The article examines the concept and the essence of threats to the national security of Ukraine's neighboring countries caused by Russia's hybrid aggression. Also analyzes the normative legal acts that determine possible information threats to Ukraine and neighboring countries: Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Belarus. The main attention is paid to real and potential threats to the national security of the state in the information sphere, namely the attempt to manipulate the public consciousness, in particular by disseminating propaganda messages, false, incomplete or biased information. The article also revues the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation, which determines the causes of threats to the national security of the state.
Based on the analysis of the results of monitoring of the information space, the main target audience is chosen by the special services of the Russian Federation for the dissemination of propaganda messages. At the same time, the main goals of propaganda, which were disseminated by the special services of the Russian Federation during the anti-terrorist operation. His is still distributed in the conditions of the Joint Forces operation in order to achieve the strategic goals of the aggressor country, namely: discrediting the state on the international stage, losing trust as to reliable economic and political partner; discrediting the military and political leadership of the state, heads of state authorities at all levels among Ukrainian society; destabilization of the internal political situation in the state; reducing the moral and psychological state of the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; information support of the leadership of the temporarily occupied territories, leaders of illegally created armed groups, terrorist organizations of the so-called "DNR" and "LNR"; demonstration of military power of the Russian Federation.
The peculiarities of confrontation of the national interests of our state are found out according to the results of the analysis of the declared national interests and threats to the national security of the neighboring countries of Ukraine. Among them: ethnic diversity of society, escalation of tension in the zone of territorial interests, aggression of the Russian Federation.


This article presents the development, contributions, and future directions of the American Psychological Association, Division 17, Section for the Advancement of Women (SAW). Beginning with the formation of the Division 17 Ad Hoc Committee on Women in 1970, formalized in 1982 as the Division 17 Committee on Women, the SAW was formed in 1996. Article 1 of SAW's bylaws, approved in 1996, identifies five goals for SAW, and these provide the organizing framework for this article. The five goals are related to professional support; education, training, and dissemination; scientific affairs; professional practice; and diversity and public interest. The work of the Ad Hoc Committee on Women and of the Committee on Women reflect these SAW goals and permit reviewing the accomplishments of these earlier committees within this framework. The article ends with some reflections on future directions for SAW in the 21st century.


Le Fournil: un rite saisonnier. Lise Boily-Blanchette. Mercury Series, CCFCS Paper No. 16. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1976. iii + 59 pp. n.p. (paper).

Sacro o Profano? A Consideration of Four Italian-Canadian Religious Festivals. Bruce B. Giuliano. Mercury Series, CCFCS Paper No. 17. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1976. iv + 64 pp. n.p. (paper).

Structural Changes of Two Chinese Communities in Alberta, Canada. Ben Seng Hoe. Mercury Series, CCFCS Paper No. 19. A Diamond Jenness Memorial Volume. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1976. xiv + 385 pp. n.p. (paper).

The Swedish Community at Eriksdale, Manitoba. George J. Houser. Mercury Series, CCFCS Paper No. 14. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1976. v + 112 pp. n.p. (paper).

Black Pentecostal Music in Windsor. Paul McIntyre. Mercury Series, CCFCS Paper No. 15. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1976. 124 pp. n.p. (paper).

The Greeks of Vancouver: A Study in the Preservation of Ethnicity. G. James Patterson. Mercury Series, CCFCS Paper No. 18. Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1976. iv + 162 pp. n.p. (paper).


By Sid BedingfieldUrbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017, 292 pp.Newspaper Wars examines how newswriting was routinely injected with partisan politicking in South Carolina in the mid-nineteenth...


Purpose – Little is known about the attraction, development, and attrition factors that impact on expatriates' decision making in relation to international assignment opportunities, nor is there clear understanding as to how global mobility outcomes impact on global talent management (GTM). The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the attraction, development, and attrition of expatriates as a process that is focussed on two core elements of expatriate ROI (eROI) – corporate ROI (cROI) and individual ROI (iROI). Further, the authors adopt an innovative approach by conceptualizing how global mobility is linked to GTM. Design/methodology/approach – Applying psychological contract theory, the authors draw on empirical data from two large studies to compare the perspectives of mobility managers (the cROI inputs) with those of long-term assignees (expatriates; the iROI inputs) to identify how global mobility outcomes can impact on GTM. Findings – By comparing and contrasting corporate and individual perspe...


A coordination-responsive tellurium containing film was fabricated for controlled release. The coordination chemistry between telluride molecules and cisplatin was utilized for the loading of cisplatin, while competitive ligands were used for triggered release. This work could enrich the coordination responsive system and further tune the release kinetics of cisplatin.


The utility model discloses an elevator shaft safety protection device which comprises a protective door and an elevator shaft shear wall, wherein the two ends of a frame of the protective door are provided with through holes which are screwed with reversed L-shaped bolts; and the reversed L-shaped bolts are blocked and jointed with the elevator shaft shear wall. The elevator shaft safety protection device is firm in connection, is not easily moved by collision or human factors, and is simple and easy in operation, convenient and economical as well as convenient for popularization and use.


Fluorescence diffuse optical tomography (FT) is a molecular imaging technique that can create images of spatially resolved fluorophore concentrations and fluorescence lifetimes. One problem faced by FT is that the recovered fluorophore parameters greatly depend on the size and depth of the inclusion due to the ill-posedness of the FT inverse problem. Structural a priori information from imaging modalities with high spatial resolution is demonstrated to significantly improve the accuracy of the FT reconstruction. We have constructed a hybrid FT/MRI system for small animal imaging in this study. Near-infrared light was delivered and collected by optical fibers that connect the FT/MRI system to the interface in the MRI bore. We investigated the feasibility of a photo-multiplier tube (PMT) based detection system that acquired time-resolved data in the frequency domain. Phantom studies were used to evaluate the performance of the combined system. The concentration and lifetime maps were reconstructed with and without the structural a priori information obtained from MRI. ICG and DTTCI, two fluorophores with similar excitation and emission spectra but different lifetimes, were used in this evaluation. Specifically, we showed that the PMT-based frequency domain hybrid system was capable of differentiating between two fluorophores with different fluorescence lifetimes. Furthermore, this process was shown to be more accurate when MR a priori is used.


"Holcim / Lafarge: paving the way to first phase clearance"* In the Holcim/Lafarge case, the Commission gave green light to the creation of a global player in the building materials industry.…


Chapter 1: Introduction: The social construction of ageing in Singapore (PT) Chapter 2: The ageing of the population: Its demographic profile (PT) Chapter 3: Structural framework of care: Policy concerns (TLL) Chapter 4: Employment and the financing of old age (AC) Chapter 5: Health and health care (PT) Chapter 6: Carers: Interfacing family and community (KM) Chapter 7: House and home: Only a roof or more? (PT/KM) Chapter 8: Intergenerational ties that bind: Are they necessarily good? (TLL/KM) Chapter 9: Widowed identity and its implications for care (PT/KM) Chapter 10: Conclusion (All)


Evidence-based medicine has enabled an individualized approach to medical decision-making and has become part of modern clinical practice. Health technologies are tools that can be used to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases. Despite the technological progress, diagnostic problems persist. This work is a commentary on the work already done in predicting the appropriate physicians for the prospective of the right diagnosis and is a description of the challenges to be faced in the next work.


Component interoperability is one of the essential issues in the component based development, since it allows the composition of reusable heterogenous components developed by different people. In this paper, we propose an approach to formally verify component interoperability at signature, semantics, and protocol levels. It is based on the use of the B formal method for specifying component interfaces and finite transition systems for specifying component protocols. The verification is done with the B theorem prover and the verification of the simulation relation between transition systems. This approach allows to decide whether two components can interoperate if assembled together and whether a component can be replaced by another component.


The analysis of possible methods of conservation of biological samples for carrying out the analysis by a method of polymerase chain reaction is carried out. Six ways of storage of a biological sample (DNA of a pig) on efficiency PCR-analysis are investigated. It is established that the most effective ways of conservation of samples of DNA of a pig are the FTA Gene Guard method (77,1% of positive tests from total number investigated), DNA water solution drawing on decalcified filtering paper (60,0%) and freezing to temperature 20°С (43,3%). The least preferable way of conservation is storage of samples at temperature +4°С (8,6 %). Tests of the biological material taken from pigs and stored within 2 weeks by the FTA Gene Guard method are tested. High sensitivity and reliability of results PCRanalysis of the samples preserved by the studied method is shown.


A unique unmanned deep-sea submersible, capable of operation in depths beyond the reach of conventional diving systems or ship sensors, is being built by Sperry for the Royal Navy. The Sperry Towed Unmanned Submersible (TUMS) will perform a wide range of search, identification, classification, and recovery operations at full ocean depths using optic, acoustic, and magnetic sensors and a manipulator arm.


Enhancing Lives. Using Attention Skilfully. Using Hypnosis. Trance Inductions. Imaginary Resources. Optimism. Friends and Lovers. Natural Pleasures. Healthy Successes. Peak Mental and Physical Performance. Meditative States. Mystical States. Unconscious Resources. Writing Your Own Hypnosis Scripts.


AbstractTo investigate the nature of the Bi–Pb–Sn ternary eutectic, specimens were solidified unidirectionally at very low speeds and quenched to form a representative solid/liquid interface for subsequent study. Specimens made using the generally accepted composition, as reported by Ho et al., did not form all three solid phases from the start of freezing. Specimens produced using the composition reported by Sakurai, i.e., 54 wt-%Bi, 28 wt-%Pb, and 18 wt-%Sn, did give all three phases from the beginning of freezing, indicating that it is the correct eutectic composition. It was found that this eutectic is of the faceted (Bi) non-faceted (X phase) non-faceted (Sn) type. Under the freezing conditions used, a double binary microstructure was formed, with one component consisting of Sn fibres in the X phase and the other of a Bi–Sn complex regular microstructure. While the occurrence of a double binary microstructure was predicted by C. S. Smith for a lamellar ternary eutectic, the current observation shows ...


Aim of the study: The aim of the retrospective study was to determine the prevalence of late complications in adult patients after the Fontan operation (FO). Material and methods: Forty-eight Caucasians patients after staged FO (26 men, 22 women) aged between 18 and 40 years (mean 23 ±5 uears) were included in the study. The evaluation included echocardiograms, electrocardiograms, cardiopulmonary exercise tests (CPX), oxygen saturation and medical history and laboratory tests. Based on the postoperative time, the patients were divided into three groups: up to 15 years, between 16 and 20 years and above 20 years after surgery. Results: Thromboembolism was present in 10 patients (21%). Supraventricular tachycardias were noted in 10% of subjects, ventricular tachycardia in 4% of patients. Mean oxygen saturation was 89%, cyanosis was seen in 25% of patients. Proteinlosing enteropathy appeared in 4%. While analyzing parameter values in patients belonging to various postoperative time groups, highly significant differences were noted in VO 2peak , VO 2 %N, SaO 2 (oxygen saturation), and HCT. Along with an increased postoperative period, the SV function deteriorated (χ 2 p = 0.001, Fisher p = 0.001) and a higher degree of systemic atrioventricular valve regurgitation was detected (χ 2 p < 0.001, Fisher p < 0.001). Conclusions: In adults after the Fontan operation, the systolic function of a single ventricle deteriorates with time, atrioventricular valve regurgitation increases and exercise tolerance is reduced. Cyanosis is increased and hematocrit levels are elevated. Such patients require regular assessment in specialist centers for adult patients with congenital heart defects.


Abstract The influence of size limitation of the strongly scattering medium and its boundary reflection on the spatial distribution of pump and random lasing radiation density was calculated with Monte-Carlo method. This limitation results in formation within the sample area with increased concentration of the lasing photons what is conditioned by selection of higher-Q compacted trajectories. The area location and the photon density in it are strongly depended on the sample thickness and scattering efficiency. The boundaries reflection partially smooths of photon density distribution and rises its value. It gives optimal medium size providing maximal lasing energy, which proves experimentally.


The specialist homelessness sector and state and federal governments have argued that tight housing markets are one of the key structural factors driving homelessness. Specifically it is argued that limited availability of low cost rental stock both causes homelessness and prevents its resolution. However, neither homelessness nor housing market research has provided population level evidence to directly support this claim. To address this gap this study explored the relationship between tight housing markets and rates of homelessness, using data from administrative sources, the Counting the Homeless Collection and the 2006 Census across Statistical Subdivisions in Victoria. The relationships between rates of homelessness and weak labour markets, demographic factors, and the location of homelessness services were also investigated. A key finding was that areas with relatively higher proportions of private rental stock and lower median rents had higher rates of homelessness. Median household income had a strong moderating effect on the relationship between rates of homelessness and median rents in an area, suggesting a critical relationship between private rental stock and household income. These findings are explained as the combined effect of sorting and an effective shortage of low-cost rental housing. Regression modelling showed that three key variables – the cost and amount of private rental housing and household income – could explain 45% of the variation in rates of homelessness across Victoria. This paper will contextualize these and other findings within the literature, and discuss policy implications and future research concerns.


We retrospectively compared the impact of treatments based on thalidomide, bortezomib or tranditional regimen (VAD) on renal function recovery in a consecutive, unselected population of newly diagnosed myeloma patients presenting with renal failure. Between May 2005 and February 2014, 130 (24.3%) patients with newly diagnosed multiple myeloma and RI were treated upfront with VAD or a novel agent containing regimen and all received a similar supportive care in our single center. A complete recovery of renal function(renal complete response )was observed in 56.1% of patients treated with bortezomib, in 38.9% with thalidomide and in 28.6% with VAD (P=0.033), a significant improvement of renal function (≥renalPR (renal partial response)) was observed in 63.6% of patients treated with bortezomib, in 66.1% with thalidomide and in 42.9% with VAD (P=0.162). There has a significantly difference in the rates and quality of renal response among patients with different quality of myeloma response: renal CR rates for patients who achieved ≥VGPR, PR, MR or NR were 63.1% vs 46.8% vs 35.7% vs 25.8%, P Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Against the difficult problems in protean month sales volume of goods,the method of cloud model is proposed to do month sale forecasting.Cloud regulation generators calculate the subordination degree to describe the variety and digital eigenvalue of each month's sale.Then the dust cloud is calculated with the help of natural cloud generator.The cloud model resolves fuzziness and randomness in forecasting results.Comparing with the method of time sequence forecasting,the experiment result displays that the method of cloud model is more accurate.It has practical significance and commercial value.


The application area of robotics is drastically expanding, and a wide variety of robotic services are being launched. The robot business is changing from a small market of industrial and military robots to a huge market of home, office, and outdoor field applications for robotics. Robotics was a singular technical curiosity before, but now it is becoming one of the most important fundamental technologies in day-to-day activities. Similar to personal computers in the 1980s, this may be an age of historic revolution for robotics since the game is completely changing. The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) strives to be at the center of this drastic change by promoting innovation through opportunities based on its 30-year history of leading the science and technology of robotics and automation. Motivated by this perspective, the RAS Long-Range Planning Committee continued discussions about the future of RAS. Sixty prominent leaders assembled in San Francisco in January 2015 for a strategic planning meeting where they discussed designing action plans for the future (Figure 1). Prior to a brainstorming session, an introduction was given where the goals of the meeting were outlined and the current activities and direction of the IEEE and RAS were shared (Figures 2–4). Participants were then split into eight groups to brainstorm and discuss the following questions: ● how to invite industry into RAS activities ● how to enhance the business/social leadership of the RAS ● how to promote alliances with other organizations ● how to increase membership outside of academia ● how to promote IEEE standardization in robotics ● how to engage younger generations to actively participate in RAS initiatives and leadership ● how to increase RAS volunteers and make their jobs easier ● how to reduce obstructive factors for volunteer jobs. As a result of the discussion, the following six plans were developed. 1) Entrepreneurship should be promoted to create and fund new business. 2) Local IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation events should be held to invite local researchers and students to the RAS. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MRA.2015.2419138 Date of publication: 18 June 2015 Figure 1. Participants at the RAS strategic planning session.


Bencyclane fumarate (I) was decomposed in aqueous buffer solution from pH 1.2 to 6.3 in order to examine its stability and mechanism of hydrolysis. It was found that I was hydrolyzed with pseudo first-order kinetics, and the pH-rate profile was a straight line of slope-1. The activation energy (Ea) was calculated to be 33.0 kcal/mol from Arrhenius plots. Further examination of the decomposition mechanism through kinetic analysis suggested a new pathway where I first formed a carbonium ion intermediate in an acidic solution then decomposed immediately into an alcohol and two olefins by hydration and dehydration, respectively.


Cancellation schemes for CDMA detection are based on estimating and removing the inherent multiple access interference. Several strategies for estimating the interference have been suggested, In this paper, we consider successive cancellation based on linear soft-decision, hard-decision, and clipped soft-decision. The influence of the cancellation function on the corresponding decision boundaries is discussed and qualitative statements regarding BER performance is made. BER performance based on computer simulations are presented and the "optimal" choice of the parameters for the clipped soft-decision is considered.


2 SUMMARY Zero-Inflated-Models were applied to 3,500 fishing trips and 22,184 records of landings of white marlin (Tetrapturus albidus) obtained by the Spanish surface longline fishery targeting swordfish during the 1993-2000 and 1988-2010 periods, respectively. The data confirm the low prevalence of this species in the catch of this fishery, with zero catch returns amounting to 80% and 95% for each data set, respectively. The explanatory variables in the final model were based on likelihood ratio tests between nested models and AIC scores. In spite of some data limitations, the results show that it was possible to obtain standardized catch rate indices for both data sets, although there was a considerable year-on-year variability in some cases, as well as several limitations on some of the modelled explanatory variables. In addition, this paper presents the annual values for the standardized indices and discusses the potential effects that the Recovery Plan for this species and the current legislation may have been having on catch rates in recent years. RESUME


Using high-speed oil-filled spinning and multi-pass drawing composite machining methods, a micro straight groove of copper tube(MSGCT) with an outer diameter about 3 mm~6 mm was obtained, and the forming mechanism of micro straight grooves was investigated. The key factors of process parameters influence the drawing were analyzed. The experimental results show that the values of drawing elongation increases with reduction and die angle increasing. However, drawing elongation increases firstly and then becomes smooth with drawing speed increasing. Stable-quality MSGCT can be achieved by controlling the drawing process parameters and the configurations of micro straight grooves were observed by scanning electron microscope(SEM). In addition, the high-speed oil-filled spinning and multi-pass drawing composite manufacturing can further improve the capillary force of the micro straight grooves of copper heat pipe.


A Democratic IGBO Orthography From the earliest attempt at Igbo codification by the protestant missionaries and the Igbo exslaves resettled in Sierra Leone to the present day, Igbo orthography is associated with criticisms, suspicion and conflicts (Ogbo 1984; Achebe 1984; Capo 1990; Uwalaka 2001; Ugorji 2003, 2005, etc.). While the introduction of the official Onwu orthography of 1961 seemed to have resolved the seven-decade fiendish orthography controversy which bedevilled the development of the language, it actually only resolved those controversies that came along religious lines involving the Roman and Protestant Missions. This study identifies two other problems, namely the linguistic and the sociological, that are yet outstanding: hence the recent and sustained complaints about literary constraints, dialect exclusion (detailed in Ugorji 2003, among others) and the diversionary linguistic engineering involving the dialects of Izii, Ezaa, Ikwo, Ikwere, Ika, etc. Following the imperatives of the new world democratic order (Emenanjo 2002), this paper suggests a democratic and integrated orthography, built on the principles that preserve citizens' personal and collective linguistic rights as well as linguistic and cultural diversity. In Ugorji (2003), the principles for language and dialect vitality are outlined; the concern of the present work is to show how the tenets are implemented in Igbo graphisation as a case in point. More importantly, it is an effort to demonstrate how language or dialect vitality option proves to be a solution to conflicts associated with language or dialect, and a means to implement the democratic demands for sociolinguistic equity, enunciated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights (1996), the Declaration of Rights of Persons Belonging to National, Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (1992), among others, which seek to assert the rights of individuals and communities.


Treatment of [Pt(CCMe)2(dppm-P)2] with [Rh2Cl2(CO)4] gave [(MeCC)Pt(µ-dppm)2(σ,η-CCMe)Rh(CO)]Cl readily converted into the corresponding PF6– salt (1b) the crystal structure of which was determined. Other complexes of the type [(RCC)Pt(µ-dppm)2(σ,η-CCR)Rh(CO)]Cl were made similarly; with R = Ph, p-tolyl, CH2CH2Ph, or C(Me)CH2. The complexes are fluxional with the low-temperature limiting 1H-{31P} n.m.r. spectrum showing non-equivalent pseudoequatorial and pseudo-axial CH2 protons, He coupled to 195Pt and Ha not. The fluxional process corresponds to interchange of He and Ha and interchange of terminal and bridging CCR. When heated in toluene for 3 h, [(RCC)Pt(µ-dppm)2(σ,η-CCR)Rh(CO)]Cl (R =p-tolyl or Ph) was converted into [(RCC)Pt(µ-dppm)2(σ,η-CCR) RhCl]. With CO, [(p-MeC6H4CC)Pt(µ-dppm)2(σ,η-CCC6H4Me-p)RhCl] rapidly gave back [(p-MeC6H4CC)Pt(µ-dppm)2(σ,η-CCC6H4Me-p)Rh(CO)]Cl. Treatment of [Pt(CCR)2(dppm-P)2] with [Rh2Cl2(C8H14)4](C8H14= cyclo-octene) also gave [(RCC)Pt(µ-dppm)2(σ,η-CCR)RhCl](R =p-tolyl or Ph) but the complexes were not isolated pure. Treatment of [(PhCC)2Pt(µ-dppm)2HgCl2] with [Rh2Cl2(CO)4] caused rapid and complete displacement of HgCl2, giving [(PhCC)Pt(µ-dppm)2(σ,η-CCPh)Rh(CO)]+; similarly treatment of [(PhCC)2Pt(µ-dppm)2AgCl], [(PhCC)2Pt(µ-dppm)2Cul], or [(PhCC)2Pt(µ-dppm)2Au]Cl with [Rh2Cl2(CO)4] gave [(PhCC)Pt(µ-dppm)2(σ,η-CCPh)Rh(CO)]+. Treatment of [Cl(RCC)Pt(µ-dppm)2AgCl] with [Rh2Cl2(CO)4] gave [ClPt(µ-dppm)2(σ,η-CCR)Rh(CO)]+(R = Me, Ph, or p-tolyl) isolated as PF6– or AgCl2– salts. These complexes could also be made in 'one-pot' syntheses, viz. successive treatment of [Pt(dppm-PP′)2]Cl2 with AgO2CMe–PhCCH followed by treatment with [Rh2Cl2(CO)4], without isolation of the intermediate platinum–silver complex. The crystal structures of [(MeCC)Pt(µ-dppm)2(σ,η-CCMe)Rh(CO)]PF6(1b) as the dichloromethane solvate and of [ClPt(µ-dppm)2(σ,η-CCMe)Rh(CO)]PF6(5a) were determined. Crystals of (1b) are orthorhombic, space group Pbca, a= 19.212(7), b= 27.364(6), c= 21.468(5)A, and Z= 8; those of (5a) are orthorhombic, space group Pn21a, a= 43.39(1), b= 25.178(9), c= 10.164(6)A, and Z= 8. Final R factors were 0.088 for 4 500 and 0.058 for 6 320 observed reflections, respectively. In each complex cation the two metal centres [Pt ⋯ Rh 3.099(2) for (1b) 3.066(2) and 3.086(2)A for (5a)] are bridged by a methylacetylide group σ-bonded to Pt and π-bonded in an unsymmetrical side-on fashion to Rh [mean Rh–CPt 2.24(2), mean Rh–CMe 2.44(2)A], giving rise to an A-frame structure.


ABSTRACT This article analyzes the public forums created during the 2019 Algerian and Lebanese hiraks (popular protests). These forums were organized to reclaim forbidden or inaccessible public spaces, to discuss problems and offer alternatives in the political and economic arenas. The article investigates the relations of these forums to the hiraks' general claims by focusing on the dynamics of the forums and on their constitutive dimension in and contribution to the hiraks. It analyses two hallmarks of the forums: connectivity and reflexivity. The first shows the networking of actors and exchange relations between the various levels and dimensions that form the hiraks, while the second constitutes the locus of critique that takes the hirak as its object, as well as the initiatives implemented in its wake. With this analysis, we demonstrate that the Algerian and Lebanese popular forums are particular form of assembly, different from the Occupy movements' assemblies, ones that represent unique spaces of observation that shows both the organic ties between the forums and the hiraks, and, more importantly, the emergence in action of associative life and its autonomization, a crucial democratizing process in both countries.


Researches of composable modeling provide foundations for exploiting dynamic on-line simulation, and support real-time decision-making for commanders in combat simulation. The concept framework of composable simulation system was studied, which directed the future research. Some basic concepts and key technologies in composability were deeply analyzed and discussed. The detailed design for the concept framework was carried out, a three-tier structure was built up, which includes a user level, a component level and an application level, and the characteristics of framework functions were explained. In the end, realization of composable simulation application under grid environment was discussed, and the feasibility of our work was proved.


A new continuously variable transmission for bicycles (B-CVT) is developed by using a traction drive mechanism having inner and outer spherical rotors. The B-CVT has high power efficiency, large torque capacity, improved drivability and good packageability. The ratio change mechanism for the B-CVT is very simple, in contrast with other traction drive CVTs. After completing a conceptual design, a performance analysis and a detail design, a prototype of the B-CVT has been manufactured. The prototype has rated power of 100 watts, pedal speed of 6 rad/s and an overall speed ratio of 1.0-4.0. A bench test and an actual bicycle test have been performed to verify the practicability of the BCVT.


Summary: This paper presents an overview of the relationships between the present value model, the fair game model and the martingale model. Special attention is given to the economic and mathematical assumptions of these models. In addition to the well known transversality condition we give another condition which also guarantees the equivalence of the above mentioned models .;


A target-oriented method for the design of railway wheel profiles is presented. The target chosen is the rolling radii difference function which plays an important role in the dynamics of railway vehicles especially for high speed performances. A computer program based on this method has also been developed and is validated by way of examples in which wheel profiles LMA, S1002G and XP55 are investigated.Copyright © 2010 by ASME


A continuously variable optical true time delay module, based on substrate-guided-wave and holographic optical elements, is designed and fabricated. The dispersion effect of volume holographic gratings is combined with a novel structure to obtain continuously variable time delay intervals from tens of picosecond down to sub-picosecond, which can be employed for K-band (18 GHz - 26.5 GHz) and Ka band (26.5 GHz - 40 GHz) phased-array antennas. The insertion loss of the packaged module is 10 dB, including fan-out loss and propagation loss, while the non-uniformity of insertion loss is within 0.6 dB among all channels. The crosstalk among channels is less than -40 dB. An optical true time delay module is designed to provide delay signals for -60 degrees to +60 degrees continuously steering of an eight-element K-band phased-array antenna system. Antenna field patterns are simulated with the change of optical wavelengths. The demonstrated architecture can be used in both the transmitting and the receiving modes and can be easily scaled up for large arrays.


Variation observed in the growth and cytology of white clover cells is con sidered in relation to enzyme production in cultured tissue. Variation also occurred in the production of /3-glucosidase by groups of cultured cells derived from the same plant and with identical cultural histories. This variability between cultures grown in a completely defined medium, provided an approach to the investigation of the factors affecting /3-glucosidase production in cultured cells. Evidence was obtained from Michaelis constants that two distinct /3-glucosidases were produced by cultured tissue.


Rapid surface heating will induce waves in an elastic material. Closed-form solutions for the resulting longitudinal and transverse thermal stresses are derived using Laplace Transforms. The model is one-dimensional, consisting of a half-space subjected to a step change in the surface heating. The transverse stress at the wave peak is found to exceed the surface stress for short times, while for long times the surface stress far exceeds either of the stresses at the wave peak. Both the longitudinal and transverse stresses at the peak of the wave reach steady-state values after a few dimensionless times.


A field experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of Zn and mycorrhiza on enrichment possibility of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under preharvest drought stress condition. The treatments included irrigation (A1: normal irrigation, A2: preharvest drought stress) as the main plots and the combinations of zinc (Zn1: 0 kg ha-1 and Zn2: 2 kg ha-1) and mycorrhiza (Mc1: 0 kg ha-1 and Mc2: 200 kg ha-1) as the subplots. The results indicated that grain phosphorus, grain phytic acid, phytic acid to zinc ratio, grain yield and grain filling period decreased under drought stress condition. A significant reduction was observed in grain phosphorus, grain phytic acid, phytic acid (Phy) to zinc ratio and grain filling rate with application of Zn (2 kg ha-1). Grain zinc, protein, yield and final grain weight were higher at 200 kg ha-1 mycorrhiza than the control (0 kg ha-1). Finally, considering drought crisis in some developing countries, the treatment of preharvest drought stress with Zn (2 kg ha-1) saved 450 m3ha-1 of water, produced the second highest grain yield, the highest protein content and the lowest phytic acid and Phy/Zn ratio. Therefore, this treatment can be recommended as a suitable and practical approach to improve wheat grain yield and quality.


In general, students' numeracy literacy skills are still low. Therefore, teachers need to provide a stimulus for students in learning by using interesting media and unique and distinctive ways of exposure. One of the media that can be used by teachers is a mathematics learning video. This study aims to produce and determine the feasibility (validity, practicality, and effectiveness) of instructional video media that supports numeracy literacy skills for eighth grade students of a junior high school in Jambi, Indonesia. This study uses the ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) model. Based on the results of the research, the material validation analysis obtained a percentage of 74.6% (quite valid) and the media validation analysis obtained a percentage of 83% (quite valid). The practical aspect seen from the results of the teacher assessment questionnaire analysis obtained a percentage of 93.4% and the one-on-one evaluation questionnaire analysis (9 students of class VIII) obtained a percentage of 90% (very practical). The effectiveness is seen based on the results of the numeracy literacy test, where the percentage of students' completeness is 90% and the results of the questionnaire analysis of student responses to small group evaluations are 94% (very effective). Based on the data, the learning animation video has met the indicators (valid, practical, effective). Based on the results of this study, teachers should consider using learning videos that can support students' numeracy literacy skills in classroom learning. Furthermore, researchers will further study the effectiveness of using instructional videos in quasi-experimental research.


Objective: The objective of this study was to verify the relationship between problematic drug use and the occurrence of Burnout Syndrome among nursing professionals in a hospital environment. Methods: This is a study with a quantitative and exploratory approach. 416 professionals participated in the research. The data collection instrument was Sociodemographic and professional information; Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement  Screening Test; Alcohol Use DisordersIdentification Test - Consumption; Maslach Burnout Inventory. The level of significance (p value) was set at 0.05. Results: The consumption of tobacco and alcohol among workers was evidenced, being common to the practice of using alcohol in binge. There was a positive correlation between the use of alcohol and the occurrence of depersonalization and between the use of sedatives and depersonalization. Conclusion: It is essential that there are actions to minimize the occurrence of mental disorders in nursing workers.


Letter from Minnie Bradley to L. D. Bradley, dated May 7, 1886 and sent from Fairfield, in which she writes about her health and whether she will be able to visit him in Corsicana.


The fluid flowing resistance increase and the water absorbing capacity reduce due to the threshold pressure gradient and media deformation of the low permeability reservoirs in the course of development. The oil production of vertical wells may decrease fastly and the controlled reservers are hard to recover. The development effects are not satisfied. Through great fracturing measurements create many fractures, and fractures extended along the direction of well line, the long fracture channels were formed like horizontal well segments. This kind of long fracture was called as horizontal segment of imitation horizontal well. It can broad drainage radius in production well and increase controlled reserves and daily oil production of single well. In this paper, the influence factors of the low permeablity reservoirs development by imitation horizontal wells were analysised. Through well pattern, well distance, line distance, injector and producer parameters and fracturing parameters of imitation horizontal well optimization, drainage radius in lower permeability reservoirs can be reached to 200 meters, the daily production in single well can increase two times of that before, and the production result was improved greatly in lower permeability reservoirs development.


DURING THE LAST DECADE, appreciation of Albert Camus has grown not only because of his skill as a literary artist but also because of his insight as an examiner of our times. Much has been written about the political and ethical content of Camus' novels and essays, but while his plays have been examined for such well-known philosophical concepts as "the Absurd" and "Revolt," little attention has been paid to their social commentary.Camus was intensely concerned with the administration of justice and the legal systems in society. For example, his hatred of capital punishment is emphasized in La Peste, Reflexions sur la Peine Cap itale, Le Myth de Sisyphe, CEtranger, La Chute, and some of his shorter essays. But evidence of his interest in law and justice also abounds in his plays. Consequently, judges receive much attention, and it is with these I shall concern myself. Though not all of those I shall mention are judges in the legal meaning of the word, most of them are in the sense that human lives depend ...


In this article, high impedance surface (HIS) structures are used as a primary reflector of a short backfire antenna to reduce its profile. Crossed dipoles fed by a power divider with 90° phase shift are adopted as an exciter to realize circular polarization. It is demonstrated that the antenna profile can be reduced from 0.6 to 0.3 λ0 by using the HIS structures as a primary reflector. It also achieves a 3‐dB axial ratio bandwidth of more than 25% with a standing‐wave ratio below 2, and the peak broadside gain is around 13.47 dBi with a 3‐dB gain bandwidth of 22.5%. The simulated and experimental results are presented and discussed in the end of this article. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 55:1779–1784, 2013


We examine the effect of pressure on the nematic to smectic-A N–SmA) transition within the Landau phenomenological theory. The influence of pressure on the N–SmA transition is discussed by varying the coupling between the orientational and translational order parameters. The possibility of the tricritical point at the N–SmA transition is discussed in a phenomenological way. The theoretical predictions are found to be in good qualitative agreement with experimental results.


It is first shown that, for some special simple impedances, the stochastic equation describing the fluctuation of macroscopic variables, which is suggested by the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, comes out to be equivalent to the Langevin equation appearing in ordinary irreversible thermodynamics. This does not mean, however, that the ordinary irreversible thermodynamics cannot describe any variables other than those with the simple impedances. It is secondly shown that, on the contrary, any macroscopic variable whose impedance is of the form \begin{aligned} Z(i\omega){=}z^{-1}/(i\omega)+z^{0}+(i\omega)z^{1}+\sum_{j}c_{j}/(i\omega-p_{j}), \end{aligned} can be described within the framework of the ordinary irreversible thermodynamics. This is proved by the fact that we can construct, starting from irreversible-thermodynamical equations and using the method of eliminating inner variables, a variable whose impedance is of the above-mentioned form and whose fluctuation-spectrum exactly coincides with that giv...


The present study compares two techniques for isolating outer membrane proteins (OMPs) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Method A ‐ selective solubilization with sodium lauryl sarcosinate, and Method B ‐ isopycnic sucrose gradient centrifugation, using three criteria: the amount of proteins obtained, polypeptide patterns after sodium dodecyl sulfate‐polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and their practical aspects. Method A appears to be superior to Method B. It yields a higher outer membrane protein content and a similar polypeptide pattern as Method B, but is more rapid and less cumbersome.


help us negotiate and overcome psychological blockage. The last two movements provide a lucid and important schizoanalytic counterreading of Freud's grandson's "fort/da" refrain, showing how Freud and then Lacan impose a sad, angst-ridden, screen-pole interpretation on what is for the child an improvisational, even joyful, refrain of accomplishment. What becomes clear is that the child is mobilizing affect to improvise his way around and past the coming and going of objects, parents, and of himself, and that the adults close to him have imposed on this pre-signifying affective expression an interpretation that displaces affect into the realm of signification and reduces it to a linguistic binary opposition. Even more remarkable, Seigworth shows how, in returning to the fort-da refrain in a footnote after his daughter dies, Freud (in line with the return in Beyond the Pleasure Principle to more machinic concepts and terminology) reverts to the machine-pole side of his theorization, characterizing his sense of loss not in the linguistic term they had imposed ("fort"/gone), but in more purely affective terms (a meaningless but expressive "o-o-o"). It is hard to imagine a more poignant demonstration of the differences between schizoanalysis and psychoanalysis, a demonstration that makes use, moreover, of details from the affective life of Freud himself. Despite its unevenness, then, Animations of Deleuze and Guattari contains interesting and important material that shows what is distinctive about the Deleuzo-Guattarian approach and what it can contribute to cultural studies. Eugene W. Holland The Ohio State University


Mr.Chang Faliang's conviction that the Xiangji Temple visited by Wang Wei is actually Fengxue Temple in Ruzhou is not sufficiently supported by evidence.He mistakenly interpreted Wang Wei's poem about his visit to Xiangji Temple and made a mistaken in using the local chronicle to prove his idea.Mr.Chang gave too wild assumptions,but didn't know much about Xiangji Temple of Chang'an.In one word,his assumptions about Fengxue Temple of Ruzhou are groundless.


A significant barrier to the adoption of cloud services is that users fear data leakage and loss of privacy if their sensitive data is processed in the cloud. In this paper, we describe a client-based privacy manager that helps reduce this risk, and that provides additional privacy-related benefits. We assess its usage within a variety of cloud computing scenarios. We have built a proof-of-concept demo that shows how privacy may be protected via reducing the amount of sensitive information sent to the cloud.


The title complex, [Cd 2 (C 13 H 9 Cl 2 N 2 O) 2 (NCS) 2 ] n , is a novel thiocyanate-bridged polynuclear cadmium(II) compound. The Cd II atom is six-coordinated in a distorted octahedral configuration, with one 0 and two N atoms of one Schiff base molecule and one terminal S atom of a bridging thiocyanate ligand defining the equatorial plane, and one terminal N atom of another bridging thiocyanate ligand and one O atom of another Schiff base molecule occupying axial positions. Adjacent inversion-related [2,4-dich]oro-6-(2-pyridylmethyliminomethyl)phenolato]cadmium(II) moieties utilize bridging phenolate and thiocyanate groups to form polymeric chains running along the h axis.


Review(s) of: Renata Alexander, Domestic Violence in Australia: The Legal Response, Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, 2002, xix + 191pp, $35.00. Includes references.


A primary objective of evaluation researrh is to communicate graphic and numeric realities to dual audiences—to other analysts as well as to practitioners and policymakers. A six-partmodel is presented that can assist evaluators in presenting results to dual audiences. The example chosen is school desegregation policy, but the model is intended for a wide spectrum of substantive policy areas. Evaluators can contribute positively to the policy process by examining phenomena in an empirical fashion and using a sound methodology and measurement strategy, yet the burden of proof lies with evaluators in conveying the results of their own analyses. It is the evaluator's responsibility to convey the necessary information as clearly as possible, without relying on oversimplification.


Abstract:Celia Marshik and Allison Pease's Modernism, Sex, and Gender (2018) is a source-book for modernist studies that extends and revises some of the classics in the field. It provides an in-depth consideration of the historiography of gender, sex, and sexuality, while suggesting topics for future research within the field. Given its extensive bibliographies and accessible summaries, Modernism, Sex, and Gender will be required reading for anyone interested in the links between modernism and gender studies.


In the age of information technology development, healthcare professionals around the world have the opportunity to simultaneously access advanced scientific developments, modern achievements, and the results of new clinical trials. The clinical guidelines of the international medical communities are based on the results of meta-analyses of clinical trial data. As new medical challenges emerge, clinical trial data are reviewed and re-analyzed. Unfortunately, to date, the results of not all studies are made public, or are presented selectively, indicating the positive effects of a particular technology (intervention), which makes it difficult to critically evaluate the results of work and makes the task of assessing the true effectiveness of the intervention more difficult. The problem of transparency of research data with the preservation of personal data of participants remains relevant for decades. This article is focused on possible ways of solving this problem and the analysis of the current situation in the world.


This presentation will discuss the nature of MOOCs critically. It will try to systematize the requirements and characteristics attributed to their creators and to those who have developed the best known versions. From evidence, whether there is pedagogic gains or actual innovation will be examined. The context in which MOOCs occur and viable alternatives will be the starting point.


Based on the characateristics and occurrence regularity of No.3 altered metallogenic belt in Sizhuang gold deposit,using pumping dilute method of engineering network degrees,we chose No.3 altered metallogenic ore belt which is located in the middle part of-280,compares and analyses the change relationship among of area-overlapping ratio of different net work degrees,area error,reserves error and the number of projects.Finally,we determine a reasonable exploration degree and the distance of exploration engineering.


1 , l/n ^ 1 < n < An interesting comparison is afforded by using the arithmetic-geometric mean inequality G < A with n terms \fn, \fn, 1, 1, ... which yields n < (n 2 + 2Vn)/nsothat ~n-2 + 2\jn~\ , 2 2 , 2 , <l+—, < 1 + —r-,(n > 1). n J \n n \Jn Clearly this weaker result also holds for n = 1 (with equality on the left) and is the special case of the family of inequalities n < 1 + p/n~. Finally, note that the sharpest possible inequality of the type n < 1 + ql\ln which is true for all positive integers n has q = 6 2/3 6 = 0-8524.... J. A. SCOTT 1 Shiptons Lane, Great Somerford, Chippenham, Wiltshire SN15 5EJ


Let's assume that somehow or other indefinites receive an existential interpretation. In that case, the phrase a movie that Phil said was his favorite indicates existential quantification over movies that Phil said were his favorite. Let's also assume that Phil has only one favorite movie and that that is the one he told us about. In that case, the restrictor of this existential quantifier has a singleton extension. Let's call an indefinite of this kind a 'singleton indefinite'.


Elastic DWDM holds a significant potential to increase network efficiency. But for it to be exploited to its fullest, the physical interface and the control and management planes for optical and client layers must change.


The aim of this study was to analyze the growth of prematurely born infants pertaining to low income groups during the first year of life according to the adequacy of gestational age as well as maternal stature. We studied 257 infants born during 1995‐1996 with a birth weight < 2500g, gestational age ≤ 36 weeks (137 adequate for gestational age, AGA and 120 small for gestational age, SGA), who were evaluated monthly in Public Heath Centers of Nuble, Chile. The AGA infants increased their weight more than the SGA infants at 12 mo. (9.147 vs. 8.672g; p < 0.01). The length of the preterm infants at 12 mo. was 71,3 ± 2,7cm. Significant height differences were found between AGA and SGA preterm infants with 71,7±2,6 vs. 70,8 ± 2,8 (p < 0,009). With respect to maternal stature, the AGA infants born to tall mothers were also taller at 12 mo. than those born to shorter mothers (72,7±2.3 vs. 70,5 ±2.6 cm; p < 0.0001). We didn't find any difference between maternal stature and SGA infants. We can therefore conclude that infants born preterm, with


A porous copper/tungsten oxide (WO3)/polyaniline (PANI) composite modified electrode CuWP was fabricated by electrochemical deposition of copper nanosheets on WO3/PANI composite. The CuWP exhibited higher electrocatalytic activity for nitrate reduction than the similarly prepared copper modified electrode due to the larger surface area of CuWP and the synergistic catalytic effect of copper and WO3/PANI. The linear scan voltammetry results showed a good linear relationship between nitrate reduction current and concentration of nitrate from 40 to 276 μM, with a sensitivity of 4.5 μA/μM and detection limit (S/N=3) of 1.2 μM. The CuWP modified electrode was tried to be employed in determination of nitrate in drinking water.


Publications on lexicographical theme in the periodicals and serials are considered as a particular type of lexicographical informational resources. Their main types are determined and characterized on the base of the analysis of Russian periodicals and serials of linguistic theme for the period of 1996– 2014. The leading Russian periodicals and serials of lexicography theme are identified: reviews, serial thematic collection of articles, proceedings of various congresses, symposia etc. The problem of the reflection of such research materials in the Internet is mentioned in this article. Special attention is paid to the bibliographic lists of the end of the articles, which are one of major information sources for scientists. Consideration of such kinds of publications from the informational point of view, which was undertaken for the first time, allows to expand possibilities of their scientific potential usage for the wide range of specialists.


The Ethernet microcontroller RTL8019AS is presented ,TCP/IP protocol is embedded in MCU to implement data transmission between intelligent equipments and meters with local network/Ethernet by RTL8019AS .The principle diagram of hardware system and the programme code of TCP/IP protocol are given.The key techniqe of TCP/IP communication by MCU is implemented and the experiment results is aiso given.


Ia+ cells of bone marrow origin were studied in the thymus of normal and bone marrow‐reconstituted radiation chimeras of rats and characterized on morphology and acid phosphatase (APh)‐ and la‐staining pattern in‐vivo and in‐ vitro, In‐vivo, the majority of the bone marrow‐derived la+ ceils were present in the medulla. They were large, had cell processes extending between surrounding thymocytes, and frequently weak APh activity. In‐vitro, the la staining was demonstrated on the cell surface in variable intensity, la + cells showed a frayed outline with cell processes between adherent thymocytes and had weak cytoplasmic APh activity, frequently in a central spot. They had an elongated, usually invaginated, nucleus and a rather pale cytoplasm, in which Birbeck granules sometimes were observed. The characteristics of the bone marrow‐ derived la + cells demonstrate these cells are an equivalent of the interdigitating cells present in thymus medulla. They distinguish themselves from a population of la‐, strongly APh+ macrophages predominantly localized in the cortex, and from the la +, APh ‐ thymic reticular epithelial cells.


INTRODUCTION: Mechanical effects on the kidney result in parenchymal disruption, haemorrhage formation, classified by OIS/OI AAST. Scintigraphy with 99Tc-DMSA can determine the presence, prevalence of areas of ischaemia and implications for renal function.OBJECTIVE: By radiopharmaceutical accumulation, to assess the function of the injured kidney and to establish the consistency of the scintigraphic images with the radiological findings of the OIS/OI AAST classification.MATERIAL AND METHODS: Scintigraphy with 99Tc-DMSA was performed in the immediate posttraumatic period in 196 patients who had Grade I–IV organ damage according to the OIS/OI AAST classification. The shape, size, and contours of the kidneys were visually evaluated. Based on the calculation of the uniformity and intensity of the indicator inclusion in the parenchyma the relative (total) kidney function was established. The degree and localisation of kidney damage were revealed on the basis of primary ultrasound and MSCT results.RESULTS: In the acute period of injury, Grade I–II were characterised by diffuse irregular distribution of 99Tc-DMSA (from 75.0 to 100% of cases), but with increasing area and volume of injury, focal scintigraphic symptoms appeared (up to 25.0% of cases).In Grade III–IV, localised or extended focal deformation of the image contour and reduction of the overall kidney function prevailed. Comparative evaluation of CT findings with visual scintigraphy data demonstrated symmetry of visual information with sufficient accessibility, perceptibility, accuracy and correlated with OIS/OI AAST classification.DISCUSSION: Scintigram interpretation involves the interaction of two components: visual perception and subject-specific knowledge of human anatomical structures. This significantly differentiates it from clinicians' conventional conception of the diagnostic process. Semiotics in the images included diffuse and focal changes, the basis of which is a disorder of haemocirculation with impaired uptake of radiopharmaceutical in the kidney parenchyma. For Grade I–II, hypoactive areas indicating the absence of significant damage are typical. Grade III–IV are characterised by localised areas due to reduced volume of functioning parenchyma.CONCLUSION: Scintigraphy in blunt kidney trauma demonstrates haemocirculatory abnormalities in the organ and a decrease in the amount of functioning parenchyma. Comparison of radionuclide images with computer imaging has a high degree of identity. The type of scintigrams allows grading them according to the OIS/OI AAST degree systematisation, which standardises the interpretation of radiological findings to improve the objectivity and quality of the study reports. Assessment of overall renal function makes it possible to predict the rehabilitative outlook of the injured kidney and the need for correction.


The movie 'nomadland' deals with the story of a nomad Fern who has been unable to settle down for economic reasons since the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States. This work depicts the painful reality of many Americans that became nomads after the subprime mortgage crisis, which collapsed due to capitalist desires, and the life adapting to such reality, showing the diaspora sentiment newly expressed in nomad life. This study analyzed the movie 'Nomadland' to examine the nomadic aspects of the characters working as nomads and the meaning of each one of various spaces through the movement, and to examine how the diaspora emotions of the nomadic figures are expressed. In 'Nomadland', various spaces of migration appear, and the space of migration has various meanings and changes to the characters' attitudes in life. The new nomads of the capitalist era, passing through those spaces, showed their identies and the pironeering spirits of the new diaspora as voluntary nomads, from being involuntary nomads, enjoying the true freedom of their own choice


Nitrogen and sulfur oxides (NOx and SOx) emitted from fossil-fuel-fired facilities can be simultaneously absorbed into aqueous mixed solutions of sulfite and FeIIL, a ferrous ion coordinated to a ligand L (a chelate compound). Usually, the ligand L represents an anion of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA or edta). Nitrogen oxide (NO) sparingly soluble in water is promptly bound to the [FeII(edta)(H2O)]2– complex to form the [FeII(edta)(NO]2–compound. However, [FeII(edta)(H2O]2– chelate is oxidized to form [FeIII(edta)(H2O)]− by NO, NO2, and O2, normally coexisting in flue gases. Because the ferric complex does not react with NO, the suppression of these undesired oxidation processes is a very important technological problem to be overcome. Thus, in this work, the reduction kinetics of ferric ion by metal was discussed on the basis of the kinetic data regarding the ferric ion reduction in aqueous solutions of [FeIII(edta)(H2O)]− containing such pulverized metals as aluminum, tin, and zinc. The rate exp...


The ways precipation of ferromagnetic particles of soiling in the magnetic liquid and gas cleaners were explored. It was determined, that the ways of precipation particles of soiling were discerned such as straight lines.


Laser-initiated polymerization of charge transfer monomer complexes has been investigated using an argon ion laser. The influence of solvents, monomer feed ratio, and irradiation time on the copolymer yield and composition was evaluated. The polymer yield was found to be directly proportional to the irradiation time and the molar concentration of maleic anhydride in the monomer feed. An enhanced rate of polymerization was obtained by substituting electron donating groups in the donor monomer. Polymerization, initiation, and propagation mechanisms, via charge transfer complexes, have been discussed. Comparison of laser-induced polymerization with UV-induced polymerization suggests that laser initiation is an energy-efficient process.


Background: In 1989 the Saint Vincent declaration set out to reduce the risk for pregnant women with diabetes to those without diabetes. A number of studies, since the declaration found that foetal and neonatal adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with type 1 diabetes remained increased. Literature for women with type 2 diabetes and maternal complications is limited. My aim is to assess whether women with type 1 and 2 diabetes remain at increased risk of pregnancy complications. / Methods: Using a primary care database; THIN, I investigated the prevalence of: pregestational diabetes in pregnancy and pregnancy complications. Finally, I examined the risk of pregnancy complications for women with diabetes in pregnancy compared to women without diabetes in pregnancy. / Results: The prevalence of type 1 diabetes pregnancy increased from 1.58 to 4.34 per 1,000 pregnancies between 1995 and 2012. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in pregnancy steadily increased from 2.38 to 4.83 per 1,000 pregnancies between 1995 and 2008; then increased more rapidly until the end of the study period to 10.37 per 1,000 pregnancies in 2012. Women with type 1 diabetes remained at increased risk of caesarean section (RR 2.41 (2.13, 2.72)) and major congenital malformations (RR 2.29 (1.53, 4.85)) compared to women without diabetes after adjusting for maternal characteristics. Women with type 2 diabetes remained at increased risk of caesarean section (RR 1.58 (1.42, 1.75) and perinatal death (RR 2.72 (1.53, 4.85)) when compared to women without diabetes after adjusting for maternal characteristics. / Conclusion: Women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes remained at increased risk of experiencing pregnancy complications. There is still substantial work to be done to reduce the adverse outcomes experienced by women with diabetes in pregnancy and meet the recommendations set out in the Saint Vincent declaration nearly thirty years ago.


Noncausal linear prediction for voiced speech and an error-minimization-based algorithm for iteratively determining the predictor coefficients are introduced. The noncausal component is included to model the shape of the glottal excitation more accurately. It is shown that with the inclusion of the noncausal component, the prediction error signal is much closer to an impulse train than the error signal generated using a traditional, purely causal, linear prediction filter. Furthermore, the prediction gain achieved using the noncausal component is significantly higher than that achieved by a causal linear predictor of comparable order. This demonstrates the potential of the algorithm to decrease the bit rate needed for coding the excitation in linear prediction based speech coding algorithms, while improving the quality of the speech.<<ETX>>


Hysterectomy is the most common gynecologic surgery in the United States. In 2003, more than 600,000 hysterectomies were performed; 89% were not associated with malignancies.2 ❚ Ovarian conservation is not the norm Data from the University HealthSystem Consortium Clinical Database indicate that between 2002 and 2008, about 55% of women who had a hysterectomy that was not cancerrelated underwent oophorectomy. Rates of concurrent oophorectomy included: • 68% of women ages 65 and older • 77% of women ages 51 to 64 • 48% of women ages 31 to 50 • 3% of women ages 18 to 30. A recent analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that among women who underwent hysterectomy for any reason between 1994 and 1998, 55% also had their ovaries removed.3


Introduction Upon completion of my secondary education, I, like many school leavers, had difficulty in deciding what career to pursue. Medical Record Administration (MRA), as it was then called, was not something that many people knew about, nor did we grow up saying: 'I want to be a medical record administrator'! There were many career options available at that time, and I wanted something that would offer variety and challenge. I saw MRA as providing these opportunities. In my current role as Director, Clinical Information Services at The Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, I oversee departments which are concerned with the management and delivery of information to support clinical and administrative functions. I am responsible for all information-related services across the hospital, including maintenance of: health information services (HIS) information technology and telecommunications (IT) health science library information and performance reporting clinical costing archives department, which includes the museum and collection of historical artefacts.


This article reflects on the specificity of contemporary children's participation in digital culture. It comprises study results, whose aim was the reconstruction of children's culture created by children during internet communication in the MovieStarPlanet service. The communication in the service has been treated as an example of a new dimension of children's culture and, as such, it is the subject of the present study. The adopted study procedure mainly comprised the netnographic method and revealed many original examples of children's culture. Among the creations published by children in the service, the following were distinguished, among others, multimedia images (ArtBooks, arts), several short audio-visual pieces, animated photos, stylings (looks) as well as text thematic games published on the forum. The analysis of children's e-folklore allowed formulating conclusions on the communal and creative functioning of children in a selected web place, a rich variety of themes and types of undertaken communication initiatives and the existence of specific features of children's language suggesting the existence of the internet aspect of children's culture.


In various injection molding manufacturing plants, there are many difficulties in detecting defective products during production. Since there are limitations in detecting product defects with the human eye, this paper proposes a framework for detecting product defects in a human-free manufacturing environment. We detect product defects using Canny Edge Detection, a powerful edge detector, and provide reliability of products detected using Mask R-CNN, a neural network with excellent speed and accuracy. As the network, the ResNet101 network with the highest accuracy was selected, and the network was used as the backbone network of Mask R-CNN, and the image was resized and sized using LEDs when shooting to detect even small scratches.


The effect of short-chain fructooligosaccharides (scFOS) incorporation on growth, feed utilization, body composition, plasmatic metabolites and selected liver enzyme activities of turbot juveniles reared at winter (15 °C) and summer (20 °C) temperatures was studied. Four comparable diets were formulated to contain circa 50 : 50 fish meal and plant ingredients as protein sources. Experimental diets included increasing levels of scFOS (0, 5, 10 and 20 g kg−1). Final weight was higher at 20 °C, but thermal growth unit, feed efficiency, nitrogen and energy retention were better at 15 °C. scFOS supplementation did not affect fish growth performance. Fish reared at 15 °C had higher liver glycogen, visceral and hepatosomatic indices. Liver lipids, plasma triglycerides, total lipids, cholesterol HDL and LDL were higher in turbot reared at 20 °C. Malic enzyme, fatty acid synthetase, alanine aminotransferase and glutamate dehydrogenase activities were higher in fish reared at 15 °C. Malic enzyme was lower in turbot fed with 20 g kg−1 scFOS compared to control diet; however, fatty acid synthetase presented an increasing trend as dietary scFOS increased up to 10 g kg−1. Glutamate dehydrogenase activity was higher in fish fed the control diet. Results seem to indicate no benefits of scFOS incorporation to diets on growth performance of turbot.


Neonatal acne occurs in the first few weeks after birth. Some lesions are more serious and leave scars. Maternal surface skin lipids (SSL) have a strong correlation with SSL of infants. The establishment of prediction rank model based on maternal SSL is essential to the prevention and treatment of neonatal acne.


Abstract There has been a continued interest in discovering how learners of another language acquire a target language's anaphoric system. While our understanding of the issues has improved, the development of methodologies to assess the interpretation of anaphora in a learner's interlanguage has not. This paper is concerned with introducing a methodology named 'Phased Choice' to assess anaphoric reference, which more effectively tackles the issues facing anaphoric testing. The data was gathered from an experiment that focused on English and Korean learners of Chinese acquiring the Chinese reflexive ziji 'self', results showing that the Korean learners are at an advantage to their English counterparts due to the similar pragmatic strategies Korean and Chinese share. Moreover, the methodology in comparison to the literature shows its strength, dealing effectively with problems past tests faced.


The increasing data rates expected to be of the order of Gb/s for future wireless systems directly impact the throughput requirements of the modulation and coding systems of the physical layer. In an effort to design a suitable channel coding solution for 5G wireless systems, in this brief we present two approaches to improve the throughput of a Quasi-Cyclic Low-Density Parity-Check (QC-LDPC) decoder architecture. While providing an algorithmic method to enhance parallel processing within the decoder in the first approach, in the second approach we apply the decoder architecture to achieve another highly-parallel architecture. We have successfully validated the second approach to get a 2.48Gb/s QC-LDPC decoder implementation operating at 200MHz on the Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA in the NI USRP-2953R. For rapid-prototyping our research findings, the high-level description of the entire decoder was translated to a Hardware Description Language (HDL), namely VHDL, using the algorithmic compiler in the National Instruments LabVIEW™ Communication System Design Suite (CSDS™). As per our knowledge, at the time of writing this paper, this is the fastest FPGA-based implementation of a standard compliant QC-LDPC decoder on a USRP using an algorithmic compiler.


This research aims to analyze the errors and problems faced by the students in practicing English to Indonesian consecutive interpreting. This study is conducted in an interpreting class of six semester English Letters students of IAIN Surakarta. This study was conducted to know the students' types of errors and problems in practicing consecutive interpreting. This is a descriptive-qualitative research. It presents the data with a content analysis method. This research uses documentation, error validation, and interviews to answer the research questions. The data were gained by collecting the students' performance videos in practicing consecutive interpreting and establishing interviews to get additional information. The results showed that among 159 errors, which were occurred during the students' performances, the errors can be classified into 8 types. They are errors in non-conservation of paralinguistic features, omission, distortion, inadequate language proficiency, literal translation, addition, register conservation, protocol, procedure and ethics. The non-conservation paralinguistic features are the most frequent error with 57 occurrences (35.8%) and the least common error found is protocol, procedure and ethics with 2 occurrences (1.3%). Those errors were caused by the students' problems. The results show that there are 8 types of problems faced by the students, including nervosity, English proficiency, lack of practice, interpretation partner, classmates, time pressure, confidence and public speaking skills. Overall, the students need more practice and knowledge, especially in English proficiency and need guidance in solving their problems to improve their interpretation skills.


This paper describes the performed 2-D experimental testing on a microwave imaging system, designed for cerebrovascular diseases monitoring. Two different imaging algorithms have been implemented and compared. A good agreement between the reconstructed images and the real target position and size has been obtained.


The presented thesis is devoted to the study of instabilities of compact objects within the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory. This theory includes higher-order corrections in curvature, which are inspired by the low energy limit of string theory. We study linear instability of higher-dimensional black holes in the de Sitter universe. The time-domain picture allows us to obtain the parametric region of stability for the gravitational perturbations in all three channels, i.e., for scalar-type, vector-type, and tensor-type perturbations. We observed that while the scalar and tensor channels show instability for some choice of the parameters, the vector-type perturbations are always stable. Furthermore, we show that the quasinormal frequencies of the scalar type of gravitational perturbations do not obey Hod's inequality, however, the other two channels, vector and tensor, have lower-lying modes that confirm Hod's conjecture. We also studied stability of the wormholes in the four-dimensional Einstein-dilaton-Gauss-Bonnet gravity proposed by P. Kanti, B. Kleihaus, J. Kunz in arXiv:1108.3003 . These wormholes were claimed to be stable against linear radial perturbations. However, our time-domain analysis allowed us to prove such wormholes are linearly unstable against general radial perturbations for any values of their parameters. We observed that the exponential growth appears after a long period of damped oscillations. This behaviour is qualitatively similar to the instability profile of the higher-dimensional black holes in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory.


This article highlights the role of Jadidism in improving the spirituality of the nation, the aims of Jadidism movement and the main ideas of Jadids. Furthermore, the relationship between Jadidism and enlightenment is explained and the three direction of the movement are clarified


Abstract : The development of mammary gland is governed by multiple genetic pathways although how these pathways are regulated and how they interact with each other is not yet fully understood. Previous studies have implicated the involvement of the canonical Wnt signaling pathway which includes several key components that act together to activate other genes that are directly involved in controlling cell division or differentiation in both normal and abnormal mammary gland development. The timing and overall activity of the pathway is key as its disruption leads to aberrant mammary development and its over stimulation leads to breast cancer. We proposed genetic experiments to examine the role of a novel component of the Wnt pathway in mammary gland development and tumorigenesis. Specifically we proposed to target genetic manipulations to a subset of the mammary epithelial cells that have stem cell characteristics. The mutant mice generated in this study should provide novel animal models to study the ontogeny and progression of mammary tumors. Furthermore results from our studies should provide some insight into the role of epithelial stem cells in normal and diseased development. Finally our studies might implicate possible drug target for treating breast cancer in the future.


The territory of Latvia is located on the western side of the East European platform. The platform is bordered on the north by the southern slope of the Baltic Shield. In the subsurface, the Precambrian basement of crystalline rocks and succeeding Upper Proterozoic and Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks underlie the territory of Latvia The total thickness of sedimentary bedrock is increases from less than 0.5 km in the north-east borderland up to about 2 km in the south-west (Dreimanis and Kārkliņš 1997). The surface of the crystalline basement is covered, in ascending stratigraphic order, by Ediacaran, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic and Jurassic deposits.


Abstract Despite continual increases in numerical model resolution and significant improvements in the forecasting of many meteorological parameters, progress in quantitative precipitation forecasting (QPF) has been slow. This is attributable in part to deficiencies in the bulk microphysical parameterization (BMP) schemes used in mesoscale models to simulate cloud and precipitation processes. These deficiencies have become more apparent as model resolution has increased. To address these problems requires comprehensive data that can be used to isolate errors in QPF due to BMP schemes from those due to other sources. These same data can then be used to evaluate and improve the microphysical processes and hydrometeor fields simulated by BMP schemes. In response to the need for such data, a group of researchers is collaborating on a study titled the Improvement of Microphysical Parameterization through Observational Verification Experiment (IMPROVE). IMPROVE has included two field campaigns carried out in th...


Cyclea peltata Hook. f. & Thomson, belongs to the family Menispermaceae commonly known as "paatha", is a climbing shrub found throughout South and East India. In Indian traditional medicine the tuberous roots are also used to treat jaundice, stomachache, fever and asthma. This study deals with the microscopic study of leafs and roots of C. peltata, along with the physico-chemical, preliminary phytochemical analyses and antioxidant properties. Acute oral toxicity study was conducted as per OECD-423 guidelines and the extract was found to be devoid of any conspicuous acute toxicity in extract treated animals and no mortality upto 2 g/kg by oral route. Hydroalcoholic extract of C. peltata in a dose dependant manner (125 and 250 mg/kg. p.o.) showed significant gastric protection against the ethanol-induced gastric ulcer model in rats.


It is important to consider the effects of the varying directions of extreme winds when making predictions of structural responses to wind loads. Various methods which give differing results, are in use. There is a need for more research and discussion on this topic to narrow down the differences. The present contribution adds to this discussion on wind load and response predictions. There are four prediction methods discussed in this paper: 1) the 'worst case method: this method ignores directionality of wind and uses the all-direction wind speed for all directions, 2) the single sector method: the method uses a directional wind speed, or a directional multiplier for each sector, 3) the multi-sector method: the method combines probabilistically the contributions of each sectors to arrive at predictions, 4) the outcrossing method: the method uses single or double Weibull distribution for modelling of the parent wind process, the up-crossing rate of a boundary leads to prediction of extremes. These methods are used to predict the loads and response of a 180m high rise benchmark Building used for an international high-frequency base balance comparison (Holmes and Tse, 2014), which has been notionally placed in the Melbourne, Australia climate. The first ('worst case') method is used as a reference for the other methods.


A natural gas pipeline leakage monitoring and positioning device based on internal audition belongs to the technical field of natural gas pipeline leakage monitoring, can detect leakage and accurately determine position of leakage points, and is long in detection distance and simple in structure. The natural gas pipeline leakage monitoring and positioning device comprises an acoustic wave sensor, a preamplifier, an A/D converter, a microprocessor, a USB transmission interface, a host computer and a power supply, wherein the acoustic wave sensor is connected with an input end of the preamplifier, an output end of the preamplifier is connected with an input end of the A/D converter via an electrical lever raising circuit, an output end of the A/D converter is connected with an input end of the microprocessor, an output end of the microprocessor is connected with an input end of the USB transmission interface, an output end of the USB transmission interface is connected with the host computer, and the power supply which is respectively connected with the preamplifier, the A/D converter, the microprocessor and the USB transmission interface is used for providing work voltage for the preamplifier, the A/D converter, the microprocessor and the USB transmission interface.


Vernik and Nur have reported anisotropy parameters for the Bakken formation determined from ultrasonic measurements. Their paper showed that the Bakken shale is strongly anisotropic, exhibiting transverse isotropy with a vertical symmetry axis. A significant part of their conclusions were devoted to the apparently small values of Thomsen9s (1986) ð parameter for this rock, which is defined in terms of stiffness coefficients as
 δ = ( C 13 + C 44 ) 2 − ( C 33 + C 44 ) 2 2 C 33 ( C 33 + C 44 ) For seismic exploration, ð is perhaps the most important of Thomsen9s three anisotropy parameters, since it influences both the P -wave moveout velocity and the AVO slope near zero offset (Thomsen, 1986; Banik, 1987). However, as pointed out by Banik (1987), the numerical value of ð is highly sensitive to small errors in the elastic stiffnesses. Moreover, the magnitude of C 13 , one of the required stiffness coefficients in (1), depends on the choice of phase or group velocity to interpret the measurements, as explained below.


The contribution of 'consumerism' to environmental degradation has been widely acknowledged. An anti-consumerist perspective appeals because it draws attention to the ideological underpinnings of people's attitudes and day-to-day behaviour, but the tone of the debate often leads to
 polarisation rather than a productive engagement in dialogue. To persuade people to re-examine their values and beliefs requires a more nuanced approach, where the various bêtes noires identified by anti-consumerist rhetoric are subject to greater scrutiny. In this article I critically
 examine some of the key concepts of the anti-consumerist position and suggest a better starting point for discussion in a school context would be one which emphasised the significance of pleasure-seeking in the social life of students, and the part played in this by 'consumption'. Some implications
 for schools are discussed, in particular the space allowed for 'free' association of students as an important aspect of the flourishing life in school in the here and now. I note the dangers of adopting a disapproving approach to informal and popular culture, and the possible link between
 this and resistance to the environmental message by disadvantaged groups.


A model capable of predicting the process-induced macroscopic in-plane material response of semicrystalline thermoplastic matrices and their composites was developed. Thi sinvestigation focused on the material response of a single layer or ply of neat PEEK matrix and its carbon fiber composite (APC-2) when subjected to various processing histories. Specifically, the response of the material moduli and processing strains as a function of temperature and the degree of crystallinity were studied. The kinetic-viscoelastic response of the matrix was determined from a modified form of the Standard Linear Solid model. A constitutive relation was proposed to quantify resign shrinkage as a function of thermal history, which incorporated crystallization. For a specific process history, the effective composite mechanical properties were determined from micromechanics models. Both neat and composite processing strains were evaluated to show the effect of fibers on the matrix dominated response (90° direction). In addition, comparisons of model moduli predictions with experimental measurements were performed. This study demonstrated that an increase in the degree of crystallinity results in an asymmetric shift of the modulus in the glass transition region to higher temperatures. Also, strains due to crystallization were predicted to be much smaller in comparison to the strains resulting from thermal contraction of the PEEK matrix.


Epigenetic factors play an important role in psoriasis onset and development. Biological drugs are used to treat moderate‐to‐severe psoriasis patients resistant to conventional systemic drugs. Although they are safe and effective, some patients do not respond to them. Therefore, it is necessary to find biomarkers that could predict response to these therapies.


The invention provides a grinding robot platform which comprises a robot arm and at least one tool clamp separately arranged around the robot arm, wherein both the robot arm and the tool clamp are mounted on a grinding platform; the robot arm is provided with a base fixedly arranged on the grinding platform, a supporting seat is mounted on the base, and a rotating arm is movably mounted on the supporting seat. A grinding part is placed in the range of the robot arm, so that the structure is scientific and reasonable. Both the arm and the tool clamp are mounted on the grinding platform, and the positions of the arm and the tool clamp are fixed, so that the movement stability of the robot arm is ensured.


Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is characterised by impaired mucociliary clearance (MCC), chronic inflammation and infection, and progressively deteriorating lung function. Inhaled mannitol (Bronchitol) has been shown to increase MCC and cough clearance and FEV1 in CF patients, contributing to better lung hygiene and consequently a slower decline in lung function. This study was designed to determine the dose relationship of mannitol treatment and improvement in FEV1 and FVC as well as safety. Methods: This was a randomised, open-label, crossover, dose response study. Following a 2-week treatment with mannitol 400 mg b.i.d., 48 CF patients with a mean (SD) FEV1 % predicted of 64 (13.2), received a further 3 treatments with 40 mg, 120 mg or 240 mg b.i.d. for 2 weeks each, in random order. Results: The study demonstrated a dose dependent increase in FEV1 and FVC. The 400 mg dose showed the greatest improvement and the 40 mg dose had no discernible effect. The mean percent change in FEV1 was −1.57%, 3.61%, 3.87% and 8.75% respectively for the 40 mg, 120 mg, 240 mg and 400 mg treatments. There was a statistically significant change in FEV1 for 400 mg compared to 40 mg (pb0.0001) but the difference with 120 mg and 240 mg did not reach significance. The mean% change in FVCwas −0.90, 1.74, 3.07 and 8.14, for the 40 mg, 120 mg, 240 mg and 400 mg treatment arms, with p=0.0001, p=0.0037 and p=0.0304 respectively when compared to 400 mg. The highest tested dose of 400 mg had a similar safety profile to the other doses tested. The change in FEV1 and FVC by dose in the paediatric age group (b18 years) was similar to the results in the adult population. Conclusion: Based on these results the 400 mg b.i.d. dose has been further studied in phase III trials. © 2010 European Cystic Fibrosis Society. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


Soft power is the core element of the macroscopic stragegies of current China,and its construction requires the active participation of all humanities.College is both a constituent and a main field of soft power.However,the present situation of foreign language teaching deviates from this goal.Therefore it should be adjusted to the cultivation of a comprehensive trinity of Chinese culture,creative power and oral communication ability by means of aesthetic and art training under the ultimate goal of quality education.


5G New Radio's (NR) spectrum expansion towards higher bands, although critical towards achieving the envisioned 5G capacity requirements, creates the need for installing a very large number of Access Points (APs), which asserts tremendous capital burden on the Mobile Network Operators. Current centralization solutions such as the Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) alleviate partially the costs of densification by moving the majority of radio processing functionalities from the Remote Radio Heads (RRHs) to the central Base Band Unit (BBU), but still require very high-speed Point-to-Point links between the BBU and each RRH mainly due to the digitized Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) that is excessively inefficient for hauling broadband signals. In this article, we present a novel architecture that employs an analog converged Fiber-Wireless scheme in order to create a very spectrally efficient Point-to-Multipoint network capable of interconnecting a large number of APs, while allowing compatibility with mature Ethernet-based low-cost equipment. Preliminary simulation results show very low end-to-end Ethernet packet delay, well below eCPRI's 100 μs mark, even for fiber lengths up to 10 km, indicating the suitability of our solution for employment in 5G NR large-scale fronthaul networks.


This paper proposes an approach to classify the organizational structure of a group of moving target agents that are continuously monitored by a smaller group of moving observer agents. The approach considers that the group of target agents can organize themselves according to eight different paradigms. The agents communicate through the exchange of messages whose contents are speech-act performative. We evaluate the approach considering seven techniques to solve the problem of classifying the group of target agents' organizational structure. The results show that the approach is promising, as it obtained a good performance, measured during experiments using agent-based simulations.


A 66-year-old Korean woman presented with a gradually enlarging erythematous plaque, with irregular borders and surface crusting, on her left temple (Figure 1A). Ten years earlier, she had undergone liver transplantation because of hepatitis B virus–induced liver cirrhosis and had been treated with FK506. A skin biopsy showed acanthosis and full-thickness atypia of the epidermis with hyperkeratosis and parakeratosis (Figure 1B). Almost all tumor cells were immunohistochemically positive for p53. She was diagnosed with Bowen's disease and underwent three sessions of FL treatments at 4-week intervals. Laser treatments were performed under topical anesthesia (lidocaine 2.5% and prilocaine 2.5%, Emla cream, AstraZeneca, Wilmington, DE) using the 1,927-nm FL set at a fluence of 15 mJ per


Farmer Displaced European Hunters Our understanding of prehistoric demography and human evolution has been improved by analysis of ancient DNA. Skoglund et al. (p. 466) describe the retrieval and analysis of genomic DNA from ancient (~5000-year-old) northern European Neolithic individuals within modern Sweden. These include three hunter-gatherers from the Pitted Ware Culture horizon and one farmer ascribed to the Mid-Neolithic North-Central TRB culture. The hunter-gatherers displayed a distinct genetic signature, similar to that of extant northern Europeans, whereas the farmer's genetic signature more closely resembled southern Europeans, suggesting migration and admixture during the spread of farming. Genomic analysis of ancient Scandinavians reveals that agricultural expansion was driven by long-range population movement. The farming way of life originated in the Near East some 11,000 years ago and had reached most of the European continent 5000 years later. However, the impact of the agricultural revolution on demography and patterns of genomic variation in Europe remains unknown. We obtained 249 million base pairs of genomic DNA from ~5000-year-old remains of three hunter-gatherers and one farmer excavated in Scandinavia and find that the farmer is genetically most similar to extant southern Europeans, contrasting sharply to the hunter-gatherers, whose distinct genetic signature is most similar to that of extant northern Europeans. Our results suggest that migration from southern Europe catalyzed the spread of agriculture and that admixture in the wake of this expansion eventually shaped the genomic landscape of modern-day Europe.


september 25 :: vol 28 no 4 :: 2013 71 Many people who have experienced health care are supporting nurse education programmes by informing students about their experiences and how their needs can be best met by healthcare professionals. Increasingly, face-to-face classroom sessions are being led by users of healthcare services. Other involvement may be less obvious, with patients contributing to curriculum planning, student assessment committees, and theoretical and practice placement assessments.


A method for the synthesis of ibuprofen in introductory organic chemistry laboratory courses is reported. This experiment requires two 3-h lab sessions. All of the reactions and techniques are a standard part of any introductory organic chemistry course. In the first lab session, students reduce p-isobutylacetophenone to an alcohol and then convert this alcohol to the corresponding chloride. In the second session, students convert this chloride to a Grignard reagent, which is then carboxylated and protonated to give ibuprofen. Although the final yield is modest, this procedure offers both practicability and reliability. Permanent-magnet 60 MHz 1H NMR spectra of the final product and the two intermediates are clean and are easily interpreted by the students. Because, as previously reported, the benzylic methylene and the benzylic methine of ibuprofen have virtually identical 13C NMR chemical shifts and cancel or nearly cancel each other in the DEPT spectrum, this synthesis provides a fitting opportunity fo...


Calcium-magnesium-free perfusions induced a large release of lactate dehydrogenase from isolated rat heart after returning to normal perfusion. This release generally appeared without irreversible damage and was quantitatively dependent on the duration and the temperature of the abnormal perfusion. Mechanical activity and the lack thereof are important factors in determining enzyme release. It is suggested that lactate dehydrogenase release does not result from a paradoxical effect of calcium but is dependent on the recovery of contraction in a damaged tissue.


The optimisation algorithm based on irreversible data for the job scheduling of dynamic cluster is crucial to the improvement of the cluster rendering throughput and the cluster rendering efficiency. However, the dispatching imbalance of the cluster rendering task on the massive number of cluster rendering nodes will prolong the waiting time for the completion of job. Therefore, we propose dynamic cluster job scheduling optimisation algorithm based on data irreversibility (DCJS_DI). Firstly, we analyse the job scheduling target. Then, we exploit the frame independence with the clustering rendering and further establish the job scheduling model for the irreversible data dynamic cluster. Next, we elaborate on the job scheduling process of the irreversible data dynamic cluster and the dispatching process of the cluster rendering task. Finally, we investigate via simulation results the impacts of the job hunger and the resource fragmentation issue of the traditional job scheduling strategies on the system performance, the impacts of the multi-progress and multi-threading cluster rendering on the job completion time and the resource efficiency of the irreversible data dynamic cluster. We further study the extension of the cluster computation capability and the reliability issue of the cloud service.