic fuel, and this alone saves up on the excessive use of wood for fires. The main purpose of this project is to test and expand the uses of paper bricks, to areas specifically targeted for building construction purposes. The testing and enhancing of paper bricks for construction – whether as light-bearing material or load bearing structures – will greatly benefit construction procedures, costs and their use of natural resources for building. While several testing factors such as the strength, durability, stiffness and water absorptivity, are essential for obtaining a wide spectrum of possible uses for paper bricks, this research is mainly focused on testing them for construction load-bearing purposes.
The primary research conducted was to test the bricks' compressibility strength. The experiment was carried out and the final results failed the compressibility test, since no breaking point was achieved with all the samples tested. However, it was still possible to approximate that a higher composition of paper rather than wood, yields slightly stronger bricks – particularly when mixed with a binding agent such as glue. In the experiment, results showed that compositions of 70% paper – 30% wood with the addition of glue yielded the highest compressibility strengths, since they demonstrated the smallest decreases length, compared to mixtures without glue, and compositions of 50% paper and 30% wood. Also, cubic moulds proved to have higher compressibility strength than cylindrical moulds. A cylindrical brick of 70% paper with glue decreased 28.2 mm in length when a 2310 N force was applied to it, while a cubic brick of the same composition decreased only 17.2 mm in length when a slightly smaller force of 2650 N was applied to it. These results gave insight in to which direction further research on the matter may proceed.
Further research into developing paper bricks for construction is indeed feasible, since the literature review has indicated to the success of previous experiments when mixed compositions including recycled paper were tested for load-bearing factors, and the results have met the international minimum requirements for load-bearing bricks. Strong recommendation is placed on re-testing similar products in future projects, but instead, substituting wood with clay as a secondary material. In addition, paper bricks were found to be better thermal insulators than conventional bricks, according to the literature, hence further experiments for thermal properties are also feasible.


This paper explores some topics related to enhancing the sense of togetherness among youth within a virtual community. With the wider use of the Internet among the rural youth in Malaysia, rural communities are more exposed to global connection. The 1Malaysia Wireless Village Project has taken this many steps forward. The Internet has occupied social media of all kinds, and social media are widely accessed among rural youths. Rural youths occupy themselves within the social space of Facebook in a way that suggests that they find its functions useful for staying connected with friends near and far. Primary analysis has found that use of Facebook functions creates not only a social bond and support but also builds a social channel for obtaining and sharing current issues among virtual group members. The frequent use of its specific functions such as conversation, sharing, identity, reputation and group were found to have significant correlation with users' sense of togetherness. However, it was identified that the frequent use of the group function contributed the most to enhancing the perceived sense of togetherness among the virtual community members.


At MBDA Germany a concept for a high-energy laser weapon system is investigated, which is based on existing industrial laser sources. Due to the enormous progress in the field of high-power fiber lasers, commercial industrial fiber lasers are now available delivering a nearly-diffraction limited beam quality with power levels of up to 10 kW. By using a geometric beam coupling scheme, a number of individual high-power fiber laser beams are combined together using one common beam director telescope. A total laser beam power of more than 100 kW can be achieved, which is sufficient for an operational laser weapon system. The individual beams from the different lasers are steered by servo-loops using fast tip-tilt mirrors. This principle enables the concentration of the total laser beam power at one common focal point on a distant target, also allowing fine tracking of target movements and first-order compensation of turbulence effects on laser beam propagation. The proposed beam combination concept was demonstrated by using different experimental set-ups. A number of experiments were performed successfully to investigate laser beam target interaction and target fine tracking, also at large distances and at moving targets. Content and results of these investigations are reported, which demonstrate the complete engagement sequence for a C-RAM scenario. This includes subsequent steps of target acquisition by radar and IR optics, followed by large angle coarse tracking, active fine tracking and destruction of the target by the laser system. This successful implementation of geometric beam combining is an important step for the realization of a laser weapon system in the near future.


Two new phenylpropanoids, integrifoliolin (1) and integrifoliodiol (2), together with 23 known compounds, have been isolated from the root wood of Zanthoxylum integrifoliolum. The structures of these compounds were determined by means of spectral analyses. The reported anti-HIV constituents of decarine and γ-fagarine were also isolated from the root wood of this plant.


Mould electromagnetic braking technique has been widely used for large section slab casting.Three different typets of mould electromagnetic braking techniques are introduced in this paper. Through the introduction of basic concept, equipment, characteristics of electromagnetic force and metallurgical mechanism, different effects in slab qualities and caster productivity can be drawn from the introduction and ahalyses.


The cometabolic biotransformation of 2,4-DNT with ethanol, methanol, acetic acid or hydrogen as the primary substrate was investigated under anaerobic conditions. The anaerobic cultures for 2,4-DNT biotransformation were acclimated in three chemostats that were fed with 2,4-DNT and either ethanol, methanol, or acetic acid. The pH and temperature in the tests were maintained at 7.2 and 35{degrees}C, respectively. 2,4-DNT was completely biotransformed to 2,4-DAT via 4-A-2-NT or 2-A-4-NT under anaerobic conditions regardless of the primary substrate. However, the rate of 2,4-DNT biotransformation was much higher with the addition of ethanol than that with the addition of either methanol or acetic acid. As the primary substrate for anaerobic biotransformation of 2,4-DNT, ethanol has a great advantage over methanol or acetic acid. Hydrogen served as an electron donor for the reductive biotransformation of 2,4-DNT to 2,4-DAT. Biotransformation of 2,4-DNT was not observed without any primary substrate. 2+DNT was not completely transformed to 2,4-DAT unless enough ethanol was added to produce twice or more hydrogen stoichiometrically required for 2,4-DNT transformation. The addition of high concentration of ethanol accelerated the reductive transformation of 2,4-DNT. The presence of 2,4-DNT, 4-A-2-NT, and 2-A-4-NT inhibited the acetogenesis of ethanol as well as the methanogeneses of methanol, acetate,more » and hydrogen. High energy is required to support the growth of the anaerobic bacteria which transform 2,4-DNT, 4-A-2-NT, and 2-A-4-NT to 2,4-DAT.« less


1. Literally: Jing = Well; Ying = Spring or Pool; Shu = to transport; Jing (same Jing as channel) = to pass through; He = to unite. The five Shu-Points, namely the Jing-Well, Ying-Spring, Shu-Stream, Jing-River and He-Sea points1, are an important grouping of acupuncture points of the twelve principal channels. All are located distal to, or at, the elbow and knee joints, and since the Qi flowing in these portions of the channels is passing through a particularly high rate of change in dynamic quality, the five ShuPoints play an important role in the formation of many acupuncture prescriptions. Also located on the portion of the channels distal to the elbows and knees are the XiCleft points, the Luo-Connecting points and the YuanSource points. On the Yin channels only, the YuanSource points are the same as the Shu-Stream points. Each of the five Shu-Points corresponds to one of the 5 phases (see Tables above). Historically, the naming of these points first appeared in the Spiritual Axis (Chapter: 'The Nine Needles and 12 Yuan'): Each of the five zang have five Shu, so in all there are twenty-five Shu. Each of the six Fu have six Shu, so in all there are thirty-six Shu. There are twelve main channels and fifteen Luo channels a total of twentyseven channels of Qi running up and down the body. There are many criteria that help determine the actions and indications of the acupuncture points. These include: i. The channel a point is located on (e.g. points of the Liver channel treat Liver disharmony). ii. Its related channels (e.g. points of Pericardium Jueyin channel may treat disorders of the Liver Jueyin channel; points of the Large Intestine channel may treat Lung disorders). iii. Its location on the body (e.g. all points on the chest have some effect on chest disorders). iv. Its status, for example as a Shu-Point, Xi-Cleft point, Back-Shu or Front-Mu point, Luo-Connecting, YuanSource or Hui point, Confluent Point of the 8 extraordinary channels or crossing point of more than one channel. v. Its associated Phase or Element. v. Empirical observations that have been collected on its actions. This article confines itself to discussing the classical theories concerning the five Shu-Points, and compares these theories with the indications of the points that have accumulated over the centuries in a number of classical clinical manuals. By trying to understand this sometimes difficult theory, we can improve our knowledge and understanding of the extraordinary phenomena that are the acupuncture points. FIVE SHU-POINTS


We demonstrate the first example of a well-defined p-n junction fabricated in a GaN nanowire and the systematic investigation of its transport properties down to 2.6 K. XRD, Raman spectrum, HRTEM revealed the /spl sim/30 nm diameter wires, produced by vapor-liquid-solid synthesis in indium nanoparticle catalyst droplets, are shown to consist of a good-quality, crystalline, hexagonal GaN inner core surrounded by an amorphous GaN outer layer. Most wires grow such that the crystalline c-axis is normal to the long axis of the nanowire. The p-n junction is produced by turning on a source of Mg (a known p-dopant) halfway through the growth. The wires show excellent rectification properties with diode ideality factors as low as 5 for most nanowires. The temperature dependence of the current-voltage characteristics is consistent with electron tunneling through a voltage-dependent barrier. P-doped and n-doped GaN nanowires fabricated under similar conditions invariably produced linear current-voltage curves, indicating that the observed rectification arises as a result of the p-n junction and not from a metal-semiconductor Schottky contact junction. Surface potential imaging was employed to determine the exact position of the p-n junction along a single nanowire.


: Globally, there has been a substantial increase in the number of people who are not able to buy their own dwellings due to the phenomenal appreciation of real estate prices in China. With the growing worldwide demand for low-rent housing and the importance of supporting and stimulating sustainable development, the need for sustainable solutions in the low-rent housing sector is at a peak. For achieving new design methods for low-rent housing, we attempted to employ a practical project to explore the residential environment from the viewpoint of the Chinese national green building standards and municipal low-rent housing policy. Firstly we investigate the low-rent housing residential area in Tianjin, China. After a questionnaire and interview of local residents has been conducted, the characteristics of the residential environment are analysed. We consider that the outdoor space of low-rent housing could be diversified to partly fulfil interior functions, by which way the cost of the low-rent housing could be reduced to a certain extent.


Abstract This paper presents a new approach to active sensor fault-tolerant tracking control for nonlinear systems described via Takagi-Sugeno multiple models. The fault-tolerant control (FTC) strategy is based on a sensor fault hiding approach through the design of an estimator as an intermediate stage of redundancy acting between the system outputs and the controller inputs such that the controller always receives a fault-free signal. The estimator used is capable of estimating a wide range of time-varying fault signals. Based on the corrected output signal a fuzzy dynamic output feedback controller is designed to track the desired trajectory. The stability proof with H∞ performance and D-stability constraints is formulated as a Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) problem. The strategy is illustrated using a non-linear example of an inverted pendulum.


The aim of this study was to clarify the fine structure of accumulated deposits on the surface of teeth that are considered to affect the gloss of teeth.


Mr President, Mr President Elect, Fellows and Members, Ladies and Gentleman, it is a pleasure to address the Section of Laryngology this morning and deliver the 94th Semon Lecture. I would like to thank the Semon Committee for their kind invitation. My lecture will discuss Sir Felix Semon (the man himself), highlight the history of head and neck surgery, and then discuss the requirements of a modern-day thyroid surgeon. I have no conflict of interest and nothing to declare.


The paper presents a method for pruning frequent itemsets based on background knowledge represented by a Bayesian network. The interestingness of an itemset is defined as the absolute difference between its support estimated from data and from the Bayesian network. Efficient algorithms are presented for finding interestingness of a collection of frequent itemsets, and for finding all attribute sets with a given minimum interestingness. Practical usefulness of the algorithms and their efficiency have been verified experimentally.


With the rise of epigenetics,acquired genetic research began to revive,it has been found a lot of acquired genetic events,but the inheritance of acquired characteristics as an evolutionary mechanism is still not widely accepted,because the study,which acquired genetic is recorded as the genetic information,did not progress. Here,a new mechanism of inheritance of acquired characteristics was proposed,and a roadmap for genotype phenotype transformation was put forward.


The present invention relates to a transfer apparatus for a wafer, in which the wafer may be transferred in a narrow space by reducing a transfer device footprint. The transfer device has a base, a lower arm, an upper arm and a hand. The lower arm is configured to be vertically adjustable and rotatable on a vertical axis. The upper arm is pivotably coupled to the lower arm, and the hand is horizontally coupled to the upper arm.


ZHANG Xuecheng has a very famous academic writing General Principle of Literature and History,which reflects many experience and ideas of his researches,especially the views about the specific process of learning. ZHANG's concept of "erudition and specificity are the most important elements in studies "should be noticed,which indicates the scholarship of Eastern Zhejiang School and is of great significance both in theory and practice.


McCune‐Albright syndrome (MAS) is associated with numerous health problems. Comprehensive long‐term health problems of adults with MAS are less well defined in the literature.


Crystals of tin-oxides and tin-formates are grown from Sn–Ag–Cu alloy under formic acid vapour as used in the fluxless soldering process.


The article reveals demographic and social characteristics of socially responsible consumers and the attributes that have the most impact on the intention to purchase the item from socially responsible companies. Empirical study revealed that socially responsible consumer behaviour is shaped and decision-making is influenced by gender, income adequacy and education. Based on investigation results, client profile of socially responsible companies is identified – it's all ages (probably older than 25 years), higher-income, educated women. KEY WORDS: socially responsible consumption, demographic and social characteristics of consumers. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/tbb.v71i2.1100


ABBREVIATIONS: Ab, albite; Ac, acmite; Act, actinolite; Alm, alEclogites, blueschists, clinopyroxene-rich rocks and epidote ammandine; Aln, allanite; Ap, apatite; Aug, augite; Bar, barroisite; Bt, biotite; phibolites occur interlayered on a millimetre to decimetre scale in a Cc, calcite; Chl, chlorite; Cpx, clinopyroxene; Crs, crossite; Czo, clinozoisite; mafic unit interbedded with calcareous and quartz mica schists in Dol, dolomite; Ep, epidote; Fe-Ox, Fe-oxides; Gln, glaucophane; Gross, NE Oman. These rocks constitute part of the continental margin grossularite; Gt, garnet; Hm, haematite; Jd, jadeite; Kln, kaolinite; Kspar, of Oman subducted during the Cretaceous. Petrological data indicate K-feldspar; Mgt, magnetite; Oxychl, oxychlorite; Pg, paragonite; Ph, that they evolved through a clockwise P–T path and attained peak phengite; Qz, quartz; Pyrp, pyrope; Rt, rutile; Spess, spessartine; Tc, talc; conditions at T ~560°C, P >12 kbar, where the mineral Ttn, titanite; Win, winchite; Zrn, zircon. assemblages of the blueschists, eclogites and clinopyroxene-rich rocks were all stable. Whole-rock major, trace and rare earth element data indicate that the mineralogical differences between these rock types resulted from the metamorphism of interlayered basaltic flows INTRODUCTION and tuffs of variable compositions possibly reflecting different degrees Interlayered blueschists, eclogites and/or greenschists are of magmatic differentiation. The interlayered epidote amphibolites common in several areas such as Cazadero, California are chemically similar to the blueschists and appear to have formed (e.g. Oh et al., 1991), the Shuksan suite, Washington from the eclogites and blueschists during unroofing aided by fluid State (Dungan et al., 1983; Owen, 1989), the Tauern infiltration. Oxygen isotope data for minerals and whole rocks Window, Eastern Alps (e.g. Selverstone et al., 1992) and indicate low fluid:rock ratios during metamorphism and unroofing. several Cycladic islands (e.g. Okrusch & Brocker, 1990). The data also suggest that different layers may have interacted with This interlayering has been attributed to: (1) differences fluids of different isotopic signatures throughout their history. These in the P–T conditions of equilibration in the different results are similar to data reported for other areas of continent– layers (e.g. Reinsch, 1979; Ridley, 1984); (2) original continent collision or continental crust subduction. differences in the chemical compositions of the layers before metamorphism (e.g. Dungan et al., 1983; Oh et al., 1991); or (3) differences in the extent of retrograde overprinting as a result of variable fluid infiltration (e.g. Schliestedt & Matthews, 1987; Brocker, 1990; Barrientos & Selverstone, 1993).


You Only Look Once (YOLO), as a state-of-the-art computer vision model, is able to realize real-time white shrimp biomass assessment in recirculating aquaculture system if it could be optimized for the computation-limiting environment. In this paper, we propose a NeuroEvolution method to automatically generate lightweight YOLO for real-time white shrimp detection. Our method begins with the initialization of a population of minimal YOLOs from a unique two-level search space, which restricts the overall structure of YOLO and assigns available building blocks. It then employs a constructive evolutionary search strategy to incrementally grow these YOLOs by adding and modifying modules across generations until they meet a preset performance standard. To reduce computational overhead and maintain population diversity during evolution, we design a group scheme that works in tandem with group-centered performance estimation and selection. Our shrimp surveillance experiment results demonstrate that the optimized YOLO models, with fewer than 0.5M parameters, can effectively detect shrimps in real time, achieving approximately 92% mean average precision (mAP) and over 150 frames per second (FPS).


This study investigated the use of the Drinking Problems Index (DPI; Finney et al., 1991) with middle-aged and older adults in treatment for alcohol abuse. Created to screen for middle-aged and older problem drinkers in the community, the DPI is a 17-item inventory assessing the frequency of alcohol-related problems. Our interest was to explore a new purpose for this tool: that of identifying adverse consequences from drinking which can be targeted in treatment planning for this group. Seventy-one participants with a primary diagnosis of alcohol dependence were individually administered the DPI along with additional measures of psychosocial functioning. As predicted, our recovering alcoholic adults did endorse a similar pattern of adverse consequences as compared to the normative group, but at notably higher frequencies. Further, the older adult sub-group endorsed fewer total items on the DPI relative to our middle-aged sub-group, with a differential pattern of frequent items evident. Significant relation...


In this paper we argue that English allows both traditional left-branching VPs and right-branching VP-shell structures (as first proposed in Larson 1988a, 1990). The choice between these depends on case theory and economy. Case theory triggers VP-shell formation whenever the verb is merged with a DP-object after it has been merged with some other category. The reason is that VP-shell formation allows verb and object to surface in adjacent positions, which is a prerequisite for case checking in English. Economy has the effect that in all other circumstances, VP-shell formation is blocked. We show that this proposal correctly regulates word order in transitive and ditransitive VPs, as well as in VPs that contain a particle. However, the main independent evidence we present comes from object-oriented floating quantifiers, whose distribution is limited to VP-shell structures. In developing this argument, we will propose an analysis of
floating quantifiers as anaphoric adverbials. We will also compare this analysis with alternatives according to which floating quantifiers are stranded by movement.


Simple Summary Recent studies on cancer cell metabolism have achieved notable breakthroughs that have led to a new scientific paradigm. How cancer cell metabolic reprogramming is orchestrated and the decisive role of this reprogramming in the oncogenic process and tumor adaptative evolution has been characterized at the molecular level. Despite this knowledge, it is essential to understand how cancer cells can metabolically respond as a living whole to ensure their survival and adaptation potential. In this work, we investigated whether different cancers and different subtypes display different metabolic phenotypes with a focus on breast cancer cell models representative of each clinical subtype. The potential results might have significant translational implications for diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic applications. Abstract Metabolic reprogramming of cancer cells represents an orchestrated network of evolving molecular and functional adaptations during oncogenic progression. In particular, how metabolic reprogramming is orchestrated in breast cancer and its decisive role in the oncogenic process and tumor evolving adaptations are well consolidated at the molecular level. Nevertheless, potential correlations between functional metabolic features and breast cancer clinical classification still represent issues that have not been fully studied to date. Accordingly, we aimed to investigate whether breast cancer cell models representative of each clinical subtype might display different metabolic phenotypes that correlate with current clinical classifications. In the present work, functional metabolic profiling was performed for breast cancer cell models representative of each clinical subtype based on the combination of enzyme inhibitors for key metabolic pathways, and isotope-labeled tracing dynamic analysis. The results indicated the main metabolic phenotypes, so-called 'metabophenotypes', in terms of their dependency on glycolytic metabolism or their reliance on mitochondrial oxidative metabolism. The results showed that breast cancer cell subtypes display different metabophenotypes. Importantly, these metabophenotypes are clearly correlated with the current clinical classifications.


The paper provides an insight to how the art of communication has evolved from its early times into the currently available electronic commerce solutions. It discusses the issues of "What is the World Wide Web/lnternet?" "Does EDI still have a place in e-commerce?" and generally explores the pressing competitive issues surrounding the implementation of the latest communication options. The paper also dwells on the reality that paper, facsimile, telex and electronic mail exist and are here to stay. The advent of (apparent) lower cost electronic communications medium through the usage of the Internet may at first be attractive, but the negative implications of its usage must be fully assessed. (7 pages)


We consider scheduling of bag of independent mixed tasks (Hard, firm and soft) in a distributed dynamic grid environment. Recently, a general distributed scalable grid scheduler (GDS) for independent tasks was proposed to maximize successful schedule percent in an error-free grid environment. However, GDS did not consider constraint failure of task during execution due to resource overload, which leads to limited successful schedule percent. In this paper, we propose a novel distributed dynamic grid scheduler for mixed tasks (DDGS-MT), which takes into consideration the constraint failure of task during execution due to resource overload. The proposed scheduler incorporates migration and resume fault tolerant mechanisms for computational and communication intensive tasks respectively. The proposed scheduler shows improved performance in terms of successful schedule percent and makespan in comparison with GDS. The results of our exhaustive simulations experiments demonstrate the superiority of DDGS over GDS scheduler.


Colonization efficiency varies considerably between Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) strains. The microbial characteristics that influence those differences are still largely unknown. Here, we compare rates and kinetics of colonization of four pneumococcal strains upon experimental human pneumococcal challenge. Healthy adults were intranasally challenged with one of four pneumococcal strains (serotype/clonal name: 6B/BHN418, 15B/SH8286, 23F/P1121 and 23F/P833) over a range of doses. Maximum colonization achieved was 60%, 31%, 16% and 10%, respectively. Density and duration of colonization did not differ significantly between the tested strains. We further evaluated murine colonization, non-opsonic neutrophil mediated killing, epithelial cell adherence and average chain length of these four pneumococcal strains. Of these, only chain length was found to be associated with colonization efficiency in the human challenge model. Our data demonstrate that colonization rates following experimental challenge vary with the strain used and suggest that efficiency in colonization is related to pneumococcal chain length.


This study derives a predictive equation for calculating the marginal heat release rate of flashover in a compartmentalized space. Moreover, other variables (in addition to the surface area and opening area of the compartment, which are used as variables is existing studies) were derived and modified. By collecting and analyzing the results of existing flashover experiments, the thermal inertia of the compartment wall was judged to be a variable that directly affects the indoor temperature rise. An equation constructed using this variable was found to be up to 6.5% more reliable than the existing predictive equations. However, for use in design prediction, the developed equation had to be adjusted to derive values lower than the experimental results; thus, an equation that corrected the safety rate was derived. From this calculation, a design prediction equation was derived, from which flashover is predicted to occur before the time predicted in existing experiments.


An Alice Springs woman whose house was partially destroyed by fire last week says she's finding it hard to manage.


OBJECTIVE
The aim was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Kang' ai (KA) injection for patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Furthermore, to identify if more trials are needed before reliable conclusions could be drawn with regard to these outcomes.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
We searched the Cochrane library, PubMed, EMBASE, VIP, CBMdisc, and CNKI in September 2012, and then an additional updated search was conducted in January 2013. Only relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs) on KA injection plus first-line cisplatin-based chemotherapy in the treatment of NSCLC were identified. Trials' data was reviewed and extracted by two reviewers independently. The quality of included studies was assessed according to a statement from Cochrane Handbook. RevMan 5 Software and Trial sequential analysis (TSA) software were applied for data analyses.

RESULTS
A total of 31 RCTs involving 2259 patients were included. The results of meta-analysis showed that compared with chemotherapy alone, the combination of KA injection plus chemotherapy had a statistically significant benefit in improving clinical response rate (relative risk [RR] =1.29, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.17-1.41, P < 0.00001), clinical benefit rate (RR = 1.19, 95% CI: 1.14-1.25, P < 0.00001) and quality of life (RR = 1.79, 95% CI: 1.63-1.98, P < 0.00001); hematological toxicity (white blood cell) (RR = 0.71, 95% CI: 0.66-0.76, P < 0.00001) and nonhematological toxicity (nausea and vomiting) (RR = 0.73, 95% CI: 0.65-0.83, P < 0.00001) were improved as well. TSA showed that all cumulative Z-score crossed their monitoring boundaries, demonstrating that no more trials are needed before reliable conclusions could be drawn.

CONCLUSION
Current evidence presented that KA injection might improve the therapeutic effect when combined with chemotherapy. Moreover, no more trials are needed in future according to TSA. Nevertheless, additional randomized studies investigating KA injection are needed to be further evaluated.


Abstract Crystals of all‐trans retinal and both different forms of 11‐cis, 12‐s‐cis retinal were grown on quartz slides with faces (101), (001) and (101), respectively, forming thin platelets of less than 0.2 μm thickness. Polarized UV absorption spectra at room temperature were measured in the range from 20 to 43 × 103 cm−1 with a microscope‐spectrophotometer. In this spectral range three diffuse absorption bands were observed for all crystal types at similar wave numbers. A main absorption band was found at 25–28 × 103 cm−1, and two further bands at 32–34 and 38–40 × 103 cm−1. In case of all‐trans retinal the latter band is by far the weakest in this spectral range. Additionally, the crystal spectrum of all‐trans retinal shows a shoulder at the low wavenumber side of the main band which cannot be resolved in the corresponding solution spectrum. In the crystal spectra of 11‐cis, 12‐s‐cis retinal, however, only a strong dissymmetry is observed at this side of the main band.


Rod-like MnPO4·H2O single crystals were hydrothermally prepared by the reaction of MnCl2 with NaNO3 in the presence of H3PO4 at 150 ℃ for 12 h.The products were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction(XRD),field-emission scanning electron microscopy(FESEM),transmission electron microscopy(TEM).The synthesized single-crystalline rods have diameters of 0.78-1.9 μm and lengths up to tens of micro meters.The influence of reaction time on the morphological evolution of the products under hydrothermal conditions is discussed,and a possible formation mechanism has been proposed on the growth of MnPO4·H2O single-crystalline rods.


This paper introduced the test, calculation and fitting of the surge curve of the coal gas compressor and anti-surge control strategy.The anti-surge control system realized many functions such as creating anti-surge curve, dynamic adjust control deviation of the anti-surge control, the switch of the auto/manual operation, the dissymmetry output, fast response and the status indication of anti-surge control.The practice proved the system control accuracy is high, the function is stable, operating simple, keep the view and understand easily.


The dogma of conscious environmental behavior has laid the paradigm for sustainable consumer behavior. Modern-day corporates have introduced innovative business models to add a new value to manage fluctuations in consumer behaviors and rejuvenate their financial performance. Similarly, in fashion industry, textile firms have warmly embraced the new business models and widely adopted environmental management systems (EMSs) to contribute to environmental sustainability. This research aims to explore eco-consumerism and its impacts on the financial performance of textile firms in Malaysia. The secondary data of textile firms' performance from 2013 to 2015 were collected from an online database and annual reports of firms' web portals. The findings reveal that the textile firms which successfully adopted EMS such as ISO 14001 show significant changes in performance compared with firms which are yet to adopt EMS certification. Moreover, eco-consumerism directly impacts EMS-adopted firms' performance. Our findings are robust for practical, research, and managerial implications to classify and understand the impacts of consumers' green behavior on corporate performance. This study contributes to understand the influence of consumers' eco-behavior to adopt EMS and its impact on the financial performance of textile firms in Malaysia.


Software maintenance, especially bug fixing, is one of the most expensive problems in software practice. Bugs have global impact in terms of cost and time, and they also reflect negatively on a company's brand. GenProg is a method for Automated Program Repair based on an evolutionary approach. It aims to generate bug repairs without human intervention or a need for special instrumentation or source code annotations. Its canonical fitness function evaluates each variant as the weighted sum of the test cases that a modified program passes. However, it evaluates distinct individuals with the same fitness score (plateaus). We propose a fitness function that minimizes these plateaus using dynamic analysis to increase the granularity of the fitness information that can be gleaned from test case execution, increasing the diversity of the population, the number of repairs found (expressiveness), and the efficiency of the search. We evaluate the proposed fitness functions on two standard benchmarks for Automated Program Repair: IntroClass and ManyBugs. We find that our proposed fitness function minimizes plateaus, increases expressiveness, and the efficiency of the search.


Hotel is one of the important facilities to accommodate tourist while at the destination. Because of that,  tourist needs various references to choose a hotel that fits the purpose. One of the references that can be used by tourists is social media which is a form of technological advances from the internet. Social media can provide the information needed by tourists both from hotel rates, location, facilities, description and reviews of the hotel. Therefore, this research is conducted to determine how the use of social media in the decision-making process of domestic tourists in choosing a hotel, and knowing the stages taken by tourists in determining hotel choices. This study uses a qualitative research approach with narrative/descriptive research methods. In collecting data, researchers use the interview method, structured and unstructured for more in-depth interviews with 20 people consisting of 2 social media expert, 2 hotel employees and 16 active social media users.

Keywords: social media, hotel selection, tourist


Risk assessment for air pollutants remains a complex task. In this project, we aimed to assess air pollutant risk through the combination of active air sampling, bioanalytical assessment and selective chemical analysis. To achieve this air samples were collected over several weeks from both indoor and outdoor sites and subjected to a range of bioanalytical assays. Both XAD (gas phase) and filter paper (particles) samples were tested for responses in genotoxicity, Ah-receptor response, estrogenicity and respiratory toxicity assays. The method of sampling, sample extraction and processing principally targeted semivolatile organic chemicals. Phase 1 of the study concerned the set-up of assays, evaluation of blanks and the validation of responses to known chemicals of concerns. Five endpoints were included in the evaluation including non-specific cytotoxicity, genotoxicity, Ah-receptor response, estrogenicity and respiratory immunotoxicity. Dose response assessments for test chemicals were carried out with all assays and standard operating procedures for the testing have been developed. Blank toxicity evaluation found that sampling matrices and the preparation of these requires some attention and it is important to use ultrapure solvent for the preparation of the sampling matrices. Phases 2 and 3 of the project focussed on the testing of actual samples collected at different sites in Queensland and Western Australia. During phase 2, the first evaluation of air samples showed that the assays could detect differences between different sites and in both the gas and particle phase. For example using extracts of filter papers collected from the indoor domestic site a genotoxic and estrogenic response was detectable whereas the extracts of the XAD fraction from the same site registered an effect in the respiratory assay. In the sample collected outdoors at the same location genotoxic and estrogenic responses in the XAD fraction were quantifiable. Phase 3 of the project tested samples collected at a wider range of sites in winter 2007. These sites included an indoor industrial location, two offices, two sites near major roadways, a residential area, light industry and a background site. Selected samples were also subjected to an aqueous extraction for examination of any ionic/water-soluble chemicals present. Results showed that overall, air samples produced a more genotoxic response in terms of direct acting chemicals (-S9) at both indoor and outdoor sites. In most cases the gas phase fraction of these samples was more toxic than the particle phase. The gas and particles phases of the samples collected at the indoor industrial site and a high traffic site were the most toxic. Interestingly the gas phase from the two office sites and the samples collected at the polluted sites produced similar genotoxic responses. Air samples collected at most sites also produced genotoxic responses for chemicals that required metabolic activation to damage DNA (+S9). However, in general, toxicity due to these chemicals was lower than that associated with direct acting chemicals. The genotoxic effect of chemicals requiring metabolic activation was detected in both the gas and particle phase of samples. The gas phase samples collected at the offices and at a high traffic site recorded the highest toxicity. However genotoxic effects were also detected in filter papers collected from three outdoor sites. These sites were all located near roadways. These results suggest that even though industrial and vehicular related National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology Page 3 of 49 activities are associated with the release of genotoxic pollutants, there were also unidentified sources of such chemicals at the office sites. Air samples collected from all sites elicited an Ah receptor response in the CAFLUX bioassay. Results (expressed as TCDD equivalent air concentrations) showed that in contrast to genotoxicity assessed on the umu assay, the Ah-receptor activity was primarily associated with the particle phase of samples. Surprisingly, the sample collected at the high density residential site exceeded equivalent concentrations measured in samples collected at both high traffic sites. Further testing of two samples indicated that the response on CAFLUX was possibly due to chemicals other than dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs. All air samples showed a response in the E-screen bioassays for estrogenicity. Results were expressed as estradiol equivalency adjusted for air volume sampled. In all cases the gas phase of air samples was more estrogenic than the particle phase, usually by a factor 2 or more. The gas phase samples collected from indoors exhibited the highest estrogenicity of all samples. Both water and solvent extracts were tested on the respiratory toxicity assay. Water extracts of filter papers from both high traffic sites were significantly different from one of two field blanks. Solvent extracted samples were not significantly different from the corresponding field blanks. Further work is required to determine why certain samples, including the second field blank, tested as cytotoxic. This study demonstrates that we are exposed to a wide variety of chemical pollutants that have a range of potential health effects. This work has also identified that the gas phase is potentially an important pathway for exposure, particularly for genotoxic effects. Chemicals inhaled via the gas phase are more efficiently transported into the lung and adsorbed by tissue. Traditionally, investigations into the health risk associated with semivolatile organic pollutants in air have not separated the gas and particle phases. A comparison between the umu assay based benzo[a]pyrene (B[a]P) equivalencies and equivalences determined using chemical analysis showed that in the particle phase only 10% of chemicals and in the gas phase, less than 1% of chemicals responsible for the observed effect have been identified. Further work is required to identify the other chemicals that are contributing to the genotoxic response in samples. In contrast, CAFLUX results showed a significant correlation with the PAH analysis, suggesting the dominant component of the samples causing this response were PAHs. This area of research is rapidly producing useful techniques to expand the toolbox available for characterising air quality. Importantly this report shows that the results from such bioanalytical tests could be communicated in terms that were meaningful for air quality managers by using specific chemical equivalencies for comparison to guideline values. This approach has the added advantage of accounting for significantly more of the chemical constituents in a sample. As the comparison to PAH results showed, the traditional approach to air quality management which targets specific chemicals could underestimate the potential risk of exposure at certain sites including indoor locations where humans spend a significant amount of time.


1. Conventional UV-Curable Adhesives for Pressure Sensitive Adhesives The introduction of UV-curable products into many coating and printing processes to replace thermally cured solvent-based systems has become increasingly successful in recent years. The basic advantages of the UV-technology over solvent-based systems have raised also the interest of the pressure sensitive adhesive industry 13~. These advantages ofUV-curable polymers include their superior ecological qualities and their economic attractiveness due to low capital investment for processing equipment and high productivity as a result of high production speeds. However, in the pressure sensitive adhesive industry, the big commercial breakthrough of UV-curable polymers has not yet occurred. A possible explanation is that the basic approach, which has been favored so far for UV-curable PSAs, has been derived from those systems being successfully commercialized for varnishes and inks, and this approach seems not to be the ideal concept for all the needs of the PSA industry. This conventional concept can be described as a UV-polymerization of monomer-containing mixtures on the carrier. Typical formulations of this kind consist of the following components:


Herein, we report an effective and simple strategy to greatly improve the photoactivity of CdO nanorods (NRs) by decorating them with CdS. The CdO–CdS heterostructured NRs grown on a FTO substrate exhibited substantially higher visible-light-driven photoactivity for a PEC cell and the degradation of methylene blue (MB) solution compared to CdO NRs.


We experienced a case of esophageal cancer successfully resected three years after ensuring bypass operation due to direct tumor invasion to the left main bronchus and radiotherapy. A 68-year-old man was admitted to the hospital becauset of dysphagia and was diagnosed as having an esophageal cancer without distant metastasis in Oct. 1992. Radical esophagectomy with three-field LN dissection was planed, but ended in esophageal bypass because the cancer had invaded the left main bronchus. After the operation radiotherapy (60 Gy) with low dose cisplatin was performed. During a 3-years follow up period since then, neither regrowth of the main tumor, nor distant metastasis had been detected. In Feb. 1996, we resected the excluded esophagus through a left thoracotomy, mostly because the tube esophagostomy had seemed to spoil the QOL of the patient, but partly because we had been afraied of residural tumor. The strong adhesion between the tumor and left main bronchus was noted, however, we could separate the two structures successfully. The resected specimen had no viable cancer cells and the dissected mediastinal lymph nodes were all negative for metastasis histopathologically. Until now he has been well with no signs of recurrence.


This paper describes the process that establishes the coherent clutter video signal module and the design and realization of real-time simulation system in radar multi-target simulation system.Aiming at the generation of abnormality random sequence in simulating process,this paper presents the random vector method and table lookup method to make the zero-memory nonlinear transform.The random vector method is used to finish the linear transform and the table lookup method is used to finish non-linear transform,in order to generate the abnormality coherent random sequence with desired probability distribution and power spectrum covariance functions,and the clutter coherent video signal that correlates with the radar signal occurs again.The correctness and practicality of the methods are certified by simulation results.


Cells of monocytic lineage can initiate extravascular fibrin deposition via expression of blood coagulation mediators. This report is about experiments on three mechanisms with the potential to modulate monocyte-initiated coagulation. Monocyte procoagulant activity was examined as a function of lipid cofactor, protein cofactor, and specific inhibitor expression during short-term culture in vitro. Lipid cofactor activity was measured as the initial rate of factor X activation by intrinsic-pathway components, the assembly of which depends on this cofactor. Lipid cofactor activity levels changed by <30% during 48-h culture. Protein cofactor, i.e., tissue factor (TF) antigen was measured by enzyme immunoassay. It increased from 461 pg/ml to a maximum value of 3,550 pg/ml at 24 h and remained at 70% of this value. Spedfic TF activity, measured as factor VII-dependent factor X activation rate, decreased from 54 to 18 nM FXa/min between 24 and 48 h. TF activity did not correlate well with either lipid cofactor or TF protein levels. In contrast, the decrease in TF activity coincided in time with maximal expression of tissue factor pathway inhibitor (TFPI) mRNA, which was determined using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), and with maximal TFPI protein levels measured by immunoassay. The number of mRNA copies coding for TFPI and TF in fleshly isolated blood monocytes were 46 and 20 copies/cell, respectively. These values increased to 220 and 63 copies/cell during short-term cell culture in the presence of endotoxin. Results demonstrate concomitant expression by monocytes of genes coding for both the essential protein cofactor and the specific inhibitor of the extrinsic coagulation pathway. Together with functional and antigenic analyses, they also imply that the initiation of blood dotting by extravascular monocyte/macrophages can be modulated locally by TFPI independently of plasma sources of the inhibitor. H 'emostatic balance is maintained by localized crosscata-9 lytic and inhibitory reactions connecting the intrinsic, extrinsic, and common coagulation pathways (1-4). These reactions are ultimately dependent on tissue factor (TF) 1, an integral membrane protein selectively expressed by proco-agulant cells. TF procoagulant activity is associated with monocytes/macrophages and perturbed endothelial cells, but not with polymorphonuclear leukocytes, lymphocytes, or platelets (4-6). TF functions as an essential cofactor for factor t Abbreviations used in this pa~r: EIA, enzyme immunoassay; LPSR, low protein serum replacement; Mo-MLV-RT, Moloney murine leukemia virus R~ KT, reverse transcriptase; TF, tissue factor; TFPI, tissue factor pathway inhibitor. VIIa in the extrinsic pathway-protease complex and is therefore indispensable for rapid …


The purpose of this study was for the adult woman that provides the investigation, analysis, consideration of the relationship with clothing behavior and self-efficacy depends on their skin care grade. Data were collected from 477 adult females and analyzed by using frequency, dispersion analysis, ANOVA, t-test, Duncan test utilizing SPSS 10.0 program. The results were as follows: The younger and the more educated respondents were the better their skin care. Also, the more they spent on clothes, the more they spent on cosmetic products. For occupations, professionals were to have better skin care. It was expose that 20s and 30s are shown difference for all low rank leading persons except conformity in the midst of it is clothing behavior main point by skin care management degree, 40s appeared that difference is seen in interest, psychological dependence, aesthetics, management. It was expose that difference does not exist in liver that is clothing behavior main point by skin care administration degree in 50s. 20s appeared difference in general self-efficacy divination in self-efficacy, and 30s appeared that skin care degree is high as general self-efficacy and physical self-efficacy are high. It was expose that 40s and 50s are no difference of self-efficacy in between group by skin care degree.


Two mathematical models of the Laptev and East Siberian seas coastal dynamics – multifactor model and multiplicative phenomenological model – have been developed and used for evaluation of their coastal retreat rate during the Holocene. Thermo-erosion aff ecting their ice-rich coasts occurred most intensely during the Subboreal period (from 10 to 20 m/year) in the Holocene and in the Early Middle Ages (8–15 m/year). Average rate of the east Siberian seas coastline retreat caused by coastal permafrost degradation ranged for the most part between 2 and 6 m/year over 500 years BP. However, it has drastically increased to 8–19 m/year in the last 40 years. Modern climatic conditions and retreat rates of the ice-rich coasts are found to be close to those existing during the Atlantic and Subboreal optimums of the second half of Holocene, when the mean air temperature anomalies reached 2 °C and more during thawing season (July through September), in the absence of multiyear ice in the Siberian seas.


Stroke is the leading cause of disability and death in the world. Each year, 15 million people worldwide suffer strokes. This study aims to analyze the relationship between the economic consequences and the units of utility in Mexican acute ischemic stroke (AIS) survivors who attended the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery in Mexico City and who were treated with dapsone (a neuroprotective drug) versus placebo in addition to conventional treatment.


The main problem arising when processing seed material in electromagnetic field of ultrahigh frequency (EMF UHF) is unevenness of heating. Despite a large number of the works directed on definition of degree of unevenness of heating of material in EMF UHF the question of distribution of temperature fields in volume of seed material re-mains low studied It is connected first of all with the problem of simultaneous measurement of tempera-ture in a set of points of volume of the processed material, to measure which it is possible by means of the thermal imager. Therefore research of influ-ence of degree of unevenness of heating of colza seeds in EMF UHF on their energy of growth be-came the objective of our work. For this purpose the seeds of colza which were previously brought to humidity of 20 % were filled in three layers in ca-pacity with a diameter of 25 cm. Each layer was made about 15 mm. Between layers a grid from radiotransparent material was made. The grid al-lowed cleaning instantly a layer of seeds for re-search of distribution of a temperature field of seeds the thermal imager the plane which is under a grid. Processing of seeds of a colza of EMF UHF was made at the following input parameters: Ores = 1529 W/dm3, t = 60 with. It was proved by the con-ducted researches of temperature fields that in the household microwave oven there is an uneven heating of the studied material in this connection various laboratory viability was observed, thus une-venness of heating varies: in the top layer of the processed material it was from 27.3 to 46.7oC. With (at an average temperature on the area 36.2oC and coefficient of a variation was 12.9 %) viability of seeds made 81.7 %; on average a layer of the pro-cessed material was from 28.2 to 49.7°C (at an av-erage temperature on the area of 36.2°C and coef-ficient of a variation of 7.9 %) viability of seeds made 87.2 %; in the lower layer of the processed material it was from 32 to 49.1о С. (at an average temperature on the area 42.7о С and coefficient of variation 7.5 %) viability of seeds made 83.2 %.


We report our experience with pigtail tube drainage in the treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax, including the use of the pigtail with a one-way-valve bag only and with the water-sealed bottle system, and compare this to the traditional chest tube thoracotomy. One hundred and seventy patients were included and analyzed. One hundred and three patients were treated with the pigtail tube (82 patients were treated with a pigtail tube connected to a one-way-valve bag, and 21 with an underwater seal), and 67 patients were treated with the traditional chest tube. The extubation time, mean hospital stay, evacuation rate, and total cost were similar, without significant statistical difference. In the chest tube group (success rate, 78%), fifteen patients underwent surgical intervention due to delayed resolution, hemopneumothorax, and personal considerations; and in the pigtail group (success rate, 70%), thirty-one patients underwent other procedures for pneumothorax, including chest tube insertion and surgical intervention. This verifies our initial suspicion that the pigtail drainage system is effective but not superior to the chest tube system. Between the two subgroups using the pigtail drainage system (one with a one-way-valve bag and one with an underwater-sealed bottle), the extubation time, mean hospital stay, and evacuation rate were similar, but the total cost was higher in the underwater seal group. Therefore, when considering ambulatory ability and good patient compliance, pigtail tube drainage with a one-way-valve bag system can be considered the initial treatment of choice for spontaneous pneumothorax.


The synthesis of the four 1,1′-binaphthyl-based macrocyclic bisphosphane ligands 6b–e (racemic and optically active) and their square-planar cis-P2-MCl2 complexes (M = Ni, Pd) is reported. In three cases isomers could be isolated and identified. The absolute and relative stereochemistry of all ligands and complexes was established on the basis of their NMR and CD spectra and finally confirmed by X-ray structural determinations of selected ligands and complexes.


This study gives an overview of the existing research on position generator measures, tracks their popularity over time, and examines the extent to which research results would differ due to the use of different position generator measures. We focus on two research topics: (1) the association between social capital and socioeconomic attainment; and (2) the association between social capital and self- rated health. The relationship between social capital on the one hand and socioeconomic attainment and health on the other lies, among others, at the very heart of the social capital research paradigm, and our hoice of these indicators will hopefully provide an appropriate test of the position generator approach. We examine these topics with two large-scale surveys: the Taking Part Surveys of England and the Netherlands Longitudinal Life Course Study. By examining the outcomes in these two domains and using data from the two social contexts, we aim to enhance the generalizability of this study's findings.


The biggest risk for the appearance of episodes of wheezing in infants and children comes from the infections by respiratory viruses. The viruses most freque...


The relationship between the reliability probabilities of the component and the system is hard to get. If this relationship can be obtained easily, the reliability of the system can be calculated by using the reliability structures of the components. The common method to express this relationship is using the linear correlation index, which only shows the linear correlation between the components failure rather than the relationship between high nonlinear functions. In order to describe this relationship accurately and calculate the system reliability using the component reliability structures, a Uniform Design (UD)-Saddlepoint Approximation (SA)-based system reliability analysis method is proposed. The system reliability analysis method is decomposed to three simple steps: (1) calculating the weight coefficient which represents the contribution rate of each component to system reliability, (2) approximating Cumulant Generation Function (CGF) of each component, (3) calculating CGF of the system and approximating the system reliability with SA method. The weight coefficient of each component is derived from UD method, and a variable interval selection method is developed to decrease the required number of samples and increase the accuracy of the weight coefficients. First-Order Saddlepoint Approximation (FOSA) method or Mean-Value First-Order Saddlepoint Approximation (MVFOSA) method is used to analyze the CGF of a component performance function. Then the CGF of the system can be obtained by the weighted addition law by combining the CGFs of components performance functions with the weight coefficients. Finally, the system reliability can be approximated by SA method. Four examples are employed to demonstrate that the new method outperforms other methods for system reliability analysis in terms of efficiency and accuracy.


sign and data capture, the multicenter nature of the study, and the 1-year follow-up for all patients. Unfortunately, despite a good design and a large number of patients, most comparisons failed to demonstrate statistically significant differences. In univariate analysis, increases in age, National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance score [2], American Society of Anesthesiology score [3], and duration of operation were significantly associated with an increase in the rate of surgical site infection. In multivariate analysis, only duration of operation of 175th percentile was a significant risk of surgical


The paper underlines that personalities of Composer, Performer and Listener account for the humanitarianism of music. The writer explores the dynamics of manifestations of Composer, Performer and Listener's personalities in the historical context.


A new type of arcless AC contactor with optical, mechanical and electrical integration was introduced. The arcless electronic control circuit of SCR in parallel with main contacts of the contactor and the operating principle of a visor which is linkage with moving contacts were described. The structure features and main technical performance of the arcless type AC contactor were given.


In an extraventricular pot experiment,Fagopyrum dibotry seedlings were planted under various light intensities,and their biomass was determined after 75 d and their physiological indexes were determined after15 d,30 d,45 d,60 d and 75 d.Biomass per plant was significantly higher in the treatment of 50.32% sunshine than in other treatments.In weak light treatments(20.85 and 6.98% sunshine),biomass accumulation decreased,and the seedlings allotted more biomass to the leaf,root and petiole and less biomass to the main stem and branches to adapt to the weak light environment.With the decrease in light intensity,contents of chlorophyll a,chlorophyll b,chlorophyll a+b,soluble protein and proline of the seedlings increased and chlorophyll a/b and soluble sugar content decreased.In the 4 different treatments,the effects of light intensity on chlorophyll and proline were significant statistically.In cultivation of F.dibotrys,proper shading at the seedling stage with a relative light intensity of 50% will be beneficial to the growth of the plants.


The chemical surface structure in perovskite oxides has been identified by monitoring the oscillation intensity of reflection high energy electron diffraction patterns during initial growth of MO (M=Sr, Ba) films on the perovskite substrate. This successful analysis technique is demonstrated for the film growth on A and B-site oxides terminated ABO3 substrates. Epitaxial growth of MO thin films is dominated by chemical interaction between the growing lattice and the underlying atomic layer to follow the crystal habit of forming a more stable layer unit cell. This simple technique can be used as a substitute to relevant physical techniques such as coaxial impact-collision ion scattering spectroscopy and friction force microscopy that are currently used techniques to determine the termination layer.


A suspension of graphite ore, floated graphite, and the gangue left over from flotation were subjected to the action of macrosounds under determinant conditions. The following was found: (1) The graphite ore undergoes an efficient settling action. (2) The floated graphite is strongly crushed down to the dimensions of colloidal graphite. (3) The gangue left over from flotation can be further processed to recuperate graphite from its nuclei.


We study solutions of the Bethe Ansatz equations for the cyclotomic Gaudin model of (Vicedo B., Young C.A.S., arXiv:1409.6937). We give two interpretations of such solutions: as critical points of a cyclotomic master function, and as critical points with cyclotomic symmetry of a certain \extended" master function. In finite types, this yields a correspondence between the Bethe eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the cyclotomic Gaudin model and those of an \extended" non-cyclotomic Gaudin model. We proceed to define populations of solutions to the cyclotomic Bethe equations, in the sense of (Mukhin E., Varchenko A., Commun. Contemp. Math. 6 (2004), 111{163, math.QA/0209017), for dia- gram automorphisms of Kac{Moody Lie algebras. In the case of type A with the diagram automorphism, we associate to each population a vector space of quasi-polynomials with specified ramification conditions. This vector space is equipped with a Z2-gradation and a non-degenerate bilinear form which is (skew-)symmetric on the even (resp. odd) graded subspace. We show that the population of cyclotomic critical points is isomorphic to the variety of isotropic full flags in this space.


Aiming at huge computation of super-exponential iteration (SEI) algorithm, meanwhile the severe inter-symbol interference (ISI) caused by multi-path fading, in the fractionally spaced blind equalization algorithm which based on super- exponential iteration algorithm, fractionally spaced mixed blind equalization algorithm which based on orthogonal wavelet transform (FWSW) is proposed. The proposed algorithm uses the fast convergence speed characteristic of SEI algorithm to revise the iteration equation of feedforward weight vectors for decision feedback structure blind equalizer, uses the de-correlation ability of wavelet transform to improve the convergence rate, and the computation complexity can be reduced by rarefing the feedforward weight vectors, then uses the phase-locked loop (PLL) to correct phase rotation. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has fast convergence rate, low ISI and computational complexity, and can correct the channel- introduced carrier phase rotation.


This study aimed to investigate the effects of alcohol consumption (AC) on maxillofacial fractures caused by falls on a level surface (simple falls).


Male barnacle goose Branta leucopsis display duration is longest when females respond with loud repetitious calls, intermediate when females follow silently and shortest when females call softly. We argue that these encouraging and discouraging vocalizations and the associated posturing is an influential behaviour used during the mate choice, pair maintenance and aggressive interaction processes.


Study aimed: The current study aimed to examine the relationship between psychological rebellion and the suggestibility among children of slum areas and to reveal the differences between children of slums and children of planned areas in both psychological rebellion and suggestibility. Method and procedures: The researcher used the descriptive comparative approach, And The study sample consisted of (50) a boy and a girl from slum areas and (50) a boy and a girl from planned areas with mean age (10. 180), they completed the psychological rebellion scale (by researcher), the suggestibility scale (by researcher) and the Assiut University scale for non-verbal intelligence (Prepared by: Taha Al-Mestkawi, 2000). The results: showed that there is a statistically significant positive relation between the psychological rebellion of children and the suggestibility of children It also showed that there are differences statistically significant between children from slums and children from the planned areas on the scale of children's psychological rebellion favoring of children in slums, as well as the there are differences statistically significant between children From slum areas and children from planned areas on the scale of suggestibility to children, favoring children in slum areas.


This study evaluates the utilization of clozapine in the treatment of therapy‐refractory schizophrenia in terms both of patterns of care and of health care costs in a community psychiatric service in Italy. Data covering the year prior to commencing clozapine and the year following the initiation of the therapy were collected. Clinical outcome was assessed by means of the Clinical Global Impression (CGI) and Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scales. Cost analysis followed a two‐step procedure: (i) to record all health care services provided to patients and (ii) to assign a monetary value to each service. Three of the 15 patients enrolled in the study dropped out before the end of the 12‐month period of therapy. Considering the 12 patients on clozapine treatment for at least 1 year, clinical improvements are associated with a substantial modification of the pattern of care. While patients in the pre‐clozapine period were mainly managed in hospital settings, patients on clozapine were prevalently placed in the community and participated in intensive rehabilitative programmes. The higher costs of drug therapy and community services in the post‐clozapine period were more than offset by the lower costs of acute hospital care.


In Reply. —The availability of a clinical history certainly affects the interpretations of radiologists. We agree with Dr Vermont that informing the radiologists in our study that patients belonged to either high-risk or low-risk groups might have had a significant impact on their diagnoses. We believe, however, that his proposed scenario would simply replicate the effect of adding the history. Our results showed that, even when such influences are avoided, radiologists' diagnoses are not based solely on each set of films. "Context bias" demonstrates the effect of particular sequences or combinations of films. These influences of history, risk, and context complicate the objective assessment of radiologic tests, although their relation to the outcomes of patient care remains unexplored.


Based on the practical condition that water resource is lacking and water environment is polluted. In this paper, we discuss and analyze the necessary of recycling of water resource, and point out the ways to realize the recycling of wastewater to accelerate our national water resource to be utilized sustained.


Introduction was made to the features of ROC425 absolute photoelectric encoder and its Endat 2.2 bidirection digital interface.This paper raised a method based on FPGA(field programmable gate array)to read out absolute encoder value,giving out methods for hardware and software design and simulation waveform diagram.The method has achieved signals parallel reading and it has been successfully applied in a rubber dam water level test and control with better effect.


Network security testing can be done at different levels of fidelity. This can involve simply scanning a network to identify any open ports for services and versions of services, to uncovering novel vulnerabilities in proprietary or undocumented services. The granularity of such an analysis depends not only on time and cost, but also on the availability of client software that can be used to interact with the different services. Complexity increases when the underlying protocol is undocumented or nontrivial. In this case, testers must first understand the protocols, and then develop software that can be used to interact; past the common handshake or initial connection behavior to uncover vulnerabilities. In this paper, we present an architecture that marries protocol reverse engineering and network fuzzing through a graphical interface. We have developed a proof of concept (PoC) that is capable of intercepting packets between source and destination nodes; allowing analysts to use the interface to interactively or pseudo-interactively (using hooks) observe, modify, drop, and/or forward the traffic during security tests. We designed our experimentation methodology with two perspectives in mind: blue-teaming (cooperative grey/white box) and redteaming (non-cooperative, black box). We report performance of our PoC with the Transport Control Protocol.


【Objective】 To investigate the effect of Gln on HGF and KGF on acute lung injury(ALI) in rats induced by sepsis.【Method】 The acute lung injury model(ALI) in Rats was induced with sepsis by cecal ligation and puncture.Forty healthy adult SD rats were randomly divided into control group,operation group,and treatment group by Gln.The operation group adopted cecal ligation and puncture,the treatment group received an intravenous infusion of 0.75 g/kg Gln after cecal ligation and puncture.In operation group,6 rats were randomly killed 6h after operation,last 5 rats were killed 24 h after operation.In treatment group,6 rats were killed 6 h after medication,last 8 rats were killed 24 h after medication.Serum was collected after experiment and kept in refrigerator at-20℃.HGF,KGF in the serum were detected by ELISA.Pulmonary tissue was examined by microscope.The effect of Gln on HGFand KGF in the serum was investigated.【Result】 Compared with the operation group,HGF,KGF in serum of treatment group significantly increased(P 0.05).【Conclusion】 Intravenous administration of Gln can promote the secretion of HGF and KGF and the repair damaged tissues.


A 32-year-old female with past medical history of minimally invasive carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma (CXPA) presented to the Ear Nose and Throat service with right temporomandibular joint pain and otorrhea. Patient underwent right parotidectomy a year prior and had completed radiation therapy. Upon physical examination, right ear mucus drainage and radiation changes over the right parotid with surrounding edema extending to lateral neck were observed. Computed tomography (CT) of the head was requested (Figure 1). Fine needle aspiration was performed and demonstrated malignant epithelioid neoplasm consistent with CXPA. The patient's history of CXPA presented a year ago is characterized by a tumor consisting of a pleomorphic adenoma with extensive intracapsular carcinoma. The tumor showed necrosis and a focus of minimal extracapsular invasion measuring 1 mm from the capsule of the tumor. Positive Ki-67 immunostain was consistent with the diagnosis.


This paper proposes a method of constructing weak control-Lyapunov functions for nonlinear systems by introducing a topological geometric assumption called a Morse-Smale system. A Lyapunov function is one of the most important tools to study stability and stabilization of nonlinear systems. However, a general way of finding Lyapunov functions has not been found yet. First, we confirm there is a weak Lyapunov function for Morse-Smale systems. Next, we define the escapability for singular structures of the weak Lyapunov function. If all singular structures are escapable, then the Morse-Smale system is a globally asymptotically stabilizable one. Finally, we present the method of constructing a set of weak control-Lyapunov functions to achieve global stabilization. The method is described in terms of a recursive sequence of singular structures. We call the sequence a weak Lyapunov filtration.


Abstract Mycobacterium abscessus is a rapidly growing, multidrug-resistant mycobacteria, commonly associated with pulmonary, skin, and soft tissue infections. We describe a rare case of M abscessus endovascular stent infection; only 3 cases of graft infections have previously been reported.


The effect of adsorbed sulfur on the rate of methanation over W(110) is reported for a range of sulfur coverages (0.03-0.55 monolayers) and temperatures (600-750 K) for 1 Torr of CO and 100 Torr of hydrogen. The rate drops sharply for low sulfur coverages (by 40% at 0.05 monolayer) but decreases less dramatically for higher coverages. This contrasts with the data of Goodman and Kiskinova for Ni, which exhibits an order of magnitude drop for 0.05 monolayer S. Postreaction Auger spectra reveal that the sulfur-free surface for this sample is covered with both carbidic carbon and oxygen and is oxygen-rich. Increasing sulfur coverages leads to little change in the postreaction carbon level but does cause the oxygen coverage to fall substantially, to zero by 0.40 monolayer S. The activation energy for methanation is unaffected by the presence of sulfur, suggesting that the decrease in rate is caused by sulfur limiting the saturation coverages that can be attained by the reactants. This possibility motivated a thermal desorption study of CO and hydrogen adsorption on sulfur precovered surfaces. Good agreement is obtained between the changes in these saturation coverages and the decrease in methanation rate due to the presence of sulfur whenmore » small coverages of coadsorbed oxygen are present. The coverage of coadsorbed oxygen used in the thermal desorption measurements was based on the postreaction Auger spectra. These results taken as a whole suggest that the inhibiting effect of sulfur appears to be suppressed by the formation of sulfur clusters above approx. 0.05 monolayer S.« less


Huawei is now China's most prominent multinational company. In 2018, Huawei achieved sales of USD 105.2 billion and operated in over 170 countries around the world, employing around 188,000 people. Forty-five percent of all employees are focused on R&D (Huawei, 2019), giving the firm strong technological capabilities. Huawei has now even surpassed Ericsson and Nokia to become the largest telecommunication infrastructure equipment company in the world. It is also the second largest maker of smart phones. Not surprisingly, academics, business leaders, and policy makers have become very interested in understanding how Huawei has been able to rise from its humble beginnings in Shenzhen as an importer of analog telephone switches to a globally operating information technology manufacturing and service firm. Huawei is now frequently featured on the cover of international business magazines (Economist, 2012) or as a case study inWestern business schools (Hitt, Ireland, and Hoskisson, 2008; Peng, 2010) because it has accomplished something that is still rare for a Chinese company: turning itself into a world-leading company and R&D powerhouse.


Structural health monitoring (SHM) can be defined as the process of developing and implementing structural damage detection strategies. Ideally, this detection should be carried out in real time before damage reaches a critical state and impairs structural performance and safety. Hence, it must be based on sensorial systems permanently installed on the target structures and on fully automatic detection methodologies.


(1998). When Food is the Voice: A Case Study of a Polish-American Woman. Journal for the Study of Food and Society: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 21-28.


OBJECTIVE To study the neuroprotective effect of tea polyphenol(TP)on mouse brain slices subjected to oxygen glucose deprivation(OGD)and glutamate(Glu)injury.METHODS The models of OGD and Glu-injury in mouse brain slices were established.Neuronal damage was assessed by using TTC staining method and measurement of LDH release.Besides,SOD activity in OGD slices was assessed.And magnesium-contained/free ACSF was used to further study Glu injury,and the effects of TP and MK801 on Glu-injury slices were compared as well.RESULTS TP(1,3,10 mg·L-1)was able to prevent OGD/Glu-induced injury significantly in mouse cortical and hippocampal slices.It could also increase SOD activity in OGD slices greatly.In addition,1,3 mmol·L-1 of Glu markedly decreased the viability of the whole brain slices,and the viability of slices incubated with magnesium-contained ACSF was constantly better than that relevantly incubated with magnesium-free ACSF.TP(10 mg·L-1)and MK801(0.03 mmol·L-1)produced similar significant effects on Glu-injury slices,and the protective rates of both the drugs were affected little by the two types ACSF.CONCLUSION TP can exert significant neuroprotection against OGD/Glu-induced injury in mouse brain slices,which is probably partly through enhancing levels of SOD and through attenuating excitotoxicity mediated by NMDA receptor.


MTI recently completed an initial technology feasibility program for NASA by designing, fabricating and testing a space power demonstrator engine (SPDE). This program, which confirms the potential of free-piston Stirling engines, provided the major impetus to initiate a free-piston Stirling space engine (SSE) technology program. The accomplishments of the SPDE program are reviewed, and an overview of the SSE technology program and technical status to date is provided. It is shown that progress in both programs continues to justify its potential for either nuclear or solar space power missions.<<ETX>>


The continuing increase of price of real estate has become the important factor to influence the life quality of Chinese citizens.As a part of economic development,it also has great influence on the behavior of government.The real estate can be divided into two parts: dwell-oriented real estate and business-oriented real estate.Recently,Chinese government has strongly taken measures to control the price of dwell-oriented real estate,attempting to make it stable in the rational level.However,the effectiveness of control needs further evaluation.The paper aims at the Housing Sales Price Index(HSPI) in China Statistics Yearbook,using the Gray Correlation Analysis Model to analyze the relationship degree between population-economics factors and HSPI.And the population-economics factors are measured by four dimensions: population size factors,population quality factors,population survival factors and population dependency ratio factors.


ABSTRACT Recent proposals by the British government to radically reform initial teacher education have generated responses from both higher education and schools. The views of student teachers concerning their levels of satisfaction with current training have not been widely reported. This paper redresses the balance by collecting information from 122 Postgraduate Certificate of Education students who trained at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, in 1989 and 1990. Their responses are analysed in the context of the proposals for secondary courses which have moved from a recommendation that 80% should be school‐based to one which requires students to spend 24 out of 36 weeks in school. There is also reflection upon the arguments for reform put forward by various right wing institutions and individuals.


India is least urbanized among top ten economies of the world. Recent years have seen a spurt in development in various sectors, and a transition of work force out from agriculture to other sectors; this coupled with jobless growth has made a huge flow of unskilled labours from various states. The so called Migrants, the faceless nameless people who are the real driver's of our economy. They move from their states to other places in search of a livelihood, to sustain and survive, and contribute to our economy, in a subtle way we never actually thought off. There are many reasons for this, regional disparities, employment opportunities, are most prominent. Never the less their invisible hands are more needed than ever now, as we unlock and head towards economic activity, but maybe we have failed the migrant labours as a society. India's informal workforce is made up of 80% migrant workers, and yet we haven't given them the credibility they deserve. May be it's time now, to acknowledge who they are, and what they are, else we risk losing the major workforce of our country, and face unprecedented economic consequences.