Objective
To investigate the application of detection of serum PCT and LAC levels in the evaluation of curative effect of patients with diabetic ketoacidosis combined with nosocomial pneu-monia.

Methods
The clinical data of 90 patients with diabetic ketoacidosis complicated with hospital acquired pneumonia were statistically analyzed, and these patients were used as the research group. The other 90 cases of healthy examiner were selected as control group during the same period, the serum PCT levels of two groups were detected by immunofluorescence analysis, the serum LAC levels of the two groups were detected by Hitachi 7600-120 automatic biochemical analyzer, and then the serum PCT and LAC levels of the two groups, the serum PCT and LAC levels of survival and mortality patients in the study group were statistically analyzed.

Results
The serum PCT and LAC levels after treatment of the study group were significantly lower than those before treatment (P 0.05). Among the 90 patients, 75 cases survived, 15 cases died, the mortality rate was 16.7%, the serum PCT and LAC levels of the mortality patients were significantly higher than those of the survival patients (P<0.05).

Conclusions
The application value of detection of serum PCT and LAC levels in the evaluation of curative effect of patients with diabetic ketoacidosis combined with nosocomial pneumonia is high.

Key words:
Procalcitonin; Lactic acid; Diabetic ketoacidosis combined with nosocomial pneumonia; Evaluation of curative effect


There has been, for the last six years, existing among the equine species of California, and more especially amongst the mules, a general constitutional disease, which has proved fatal in nearly every instance, and that has caused death after several months of loathsome suffering and of pitiful distress. This affection has not been, to my knowledge, submitted to a diligent study by any practitioner, nor has there been any parti cular description given of it by the veterinarian authors, with the exception of a few practical records that have appeared in some veterinary publications. I had the good fortune of following several cases in various localities of two counties from the very first start of the disease to the time the animals were destroyed, and took careful notice of the origin and the progress of the symptoms, as well as of the post-mortem lesions. I am glad to have the opportunity to lay my opinion before a meeting of veterinary surgeons for their criti cal perusal. Causes.—Up to five or six years ago, this affection was little known, and has perhaps never been noticed before. Long con tinued rains and a subsequent inundation of the lower lands in all the valleys, caused the atmosphere to be moist, the nights chilly with heavy fogs that seldom cleared away before noon. Then it was that five or six months after that flood, this disease made its appearance amongst the mules of Roberts Island, near Stockton,


Based upon the extant literature and a qualitative study of buyer-seller relationships, an exploratory model of the relationship between supply chain power, dependence, satisfaction, and loyalty is developed and presented. Four fundamental objectives are accomplished through this research and presented here. The first was to use a qualitative method to gain a deeper understanding of the logistics service driven loyalty that exists between suppliers and customers. The second was to develop a more thorough understanding of the gap in logistics service expectations between a supplier and their customers. The third objective was to examine how the power/dependence relationship affects both customer service expectations of the parties, and the actual logistics service delivered by the supplier. Finally, this research is intended to build a basis for future quantitative research of loyalty in supplier/customer relationships.


Data aggregation has been an important mechanism for achieving energy efflciency in WSN's. The aggregation reduces the transmission of redundant data which results in improved energy usage. A large number of data aggregation protocols have been developed in the past based on various techniques of optimizing the delay and energy. This paper surveyed the most prominent data aggregation protocols recently developed, from the categories of structured, structure free and hybrid. Based on the analysis, it came to light that the structured protocols fit well to the static environments (where the cluster head remains same and the nodes do not die), as the energy consumption can be kept at minimum by reducing the number of message exchanges required for setting up the network. On the other hand, for the dynamic environments, the structure free protocols are feasible as the cost of setting up a network structure increases. The hybrid data aggregation protocols have recently been introduced in order to take advantage from both the earlier approaches. The directions for future research are suggested in the light of surveyed protocols.


The well-known Schwarzschild black hole was first obtained as a stationary, spherically symmetric solution of the Einstein's vacuum field equations. But until thirty years later, efforts were made for the analytic extension from the exterior area $(r>2GM)$ to the interior one $(r<2GM)$. As a contrast to its maximally extension in the Kruskal coordinates, we provide a comoving coordinate system from the view of the observers freely falling into the black hole in the radial direction. We find an interesting fact that the spatial part in this coordinate system is maximally symmetric $(E_3)$, i.e., along the world lines of these observers, the Schwarzschild black hole can be decomposed into a family of maximally symmetric subspaces.


The theoretical basis of bilingual lexicography is connected with linguo-cultural studies and comparative linguistics. As V.N. Yartseva remarked, "bilingual dictionaries always contain an embryonic stage of contrastive comparison of lexical units" [1. P. 30], therefore a bilingual dictionary is always a starting point in intercultural dialogues. Thus a special issue for lexicography are meanings containing nation-specific, cultural, gender, social, ideological, emotive and evaluative components. This lexicographic issue is caused by insufficient theoretical elaboration of the content and structure of the pragmatic macro-component of word semantics. The authors study the names of urban spaces containing some nation-specific cultural components mostly ignored by bilingual dictionaries. The research includes several Russian urban terms compared to three Romance languages French, Italian and Spanish: улица (ulitsa, 'street'), площадь (plosh-chad','square'), набережная (naberezhnaya, 'enbankment'), переулок (pereulok, 'lane'), бульвар (bul'var, 'boulevard'); via, piazza, lungomare, vicolo, viale, аlberato; ville, rue, place, quai, ruelle, impasse, boulevard; calle, plaza, ribera, callejon, rambla, avenida, paseo. issues may arise for any person exploring a new city space and its language, any reader of translated literature, any user of bilingual dictionaries, anyone who tries to see a strange city through one's own language and mental stereotypes. For a person who explores a new semiotic space lexical units are characterized by semantic lacunae not registered in bilingual and, occasionally, in explanatory dictionaries. The reconstruction of a strange city space by means of urban nominations appears rather approximate. Through the language grid of parkways, areas, quays we tend to see not the true picture of an unfamiliar place, but rather a city similar to ours. The nation-specific cultural information connected with toponyms is more sufficiently presented in K.A. Ganshina's French-Russian dictionary (1971). It contains comments on regional use: in France, in Paris, encyclopaedic data, explanations or set expressions designating urban objects in modern or medieval Paris. The dictionary gives quite convincing comments on the quantitatively small lexical set. Though not always consecutive, K.A. Ganshina's information is necessary for studying the French language, history and culture of France. Much less information of the kind can be found in Italian-Russian and in Spanish-Russian dictionaries. Bilingual dictionaries of the Russian ^ foreign language type almost entirely ignore national and cultural specificity of urban nominations, leaving out the information necessary for people to master other languages, other cultures, other mentalities.


In medical image processing image denoising has become a very essential exercise all through the diagnose. Medical images are often deteriorated by noise due to a serious sources of interferences and other phenomenon that affect the measurement process in an imaging and acquisition system. Speckle noise is a random mottling of the image with bright and dark spots, which obscures fine details and degrades the delectability of low contrast lesions. Speckle noise occurrence is often undesirable since it affects the tasks of human interpretation and diagnosis. Speckle noise is a granular noise that inherently exists in and degrades the quality of the images. Generally it is found in Ultrasound image and radar image. Various noise removing methods has been introduced. This paper run a comparative study on various filter efficiencies in removing speckle noise from medical ultrasound images using statistical measures.


Text summarization plays a major role which can be used to summarize articles, papers, documents, etc. It greatly helps the students, business executives, librarian, teachers and many people in different profiles to quickly get the gist of research papers, latest news, trends in industry, summarize books, articles, etc. Summarizing provides a concise overview of a document which helps us to make better decisions and communicate information more effectively. In this project we are going to implement an nlp based text summarization using bart model and finally deployed using django framework. Bart hugging face transformer model is one of the nlp models. Its input and output are in the form of sequence. The high- dimensional representation of the input is learnt by the encoder and then mapped to the decoder. The bart model is first pre- trained on a big text (like book corpus or wikipedia). Pretraining ensures that the model "understands the language" and has a solid foundation from which to learn and how to carry out further tasks. Since it will determine how successfully the model can be trained for tasks like text classification or text summarization, the model's capacity to understand language is more effective. The pre-trained weights and weights in the bart model are fine-tuned on question answering, text summarization, sequence classification, etc. Therefore, using bart model we can able to generate text in both extractive and abstractive way, by which we can get the simpler summarization with the important sentences and also more fluent and accurate summarization by understanding the meaning of the text. Finally, to provide a user-friendly interface, by which the users can easily use the text summarization, the project will be deployed using django framework. It allows us to easily build web applications. Key Words: BART, NLP, summarization, Wikipedia, pretrained


There are a few studies about any possible long-term effects of gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist on reproductive function including fertility. The aim of this study was to assess the ovarian function using antimullerian hormone (AMH) levels in central precocious puberty (CPP) girls before, during, and after suppression with GnRH agonist. Hyo-Kyoung Nam, Hye Ryun Kim, Young Jun Rhie, Kee-Hyoung Lee Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Korea University


that skin blood flow can change in a wide range (Lu et al. 2007). In quiet conditions, there was a difference of mean temperature between the three foot regions. The temperature in the medial foot region was close to the temperature in the upright back foot, and both were higher than the temperature in the lateral foot region. In the medial foot region, the mean shell temperature in N2 and N4 subregions was higher than the temperature in N1 and N4 sub-regions, and so was in lateral foot region. In the upright back foot region, the mean shell temperature in the B2 sub-region was higher than the temperature in the B1 sub-region. Compared with the whole foot, the highest mean shell temperature was in N4 and B2 sub-regions, and the lowest mean shell temperature was in W1 and W4 sub-regions.


Classification of a chemical or chemical product as a primary skin irritant using laboratory animal tests has been defined rigorously and codified in Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) regulations. However, no regulatory agency, including the CPSC, has defined a primary skin irritant threshold for human rapeat insult patch tests (RIPTs) that are typically conducted on products, such as cosmetics, anticipated to come into direct contact with humans. Further more, the protocols for animal and human tests are significantly different, as are the schemes for grading responses. Consequently, comparing the results of one type of test with those from the other type has proved to be difficult. In this short communication, we propose a procedure to harmonize the results from these two types of skin irritation tests and suggest that a score of '5' in animal tests, considering 24-h results on unabraded skin, is equivalent to a score of '3' in human RIPTs. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. JOURNAL OF APPLIED TOXICOLOGY J. Appl. Toxicol. 23, 279–281 (2003) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/jat.917


The invention discloses a system for conducting intelligent routing over the air and in IP channels according to services and an implementation method of the system. The implementation method comprises the steps that (1) a user A determines to watch a program X, a client device A establishes IP unicast transport connection with a video server in a data point-to-point mode; (2) a signaling monitoring and agent module builds an internal watch program list according to the program X watched by the user A; (3) a user B determines to watch the program X, the signaling monitoring and agent module searches for the internal watch program list to find out whether a program watched on a client device B is the same as the program currently watched on the client device A, and if yes, the signaling monitoring and agent module commands a data forwarding module to filter out data of the program X currently watched on the client device A and send the data to the client device B. According to the system and the implementation method, the live broadcast services can be intelligently dispatched to be forwarded in the IP unicast channel or be forwarded to the client devices in the IP QAM channel, and the network bandwidth of each live broadcast flow can be reduced substantially.


Both La/sub 2/CuO/sub 4/ and YBa/sub 2/Cu/sub 3/O/sub 6/ are antiferromagnetic insulators, becoming less so as holes are introduced on individual oxygen bonds. We evaluate the free energy of a single CuO/sub 2/ plane in the Ising representation. Beyong a critical concentration x/sub 0/ = 0.29 89 holes per CuO/sub 2/ cell, antiferromagnetism is replaced by a paramagnetic phase having short-range order only. The ground-state entropy is 0 at x = 0, 0.0697 per CuO/sub 2/ cell at x = x/sub 0/ and 0.6931 (i.e., ln2) at x = 1.


The invention provides an automatic protection switching APS state processing method, a device and an APS node. The method comprises steps that, node states of an automatic protection switching APS node are determined to be at least one of the following states; a reverse request RR code is emitted by the APS node, reverse request codes of non-signal failure SF and non-signal deterioration SD and RR codes emitted by other nodes except the APS node are further received; the reverse request RR code is emitted by the APS node, after the reverse request codes of the non-signal failure SF and the non-signal deterioration SD and the RR codes generated by other nodes except the APS node are received, the APS node enters a recovery waiting WTR time, and the WTR time is surpassed; a switching state of the APS node is cancelled. Through the method, a problem of business packet loss caused by APS node state switching among different switching states in the prior art is solved, protection switching processing time is saved, and business stability is improved.


This manuscript is based on a synthesis of the National Academy of Integrative Learning's Research Report Prepared for the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Cadet Command in Fort Monroe, Virginia (Honigsfeld, Martel, Price, & Dunn, 2001). It explains the construct of learning style and describes the styles of a cross-section of both JROTC cadets and their instructors. In addition, based on these overall JROTC data reflected against a background of adult patterns gleaned from a national database, instructional strategies are suggested for increasing the effectiveness of cadet training. Although high school instructors face many challenges when preparing their students for the recently expanded local and state graduation requirements, their current problems may be no worse than in previous decades. American minority students always have reflected widely diverse populations who speak multiple languages and evidence substantially fewer skills than their instructors believed necessary for academic success (Dunn & Stevenson, 1997). Many adolescents and young adults are less motivated than necessary for attending to, and maintaining interest in, the standard curriculum during five consecutive hours each day, five days each week. That single trait—low motivation toward academic studies, has contributed substantially to students' discontent and school failure (Dunn & Dunn, 1993, 1999). Interestingly, most children are eager to learn when they first enter kindergarten. Sadly, the more years they remain in school, the less motivated they become.


A new technique for the measurement of the coefficient of yarn–solid friction is described. It has been found satisfactory and applied in the development of a simple and robust instrument that is now commercially available for practical use with machine-knitting yarns in industry and elsewhere.


The paper is a critical analysis of the 18 th Amendment in the Constitution of Pakistan. The Amendment made after months of deliberations and consensus of a committee represented by all political parties in the parliament has, as claimed by its authors, cleaned the Constitution with the later undemocratic additions and deletions. The paper examines how the Amendment has undertaken different issues concerning to the strength of democracy, institutions and federation of Pakistan. The paper observes the concerns, purposes and impacts of not less than all changes made in the Constitution in the domains of democracy, civil rights, strength of parliament, provincial autonomy, decrease in the powers of President, political parties, and appointment of election commission and judiciary. Having observed its achievements an overview of the controversies, which arose in the result of the Amendment, has been taken.


Semiotics is the study of signs, symbols, and communication in people's lives. This study which analyzes the letter nun in the Arabic Alphabet using Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of semiotics, "dyadic semiotics" aims to reveal the breadth and depth of the meaning of the letter nun at the beginning of Surah al-Qalam. This study uses a descriptive method with a content analysis study approach, comprising data collection, data processing, and interpretation. The source of data are the Arabic script. The results of the study show that the ontological symbol for the letter nun is a means of teaching the sign through an established paradigm of semiotics to investigate the meaning element of the letter nun, which is the symbol of the Golden Embryo as a form of symbolic interaction throughout the cosmic order to reproduce and fertilize the world's egg cell which is symbolized by the cup-like element of the letter nun as the "ovary" and the dot of the letter as a symbol of the fusion between the 'egg cell and sperm cell' to become the seed of the eternal universe towards the point of perfection of cosmic semiotic regeneration. All cosmic semiotic processes always occur in all life processes such as the semiotic processes that occur through human reproductive organs such as the testes in males and the ovaries in females in every fertilization process of the zygote. Every order of the cosmos, including human beings, originates from the process of two forms of signs, namely, that which can be seen and observed (signifier) and that which is only to be thought about through ideas (signified).


[Objective] Observe Kidney Gujing Liangxue combined with western medicine treatment of early diabetic nephropathy effect.[ Methods] Using randomized controlled method,84 cases of hospitalized patients were randomly divided into two groups coin toss.Control group,42 cases of western basic treatment.Treatment group 42 cases Kidney Gujing Liangxue(Sangshenzi,Xianlingpi 12g,Gouqizi,Nvzhenzi,Fupenzi,Hanliancao,Baishao 15g,Shushouwux,Tusizi,Danpi 20g),1 does / d,decoction 1000mL,morning and evening doses.Western medicine with the control group.60d is a course of continuous treatment.Observation of clinical symptoms,blood biochemical parameters(blood glucose,2h postprandial blood glucose,glycosylated hemoglobin,serum creatinine and urine protein excretion rate),adverse reactions.Continuous treatment of a course of treatment,to determine efficacy.[ Results] treatment group 17 cases,effective in 19 cases,6 cases,the total efficiency of 85.70%.Control group,10 cases markedly effective in 16 cases,ineffective in 16 cases,total effective rate 61.90%.Treatment group than the control group(P 0.05).Glucose,2h postprandial blood glucose,glycosylated hemoglobin,serum creatinine,urinary albumin excretion rate in both groups improved(P 0.05),the treatment group than the control group improved(P 0.05).[ Conclusion] Kidney Gujing Liangxue combined with western medicine treatment of early diabetic nephropathy significant effect,should be widely applied.


Aim. To study the biological features of populations of hemp varieties with the absence of narcotic activity – tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) not higher than 0.08 %, but with the presence of non-psychoactive components of cannabinoids: cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabichromene (CBC); cannabigerol (CBG); CBG and CBD. To identify breeding prospects for increasing the content of cannabinoids that have therapeutic properties. Methods. Samples of elite plants were analyzed for cannabinoid content by gas-liquid chromatography (GC Agilent Technologies HP 6890, Series Hewlett Packard). Results. The limits of variation of the population variability of the sign of CBD content of the Medana variety are from 0.0253 to 3.3469 %, 75 % of the plants of which contain CBD in the range of 1.0-2.2 %. Studies of the Vik 2020 hybrid population confirmed a high correlation between CBD and THC and the absence of a relationship between CBD and CBG, THC and CBG. More than 11 % of plants in the population contain CBG from 3.5849 to 4.6207 %. There are no correlations between CBD and CBG, CBD and THC in these plants. The presence of such plants indicates the possibility of further increasing the content of СBG to 8 % and above, without exceeding the THC limit in our country (0.08 %). Conclusions. Conducted research has proven that with the current permissible level of THC, the content of CBD can be increased only to 2.5-3.0 % (Medana variety) through purposeful selection. The hybrid Vik 2020 is especially valuable, because in its population unique plants with the presence of several cannabinoid compounds with a THC content of no more than 0.08 % were found. The obtained valuable breeding material of the Medana variety and the Vik 2020 hybrid is a donor for its inclusion in hybridization and further multi-vector selection in the direction of increasing of the content of CBD, CBC and CBG with the absence of THC.


Multiple microwave power (MP) has been applied against Ephestia cautella (Walker) at various exposure times. Five seconds exposure time at various MP up to 60% had no effect on insect mortality, by increasing the MP up to 100%, the mortality reached 20% for larvae and 33% for adults. When exposure time was increased to 15 seconds with different MP, mortality reached 100% and 80% at 60% power for adults and larvae, respectively. Eggs of E. cautella were exposed to various MP at different time; the hatchability reached 0.0 % after 10 and 15 seconds at 100% MP. Data showed microwave had no effect on soluble proteins isolated from dates treated by microwave at various time up to 15 seconds, and had no effect on protein pattern on sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Ozonation with 2.0 ppm ozone generated with various time 4, 8 and 12 hours, gave 28%, 73%, and 83% mortality against adults, while it gave 10%, 20% and 27% mortality against larvae. Ozone exhibited less effect against pupae and eggs hatchability. The possibility of using microwave and ozone in integrated management program against stored product pests is discussed.


Chemoselective behavior of iodine in different solvents showing oxidative esterification and electrophilic iodocyclization of hydroxyalkynyl aldehydes/aryl aldehyde has been described. The reaction of hydroxyalkynyl aldehydes using I2 in the presence of alcohol nucleophile provides alkyl 4-(3-hydroxyalkynyl)benzoate via formation of hemiacetal species; however, using CH2Cl2 as a solvent hydroxyalkynyl aldehydes undergoes electrophilic iodocyclization through cyclic iodonium ion. This developed protocol for oxidative esterification of aldehydes endows a novel access for the chemoselective synthesis of esters from hydroxyalkynyl aldehyde without oxidizing primary alcohol present in the substrate and also provide synthetic route for the bio-active dihydrofuran/pyran.


This paper presents a novel texture description approach, which is robust to variances in rotation, scale and illumination in images, to classify the texture of images. A limitation with traditional methods is that they are more or less sensitive to the mentioned changes in images. To overcome this problem, we propose a novel Local Haar Binary Pattern (LHBP) based framework to ensure invariance in global rotation, scale, and light change. Our method consists of two components: feature extraction and scale self-adaptive classification. The global rotation invariant LHBP histogram features are extracted against the variances of illumination and global rotation, and the scale self-adaptive strategy is used for optimizing the classification of different scale textures. Evaluation results on Outex and Brodatz databases illustrate the significant advantages of the proposed approach over existing algorithms.


Meshfree methods are always the alternatives to be considered besides the finite element method in dealing with complex engineering problems. Among these complex problems, there are problems where discontinuities or high gradients may only emerge at a small region of a domain and the remaining parts of the domain are smooth and continuous. In this case, adding nodes to the critical region is essential for the better accuracy of solutions. It would be effective if a meshfree method is applied to the critical region and a mesh-based method is employed to solve the remaining part of the domain since node refinement is easier for a meshfree method whereas a mesh-based method is simple to develop and capable of producing accurate solutions for smooth regions. In this study, the finite cloud method (FCM) is coupled with the finite volume method (FVM) such that node refinement only takes place at the region where the FCM is applied. A handshaking approach is proposed to enforce the continuity near the interface where both methods are applied. Numerical examples and computation methods are presented in this paper and the numerical results are examined.


Please read the problem background carefully, before beginning the data analysis. Adequate data analysis here will require you to go beyond what you know from linear regression, and use methods from this class. You will be graded not just on the technical correctness of your results, but also on the soundness of the reasoning you use to get to the results, and the clarity with which you communicate both your reasons and your results.


Cardiac transplantation is governed by complex immunological mechanisms contributing to different types of allograft rejection. Early non-specific graft failure and chronic rejection (cardiac allograft vasculopathy) represent the main limitations for the recipients' short- and long-term survival respectively. To date, the pathogenesis of both rejection types remains ill-defined. However, it is believed that they are related to an immunologically mediated potent inflammatory process, occurring whether early after transplantation (acute), or lasting for the lifetime of the graft (chronic). The initiating mechanisms of chronic rejection in solid organ transplantation remain ill-defined. Emerging evidence sustains that graft vasculopathy is primarily driven by alloreactive CD4+ T lymphocytes sensitized by the indirect pathway of allorecognition. To date, whereas the nature of APCs involved in this particular pathway has yet to be identified, it appears challenging to speculate that recipient-derived endothelial cells (ECs) repopulating the graft may represent the main cell targets recognized by indirectly primed alloreactive CD4+ T cells to mediate the rejection of cardiac transplants. In the first part of this thesis, we specifically studied the indirect pathway of allorecognition with a transgenic mice (Marilyn mice) model that expresses a T cell receptor (TCR) transgene which recognizes the male antigen H-Y in an I-Ab-restricted fashion. Our results provide evidence that graft endothelium replacement by recipient-type cells expressing MHC Class II molecules is required for the chronic rejection of vascularized cardiac transplants mediated by indirect pathway alloreactive CD4+ T cells.The purpose of the second part of the thesis was to investigate the potential implication of interleukin-22 (IL-22), an early phase secreted proinflammatory cytokine of the IL-10 family, in the acute rejection of cardiac allografts. IL-22 was recently described as an effector key modulator of the inflammatory process produced mainly by differentiated CD4+ T cells of the Th17 lineage. As being closely related to IL-10 and IL-17, both involved in the rejection process of vascularized heart allografts, we attempted to determine the precise role of IL-22 in this process. Experiments were conducted with a recently developed murine model deficient for the IL-22 gene (IL-22KO). The results of the second part of the thesis show that IL-22 is not an effector cytokine in cardiac allograft rejection. In contrast, as being early expressed into the allograft, likely IL-22 plays a protective role in the inflammation leading to acute cardiac rejection, probably depending on a neutrophil-related mechanism. In conjunction with current understanding of inflammatory and antigen-specific events in allografts, overall, our results provide new insights into the mechanisms of chronic and acute cardiac rejection, thus prompting to further interrogations and appealing novel therapeutic strategies. Pharmacologic manipulation of endothelium is challenging. Given their capacity to sense and rapidly respond to the local environment, ECs are the ideal targets for rapid systemic delivery of therapeutic agents. Combination therapy is required to reduce inflammatory reaction and endothelial activation, to modulate endothelial dysfunction and promote endothelial survival. Also, given that IL-22 may alleviate tissue destruction during inflammatory responses, therapies that enhance its production and protective action in the transplanted organs seem attractive to specifically affect tissue responses, without exerting direct effects on the immune response.


The article analysizes the emergency and necessity of the librarians continuous education according to the customers need to the library in the message times. The essay also points out the content,ways and methods of this kind of education. Only. the librarians keep learning ,keep improving their skills ,can they give better service to the society.


We describe a simple and fast method for the detection and localization of low copy numbers of HPV DNA in formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded archival tissues. We have developed a protocol for direct bl situ-PCR in order to demonstrate its convenience in rapid and reproducible assessment of HPV infection in unknown biopsies. The morphological aspect of the tissues has been maintained, despite the multiple steps of fixation, permeabilization and thermal cycling, and positivity has been detected only in virus target cells.


The carrying out in the Bio-Chemical Laboratory of the experiments otn the secretion of organic acids in diabetes described in the previous paper supplied an opportuniity for testing the hypothesis that the internal secretion of the pancreas might be stimulated and initiated (similarly to the externial secretion) by a substance of the nature of a hormone or secretin yielded by the duodenal mucous membrane ; and that in certain cases of diabetes the appearance of sugar in the urine might be due to funictional disturbance occasioned by the absence of such an intestinial excitanit of the initernal secretion. The fact that an internal secretion of the pancreas is niecessary for the regulation of carbohydrate metabolism, and that in the absence of this secretion oxidation of dextrose canniot be carried out, with the result that death occurs from acute diabetes, has been clearly proven by the experimenits of Minkowski and v. Mering,; and others on complete and partial panicreas removal, and the history of the subject is too well-known to require detailed description here. It was suggested by Schafer that the formation of the internal pancreatic secretion might possibly bc due to peculiar nests of cells of different form and staining properties to the other secreting cells of the gland. These cells from their isolated appearanice, and after the name of the observer who first described them, are called the 'islets of Langerhans.'


We exhibit a randomized algorithm which given a square matrix $A\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$ with $\Vert A\Vert\leq 1$ and $\delta > 0$, computes with high probability an invertible $V$ and diagonal $D$ such that \begin{equation*}\Vert A-VDV^{-1}\Vert\leq\delta\end{equation*} in $O(T_{\text{MM}}(n)\log^{2}(n/\delta))$ arithmetic operations on a floating point machine with $O(\log^{4}(n/\delta)\log n)$ bits of precision. The computed similarity $V$ additionally satisfies $\Vert V\Vert\Vert V^{-1}\Vert \leq O(n^{2.5}/\delta)$. Here $T_{\text{MM}}(n)$ is the number of arithmetic operations required to multiply two $n\times n$ complex matrices numerically stably, known to satisfy $T_{\text{MM}}(n)=O(n^{\omega+\eta})$ for every $\eta > 0$ where $\omega$ is the exponent of matrix multiplication [1]. The algorithm is a variant of the spectral bisection algorithm in numerical linear algebra [2] with a crucial Gaussian perturbation preprocessing step. Our running time is optimal up to polylogarithmic factors, in the sense that verifying that a given similarity diagonalizes a matrix requires at least matrix multiplication time. It significantly improves the previously best known provable running times of $O(n^{10}/\delta^{2})$ arithmetic operations for diagonalization of general matrices [3], and (with regards to the dependence on n) $O(n^{3})$ arithmetic operations for Hermitian matrices [4], and is the first algorithm to achieve nearly matrix multiplication time for diagonalization in any model of computation (real arithmetic, rational arithmetic, or finite arithmetic). The proof rests on two new ingredients. (1) We show that adding a small complex Gaussian perturbation to any matrix splits its pseudospectrum into $n$ small well-separated components. In particular, this implies that the eigenvalues of the perturbed matrix have a large minimum gap, a property of independent interest in random matrix theory. (2) We give a rigorous analysis of Roberts' [5] Newton iteration method for computing the sign function of a matrix in finite arithmetic, itself an open problem in numerical analysis since at least 1986 [6]. This is achieved by controlling the evolution of the pseudospectra of the iterates using a carefully chosen sequence of shrinking contour integrals in the complex plane.


This article addresses the challenges encountered by doctoral supervisors as they interact with their doctoral students in the contexts of South African universities. In a qualitative study of seven doctoral (PhD) supervisors and six PhD students, data was collected using interviews to examine the challenges supervisors experience as they supervise doctoral students. The PhD students were included in this study in because their responses would confirm or refute supervisor's views/opinions that emanated from their experiences in a social, cultural, and political context. Data analysis showed that doctoral supervisors experienced multiple challenges including overworking, time, and a set of academic characteristics of PhD students. Overall, the results of this study suggest that certain aspects among doctoral students who have completed doctorates in South African context, and their supervisors in different parts of the world would provide a starting point in the understanding of the implications of these aspects and their effect on the selection of doctoral students and the ongoing research in doctoral supervision in the South African context.  doctoral supervision.


of a dissertation at the University of Miami. Dissertation supervised by Professor Susan Haack. No. of pages in text. (317) This work is a philosophical investigation of signs. It offers a definition of the term 'sign' and develops three different systems for talking precisely about signs and their properties. The system of object display lines is developed in the first chapter; the ostension notation and the box notation are developed in the second chapter; and the contemporary associationist definition of a sign is developed in the third chapter. These systems, in conjunction with the definition, are proffered as a philosophical foundation for the theory of notation. The first chapter of this work develops the distinction between i) mere objects (nonsigns), ii) signs of mere objects, and iii) signs of signs. The exhibitive use of objects is distinguished from their constitutive use; and the de re use of signs is distinguished from their de signo use. Both the discursive homogeneity thesis and the sentential homogeneity thesis are formulated. Arguments against the former are considered, and the thesis is rejected. The latter thesis, however, is accepted as a means of stopping the infinite regress that would occur if the meaning of a sign always had to be explained through the use of other signs. Object display lines are developed as a systematic and rule governed method of introducing mere objects into a discourse. The second chapter deals with the problem of using signs to talk about signs; and offers both an historical analysis of the development of quotation marks as a form of punctuation, and an historical analysis of the philosophical debate over quotation marks. Frege's convention of using quotation marks to mention signs is rejected, and the ostension notation and the box notation are developed as replacements. The third chapter deals with the nature of signs. The ontological status of signs is considered, and the thesis that signs are relations is rejected. This is followed by a brief historical survey of the associationist and behaviorist conceptions of a sign. Finally, a contemporary associationist conception of a sign is developed, and the basic structure of the human sign is postulated. A number of refinements are made to the definition to avoid pansemiosis.


Taking a reclaimed ecosystem in dump of Pingshuo opencast coal mine for 20 years as the research object,the implementation effects of ecological rehabilitation technologies were analyzed including soil reconstruction,screening pioneer species,vegetation succession and changes of animal,microorganism and soil nutrient.Results showed that the particular reclamation technologies-dump surface were covered directly by loess parental material,then ripened by fertilizing,were developed in Pingshuo mine.Many vegetation configuration modes were screened with Caragana korshinsk×Robinia pseudoacacia×Pinustabulaeformis,Robinia pseudoacacia×Pinus tabulaeformis and Robinia pseudoacacia×Hippophae rhamnoides etc.With the increasing of reclamation years,wild species invaded,soil seed bank gradually formed and species diversity has increased.Moreover,vegetation communities tended to stability and animal,microbial and soil nutrient presented the increasing trend.All these changes indicated that the ecological system have entered a normal succession process.But duo to the influence of special habitat and natural objective conditions,some problems such as diseases and pests,intraspecific and interspecific moisture competition etc,have resulted in vegetation degeneration.So ecological management of plants succession needed to be study in detail.


Project evaluaction is realized in order to have an aproximarte vision of the social and investment plans as factors of improvement of community=s quality of life, since it depends on the availability of the necessary resources to satisfy the individual and collective needs, in the managerial thing to determine the convenience or not of realizing the investment. The availability of this resource, combined with the capacity of incorporate- ing it into a project, facilitates or allows personal deve- lopment and determines the impact that it generates on the economic and social development of a country. Therefore every person or group willing to contribute to development, must deeply understand the various conceptual and practical elements linked to a project.


Lightweight roofing systems made of thin and high strength steel roof sheeting and battens are commonly used in low-rise buildings. However, they often fail frequently at their screw fastener connections during wind storms due to inadequate connection capacities. Two localised failures, known as pull-through and pull-out failures at the screw fastener connections, have been the root cause for extensive loss of roofing systems under high wind uplift loads. Such premature connection failures often cause partial or even complete loss of steel roofing systems and severe damage to building contents. Therefore many experimental studies have been conducted to investigate the pull-through failures of roof batten to purlin/rafter connections and the pull-out failures of roof sheeting to batten and roof batten to rafter connections. The roof batten connections involve multiple (two or four) screw connections between the two bottom flanges of roof battens and rafters. This paper reports the details of experimental studies on one of the localised screw connections failures, the pull-out failures. More than 750 small scale pull-out tests were conducted for this purpose using a range of screw fastener sizes and many thicknesses of thin steel roof battens and purlins. This paper presents the important details of the experimental studies and the pull-out capacity data obtained from the tests. It then presents suitable design equations and capacity reduction factors to accurately determine the pull-out capacities of both single and multiple screw fastener connections commonly used in steel roofing systems. They can also be used for the screw fastener connections in steel wall cladding systems.


Simulation of SiC p-IGBT in Sentaurus Device ................... 3 Introduction For over a decade, gallium nitride (GaN) high-electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have attracted considerable attention as high-power and high-frequency devices for radar, avionics, and wireless base-station transmitters. More recently, GaN HEMTs have been considered for power-switching applications, with many established and emerging companies reporting device results. Much of the market promise for these devices stems from the unique physical properties of the III–nitride (III–N) material system, which comprises GaN and associated ternaries such as AlGaN and InGaN. The wide energy gap of GaN supports a large breakdown electric field, while a very high two-dimensional (2D) electron gas density, resulting from its strong polarization effects, supports large currents. The combination of these two characteristics, high current and high voltage capability, promises devices with superior power-handling and low on-resistance.


Depending on the content of speech frames, the quality impairment after their loss differs widely. In previous publications we described an off-line measurement procedure to determine the loss impairment - the importance - of single speech frames. We showed that knowing the importance of frames can enhance the transmission performance of VoIP telephones significantly if only important frames are transmitted. Here we study to what extend the importance can be calculated at real-time: The loss impairment is due to the imperfect packet loss concealment (PLC) and also due to error propagation (EP). EP originates from the desynchronisation of the decoder's internal state and cannot be calculated at real-time. We developed a measurement method to determine the effect of the imperfect PLC and the temporal progression of the error propagation. The results show the trade-off between algorithmic delay and the accuracy of real-time importance calculation: A good frame classification needs to look ahead 20-40 ms in order to calculate the importance precisely.


This study compared ISTEP+ (Indiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress) writing test scores before the implementation of a writing improvement program with ISTEP+ writing test scores. The study was conducted two years after such a program was implemented. Data from two groups was collected for this comparison. The first group used was the 19992000 North Vermillion Elementary 3rd grade ISTEP+ writing test scores. This group of students did not participate in any writing improvement program. The second group used was the 2001-2002 North Vermillion Elementary 3rd grade ISTEP+ writing test scores. This second group of students participated for two years (prior to taking ISTEP+) in a school-wide writing improvement program. It was concluded that there was a significant difference in ISTEP+ writing test scores at the 0.05 level of significance. It can be further concluded that the writing improvement program did have a significant effect on ISTEP+ writing test scores. Contains 7 references, and 2 charts and 2 tables of data. (Author/RS) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. 1 tr) cr) Writing Improvement Programs: Does This Type of Intervention Really Work? PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. o Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. Kathy Jerome and David A. Gilman


For efficient information transfer, scientific communication needs to be clear when defining the concepts used in its discourse. The aim of this research was to undertake a conceptual study of the term knowledge organization (KO) in the field of Information Science, looking at its use in Information Science PhD thesis of Brazilian Universities. The corpus contained 83 thesis with at least one use of any of the terms "Knowledge Organization", "KO", "knowledge organization system" and "KOS". The study's qualitative analysis used the concept of knowledge organization according to Brascher and Cafe (2010), which contains two attributes; and aimed to verify the existence/non-existence of conformity between the KO concepts presented in the thesis and the underlying concept. The results show that 10 thesis (12%) presented completely conform to the underlying concept, 35% conform to at least one attribute, and 9.6% do not conform at all


The Batcho–Leimgruber strategy was employed to synthesize 3-(2-dimethylamino-[2H4]-ethyl)-1H-indol-5-ol (bufotenine, 5-HO-DMT) (8) from commercial 3-methyl-4-nitro-phenol (1), benzyl bromide and N,N–dimethylformamide–dimethylacetal. Compound 4 was synthesized from compound 3 using the Batcho–Leimgruber strategy in the presence of Raney nickel and hydrazine hydrate. Compound 4 was treated with oxalyl chloride, dimethylamine and lithium aluminum [2H4]-hydride to yield [2-(5-benzyloxy-1H-indol-3-yl)-[2H4]-ethyl]-dimethyl-amine (7). The benzyl ether in compound 7 was cleaved by hydrogenolysis to give bufotenine 8. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


In ad hoc networks, the unused spectrum resources can be effectively sensed by cognitive radio technology, and transmission performance will be improved. Cooperative spectrum sensing is necessary because a single node cannot detect the existence of primary user accurately due to shadowing, noise and fading in wireless channels. Gradient based cooperative sensing (GBCS) is a widely used scheme in distributed cooperative spectrum sensing. However, as the nodes of cognitive radio ad-hoc networks increasing, the efficiency of GBCS degrades because the complexity rises. To solve the problem, a partial-GBCS (F-GBCS) scheme is proposed in this paper. The ROC performance and energy consumption are balanced by SNR-based adaptive threshold and optimal cooperative numbers. Simulation results show that under the proposed scheme, the value of object function, which evaluates the comprehensive performance of the algorithm, is improved by 37%, and the robustness of cooperative spectrum sensing is guaranteed in large-scale cognitive ad hoc networks. Meanwhile, the interference to primary users is suppressed and equipment power consumption is reduced.


JOURNEY TOWARDS ARTISTRY Jacqueline L. Thompson April 25, 2012 This thesis represents and examines my metamorphic journey as it relates to acting. These pages hold my greatest fears, insecurities, perspectives, and mantras toward life and the magical world of theatre. Chapter One, Genesis of Passion, reveals how my childhood helped and hindered my progression as an artist in my adulthood. Chapter Two, Metamorphosis of an Artist, speaks to the mental and physical adjustments required to transition from the teacher back to the student. Chapter Three, Touched by An Angel, includes historical data surrounding Blues For An Alabama Sky as well as specific character research needed to bring my character to life. It discusses my mentality toward this preparation as well as thoughts and insights while rehearsing and performing the role. The final chapter, Revelations of Possibilities, speaks to my desire to leave a blueprint for Master of Fine Arts students in


With the rapid development of information technology, e-learning is an irresistible global trend. In order to instantly understand and supervise learning effects, this study develops learning portfolio provided by digital learning platforms to make evaluations. Then we can manage learning conditions and effects, and further provide individual assistance, reduce achievement difference and increase learners' learning abilities.


The fundamental idea of this article is that the enormity and nature of the challenges created by climate change are redefining the understanding and definition of international security. The threats posed by climate change have become considered security threats, especially since 2007. I also argue that an international norm concerning climate change started emerging and became consolidated around the same time. The norm building process occurred due to three elements: a basic international legal regime, constituted since the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), its 1997 Kyoto Protocol (followed by ratification by the majority of states), and the 2009 political framework set out by the Copenhagen Accord. All this was guided by authoritative scientific evidence throughout. The consolidation of an international norm concerning climate change demonstrates that norm internalization processes in treaties do not automatically result in successful norm crystallization. It took a dramatic shift of position in the domestic arena in the United States and other recalcitrant states for the international norm to consolidate. This shift of mood was multilayered: i.e. it included the participation of many actors in society, especially local and state governments, as well as the private sector. Most importantly, the security aspects of climate change became known and this dimension of the debate gained enormous prominence.


This artical,riewing from rhetorical aesthetics, goes deep into the sorts, the origin and development,and the aesthetic effect of the thetoric of duplicaled words in classical Chinese poetry to enrich and deepen the study of this traditional rhetoric.


The concept of Main Chain Scission of photoresist polymers (MCS) is used to reducing the influence of molecular dimensions on the quality of photoresist patterns. Independent from the wavelength or lithography technique, the concept will raise in relevance as critical dimensions approach molecular dimensions. After the introduction of the MCS concept on last years conference of photopolymer science and technology, initial results are given in this paper to verify this concept.[1] Starting with polymer synthesis, after optimization of resist formulation and process conditions, ebeam patterns with the MCS resist and a commercial ebeam resist were generated. The patterns were compared with respect to their roughness. It was found, that lines printed in the MCS resist show a significant lower LER than the same patterns in the ebeam resist.


Brain-computer interfaces provide a direct communication and control channel for sending messages and instructions from brain to external computers or other electronic devices.Using the non-muscular channel,subjects with severe neuromuscular dysfunction can directly express their thought and manipulate the external devices without using human language and actions.This will greatly enhance the ability of these subjects to manage external event and will improve their living quality.Brain-computer interface technology is an interdisciplinary technology integrating neurology,signal collection,signal processing,pattern recognition and more other relevant techniques.In the present paper,we review the development,the rationale and the methodology of BCI's technology and the major limitations in the BCI's implementation and applications,and then discuss some vital aspects that may be conducted in the future investigations.


Long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) is a group of non-coding RNAs with length exceeding 200 bp that can not code complete protein. Dysregulation of LncRNAs is involved in various molecular mechanisms and has a significant role in occurrence and development of tumor. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancer. The screening, diagnosis and personalized treatment of CRC are urgent to be improved. Dysregulation of LncRNAs is related to tumor stage and clinicopathological features of CRC, which have been suggested to be used as novel potential biomarkers for diagnosis, prognostic prediction and treatment of CRC. This review summarizes the advances in expression and role of LncRNAs in CRC. DOI:10.3781/j.issn.1000-7431.2017.55.692


Ukrainesince its independence founds itself in a state of socio-economic transformation. Formation of market relations in the economy changed the legal status of enterprises, institutions and organizations significantly. Undertaken economic reforms require from all businesses, regardless of ownership, ability to survive in the harsh conditions of competition and the criminalization of society, to adapt to dynamic changes in the economy, politics and society. All these contribute to the emergence of many unforeseen dangers, real and potential threats for the quite young entrepreneurship ofUkraine. The aim of the article is to study the impact of the shadow economy to official entities ofUkraine. In the article the genesis of the shadow economy is studied and the statement that the informal sector is more flexible to changes in the environment is proved. In the process of research making general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis and selective observation were used.  The progressive advance of the shadow economy may cause serious problems to legal entities and overall economy of Ukraine. After relying on formal indicators such as the unemployment rate, the number of economically active population, income, consumption, analysts cannot always be sure that the data from official sources concern analytical information is reliable, and sometimes perhaps even false. It is believed that the downturn in the formal economy is accompanied by a rise in the shadow. But because the informal sector is developing due to its advantages (more favorable investment climate), the total growth in the informal economy is more than legitimate


This article investigates an encoder-based relative attitude observation method for self-calibration in a dual-axis rotational inertial navigation system (RINS). First, the calibration error of the gyroscope parameters caused by the velocity and position observations in systematic calibration is analyzed. Second, a relative attitude observation method utilizing photoelectric encoders for gyroscope parameter estimation is proposed. We apply the proposed method in our designed dual-axis RINS to verify its effectiveness in this article. Experimental results show that the calibration accuracy of the gyroscope can be improved to 0.0005$^ \circ \text{/h}$ in bias, and 0.98 ppm in scale factor using the proposed method. The proposed self-calibration method can be utilized as a high-accuracy self-calibration method in the dual-axis RINS when the vehicle is in static condition.


Flux Balance Analysis (FBA) is a widely used approach for studying biochemical networks, and in particular the genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions. It formulates the problem of predicting a cell's chemical reaction fluxes as the linear optimization problem of maximizing a cellular objective (e.g., growth) subject to constraints capturing stoichiometry mass balances of the metabolic network and bounds that reflect the composition of the growth medium. In practice, however, reaction fluxes of the cells under specific growth conditions are available to be measured, but the primal FBA objective function is not necessarily known. Understanding its structure can elucidate the cellular metabolic control mechanisms and infer important information regarding an organism's evolution. To that end, we have developed an Inverse Flux Balance Analysis (InvFBA) method which is a novel inverse optimization-based framework for inferring metabolic objective functions. Within this framework, we present three different forms of objective functions: linear, quadratic, and non-parametric. We show that in all cases, the inverse problem is tractable and can be solved efficiently. We provide several numerical examples to show that the inference of the objective function is consistent with simulated flux data and actual measurements.


Objective:To evaluate the inhibitory effect of green tea,longjing green tea,black tea,scented tea,Ziyang tea and oolong tea on Streptococcus mutans (s.m),Porphynomonas gingivais (P.g),Prevatella intermedia (P.i) and Fusobacterium nucleatum (F.n).Methods:Six kinds of tea were diluted into five concentrations.The inhibitory effects of these soaking extracts were investigated on four kinds of bacteria with Cup plate method and the diameter of bacterin inhibited ring was measured.Results:Higher concentration of soaking extract (24 mg/ml) could inhibit S.m.When soaking extract concentration of green tea,black tea,scented tea and oolong tea were at drinking concentration (12mg/ml),they could inhibit S.m.When soaking extract concentration of green tea lower drinking concentration (6mg/ml),it could inhibit S.m.When soaking extract concentration of green tea and black tea were 12mg/ml,they inhibited F.n.When soaking extract concentration of green tea and scented tea were 48mg/ml,they inhibited P.g.Highest soaking extract concentration (48mg/ml) of green tea inhibited P.g,P.i,S.m and F.n.Conclusion:Inhibitory effect of green tea was better than the others.


Further successful use of engineering workstations depends on greater standardization of workstation components, a greater effort to make systems extensible, and better on-line training and help facilities.


Time provides context for all our experiences, cognition, and coordinated collective action. Prior research suggests the need to differentiate between facts with goal-related semantics (i.e., telic) from those are intrinsically devoid of culmination (i.e., atelic). To differentiate between telic-atelic data semantics, we apply an annotation-based approach to the Unifying Semantic Model—a conventional conceptual model—to propose an annotation-based temporal conceptual model. Via what we refer to as "semantics of composition," we illustrate the consequences of explicating telic-atelic data semantics during temporal conceptual design. Our temporal conceptual design approach involves: 1) capturing "what" semantics using a conventional conceptual model; 2) employing annotations to differentiate between telic-atelic semantics that help capture "when" semantics; 3) specifying temporal constraints, specifically non-sequenced semantics, in the temporal data dictionary. The annotation-based approach not only provides a mechanism to capture telic-atelic semantics but is also upward-compatible, i.e., it does invalidate the extant legacy schemas, thereby, protecting the investments in existing schemas.


⎯ Microclimatic analysis of an urban scenario has always been an interesting but complicated challenge. The available remote sensing equipments ensure multior hyperspectral imagery being ready to extract excellent land cover information, but the obtained data have lower spatial resolution limiting the efficiency of such analyses. In order to increase the geometric resolution in microclimatic studies, an exercise was executed with an Unmanned Aerial System. The calibration of the imaging camera on a dedicated test field was followed by the data capture flight over the campus of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The evaluation of the acquired images has resulted a point cloud containing millions of points. The high density point cloud was able to be transformed into 3D mesh representation and could be fed into a geographic information system for further analysis steps. Based on the color and height information of all individual points, the obtained geometric base was easily to be converted into land cover model representing man-made and natural objects, like buildings or trees. The segmentation of the model is a suitable input for climatic analyses and simulation software packages, where extreme high geometric resolution is required. Key-words: urban microclimate, building heat balance, UAS, camera calibration, 3D surface model, canopy structure


The application of metal magnetic memory testing was described.It was shown that the technology did well in reducing the stress of weld and that the designed aim was finished by the data of magnetic flux leakage, gained before and after the heat treatment of weld.It was also proved that metal magnetic memory technology could monitor well the stress condition of weld.It is possible to evaluate a heat treatment technology,designed by some pressure vessel manufacturers.


The location information of workers and machines in mines underground is very important for safe production.To achieve the precise location information,the use of UWB wireless technology for their positioning in mines underground is proposed.The UWB communication technology is introduced and the feasibility of its practical application in mines underground is proved.A new UWB wireless positioning scheme based on the Time-Difference-of-Arrival(TDOA) positioning technique is proposed and its principle is also analyzed.


University Expansion brought decline of students,the increase of classes' size resulting in the difficulty of class management increased.In the face of managing the classes in university of the new era,the author listed the details of five major shortages and from these five aspects he proposed management measures or proposals.He emphasized that we should guide the students in all university students' movable places,and be responsible to students' themselves,their family,the society and the country,then to make a proper contribution to the class as a class manager.


Suspended carrier activated sludge(compound biochemical tank)-BAF were used as the basic process in the reconstruction project of Hezhuangping WWTP with a capacity of 2 000 m3/d.After the commissioning and trial operation,the total removal rates of COD,ammonia nitrogen and SS were 92.5%,94% and 99% respectively.The effluent quality meets the first level B criteria specified in the Discharge Standard of Pollutants for Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plant(GB 18918-2002).


Objective:To investigate the modulation of asporin expression in hPDLs by TNF-α and study the roles of asporin for pathogenesis of periodontitis,providing reseach clus for the pathogenesin of periodontitis. Method:hPDLCs were cultured in vitro.qRT-PCR and Immunocytochemistry was used to detect the effect of TNFα on expression of asporin in mRNA level and protein level in hPDLCs respectively. Result:hPDLCs were cultured successfully,TNF-α downegulated asporin both in mRNA and protein levels(P 0.05). Conclusion:The expression of asporin was decreased obviously by TNF-α in hPDLCs,suggesting a major role of asporin in the pathogenesis of periodontitis.


A multi-channel digital receiver architecture is studied and its performance is analyzed for electronic warfare applications. It is found that this architecture has excellent performance for the intrapulse analysis and direction-finding of radar signals. Three unique features are identified: (a) both AOA and intrapulse information can be extracted from the same data set; (b) improvement in the quality of intrapulse information is obtained by a simple averaging of the digitized data profiles from all channels; and (c) since both the AOA and intrapulse information are interrelated, the quality of one parameter can be verified by the other in a multipath environment.


Background/Aims Rugal hyperplastic gastritis (RHG) is associated with Lauren's diffuse-type gastric cancer (GC) and the accompanying active inflammation is linked to gastric hypoacidity. We tried to establish the steps for identifying high-risk GC patients. Methods We included 196 patients with confirmed Helicobacter pylori infection by rapid urease test during screening endoscopy for health check-up from January 2016 to September 2016; all patients underwent blood tests for pepsinogen I and II and fasting serum gastrin. We compared RHG findings with various other endoscopic mucosal images. We also evaluated the relationships between RHG and other mucosal aspects for a given acid status based on serological markers. Results Hypoacid and ultra-low-acid (67%) statuses were dominant, with only 18% hyperacid patients. RHG with high acid was related to a less atrophic body type (p=0.001), and RHG with ultra-low acid was associated with body xanthoma (p=0.029) and increased serum gastrin level (p=0.038). However, RHG's influence on gastric acidity was only seen in closed-type endoscopic atrophic border (EAB), not in open type (p=0.001). Conclusions The majority of RHG patients had hypoacid status. RHG frequency showed no difference between closed and opentype EAB, but gastric acidity was influenced by RHG only in closed-type EAB.


Tourism is an integrated social and economic system, which involves many benefit entities; The fact that every benefit entity wants the profit as most as possible leads to the development of regional tourism uncoordinatedly. However, with the fast development of regional tourism today, synergic development has been too necessary to be ignored. As a result, based on the analysis of current situations and relative reasons that impede the synergic development of regional tourism. This article points out that interest synergic mechanism is the essence in tourism synergic development, and carries it through regional government, tourism corporation, market mechanism and synergic mechanism.


Recently, Blockchain technology has been widely used in food traceability service. However, several problems are still not properly solved in the current schemes, such as the inconvenience of management, the lacking private information protection of participants and the poor performance in external traceability service. In this paper, we propose a novel food traceability Scheme based on multi-tier cooperation consortium blockchain. In our approach, business and data are managed by hierarchical architecture, private information of traceability participants is effectively protected and performance of external service is improved at the same time. Experimental results based on Hyperledger Fabric framework validate the proposed solution.


Extensive enzymic degradation of proteins in grasses during ensiling, as well as the ease with which the remaining proteins are degraded in the rumen is undesirable. Formaldehyde has bacteriostatic properties, and can protect plant proteins from degradation in silage and in the rumen (Henderson, 1993). Tannins form complexes with proteins and may protect silage protein and improve amino acid utilization in ruminants. Earlier results with tannins (Salawu, et al, unpublished data) were promising but inconclusive because of poor fermentation. Silage fermentation can be improved by the use of formic acid (Barry, et al, 1978). The aim of the experiment was to compare the effect of tannins [quebracho tannins (QT) and mimosa tannins (MT)] or formaldehyde (F) or formic acid (FA) or a mixture of tannins/FA or formaldehyde/FA on silage composition.


The combination of modern physical knowledge and technique of clinical application not only greatly expands the depth and width of experiment,but also helps to cultivate the practical ability,and mobilizes student's study positively and study interest,and improves teaching level.


Problem Definition: We consider a setting where firms sell the same perishable products in two phases during each period, an early-bird-discount phase and a regular-price phase. When the discounted product is stocked-out, an early-bird customer either purchases the regular-price product as the substitute (called inter-temporal substitution) or simply leaves.

Academic/Practical Relevance: We study the inventory managers' optimal decisions on the total inventory level and the inventory level reserved for early-bird sales, where the demands for the early-bird-discount product and the regular-price product and the inter-temporal substitution probability are unknown and have to be learned from historical sales data.

Methodology: We investigate four information scenarios based on whether or not lost sales are observable and substitution-induced demands can be separated out. We then build a Bayesian updating framework to learn both the demand distribution parameter and the substitution probability.

Results: We find that the classic "stock more" result (that is, the Bayesian-optimal inventory level shall be kept higher than the myopic one) may or may not hold here, depending on the relative magnitude of the following four driving forces. One, the unobservability of lost sales requires "stock more". Two, the tangling of substitution demand and primary demand in the regular sales phase. To better observe the primary demand requires "stock more" for the discounted product, which reduces the substitution. Three, to better observe the substitution probability, one shall "stock less" the discounted product so that substitution happens more frequently. Four, compared to the regular-price product, the discounted product has a lower profit margin, dampening the firm's "stock more'' incentive.

Managerial Implications: Our results shed light on the inventory manager's optimal inventory decisions with Bayesian learning, i.e., how much inventory allocated for early-bird-discount sales and how much for the regular-price sales when demand and substitution probability information is limited. Our results also complement the existing Bayesian inventory management literature by identifying new driving forces and deriving a general upper bound for the optimal solution.


The Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), Diaphorina citri Kuwayama, is the most serious threat to the global citrus industry, and its management has depended mainly on the application of chemical insecticides. The application of plant elicitors can contribute to the insect management and also enhance plant physiology. A set of three different experiments was carried out to evaluate the efficacy of foliar applications of synthetic elicitors [salicylic acid (SA), brassinosteroids (Br), chitosan, or thiamine] on the population dynamics of D. citri and their effects on the physiology of Tahiti lime trees. The treatments were as follows: trees were sprayed separately with thiamine, SA, or chitosan at a dose of 100 ppm, respectively; trees were treated with foliar brassinosteroid applications at a dose of 1 ppm; and untreated trees (control). By the end of the experiment, the elicitors reduced (75%) the number of adult psyllids compared with the control, where trees treated with chitosan had ≈0.5 adult individuals accumulated per flush shoot, whereas the control showed around two individuals. Salicylic acid and thiamine also reduced the number of nymphs compared with the control in the 4 weeks after treatment (WAT) (5.5 vs. 10.08 nymphs, respectively). Treatment with synthetic elicitors also caused a 30% reduction in oviposition by D. citri. The foliar applications with Br promoted a greater relative growth rate (RGR) (44 mm·cm−1·d−1) compared with the control treatment and chitosan (24 and 26 mm·cm−1·d−1, respectively). Chitosan sprays favored proline synthesis in both flush shoots and leaves. These results suggest that the use of synthetic elicitors can be considered as a tool to reduce the number of applications of chemical insecticides and decrease the development of resistances by D. citri because these synthetic elicitors showed an efficacy between 40% and 60% in all its stages in field conditions.


The aim of this study was to evaluate the physico-chemical characteristics and fatty acid profile of the meat and subcutaneous fat of the Mexican Hairless Pig (MHP) fed with Moringa oleifera meal (MOM). Fifteen pigs of the genotype MHP were used, nine castrated males and six females, which were randomly distributed into three groups. The first group received a control diet (0% MOM), while the second and third groups received a diet containing 20% and 40% of MOM, respectively. Diet and the sex of the animal had no influence on physico-chemical parameters of the meat. Both diet and sex affected the composition of fatty acids of the meat and subcutaneous fat. The results suggest the inclusion of MOM as a source of fatty acids for the diet of the MHP, given its contribution to the production of meat and subcutaneous fat rich in Monounsaturated Fatty Acids (MUFA).


The result of the Leptosphaeria maculans/Brassica napus interaction is usually assessed by symptom scoring following a cotyledon-inoculation test. However, an early evaluation of the interaction, and reliable quantitative data of fungal growth inside plant tissues are needed to supplement the visual assessment of the symptoms. For this purpose, we developed a quantitative double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (DAS-ELISA) using rabbit polyclonal antisera directed against soluble mycelial proteins. The specificity of the serum was first assessed by immunoblotting following isoelectric focusing of soluble proteins (Western blot) and by DAS-ELISA. Except for Alternaria brassicae, no cross-reactions were observed with mycelial extracts of saprophytes or pathogens of B. napus following DAS-ELISA. Although Tox + and Tox 0 isolates of L. maculans were unequivocally discriminated by Western blot, they were quantitatively indistinguishable following ELISA, thus enabling us to analyse a wide range of L. maculans isolates in planta. The detection limit of the assay was less than 10 ng of fungal proteins per ml of plant extract. For a given isolate, time-course studies showed that fungal growth in cotyledons was correlated with symptom scoring. In the case of hypersensitive response, only 34% of the plants were ELISA-positive, and these plants never contained more than 10 ng of fungal protein per cotyledon. In contrast, in the cases of susceptibility, 100% ofthe plants were ELISA-positive and fungal protein content was higher than 10 μg per cotyledon. Moreover, significant differences in ability to colonize the tissues were observed among Tox + isolates. Finally, using the ELISA quantification, intermediate symptoms could be differentiated as late-resistance responses or susceptibility


Using establishment‐level data, we shed light on the sources of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over recent decades. Our findings are: (1) the between‐plant component of wage dispersion is an important and growing part of total wage dispersion; (2) much of the between‐plant increase in wage dispersion is within industries; (3) the between‐plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over recent decades; and (4) a significant fraction of the rising dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by changes in the distribution of computer investment across plants.


. This report provides a high-level overview of research data across key unit operations as utilized in updating NREL's State of Technology (SOT) benchmark models based on inputs furnished from those researchers; however, it is not intended to present an exhaustive summary of all research activities, methods


The advantages of systematology and non equilibrium thermodynamics are collected to meet the needs of modeling tribo system quantitatively. The composition and structure of the system are defined in three dimensions of materials, energy and information, three transformations of geometrical, physical and chemical change for three bodies contact model. It is considered as a trend of development of tribology that the computer numeric technology and simulation technique will be absolutely necessary tools to describe tribo phenomena quantitatively in the future. The macroscopical and miniscopical experiments are essential for the purpose of verification of the model and accumulation of basic tribology data.


Liqhobong Mining Development Company (LMDC) has been experiencing problems with boulders after blasting where the fragment sizes exceed the maximum of 800 mm as per mine standard. As a result, the mine has employed various methods to improve the fragmentation. The goal is to produce a run-of-mine (ROM) feed that does not choke the crusher and cause delays in production. In order to achieve this goal, fragmentation distribution within the fines and coarse envelope must be optimized through effective planning of blasting activities and accurate execution. The mine determined the fines-coarse envelope within which the entire crushing system can handle fragments using Split Desktop software. It is expected that both the predicted and actual fragmentation curves lie within that envelope for optimal fragmentation. The Kuz-Ram model with blast design parameters of 2.6 m for burden, 2.8 m for spacing, and 127 mm hole diameter was used to predict the fragmentation. The results show that the blast design parameters may need altering to achieve optimum fragmentation. Furthermore, the execution of the drilling and blasting may be the cause of the fragmentation problems. The mean fragmentation size (X50) differs greatly, unlike the uniformity index (n)s values which are relatively close to each other (0.6 to 2.2). The mean squared error (MSE) values have a large range. A proposed solution is a modified burden, spacing, and hole diameter. It is concluded that blast design parameters need to be reviewed in order to obtain correct predictions.


Objectives: Many studies have been performed about work-related musculoskeletal pain (WRMSP) in various groups of professions. However pharmaceutical sales representatives (PSRs) have not been investigated with regard to their musculoskeletal problems related to their works. This study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal pain (WRMSP) and depression among PSRs; the quality of life in these subjects and to investigate which socio-demographic variables are associated with the presence of complaints, in Turkey. Methods: Among 170 participants, 73.5% completed the survey. A face-to-face questionnaire was given and SF-36 (Short Form-36) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were applied. Results: The highest frequencies of WRMSP were in low back (55.4%) and shoulder (41.1%). The most frequently self-reported complaints of the PSRs were long time standing at work (68.8%) and driving long distances (61.6%). There was significant difference between the groups with and without WRMSP all subgroups of SF-36 test ( p< 0.05). Fourteen of the participants had depression according to BDI. There was a negative correlation between SF-36 and BDI scores ( p< 0.05). Conclusions: WRMSP is common among PSRs in Turkey. Besides; depression, reduced QOL and low back pain are frequently seen. Modifications in ergonomics at work and work conditions may solve these problems.


The demographic change influences almost all area of life such as health care, education, social systems and productivity of companies. Therefore, appropriate adjustments to an aging society are necessary. To date, many studies have been carried out weighting the advantages and disadvantages of the various alternatives. The impact of an older workforce on productivity when using enterprise information systems was considered only sparsely. The following paper presents our research intention to design and develop EIS referring to the demographic change.


Introduction: New trend in virtue ethics focuses on personal trait and motivation to highlight the important role of perceptive and motivational aspect of emotions. Aim: The goal of present research was showed the line to facilitate moral virtues into personal identity by focusing on potentials of nostalgia. The question of the present study is that nostalgia as a non-moral emotion has which relation to the importance of moral virtues. Method: Method of research was correlational study and PhD and graduate students of Shiraz University were the statistical society of this research. 71 students participated in this research. Participants responded to event reflection manipulation (Wildschut et al., 2006), Moral identity scale (Aquino & Reed, 2002) and Nostalgia inventory (Batcho,1995). To analyze of data using SPSS 19, Amos and calculator of composite reliability depend on Raykov s formula (1997). Results: The result showed that nostalgia was significant positive predictor for internalizing and symbolizing. Conclusion: The results showed that nostalgia is a positive predictor for internalizing moral values in the individual's self-concept, and also predicting the representation and social pretense as a person who carries some values. Probability, Nostalgia is associated with a kind of emotional regulation and other importance in the person's life, which facilitates the strong moral identity by integration of self and openness to other.


This chapter is concerned with the legal issues surrounding the branding of traditional cultural expressions (TCEs). Over the past few decades, ethnicity trends combined with today's digital culture have prompted a significant increase in both the commercial and non-commercial branding of TCEs by indigenous communities as well as by third parties. Branding is a process that involves the creation of a unique name and image for a product in the consumers' mind through advertising campaigns or merchandising with a consistent theme. Branding aims to establish a significant and differentiated presence in the marketplace that attracts and retains loyal customers. It is not limited to goods and services, and can also apply to people, places and communities.


Preceding committee (Cooperative Research Committee (CRC) of Asian Interlink on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation) worked from Jan. 199 1 to Dec. 1992. The committee reviewed the present status of scientific and techmcal cooperation in the field of dielectrics and electrical insulation among Japan and Asian countries and sought the appropriate ways to promote it. As an important activity discussed in the committee, the "CRC of Electrical Insulation News in Asia" was established in Apr. 1994 and edited and published "Electrical Insulation News in Asia (EINA)" No. 1 (Sept. 1994), and No. 2 (Sept. 1995). The second CRC of Electrical Insulation News in Asia" with the term of two years was established in Apr. 1996 and published EINA No.3 in Sept. 1996 and EINA No.4 in Sept. 1997. At the expiration of the term of the 2nd. CRC, "the tkrd CRC of Electrical Insulation News in Asia" has been established in Apr. 1998 in order to continue the publication of EINA news.


For an advantageous status,the holders usually take advantage of the unique features of intellectual property right,illegally enforce the rights and surpass the boundary of legal monopoly so that the fair and free competition has been limited.Provision 55 in Antimonopoly Law of China principally defines the ill-used intellectual property right,but it is hard to operate because of its over Abstraction.So it is necessary to perfect it according to the experience from other countries.


Abstract The project deals with the analysis and design of an underground powerhouse constructed on three different soil types (silty, sandy, clay). Though each powerhouse has mostly similar components and machines but the analysis and design of civil structures in a plant are always done with different ideas and optimized techniques. Hence this paper is based on some new and different considerations in analysis and design aspects and optimization. The objective of this project also lies in knowing the difference between analysis and design of conventional structures and important structures or special structures. There are huge different machines in power house which are subjected to axial thrust as well as vibrations. The structure results are found by means of 'ANSYS'. Optimum analysis results in optimum design. As earthquake ground shaking affects all structures below ground in case of an underground powerhouse and since some of them must sustain or withstand the strongest earthquake ground motion, they must be designed and checked for different types of design earthquakes. In the seismic design of underground structures, it must be taken into consideration that the earthquake hazard is a multi-hazard, which includes ground shaking, fault movements, mass movements blocking entrances, intakes and outlets, etc. Special problems are encountered in the pressure tunnels due to hydrodynamic pressures and leakage of lining of damaged pressure tunnels. The seismic design and performance criteria of underground structures of hydropower plants are discussed in a qualitative way based on the seismic safety criteria applicable to large dams. Keywords: ANSYS, conventional structures, underground power house, optimum analysis, special structures Cite this Article Sagar Patil, Patil RS, Dr. G. R Gandhe et al. Time History Analysis for an Underground Powerhouse Structure Considering Soil Interaction. Journal of Geotechnical Engineering. 2017; 4(3):    1–6p.


The purpose of the research is to investigate and analyze the main stages of the club techno culture formation in Ukraine in the context of Ukrainian audiovisual art development. The realization of this goal involves solving the following tasks: to determine the role played by cinema, television, and modern media in the growth of techno music popularity; to prove the importance of electronic music in the context of the modern Ukrainian techno culture formation; to learn about the role of club life in shaping the image of a modern country. The research methodology consists in the application of the general scientific principle of objectivity, cultural, structural-functional, and analytical methods in the analysis of theoretical works of art, the subject field of which concerns the formation of club techno-culture in Ukraine in the context of Ukrainian audiovisual art development. Scientific novelty. The article analyzes the influence of cinema, television, and modern media on the spread of club culture in Ukraine, and systemizes the information obtained from periodicals and scientific domestic and foreign literature. The study can become a springboard for the development of topics in Ukrainian film studies and media theory. Conclusions. The article has analyzed the main factors influencing the spread of rave, indicates the stages of Ukrainian club life development; has identified the main factors and socio-political vectors that influenced the spread of club subculture, and has outlined the role of club life as a socio-cultural factor influencing the formation of domestic techno-culture). The development of music festival culture in Ukraine has been outlined as a way of joining the world culture, a stage of entering civilizational achievements, and an opportunity to express oneself in the world and in history.


Thirteen non-centrosymmetric structures with absorption coefficients ranging from 45 to 0.6 mm -~ were refined using both absorption-corrected and uncorrected data. The absorption was in no case severe, since /z--T was less than 1 for each structure. In these circumstances, the absolute-structure parameter r/could be determined equally clearly in both cases, although its e.s.d, increased somewhat for uncorrected data. More serious were the effects of uncorrected data on the precision of molecular dimensions.


This study evaluates inequalities in the use of dental services according to place of birth before and after the economic crisis in Spain. A cross-sectional study was performed in adults aged 18 to 65 years in Spain. We used data from three Spanish National Health Surveys for the years 2006 (before the crisis), 2014, and 2017 (after the crisis). Log-binomial regression was used to quantify the association between place of birth and use of dental care services before and after controlling for the selected covariates. In 2006, we found a greater probability of not using dental care services in immigrants from Asia (PR: 1.36, 95% CI: 1.10–1.67) and Africa (PR: 1.16, 95% CI: 1.05–1.28) compared to the natives. For 2014, the probability of not using dental care services was greater for all immigrants relative to natives, with the greatest probability for those from Africa (PR: 1.71, 95% CI: 1.46–2.01) and Asia (PR: 1.3, 95% CI: 1.23–1.47). The associations for 2017 were weaker in magnitude than the ones observed for 2014, although stronger than for 2006. This study suggests that the economic recovery did not have the same impact for natives and immigrants regardless of regions of origin, given the observed inequalities in use of dental services.


Welding residual stress is one of the main concerns in the process of fabrication and operation because of failures in welded steel joints due to its potential effect on structural integrity. This work focuses on the effect of welding residual stress on the ductile crack growth behavior in AISI 316LN welded CT specimens. Two-dimensional plane strain model has been used to simulate the CT specimen. X-ray diffraction technique is used to obtain residual stress value at the SS 316LN weld joint. The GTN model has been employed to estimate the ductile crack growth behavior in the CT-specimen. Results show that residual stresses influence the ductile crack growth behavior. The effect of residual stress has also been investigated for cases with different initial void volume fraction, crack lengths.


Moore's Law has been used by semiconductor industry as predicative indicators of the industry and it has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now more people tend to agree that the original Moore's Law started to falter. This paper proposes a possible quantitative modification to Moore's Law. It can cover other derivative laws of Moore's Law as well. It intends to more accurately predict the roadmap of chip's performance and energy consumption.


Spatial Data mining is one of the challenging field in data mining. The explosive development of spatial data and common use of spatial databases highlight the need for the automated detection of spatial knowledge. Computing data mining algorithms such as clustering on massive spatial data sets is still not feasible nor efficient today. In this research first we elaborate a study on data clustering, particularly on spatial data clustering. Here we introduce a k-means algorithm that is based on the data stream paradigm. Some of the existing classical clustering algorithm and the proposed BPNN were tested with UCI repository datasets for spatial data clustering and classification. Several tests were made on the system and overall significant results were achieved. Proposed method is an influential tool for the classification of multidimensional spatial data sets.


This experiment was conducted to study the potential regulatory sequence of Keratin 5(K5).This study according to the UCSC bovine K5gene 5′flank regions designed the PCR primers,and Inner Mongolia Cashmere goat K5gene promoter was amplified.Analysis the K5gene promoter sequence after product purification,ligation,transformation and sequence.It was found that 1452bp Inner Mongolia Cashmere goat K5promoter sequence was confirmed,which showed 91.5%and 74% homology with that of bovine and human respectively.The transcription start site was mapped to-101bp of translation initiation site and two TATA boxes located in-129to-124bp(ATAAAA)and-178to-174bp(TTAAT)of translation initiation site respectively.The potential transcription factor binding motifs were predicted after analysis of promoter online software,including(5′to 3′)SRY,MZF1,v-Myb,SRY,AP-1,CDP CR,HNF-4,AML-1a,HSF2,AP-4,AP2,AP2,Sp1,Nkx-2,Sp1and GATA-1,in which SRY(TGTGTTT)and CDP CR(GATTGATGGC)were specific for Cashmere goat,and HNF-4,AML-1a,HSF2,AP-4,AP2,Sp1,Nkx-2and GATA-1(AGCCATCATG)were conserved in Cashmere goat,bovine and human.Moreover,the two minimal enhancer reside from-140to-91bp and-114to-67bp of translation initiation site respectively,and contained 24bp(GCGGCTCCCAGGTAACAGAGCCGC)overlap,which might be related with the Cashmere goat K5gene transcriptional regulation.In this experiment,we inferred the transcription start site,transcription factor binding motifs and minimal enhancer elements in Inner Mongolia Cashmere goat K5gene promoter,which may be helpful for exploring the mechanism of gene expression of cashmere goat K 5gene


In this work, a novel method for more sustainable recycling and cost-efficient manufacturing technique of thermoplastic composite materials is proposed to recover and reprocess waste and end-of-life materials in aerospace industry. For the recycling of carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastics, an innovative scrapping process based on mechanical cutting has been developed and the properties of the obtained scrap and the recycled panel have been analysed. Thus, a cutting tool has been developed for the delamination of the input material with the aim of retaining long fibres in the resulting scrap. Different processing approaches of material scrapping have been evaluated aiming to obtain manageable scrap that can be subsequently used for a compression moulding process. Additionally, an automatic process has been evaluated to manage the scrap and perform the corresponding lay-up to manufacture high-quality thermoplastic composite products with recycled materials. Tensile strength and elasticity modulus properties were tested, and results were discussed. Finally, the life cycle assessment of the new process technology was conducted.


The inter-harmonics produced by those power electronic devices leads to a more frequent occurrence of sub-synchronous oscillations (SSO). Many existing measuring methods are not suitable for the inter-harmonics measurement in the environment where plenty of power electronic devices exist. In this paper, a fast and precise measuring algorithm based on FFT and curve fitting is proposed to estimate the sub/super-synchronous harmonics. The windowing technique is used to reduce the spectral leakage firstly. Secondly, zero-padding is adopted to mitigate the picket-fence effect. Lastly, spectrum line curve fitting is applied to perform the inter-harmonic analysis. The simulation and experiment results indicate that the proposed algorithm is able to perform an accurate, real-time and anti-noise inter-harmonics estimation. Experiment results verify the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.