The invention relates to an optical transmission system which comprises a light guiding frame, a hollow zone and an inner reflecting surface. The light guiding frame comprises a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface and the second surface are perpendicular to each other. The included angle between the first surface and the inner reflecting surface is 45 degrees. A first convex lens is arranged on the first surface. An optical waveguide element is arranged in the hollow zone and comprises a main waveguide segment, two first branch waveguide segments and two second branch waveguide segments. The main waveguide segment receives reflected light reflected by the inner reflecting surface, the included angles between the two first branch waveguide segments and the main waveguide segment are equal so that the light transmitted by the main waveguide segment can be divided into two parts in an equal mode, and the two second branch waveguide segments are parallel to the main waveguide segment so that the light transmitted by the two first waveguide segments can be respectively transmitted to the second surface. Two second convex lenses are arranged on the second surface and aligned to the two second branch waveguide segments respectively.


Morphogeographic variation in the Asian annual Medicago monantha has required clarification. The present numerical taxonomic study in relation to geographical distribution revealed an east–west gradient of the principal correlated characters. Although previous taxonomists had not perceived this gradient as such, in fact it is reflected in traditional taxonomic treatments, i.e., the four commonly recognized subspecies (which are often considered separate species) replace each other in an east–west direction in stepwise overlapping fashion with respect to morphology and geography. The most evident difference observed was with respect to the areas delimited on the surface of the fruit by the intersecting veins; the fruit areoles are more elongated in the western phase than in the east. Given the absence of evident discontinuity or even relative discontinuity in M. monantha, formal delimitation of the traditionally recognized infraspecific taxa seems unjustified. Key words: Medicago monantha, Trigonella, clin...


Collecting speech errors is enjoyable. For instance, it can give the collector the feeling of doing some useful work while on holiday, at a dinner party, or watching a television interview. And speech error collections are valuable: in the last decade research based on slips of the tongue has provided one of the major components of a long-overdue upsurge in interest in speech production processes, which have otherwise been accorded much less research attention than the processes of comprehension.


The paper studies the design and realization of magnetic suspension turntable,which is the simulation system platform for aerospace flight vehicle.The application principle of the magnetic suspension turntable is introduced in detail,the system flow is demonstrated through the craft assembly drawing.The basic principle that two like magnetic poles repel each other is applied in the magnetic suspension turntable.The magnet thrust force balances the gravity,realizes the magnetic suspension of the turntable and the fixed installment above it,and makes the turntable revolve around the revolution axis without friction.


Using the analogy of the "family road trip," this essay examines the notion of sustainable development as it is understood within the neoclassical economic paradigm. The essay argues that the economic policies that have been advanced by the neoclassical paradigm as providing the methodology to achieve sustainable economic development do not work. Instead, sustainable economic development requires redeployment of the fundamental components of most traditional economies, reciprocity and redistribution.


Immune tolerance is imparted by central and peripheral mechanisms, including apoptotic elimination of self-reactive cells, but also deviation into alternative lineages. The molecular determinants of Treg differentiation, homeostasis and function remain unclear. We are investigating pathways of clonal deletion and Treg lineage specification, operating at transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels, using genetic and genomic approaches. Our studies suggest that genetic variation affects tolerance pathways, and that diverse Treg phenotypes can be elicited in different settings.


A CONTROVERSY of a subjective nature, in which the opposing sides rest their contentions on different interpretations of the terms involved, is scarcely susceptible of a final decision. Yet such arguments are perennially popular, especially in literary criticism. The dispute raised on the publication of Lucan's long hexameter account of the civil wars has not been settled. We are not likely now to discover whether Lucan actually was a historian or a poet by the strictest canons of his age. To conclude, as some modern sages do, that he was neither scarcely aids the solution of the problem. But it has pleased many critics to wage this war of words, not only in antiquity but in recent years. Lucan's confident prophecy to Caesar' has been only partially fulfilled of late: Caesar's wars are still being read by many, but Lucan's Pharsalia seems more likely to be doomed to darkness by the present age than by any other since he wrote. The controversy that his work aroused among contemporary critics remains, however, as a valuable index of certain aspects of literary taste and criticism in the Silver Agea period which recent sympathetic studies may restore to a higher place than it has sometimes occupied in the general estimation. In spite of the many discussions of the case from as many points of


This study aims to determine the strategy of Islamic Education teachers in developing students' spiritual intelligence online at SMAN 1 Pantai Lunci. This type of research is qualitative using descriptive qualitative methods. The subjects of this study were PAI teachers while the informants in this study were students, BK teachers, and parents of students. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews, documentation. The data validation technique used source triangulation and technique triangulation. The data analysis technique was carried out by collecting data, reducing data, presenting data, and drawing conclusions. The results of this study indicate that the PAI teacher strategy in developing students' spiritual intelligence online at SMAN 1 Pantai Lunci is an independent learning strategy by going through several stages, namely determining learning objectives, delivering learning materials, and giving independent assignments in the form of summarizing the Angel Always with Me material which contains the value of faith and reading the Qur'an which contains the value of worship, then independent activities and the last stage is to do an evaluation.Keywords: Spiritual Intelligence, PAI Learning, Teacher Strategy�


The following complexes of 2-thioamidopyridine (thiopic) were prepared and studied : [RhCl2 thiopic2]Cl,2H2O; [RhCl2 thiopic2][RhCl4 thiopic]; [RhCl, thiopic2]ClO4; [RhBr2 thiopic2]ClO4; [RhI2 thiopic2]ClO4,H2O; [Rh thiopic3][ClO4]3; [Ag thiopic]ClO4; [AuCl2 thiopic][AuCl4]; [Au thiopic2][AuI2]; [RuCl2 thiopic2], C2H5OH; [Os thiopic3]Br3; [Cr thiopic3]Br3; [MnI3 thiopic2]; [In thiopic3]Cl3,H2O. The following substances were also prepared and studied: [RhI2 pic2]I2,H2O; [RhCl, en,]Cl,H2O; [Rh phenan3]Br3 (where pic is 2-aminomethylpyridine, en is ethylenediamine, and phenan is 1,10-phenanthroline). The conductances of all of the aforementioned substances in NN?-dimethylformamide agreed with their structures as metal chelates as indicated. Studies of absorption spectra in the visible region were also made, and infrared spectra showed that bonding had occurred through the sulphur atom of the -C(=S)NH, group in the case of rhodium(III), gold(I), gold(III), ruthenium(II), osmium(III), and silver(I) complexes, whereas with chromium(III), manganese(II), and indium(III) coordination was by the nitrogen atom. Measurements of magnetic susceptibility showed that the rhodium(III), gold(I), gold(III), ruthenium(II), and osmium(III) complexes were spin-paired, whereas those of chromium(III) and manganese(II) were spin free.


Learning and generalization of treated sounds to different word positions is a desired outcome of intervention in the phonologically disordered child's system. Unfortunately, children do not always learn the sound that is treated; nor do they always demonstrate across-word generalization. One possible explanation for differences in treatment outcome may relate to the pretreatment substitution patterns used by different disordered children. This post-hoc analysis of treatment data examines the effects on sound learning and generalization of consistent versus inconsistent substitutes. With a consistent substitute across-word position (CS), the same phone was used in initial, medial and final position for a phoneme that was not in the child's inventory. An inconsistent substitute was evidenced by a different phone for a target sound in each position of a word (InAP), or even within word position (InWP) for an error sound. Fourteen children with severe phonological disorders were treated on an obstruent in in...


2'-O or 3'-O-propargylated adenosines and ribothymidines were used as click targets for cross-linking of oligonucleotides with aliphatic and aromatic azides. The cross-link generates a sugar modification at the 2'-O-ligation site. Inexpensive ribonucleosides were used as starting materials. Cross-linking of oligonucleotides was performed at internal or terminal positions. Hybridization of homodimers with two complementary single strands resulted in stable ligated DNA duplexes.


At no time in history has access to information and knowledge found in printed form been so essential to the resolution of social and economic problems as it is at the present moment. No problem in Latin America, taken as a whole, is more serious than that of the low educational level of the population and the high rate of illiteracy. Half of the population has had no more than one year of formal schooling. An understanding of this fact and its implications is essential to programs to be undertaken under the Alliance for Progress. The difference between literacy and illiteracy, however, is not merely in knowing how to read, but in reading. To remain functionally literate, both the adult and the child must have reading materials at hand in his own language, at his own reading level, at a price he can afford to pay or to use in libraries, and in quantities sufficient to permit him to keep in practice and to encourage him to continue reading. It is the goal of the Library and Bibliographic Development Program of the Organization of American States (OAS) to place books and other publications within the reach of the peoples of the Americas, in their own languages, as they are needed, and to carry out essential activities for the promotion of improved booktrade methods, increased bibliographic coverage and widely extended library services in order to achieve that goal. In its program, the Pan American Union endeavors to collect, analyze and disseminate information on the library movement in the Americas,


The invention relates to a security element applied on a printing substrate (banknotes, securities, product packagings, identity cards/labels or other similar documents) as a print by printing, comprising a graphic code carrying primary information and detectable to the naked eye and a graphic code combined therewith carrying secondary information and undetectable in the naked eye. The largest dimension of the code carrying secondary information is 2 to 40 microns and is chosed such that due to printing uncertainties arising when printing on a substrate the code carrying secondary information is distorted making the code carrying secondary information non-reconstructable from the print and thereby attributing the security element with a statistically analyzable feature.


Both new and used products get to sell on the market. The third group consists of products that can be called: new, old stock. One can defined them as new and unused products, which at the same time hit the market later than manufacturer planed and through different channels than were prepared for them. In this article the authors examine how, and under what circumstances a transformation of new products into the old stock happens. Further they consider specific methods for their distribution in the market. An introduction to the discussion is to present the conceptual framework in the field of supply chains' output side.


In this work, Monte Carlo simulations have been performed to investigate the magnetic properties and thermal behavior of different Husimi-like structures: triangular, square and pentagonal. In fact, the Blume-Capel model has been adopted to study such Husimi lattices in the framework of the Ising model spin-1. Furthermore, we have examined the computed blocking temperatures. Also, the behavior of each Husimi geometry has been studied and discussed. Besides, the effects of the magnetization versus the crystal field, the exchange coupling interaction and the external magnetic field have been investigated. Such comparison of triangular, square and pentagonal Husimi-like structures allowed us to deduce interesting properties related to the geometry of each structure.


Ultrafast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used to provide two-dimensional (2-D) images of gas-liquid distribution within trickle-bed reactors with data acquisition times of 20 and 40 ms. Gas-water, cocurrent downflow through a fixed bed of cylindrical porous pellets of length and dia. 3 mm, packed within a 43 mm internal dia. column, was studied in both the trickle- and pulsing-flow regimes. Superficial gas velocities in the range 50–345 mm s−1 (0.06–0.42 kg m−2 s−1), and superficial liquid velocities in the range 0.4–13.3 mm s−1 (0.4–13.3 kg m−2 s−1) were used. MRI is used to investigate the stability of the gas-liquid distribution in the trickle- and pulsing-flow regimes. At the onset of the transition to pulsing flow, local pulsing, at the length-scale of the size of the packing elements is observed within the bed. Increasing liquid velocity causes an increase in the number of these local pulses until a velocity is reached at which the system transforms to the rapidly-changing gas-liquid distribution typical of pulsing flow. © 2005 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 51: 615–621, 2005


Through the experiment on the durability of sea sand concrete beam which is subject to long-term chlorine salt corrosion and bending load,the change of deflection,beam load-deflection curve,ductility and crack are studied.The results show: compared with ordinary concrete beam,the sea sand concrete beam which has been subject of chlorine salt corrosion and bending load has a higher rigidity;the deflection amount and the width of crack of this concrete beam all fall in the confines of ultimate service state under use load;and the beam displays a better ductility in failure.


In conjunction with future renovation work on the 33-year-old Felsenau viaduct (CH), which is part of the Swiss highway A1 and one of the most remarkable concrete bridge structures in Switzerland, load tests were performed for evaluating the fatigue resistance and refining the analytical models. The bridge girder was therefore loaded with more than 100 tons. The Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry at ETH Zurich was responsible for deformation monitoring during the load tests. In addition to traditional surveying methods such as precise levelling and tacheometry, terrestrial laser scanning was performed for the detection of deformations. This paper presents unique load tests on the Felsenau viaduct as well as results of deformation monitoring with focus on measurements by terrestrial laser scanning. Furthermore, a comparison of terrestrial laser scanning and precise levelling is described.


For most companies, developing a satisfying customer experience has a direct impact on their future revenue streams. With the advent of the Internet, they now have to consider creating such "ex ...


The present experience report narrates a nutritional intervention in the area of individual and collective clinical nutrition that took place in a University Hospital (HU) in the interior of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul - Brazil. The main objective of this field work was the professional training for hospital and outpatient nutritional care through general and specific activities performed on site. The specific activities consisted in writing care protocols and standardization of hospital diets while the general activities consisted in the analysis of medical records, survey of clinical diagnoses, proposal of dietotherapic conduct, monitoring of nutritional status, prescription and dietary adequacy, preparation of nutritional guidelines and development, presentation and discussion of clinical cases. This work also reports on the difficulties in implementing and carrying out this intervention agenda and, given the results obtained, it was concluded that the field experience in the hospital area was a valid and beneficial opportunity in which it was possible to harmonize theory with practice.


The analysis of this research focuses on the interactive relationship among the fluctuation of crude oil prices, the real GDP and the stock market of United State. This empirical investigation uses data is in between 1990 and 2018 with the Vector Auto-regression (VAR) analysis, and multiple regressions with its assumption were used in order to analyses data. Findings, oil price and economic growth are very important determinates of stock market in US because the p-value of this were less than the common alpha α =0.05. For instance, the crude oil price had positive impact on stock market because for each unit increasing of crude oil price, the stock market will increase by (0.276901) after holding all other variable constant. However, we find that GDP has negative impact on the participations of increasing the stock market.


In view of that the traditional image corner detection algorithm accuracy is not high and the speed is low,we propose a fast and novel corner detection algorithm with high precision.The difference between our algorithm and the traditional ones is that the USAN area corresponding to the arc and the corner pixel gray similarity to complete the extraction corner are taken into consideration.Thus,the computational cost is largely reduced and the detection precision as well as other performances are well guaranteed.Considering the issue of the fixed threshold,we adopt a new method that can select the threshold automatically.The proposed method is compared with the SUSAN and CSS corner detectors in accuracy rate,missing detection and precision,and so on.The results show that our algorithm has good performance for both synthesized and real images.


Firm value is the main component of the company in making decisions related to its financial performance. This study examines the simultaneous and partial effects of intellectual capital, managerial ownership, and profitability on firm value. The sample of this investigation is the non-cyclical consumer companies sector listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) in the 2018 to 2021 periods. The sampling technique used was purposive sampling, so there were 76 samples from 23 companies in the consumer non-cyclical sector. The analytical method used is panel data regression, which is analyzed using Eviews 12. The results showed that intellectual capital, managerial ownership, and profitability simultaneously and partially influence firm value. This indicates that the company needs good management guided by the factors that affect its value. Therefore, this study has implications for maximizing companies' financial performance in the consumer non-cyclical sector.


An evaluation system was established to evaluate efficiently and accurately the sound quality of the interior noise of B-class vehicle in the steady working conditions based on the radial basis function(RBF) neural network.The subjective evaluation tests were carried out for 30 steady noise signal samples with the grade estimation method.The objective parameters having significant effect on the sound quality were extracted by the correlation analysis.An evaluation model was built to predict the sound quality of the vehicle interior noise using an RBF neural network,its average relative predict error is 4.5%.Based on the predict model,using the modular design concept and the multi-threaded parallel processing technique,a virtual instrument based sound quality evaluation system was designed.The field test results showed that compared with traditional subjective evaluation method,the designed system reduces the test time by 90%,and the quality of the evaluation is better.


Based on the data analysis of monthly average temperature from 1960 to 2004 in Beijing,a least squares support vector machine(LSSVM) and an Elman neural network model were established,and optimized by particle swarm optimization(PSO),trial and error method respectively,and then applied to predict the data of monthly average temperature from 2005 to 2009.Finally a comparative analysis of those two models was made and a more reasonable model was selected.The results showed that two models were all relatively feasible for simulation of the temperature series as a whole(R2 was higher than 0.985).However,it did not work well when they were used in low temperature prediction.Moreover,compared with Elman neural network model(RMSE=1.732 5),PSO_LSSVM had less prediction errors(RMSE=1.380 6),and the simulation result was better.Accordingly,PSO_LSSVM model could be applied to temperature prediction,which can serve as a guidance for local agriculture production and industrial development.


In this paper we analyze and test several steganographic techniques on still images. We show that embedding a large amount of data into the picture it can modify its visible properties. We compare the RSA and the elliptic curve (ECC) based digital signatures, and we analyze their advantages and disadvantages in steganography. In steganography it is important that the embedded data size should be minimized. Using ECC minimization of the embedded information is possible, because the minimal block size is smaller than in the case of RSA.


This study aims to: 1) calculate the production costs, revenues and income of lowland rice farming in Bongoime Village, Tilongkabila District, Bone Bolango Regency, 2) Analyze the feasibility of lowland rice farming in Bongoime Village, Tilongkabila District, Bone Bolango Regency. This research was conducted in Bongoime Village, Tilongkabila District, Bone Bolango Regency from May to July 2022 with a total sample of 67 farmers. The research method used is slovin. Analysis of the data used is the total cost, revenue and income. The results showed that the average total cost of Rp. 3,242,007/farmer/harvest. While the income obtained on average is Rp. 13,882,836 /farmer /harvest with an average net income of Rp. 10,640,828/farmer/harvest. Value The results of the feasibility analysis of lowland rice farming in Bongoime Village, Tilongkabila District, Bone Bolango Regency, the R/C ratio is 24.16 > 1, this means that the farming is profitable and deserves to be continued and continued. BEP analysis shows the value of the unit BEP is 1.488 and the BEP is Rp. 13,392,725. The feasibility analysis of non-financial aspects including market aspects, technical aspects


In this paper, a computational scheme for extracting approximate solutions of system of integral equations is proposed. For this purpose, by considering the variational form of the problem and using finite element method, the system of integral equations are reduced to a system of algebraic equations, that are solved by an efficient algorithm. Also, the existence and uniqueness of the system of integral equations are illustrated and the convergence of the approximate solution to the exact solution is investigated. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is discussed by comparing with the results of the given approaches in Babolian and Mordad (2011) and Jafarian et al. (2013).


The right to privacy, being a civil and political right falls under the first generation of human rights and its importance cannot be undermined in any sense. The Council of Europe in 1950 adopted the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) for the promotion of democracy, rule of law, human rights and social development. This paper will examine the right to privacy as adjudicated upon in the case of Copland vs United Kingdom and discuss some of the principles in that case and how the said principles have laid down the foundation for the application of the right to privacy as we have it today. The privacy practice around the world and other analogous issues are also briefly discussed in this paper.


This mixed-methods study aimed to explore the initial process of engagement with an online support group (OSG) for depression. Fifteen British National Health Service patients experiencing depression who had not previously used an OSG for depression were offered facilitated access to an existing peer-to-peer OSG for 10 weeks. Pre- and post-measures of depression, social support, and self-stigma were taken in addition to a weekly measure of OSG usage. A follow-up qualitative interview was conducted with a subsample of nine participants. Depression and self-stigma reduced over the 10-week period, but perceived social support did not change. There was no evidence of adverse outcomes. Perceived benefits of OSG participation included connection to others, normalization of depression, and stigma reduction. However, engagement with the OSG was generally low. Barriers included concerns over causing harm to others or being harmed oneself, feeling different from others in the group, and fears of being judged by others. OSGs may potentially reduce depressive symptoms and perceived self-stigma. However, considerable barriers may hinder people with depression from engaging with OSGs. Further work is needed to determine who will benefit most from participating in OSGs for depression and how best to facilitate engagement.


Abnormalities of serum glucose in pediatric patients are commonly encountered in the emergency department and represent an acute threat to life and neurologic function. Rapidly identifying and aggressively treating hyperglycemia with diabetic ketoacidosis and hypoglycemia are critical to ensure the best possible outcome. This review will guide the emergency provider in the identification, resuscitation, workup, and disposition of these critically ill patients.
This review contains 6 figures, 13 tables, and 50 reviews.
Key Words: Cerebral edema, diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia


A system and method for energy harvesting device networking infrastructure distribution platform is created. In one embodiment of the present invention, the vehicle comprises an energy storage system; and at least one solar generation device is coupled to the vehicle. Generating at least one solar device is configured to generate electrical power from the sun. Generating at least one solar device is configured to be electrically connected to a power grid road system. Another embodiment of the present invention is a vehicle for collecting solar energy and solar power system provides a way for a road network. The method comprising the steps of: generating from solar energy on the solar collector device of the vehicle; convert solar energy into electrical energy; store electrical energy; and discharging stored electrical energy to a power grid road system.


Burning mouth syndrome [BMS] is an enigmatic condition characterized by burning symptoms in the oral cavity. Authors suggested that changes in the salivary flow rate and composition might influence BMS. In 20 patients with BMS [62±12.9yrs] and in 24 controls [24±3.7yrs] we have determined levels of salivary magnesium, calcium, copper, chloride, phosphate, potassium and sodium. Sodium, potasium and chloride were determined by indirect potentiometry, copper was determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry, whereas magnesium and phosphate were determined by spectrophotometric method. Total proteins were determined by pyrogalol colorimetric method. Amylase levels were determined by continued colorimetric method. Statistical analysis was performed by use of χ2 test and Spearman´s correlation test. The results of this study indicate that there were no differences between patients with BMS and controls regarding investigated salivary analytes. Therefore, it seems that investigated salivary analytes do not play a role in the BMS.


The present invention relates to a bipolar plate stacked upon preventing the poor contact between the upper separating plate and the solid oxide fuel cell by a smooth current collecting is possible. Disclosed invention is a unit cell including a fuel electrode (anode) and an air electrode (cathode) is formed on both surfaces of the electrolyte, an electrolyte; And a unit cell with bonding and comprises a buffer member having elasticity. Thus, by being a surface of the upper separating plate and full contact of the cell assembly to the separator plates due to the bipolar plate stacked upon the buffer member, a contact defect between the upper separating plate and prevent a smooth current collecting is possible.


A survey of the patients' view of anaesthesia was carried out in a medium-sized metropolitan private hospital. The study was performed using a postoperative questionnaire. A two-week period was investigated, and data was obtained from 121 of 124 patients anaesthetised during that period. The results showed a very high degree of satisfaction with the anaesthetic services provided, although specific questioning revealed many minor complaints. The results are compared with previous studies done in public hospitals and show that from the patients' perspective, there were fewer complaints than have been noted in the other studies.


This paper presents an analysis and design of a digitally controlled ring oscillator with a new band-extension technique to achieve wide-band operation. The proposed technique is based on inclusion of an LC tank to boost the frequency range. Two frequency sub-ranges are covered with the tank on and off respectively, and they jointly constitute a very wide frequency tuning range. Implemented as a building block of a digital frequency synthesizer, the ring oscillator has a measured tuning range of 2.65–6.3 GHz, with power consumption less than 16 mW from a 1.2-V supply. The worst-case measured phase noise at 1-MHz offset is −85 dBc/Hz.


Since most of traditional biped walkers based on Passive Dynamic Walking (PDW) have arc feet and locked ankle joint, they cannot realize multimodal locomotion except walking (e.g. keeping standing posture, running). In this paper, we consider how we can substitute the flat feet with the arc feet. We hypothesize that the arc feet correspond to a circular Roll Over Shape (ROS), which is a shape of trajectory of center of pressure in human walking. We found that this circular ROS was generated by ankle joint driven by flexible muscles antagonistically. Measuring ROS with various tensions of muscles and equilibrium positions of ankle joint, we investigate the relationship between ROS and walking behavior.


Impedance control has been often proposed as a stable control strategy for human walking. On the other hand, the continuous control of stiffness in human is energetically expensive. It has been shown that systems with unstable equilibrium points can be stabilized using inertial effects. A Kapitza's pendulum shows that it is possible to stabilize an inverted pendulum by making its base oscillate vertically. This work provides a set of simulations that show how an impedance control strategy can be used for dynamic stabilization. The simulations presented are based on experimental data extracted from publicly available videos depicting the self-paced walking pattern of an unimpaired human and a that of a NAO humanoid robot. In both cases, the average lower limb stiffness can be maintained under the minimum level of stability if its modulation induces vertical oscillations on the trunk with frequencies compatible with human locomotion. The results reiterate the possibility of integrating the intermittent control of human balance under the umbrella of impedance control.


This work is concerned with the existence and exponential stability of Stepanov-like almost automorphic mild solutions for the following semilinear evolution equations
x'(t) = Ax(t) + F(t, x(t)),     t ∈ ℝ,
where A is the infinitesimal generator of a C0-semigroup of bounded linear operator on a Banach space X and F: ℝ × X → X is a Stepanov-like almost automorphic function in t uniformly with respect to the second argument x. By applying the Banach contraction mapping principle (when F satisfies Lipschitz type conditions), and the Schauder's fixed point theorem (when F does not necessarily satisfy Lipschitz type conditions), we obtain the existence and exponential stability of Stepanov-like almost automorphic mild solutions for the semilinear evolution equations. Moreover, as application, two examples are given to illustrate our abstract results.


The selective crystallization behaviours of amorphous boscalid (BOS), BOS monohydrate and acetone/ethyl acetate/ethanol/methanol solutions are explained and predicted by mid-frequency Raman difference spectra analysis. The phase transition processes including solutions...


A Conference on Measurement Techniques for Solar and Space Physics was held on 20–24 April 2015 in Boulder, Colorado, at the National Center for Atmospheric Research Center Green Campus. The present volume collects together the papers from this conference in the categories of particles and fields. This also includes neutral gas techniques as well as low‐energy ionospheric plasmas and their interactions with spacecrafts.


This article presents a rigorous static analysis of cable network structures, which relates the nodal position, the unstressed cable length and the external load using the elastic catenary cable element in order to take into consideration the cable curve effect and the fact that cables can only be tensioned. The incremental relationship between nodal position and cable length is employed for solving the unstressed cable length in the initial equilibrium configuration determination problem and for accomplishing the shape adjustment operation with an iterative method. Detailed procedures of investigating the problems of the initial equilibrium configuration and shape adjustment of the cable network supporting structure for a large reflector are presented to demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the method.


: Wamena is one of the areas with the potential to develop a wide variety of food crops and plantations in large and medium quantities because it is supported by its natural conditions. Wamena, especially throughout Jayawijaya Regency and even other Regencies in the Central Highlands of Papua, are known for their organic farming. In order to support and maintain the productivity of organic farming systems, as an academic activist in the agricultural sector, it is necessary to conduct training on making organic fertilizer through the use of banana weevils known as Local Microorganism Fertilizer (MoL). This training was based on observations of farmer groups in the Wesaput district, where all farmers in the farmer groups had never used organic liquid fertilizers or inorganic fertilizers as additional nutrients to increase


This article examines the role of the narrator. He presents himself as a reasonable man, who is stirred to revolt against evil by the suffering that he observes. His principle concern is to witness to the truth so that others may do likewise. However, his agenda means that he is not as objective as he would have us believe. The truth that he tells is his truth and the novel bears the traces of a battle for truth in which competing narrators are one by one eliminated. In fact it can be argued that the narrator's account is compromised by the ambiguous relationship between himself and the plague.


Urticaria is a common condition in children for which physicians are consulted. The management of childhood urticaria is similar as in adults; however, there are pediatric-specific features that must be taken into account for better management of childhood urticaria.


Transparent scales were prepared with the following attenuation factors: 0.005, 0.01, 0.015, 0.02, 0.025, 0.03, 0.035, 0.04, 0.045, 0.05, 0.055, and 0.06 Np/cm.


This study aimed to examine if there were disadvantages to student learning and application when clinical education is canceled due to factors such as COVID-19 pandemic that occurred between 2020-2021. Forty occupational therapy students participated in the study, and they were classified into two groups: those with clinical education (clinical education group) and those without clinical education (inexperienced group). TP-KYT, which assesses a client's ability to predict risk related to falls, was administered in the first and final year. The inexperienced group showed less ability to predict risk related to client falls than the clinical education group.


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Surface charges have significant impact on the evolution of surface dielectric barrier discharge (SDBD). In this work, the role of residual surface charges on repetitively nanosecond pulsed SDBD in atmospheric air is investigated using a two-dimensional fluid model, based on the assumption of preserving the distribution of surface charges at the end of the previous high voltage (HV) pulse. In the bipolar mode when the polarity of residual surface charges is opposite to that of the current HV pulse, a lower breakdown voltage and more deposited energy can be observed, showing an obvious enhancement of SDBD. In the unipolar mode, residual surface charges suppress the development of discharges and energy deposition. It is found that more residual surface charges are accumulated during the negative pulsed discharge, which have a more pronounced effect on the subsequent positive pulsed one. This is explained by the fact that the negative surface streamers directly contact the dielectric and charge it, while the positive surface streamers float above the dielectric, forming a ion-rich region near the surface. The results in this work demonstrate the mechanism of how residual surface charges affect discharge dynamics, which can be utilized to regulate energy deposition in SDBDs.


For inconvenience of memory management engendered by traditional pointer,designing a new referencing pointer model the using rule of reference is given.A generic template pointer class and its usage method are offered on the basis of not modifying running compiler and standard library.At last the testing and result analysis is made.It is proved that it can solve the problem of memory automatic management.


This study is focussed on 2′-O-methyl-cis-adenosine 3′,5′-cyclic methyl monophosphate (cis-4; cis describes the relationship between OMe (bound to phosphorus) and the adenine base), which is regarded a model for enzyme-bound cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP). In this complex the negative phosphate charge is shielded in part via complexation with cationic sites on the enzyme surface. We report synthesis, crystal structure, solution conformation (400 MHz 1H NMR), and kinetic-mechanistic aspects of the alkaline hydrolysis of cis-4. The methanol solvate of cis-4 crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group P212121 and the cell dimensions are a = 8.170(2) A, b = 9.249(1) A, c = 23.699(4) A; V = 1788.5(6) A3; Z = 4 molecules per cell. Least-squares refinement converged at R = 0.062 for 2006 observed reflections. The adenine bases are linked via and hydrogen bonds in such a way that infinite one-dimensional chains are formed. This hydrogen bond scheme is very similar to that observed in the structure of 2′-d...


Our goal is to study autopsy brains in order to localize abnormalities that could be identified on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of live patients to assess suicide risk. We will use uniform random sampling to conduct histological analyses of myelin integrity and microglial activation in frontal white matter from autopsy brains that we have already collected from 27 suicide cases and 27 nonsuicide cases matched for diagnosis, age, sex, and medication history. The data will allow us to identify and to localize subtle variations in white matter integrity that may be associated with suicide. We will also examine whether such abnormalities are associated with a history of aggressiveness or violent behavior, characteristics that have been associated with suicide and that may be associated with abnormalities in prefrontal white matter. White matter abnormalities can be recognized in live subjects with high sensitivity by diffusion weighted MRI and magnetization transfer MRI. Finding a white matter abnormality that is associated with suicide could allow the use of MRI to help assess suicide risk in individuals, so that close observation and other intense preventive efforts could be directed towards those individuals for whom they are most needed. Funding Organization: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Study Title: Cognitive and Biological Responses to Social Stimuli as Longitudinal Predictors of Adolescent Girls' Suicidality Principal Investigator: Mitchell Prinstein Year When Study First Received Funding: 2008 Abstract: To understand how specific biological and social-cognitive responses to interpersonal stress may be associated with a greater likelihood of future suicidal ideation and behavior among adolescent girls. This study offers a rare opportunity to examine adolescent girls' responses to interpersonal stimuli using a labbased, experimental paradigm, and a longitudinal design. Adolescent girls will be asked to participate in an established interpersonal stressor during a videotaped lab-based visit, and to complete measures of suicidality at four time points (baseline, 3, 6, and 9 months later). Measures of HPA Axis functioning and vagal tone/suppression will be obtained to measure biological responses, and videotapes will be analyzed and coded to measure social-cognitive responses. Past research has identified stressor domains (i.e., school, family, peers) associated with suicidality, but little research has addressed how or why these stressors lead to adolescents' decisions to engage in suicidal behavior. By examining both social-cognitive and biological responses to interpersonal stimuli, this study offers an integrative model with direct implications for preventive interventions; it will be possible to more accurately identify adolescents at risk and to modify processes that mediate the link between stressful events and suicidal behavior.


A paired T-element that assists in successfully controlling a dual-rail delay-insensitive asynchronous circuit system that implements multiple states containing acknowledge networks, that are interdependent, is presented. A T-element allows triggering of next-state actions concurrently with negation of its acknowledge input. However, this introduces a timing assumption that can cause system failure if it is violated. With little additional overhead, the paired T-element is designed to combine the functionality of two standard T-elements and allow adjacent reads to take place when there are inter-state dependencies. This component successfully overlaps advantages of the performance optimisation of the original T-element with the safety of the solution to this control scenario, making it an important element to be used in dual-rail delay-insensitive asynchronous circuit systems.


In order to determine the available time to carry out tillage with the best results and minimum energy input, information on themoisture status in the soil i...


We discuss new aspects of the interaction between a cavity field and Kerr-like medium, focusing on Fisher Information. Here, we provide a new formula for marginal distributions of the Fisher Information and comparison with the Wehrl entropy for the system has been presented. The results show that, it is a correlation measure which is true for any quantum state, provided that it shows the same entropy behaviors of certain reduced states.


Objective To study the significance of expression of Wnt1 and DKK1 in patients with cervical squamous cell carcinoma.Methods Immunohistochemical method was used to detect the protein expression of Wnt1 and DKK1 in specimens of cervical squamous cell carcinoma and normal cervix.Results The positive rate of expression of Wnt1 in SCC(71.67%) was significantly higher than that in normal cervix(40.00%).The positive rate of DKK1(43.33%) in SCC was significantly lower than that in normal cervix(66.67%).The expression of Wnt1 and DKK1 in SCC was associated with clinical staging,differentiation,depth of invasion and metastasis in lymph nodes(P 0.05).The expression of DKK1 was negatively correlated with that of Wnt1(P 0.01).Conclusion DKK1 is an inhibitive factor in signaling pathway of Wnt / β-catenin,but Wnt1 is an initiative factor of this pathway in SCC.They can be regarded as clinical assistant reference markers and offer some evidence for prognosis of SCC.


Optimal transport based misfit functions were developed to improve full-waveform inversion (FWI) by reducing the so-called cycle-skipping issues. There have been successful applications on synthetic examples and field data inversions, but there are not enough explanations for why it works. We will present some analysis by analyzing the preparation or normalization of seismic data for the optimal transport step and discuss its connections to many useful features of other techniques in seismic inversion as, for example, the Huber norm, low-frequency enhancement, increased regularity and model extension. The analysis is also used for further improving optimal transport based FWI.


The Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) is a widely recognised 3 GeV synchrotron light source. It has demonstrated exceptional performance in average beam downtime and meeting international standards over its successful ten-year operation. Regular equipment updates are conducted for all subsystems to ensure continuous improvement and maintain an optimal research facility environment. This study focuses on designing and implementing a temperature-compensated corrector magnet power supply for the TPS. The power supply incorporates a high-bandwidth, compact, cost-effective, bipolar, and highly precise shunt resistor as the current feedback component. A temperature control copper box and temperature compensation circuit are employed to improve the thermal equilibrium time of the output current. A laboratory-developed TPS-corrected magnet power supply with temperature compensation control has been successfully developed through these measures. The prototype exhibits a maximum output current of 10 A and operates at a voltage of 40 V. Metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) are utilised as the power switch in a full-bridge (H-bridge) configuration with a driving frequency of 40 kHz. The output current ripple is effectively maintained at 100 μA for a 10 A output, and the stabilisation time is achieved within 5 minutes. The control loop design of the prototype has been verified to achieve fast and stable output current performance. The completed prototype demonstrated a -3 dB bandwidth of 2.57 kHz when tested with an input reference signal of 0.1 V. Finally, a hardware prototype circuit was constructed in the power supply laboratory, featuring an input voltage of 48 V, an output current of 10 A, and a maximum power capacity of 400 W.


ID: 746 Obesity and Asthma Medications in Preschool Children Author Information: Authors List: Presenting Author: Cynthia Joiner Additional Author: Anne Turner-Henson Presenting Author: Cynthia Irwin Joiner Address: 27 Ashford Circle Birmingham, AL 35244 USA Ph: 205-975-9564 Fax: 205-996-2957 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Institution: UAB School of Nursing Additional Author: Anne Turner-Henson Address: 1530 3rd Avenue South Birmingham, AL 35294 USA Ph: 205-934-7533 Fax: 205-975-6142 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Institution: UAB Abstract InformationInformation Presentation Preference: SNRS Student Poster Presentation Abstract Categories: Interest Group: Parent-Child Thematic Areas: Child & Adolescent Health Introduction: Asthma and obesity among preschool children has been found to be linked to poor health outcomes. The purpose of the study is to determine what asthma medication types are more predictive of high BMI in an inner city preschool population. Increased BMI has been found to be associated with asthma morbidity. The prevalence of childhood obesity among preschool children has doubled, and many young children with asthma receive inadequate medication management. Method(s): This study is a secondary analysis of two databases. Variables included age, gender, ethnicity, asthma diagnosis, asthma symptoms, school days missed, asthma medications, and height and weight (to calculate BMI). Results: The sample consisted of 240 children and mothers, consisting of primarily African American children. Obesity among the children was high, with 14.4% overweight (85th-94th percentile), 7.44% obese (95th-98th percentile), and 8.84% greater than the 99th percentile. Respiratory symptoms/disease/morbidity prevalence, school absences and health care use were high in this preschool population. By maternal report, 27% of children were reported as having a MD diagnosis of asthma. Current history of respiratory symptoms by maternal report ranged from 30% with wheeze, 26% with cough, 25% with nighttime respiratory symptoms, 17% with morning respiratory symptoms and 21% with activity limitations due to respiratory symptoms. Data analysis is underway to examine obesity, asthma, and asthma medication types in this sample. Discussion: Asthma morbidity and increased BMI have been linked. The relationship between obesity, asthma, and asthma medications in young children and is not clearly understood. Data analysis is underway to determine which asthma medication types are predictive of obesity and to examine the relationship between obesity and asthma morbidity. The study will provide support for developing risk reduction interventions. Research Completed :


The leaf and root tip tissues of Alternanthera philoxeroides were treated with vulculic acid of different concentrations to study the effects of vulculic acid on the ultrastructure.The results showed that the damages appeared as the disruption of plasma membrane,digestion of the membrane of chloroplast and mitochondria,disorder of chloroplast lamellae,digestion of mitochondria ridge in leaf tissue,disruption of plasma membrane,digestion of mitochondria membrane and ridge,vacuolation and shrinking of meristematic and epidermal cells in root tip tissue.The severity of damages was increased with the increasing concentration of toxin and time of treatment.


The wake potential, the induced electron density, and the stopping power for a charged particle moving through a strongly coupled two-dimensional electron gas have been investigated within the framework of linear-response dielectric theory. The influence of the exchange-correlation interaction of electrons on the above quantities has been considered by using a local-field-corrected dielectric function.


Outangdi Formation in Jiangshan, Zhejiang is the mixing deposits of terrigenous clastics and carbonate in Weiningian of late Carboniferous. The mixing deposits include the interbedding which constitutes a series of interbedded clastic beds and carbonate beds and the mixing within in the same bed which forms the "Hunji rock". Outangdi Formation has the features of intercalated marine and terrestrial deposits with the progradational sequences with lower fine and upper coarse of sedimentary granularity in the section. Hunji rock is formed in seashore environment, mixed carbonate sediment in beach or tideland facies with quartz sand taken from bayou or beach by coastwise flow and circumfluence. There are two kinds of Hunji sequences: interbeds of sandstone and carbonate rock in seashore environment, interbeds of clastics in river facies and carbonate rock in ocean facies. It is indicated that mixing deposition belong to "facies mixing", affected mainly by regional toctonic uplift, rise of global sea level and dynamics of water medium in the basin. Regional sea level periodic change andprogradational sequences were probably due to intense uplift of the oldland called Cathaysia. The classification and name of mixed sediments are also discussed in this paper. Interbeds and alternated beds of clastic and carbonate beds are named as "hunji sequence", a new genetic term. It is suggested that Hunji rock means a special sedimentary event of mixing of terrigenous clastics and carbonate instead of a term of specific rock.


We introduce a framework for the symbolic verification
of epistemic properties of programs expressed
in a class of general-purpose programming
languages. To this end, we reduce the verification
problem to that of satisfiability of first-order formulae
in appropriate theories. We prove the correctness
of our reduction and we validate our proposal
by applying it to two examples: the dining
cryptographers problem and the ThreeBallot voting
protocol. We put forward an implementation
using existing solvers, and report experimental results
showing that the approach can perform better
than state-of-the-art symbolic model checkers for
temporal-epistemic logic.


Two new species of Hemiandrus are described from alpine habitat in the Sinbad Gully of Fiordland National Park, New Zealand. H. superba n. sp. is the largest known member of the genus, and H. nitaweta n. sp. is perhaps the most brilliantly colored. Fiordland is a major centre of diversity for Hemiandrus; a photographic overview and key to the species recorded from the Park are provided.


Margaret played with two yellow leaves that had floated down upon her like toys dropped into a playpen by a smiling mother. Shadows of the picket fence in whose corner she sat, fell like bars across her. She watched them on her arm curiously, thinking of locks and keys and rooms with no windows. In front of her, on the huge rocks that rose like a miniature mountain in the middle of the yard, the moss had dried and turned brown. If she had felt like it, she could have filled a coffee can with water and pouring it over a section of the tight brown moss, watched it turn green before her eyes. But things were different today, and she didn't feel like it. She threw the two yellow leaves over the fence where they fell quietly on the wooden sidewalk. She watched them for a long time but they didn't even quiver. Why didn't you go with them? They didn't ask me. Don't lie. She called you. I was afraid I would cry. You hid. They won't like that. But I came back. I'm here now. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. You should have gone with them. Stupid to sit here. It's cold. Not true. If she didn't move it wasn't so cold. The sun was full of the illusion of warmth, bouncing its rays off the shingled wall of the house, breaking into dancing, sparkling patterns of light under the mulberry trees where leaves kept falling. It was a beautiful day. She felt like screaming or biting herself to keep from making more words in her mind and spoiling what was around her. But at the same time she knew it was stupid to just sit here. There were goose bumps all up and down her arms because of the church bell that kept ringing and ring ing. If she got up and walked off, maybe she could get far enough away so she wouldn't have to hear it anymore. There was a noise in the house of her neighbor and she looked up. What it might be, she could not guess because as far as she knew, she was alone. Those who had cars had piled them to the ceiling with their belongings and driven off with cans strapped to their running boards and canvas bundles tied to the tops.


Various lengths of myosin filaments were prepared by changing the speed of lowering the ionic strength. Short filaments were formed by rapid dilution and the filament length became longer with decreasing the speed of lowering the ionic strength. The average length of myosin filaments ranged from 0.5 to 3.0 μm with varying the speed of dilution. Myosin filament suspensions were heated to form gels, and those gel strengths were evaluated as rigidity. The rigidity depended on the length of the filaments before heating. The longer the filaments, the higher the rigidities. The gels with higher rigidity had a fine strand-like network structure. In contrast, that showing lower rigidity had a coarse aggregated structure. When low protein concentrations of myosin filament suspensions were heated at 40°C, myosin filaments associated with increasing the incubation time. When heating was done at 60°C, aggregation of myosin filaments occurred in a short time. Electron microscopic observation suggests that the association and the following aggregation of myosin filaments per se cause formation of a whole network structure. Short myosin filaments began to aggregate randomly in an early stage of heating and they made clusters. But long filaments did not form a cluster; instead, some of them associated side-by-side to form bundles. These differences in the mode of aggregation among various lengths of myosin filaments seemed to be one of possible reasons for the different network structures observed in the gels.


By using the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data and monthly precipitation data in Shaanxi Province from 1979 to 2011,the East-Asian summer monsoon intensity index and precipitation anomaly consistent rate were calculated, the relationships between the monsoon intensity indexes and precipitation were investigated using statistical correlation analysis method. The atmospheric circulation characteristics of Shannxi rainy year and drought year were discussed with the strong(weak)East-Asian summer monsoon. The result showed that:the strong East-Asian summer monsoon meant more rain in Shaanxi,and plenty rainfall in North Shaanxi and Guanzhong,while the weak EastAsian summer monsoon meant less rain,and significant less in the north of Northern Shaanxi. The more rain had the characteristics of a positive-negative-positive anomalous distribution from west to east in high latitudes in Europe and Asia,general circulation of the stronger ridge at Ural Mountain,deeper trough from Lake Baikal to the Balkhash, stronger west Pacific subtropical high,the south airflow prevailing the east side of Tibetan plateau,meanwhile the weak north airflow prevailing in North China. There was cyclonic shear of anomaly wind fields in eastern part of northwest China lead to more rain. While the general circulation characteristics of less rain were negative-positivenegative anomalous distribution from west to east in high latitudes in Europe and Asia,stronger long wave ridge at Central-Asian,weaker and position by east of western Pacific subtropical high. It was hot and dry weather in Shaanxi controlled by northwest flow of Central-Asian ridge. But it was wet day when East-Asian summer monsoon was weak,East Asia mid-latitude was prevailing straight westerly flow,westerly jet located at 40°N,location of the western Pacific subtropical high was to the south and west as compared with the normal,Tibetan plateau potential height was lower than normal and more short wave trough or low-pressure system. The westerlies system and low pressure system of plateau east shift had impact on the summer more rain in Shaanxi Province.


Pattern of compartmentalization in response to fungal invasion is studied in a mangrove associate Derris trifoliata Lour., (Fabaceae) by histological and histochemical methods. Cambium miners form boreholes in the stem by making tunnels through bark into the cambial region. Injury formed on the xylem side, induce formation of callus like cells that differentiate into pith flecks while, cells lining the tunnel on phloem side differentiate into cork cells. Boreholes formed by cambial miners provide platform to various pathogenic fungi to invade various cells of xylem. Fungal hyphae enter into vessel lumen and travel from vessels to rays and adjacent xylem elements through the pits present on the lateral walls. To compartmentalise the fungal invasion, paratracheal parenchyma accumulate phenolic compounds that completely ensnare infected portion of xylem from all the sides. Subsequently, adjacent parenchyma release phenolic compounds into the vessel lumen and completely embeds the hyphae within it. In case of severely infected samples, parenchyma cells between normal and infected xylem produce interxylary cork as a barrier zone. The wound callus induced in response to larval mining activity possessed parenchymatous cells and are derived from the ray and xylem mother cells.


In the present study, we explored the molecular mechanisms by which bacterial endotoxin (LPS) mediates the down‐regulation of CCR2 receptors on human monocytes. We found that LPS induced a marked reduction in CCR2 cell surface protein levels which was blocked by pretreatment with the tyrosine kinase inhibitors genistein and herbimycin A. The effector mechanism underlying LPS‐induced CCR2 down‐modulation appears to involve the enzymatic activity of proteinases since Western blot analysis of LPS‐stimulated monocytes revealed the degradation of a 38‐kDa species corresponding to the CCR2B monomer. In RBL cells expressing the CCR2B‐green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion chemokine receptor, LPS stimulated the internalization and degradation of CCR2. The serine proteinase inhibitor N‐α‐p‐tosyl‐L‐lysine chloromethyl ketone blocked LPS‐induced down‐modulation of CCR2 in monocytes and CCR2B‐GFP in RBL cells. This work describes a previously uncharacterized mechanism for CC chemokine receptor down‐modulation that is dependent upon tyrosine kinase activation and serine proteinase‐mediated receptor degradation and may provide further insight into the mechanisms of leukocyte regulation during immunological and inflammatory responses.


"Hikmah" Home Industry is one of the home-scale industries engaged in the foodprocessing industry in Klaten, with products produced in the form of chicken intestinal chips. The purpose of this study is to determine the value of use in each level or level of product attributes and also identify the attributes that are consumers' preferences for the purchase of these IRT Hikmah chips products. Data collection methods used in this study include interviews, triangulation, questionnaires, and documentation. While the sampling technique used was Judgment sampling, with a total of 60 respondents who had consumed intestinal chips. Data processing in this study uses conjoint analysis, which in this method is
useful for analyzing consumer preferences about a product and also the condition requirements that make up the attributes of the product. The results of the analysis found that the stimuli of the most popular respondents were intestinal chips with original flavor, other sizes or depending on demand (custom), crispy texture, color without the addition of turmeric, no expiration limits and no halal label. While the
attributes considered important by respondents based on the highest to lowest values are the first attribute size, the second is taste, the third is color, the fourth is expired, the fifth is texture, and the last is the halal label.
Keywords: conjoin analysis, consumer preferences, importance values, intestinal chips, utility values.


In this work, the detector performance of a watermark-based error concealment (WEC) system proposed in C.B. Adsumilli is mathematically analyzed. The spread spectrum based WEC algorithm embeds a low resolution version of an image in itself during encoding. At the receiver, this embedded watermark is extracted and used as a reference to conceal the transmission losses in the reconstructed image. For the application of error concealment, the detector modelling varies from the conventional watermark detectors due to the fact that we use a full frame DCT to embed the watermark data and vary the strength of the watermark in accordance with the embedding coefficients to reduce the standard deviation of the resulting distribution. We further approximate the full frame DCT coefficients to follow a generalized Gaussian distribution (GGD) like in the case of modelling block-based DCT coefficients and consequently, we provide a comparison between the performance of this system and conventional block-based embedding strategies for various packet loss probabilities. Both analytical and simulation results show that our system of full frame DCT embedding is more effective for error concealment in detecting the embedded bits with lesser probability of error.


Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai'i, has prehistoric explosive periods characterized by large ash plumes and high fountaining events that reveal phases of Kīlauea's cyclic eruptive history not currently observed. Studies suggest that the recent Keanakāko'i Tephra (1500-1820's) were emplaced after significant reservoir/magma supply depletion caused caldera collapse [1]. The older and less-studied Kulanaokuaiki Tephra, a member of the explosive Uēkahuna Ash Period (200 BCE-1000 CE), were deposited from 400 to 1000 CE [2]. The Kulanaokuaiki Tephra is comprised of five distinct units that are located primarily on Kīlauea's south flank. This study presents new major, minor, and trace element concentrations in basaltic glass from upper-Kulanaokuaiki Tephra (Units 4 and 5) to compare the magmatic processes of the two most recent explosive periods at Kīlauea. We find that upper-Kulanaokuaiki Tephra glass MgO values range from 5.8-12.6 wt%, suggesting different magma storage depths within the Kīlauea crustal reservoir(s), comparable to the Keanakāko'i Tephra (3.4-11.2 wt% MgO) [3]. Thermodynamic MELTS modeling using a 12 wt% MgO parental melt composition show that the upper-Kulanaokuaiki data can be fit with olivine, plagioclase, and clinopyroxene fractional crystallization trends with oxygen fugacity near the quartz-fayalite-magnetite


(57) Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) [wherein, R Diphenylpropyl amines, relates physiologically if salt and said compound of the acceptable acids may be optical isomers racemic mixtures and individual enantiomers. The present invention also relates to the preparation of said compounds, to the use of the compounds for the manufacture of a medicament composition and a medicament comprising the novel compounds.


The appearance in 1971 of Peter Brook's filmed King Lear marks the end-point, so far as theatre history is concerned, of an evolution that began in rehearsals for the 1962 stage production in Stratford-upon-Avon. The complex interrelationships between Brook's stage and film versions of the play account in large measure for the extraordinary position of his controversial film as a major production of King Lear at mid-century. Whether acclaimed or decried, Brook's interpretation cannot be ignored. In 1962, when Brook began to rehearse King Lear, he had already made his mark at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1955 as the innovative director of Titus Andronicus starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In 1960 he had joined the newly christened Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford as director of experimental projects, and his production of Lear was to be the first full-scale experiment. Scofield, who had worked with Brook before, came to Lear fresh from his success as Sir Thomas More in A Man For All Seasons. When King Lear finally opened on 6 November 1962, having been delayed for two months by Scofield's poor health, it immediately provoked controversy. Looking for an antidote to the 1959 Lear, sentimentalized by Charles Laughton in the title role, audiences encountered a new Lear, unsoftened by sentimentality or spectacle, superbly acted throughout yet austere and bereft of redemption. The stage was bare, without scenery and with only a rough wooden throne, a bench, or a table carried on as needed and as quickly cleared. Upstage two giant white screens rose up in front of the cyclorama to form an abstract backdrop. This setting remained unchanged except for the storm scene. Then, as the storm sounds grew louder, three huge rust-colored iron thundersheets descended from the flies above, trembling as they made the thunder. Lit by a harsh white light, Lear spoke as the others onstage mimed the storm's effects, his speeches and their replies punctuated by the crash of thunder and the wailing of the wind. Costumes were of leather, thick, worn, and ill-fitting, in various shades of black and brown, with only a hint of color here and there- the Fool's red hat, or the crimson lining of Lear's cloak. At the center of this critically acclaimed production, widely thought to have been influenced by Samuel Beckett and Jan Kott, was Paul Scofield's King Lear. His head close-cropped, his voice at first harsh and growling, then growing soft and sometimes breaking, Scofield established Lear as a strong, virile tyrant, whose word was law and who commanded both fear and respect. Philip Hope-Wallace (Manchester Guardian, 13 December 1963), for instance, described him as "an old sea dog," in whom "the pathos of old age [is] utterly convincing, terrible and touching, without a hint of sentimentality of the effect of enjoying his griefs." Yet not every critic agreed that this was all to the good. In fact, many complained that Lear's grandeur had been lost and that the music had gone from the poetry. Speaking for many academic critics, Maynard Mack believed that by "rationalizing" Lear's behavior and giving sympathetic support to Goneril and Regan's displeasure, Brook and Scofield had diminished the play's pathos, if not its horror.5 The film that emerged from this enormously successful production had a strange beginning. As we learn from Roger Man veil, Brook and the producer, Michael Birkett, literally took the play apart and re-assembled it. At one point they brought in the poet Ted Hughes to "translate" the text. Then, realizing that this would not work, Brook wrote his own prose narrative without dialogue. Even the shooting script underwent several revisions. As a result, the film departs so drastically from Shakespeare's text that, however appreciative of Brook's artistry, most critics have treated the film as an adaptation rather than a realization of the play. In cutting a four-hour plus play text to make a two-hour film, it is not surprising that great swatches of Shakespeare disappeared. …


Using mixed qualitative and quantitative analysis, I analyse moves made by Malaysian authorities as they seek to engage coercive capital—in the form of state-directed market maneuvers—and mobile capital—in the form of institutional investors' discourses—in the aftermath of the financial crises of 1997–1998 and 2007–2008. I argue that the Malaysian case reveals the continuing valence of structures of neoliberalism and, in particular, the ways in which local legitimacy continues to be mediated by global market makers. First, I show how in semi-democratic states, neoliberal policies enable the consolidation of power along intersectional axes of class and ethnicity. Next, using Tajudin Ramli's corporate empire (as enmeshed with Malaysian Airlines) as a modal example, I explore the continuities in the nexus of political and economic elites in Malaysia. Finally, by examining discourses of the Malaysian market's credibility among institutional investors, I show continuities in how regimes of truth are shaped through neoliberal market structures. If post-neoliberalism leads to transformations in macroeconomic policies and political discourses, I argue that in Malaysia, by contrast, we see intensification of neoliberal policies and discourses, rather than transformation.


There exists knowledge gap in analysis of the influence of the general ICT-based M&E systems in county governments with a focus on data analysis and timely presentation to stakeholder, there an empirical gap in physical health infrastructural, road infrastructural development, market infrastructural development and sports infrastructural development ICT-based M&E. This study tried to fill the gap in knowledge by answering a question on what the role of ICT-based monitoring and evaluation systems in infrastructural development in county governments? The study used the Realist Evaluation Theory coupled with a descriptive design. The study was conducted in Machakos County, one of the 47 counties in the republic of Kenya with a target of both internal and external M&E contractors of the Machakos County Government since 2013 to 2022. The study used purposive sampling technique and census to select the study participants. Two forms of questionnaires were used to collect quantitative data; one for ICT departments and the other for M&E department of the County Government of Machakos. Interviews were used to collect qualitative data from the Heads of ICT and Project and Delivery M&E departments. The instruments were piloted at the county government of Kitui. Content validity of the instruments were assessed by experts while reliability was determined using Cronbach's Alpha to ascertain items' internal consistency (yielding r of at least 0.75). Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analzyed quantitative data while the qualitative data was analzyed thematically. The study found that information and communication technology improvements had often led to new ideas. Because of technological progress, there were new methods, tools, and ways of doing things, as well as new opportunities and problems in infrastructural development in Machakos county government. In the construction industry, amenities like roads, bridges, and buildings were equipped with electronic sensors that could be accessed from afar and give information about access. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems should be used by all sectors in the county to keep track of project progress, measure and evaluate project results.


This work proposes a framework for determining the optimal allocation of Automated Bus (AB) services in a multimodal public transit network. The proposed simulation and optimization framework considers the change in operator costs with AB systems and passenger flow distribution. For feasi-bility analysis the framework is first applied to a synthetic scenario, then a subsection of Stockholm area, where a pilot project is currently running, is assessed.


In this article,a statistical way of verifying fingerprints based on the gray-scale is proposed.We detailedly expound each step in the process of fingerprint verification which is composed of core searching, features area locating,gray scale normalizing and features extracting.Theoretical analysis of the proposed algorithm is also made in this article.Furthermore,we attach more attention to the optimization of some tunable parameters such as the size of the filters and the number of directions of filters.This optimization of the proposed algorithm turns out to be successful through analyzing a lot of experimental data.


Executive Summary This report responds to an invitation by the Government of Egypt to the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) jointly to conduct an independent review of the nation's higher education system and to offer advice on its future development. The Egyptian higher system is not serving the country's current needs well, and without far-reaching reform it will hold back Egypt's economic and social progress. To build and modernise the nation, the Government of Egypt has driven major reforms in macroeconomic policy to attract foreign direct investment, monetary policy including floating the Egyptian pound, taxation reform, trade liberalisation including tariff reductions and international trade agreements, and public sector reform including privatisation of state-owned enterprises. The higher education system remains unreconstructed in this context. It continues to produce largely for the economy of the past, and community expectations of it reflect outdated understandings of its role. There is an imperative for fundamental reform of the Egyptian higher education system. This imperative arises from the combination of emerging pressures and accumulated dysfunctions. The pressures arise from the need for Egypt to: • improve its competitiveness in the global knowledge-based economy, where other countries are intensifying their investments in human capital and knowledge production;


A new estimation method on the electric charge quantity of dust particles in a complex plasma is developed. This method estimates the mean electric charge of dust particles in a measurement domain. The measurement system is simple and there is not much influence on experimental conditions of a dust phenomenon in which we are interested. The experimental result obtained with this method is compared with theoretical estimations. It is confirmed that the new method provides a quantitatively correct electric charge of dust particles.A new estimation method on the electric charge quantity of dust particles in a complex plasma is developed. This method estimates the mean electric charge of dust particles in a measurement domain. The measurement system is simple and there is not much influence on experimental conditions of a dust phenomenon in which we are interested. The experimental result obtained with this method is compared with theoretical estimations. It is confirmed that the new method provides a quantitatively correct electric charge of dust particles.


We have carried out a systematic study of the envi- ronment of 14 Herbig Ae/Be (HAEBE) stars at millimeter wave- lengths. Our data show that there is a progressive dispersal of the dense gas associated with these stars in their evolution to the main sequence. The efficiency of this dispersal is very different for "early-type" (B0-B5) and "late-type" (B5-A5) stars. While in early-type stars the mean gas density in a radius of 0.08 pc decreases by almost two orders of magnitude during their evo- lution to the main sequence, in late-type stars it decreases by less than an order of magnitude. Because of this different effi- ciency, there is no correlation between the ages of the stars and the Hillenbrands' infrared (IR) groups. Early-type stars evolve from the Hillenbrand's Group I to Group III in their way to the main sequence, while late-type stars evolve from Group II to Group I. Since the morphology of the parent molecular cloud seems to be strongly dependent on the age of the stars, we propose a new classification for both, early-type and late-type HAEBE stars. We refer as Type I stars to those immersed in a dense clump. These stars are associated with bipolar outflows and have ages 10 5 yrs. We call Type III stars those that have completely dispersed the surrounding dense gas and are located in a cavity of the molecular cloud. Bipolar outflows are not associated with them and their ages are > 10 6 yrs. Type II stars represent the intermediate case, they are immersed in the molecular cloud but they are not at the peak of a dense clump. The advantage of this new classification is that it allows a simple and easy estimate of the evolutionary stage and age of HAEBE stars.


Objectives: To evaluate the tooth lengths, crown to root ratios (CRRs), and alveolar bone support (ABS) around cleft-adjacent maxillary central incisors (U1s) in patients with unilateral cleft lip and alveolus (UCLA) and to investigate the relationships between CRR and ABS. Design: This is a retrospective study. Setting: Cleft Lip and Palate Care Center of Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China. Patients: Fifty-eight Chinese patients with UCLA. Main Outcome Measure: Cone beam computed tomography data from 58 nonsyndromic patients with UCLA (36 males, 22 females; mean age = 12.65 ± 3.64 years) were evaluated. Crown length and root length, alveolar bone thickness (ABT), and the distances between the cementoenamel junction and alveolar bone crest on 4 surfaces of cleft-adjacent U1 were measured and compared with those of noncleft side in the same patients. Crown to root ratio and frequency of dehiscence were calculated and comparisons were also made between cleft and noncleft sides. Regression analysis was performed to explore the association between CRR and ABS. Results: The CRR of cleft-adjacent U1 and alveolar bone crest heights (ACHs) on the 4 surfaces were significantly greater than those of noncleft side (P < .01). A 3 mm labial, all lingual, and apico-distal ABTs decreased on the cleft side (P < .01). A positive correlation was found between lingual ACH and CRR (R = 0.316, P < .05), between the 3 mm (R = 0.417, P < .05) and 6 mm labial (R = 0.448, P < .05) ABT and CRR. A negative correlation was found between the 3 mm and 6 mm labial ABTs and the root length. Conclusions: It can be suggested that the CRR is related to ACH and ABT. The lingual ACH, the 3 mm, and 6 mm labial ABTs tend to increase with the increasing CRR.


Adaptive control and estimation of nonlinearly parameterized systems have been active areas of research due to the theoretical challenge and the wide variety of applications. Based on the recently developed contraction theory, this work formulates novel schemes of estimation and indirect adaptive control for nonlinearly parameterized systems. The developed algorithms were applied to two nonlinear models and verified by means of simulation.


This work presents a careful consideration of the second virial coefficients for methane, tetrafluoromethane, and their binary mixtures. This system is characterized by the abnormal property that the virial coefficients of the mixture are not in between the virial coefficients of the pure components. In searching for an explanation for this phenomenon, the potential parameters of the Lennard-Jones (n-6) and (n-7) families were determined from the temperature dependence of the second virial coefficients of the pure gases and their mixture. The study is based upon published data for the system as well as our own new measurements. It was concluded that the reason for this unusual behaviour is simply that the pure gases and their mixture do not follow the same intermolecular potential model. This was confirmed by two facts: first, they do not follow the law of corresponding states; and, second, the depth of the potential for the mixture and its zero are almost the geometric and arithmetic means of the corresponding parameters of the pure components, all obtained according to their respective best potential model. An application of the obtained parameters to calculate the viscosity coefficients indicated, however, that they can not describe both properties simultaneously.


We investigate an overdetermined Torsion problem, with a non-constant positively homogeneous boundary constraint on the gradient. We interpret this problem as the Euler equation of a shape optimization problems, we prove existence and regularity of a solution. Moreover several geometric properties of the solution are shown.


Skin diseases has been an important health concern in military medicine. The high frequency of dermatologic disease of the foot in facilities such as military services can lead loss of working power. Loss of working power and medical expenses may be decreased by preventive measures and educational studies. In this article we aimed to review dermatological diseases of the foot which seen frequently in military services.


Liberating and developing productivity is the core of Deng Xiao-ping's theory.This important thought has not only in tegral system and rich implication, but also profound theoretical foundation and solid basis of practice.Deep understanding of the thought is of great significance for us to learn and practise"Three Representatives"better.


A method for reducing booting time of a mobile communication terminal. The method includes the steps of driving a User Interface (UI) task concerning performing of communications created from a memory while the mobile communication terminal is being booted; simultaneously performing an initialization of an application program in a booting initializing unit that is to be separated from the UI task, and executing an initial screen in the UI task; and completing the initialization of the application program and execution of the initial screen in the UI task, and switching to an idle screen whicha user can use. As a result, booting time of the mobile communication terminal is reduced.


Collaborative mental health teams within schools: Supporting students with ASD and ID H. Appleton;A. Frakes; Journal of Intellectual Disability Research


A new energetic material compound 3-amino-4-aminoximinofurazan(AAOF) with yield of 72.4% was synthesized by using dicyanopropane as initial material through 4-step continuous reaction by one-pot method. Its molecular structure was characterized by IR,MS, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR,elemental analysis and UV. A 500 gram-grade synthesis procedure of 3-amino-4- aminoximinofurazan (AAOF) was realized on the basis of the optimized procedure. The synthesis reaction mechanism of AAOF was theoretically deduced and validated .


Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) are at the forefront of new IT developments which will have wide-ranging consequences for managers. This article considers the importance of organizational change and process re-engineering in relation to the advent of EPRs.


The construction of wetland landscape is based on water environment,it has aesthetic characteristics of original ecological environment,dynamic ecological scene,and humanistic ecological connotation.Development of wetland tourism needs to emphasize scientific basis,pay attention to protection of ecology and culture.Tourism products should be ecologically branded and marketing should be focused on green themes.Operation needs to be low-carbon and environment friendly.Therefore,to achieve green and low-carbon development of wetland tourism.


An 18-year-old girl with systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE)is described.She first presented with typical symptoms of autoimmune hemolytic anemia(AIHA)and an elevated titer of anticardiolipin autoantibodies(ACLA).Whether ACLA plays a key role in the pathogenesis of hemolysis remains to be elucidated,but an abnormal ACLA titer may imply the possibility of development of antiphospholipid syndrome,so the patient should be followed up.


In 2D fiber‐reinforced composites, single fibers with a diameter in the range of micrometers are embedded in a matrix material. 3D fiber‐reinforced composites consist of fiber bundles (rovings) with diameters of millimeters. Therefore, 3D fiber‐reinforced composites require an extended material modelling, because a fiber bundle has to be considered as a beam‐like structure with curvature‐twist (twisting and bending) stiffness. By means of an extended continuum formulation, we modell a micro inertia and a curvature‐twist stiffness. We introduce these secondary effects by means of independent drilling degrees of freedom. The resulting constrained micropolar continuum is derived by a mixed principle of virtual power. In the discrete setting, this variational principle generates a mixed B‐bar method and an energy‐momentum scheme. We show transient numerical examples, which demonstrate the effect of micro inertia as well as the twisting and bending stiffness of the fiber bundles.


Maintaining seed quality during long-term storage of plant genetic resources is crucial to avert projected food crises linked to a changing climate and a growing world population. However, seed viability caused by senescence during storage remains an unavoidable process that jeopardizes productivity in some traditional seed crop species. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the change in germination and quality characteristics of mung bean seeds stored under the same storage conditions for different periods of time. In the study, mung bean seeds numbered 02G05, 07A05 and 07G04 were used as seed material and stored under the same temperature and humidity conditions for 36, 48, 60, 72 and 96 months. In the study, germination rate, germination index, moisture content, water absorption capacity and water absorption index of mung bean seeds decreased as the storage period increased, while mean germination time, electrical conductivity, cooking time and dry matter loss during cooking increased. In the study, seeds of mung bean genotypes stored for 36 months showed better germination rate and germination index, followed by seeds stored for 48 and 60 months and significant decreases were determined in the following months. 02G05 genotype stood out in terms of germination characteristics and some quality characteristics and was the least affected by the prolonged storage period. In the study, the highest and positive correlation was determined between cooking time and dry matter loss during cooking, while the lowest negative correlation was determined between moisture content and electrical conductivity and between water absorption capacity and cooking time. As a result, it can be suggested that mung bean seeds can be stored for 60 months for germination characteristics and 36 months for quality characteristics without causing any negativity, but after these months, storage can be terminated as negativity in germination and quality characteristics will begin


Insomnia is a sleep disorder that causes a disruption in sleep patterns where the affected person toils to sleep off or to remain asleep. The signals generated from the brain are also affected because of the irregularity in sleep patterns. The identification of sleep disorder in India currently is a clinical interview by the doctor which is subjective and suffers from human error judgment. Therefore, an additional reliable and correct diagnostic tool area unit required to assist the doctor in creating calls. The aim of this work is to diagnose Insomnia using single channel Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal and to suggest ASMR sounds to enhance sleep quality.


TODAY, FEW REMEMBER THE HARTFORD MUSIC COMPANY of Hartford, Arkansas, although some have heard of its most famous pupil, Albert Brumley, author of "I'll Fly Away" and many other fixtures in the American popular/religious music canon. Among a dwindling number of the faithful, however, the company's central figure, E. M. Bartlett, remains a towering figure. His "Victory in Jesus" has been heavily anthologized, and there is no doubt that between 1920 and 1950 the Hartford Music Company was one of the hottest things going in the heartland of published gospel music. Its musical institute trained hundreds of teachers and musicians each year. The company's songbooks sold up to 100,000 copies annually during the 1930s.1 At the center of a vast network of music teachers, students, musicians, convention singers, and songwriters, Hartford helped the gospel movement flourish in the South between the world wars. The songbook gospel movement grew out of the popular religious musical expression and entrepreneurship of the nineteenth century. The Hartford Company's most influential predecessors included the RuebushKieffer Music Company of Virginia and the Showalter Music Company of Georgia. Named for their founders, these companies published books that included both traditional, folk-oriented religious songs and new compositions, which were often written specifically for these publications. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the newer songs, whose style owed more to northern urban revival and popular secular songs-with their diatonic (eight note scale) melodies and "sweet" triadic harmonies-began outnumbering the traditional ones, which often had favored pentatonic (five note) scales and the more open, stark harmonies characteristic of singing books like the Sacred Harp.2 The newer songs came to be written in fairly complex four-part lines, reflecting the influence of the music conventions, their trained singers, and four-part harmony. They resembled what is commonly known today as the quartet-dominated "country" or "southern" gospel sound, most closely associated with white rather than African-American performers and audiences. This music is best termed "songbook gospel" because of the prevalent influence of the companies, whose musical publications, primarily annual and biannual songbooks, and educational activities trained several generations of teachers, singers, and songwriters. The organized, educational nature of the companies' activities can legitimately be termed a movement. In the first half of the twentieth century these companies' music and influence literally blanketed the South. By teaching huge numbers of people to read and write music, company schools and conventions represented a kind of literacy program. The term "movement" is also appropriate because the activities that constituted the songbook gospel world were representative of the religiously conservative, largely rural subculture that characterized large portions of the region. The Stamps-Baxter Music Company of Dallas, for instance, became virtually a household word in the American South. Music companies like Hartford need to be recognized as salient cultural signifiers not only of social continuity but of social change in the twentieth-century South. In the early decades of the twentieth century, the South and its border states were still largely rural and agricultural but were beginning to reflect the growing influence of the industrial city and its newer communication technologies. These companies and their music bridged older and newer ways of life. The sentiments of their songs reflected traditional family and spiritual values. But the songs were also the products of a vast, mass production-oriented commercial enterprise, which utilized the latest available technology (large-scale printing, radio, and sound recording) and foreshadowed an urbanized, mobile, media-saturated society. For example, the Vaughan Music Company, which traced its roots to the nineteenth century, claimed to have operated the first radio station in Tennessee. …


A novel resiliency node for access network restoration is presented. Rather than using electrically powered nodes in an otherwise fully passive fiber plant, the proposed node is optically fed. The incorporation of energy scavenging mechanisms and optoelectronics with low power consumption guarantee operation at low optical feed levels of -10 dBm. Feeder protection for optical access is experimentally demonstrated that features a fast switching time of 10.7 ms in interaction with a control plane. Finally we identify options for self-pumping of the network node through simple optical power tapping of feeder and drop signals.


This article deals with algorithmic complexity used in the determination of a Fibonacci's sequence term. While exposing three correct algorithms, we have, in the light of complexity study of each one of them, released the one that is optimal. Numbers of Fibonacci's sequence being for the majority very large, we preferred the using of computer to determine them. Thus, our readers will find in this literature as well the algorithms as their correspondents PASCAL programs.


Methods: FaDu cells were incubated in a medium in a 5% CO2 incubator at 37°C, after which they were proliferated and passaged. IC50 concentration was used to determine the Sulindac dose. Cells were analyzed for cell viability, cell count and cell cycle after Sulindac administration. Immunohistochemistry (vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2) and western blot (A disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin-like motifs 1-ADAMTS1) analyses were used for angiogenesis assessment. Results: Cell viability decreased in pharyngeal cancer cells after Sulindac administration. In addition, FaDU cells were arrested in the G2/M phase. Sulindac was found to slightly increase vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (VEGF-R2) and decrease ADAMTS1 levels in pharyngeal cancer cells.


Cognitive Behaviour Therapies in Britain: The Historical Context and Present Situation - Sarah Marks Beck's Cognitive Therapy - Frank Wills Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy - Rebecca S. Crane Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - Eric Morris and Joseph E. Oliver Dialectical Behaviour Therapy - Michaela Swales Metacognitive Therapy - Peter L. Fisher Compassion-Focused Therapy - Paul Gilbert Schema Therapy - Vartouhi Ohanian and Rana Rashed Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) - Windy Dryden Narrative CBT - John Rhodes Behavioural Activation - Joe Curran, David Ekers, Dean McMillan and Simon Houghton The Transdiagnostic Approach to CBT - Warren Mansell


The wireless communication networks are evolving with access point closer. The exposure induced by these access points is often assessed with a plane wave assumption. This communication presents the assessment of the exposure induced in a 8-year-old girl numerical model by a Femto antenna. This exposure is assessed using the equivalent principle through a "Huygens box" matching the incident field emitted by a Femto antenna, described by Spherical Modes description to the numerical Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. The error made on the Whole Body SAR by approximating the Femto radiation by an equivalent Plane Wave is assessed for different distances separating the anatomical model and the Femto antenna.