Caption graphically superimposed in video frames can provide important indexing information. The automatic detection and recognition of video captions can be of great help in querying topics of interest in digital news library. To detect the caption from video sequence, we present algorithms based on fuzzy clustering neural networks. Since neural networks have the capabilities of learning and self-organizing and parallel computing mechanism, with the great increasing of digital images and video databases, neural networks based techniques become more efficient and popular tools for multimedia processing. Experimental results show that our caption detection scheme is effective and robust.


The utility model relates to a weighing device, specifically to a weighing device for a single crystal furnace, comprising a scale and a support, wherein the support is fixed in a sealed chamber; the scale is fixed on the support; the scale is provided with a weighing sensor which is connected with a data transmission device arranged on the sealed chamber; a single crystal lifting device is arranged below the scale. After the structure is used, the weighing sensor transmits the measured weight data to a control system by the data transmission device such that the control system can precisely control the tail-in work on the silicon single crystal rod after the weight of the rest silicon is calculated by the control system.


The positivity of the partial sums of the series of Legendre polynomials is a classical result of Fejér. The paper presents corresponding results for both even and odd Legendre polynomials with best possible leading constants. These results have applications to demonstrating positivity of Cotes numbers at Jacobi abscissas.


This paper proposes the automatic meshing method for the elliptic hatchway corners.Such meshing system is developed based on PCL which is the secondary development language of MSC.Patran software.The hot spot stresses on elliptical hatchway corners with different sizes are analyzed and compared with stresses on circular ones with corresponding sizes.The results show that the hot spot stresses on elliptical hatchway corners are much smaller than stresses on circular ones.


People all over the world were under severe stress and were concerned about their health after a devastating pandemic struck the world in the form of a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in late December 2019. Many nations imposed strict lockdowns and quarantines, causing citizens to maintain social isolation, throwing many companies to a halt. Thousands of people took to Twitter during these challenging circumstances to express their feelings about being caught in the middle of a storm. Twitter witnessed an outpouring of emotions ranging from fear, anger, and sadness associated with the spread of a novel virus that has no known cure, to voices of support and trust for nations' official response to the pandemic. In studying the emotional response (anger, fear, and sadness) on Twitter about the COVID-19 crisis, we thus see a tale of two crises unfold—choosing health or economy. We capture collective emotions on social media and investigate the patterns and impact of these negative emotions during various stages of the disease outbreak. It also provides crucial insights to health officials and government agencies on communicating crisis information to the public via social media.


To the drug supervision and control bureaus, departments and bureaus of health, and bureaus for Chinese traditional medicine administration of all provinces, autonomous regions, and directly administered municipalities: The State Bureau of Food and Drug Supervision and Control, the Development and Reform Commission, and three other departments have issued the Urgent Circular on Strengthening the Work of Supervision and Controlling Atypical Pneumonia Prevention and Treatment Medicines (guo shi yao jian ban [2003] no. 20) and the State Food and Drug Supervision and Control has issued the Urgent Circular on Strengthening Supervision and Control over Drugs and Medical Instruments Used for Atypical Pneumonia Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment (guo


Encapsulated (Pencap M(R)) and standard BC formulations of methyl parathion gave excellent, and equal control of alfalfa weevil, Hypera postica (Gyllenhal), larvae when applied as foliage sprays. There were no differences in levels of insecticide deposits or in dissipation rates of methyl parathion from alfalfa treated with these two formulations.


Sequence is mining forms that show how the pit will be mined from the first stage to the final stages of mine design (pit limit). The purpose of this study is to design sequences mining to monthly production target at Bara 14 Seam C. Plan production targets at this location is 40,000 tons of coal per month and a maximum stripping ratio is 15:1. Analysis data and research design sequence using software Minescape 4.118. The coal reserves which designed based on pit limit is 162,370 tons and 2,425,450 bcm of overburden material. The first sequence has an area of 4.97 ha mine openings with the amount of 40,000 tons of coal and overburden 599,990 bcm. Stripping ratio in this sequence is 15:1. The second sequence has a wide opening 8.44 ha mines the number of 40,000 tons of coal and overburden 599,900 bcm. Stripping ratio in this sequence is 15:1. The third sequence has an area of 11.67 ha mine openings with the amount of 40,000 tons of coal and overburden 599,520 bcm. Stripping ratio in this sequence is 15:1. The fourth sequence has extensive mine openings 11.67 ha with the amount of 40,000 tons of coal and overburden 599,330 bcm. Stripping ratio in this sequence is 15:1. The fifth sequence has extensive mine openings 11.67 ha with the amount of 2,370 tons of coal and overburden 26,710 bcm. Stripping ratio in this sequence is 11:1. Keywords : design, pit limit, sequence, stripping ratio, production target


Operating system (OS) is the cornerstone for modern computer systems. It manages devices and provides fundamental service for user-level applications. Thus, detecting bugs in OSes is important to improve reliability and security of computer systems. Static typestate analysis is a common technique for detecting different types of bugs, but it is often inaccurate or unscalable for large-size OS code, due to imprecision of identifying alias relationships as well as high costs of typestate tracking and path-feasibility validation. In this paper, we present PATA, a novel path-sensitive and aliasaware typestate analysis framework to detect OS bugs. To improve the precision of identifying alias relationships in OS code, PATA performs a path-based alias analysis based on control-flow paths and access paths. With these alias relationships, PATA reduces the costs of typestate tracking and path-feasibility validation, to boost the efficiency of path-sensitive typestate analysis for bug detection. We have evaluated PATA on the Linux kernel and three popular IoT OSes (Zephyr, RIOT and TencentOS-tiny) to detect three common types of bugs (null-pointer dereferences, uninitialized variable accesses and memory leaks). PATA finds 574 real bugs with a false positive rate of 28%. 206 of these bugs have been confirmed by the developers of the four OSes.We also compare PATA to seven state-of-the-art static approaches (Cppcheck, Coccinelle, Smatch,CSA, Infer, Saber and SVF). PATA finds many real bugs missed by them, with a lower false positive rate.


The automated fiber placement has been commonly used to fabricate composite structures with high performance. However, the automated manufacturing process is limited by the developed defects in the final composite components. The current study focuses on the effect of the compaction roller's configurations and stiffness on the manufactured thermoset com-posites. The robotic fiber placement process is applied to fabricate different composite specimens. Several unidirectional and multi-axes specimens have been manufactured using 4 different rollers. The attitude of the compaction roller is also adjusted to be normal and to ensure uniform distribution of the compaction pressure. The surface quality of the manufactured components has been evaluated through image processing and detecting the layup defects. The scanning electron microscopy is used to estimate the change in the material porosity. The samples manufactured using a compliant and perforated roller included defects such as blisters, wrinkles, overlaps, and distortions. Additionally, the material porosity has been significantly improved when using the solid steel roller.


This paper analyzed the particularity of the teaching object in experimental art design education.Based on the experience from abroad and long time teaching practice,this article tried to propose new thoughts and ideas in experimental art design education,which should be realized by an effective curriculum system.Accordingly,the article also explored methodologies in art design education practice to promote a healthy and innovative development in this area.


This paper presents the comparison between the impedance-based and eigenvalue-based stability analysis methods for a VSC-based HVDC system. In order to apply the impedance-based method, an impedance model for the VSCs is analytically derived and the derived model is validated by comparing the frequency responses of the analytical impedance and the impedance measured in a detailed switching model of the VSC-HVDC system. To determine the stability from the eigenvalue based method, an analytical state-space small-signal model is developed and the model is validated by time domain simulations. It is shown that both stability analysis methods can effectively determine the stability of the system. In the case of the impedance-based method, a low phase-margin in the Nyquist plot of impedance ratio indicates that the system can have harmonic oscillation; however the system still operates stably. A weakness of the impedance method is that the stability determined by this method is not a global stability assessment; and it is therefore necessary to investigate the stability at all possible sub/systems. On the other hand, the eigenvalue based method can determine the stability of the entire system; but it cannot predict harmonic oscillations caused by a PWM inverter operating in a stable point. A two terminal VSC-HVDC system has been developed analytically and the frequency domain stability analysis based on impedance and eigenvalues has been carried out. The theoretical analysis has been further validated by simulation and experiments.


OBJECTIVE MicroRNA-218(miR-218)is a potential tumor suppressor and low expression in a variety of tumors,this study is to investigate the effect of overexpression of miR-218 on the proliferation and migration of cervical cancer cells.METHODS The miR-218 lentiviral vector was constructed and infected into cervical cancer SiHa,HeLa and C-33 acells.The cell lines with miR-218 expression were screened.The expressions of miR-218,miR-9,miR-21 and miR-31 were detected in the three kinds of cells after infecting by fluorescence quantitative PCR(qRT-PCR).The cell proliferation was detected by clone formation assay and MTT assay.The cell migration ability was detected by scratch test and Transwell cell migration assay.The expressions of predicted target genes LAMB3 and Robo1mRNA were detected by qRT-PCR.RESULTS The miR-218 lentiviral expression vector was successfully constructed.Compared with the control group,the expression of miR-218 was increased significantly in the three kinds of cervical carcinoma cells SiHa,HeLa and C-33 Awhich were infected by the miR-218 lentiviral vector.There was no significant change in the expressions of miR-9,miR-21 and miR-31.Compared with the control group,the clone formation rates of SiHa(t=10.73,P=0.008 6)and C-33A(t=4.992,P=0.037 9)cells were decreased in miR-218 overexpression group.MTT results showed that,compared with the control group,the anti-proliferative effect of miR-218 on SiHa was the most significant on the third day(t=50.46,P=0.000 4),the anti-proliferative effect of miR-218 on C-33 A was the most significant on the fourth day(t=16.13,P=0.003 8),but miR-218 had no effect on clone formation ability and proliferation ability of HeLa.The migration experiment showed that miR-218 could inhibit the scratch healing rates of SiHa(t=12.90,P=0.006 0),HeLa(t=10.70,P=0.008 6)and C-33A(t=5.099,P=0.036 4)and reduce the transmembrane cells of SiHa(t=13.75,P=0.005 2),HeLa(t=8.643,P=0.013 1)and C-33A(t=15.10,P=0.004 4).In addition,the overexpression of miR-218 could significantly inhibit the expressions of LAMB3 and Robo1 mRNA in cervical cancer cells.CONCLUSION miR-218 can inhibit the proliferation and migration of cervical cancer cells,which may be involved in the development of cervical cancer.


The internal mobility of the population of the province of Lecco (Lombardy, Italy) was evaluated on the basis of the frequency of characteristic surnames in three territorial areas as a function of their geographical distance. Nearly three fourths of the patterns are statistically significant in one of the three areas, where the process of diffusion of surnames could be interpreted as due to socioeconomic factors. On the contrary, a similar distribution is less evident in the other two areas of the same territory. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 11:305–315, 1999. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.


This research is about design of slit type FLD which secure the buckling stability of compressive brace. 4 slit type and 8 slit type specimens were experimented by pure compressive loading. Comparing the experiment results with FEA results, the good correspondence is appeared each other. Also for deriving strength-displacement formular, an unit section of slit type FLD is transferred to idealized sandwich section. This formular explains satisfactorily experiment results, in given condition. The result of this research will be used as basic data in FLD design.


The establishment of broad-based networks, such as the Triple Helix, for innovation and sustainability is sufficiently corroborated. In this work we suggest that the information received from the Triple Helix has a significant and different impact on the objectives of sustainable innovation, depending on whether companies cooperate or not. To this end, an empirical analysis of a stratified sample of more than 5000 Spanish medium and high technology companies in 2010-2014-2015 was carried out. The results confirm that companies that do not cooperate place more importance on the information received from the Triple Helix to establish their sustainable innovation targets.


Abstract In this study, the pool boiling performance of oxide nanofluid was investigated, the heating surface is a 5 × 30 mm stainless steel heating surface. Three kinds of nanofluids were selected to explore their critical heat flux (CHF) and heat transfer coefficient (HTC), which were TiO2, SiO2, Al2O3. We observed that these nanofluids enhanced CHF compared to R·O water, and Al2O3 case has the most significant enhancement (up to 66.7%), furthermore, the HTC was also enhanced. The number of bubbles in nanofluid case was relatively less than that in R·O water case, but the bubbles were much larger. The heating surface was characterized and it was found that there were nano-particles deposited, and surface roughness decreased. The wettability also decreased with the increase in CHF.


*Department of Agricultural Ecology and Natural Resources Management, Sec. Soil and Water Protection, Giessen University, HeinrichBuff-Ring, D-35392 Giessen. *Corresponding author: firstname.lastname@example.com ABSTRACT In the Lahn-DillBergland in the hilly midlands of Hesse, Germany, agriculture is retreating from landscape due to employment alternatives in various branches of industry and marginal conditions for agricultural production. Thus, the amount of fallow land is increasing. To stop this development a collaborative research project (SFB 299) with 19 departments involved was established at Giessen University in 1997 to develop new concepts of land use and assess their economic and ecological impact. The economic model ProLand (Möller et al., 1999A) is optimizing land use by maximizing agricultural income. It proposes spatially distributed land use options which are evaluated in terms of ecology with ELLA (Weber et al., 1999a) and with regard to hydrological changes with the SWAT model (Arnold et al., 1993, 1998). All three models are GIS-based and exchange data via GIS. The continuous-time, grid cell watershed model SWAT (Arnold et al., 1993; 1998) was tested and adapted to typical conditions in the project region. The Dietzhölze (81.8 km2) and the Aar watershed (59.8 km2) were used to calibrate and validate the model. All relational databases which are implemented into SWAT (Arnold et al., 1993; 1998) e.g. for weather, soil, tillage, and crops were substituted by regional data sets. Two different land use scenarios were proposed by ProLand (Möller et al., 1999A) for the Aar watershed and the SWAT model was applied to evaluate the effect of these land use changes on the water balance. An output interface was developed to produce spatially distributed maps of water balance components.


This paper was presented at the13th Biennial Conference of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers "Mathematical turning points: Strategies for the 1990s" held in Hobart, Australia from 5 - 10 Jul 1990


Adaptive equalization based on self-adaptive filter has been widely used in the field of telecommunication and radar.An algorithm of broadband multichannel calibration based on adaptive equalization is studied.The digital filter is synthesized by means of self-adaptive filtering principle,solving amplitude variation and phase shifting mismatching among receiver channels effectively.The approach is applied to the broadband multichannel calibration in EW.The results in this paper show that the algorithm is effective.The realization of digital filter based on FPGA or DSP is a mature technology.So the broadband multichannel calibration can be realized in engineering by designing a specific digital filter.


A yellow mutant of Aspergillus which can produce thermostable acid protease was obtained.Authors adjusted the fermentation conditions and come to a conclusion. The optimum medium is(g/L): bran 21 6, bean cake powder 48 4, NH 4Cl 2, KH 2PO 4 0 8, pH4~5 The enzyme activity can reach 6700 u/ml after 72 h when it is cultured at 30℃.


The use of permanent magnet synchronous machines to achieve high performance and high efficiency in the modern motor and generator industries has increased rapidly in recent years. The existing efficiency determining methods and standards do not however consider measurement uncertainties during loss and efficiency calculations of such machines. In this paper, the determination of the efficiency of permanent magnet synchronous machines using direct and indirect methods is presented and the measurement uncertainty is determined using the software called GUM Workbench "Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement" while assessing the results of efficiency measurements.


Clostridioides (formally Clostridium) difficile is a medically relevant pathogen pertinent to infectious disease research. C. difficile is distinctly known for its ability to produce two toxins, enterotoxin A and cytotoxin B, and the propensity to colonize the mammalian gastrointestinal tract. It is known that metabolism is tightly correlated with sporulation in endospore producers such as C. difficile, but an interesting and novel regulatory relationship found by the Ivey lab has yet to be understood. The relationship explored in this study is observed between the sporulation factor, SpoIIE, which represses expression of an ABC peptide transporter, app. In this study, two primary approaches were taken in order to investigate this interaction. The first method involved directly mutating the gene for SpoIIE in attempt to understand which portion of the gene is crucial for retaining protein functionality, in this case, the repression of app. The two genes of interest were readily available on their own individual plasmids, which easily allowed for mutagenesis experimentation before transformation into E. coli. The plasmid with app was constructed to include a fluorescent probe, allowing the relative level of repression to parallel the qualitative measurement of fluorescence. On the SpoIIE containing plasmid, missense point mutations, done using PCR site-directed mutagenesis, and a large deletion of the SpoIIE protein transmembrane anchor, done by endonuclease restriction digest, were performed in pursuit of this investigative method. The secondary approach was to computationally model the SpoIIE protein structures resultant of the genetic mutations done in vitro. Side-by-side images of the predicted mutant models produced from the experimentally preferred algorithm were compared to the wildtype SpoIIE model. The visual analysis of the structures and the comparison of various algorithms is anticipated to be insightful for not only this project, but future exploration into SpoIIE as a multifunctional protein within C. difficile.


Canada is increasingly committed to the promotion of democratic civil society in the developing world. A number of other countries are similarly committed, but in support of it are using not only traditional instruments but also political foundations with extensive networks on the ground. The paper argues that these foundations provide significant advantages and that we should consider borrowing elements from them to construct a new "Canada Foundation." However, rather than create an organization that could compete with or divert resources from Canadian organizations already active in this field, it is proposed that the new foundation be established as a partnership among existing Canadian players in order to leverage their impact on and Canada's visibility within civil society abroad.


Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is an established treatment option for high and intermediate risk patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS). Whereas the majority of patients develop a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) improvement after TAVR in response to TAVR-associated afterload reduction, around 50% of patients with reduced LVEF fail to develop LVEF improvement after TAVR. MicroRNAs (miRs) are novel biomarkers and effectors of myocardial (dys)function. We aimed to explore whether circulating miRs are differently regulated in response to TAVR in patients with or without postprocedural LV-function improvement.

 96 patients who underwent TAVR were screened for inclusion into the study. Patients with impaired LVEF (<45%) were divided into three groups according to post-procedural LVEF development assessed 6 months after TAVR by transthoracic echocardiography: No LVEF improvement, LVEF-improvement of 0–15% and >15%. Plasma samples were obtained at 3 different time points: On the day before TAVR-procedure and at days 1 and 7 post-TAVR. Taqman miR array was performed in patients without LVEF improvement group and >15% LVEF improvement. The results showed that miR-122, miR-26a, miR-192, miR-483-5p, miR-720, miR-885-5p and miR-1274 were differently expressed when compared between day 1 and day 7. Based on literature, we also quantified four miRs related to LV function and fibrosis in our collective (miR-21, miR-145, miR-199, miR-30b). We validated these 14 circulating miRs levels and found that miR-122 level significantly increased at day 7 after TAVR in the no LVEF-improvement group. The increase of miR-122 negatively correlated with LVEF improvement at both day 7 (r=−0.237 and p=0.031) and 3 months (r=−0.323 and p=0.02) after TAVR. Within the 2-year follow-up, patients with lower level of miR-122 displayed a significantly reduced cardiovascular mortality (p=0.049). Next, vesicle degradation experiment and ultracentrifugation showed that miR-122 were mainly incorporated in microvesicles (MVs). In vitro, H202 increased miR-122 level in endothelial cells and endothelial-derived MV. Gain and Loss function experiments indicated elevated miR-122 level impaired migration and proliferation on HUVECs. Cardiomyocytes incubated with MVsmiR122-upregulated showed higher miR-122 expression than exosome miR122-upregulated or vesicle-free supernatant. Confocal microscopy confirmed the fluroscence-labeled EVs were absorbed by cardiomyocyte. Absorbed MVsmiR122-upregulated induced apoptosis of recipient cardiomyocytes.

 Changes of circulating pro-apoptotic miR-122 levels significantly correlate with LVEF improvement after TAVR in low LVEF patients and might be suitable to predict the long term prognosis after TAVR in this set of patients. Microvesicles can mediate the transfer of miR-122 from endothelial cells to cardiomyocytes and further influence cardiomyocyte function.


Implantation in deposited a‐Si lowers the threshold temperature of the explosive phenomena. We observe interaction between solid‐ and liquid‐phase explosive crystallization. In the solid‐phase explosive crystallization mode, an implanted layer crystallizes independently of the underlying a‐Si.


The effect of Al on the resistance against oxidation of Ti1-xAlxN films prepared by the rf-sputtering method was investigated.ESCA spectra of the samples exposed in air for one day at room temperature showed that Ti2p3/2 peak shifted to the higher binding energy side by adding AlN and oxidation of the surface of the Al-bearning films was reduced in comparison with TiN.The Oxidation of Ti1-xAlxN at high temperatures in O2 gas flow was examined by thermo-gravimetry. TiN was converted to TiO2 above 600°C in O2 gas flow, while the NaCl-type Ti0.65Al0.35N, Ti0.3Al0.7N (a new crystal phase) and the Wurtzite-type Ti0.15Al0.85N were stable below 800°C but oxidized at 900°C in O2 gas flow. Each oxidized sample was a mixture of TiO2, Al2TiO5, Al2O3 and AlN.In N2 atmosphere, the NaCl-type Ti0.65Al0.35N was stable below 800°C, but decomposed to two nitrides, TiN and AlN, at 1000°C. This phase separation is surely related to the oxidation of Ti0.65Al0.35N described above.


The kidney has a remarkable ability to modulate sodium and water excretion to maintain homeostasis despite a widely varying dietary intake. However, as glomerular filtration rate falls to less than 30 mL/min, this ability can be compromised leading to an increased risk for disorders of serum sodium and extracellular volume. In all cases, these disorders are associated with an increased rate of morbidity and mortality. Management strategies to both prevent and treat these conditions are available but requiring special attention to the unique circumstance of advanced CKD to maximize therapeutic response and prevent complications.


Frechtling, Joy A.; Myerberg, N. James Reporting Test Scores to Different Audiences. ERIC Clearinghouse on Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation, Princeton, N.J. National Inst. of Education (ED), Washington, DC. ERIC-TM-85 Dec 83 400-83-0015 77p.; Some tables contain small print. ERIC Clearinghouse on Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ 08541 ($7.00). Guides Non-Classroom Use (055) -Information Analyses ERIC Information Analysis Products (07,)


In this paper, using the theory of singular values decomposition of matrix and generalized inverse matrix, the state feedback and pole assignment of singular linear systems of singular matrix is squareness are discussed. Using the standard form of singular values matrix ,a method pole assignment of singular linear systems of singular matrix is squareness are obtained.


Objective: To explore feasibility and application value of two pores technology in laparoscopic cholecystectomy forseeking more minimally invasive new surgical procedures of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Methods: 104 cases treated by two-pore-laparoscopic cholecystectomy were retrospectively analysed from Jan 2009 to Oct 2010. Results: 104 patients underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy were all successful and of no surgical complications. Conclusion: :Two-pore-laparoscopic cholecystectomy is safe and effective, more invasive, and more beautiful outlook.


Photonic sensors offer new possibilities for the metrological temperature determination in specific applications including high electric fields or harsh environments. Within two EU projects the PTB develop and validate different kinds of photonic thermometers in a temperature range from 0 °C to over 1500 °C. The aim of this work is to develop and validate novel accurate photonic thermometers with uncertainties below 10 mK, and sensors for application within harsh environments at high temperatures. We show first results using silicon ring resonators and sapphire fiber Bragg gratings.


This article discloses the concept of the autobiographical retrospective from the point of social psychology. The author examines sociopsychological characteristics of the autobiographical retrospective such as subjectivity, the influence of socio-cultural environment, the impact of the aims of reference group, the need in positive evaluation of your own past. The autobiographical retrospective is seen as a structural part of Self-concept personality.


This article provides an explicit construction for a family of singular instantons on S^4 S^2 with arbitrary real holonomy parameter \alpha. This family includes the original \alpha = 1/4, c_2 = 3/2 solution discovered by P. Forgacs, Z. Horvath, and L. Palla, and our approach is modeled on that of their 1981 paper. Our primary tool is the ansatz due to Corrigan, Fairlie, Wilczek, and 't Hooft that constructs a self-dual Yang-Mills connection using a positive real-valued harmonic super-potential. Here we reformulate this harmonic function ansatz in terms of quaternionic notation, and we show that it arises naturally from the Levi-Civita connection of a conformally Euclidean metric.
To simplify the construction, we introduce an SO(3)-action on S^4, and we show by dimensional reduction that the symmetric self-duality equation on S^4 is equivalent to the vortex equations over hyperbolic space H^2. We thus obtain a similar harmonic function ansatz for hyperbolic vortices, which we also derive using conformal transformations of H^2. Using this ansatz, we construct the vortex equivalents of the symmetric 't Hooft instantons, and we prove using the equivariant ADHM construction that they provide a complete description of all hyperbolic vortices. We also analyze when two vortices constructed by this ansatz are gauge equivalent, obtaining the surprising result that two such vortices are completely determined by the gauge transformation between them.


For a sufficiently short gamma pulse, pile-up prohibits conventional PHA spectroscopy, which depends on temporal separation to distinguish individual counts. For such pulse applications, we are developing a spectrometer which detects and records individual gamma photon signals simultaneously in independent parallel channels. This is a two-dimensional array of BGO scintillation elements, each of which is a high-aspect ratio, square-section cylinder. The elements are closely packed in a regular rectangular array, and separated by reflective walls which optically isolate the elements and channel the visible light to the end. The array is oriented with the elements end-on to the gamma source. The downstream array face is imaged, and a histogram of the light levels of the individual elements corresponds to a gamma spectrum. We report on tests performed on the array component intended for such a system.


Synchronous dataflow (SDF) is a widely-used model of computation for digital signal processing and multimedia applications. In this letter, we propose an automatic approach to synthesize efficient software from SDF models with improved runtime efficiency. Our synthesis technique is based on dynamic single-appearance scheduling (dynSAS), which generates software with minimized code size, the same as traditional single-appearance schedule (SAS), while requires much less buffer memory space. We enhance dynSAS systematically to reduce control flow overhead and increase memory utilization. Experiment results show that our approach can generate efficient software with enhanced runtime performance compared to related techniques.


The theory of current collection of a moving cylindrical probe is investigated. Volt‐ampere relations are derived for two distinct cases: (i) The general‐ion current for accelerating collector potential and its special cases, including general‐ion current to the stationary probe, orbital‐motion‐limited current to the moving and the stationary probes, and sheath‐area‐limited current to the moving and the stationary probes; (ii) the general‐electron current for the retarding collector potential and its special cases, including general‐electron current to the stationary probe and random‐electron current to the moving and the stationary probes. Orientation of the cylinder with respect to the drift velocity vector is taken into account. Volt‐ampere characteristics are included for illustrating the functional behavior of the current relations.


Sample survey provides reliable current statistics for large areas or sub-population (domains) with large sample sizes. There is a growing demand for reliable small area statistics, however, the sample sizes are too small to provide direct (or area specific) estimators with acceptable and reliable accuracy. This study gives theoretical description of the estimation of small area mean by use of stratified sampling with a linear cost function in the presence of non-response. The estimation of small area mean is proposed using auxiliary information in which the study and auxiliary variable suffers from non-response during sampling. Optimal sample sizes have been obtained by minimizing the cost of survey for specific precision within a given cost using lagrangian function multiplier lambda and Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Results demonstrate that as the values of the respondent sample increases sample units that supply information to study and auxiliary variable tends to small area population size, the non-response sample unit tends to sample units that supply the information as the sampling rate tends to one. From theoretic analysis it is practical that the Mean Square Error will decrease as the sub-sampling fraction and auxiliary characters increase. As the sub-sampling fraction increases and the value of beta increases then the value of large sample size is minimized with a reduction of Lagrangian multiplier value which minimizes the cost function.


In this paper, a state-constrained anti-disturbance control method based on backstepping control is proposed for the altitude attitude unmanned helicopter system under full state constraints. Firstly, a nonlinear disturbance observer is constructed to estimate the system disturbances. Secondly, the flight controller is built based on the backstepping control method and the disturbance estimations for the altitude attitude unmanned helicopter system. Then, the boundedness of closed-loop tracking error system is guaranteed via using the Barrier Lyapunov function technique. Finally, a simulation is carried out in Matlab/Simulink environment to verify the effectiveness of designed helicopter flight controller.


Over the last two decades, a number of historians in France and the Anglo-Saxon world have developed the genre of 'family history '*I To some extent this has been an application to data from the past of concepts elaborated in the study of contemporary societies, and has involved a critical testing of such concepts: one thinks of Anderson's study of the vicissitudes of family structure and kinship relations during the process of industrialization,2 or of Scott and Tilly's critique of the general theory of a secular trend from extended functional family forms towards nuclear isolation.3 Family history has also been an offshoot of legal and ecclesiastical history, most obviously where inheritance customs and marriage law are concerned.4 But the genre has derived most clearly and directly from demographic history, and the connection has not been entirely advantageous. Historical demography has supplied family history with a solid statistical basis, but demographic historians have gone on to infer the existence of specific kinds of emotional relationship within the family from the harsh facts of demographic life which their statistics reveal: high general death rates, very high infant mortality, frequent remarriage. More particularly these, taken together with a hostile economic environment, have led most historians in the field to expect relationships based on calculation rather than affection, and a norm of indifference or neglect


Design is a central and distinguishing activity of engineering and one of the core criteria for evaluating and accrediting engineering programs. Design is also a subject area that poses many challenges for faculty, and incorporating human‐centered design approaches—approaches in which designers have as a focus the people they are designing for—poses additional challenges. Human‐centered approaches to design contribute to innovations in engineering design and have been shown to increase productivity, improve quality, reduce errors, improve acceptance of new products, and reduce development costs. In today's globally competitive economy, it is more important than ever to develop effective design skills within the undergraduate years.


Responsibility Village is one of the villages located in Tulungagung Regency. It is a lowland area and has an area of 554,184 ha. KKNT aims to give students broad experience and insight and develop knowledge in society. The method of implementation is site surveys, interviews, MSME coaching, counseling in the fields of animal husbandry, agriculture, culture, and increasing cooperation in the KKNT program. The results resulted in 7 types of work programs covering the field of online marketing, MSMEs, WEB Training, and the Catapult Competition Cultural Week by giving prizes, block materials, planting horticultural seeds in 33 polybags planted with oranges and avocados at the Mount Budeg tourist location, compensation for orphans. So the results are useful for increasing the village's potential.


Paper modification is an important step in scientific journal publishing.In this step,executive editors should correctly grasp and treat reviewers' comments and compose the amendment advice clearly and in detail.When the revised papers are submitted,editors need to treat them correctly.Only by keeping in mind the awareness of serving authors and contacting them promptly and properly could editors achieve good communication with authors and improve paper quality successfully.


Due to the increasing price of crude oil, biofuel as an alternative of fossil fuels is sought to be a global wide solution to reduce the emission of green house gas. A long-term operation with blended biodiesel (B2) by standard engine test is evaluated in this study. The results can be referred to the consideration of marketing promotion strategy as well as government policy in Taiwan. Both B2 diesel fuel (2 vol% biodiesel) and diesel fuel were employed to the same type of three new heavy-duty diesel engines for testing purpose. The engines are equipped with an electronically controlled common-rail fuel injection system. After 500 hours full load test or 1000 hours transient cycle operation, the key components of the engines were analyzed and characterized by a series of inspections to identify the degree of decay and wear behavior. In addition, the engine performance and emission were also determined at each maintenance stage. The results indicated that the engine components including piston rings, cylinder liners and needle valves of injector were less difference in sizes comparison before and after durability tests. According to microscopic characterization and engine oil analyses, the wear loss of the key components was insignificant and tribological performance of the biodiesel (B2) was slightly better than that of diesel fuel. It was found that the performance and emissions were varied under ±3% when diesel engine was fueled with B2 biodiesel.


Two new coordination compounds, namely [Zn(Hstp)2(Hbipy)2] (1) and {[Cd9(2-stp)6(bipy)6(H2O)12]•7H2O}n (2) have been synthesized hydrothermally. Compound 1 is a mononuclear Zn(II) complex which forms a 3-D supramolecular framework through hydrogen bonding and π⋯π interactions. Compound 2 consists of a 3-D network comprising five crystallographically distinct Cd(II) centers. Compound 2 can be further described as a 2-nodal, 4,6-c net of topological type tck/hcc where the point symbol is {42.52.62}{45.55.65}2. Interestingly, solvent sensing studies reveals that compound 1 is able to selectively sense pyridine and exhibit a prominent color change; therefore it is considered as a promising naked-eye sensor.


Time-lapse (TL) embryo monitoring is the latest technology that is proposed for embryo evaluation and selection for transfer. TL technology enables us to collect significantly more information about the in vitro development of the embryos that can be obtained through the daily-once evaluation under the light microscope. In addition, the embryos do not need to be removed from the culture environment for this. The extra morphokinetic information and the undisturbed culture conditions could both be beneficial for the cultured embryo cohort. Many morphokinetic parameters have been tested in relation to variety of laboratory (e.g. blastocyst development) and clinical (implantation and live-birth rate) outcomes. Most of these studies are retrospective in nature and suffer from methodological problems (heterogeneous patient population, culture conditions not standardized, and small sample size). Several groups attempted to build algorithms, however, have not yet been confirmed externally as attempts so far could...


Serum concentrations of the immunoglobulins IgG, IgM and IgA were assayed by single radial immunodiffusion in 37 women before insertion of Copper T IUD and 6 to 12 months subsequently. There was a tendency towards an increase in immuno-globulin levels with the IUD in situ, but the results were not of statistical significance.


The National Center of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing Education has been established in Dayton, Ohio with an award from the National Science Foundation's Advanced Technological Education program in October of 1994. The primary goal of the program is to develop a curriculum with advanced manufacturing as its focus. The curriculum will begin in the junior year of high school and extend to a twoyear associate degree and through a four-year bachelor of science degree in Engineering Technology. The program will include opportunities for industrial employment throughout the student's education. The curriculum is currently being built with a number of "clusters" while ensuring a high degree of collaboration among clusters. The Product Development Cluster is currently being defined and developed. The cluster is designed to address the process of analyzing customer needs, volume demands, and market requirements, conceptualizing and designing a product to meet those needs, designing the manufacturing processes, and launching the product into production. Modules within the cluster include conceptual design, computer aided design, and product development and testing, for example. The cluster is being designed to be broad based, while maintaining a technical manufacturing perspective. The key skills within the cluster have been defined and the topics, sequencing , and method of learning and experiencing are being developed. Innovative pedagogical strategies are being developed and integrated throughout the program. Also the interaction with other modules such as Production Operations, Quality Management, and Materials and Manufacturing Processes is being developed. This program will result in better qualified technical employees for manufacturing industries and also a path for students to get involved with Engineering schools early in their academic careers. Both the results and the process to achieve the results are presented here.


Existing datasets for scoring text pairs in terms of semantic similarity contain instances whose resolution differs according to the degree of difficulty. This paper proposes to distinguish obvious from non-obvious text pairs based on superficial lexical overlap and ground-truth labels. We characterise existing datasets in terms of containing difficult cases and find that recently proposed models struggle to capture the non-obvious cases of semantic similarity. We describe metrics that emphasise cases of similarity which require more complex inference and propose that these are used for evaluating systems for semantic similarity.


The purpose of the paper is to identify the impact of trade deficit of the economy on liquidity crisis of banks and develop the model of foreign currency bond to solve the problem in the banking industry of Bangladesh. From the data of 20 years, statistically significant negative correlation (-0.946) has been found between trade deficitof the economy and demand deposit of banks. Hence, simple linear regression has been applied to assess the impact of trade deficit on demand deposit of banks. Besides, a model of foreign currency bond in association with central bank and commercial banks has been proposed to solve the problem of liquidity crisis resulting from trade deficit. The period studied in this paper is 20 years out of available data of 25 years (1993-2018) omitting the data of 5 years due to outliers in value and unavailability of data just after Liberation War 1971. Besides, only trade deficit has been taken into consideration as determinant of liquidity crisis ignoring other factors as non-performing loan and statutory liquidity reserve however only trade deficit demonstrates 89.5 percent of the variation in the demand deposit of banks under this study.The paper is significant for the banking industry as it faces the problem of liquidity crisis frequently where the proposed model will generate fund for the commercial banks to solve the problem.


To tackle tremendous growth in the network traffic, EPON (Ethernet PON Networks) based on Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) is being used. There is a need for a Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) algorithm to control the flow of sequence of data among the subscribers. In this paper a new user prioritized Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) algorithm is demonstrated. Depending on the prioritized request, bandwidth is allocated to each Optical Network Unit (ONU). The paper addresses Inter and Intra ONU allocation. The bandwidth is allocated fairly among the ONUs. The proposed algorithm is evaluated against various dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithms on different performance characteristics like fairness, bandwidth utilization and packet delay using MATLAB. Findings: The simulated results of the proposed algorithm show improvements in performance characteristics compared to the other algorithms.


This paper describes fast and efficient method for page segmentation of document containing nonrectangular block. The segmentation is based on edge following algorithm using small window of 16 by 32 pixels. This segmentation is very fast since only border pixels of paragraph are used without scanning the whole page. Still, the segmentation may contain error if the space between them is smaller than the window used in edge following. Consequently, this paper reduce this error by first identify the missed segmentation point using direction information in edge following then, using X-Y cut at the missed segmentation point to separate the connected columns. The advantage of the proposed method is the fast identification of missed segmentation point. This methodology is faster with fewer overheads than other algorithms that need to access much more pixel of a document. KeywordsContour Direction Technique, Missed Segmentation Points, Page Segmentation, Recursive X-Y Cut Technique


The ASME HPS Standard Section 6000 (as well as Sections 1000 to 5000) was begun with a draft outline in 1981 and released in 2003. Section 6000 "Hazardous Release Protection" of the High Pressure Systems (HPS) standard provides a risk-based criterion to assess the pressure system internal and external kinetic energy and degenerative hazards and permits a number of ways to lower risk to personnel and structures (e.g., redesign of the pressure system (improved system performance), protection (reduction of consequences), improved inspection (reduction of event probability), etc.). Part I of this paper examines the history of the development of Section 6000, the motivating safety issues; some incidences of system failures, which identify a need for guidance regarding tolerable risk; other guidelines, standard, and code development; and some references that document its development.


The paper studies the political agenda for Russia on the basis of such fundamental documents as the message of the President of the Russian Federation for 1994-2011 years. The study of texts in dynamics - from Boris Yeltsin, which who first introduced the message in the communicative space of contemporary Russia to Dmitry Medvedev, who continued the practice, allowed to identify the priorities of the political agenda of modern Russia.


It was found that strongly alkaline solutions of sodium hydroxide are able to destroy the hydrophobicity of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) whereas the hydrophobicity of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) remains only slightly affected by these solutions. On this basis, a technology involving treatment of PET and PVC particles with alkaline solutions followed by froth flotation of PVC with nonionic surfactants has been developed and tested at a laboratory scale. In both steps of this technology, appropriate experimental conditions, such as concentration of reagents, temperature and residence time, have been optimized through a detailed examination of all these variables on the efficiency and selectivity of PVC separation from PVC/PET mixtures of varying composition. It is demonstrated that using this technology 95-100% recovery of PET and PVC can be achieved in separate products from a variety of PVC/PET mixtures.


This study presents a method for determining the mass transfer coefficient for the toxic chemicals evaporation from circular pools formed due to the failure of plant integrity or escape from valves. The approach used in this present research work is to develop a correlation by a robust optimization technique known as Genetic Algorithm from the experimental data. The developed correlation can be used to model the hydrocarbon evaporation from spills or releases at different wind speeds. From the mass transfer coefficient, the vapor concentration of the hydrocarbon spillage in the environment can be determined which can be used in quantitative risk analysis to predict the effect of toxic release.


We study the radial ionization structure at the surface of an X-ray illuminated accretion disk. We plot the expected iron Kline energy as a function of the Ed- dington ratio and of the distance of the emitting matter from the central source, for a non-rotating and a maximally-rotating black hole. We compare the predicted disk line energies with those measured in an archival sample of active galactic nuclei ob- served with Chandra, XMM-Newton and Suzaku, and discuss whether the line energies are consistent with the radial distances inferred from reverberation studies. We also suggest using rapidly-variable iron Klines to estimate the viscosity parameter of an accretion disk. There is a forbidden region in the line energy versus Eddington ratio plane, at low Eddington ratios, where an accretion disk cannot produce highly-ionized iron Klines. If such emission is observed in low-Eddington-ratio sources, it is either coming from a highly-ionized outflow, or is a blue-shifted component from fast-moving neutral matter.


This paper presents a new kind of nonlinear combination method to predict the exchange rate. The method possesses several characters as follows: (1) the short, medium and long-term influences are considered comprehensively; (2) the different singular methods are nonlinearly combined according to their characteristics; (3) Some original data is taken as the inputs of network with the forecasted values; (4) It has a high forecasting accuracy.


ABSTRACT Optimal control theory has been employed to populate separately two dark states of the acetylene polyad, Ns = 1 and Nr = 5, by indirect coupling via the ground state. Relevant level energies and transition dipole moments are extracted from the experimental literature. The optimal pulses are rather simple. The evolution of the population is shown for the duration of the control process and also for the field-free evolution that follows the control. One of the dark states appears to be a potential target for realistic experimental investigation because the average population of the Rabi oscillation remains high and decoherence is expected to be weak.


Abstract The early nineteenth century was a time of vast cultural change for the Potawatomi of southeastern Wisconsin. Historic accounts provide significant detail on many aspects of Potawatomi culture. An abundance of archaeological sites of all types define in material terms the diversity of their activities, their cultural identity, and their widespread presence throughout the region. The waning of the fur trade, the Black Hawk War, and the encroachment of Euro-Americans impacted the Potawatomi lifeway in irreversible ways. In this article, the authors present an overview of Potawatomi life in southeastern Wisconsin around the period of their removal, as it is presently understood.


Abstract The article sets out states' obligations in relation to transfers of persons under international law, and revisits the key elements of the principled non-refoulement, including its application where persons are transferred from one state to another within the territory of a single state; the range of risks that give rise to application of the principle; important procedural elements; and the impact on the principle of so called diplomatic assurances. : : : : : : :


The Symposium, sponsored by ASTM Committee D-19 on Water, was cochaired by John M. Bates, Sally D. Dennis, and Billy G. Isom. Papers are presented which develop rational bases for sampling various aquatic ecosystems and for assessing environmental hazard from the generated data. The first two papers deal with the importance of geographic, climatic, land surface forms, soils, land uses, river basins, and vegetation as factors in establishing reference sites on which to evaluate changes in the ecological integrity. Further, proven capabilities in sampling the water, sediment, and biota for the necessary physical, chemical, biological, and toxicological properties measurements should be demonstrated for credible useful and consistent results. All aspects of the program must be subjected to exacting quality assurance and control practices on sample collection, storage, and analyses. The next two papers deal with the special problems which arise when attempting to assess the impact on a specific organism from an environmental or ecological change and determine the source of that change. Other papers stress the necessity to consider not only the sampling and data gathering and the quality of the data but also the objective of the program, the limitations to the uses of the information, and the impact on the decisions that must be made. All the information contained herein should be valuable for those considering a program of sampling and analyzing an aquatic ecosystem for the assessment of the impact of ecological change and hazard. We sincerely appreciate the efforts of all the authors and the opportunity to present concepts which may improve future studies resulting in better scientific bases for decisions which affect us all.


Significance It is well established that certain intracellular regulators can stabilize DNA loops to greatly enhance activation or repression of gene transcription. In vitro and in vivo ensemble measurements have determined that only a few copies of regulators are, in fact, needed to stably form DNA loops. In view of such a small number, we address the issue of sensitivity of gene regulation by DNA looping to variations of intracellular parameters in individual growing Escherichia coli bacteria. Surprisingly, we find that DNA looping from the lac system is robust to a range of perturbations, including divisions during which cells can maintain tight repression over many generations. We propose molecular hypotheses compatible with the observed robustness across a range of intracellular perturbations.


The Ministry of Health of Nigeria requested assistance from the U.S. Embassy in Lagos Nigeria in finding ways to increase family health services. A team of consultants was therefore recruited by the American Public Health Association (APHA) to go to Lagos and help the Ministry in its request. Specifically the team was tasked with the goal of developing recommendations for the Ministry emphasizing family planning services treatment of diarrheal disease and immunization. The team developed its recommendations by meeting with Ministry of Health officials state officials and some of the commissioners of the National Population Commission. At the end of the visit recommendations were made regarding training uniform client card and services statistics systems supplies and distribution information and education and accelerated state programs. The team suggested that health workers and motivators be trained at all levels in order to increase demand for diarrheal disease control immunization and birth spacing. Records should include contraceptive method chosen age and parity and supplies should be ordered immediately. Distribution should take place out of 1 warehouse for the 1st project year. Furthermore activities should take place initially as a pilot project in Ondo Ogun and Niger states. As a final suggestion the team proposed an intensive 3.5 week planning/technical assistance program in the U.S. where participants would develop implementation plans specific to the needs of their states prior to returning home.


The results were as follows: I. Sex difference 1) The crown diameters were larger for male than for female, showing significant sex difference. 2) The length-breadth indices were generally higher for male than for female, Significant sex difference was observed for C' and Pi of Okinawa group and for P2 of Goto group. The buccolingual diameters were comparatively Iarger for male than for female. 3) As to reductive indices, significant sex difference was seen in the mesiodistal diameter of upper incisors of Okinawa group, and in the buccolingual diameter of lower premolars of Okinawa group and upper incisors and lower premolars of Goto group. Greater reduction was observed in female upper incisors and in male lower


Nursing care plan in post-thoracotomy pain management. A brief review. Siopi V, Valasiou I, Papageorgiou E, Veliki N, Tzinevi M, Rallis Th, Gogakos A.S, Paliouras D, Asteriou Ch, Anisoglou S, Barbetakis N. The objective of postoperative pain management after thoracotomy is the prevention of postopera- tive complications, the reduction of the length of hospital stay, the increase of the patient's satisfac- tion and finally the resumption of the daily living's normal activities. Thoracic surgery affects postoperative respiratory function, along with a high risk of developing postoperative pulmonary complications. Pain is a subjective experience. Postoperative pain man- agement in thoracic surgery patients should be individually applied, based on a well-organized health care system that emphasizes consistent nursing education regarding proper pain management techniques, with an effective communication between the patient and members of the existing mul- tidisciplinary team, especially the nursing staff.


Guanylyl cyclase C (GCC) is a cell surface protein expressed in more than 95% of metastatic colorectal cancers and in the majority of gastric and pancreatic cancers, making GCC an attractive antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) target. TAK-164 is an ADC comprised of a full-length, fully human IgG1 monoclonal antibody (mAb) directed toward the extracellular domain of GCC. The mAb is conjugated using ImmunoGen9s peptide-linked indolinobenzodiazepine DNA alkylator DGN549. Previously presented preclinical studies using TAK-164 have demonstrated in vivo efficacy in a select number of GCC-expressing tumor models following a single administration of TAK-164. Here, we describe the selection of an appropriate dose for broad testing in a panel of patient-derived xenograft models of colorectal cancer. The efficacy data generated following a single administration of 15 µg/kg TAK-164 (payload concentration) were compared with molecular features that could aid in understanding drivers of TAK-164 activity, including GCC expression by immunohistochemistry (IHC). Primary colorectal cancer models were derived from colorectal adenocarcinomas and implanted in immunocompromised mice. Once tumors reached a stratified mean volume of 150-250 mm 3 , animals were randomized into treatment groups (n = 1/group) and dosing was initiated on Day 0 of the study. There were three tumor groups (Vehicle treated, TAK-164 treated, and naive), which were used to characterize genomic and molecular features of the model. The planned study endpoint was 60 days or until a humane endpoint was reached. For all models included in the study, an IHC assay to detect GCC was used to explore the relationship between GCC expression and time to rise (TTR), a preclinical tumor progression measurement. TTR is the Delta duration in days on study for each PDX model (TAK-164 - Vehicle) to reach 1000 mm 3 tumor volume. In the present study, a mixed effects Cox regression analysis, using a continuous or binary stratification of GCC IHC expression, resulted in a statistically significant (p Ongoing analysis aims to better understand additional molecular drivers of TAK-164 treatment that may be useful for patient enrichment strategies in the clinic. TAK-164 is scheduled to enter phase I evaluation in 2018 in GCC-positive colorectal cancer and other GI malignancies. Citation Format: Erik M. Koenig, Cong Li, Huyuan Yang, Andy Zhu, Pooja Shah, Kazuho Nishimura, Bret Bannerman, Mengkun zhang, Bradley Stringer, Brittany Bahamon, O. Petter Veiby, Adnan Abu-Yousif. Relationship of guanylyl cyclase C (GCC) expression and efficacy of TAK-164, a GCC-targeted antibody-drug conjugate in a panel of 68 subcutaneous HuPrime colorectal cancer PDX models [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 3916.


Research and construction of EW (Electronic Warfare) integrated simulation platform is the foundation of EW simulation. This paper discusses the architecture and construction of EW integrated simulation platform from its hardware platform and network environment, software platform and hierarchy, database system, and simulation model architecture.


............................................................................................................................. vi Preface .................................................................................................................................1 Chapter One: What Polly Coltman Saw ..............................................................................5 Chapter Two: Revitalized ..................................................................................................11 Chapter Three: The Victims of Oakland County...............................................................17 Chapter Four: Cathy...........................................................................................................26 Chapter Five: The Hunt .....................................................................................................40 Chapter Six: Helen and John Meet ....................................................................................47 Chapter Seven: A Slip-Up .................................................................................................62 Chapter Eight: A Popular GM Model................................................................................70 Chapter Nine: Wasser Remembers ....................................................................................79 Chapter Ten: Answers .......................................................................................................88 Chapter Eleven: So Very Close to Home ..........................................................................93 Chapter Twelve: Evidence...............................................................................................100 Afterword.........................................................................................................................105 Endnotes...........................................................................................................................108 Bibliography ....................................................................................................................110 Vita...................................................................................................................................112


Every human being was created by the Creator with all the uniqueness and characteristics of each. This arises as individual differences (individual differences). Individual differences are differences in abilities and characteristics (cognitive, personality, physical skills, and so on) between students at a certain age level and in each particular group. Through educational practices and activities, we can accommodate the individual differences of students. Likewise, the learning styles of each other are also different. There are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles. It is important to recognize the learning styles of students so that teachers can vary their teaching styles, learning methods that are suitable to be applied in the learning process. As a technique, we must be able to choose various ways that can accommodate these differences personally and optimize the improvement and interpersonal skills of each student in the long term, especially when viewed from the learning style so that it can be carried out optimally. Individual differences that need to be considered in the implementation of classroom teaching are factors related to the readiness of children to receive teaching because these differences will determine the education system as a whole. Factors that influence individual differences are self-concept (self-concept), locus of control, student anxiety, learning motivation.


Abstract The synthesis of nanoparticles and nanopowders is in principle not difficult. Consequently, various methods on a laboratory and industrial scale have been developed in the last century. However, in the last decades it became obvious that the control of synthesis and processing is required to develop nanocrystalline materials with novel functional properties leading to specific applications. The potential of nanostructures was recognized through the pioneering work of Gleiter in the early 80's [1]. In this review, we show that chemical vapour synthesis allows the production of nanostructured materials with tailored microstructures and properties.


COMPARISON OF FOOT MORPHOLOGY BETWEEN CHINESE AND MONGOLIAN CHILDREN ABSTRACT. Knowledge of foot morphology is fundamental to optimize children's footwear design. The aim of this study is to compare the foot morphology of Chinese and Mongolian children from 7 to 14 years old. Relative data of 339 Mongolian children and another matched 379 Chinese children were collected using 3D foot scanner. The findings of this study are as follows: i) the absolute foot length of Chinese children is significantly greater than that of Mongolian children of the same age; ii) Mongolian children show significantly greater heel width, toe thickness, lateral malleolus height, instep height and ball girth compared to Chinese children of the same age. The foot width of Chinese children is significantly greater than that of Mongolian children of the same age; iii) Chinese children have a higher risk of hallux valgus than Mongolian children of both sexes. Small variations in foot morphology discussed in this paper could be useful when considering the shoes design for Mongolian and Chinese children.


This paper assesses the connection of a large wind farm to a regional power system with a weak link to the main transmission grid. The study demonstrates that utilization of modern wind turbine technology and automatic generation control schemes allow operation of large wind farms in weak grids. In the case study considered of a regional power system, the viable wind farm capacity may be increased from 50 to 200 MW.


........................................................................................................................ i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................ ii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................... 1 Alcohol consumption ...................................................................................................... 1 Factors influencing alcohol consumption ....................................................................... 2 Taste ................................................................................................................................ 3 Taste and alcoholic beverage consumption .................................................................... 4 Individual differences in taste perception ....................................................................... 6 Structure of thesis ........................................................................................................... 8 CHAPTER 2: OROSENSORY RESPONSIVNESSS AND BEER AND CIDER FLAVOUR PERCEPTION .................................................................................. 9 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 9 Materials and methods .................................................................................................. 14 Participants ................................................................................................................ 14 Scale acclimation ...................................................................................................... 15 Prototypical taste training ......................................................................................... 16 Thermal taster status determination .......................................................................... 17 Preparation of beerand ciderrelevant tastants ....................................................... 18 Evaluation of beerand ciderrelevant tastants ........................................................ 19 Preparation of beer and cider samples ...................................................................... 20 Beer and cider tasting ................................................................................................ 22 Data treatment and analysis ...................................................................................... 23 Results ........................................................................................................................... 24 Orosensory responsiveness and perception of beerand ciderrelevant tastants ..... 24 Orosensory responsiveness and perception of sampled beer and cider .................... 32 Beer ........................................................................................................................... 32 Cider .......................................................................................................................... 32 Relationship between orosensory intensity of beerand ciderrelevant tastants and sampled beer and cider .............................................................................................. 33 Discussion ..................................................................................................................... 36 TTS and perception of oral sensations – beerand ciderrelevant tastants .............. 36


This study was conducted to analyze the industrial concentration of the districts, cities and counties among clinics, dental clinics, and Oriental clinics. For this purpose, the sales from 1996 to 2015 in five-year intervals were analyzed by the Heifindal-Hirschmann index (HHI). The results of this study showed that the competition index represented by the HHI tended to intensify as a whole. Especially in the county area, HHI tended to be in comparison with other regions, but decreased with statistically significance. On average, the HHI was higher in the county than in the district and city areas. In the case of the clinic, the HHI of the county area tended to decrease. In the case of the dental clinic, the HHI tended to decrease in the city and county, while in the Oriental clinic the HHI tended to decrease in the district, city and county. Overall, monopolies were present in the county, but competition strengthened over time. In the case of clinics, competition is intensifying in country. area. In the case of dental clinics, competition in the city and country areas has not yet reached saturation. In the case of Oriental clinics, competition in all regions has not yet been saturated, and competition in the distinct market has been most intense.


The atomic data of the various atomic processes are essential for the radiative collisional models describing plasmas. In this work we have our computation results of the coefficients of ionization rate of iron heliumoide. These types of ions can exist in all the types of plasmas, amongst other things plasmas laser. We use a simple numerical method to generate the ionization rates starting from the cross sections. These last are obtained by code FAC (Flexible Atomic Code). Our computation results will be compared with those published. Keywords : Atomic data, radiative collisional Models, Ionization rate, cross Sections of ionization.


The subject of the study is the optimization of aerodynamic characteristics by improving the wing profile shape for the fan-wing configuration. The aim of this work is to find a more universal wing shape suitable for various aircraft. The task is to compare the characteristics of three wings with the same rotor engine installed in the nose section, including the base wing used in most previous studies by scientists. Sources suggested that this profile is not well-suited for rotor engines with a large aspect ratio. Experimental methods were used to measure the dynamic characteristics of three wing profiles: a flat curved profile with a cut-out in the rear wing section, a flat lower surface profile, an S-shaped profile with a lower surface bend in the rotor area, and a two-bend contour with a cut-out in the rear wing section on top and bottom. The results showed an improvement in characteristics compared with wing-rotor engine schemes used in previous cases. Specifically, an increase in the flow velocity at the wing exit of 3...8 % depending on the power plant operating mode was found, which led to an increase in lift up to 20 % depending on the flight mode, and an increase in thrust up to 16 %. Conclusions. The proposed S-shaped profile with a lower surface bend in the area of the rotor hub, and a profile with two bends in the contour with a cut in the rear part of the wing from the top and bottom contours have the most optimal and balanced characteristics. In the future, it is planned to manufacture these profiles using composite materials to reduce weight and install them on the aircraft prototype, replacing the rotor structure with a more flexible one using more flexible materials such as PETG plastic for the synchronization of the installed rotor motors, which is necessary to increase reliability and backup the rotor drive. Additionally, several sections with independent engines are planned to be made on each wing console to counteract rotor rupture in the event of engine failure. Due to significant advantages over the standard profile shape and minor structural complexity, the manufacture of more complex profile shapes can find wide applications in aircraft designed according to the fan-wing scheme.


In the gas phase, the Ioffe–Regel criterion that electron transport becomes modified when the mean free path equals the electron wavelength (L = λ) applies clearly only to helium and hydrogen, which have a net repulsive interaction with electrons. The Mott criterion, that when L = λ/2π the electron is in a localized state, also applies to these two gases. The two criteria are less effective for molecules that have net attractive interactions with the electrons, because the interactions are not simply additive. They are not useful for xenon gas. The criteria are also assessed for: (a) several highly polarizable, spherical and nonspherical molecules; (b) polar molecules; (c) nitrogen and carbon dioxide, which form transient anions.


This paper contains a general account of the Mesquite - Prosopis glandulosa Torr. And P. julifiora DC., including the various forms of the latter. These trees were introduced into India as very promising species useful in afforesting dry and degraded lands. A historical review of their cultivation in India is included. Observations have also been made on their distribution and economic importance. Botanical descriptions of the genus Prosopis and its two species, mentioned above, are given. The behaviour of P. Juliflora as a composite species has been explained. The silvicultural characters and diagnostic features of the various forms of P. julifiora , including P. glandulosa , have been discussed and a key to their correct identification has been provided.


Although the reach of LEP as to the standard model Higgs boson discovery is directly related to the maximal energy achievable, a large integrated luminosity is also needed to cope with the limited production cross section, and it becomes crucial for many other physics issues (search for supersymmetric neutral Higgs bosons, search for charged Higgs boson, precise measurement of the W mass,....). The actual needs in GeV and pb 1 are reviewed, and scenarios to optimize both aspects ‐ energy reach and integrated luminosity ‐ during the runs in 1999 and 2000 are discussed.


The amount of available data for data mining, knowledge discovery continues to grow very fast with the era of Big Data. Genetic Programming algorithms (GP), that are efficient machine learning techniques, are face up to a new challenge that is to deal with the mass of the provided data. Active Sampling, already used for Active Learning, might be a good solution to improve the Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) training from very big data sets. This paper investigates the adaptation of Topology Based Selection (TBS) to face massive learning datasets by means of Hierarchical Sampling. We propose to combine the Random Subset Selection (RSS) with the TBS to create the RSS-TBS method. Two variants are implemented, applied to solve the KDD intrusion detection problem. They are compared to the original RSS, TBS techniques. The experimental results show that the important computational cost generated by original TBS when applied to large datasets can be lightened with the Hierarchical Sampling.


In order to adapt to the rapid development,the automobile manufacturers will use the internet of things in automobile production management system as information carrier.Models,equipment and other information in each station can be displayed dynamically and timely in line.The staff can understand promptly logistics in general assembly line,control the material to the right position timely and adequately.At last,the pull production can be implemented.


By expressing as a ratio the mineral content of the ulna at 1 cm to that at 8 cm from its distal end, a measure of the amount of trabecular bone in that ulna is obtained. This ratio is occasionally high in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism and commonly high in patients with hyperparathyroidism secondary to azotaemic renal failure. A hypothesis based on calcitonin and a speculation about its mode of action are used to account for some of the findings in primary and secondary hyperparathyroidism.


In a wavelength multiplex communication system including a plurality of optical transmission devices having light amplifiers, downstream optical transmission devices send to upstream optical transmission devices the gain-wavelength characteristic information of the light amplifiers possessed by the respective optical transmission devices. The upstream optical transmission devices control the gain wavelength characteristics according to the received gain-wavelength characteristic information.


This article describes the unified metamodel of object system which can be used for domain-driven design (DDD) of information system. The idea of the design based on the metamodel is not new since metamodels are used everywhere. Works [1-3] represent the metamodel of object database compliant with the ODMG standard. The SQL:2003 standard includes metamodel that describes the object extensions of SQL [1, 3-4]. The graphical modeling language UML which is often used in the design of modern applications has the standard which governs its own metamodel described in [3, 5].Practically all the metamodels have some disadvantages. Each author was trying to solve the problem own forces. Thus, in [3], the author has developed its own metamodel for implementing object database. Metamodel does not exist independently of the rest of the application, and serves a certain purpose. So in [6-7] metamodel is used to facilitate the process of domain-driven design.Metamodel is also used in the model transformations. So in [8-9] the principles of model transformations from the UML metamodel in the models of languages developed by the authors are described.Mechanisms for evaluating the software quality based on metamodel with the introduction of various metrics are considered in [10-11]. Publications [12-13] are devoted to questions of the expansion of existing metamodels by adding new elements. In [1], the author offers his own hierarchy of atomic literal types, which can be used in any object system and built thanks to the author's experience.In this article, we briefly review the metamodel used in a unified development environment for the rapid development of enterprise information systems, SharpArchitect RAD Studio [14]. In [6-7, 15-18] the full class diagram of metamodel was presented and detailed assignment of classes were described. Here we consider only the relevant parts for this article. Fig. 1 shows a fragment of a unified metamodel of object system with display of the key associations that are important for further discussion.Consider some of the key hierarchies of metaclasses. Fig. 2 is a diagram of the basic metaclasses used to represent different kinds of classes applied to describe the entity classes which are presented in the domain model. An abstract metaclass Class is the root of the hierarchy. It has two inherited classes: 1) InheritableClass is used to represent metaclasses that can be inherited, i.e. support inheritance; 2) NotInheritableClass is used to represent metaclasses that can not be inherited. Metaclass Enum allows submit an enumeration or a set of values of a simple type. Abstract base metaclass CustomAttributedClass is used to represent metaclasses that have the attributes. Metaclass DomainClass is used to represent domain classes. Instances of domain classes allow to describe the entity classes (such as Customers, Products, Sales), which objects (eg, Ivanov, Bread) are stored in the database. To simplify the description instances of the domain classes will be called just domain classes (if not assumed otherwise).Abstract metaclass ComputationalClass is the base for all calculated metaclasses ie those classes instances of which are not stored in the database and are computed at runtime (transient). For example, the turnover balance sheet is not stored directly in the database, and is calculated based on inventory, receipts and expenditures (which are the domain classes and


Abstract The internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through international joint ventures (IJVs) has received limited attention in the international business literature. This study analyzes factors that lead an SME to gain a dominant equity share in an IJV. Three hypotheses are tested using bargaining-power, resource-dependency and transaction cost theories. Analyzing 55 IJVs among 110 European SMEs, we found that a partner's dominant participation in the IJV ownership is positively related to its investment's relative importance and the number of its employees. No relation was observed with knowledge transfer, IJV complexity and cultural distance in this ownership decision.


Museums in China: The Politics of Representation after Mao, by Marzia Varutti. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2014. xii + 190 pp. £60.00 (hardcover).In recent years, China has experienced rapid changes to its cultural infrastructure, reflected by the aggressive growth of its museums, which have become symbols of its global cultural and economic prominence. Government, business enterprises, universities and individuals at the national, provincial and local levels now operate over 3,000 museums. Marking a new chapter in the history of global museum development, China is nearing the goal of bringing the per capita number of its museums up to the level of developed countries. Jeffrey Johnson of Columbia University calls this phenomenon the "museumification" of China, and pinpoints a nationwide craze for mass construction of new museums.Why does China embrace museums with such enthusiasm and boost their proliferation at such an unprecedented rate? How have sociopolitical changes inChina influenced the reception and operation of museums and affected the presentation and interpretation of museum objects? These questions have received increased attention from Western scholars. Marzia Varutti's book, developed from her doctoral dissertation (University of Geneva, 2008) and fieldtrips to China, is the latest addition to the current scholarship. It provides a critical new perspective by discussing the development of Chinese museums in historical and sociopolitical contexts, no longer centered on old Communist ideology but increasingly on a new cultural nationalism. Interestingly, several other books have just been published to tell the stories of Chinese museums, their architecture, collections and displays. These include Kirk Denton's Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Post-Socialist China (2013) and Tracey Lus Museums in China: Power, Politics, and Identities (2014). Each indicates that museums now play a significant role in developing the image and identity of the Chinese nation by enhancing public appreciation of its history, civilization and cultural diversity.Museums in China preserve historical memory and cultural heritage, but function as "symbols of modernity" as well. Varutti examines the linkage between museums and the nation from historical and contemporary perspectives. Acting as indexes of the antiquity and glory of a civilization, museum objects are displayed as symbols of the Chinese nation, and museum narratives disseminate discourses on the nation's longevity, continuity and unity. What makes the case of China special is government control of museum discourse in order to uphold the legitimacy of the Communist Party as the keeper of Chinese cultural, historical, political and moral heritage (p. 159).The book's ten chapters can be divided roughly into two parts. Chapters 1 to 4 briefly introduce basic concepts about China's cultural heritage, the history of its museums and their collections, and the roles of museum "actors" including administrators, curators, donors and audiences. The relationship between museum objects and national identity is introduced as key to understanding the greater visibility of museums in contemporary China. The remaining chapters further elaborate ideas about "the nation" as conveyed by museum objects and narratives. Chapter 5 reveals that Chinese national identity has often been represented through the depth of its history and the breadth of its civic projects and ethnic composition. …


A set of experimental data resulted from environmental monitoring and its informational content has to be revealed and checked for its statistical character. As a result in this paper the aim was to verify if the environmental monitoring data obtained for a specific air pollutant monitored during three years presents statistical properties. Based on the results obtained by applying statistical requirements such as fixed location, fixed variation, randomness and fixed distribution, a statistical model for environmental monitoring data of CO pollutant has been proposed. By statistical processing of CO concentration during three year period (March 2004 – March 2007), it has been observed that at a long time scale (months, years) the data set exhibits a statistical character, while at a short time scale (days, weeks) statistical analysis of environmental data seems to be not conclusive due to the interference of some other factors that could alter initial CO concentration data. Moreover, mathematical modelling of these processes requires a normal distribution of data and the Box Cox transformation is recommended in order to obtain a normal distribution of data.


In this article we introduce the difference paranormed sequence spaces $c_{0}{M,\bigtriangleup , p,q},c{M,\bigtriangleup , p,q}$ and l_{\infty}{M,\bigtriangleup , p,q} $ defined by Orlicz functions. We study its different properties like solidness, symmetricity, completeness etc. and prove some inclusion results.


Investigated herein is the effect of temperature on heat development in cement pastes and concretes with and without silica fume cured at relatively high temperatures often encountered in tropical environment. With an initial temperature of 30°C, adiabatic temperature rise of the concrete with 8% silica fume as cement replacement was similar to that of the control Portland cement concrete up to about 18 h. After 24 h, however, the temperature of the silica fume concrete was lower than that of the control concrete. Since the concrete with 8% silica fume had a higher 28-day compressive strength (72.5 MPa) than the control concrete without silica fume (59.2 MPa), the concrete with silica fume is likely to have a lower temperature rise as compared with the control concrete of equivalent 28-day strength by reducing cementitious materials content with the same water content. The extent of heat evolution in the silica fume pastes was generally greater at lower temperatures of 20–50°C, but less at 65°C than in the control paste. At the relatively high curing temperatures, the degree of cement hydration in the paste with silica fume was lower than that in the control cement paste at early ages. However, the pozzolanic reaction started even before 24 h after water was added.


Water is the most valuable natural resource. To preserve this good, several water monitoring systems for pipe networks have been proposed. However, there is a lack of research on the development of high-frequency electromagnetic sensors for this task. This study proposes a non-destructive technique to locate carrying water polyvinyl chloride pipes using a microstrip patch antenna. An experimental apparatus was mounted and the resonant frequency and Q factor of the antenna were measured for different relative positions between the sensor and the pipe filled with water. To detect the pipe position, experimental data were trained and tested by applying an approach based on support vector machines. The best results were from using a simple linear kernel, which allowed 100% accuracy using a 30% fraction of data used for holdout validation.


Since 1988, over 1.3 billion pounds of proppant have been placed in the Lost Hills Field of Kern County. California in over 2700 hydraulic fracture treatments involving investments of about $150 million. In 1995, systematic reevaluation of the standard, field trial-based fracture design began. Reservoir, geomechanical, and hydraulic fracture characterization; production and fracture modeling; sensitivity analysis; and field test results were integrated to optimize designs with regard to proppant volume, proppant ramps, and perforating strategy. The results support a reduction in proppant volume from 2500 to 1700 lb/ft which will save about $50,000 per well, totalling over $3 million per year. Vertical coverage was found to be a key component of fracture quality which could be optimized by eliminating perforations from lower stress intervals, reducing the total number of perforations, and reducing peak slurry loading from 16 to 12 ppa. A relationship between variations in lithology, pore pressure, and stress was observed. Point-source, perforating strategies were investigated and variable multiple fracture behavior was observed. The discussed approach has application in areas where stresses are variable; pay zones are thick; hydraulic fracture design is based primarily on empirical, trial-and-error field test results; and effective, robust predictive models involving real-data feedback havemore » not been incorporated into the design improvement process.« less


11: Vorlesung |
0:00:00 Starten
0:00:47 Operation Contracts
0:04:01 POS Domain Model
0:04:41 Software Contract Example C02
0:06:18 Contracts versus Use Cases
0:09:21 How Complete Should Contracts Be?
0:13:06 Contract Creation Summary
0:14:43 Contract Example C01
0:17:24 Contract Example C03
0:22:31 Example Update to the Domain Model
0:23:23 Operations, their Contracts and the UML
0:24:59 Summary: Operation Contracts
0:25:35 Conclusion
0:27:16 Previously: SSDs and Operation Contracts
0:28:44 A Kind of Magic?
0:29:50 Software Architecture
0:31:18 Architectural Design Decisions (1)
0:37:33 Architectural Design Decisions (2)
0:42:27 Architectural Design
0:43:08 Design vs. Architecture
0:44:01 Various Definitions: Software Architecture
0:50:41 Our Definition
0:52:57 Structures, Views, and View Points
0:59:32 Views and View Points Example
1:02:16 View Points in Palladio
1:02:34 4+1 Architectural Views (Kruchten 1995)
1:02:50 Some UP Architectural Views
1:03:04 A Structural View (Data Objects)
1:03:32 A Structural View (Architecture)
1:04:38 A Behavioural View (inter component)
1:05:23 A Behavioural View (intra component)
1:05:55 A Deployment View
1:06:57 Advantages of an Explicit Architecture
1:15:59 Agile Architecture
1:22:02 Recording Architecture Decisions


The knowledge of the operation and ageing behaviour of ecologically acceptable hydraulic fluids is a prerequisite for successful applications of these fluids in hydraulic systems, in particular in the area of mobile hydraulic with its high power density. This thesis presents extensive investigations which were performed in laboratory as well as in test field using different kinds of ecologically acceptable hydraulic fluids. The investigations indicate that the ageing processes of ecologically acceptable fluids are influenced by many parameters. Some starting points for the improvement of these fluids are discussed as well as the possibilities for an optimised design of hydraulic systems.


This study is aimed at understanding, what gender-related challenges were recognized by scholars in the Information Systems field and how these challenges evolved over time. Based on a literature review of 22 papers published in the Senior Scholars Basket of Journals , which consider gender as core to their research, seven categories of challenges were identified. It is discussed, which studies and the related categories of challenges turned out to be scientifically demanded. It was found out that the category concerned with under-representation of women in Information Systems, which motivated the majority of articles under investigation, is not highly cited by other researchers. The paper contains a detailed description of the research method used, discussion of the results, as well as study limitations and propositions for future research.


In Ni-Fe/Cu multilayers formed by ion beam sputtering, oscillatory magnetoresistance changes with copper thickness have been observed at room temperature. As the thickness of the Ni-Fe layer increased, the magnetoresistance ratio increased, reached a maximum value at 1.0-1.1 nm, and decreased slightly above 1.1 nm. The maximum magnetoresistance ratio was 19% for the Ni-Fe (1.0 nm)/Cu(1.0 nm) multilayer at room temperature. >


Buerger's disease is characterized by multiple peripheral arterial occlusions in young, male smokers. It is rarely considered in the differential diagnosis of iliac artery occlusion. This report describes a patient with clinical, radiologic, and pathologic manifestations of Buerger's disease who underwent an axillofemoral bypass procedure because of left iliac artery occlusion in the presence of horseshoe kidney.


The kinetic parameters of recombinant Altai maral chymosin obtained in pro- and eukaryotic expression of plants were determined. It was shown that the production system does not affect the affinity of chymosin for a synthetic peptide substrate, and the turnover number and catalytic efficiency of the enzyme obtained in K. lactis are higher than those synthesized in E. coli.


The authors reviewed preoperative MRI and EEG findings in relation to postsurgical outcome in 17 patients with refractory epilepsy due to tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Resecting concordant MRI (main tuber) and EEG abnormalities offered seizure freedom (8/9, 89%; median follow-up 25 months) comparable to other focal etiologies. Patients with nonconcordant MRI and EEG findings did less well (3/8, 38%, seizure free; p = 0.027, OR = 13).