Following cauterization in different regions of each larval segment, different effects – on growth and pattern – in the adult hemitergite were obtained. A correspondence between different segments in the larva and in the adult was found, with the exception of the VIIth abdominal segment in the male, which apparently has no adult cuticular representation. The histoblasts forming the imaginal Anlage are grouped in the central part of the larval hemisegment. Following cauterization, the viable histoblasts only partially replace the killed ones, giving rise to incomplete tergites. Pattern damages are characteristic of the cauterized region. Cauterization in marginal regions of the abdominal segment, although not killing the histoblasts, induce specific fusions and penetrations between neighbouring colateral and contralateral hemitergites. The effects of cauterization on the number of cuticular elements and their disposition in the adult pattern are discussed.


The following is a case ofno very unusual occurrence:A mother loses her infant, and, broken-hearted at the event, she neglects to pay that attention to herself which her case requires. No attempts being made to relieve the distended breast of iUs secretion, the gland becomes hard and painful. and at lenath abscesses form in different situatfons. If the treatment is confined to the evacuation of matter by puncture, and to the application of fomentations and poultices but little good is done. The former abscesses coutinue to discharge; fresh ones are constantly forming, and the woman at length sinks into a. state of hectic. Means should be used to stop the secretion of milk, which has been going on all this time, and perpetuating the mischief. We have no better means of effecting this than by the administration of a hydrogogue purgative. I am usually in the habit of prescribing the sulphate of magnesia in the compound infusion of roses, to whicb, wben there is much hectic and debility, I add some quinine, and ditute sulphuric acid. The effect of this treatment is sometimes almost magical. I have known a woman, who for months had been suffering from a succession of mammary abscesses, begin to get well from the moment that the salts produced its liquid evacuations from the bowels; the secretion of milk ceased, and the purulent discharge diminished, a more adhesive inflammation being established in the place of these two actions.


Malcolm Barber, Penspen Ltd, UK, describes the complex planning and negotiations involved when routing a pipeline through a variety of terrains, including landowner issues and environmental and conservation areas.


This paper proposes an architecture and route control scheme of the layer 1 repeater-based IAB system, which can expand a high-frequency radio access area with high-quality communication service. Although repeaters just amplify and retransmit radio signals, the proposed system enables building a multi-hop network using beamforming and scanning. It introduces an external route control server to calculate the route tree under the limited hop count requirement and minimize the total route tree cost. This paper also shows its effectiveness through simulations using the NetworkX package.


A new formulation, the unknowns of which are the current j and the magnetic field h on the boundary of the material, is given. We obtain good results in a short time


Carbamate-linked Oligodeoxynucleosides, in which the backbone consists of carbamate and N-methylcarbamate linkages, have been analyzed by negative ion liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry. Bidirectional sequence-determining fragmentations are postulated to occur from a common radical anion intermediate that is produced by capture of an ionizing electron by the neutral sample molecule. Fragmentation reactions appear to be related to whether a proton or methyl group is present on the amide nitrogen.


A study has been made of the emission spectra at 77°K from poly A, poly U, poly C, their complexes, and from native and heat‐denatured DNA in buffered aqueous solutions containing 0·25 per cent glucose: no emission was observed from these polynucleotides at room temperature. The spectra differed from those obtained in the polyalcoholic glasses used by other workers. The principal differences between the emission spectra of poly A and adenosine at pH 7 in a water‐glucose mixture were: (a) a decrease in both P/F and the overall intensity in poly A; (b) absence of the structure normally found in adenosine phosphorescence; and (c) appearance of a new short‐lived component in the phosphorescence decay. Further changes in the emission characteristics (e.g. the increase of P/F, the proportional increase of the short‐lived component in the phosphorescence decay) from poly A were observed at pH 5. These can not be explained solely by protonization of adenosine residues, but rather appear to depend upon exciton interactions of the most intense π–π* transition in double‐stranded poly A. and perturbation of the lowest‐lying emitting band. When poly A or poly C is complexed with poly U or poly I the luminescence intensity decreases in two‐strand complexes and is completely quenched in poly (A + 2U), poly (A+2I) and poly (C++I); no emission was observed from either, single‐strand poly I or poly U. Identical emission patterns were obtained from native and heat‐denatured samples of DNA. The comparison of polynucleotide emission spectra in the water‐glucose medium with those obtained from polyalcoholic glasses leads to the conclusion that the emission spectra depend most critically upon the relative proportions of base‐solvent and base‐base interactions in each environment: the possible importance of proton tunneling and/or triplet‐triplet transfer mechanisms is briefly discussed.


Concerning the existence of all living beings, environmental issues take a crucial standpoint in the area of constructive journalism. Through positive psychology and solution-based approaches, it moves from the rigid ethical tenets of objectivity and impartiality, and employs practices based on reflexivity and advocacy for social concerns including pressing environmental issues. Can this change of journalistic narrative be considered significant? If so, does it imply any shifts in existing media culture that embodies a new set of ethics? This paper studies the ethics emerging out of constructive journalism based on environmental discourses and reviews 25 global environmental stories with constructive attributes through content analysis. With non-alarmist headlines, solutions-based and restorative approaches, and comprehensive narratives, it was found that these articles did not flout any ethical principles besides environmental advocacy. A shift in ethical code is recommended to entirely accommodate reflexive and transformative narratives in the field of journalism.


Mathematics is about the systematic exploitation, by abstract and symbolic means, of regularities or patterns observed in the world. These regularities may be precise and predictable, like the Keplerian motions of the planets, or they may be merely statistical tendencies discerned with difficulty in apparently chaotic phenomena. The latter is the more usual in the biological sciences, but genetics stands somewhat apart because of the rather simple 'laws' of heredity postulated by Mendel. These make it possible to bring mathematical arguments to bear on genetical problems, to clarify the consequences of biological hypotheses and to suggest experiments which will discriminate between them.


dependent citizens who engage in various forms of collective deliberation. At best, and as the authors suggest, citizens are not "perfect" guardians of the political process, but they are "pretty good" guardians. The final section of the book takes the argument into a realm not often entered by most contemporary political science scholarship. Harkening back to a tradition of scholarshipmore akin to Progressive Era intellectuals, Page and Gilens call for a new social movement—a citizen movement aimed at enhancing the underlying institutions of democracy. Drawing on the lessons of the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century, the New Deal era, and the civil rights movement, Page and Gilens offer a roadmap for democratizing the current political system. Overall, Page and Gilens offer a comprehensive analysis of a number of problems confronting the continuing pursuit of democracy in America. Their proposed solution—decreasing the power of money in politics and empowering ordinary citizens—is hard to argue with on normative grounds. As a result, we are much in agreement with the authors. To facilitate a critical dialogue, however, we point to three potential challenges to their optimistic view of enhanced citizen participation as leading to more economic equality. First, Page and Gilens view the divide between wealthy elites and the mass public as the primary disruptor of democratic processes. One might argue, however, that we have also seen a contagion of citizen-led grassroots disruptions of democratic processes in relatively recent American history. These democratic disruptions are not simply a consequence of elite provocateurs; they are sometimes amplified by patterns of communication among citizens who are engaged in full-throated attacks aimed not only at political elites but also at their fellow citizens. Citizens demonstrating on behalf of civil rights in 1965 were attacked as they peacefully marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. This was not merely the activity of rogue law enforcement, however: it was indeed supported by a large part of the white population. More recently, activists of the Far Right have clashed with protesters demanding police reform in places like Minneapolis, Portland, Washington, DC, Kenosha, and elsewhere. Second, Page and Gilens envision a form of collective deliberation among ordinary citizens that counterbalances the dominant role of moneyed elites (pp. 8–14). Although many individual citizens may not pay a great deal of attention to politics, they are typically located in networks of communication with other citizens that carry the potential to provide political guidance when those individual opinions become aggregated. The problem is, of course, that the same processes that communicate useful, factual information are also capable of communicating misleading, incoherent, and simply false information. Page and Gilens address the problem of misinformation propagated by elites (pp. 63–66), but they pay less attention to misinformation that can be spread by citizens themselves. The rise of social media makes it more difficult to discern misinformation even within self-chosen networks of communication. Thus, how well collective deliberation works in an environment where misleading or false information may be easily spread by citizens, either intentional or not, remains an important question. Third, as Page and Gilens argue, "Most countries have, in effect, used public policies to insure that the economic gains from advanced technology and international trade are widely shared. We [the United States] have not" (p. 47). The question that arises, is Why not? Page and Gilens point to the concentration of economic wealth among elites that frustrates the calls for more generous social welfare policies. Our own analyses point toward the absence of a successfully unified working-class coalition— an absence that has typically arisen due to divisions and competition within the working classes, frequently based on race and ethnicity. For example, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the steady stream of new working-class immigrants coming to US cities from other countries, as well as from rural America, created surplus labor that made it difficult to organize powerful working-class movements. It also created racial and ethnic conflict within the US working class. Although the American labor movement made important strides in organizing the working class, the internal ethnic and racial divisions within the working class limited their efforts. More recently, regressive populists, notably Donald Trump, have once again dialed up racial resentment as an electoral strategy to divide racial and ethnic groups with otherwise common economic interests. These challenges do not detract from the overall scope and message of the book. Page and Gilens have written a thoughtful, accessible assessment of contemporary American politics. It deserves attention from anyone who cares about the future of America's governing institutions.


We analyze effect of financial structure on option valu e embedded in RD project by real option method, which is based on riskless arbi trage principle. When mixed debt and equity financing is used, option value is t he greatest. Option value of Staged debt financing comes next and option value o f one-shot debt financing is the least.


There are numerous places with great eco-tourism potential in Paraiba. Many of these sites constitute protected areas, especially with regard to State Parks, which serve as leisure and ecotourism practices. But, there are several problems involving the use and occupation of these areas, such as inappropriate land use for agricultural purposes; plant extraction, marketing and trafficking of fauna and flora biodiversity, buildings in inappropriate locations, among others. So, this research aimed to analyze the use and occupation of the area comprising the State Park Mata do Pau Ferro, in Areia / PB in order to assess the possible problems / environmental benefits and local ecotourism potential to harmonize economic interests and conservation / preservation of natural resources, with a subsidy to Geoconservation. Therefore, literature surveys were made, it was conducted research on site with any photographs records and application of semi-structured questionnaire, and image processing through remote sensing and GIS. The results helped to the conclusion that the Park presents numerous problems as preservation and conservation, strong human intervention, and the absence of the governing body responsible for the area; but also great potential for economic activities such as ecotourism.


Abstract While 'the home' is omnipresent within studies of home-located work, the physical or material qualities of the home tend to be positioned as a stable setting within which occupants manage the social complications of home-work. By contrast, we discuss how domestic materialities play a dynamic role in home-work, and how these materialities are mediated by specificities of tenure, household type, dwelling size and other factors. Bringing literature on home-located work into conversation with studies of domestic materialities, the paper draws on interviews and focus groups involving 11 female entrepreneurs working from their homes in Aotearoa New Zealand. Through discussion of participants' negotiations with the functionality and aesthetics of their homes, the paper shows how domestic materialities actively shape, in enabling and restricting ways, the practice and experience of home-located work, while keeping sight of how such materialities are patterned by household characteristics and housing market conditions. The paper offers topical insights as people and employers grapple with the normalisation and relative (un)viability of home-located work post-Covid.


The authors intended to apply the paper chromatography as a method to the studies on the variation of leaf pigments and the developmental change according to their growth. Quantitative analysis of chlorophylls was undertaken hitherto by means of colorimetric and spectrometric methods. And the electrospectrometric method (Comar and Zscheile 1942) brought a new exact result for the analysis of chlorophylls. However, by the paper chromatography which is of late rather in vogue, the relative contents of chlorophylls and carotenoids can be measured somewhat simply and speedily. So a result obtained by this application will be reported here.


Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) is a widespread additive manufacturing technology in industrial applications, for metal components manufacturing. Maraging steel is a special class of Fe-Ni alloys, typically used in the aerospace and tooling sectors due to their good combination of mechanical strength and toughness. This work analyses the heat treatment effect on the microstructure and hardness value of 300-grade maraging steel manufactured by the L-PBF process. The considered heat treatment consists of a solution annealing treatment followed by quenching and ageing hardening treatment. The effect of ageing temperature is reported, in a wide temperature range. Results show that solution annealing treatment fully dissolves the solidification structure caused by the L-PBF process. Moreover, the ageing hardening treatment has a significant impact on the hardness, hence on strength, of L-PBF maraging steel. The optimal ageing conditions for the L-PBF maraging steel are identified and reported: in particular, results show that the hardness of 583 HV is achieved following ageing treatment at 490 °C for 6 hours. A higher treatment temperature leads to over-ageing resulting in a decrease of hardness. Conversely, an excessive ageing time does not seem to affect the hardness value, for the ageing temperature of 490 °C.


2 Avoid physical or contact trauma: (i) wear cotton gloves under vinyl gloves for wet work and avoid frequent nail contact with moisture; (ii) wear heavy cotton gloves for dry work; (iii) no artificial nails; (iv) no nail cosmetics of any kind until the disorder has been clinically asymptomatic for at least 1 month; if the patient wishes to use nail cosmetics, start with only a 'clear' top coat first; (v) no tight shoes and/or high heels. 3 Treat any underlying or exacerbating factors, such as psoriasis, lichen planus, or infection. 4 Consider performing patch tests in order to identify any possible allergic cause responsible for perpetuating the disease.


We report the detection of 18 infrared reflection nebulae (IRNe) in the J, H, and Ks linear polarimetric observations of the NGC 6334 massive star-formation complex, of which 16 IRNe are new discoveries. Our images cover ~180 arcmin2, some of the widest near-infrared polarization data in star-formation regions so far. These IRNe are most likely associated with embedded young OB stars at different evolutionary phases, showing a variety of sizes, morphologies, and polarization properties, which can be divided into four categories. We argue that the different nebula characteristics are a possible evolutionary sequence of circumstellar structures around young massive stars.


Social marketing has emerged in the last decades as a popular behavior change approach. Its application has produced mixed results, but the noticeable increase in its application in the environmental arena calls for an assessment of its development. This study presents an analysis of such development in both theory and practice. Results suggest that there is an increasing trend in the application and study of social marketing, but that there are also several conceptual and theoretical problems attached to it. The findings suggest a need to refocus the research and application of social marketing toward the reduction of consumptive behaviors.


The key design and calculation of 1500A switching mode power supply are introduced and some experiences for increasing the reliability of power supply is presented as well.


Rosen et al. first described pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) in 1958. PAP is characterized by the accumulation of phospholipoproteinaceous material in alveolar spaces. The prevalence of PAP is difficult to determine from the literature, however, it is rare. The etiology of this disorder is not yet known. There are two types of PAP based on associated disorders: primary (idiopathic) type, in the absence of identifiable coexisting abnormalities, and secondary type, when conditions including infection, malignant hematologic disease and inorganic dust exposure coexist. In Saudi Arabia there is only one previous report of PAP in a Saudi pregnant female who presented with respiratory failure, and was found to have pulmonary Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, i.e., the secondary form of PAP. In this communication, we report the first adult Saudi male patient with primary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, followed by an updated literature review of disease etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, natural history, and treatment.


The systemic complications of blood donation are the first reasons why patients fail to return for further blood donation. This study was designed to determine the frequency of these complications and their associated risk factors among blood donors in Tehran. Also, we aimed to provide suitable methods to decrease the frequency of these adverse events, thereby eliminating the most important causes of withdrawal, while maintaining the health of the donors. This analytical descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on 554 blood donors who had donated blood from February 2005 through September 2005 in four fixed blood donation bases and four mobile blood collection buses. Each base was considered as a stratum, and a stratified random sampling proportional to size was done to select the donors. Results showed donor reaction rate to be 13.4%, the most common of which were blackout of vision (7%), dizziness (6.3%), fatigue (6.1%) and nausea (1.8%). There was no significant relationship between the incidence of these complications and type of base blood donation or fasting at the time of blood donation. Logistic Regression analysis showed that sex, condition of blood donor, exercise or walking, duration of donation, and practice to recommendation had significant effects on the odds ratio of systemic complication. Regarding the frequency values derived for the different systemic complications it can be concluded that attention to risk factors of these complications and their control can help encourage donors to become repeated donors as well as to prevent their withdrawal for further blood donation.


The study investigated perception of students on Learning Management System and how it affects and benefits their study habit during COVID-19, as well as its effects on their study performance. The study adopted quantitative research approach and survey design where data was gathered using a questionnaire that was created to acquire pertinent information from respondents. The study participants are the 200 and 300 level students of Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, while a total of 358 students administered the questionnaire only 303 responses are used for the study.  The results demonstrated that students' study habits are significantly impacted by the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) as majority of the respondents attest that the use of LMS improved their study habit which in turn affected their study result positively. These could also assist lecturers and university administration to know how well students are able to relate with Learning Management System, how it affects their academic performance and their preparedness to fully adopt the system.


The Academic Computing department at Stanford University has worked on implementing an effective network storage strategy for some time. Students need to be able to access their files in our labs, in their rooms, and even off campus. While removable media in the form of floppy then Zip discs and now USB "thumbdrives" have filled this need to an extent, it is still critical to offer a reliable network option. Central IT has offered a network storage solution for a number of years, but achieving wide-spread use through reliable means has been difficult. They have offered and/or built tools ranging from simple FTP to modified versions of proprietary clients to students to access their home folders. However, it was not until very recently that use of this service has increased. The biggest factor in this change was not simply that the methods for access matured, but that we have designed our desktop experience to make such access seamless and invisible. This, in turn, has encouraged students to use this single solution across campus, in our clusters and on their own machines.


Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Inclusion 1. History 2. Overview 3. Hybridity Part II: Interpretation 4. Survival 5. Hope and Despair 6. Reception Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index


Organisations operating in the West Midlands region of the UK. Based on over fifty interviews, the key themes to emerge from this research centre upon some of the factors that draw women into management (which we term seductive elements) as well as some of the hindering practices that prevent women from progressing. Significantly, managerial careers are associated with gendered assumptions and practices (e.g. facilitating and developing people) which might contribute to construct management (as done by women) as focused on feminine aspects. However, in terms of the lived reality of doing management, such women experience contradictions and conflicting pressures.


In order to realize automatic region matching between source and target images, a multi-source local color transfer algorithm based on texture similarity is proposed. The source and target images are segmented into a set of regions using an image segmentation algorithm. It computes the texture features of each region through the gray level co-occurrence matrix and then constructs corresponding texture feature vectors. The authors measure the relevance between the target and source regions by computing the Euclidean distance between corresponding texture feature vectors. The source region having the largest relevance with the target region is selected as the transfer source. Complete the color transfer by performing color space transformation and linear conversion on color values. Experimental results concerning on multi-source local color transfer and gray image colorization verify the validity of the proposed algorithm.


In this paper, a simple hybrid lossy image compression system is proposed, it is based on combining effective techniques, starts by wavelet transform that decompose the image signal followed by polynomial approximation model of linear based to compressed approximation image band. The error caused by applying polynonial approximation is coded using bit plane slice coding, on the other hand the absolute moment block truncation coding exploited to coded the detail sub bands. Then, the compressed information encoded using LZW, run length coding and Huffman coding techniques. The test results indicate that the proposed system can produce a balance between the compression performance and preserving the image quality.


A process was developed for coating metal parts with 10 to 15 mu of a lamdrated, electrically resistant, mechanically strong, heat resistant ceramic material consisting of alternate layers of dense TiC/sub 2/ and Al/sub 2/C/sub 3/ using Na/sub 2/SiO/sub 3/as a binder for the alunnina. A description of the process is given. (auth)


The regulation of translation elongation plays a vital role in protein folding; an adequate translational pause provides time and cellular environments for the co-translational folding of nascent peptides. However, the genomic landscape, sequence determinants, and molecular consequences of translational pausing remain mostly unknown. In this study, we performed disome-seq that sequenced mRNA fragments protected by two consecutive ribosomes – a product of severe translational pauses during which the upstream ribosome collides into the paused one. We detected severe translational pauses on ∼75% of yeast genes. These pauses were often explained by one of the three mechanisms: 1) slow ribosome releasing at stop codons, 2) slow peptide formation from proline, glycine, asparagine, and cysteine, and 3) slow leaving of polylysine from the exit tunnel of ribosomes. Notably, these amino acids also terminate the α-helical conformation. Such dual roles of amino acids establish an inborn coupling between the synthetic completion of a structural motif and a translational pause. Furthermore, paused ribosomes often recruit chaperones to assist protein folding. As a consequence, emergent protein structures during evolution should be ready to be correctly folded. Collectively, our study shows widespread translational pauses and sheds lights on a better understanding of the regulation of co-translational protein folding.


The pandemic COVID‐19 has caused a high mortality rate and poses a significant threat to the population of the entire world. Due to the novelty of this disease, the pathogenic mechanism of the disease and the host cell's response are not yet fully known, so lack of evidence prevents a definitive conclusion about treatment strategies. The current study employed a small RNA deep‐sequencing approach for screening differentially expressed microRNA (miRNA) in blood and bronchoalveolar fluid (BALF) samples of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients.


Abstract This paper presents PARADISE (PARAdigm for DIalogue System Evaluation), a general framework for evaluating and comparing the performance of spoken dialogue agents. The framework decouples task requirements from an agent's dialogue behaviours, supports comparisons among dialogue strategies, enables the calculation of performance over subdialogues and whole dialogues, specifies the relative contribution of various factors to performance, and makes it possible to compare agents performing different taks by normalizing for task complexity. After presenting PARADISE, we illustrate its application to two different spoken dialogue agents. We show how to derive a performance function for each agent and how to generalize results across agents. We then show that once such a performance function has been derived, it can be used both for making predictions about future versions of an agent, and as feedback to the agent so that the agent can learn to optimize its behaviour based on its experiences with users over time.


People with epilepsy often have other health conditions. Epidemiological findings are an important source of information on the topic of epilepsy comorbidity. These investigations show that patients with epilepsy frequently suffer from co-occurring disorders, involving nearly all body systems.
This study aims to determine the frequency of comorbidities among epilepsy patients. Patient and method: a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted at Imam Al-Sadiq general hospital, included 225 participants collected from 10th January/2022 to 10th May/2022. The samples were collected under the supervision of a neurologist.
The mean age of epilepsy was 32.26 ± 13.94. 55.6% of the participants were males and 44.4% were females, the male to female ratio was 1.25:1. Vast majority (83.5%) of the studied samples had a low socio-economic status. prevalence of comorbidities among patients with epilepsy was high Among medical comorbidities, the highest percentage (56.9%) of participants were suffering from migraine. Among psychiatric comorbidities, 67.1% of them were suffered from anxiety and 61.9% with depression. 7.6% of patient were suffering from Dementia/ Alzheimer's disease as cognitive comorbidities.
It found an increased risk for full spectrum of medical, psychiatric disorders. The most common medical comorbidities were migraines and musculoskeletal system disorders. more than half of participants were suffering from anxiety and depression, half of them with sleep disorders.
More comprehensive assessment with advanced diagnostic and treatment standards and treating not only the epilepsy but also any other present conditions.


Coordination polymers are infinite systems build up from metal ions and organic ligands (linkers) as the main units assembled via coordination bonds and weak interactions (hydrogen bonds, π–π interactions, metal-metal interactions, metal-aromatic interactions). Coordination polymers can extend in one, two or three dimensions. The 1D motif can be represented by linear, zigzag, double, ladder-like chains or helices. 2D and 3D coordination polymers are often called metal-organic frameworks (MOF). These materials have been used in crystal engineering due to their structural diversity and their applications as porous materials, in catalysis, ion exchange and gas storage. Coordination polymers can also have other interesting properties e. g. nonlinear optics, luminescence and magnetism. We have prepared a series of cadmium(II) coordination polymers with isoniazid and niazid and various counterions (chloride, bromide, iodide, thiocyanate). Isonicotinylhydrazine (isoniazid) and nicotinylhydrazine (niazid) are suitable linkers for construction of coordination polymers as they are multidentate ligands - N, O-bidentate and N-bridging. They are capable of satisfying cadmium(II) coordination number (usually 5-7) by acting as N, O-bidentate ligands and they bridge the metal ions at the same time (via pyridine N atom). The aim of our study was to determine the effect of the counterions size, shape and their involvement in weak interactions on dimensionality of cadmium(II) polymers with isoniazid and niazid. In case of chloride and bromide use, we obtained 1D polymers with double chains, linked via chloride/bromide bridging atoms, while in case of iodide use, a 1D polymer with zigzag chain was formed, containing terminal iodide ions only. A 2D polymer was obtained by using thiocyanate ion, as it is an ambidentate ligand with N and S donor atoms, enabling the formation of a network. The polymers were also studied by IR spectroscopy, PXRD and thermal methods (TG/DTA, DSC) and various crystallization techniques were employed to get suitable single crystals for X-ray structure analysis.


Nowadays communication and data transmission among various heterogeneous networks is growing speedily and drastically. More number of heterogeneous networks are created and deployed by government as well as by private firms. Due to the distance, mobility, behavior of nodes in the networks and dynamic in nature, it is essential to provide security for all the networks separately or distributed. Various existing approaches discuss about the security issues and challenges for heterogeneous networks. In this paper a Leader Based Intrusion Detection System [LBIDS] is proposed to detect and prevent DOS as well as other attacks such as Sybil and Sinkhole in the networks by deploying the Leader Based Intrusion Detection System into access points in the networks. The proposed approach utilizes three core security challenges such as Authentication, positive incentive provision and preventing DOS. In addition to that it will do packet verification and IP verification for improving the efficiency in terms of detection and prevention against attacks in heterogeneous networks. The simulation of our proposed approach is carried out in NS2 software and the results were given.


Based on the heat balance equation of the transmission line Icing, formula of critical non-Icing current on transmission line is educed in this paper. And to solve the problems of adoption of the physical parameters of dry air in existing methods of calculating the critical non-Icing current on transmission line, a method of calculating the critical non-Icing current on transmission line consider the impact of humid air parameters is presented. The result of simulation experiments show that this method is more connection with reality, and provides a theoretical basis for seeking a more accurate critical non-Icing current. This method has great significance in selecting the cost-effective measures for transmission line anti-icing and transmission line design of the anti-icing.


ONE OF THE key issues in the design and construction of any gas pipeline is the prevention of material fracture. Since the gas is generally transported under high operating pressures, it must be ensured that the gas pipeline is sufficiently tough to arrest the propagation of any potential fracture. For several decades, control of gas pipeline fracture propagation has been under scrutiny due to economic considerations and ecological and safety hazards related to pressurised pipe failure. The Battelle Two Curve approach has been widely used to determine the minimum material arrest toughness by comparing the gas decompression wave velocity with the fracture velocity, both as functions of the local gas pressure. Sufficient knowledge of the gas decompression behavior following the rupture is therefore crucial in determining running fracture arrest toughness levels. The decompression behaviour is influenced by the operating conditions, fluid composition and the material properties of the pipeline itself. This paper describes a two-dimensional decompression model developed using the commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software ANSYS Fluent. The GERG-2008 Equation of State has been implemented into this model to simulate the rapid decompression of common natural gas mixtures. The evolution of the decompression wave speed and phase changes under arbitrary initial conditions is reported. Comparison with experimental results obtained from shock tube tests showed good agreement between simulation and experiment. Disciplines Engineering | Science and Technology Studies Publication Details Elshahomi, A., Lu, C., Michal, G., Liu, X., Godbole, A., Botros, K. K., Venton, P. & Colvin, P. (2013). Twodimensional CFD modelling of gas-decompression behaviour. The 6th International Pipeline Technology Conference (pp. S18-02-1 S18-02-23). United States: Clarion Technical Conferences. Authors Alhoush Elshahomi, Cheng Lu, Guillaume Michal, Xiong Liu, Ajit R. Godbole, K K. Botros, Phillip Venton, and Philip Colvin This conference paper is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/eispapers/3342 Two-dimensional CFD Modelling of Gas Decompression Behaviour A. Elshahomi, C. Lu, G. Michal, X. Liu, A. Godbole, K.K. Botros, P. Venton, P. Colvin 1 University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia 2 Nova Research and Technology Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada 3 Venton and Associates Pty Ltd, Bundanoon, NSW, Australia 4 Jemena Ltd, Sydney NSW, Australia


A leadership education program has been developed in post-war Kosovo, taking a non-formal approach; combining a broad range of ICT techniques with a constructivist pedagogy underpinning its design and implementation, based upon successes in developed nations. This paper outlines the development of the program, explores some of the cultural issues encountered, and considers how they are being addressed. It is proposed that cultural issues exist from multiple perspectives, and that all stakeholders need to address them.


ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to develop -a data base concerning the home background of Puerto Rican pupils as it relates to present and potential educational. progress. Specifically, the study was designed to secure. and summarize systematic data concerning the .following factors: (1) the educational level of the parents and their educational aspirations and expectations for their children;


The author discusses his recent entry into the housing market. He was on a modest income and could only afford to buy in cheaper areas but thought it would be a financially strategic investment. He argues that this attitude towards housing, while no doubt sensible and mature in a financial sense, is problematic because it contributes to a wider process of gentrification that supports more privileged members of society. This in turn places increased pressure on people, families and communities from lower socio-economic and/or culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds looking for a place to live, or struggling to maintain the status quo in a rapidly changing economic landscape. The effects of gentrification are far reaching.


A surface protection technology of neodymium-ferrous-boron permanent magnetic material is carried out by grinding for neodymium-ferrous-boron permanent magnetic material, degreasing while removing oil, removing rust while acid cleaning, activating acid liquid, putting it into black liquid or blue liquid, chemically coating and forming into blue-black or dark blue protection film. It has excellent combination and anti-corrosion performances.


This proceedings, \IEnvironmental Engineering: Saving a Threatened Resource—In Search of Solutions,\N contains papers presented at the 1992 National Conference on Environmental Engineering, a component of Water Forum '92, Baltimore, Maryland, August 2-5, 1992. Some of the topics addressed include air quality; environmental assessment; sludge management and disposal; solid waste, toxic and hazardous materials; water supply and treatment; and water/wastewater infrastructure. In addition, key areas explored are toxicity reduction; urban nonpoint source pollution; incineration; landfills; leachate control; and VOC emissions from wastewater treatment plants. This publication provides the environmental engineer with state-of-the-art information on practical environmental engineering and results from recent advancements in scientific knowledge in this field.


Every student who attends lectures on campus is expected to have achievements as an academic member. This also applies to student-athletes excelling in sports and balancing it with academic achievement. Achievement is related to athletes' physical abilities and skills in performing techniques. The high level of physical activity that is carried out requires athletes' involvement in taking risks both during training and competitions. This study aims to determine the profile of risk-taking behavior in Surabaya State University students. A total of 230 student-athletes became the subject of the study, with an age range of 19-24 years, with 35 people in the categories of accuracy sports, 57 people in Pencak silat, 96 people in games, and 42 people in the competition. The instrument used is risk-taking behavior—data analysis techniques using descriptive statistics. The data analysis tool used the Jeffreys' Amazing Statistics Program (JASP) application version 0.14.1.0. The data analysis results showed that most subjects' risk-taking behavior was at a good level of 157 people or 86.3 percent. The dominant risk-taking behavior is at a high level of 73 people or 31.73 percent at a moderate level. The implications of this research are the data for campuses to promote sports activities so that students have good risk-taking behavior. Through good decision-making behavior, it is hoped that it will encourage the achievement of student-athlete's academic and sports achievements.


Traditional speed identification methods for sensorless vector control of induction motors are inaccurate due to external disturbances and model errors. This paper describes a more accurate speed identification method based on the extended state observer (ESO). The speed is obtained by observing the extended state, which leads to a simple algorithm and quick convergence. The speed and the rotor resistance are identified simultuneoasly with a triangular wave excitation method. When the triangular wave is injected into the rotor flux reference, the rotor resistance can be quick calculated which improves the precision of the speed identification. Experiments and simulation results both show that the speed can be accurately identified in the case of rotor resistance perturbation and that the speed loop of the sensorless vector control system has quick response.


Past research has suggested that yoga reduces stress levels, and accordingly reducing stress increases cognitive performance. This study attempted to determine whether short-term yoga practice is associated with higher cognitive performance in college students. A short yoga video combined with instructional breathing techniques were administered to a group of undergraduate students prior to administration of a cognitive task. The participants involved in the yoga intervention did not perform significantly differently than the participants without the yoga intervention on the cognitive task. These results may indicate that a short yoga session does not influence students' cognitive performance. However, several methodological problems could have contributed to the lack of results, suggesting a need for further research on the topic.


Objective: A number of experimental animal methods have been designed to study chronic pulmonary hypertension. These methods all increase pulmonary vascular resistance and shear stress on the vascular wall. In this study, we explored the reactivity of the pulmonary vascular response in different rat models of pulmonary hypertension. Methods: Female Wistar (120~150 g) were divided into six groups: (1) normal; (2) AV shunt (carotid artery to the extermal jugular vein, CJS); (3)hypoxia (HA);(4) AV shunt+hypoxia; (5)monocrotaline (MCT); and (6 AV shunt +MCT. Four week later, lungs were harvested for an isolation-perfusion lung study. Results: At the end of 4 weeks, the pulmonary arterial pressure was 14.1 ± 1.0 mmHg in the normal group, 20.0 ± 1.2 mmHg in the CJS qroup, 26.9 ± 2.6 mmHg in the hypoxia group, 34.0 ± 1.1 mmHg in the CJS with MCT group. The ratio of the right ventricle weight to the left ventricular plus septum weight was 0.267 ± 0.005 in the normal group, 0.311 ± 0.007 in the CJS group, 0.553 ± 0.021 in the hypoxia group, 0.632 ± 0.017 in the CJS with hypoxia group, 0.673 ± 0.030 in the MCT group, and 0.682 ± 0.028 in the CJS with MCT group. In the isolated-perfused lung study, substance P (SP) (1.5*10-4 M) induced significant increases in arterial pressure (Ppa), capillary pressure (Pc)arterial resistance (Ra), venous resistance (Rv), and the filtration coefficient (Kfc) in all groups. However, the response of Ra to SP was attenuated in the CJS model. In the HA mode, the response to SP was strongly attenuated around the capillary and post-capillary small vessels. In the MCT-treated model, the response to SP attenuated almost completely in pre- and post-capillary vessels. Conclusions: These methods all increased pulmonary vascular resistance at different sites of the vascular wall and induced pulmonary hypertension; they also significantly altered the reactivity of the pulmonary vasculature and therefore were able to mediate vascular remodeling.


D· H· Lawrence, in almost all of his stories and novels seeks a balanced man-woman relationship, "star-equilibrium" relationship in his own words. In his short story Tickets, Please , a wartime love story, he expounds his idea about the tragic outcome of overturning sexual roles: in a world of women transvestites and emasculated men, the ideal man-woman relationship will be a destined illusion.


Study is to induce the technology of the orientation and the inspection of the petroleum pipeline,aim at the condition of our country.The technology is based the magnetism-leak principle,and pick the message of the inner wall by the magnetism device array,and the acceleration sensor for the position message,and use the VC++to analysis the message.The result show that the technology is meet to the require.


The effect of temperature and glucose binding on the structure of the galactose/glucose‐binding protein from Escherichia coli was investigated by circular dichroism, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and steady‐state and time‐resolved fluorescence. The data showed that the glucose binding induces a moderate change of the secondary structure content of the protein and increases the protein thermal stability. The infrared spectroscopy data showed that some protein stretches, involved in α‐helices and β strand conformations, are particularly sensitive to temperature. The fluorescence studies showed that the intrinsic tryptophanyl fluorescence of the protein is well represented by a three‐exponential model and that in the presence of glucose the protein adopts a structure less accessible to the solvent. The new insights on the structural properties of the galactose/glucose‐binding protein can contribute to a better understanding of the protein functions and represent fundamental information for the development of biotechnological applications of the protein.


Aqueous extraction of walnut oil with various enzymes was investigated.Several enzyme preparations(neutral protease,PR;α-amylase,α-AM;cellulase,CE;pectinase,PE) were individually and jointly used to enhance oil extraction.The results showed that neutral protease(PR) was the best enzyme with the highest free oil yield efficiency.Furthermore,the free oil yield efficiency could reach to 40% when the enzyme PR+CE was jointly used.In addition,PR+CE+PE and α-AM+PR+CE had good effects,but they could not enhance free oil yield efficiency.


A photovoltaic (PV) generator can be considered as a current source. Therefore, interfacing converters for PV must be connected with an input capacitor to satisfy the terminal constraints required by this constant current source. Voltage imbalance is an important challenge in PV systems. Using a topology based on a two-module three-level boost converter can solve the DC voltage imbalance problem. Using the perturb and observe (P&O) method, the reference inductor currents of the two-module system are generated. An indirect-sliding-mode controller is used to control the currents and capacitors voltage balance of the system. The simulation results obtained by MATLAB/Simulink software are given.


Oral estrogen therapy raises risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in postmenopausal women, so its use generally is contraindicated in women with histories of VTE. Now, French investigators retrospectively assessed the effects of oral and transdermal estrogen on risk for recurrent VTE in 1023 postmenopausal women …


The critical quality flowdown (CTQ) is a tool that is the core of the definition phase of most quality improvement projects. It relates high-level strategic focal points to project objectives which in turn are linked to and decompose into CTQs made oper..


A research has been conducted to synthesize tetrakis-N,N,N-trimethylammoniummethyl-C-3,4dimethoxyphenylcalix[4]resorcinarene iodide from vanillin and investigate its antidote capability for Cr(VI) intoxication. The synthesis was carried out in four steps i.e. (1) O-alkylation of 4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde, (2) HCl-catalyzed condensation of 3,4-dimethoxybenzaldehyde with resorcinol, (3) Mannich reaction of C-3,4-dimethoxyphenylcalix[4]resorcinarene with formaldehyde and dimethylamine in the presence of HCl to yield tetrakis-N,N-dimethylaminomethyl-C-3,4-dimethoxyphenylcalix[4]resorcinarene, and (4) treatment the Mannich base with methyl iodide to produce the quaternary ammonium salt of tetrakis-N,N,N-trimethylammoniummethyl-C-3,4dimethoxyphenylcalix[4]resorcinarene iodide. According to the analysis of 1 H-NMR spectrometer, the targeted compounds tend to exist in the chair (C2h) conformation. The capability of resorcinarene for Cr(VI) antidote was examined by orally injection method on mice groups. Based on LD50 determination, the resorcinarene was classified as non toxic compound according to Loomis criteria. Therapeutic using quaternary ammonium-modified resorcinarene was able to reduce metal concentrations of Cr(VI) in liver, kidney, and serum in the magnitude of 78.30; 85.72, and 88.79%, respectively. The higher dose of drug administered the greater decrease in the level of heavy metal. Judging from the amount of milligrams of reduced chromium per gram of organ, kidney is the organ having highest decreasing metal concentrations.


The authors present a case of an elderly female patient with heart failure and renal dysfunction treated with digoxin, where 2 commercial immunoassay methods (DRI, Microgenics, and DGNA®, Dade Behring) showed a clinically very significant discrepancy on the same plasma sample, viz. 0.5 and 2.3 nmol/L, respectively. The sample was also referred to a third external laboratory that returned a result of 0.9 nmol/L using mFPIA (AxSYM, Abbott). Subsequent ultrafiltration (30,000 Dalton) on the sample essentially eliminated the difference, suggesting an interference from a large molecular weight compound(s), potentially the well-described digoxin-like immunoreactive substance(s) (DLIS). Although further study is required to verify that the DLIS implicated was indeed the interfering species, it does again highlight the importance of careful method selection in the clinical therapeutic drug monitoring laboratory to ensure that such well-established potential problems do not result in inappropriate dosage reduction with consequent lack of adequate drug exposure and serious clinical sequelae.


Whereas the Duckworth-Lewis method (originally designed for one-day cricket) has been adopted in both international T20 matches and in the Indian Premier League, there has been growing objections to itsspecific use in T20. The Duckworth-Lewis method relies on the Duckworth-Lewis resource table which specifies the resources remaining at various stages of a match. In this paper, we consider the estimationof an alternative resource table specifically for T20 cricket. The alternative resource table suggests that there exist meaningful differences in the scoring patterns between one-day cricket and T20, and hence itcalls into question the suitability of the Duckworth-Lewis table for use in T20.


Foreword: why bother with ethics in biomedical research? / Alexander Morgan Capron -- Preface -- Introduction: development, research, and vulnerability / Matti Hayry, Tuija Takala, and Peter Herissone-Kelly -- Pt. one: Facts, fears, and hopes concerning development -- 1. New perspectives on international research ethics / Solomon R. Benatar -- 2. Some current issues in the ethics of biomedical research and their background in the protection of the dignity and autonomy of the vulnerable / Matti Hayry -- 3. Bioethics and biomedicine: developing countries' perspective / Florencia Luna -- 4. Brazilian research ethics: a north-south dialogue aiming to build a new culture of respect / Leo Pessini and Leonard M. Martin -- 5. Who sets the agenda for health research in developing countries? A call for more community involvement / Angela Amondi Wassuna -- Pt. two: Research and technology as answers and as questions -- 6. Ethical aspects in introducing genetically modified organisms for public health purposes / Darryl Macer -- 7. The ethical review of research into rare genetic disorders / Michael Parker, Richard Ashcroft, Andrew Wilkie, and Alastair Kent -- 8. Ongoing and emerging biomedical research issues at the beginning of life: United States perspectives / Rosemarie Tong -- 9. Human stem cell research as a promising hope for humankind: a Christian-ethical contribution / Bart Hansen and Paul Schotsmans -- 10. Interrelations between bioethics and ethics of biotechnology / Boris G. Yudin -- Pt. three: Vulnerability, power, and responsibility -- 11. Infectious disease and the ethics of research: the moral significance of communicability / Leslie P. Francis, Margaret P. Battin, Jeffrey R. Botkin, Jay A. Jacobson, and Charles B. Smith -- 12. Is there a duty to serve as research subjects? / Leonardo D. De Castro -- 13. Vulnerability in biomedical research: a framework for analysis / Elma Lourdes Campos Pavone Zoboli -- 14. New vulnerabilities raised by biomedical research / Maria Patrao do Ceu Neves -- 15. How to save the world: some alternatives to biomedical research / Frank J. Leavitt -- About the authors -- Index


In this paper we introduce a new labeling namely odd and even ratio edge antimagic labeling and study the existence of this labeling for basic graph structures .


Human Brain is the most complicated creature on earth that will be demolished after certain decay of years. This research paper is based on the theoritical concept -"How its intelligence can be preserved for future use and what methodology is used for preserving it. It also dicussed about its merits, demerits and lots of other things that we can do with it.


This study identified variables related to change in abusive behavior though qualitative analyses of interviews with nine reformed batterers. Interviewed men had attended a median of 35 interventions sessions at a feminist-oriented group treatment program and were identified by their counselors and partners as having made significant changes in their behavior. Hour-long semistructured interviews focused on understanding men's change were analyzed with a set of 28 a priori–specified codes based on theoretical understandings of change in abusive behavior. Four variables were found to contribute to change for more than 75% of the men: increased responsibility for their past abusive behavior, development of empathy for their partners' victimization, reduced dependency on their partners, and increased communication skills. The implications of these findings for future theoretical and empirical work are discussed.


Untangling the complexities of intersecting identities at the micro-level is important to our studies of political participation. In the following article I propose a typology whereby the intersectionality of gender and ethnic identity may be disaggregated along individualistic and collectivistic dimensions. Using group interviews, I find that collectivistic orientations of intersecting gender and ethnic identity mobilize Latinas into political activism. However, an individualistic orientation of gender or ethnic identity demobilizes Latinas or redirects their activism. These findings indicate that future measures of gender and ethnic intersectionality at the micro-level should include both individualistic and collectivistic dimensions.


Abstract In this work, the results of the examinations of morphology and chemical composition of the primary AlTMSi intermetallic phases precipitates observed in the Al–Si cast alloys microstructure have been presented. A procedure for the treatment of EDS X-ray microanalysis results (selection and classification) using fuzzy logic concept has been developed and then tested in application for AlTMSi phase identification. Statistically significant differences in the chemical composition have been revealed between the analyzed groups of precipitates of both α- and β-AlTMSi phases formed in hypo- and eutectic Al-Si alloys with the same content of transition metals. The range of the measured Mn solubility in the precipitates of different crystal lattices has been statistically estimated.


A series of GABA uptake inhibitors related to (S)‐1‐{2‐[tris(4‐methoxyphenyl)methoxy]ethyl}piperidine‐3‐carboxylic acid [(S)‐SNAP‐5114], the most potent mGAT4 inhibitor known so far, were synthesized and biologically evaluated for their inhibitory potency at the four GABA uptake transporters mGAT1–4 stably expressed in HEK‐293 cell lines. New analogues were developed with potencies that are similar to or slightly higher than those of current mGAT4 inhibitors, but with distinctly improved chemical stability. (S)‐Nipecotic acid derivatives possessing a 2‐[1‐(4‐methoxy‐2‐methylphenyl)‐1,1‐bis(4‐methoxyphenyl)methoxy]ethyl (DDPM‐859) or a 4,4,4‐tris(4‐methoxyphenyl)but‐2‐en‐1‐yl moiety (DDPM‐1457) were found to exhibit pIC50 values of 5.78 and 5.87, respectively. Thus, as mGAT4 inhibitors, these compounds compare well with (S)‐SNAP‐5114 (pIC50=5.71), but are far more stable than the latter. Moreover, DDPM‐859 displays a more favorable subtype selectivity for mGAT4 versus mGAT3 than does (S)‐SNAP‐5114.


. Theinformatizationoftheinternationalsocietyisbecomingahistorical trend, and the smart campus is gradually developing. But at present, there are widespread problems in the campus, such as the lack of systematic management of idle items and lost items, poor information of learning information, scattered port of releasing information and low efficiency of dissemination. The team proposed to design the campus mutual aid small program "Garden" platform, gathering lost and found, idle goods trading, postgraduate entrance examination information, campus notification services. And the small program function development needs analysis, hoping to provide more efficient and convenient campus service platform for students. Effectively solve the practical problems existing in school life and realize the network and information of campus mutual aid.


Objective To study the features of cytology, oncogenesis and biological behavior of giantcell tumor (GCT) of bone. Method The expression of PCNA and bc1-2 protein was detected by using immunohistochemical LSAB technique and cell apoptosis using TUNEL method in 51 cases of GCT. Accordingto Jaffe's classification, 26 cases were classified in grade Ⅰ, 16 cases in grade Ⅱ, and 9 cases in grade Ⅲ.Result The expression of PCNA was positive in all samples, but PCNA no staining in multinuclear giantcells. The proportion of positive PCNA labeled cells tended to be more with a higher pathological grade. Thepositive rate of bcl-2 expression was 33. 3% in GCT with the differences between Ⅰ and Ⅲ orⅠ and Ⅱ+Ⅲgrade being statistically significant (P0.05). Apoptosis mainly occurred in mononucleate stromal cells ofGCT, rarely in multinuclear giant cells. Apoptosis index (AI) of GCT was 0. 86%. No significant differencein the AI between pathological grades and between PCNA labeling index. There was a negative correlation between AI and positive expression of bc1-2 protein in GCT (P0.05). There was a significant diffelence inthe. AI between bc1-2 positive and negative expression in GCT (P0.05). Conclusion GCT is a tumorwith the proliferative characteristic. bcl-2 gene may play a role in the development of GCT.


An efficient synthesis of di-π-([8]annulene)cerium(IV) (cerocene) is reported by the reaction of K[Ce(C8H8)2] with allyl bromide. Cerocenes can also be prepared by oxidation of the corrresponding cerates with silver iodide in THF, but this reaction is more variable. Cerocene reacts only slowly with UCl4 to give uranocene. K[Ce(C8H8)2] and cerocene undergo electron exchange on the NMR time scale. Electrochemical study of cerocene shows redox with the cerate ion, Ce(C8H8)2-, to be reversible with a relatively low reduction potential (−0.6 V vs NHE). The corresponding praeseodymium salt, K[Pr(C8H8)2], does not undergo comparable reversible oxidation; its cyclic voltammetry is compared with that of K2[Yb(C8H8)2]. The chemistry of cerocene resembles that of di-π-([8]annulene)actinide(IV) compounds.


Abstract. A framework of self-determination means not speaking on behalf of people – even as an advocate – but to create the environment and conditions for those who have been silenced to speak for themselves. This article reflects on the role of storytelling for justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families. I closely consider three stories of child removal, as told by their impacted families, and in their localised context. This article counterposes the stories that are told about them through care and protection law and related policy, and draws out the long precedent of these stories. Through the stories of impacted families, told in their own voices, it becomes clearer that the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families is a key pillar of a concerted and complex colonial project. This has implications for how people working in law come to see the power of storytelling within and outside legal institutions, and how they can do those stories justice by making space for them to be heard on their own terms.


Having the honor to read masterpiece about Luyang dialects, collecting Lushang dialects and custom in the book of "Mozi", summarizing the situation of argument on the idea that Mozi Liji lies in east or west of Lu country. By comparing and identifying from the angles of dialects custom. The idea that Mozi Liji lies in Lushan Henan province not in Qufu Tengzhou Shandong province has been demonstrated. So I hope that historicists with virtue esteem the historical truth, make Mozi Liji clear, and the prejudice on the problem of district, show authorities's demeanor.


The aim of this dissertation is to explore and understand three important social contexts for the becoming of an artistic subjectivity: education, work and family life. The empirical data consist o ...


For the past three decades the world has witnessed an unprecedented rise in remittance. This upsurge has necessitated researches in its potential impacts on the various facets of development. In spite of the surging interest on the impact of remittance, there has been paucity of researches on the impact of remittance volatility on health outcomes. This study therefore seeks to investigate the nexus between remittance volatility and life expectancy at birth within the Nigeria context, utilizing the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) and Error Correction Model (ECM) for the period 1981 to 2018. Findings suggest that while remittance volatility has statistically significant negative impact on life expectancy in the long-run, it was however positive but insignificant in the short-run. Other factors such as income, education status and public health expenditure were also found to be major determinants of life expectancy in Nigeria. Given that remittances are largely susceptible to external shocks, and are beyond the control of policy makers in the recipient countries, relevant measures should be put in place in the home front to significantly cushion the negative impact of such fluctuations on life expectancy in the long-run.


Xinjiang migrant workers of national minority are increasingly migrate to coastal cities and coastal areas,they have become an important force of the urban construction.The rights and interests protection of migrant workers of national minority involves the dualism of national relationships and migrant workers rights because of its specific characteristics.Properly dealing with the problem has great significance for the construction of a harmonious society in China.The paper analyzed the existing problems for Xinjiang migrant workers of national minority and proposes the corresponding solutions.


Celiac disease (CeD) is a highly prevalent chronic immune‐mediated enteropathy developed in genetically predisposed individuals after ingestion of a group of wheat proteins (called gliadins and glutenins). The 13mer α‐gliadin peptide, p31‐43, induces proinflammatory responses, observed by in vitro assays and animal models, that may contribute to innate immune mechanisms of CeD pathogenesis. Since a cellular receptor for p31‐43 has not been identified, this raises the question of whether this peptide could mediate different biological effects. In this work, we aimed to characterize the p31‐43 secondary structure by different biophysical and in silico techniques. By dynamic light scattering and using an oligomer/fibril‐sensitive fluorescent probe, we showed the presence of oligomers of this peptide in solution. Furthermore, atomic force microscopy analysis showed p31‐43 oligomers with different height distribution. Also, peptide concentration had a very strong influence on peptide self‐organization process. Oligomers gradually increased their size at lower concentration. Whereas, at higher ones, oligomers increased their complexity, forming branched structures. By CD, we observed that p31‐43 self‐organized in a polyproline II conformation in equilibrium with β‐sheets‐like structures, whose pH remained stable in the range of 3–8. In addition, these findings were supported by molecular dynamics simulation. The formation of p31‐43 nanostructures with increased β‐sheet structure may help to explain the molecular etiopathogenesis in the induction of proinflammatory effects and subsequent damage at the intestinal mucosa in CeD.


Copyright: © Faruqui AA (2020). This Article is distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License *Corresponding Author(s): Arif A Faruqui Clinical Pharmacologist, Department of Pharmacology, 504-A, Rizvi Mahal CHS, Bandra West, Mumbai400050, Maharashtra, India. Tel: 9322429615, Fax: 022-28204453; Email: email@example.com Annals of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine


In order to clarify the effect of overload on crack growth behaviors, fatigue tests for overload were carried out for round plain specimens of SM45C steel. In the experiment, typical semi-elliptical crack shape was found and further crack growth behaviors were tested. Using three types of single overload fatigue tests, Crack growth retardation phenomenon were examined. The growth rate of surface crack(da/dN) during retardation period was analyzed in terms of and . On the growth rate of surface crack analyzed by , the dependence of overload stress levels appears. However, on the growth rate by obtained by Willenborg analysis, there is a non-liner relationship between da/dN and with narrow scatter band.


The paper describes experiments involving a 4.17 foot diameter model rotor operating in a 5 times 7.5 ft open jet wind tunnel enclosed in an anechoic chamber. The effects of rotor thrust, advance ratio, and the number of blades on the intensity and spectrum of high frequency broadband noise (HFBN) have been investigated. The effects of each parameter were determined by keeping the other two constant. The directivities of the two- and three-bladed rotors were measured in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the rotor disk. The effects of heading edge, pressure side, and suction side serrations on HFBN were measured under several operating conditions, and the effects of the serrations on the mean thrust generated by the rotor were studied. A scaling law is proposed to determine the location of the peak frequency and intensity of HFBN.


The celebration is sign language in deaf culture constitutes the only way to make it possible for the deaf faithful to participate in the liturgy in an active and conscious way.The renascence and the recognition of the sign languages are gradually realized after a century of interdiction of the gestures. Research teams are working on a religious vocabulary. Little by little the gesticulatory poetry finds its way within the liturgy. But the celebrations in sign language still remain too unusual. A lack of priests who can use the sign language in a correct way, the lack of arrangements for training deaf people as ministers, the still existing resistance to use the sign language in the liturgy, are only the reflection of a lack of willingness to work for the inculturation of people who are nevertheless susceptible to enrich profoundly every one who dare to explore the world of the deaf persons. By promoting Christ's action in this culture that is so little known we may also strive towards a greater plenitude of the liturgy.


There is a significant corpus of Spanish Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible dated 13th-15th centuries. These manuscripts do all contain Masorah in its different categories: parva, magna, finalis or Masoretic lists being it ornamental or not. So far, these manuscripts have been studied from a textual point of view, either critical editions of their texts or Masorah, or textual comparative studies. However, comparative studies on the specific characteristics of the Masoretic contents and, moreover, a comparison of the different manuscripts from this specific perspective, are scarce. In this paper, I intend to analyse some of these Masoretic lists, by comparing a selection of the most prestigious Spanish Bible manuscripts, their similarities and discrepancies. Furthermore, I will present under scrutiny some of the so-considered ornamental Masorahs and their texts.


We implement a computer-assisted approach that, under appropriate conditions, allows the bifurcation analysis of the "coarse" dynamic behavior of microscopic simulators without requiring the explicit derivation of closed macroscopic equations for this behavior. The approach is inspired by the so-called time-stepper based numerical bifurcation theory. We illustrate the approach through the computation of both stable and unstable coarsely invariant states for kinetic Monte Carlo models of three simple surface reaction schemes. We quantify the linearized stability of these coarsely invariant states, perform pseudoarclength continuation, detect coarse limit point and coarse Hopf bifurcations, and construct two-parameter bifurcation diagrams.


The paper presents a version of the 4DVar method, capable of optimizing diurnal time profiles of emissions. It is a generalization of existing inverse methods that optimize emission daily totals. The core of the method is formed by the CMAQ adjoint model with SAPRC99 mechanism. Measurements from both ground–level stations (NO2 and O3), and satellites (retrieved columns of NO2 from GOME2 and OMI and the lowest layer of O3 retrieved from IASI) have been used as a data source for the inverse modeling procedure. The method can be used for detection of bias or errors in the emission model. It also can assist in development of data–driven emission model with location–specific time profiles of emissions. Different aspects of the method are illustrated on simulation experiments. Forecasting performance of the optimized model is evaluated for O3 and NO2 concentrations.


Based on the previous meta-research,this paper discussed the significance of meta-sports science and analyzed the relationship between the sports science and meta-sports science.It elaborates the objects of meta-sports science and summarizes the properties and characteristics of meta-sports science.It thinks that the sports science is a mature discipline,which should get due attention and should reflect the value.Therefore,we must strengthen the meta-sports science research.


Following the green chemistry principles, three series of polyols with tailored chemical structures were obtained from PET wastes degradation via glycolysis and/or aminolysis and subsequent esterification-transesterification and/or amidation reactions, using an organic catalyst. As cleaving agents there were used various mixtures of renewable or potentially renewable reagents, selected from those that can be obtained from biomass by already applied or investigated and eventually patented biochemical and/or chemical processes. The polyols were characterized by physical-chemical methods, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR and FT-IR Spectroscopy, and tested in the synthesis of rigid polyurethane foams, showing appropriate properties for spray foams formation and leading to materials with properties similar to conventional spray foams.

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This work presents a method for multiview object recognition and the estimation of the sequence of object views. The main feature of the method is to be lightweighted, which can be crucial for future sensor technology. This goal is achieved with a hidden Markov model of the 3D object from information of a sequence of 2D images. COIL 100 dataset were used for testing the method. The tests included images affected by rotation as well as Gaussian noise. Consistent results were obtained using relatively few shots of each class for the training process.


Composite structures have found wide use in many engineering fields and a sound understanding of their response under load is important to their utilization. An experimental program is being carried out to gain a fundamental understanding of the failure mechanics of multilayered composite structures at GALCIT. As a part of this continuing study, the performance of laminated composite plates in the presence of a stress gradient and the failure of composite structures at points of thickness discontinuity is assessed. In particular, the questions of initiation of failure and its subsequent growth to complete failure of the structure are addressed.


This article deals with the utilization of residues from the German steel industry with focus on electric arc furnace (EAF) dust. Material flow analysis is used to illustrate the steel industry by specific output flows of residues over the process chain. The objective of the underlying study was to find further, more efficient connections between process chains. In Germany EAF dust is mainly processed in the Waelz process to recover the contained zinc (open-loop recycling). About 67 % of the world's EAF dust, however, is landfilled and thereby an amount corresponding to 1 to 10 % of the annual production of zinc is lost for production processes. In this article treatment operations for EAF dust are compared through utility analysis with regard to resource efficiency.


East-Asian civilization based on Confucianism or Confucian ethics experiences the initial splendour,great challenge of modern industrial civilization and globalization and the present prosperity with bright outlook.East-Asian civilization on the cultural basis of Confucianism or Confucian ethics is of great importance to development of agriculture,industry as well as modern civilization of East-Asia.


OBJECTIVE
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common human malignancy and is the second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide with a dismal prognosis. Previous investigations have shown that miR-340 can modulate the metabolism of CRC cells. The aim of this report is to study the role of miR-340 in the development and progression of CRC.

PATIENTS AND METHODS
The level of miR-340 in CRC cells was determined by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) and Western blotting. CRC cell lines were used as model cell lines and the anti-tumor effect of miR-340 in vitro was examined. The luciferase reporter assay was performed. The level of miR-340 was restored in CRC cells by the usage of the miR-340 mimic. Re-expression of RLIP76 in CRC cells was then constructed. Moreover, the target gene of miR-340 was identified through the experiment of in vivo xenograft model.

RESULTS
The aberrant downregulation of miR-340 is correlated with advanced stage of CRC. Furthermore, the ectopic overexpression of miR-340 in CRC cell lines resulted in growth inhibition, apoptosis and enhanced chemosensitivity in vitro and in vivo, which was mediated by directly targeting RLIP76.

CONCLUSIONS
miR-340 acts as a tumor suppressor in CRC and is involved in the chemoresistance of CRC.


Turbine design concepts were studied for application to a large civil tiltrotor transport aircraft. The concepts addressed the need for high turbine efficiency across the broad 2:1 turbine operating speed range representative of the notional mission for the aircraft. The study focused on tailoring basic turbine aerodynamic design design parameters to avoid the need for complex, heavy, and expensive variable geometry features. The results of the study showed that good turbine performance can be achieved across the design speed range if the design focuses on tailoring the aerodynamics for good tolerance to large swings in incidence, as opposed to optimizing for best performance at the long range cruise design point. A rig design configuration and program plan are suggested for a dedicated experiment to validate the proposed approach.


Segmenting the motion human body in real-time is the first key step in the field of the analysis of human motion in the video sequence.Color images with more vision information than gray ones are becoming increasingly concerned.A new approach of con-structing colorific background model is used,the moving human silhouettes is got in complex background using an improved background subtraction algorithm.The experimental results demonstrate that the algorithm is efficient for noise suppression and image gap filling.The algorithm is adapted when background is still in general and object is moving,it can extract the motion human silhouettes in real time.


Every university faces a lot of challenges to solve the examination timetabling problem because the problem is NP-hard and contains numerous institutional constraints. Although several attempts have been taken to address the issue, there are scarcities of interactive and automated tools in this domain that can schedule exams effectively by considering institutional resources, different constraints, and student enrolment in courses. This paper presents the development of a system as a graphical and interactive tool for examination timetabling problem. To develop the system, combining graph coloring heuristic and local search meta-heuristic algorithms are employed. The graph heuris-tic ordering is incorporated for constructing initial solution(s), whereas the local search meta-heuristic algorithms are used to produce quality exam timetables. Different constraints and objective functions from ITC2007 exam competition rules are adopted, as it is a complex real word exam timetabling problem. Finally, the system is tested on the ITC2007 exam benchmark dataset, and test results are presented. The main aspect of the system is to deliver an easy-to-handle tool that can generate quality timetables based on institutional demands and smoothly manage several key components. These components are collecting data associated with the enrolment of students in exams, defining hard and soft constraints, and allocating times and resources. Overall, this software can be used as a commercial scheduler in order to provide institutions with automated, accurate, and quick exam timetable.


METHODS: Eleven fixed and six fresh cadavers were used for the study. We found that the depressor septi nasi was consisted of three fascicles. Medial fascicles were inserted into the dermocartilaginous ligament, and deep fibers of the medial fascicles were attached to the anterior nasal spine. After superficial fibers were interdigitated with the orbicularis oris, they were attached to the alveolar bone. Intermedial fascicles were inserted to the footplates of the medial cruses and the caudal septum. After they were interdigitated with the medial fascicle and the orbicularis oris, they were attached to the alveolar bone.


A spatial database is a database that is optimized to store and query data that represents objects defined in a geometric space. A spatial preference query ranks objects based on the qualities of features in their spatial neighborhood. For example, using a real estate agency database of flats for lease, a customer may want to rank the flats with respect to the appropriateness of their location, defined after aggregating the qualities of other features (e.g., restaurants, cafes, hospital, market, etc.) within their spatial neighborhood. Such a neighborhood concept can be specified by the user via different functions. It can be an explicit circular region within a given distance from the flat. Another intuitive definition is to assign higher weights to the features based on their proximity to the flat. In this paper, we formally define spatial preference queries and propose appropriate indexing techniques and search algorithms for them. Extensive evaluation of our methods on both real and synthetic data reveals that an optimized branch-and-bound solution is efficient and robust with respect to different parameters. Index Terms: Query processing, spatial databases.


ECG data compression is usually performed in two steps: (a) modelling of the signal and (b) coding of the data that result from the model in (a). A dictionary based coding scheme is proposed that can efficiently handle the arbitrary valued data that result from the modelling phase. The majority of the compression schemes described in the literature employ Huffman and more rarely arithmetic encoders, adopted from text compression, that were not designed to handle data exceeding the range covered by an 8-bit quantity. The coding scheme proposed can handle 16-bit symbols and furthermore is faster and exhibits better compression ratio than 0-order Huffman encoders.<<ETX>>


The puzzle and dexterity mobile game JumpAR combines well-known Jump n' Run elements with the opportunities of Augmented Reality (AR). The goal of the game is to complete a parkour of platforms with a character and to collect rewards on the way. But with one trick - the construction of the level is done by the player themselves. The bases of the different platforms and obstacles are placed in the real-world surroundings of the player. These then get augmented on the mobile device and form a parkour through which the player must maneuver the character to successfully reach the exit platform. This highly interactive game leads to individual creative game areas wherever the player starts to build the parkour: on the floor, on a desk or on even on the lawn. It can be played either alone or in groups and allows both, a collaborative and competitive gameplay by creating challenging parkours for oneself or others.


Effect of pH on the degradation kinetics of p-chloroaniline(PCA) by persulphate in aqueous solutions was investigated at ambient temperature.Intermediate products of the oxidation process were characterized using LC/MS and GC/MS techniques.The PCA degradation was found to follow a pseudo-first-order decay model.At 20 ℃,[Na2S2O8]0=2.50 mmol·L-1,0=0.05 mmol·L-1,the pseudo-first-order rate constants of PCA degradation by persulphate were 0.03×10-4,0.12×10-4,0.28×10-4,0.26×10-4 and 0.27×10-4 s-1 at pH 3,5,7,9 and 11,respectively.The maximum PCA degradation occurred at pH 7.4-chloronitrobenzene,1-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-phenylurea,5-chloro-2-((4-chlorophenyl)diazenyl) phenol and p-benzoquinone were identified as the major intermediates of PCA oxidation by persulphate.Tentative pathway for the degradation of PCA was proposed.The degradation of PCA in groundwater and buffer solution by persulphate was also tested.


For most of the first two decades after the enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), health policymakers did not seem to recognize the full impact that ERISA would have on regulation of health insurance and health care coverage. Perhaps the early court decisions in which the courts clarified that states could regulate insurance companies and the products they sold to ERISA plan sponsors gave them false comfort that because Congress appeared to recognize the role of the states in regulating insurance, ERISA might have only a tangential impact on health care reform efforts.


A pulsed layer-by-layer deposition (PLLD) technique possessing triple growth rates compared to conventional growth techniques is developed by metal organic chemical vapor deposition to realize high-quality high-aluminum content ordered AlXGa(1 X)N (0.5<X). X-ray diffraction, photoluminescence, and transmission measurements are employed to demonstrate control over aluminum content, structural uniformity, and optical quality in the ordered AlXGa(1 X)N. To show the feasibility of device applications, AlXGa(1 X)N as barrier and GaN as well are employed in superlattices demonstrating intersubband transitions in the infrared regime. Effects of well width and barrier aluminum content on the intersubband absorption characteristics are reported. VC 2012 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3675468]


ABSTRACT:This essay seeks to analyze the condition of postmodernity through the Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. Postmodernity, better characterized as liquid modernity, culminates in a forgetfulness related to both narrative and meaning. Joseph Ratzinger's liturgical and sacramental theology serves as a medicine for this forgetfulness, grounding the act of worship in a liturgical metaphysics of tradition, citizenship, and culture. The enactment of Ratzinger's liturgical metaphysics is carried out through a more inclusive ressourcement, an appreciation of liturgical stability, attention to the evangelizing quality of liturgy as an act of remembering, and the promotion of a liturgical metaphysics grounded in the gift.


The effects of ten bacterial strains isolated from different marine micro-algae on growth of alga Platymonas sp.were studied in this paper.The strain N1 was found originally in the Platymonas sp.culture medium and had beneficial effects on the growth of the Platymonas sp..The 16Sr DNA sequencing revealed that the strain was a bacterium in genus Rhizobium sp..


The University of Dayton Research Institute has concluded a program designed to provide NRC/DOR with technical assistance in evaluating the factors leading to improved reliability of on-site emergency diesel generator (DG) units. The program consisted of a comprehensive review of DG maintenance and operating experience and a comparative evaluation of the DG manufacturer's recommendations. This information, will enable the NRC to improve the basis on which it makes regulatory decisions. The primary goal of the program is to better identify the main problem areas which decrease the reliability of the DG units and make recommendations. The report has attained the program objectives by identifying and discussing the more significant problems and presenting the recommended corrective actions. The identified problems have been categorized into three groups as a function of their significance.


The conveyance of the technologies coming from the world of industry to the field of heritage is carried out through the Technological and Scientific Patronage (T. S. P), and then thanks to the "Patronage of Abilities". The know-how of firms is used either in a formal way through official structures of patronage or in an unofficial way through some members of the staff, in relationship to the hierarchy and the culture of the company. The state authorities issue some regulations about the Patronage of Firms, which enable them to get an allowance as regards taxes and to inform about the events and operations of patronage carried out by the companies. As concerns the transfer of such technologies, some firms merge to perform some operations, whereas others achieve this transfer individually. The communication of informations about the events linked to the patronage of firms which proceed from the activities performed by the T. S. P, is one of the strategies of the firm. This communication gives a meaning to the stakes, whether of identity, areas, relationships and influences, which enable to build up and differentiate the image of the company through a cultural filter. In order to impose its social identity, facing the competition in a global environment, the firm includes the values of ethics and respect of business rights into its economical policy for a lasting development. The processing through electrochemistry of the artefacts coming from the Titanic, thanks to the T. S. P of E. D. F, conveys a communication about this event, whose lexical memorisation is carried about, on the short run, by the initials of E. D. F, and the semantic memorisation on the long run, by the meaning of the informations. The title as well as the heading deals above all with the scoop about the operation "Titanic", moreover, inside the essay, it also deals with the processing of the artefacts in a substantial way.


In the last ten years a plethora of sophisticated methods for processing and simplifying information about taxa has been developed. Yet as Heywood (1964) and Fisher (1968) have complained, little attention has been paid to the more basic problem of deciding how ranges of variation in quantitative attributes within taxa should be described. One of the main purposes of the descriptions of taxa given in floras and monographs is to enable biologists to identify specimens reliably. When taxa are adequately discriminated by qualitative attributes, as is usual for taxa above specific rank, problems of quantitative description do not arise. At specific and infraspecific levels discrimination may necessitate the use of quantitative attributes or they may be a useful adjunct to qualitative attributes. Whilst the need for standardisation in the use of qualitative attributes has been recognised (see Stearn, 1969; Taxon 9: 245-257. 1960; Taxon 11: 145-156, 245247. 1962), the need for standardisation in the use of quantitative attributes has scarcely been discussed. Several authors including Heslop-Harrison (1952), Simpson, Roe, and Lewontin (1960), and Sokal and Rohlf (1969) have suggested ways in which the ranges of variation in local populations may conveniently be expressed. But our search of the literature has revealed no explicit treatment of the rather different problem of describing the ranges of variation in quantitative attributes within taxa. In this paper we shall be concerned only with attributes varying on a numerical scale, for example SEED WEIGHT. We shall not be concerned with variation on an integer scale (meristic variation) exhibited by attributes such as PETAL NUMBER. We shall use the phrase 'quantitative attribute' to apply only to attributec showing numerical variability.


Abstract New chiral sulfahydantoins have been synthesized via alkaline cyclisation, starting from symetric sulfamide derivatives of natural amino acids. Tetraacetyl ribofuranose was used in the glycosylation step in order to obtain the pseudonucleosides in β-anomeric configuration.


ABSTRACT To explore the dynamic crack propagation behaviour in the fracture zone and the damage characteristics of the rock mass around the blasthole during eccentric uncoupled blasting of a deep-level rock mass, theoretical analysis, model experiments and numerical simulation studies have been described in this paper. Firstly, the stress state of the crack and the stress distribution state and failure mechanism of the rock mass around the blasthole under the influence of the in-situ stress, and the pressure distribution of blast shock wave on the blasthole were analysed. Secondly, with the help of a new digital laser caustics experimental system, the eccentric uncoupled blasting model experiment under the action of the in-situ stress was carried out. The fractal damage theory is used to quantitatively evaluate the damage degree of the rock mass in different areas around the blasthole, and the blast-induced crack propagation mechanical behaviour characteristics in the fracture zone are analyzed from the perspective of dynamics. Then, based on the LS-DYNA software, a numerical simulation study was conducted on the eccentric blasting of deep rock mass. Finally, some discussions and suggestions are provided for the analysis of blasting mechanisms in a deep-level rock mass.


Introduction: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed health care drastically, especially looking at how obstetrics functions. This places mothers in a situation of greater psychological vulnerability and heightens the risk of postpartum depression and disrupted mother-infant bonding, which may be weighted or worsened by the balance of the couple. We expect this impact to be even greater in vulnerable mothers in the context of dysfunctioning social services. This study intends to identify the incidence of postpartum depression in women delivering during COVID-19 pandemic among lockdown protocols in a tertiary center in Navi Mumbai and identify its sociocultural triggers so that strategies may be evolved to reduce the morbidity costs attributable to the mother and child in the future. Materials and methods: This study was a cross-sectional study, performed over a period of 2 months from June 2020 to August 2020 at DY Patil School of Medicine and Dr DY Patil Hospital, a teaching hospital in Western India. Two hundred postnatal mothers were recruited for the study in the postpartum period from 1 to 6 weeks after delivery. A specially designed questionnaire was used to record various determinants to assess the risk factors, which could contribute to postpartum depression. A predesigned and pretested questionnaire (EDPS-Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale) was used to detect the depressive symptoms in postnatal mothers. The results for qualitative data were presented in frequency and percentage. Binary logistic regression was used to predict the contribution of each independent risk factor to arrive at the depression level, which happens to be the dependent risk factor in this study. The statistical analysis was done by using SPSS 21.0. The significant level was used at p < 0.05.


Objective To discuss the short-term efficacy,adverse effects and practicability of modified SMILE protocol in the treatment of nasal type,extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma.Methods From November 2008 to January 2010,5 patients with stage Ⅲ or Ⅳ ENKTL-NT were involved in this study.Among them,2 patients were retreated after recurrence and 3 patients were newly diagnosed.All patients were treated with modified SMILE protocol.Results Among the 5 patients,1 patient achieved complete remission,2 patients achieved partial remission.The overall response rate for whole group was 60%.Major toxicities included bone marrow suppression and hepatic toxicities.Conclusion Modified SMILE protocol is an effective treatment regimen for relapsed,refractory and advanced stage patients with ENKTL-NT.Yet the dose,time and usage about modified SMILE protocol need further study.


An integrated metal-organic framework (MOF) and pressure/vacuum swing
adsorption (P/VSA) process design framework is presented for gas
separation. It consists of two steps: descriptor optimization and MOF
matching. In the first step, MOFs are represented as a large set of
chemical and geometric descriptors from which the most influential ones
are selected and treated as design variables. The valid design space is
confined using a tailored classifier model and logic constraints. Based
on collected adsorption isotherms of 471 different MOFs, data-driven
isotherm models are developed. Combining the design space, isotherms,
and process models, an integrated MOF and P/VSA process design problem
is formulated. MOF descriptors and process operating conditions are
optimized to maximize the process performance. The obtained optimal
descriptors and isotherms can be used to guide the discovery of
high-performance MOFs in a subsequent MOF matching step. This article
addresses the first descriptor optimization step exemplified by
propene/propane separation.


The invention discloses a rollover protection system of a rotary drilling rig, belonging to the protection device of the engineering machinery. The rollover protection system comprises a two-axis sensor mounted at the bottom of a drilling platform, a programmable logic controller (PLC), a color display mounted in a cab and the like, wherein the two-axis sensor transfers the real-time equilibrium state information of the machine to the PLC, and the PLC transfers the equilibrium state information to the display to be display after data processing and analyzing, thus the equilibrium state information of the machine is displayed in front of the operator in real time. Once the equipment reaches the preset dangerous angle or rollover angle, the PLC can timely send out acousto-optic alarm signals to the display and send out vehicle locking and engine stalling commands when necessary. The system has the benefits of avoiding the machine from rolling over and protecting the safety of personnel and property.