In heterogeneous network the deployment of pico cells is vital in offering higher data rates. Pico cell range extension is the feature of LTE-A where pico cell in a Het-net can increase the coverage area with an positive bias and neighboring macro cell can offload their users to pico cell to reduce load in them. Deployment of pico and macro will result in downlink interference for users in the range extension area. This leads to the multi-user downlink communication problem. The main task of low power cells deployed in a heterogeneous network is to allow the cell edge users benefit from the extra bandwidth that is introduced in the network. Scheduling of pico cell users can reduce the interference for the users in the cell range extension area of the Heterogeneous network. In this paper, downlink packet scheduling performance with Modified Largest Weighted Delay First has been analyzed.


De Tocqueville, writing at the dawn of the modern democratic age, asserted that: the sight of such universal uniformity saddens and chills me, and I am tempted to regret that state of society that has ceased to be. When the world was full of men of great importance and extreme insignificance, of great learning and extreme ignorance, I turned aside from the latter to turn my observation on the former alone, who gratified my sympathies. But I admit this gratification arose from my own weakness...


The analysis of recent Irish caesarean section trends by Brick and Layte on behalf of the ESRI 1 reached three main conclusions. (i) that caesareans are being performed with increasing frequency in Ireland, (ii) that changing demographics and maternal characteristics exert important pressures on this upward trend and (iii) that other influences, such as altered obstetricians' decision-making and indeed changing womens' preferences, may represent further influences.


The present invention relates to the field of protein purification. In particular, the invention concerns methods for increasing the filtration capacity of virus filters, by combined use of endotoxin removal and cation-exchange media in the prefiltration process.


The pollution-free approximation of the spectrum for self-adjoint operators using a quadratic projection method has recently been studied. Higher-order pollution-free approximation can be achieved by combining this technique with a method due to Kato. To illustrate, an example from magnetohydrodynamics is considered. Whether or not this procedure converges to the whole spectrum is unknown. Combining the quadratic method with the Galerkin method, we derive procedures that do converge to the whole spectrum and without pollution.


Abstract.
 Hares were introduced into Australia early in the period of European settlement. This study examined historical issues of newspapers and other historical sources to ascertain the number of importations, the number of hares landed alive, their destinations, relevant habitat characteristics at the sites of the releases, and whether the propagules became established and spread. Forty shipments were identified, and one or more live hares were landed from 27 of those shipments, totalling ∼86 live hares, and resulted in the establishment of 10 populations of hares. The climate and the grasses at the known release sites were suitable for Lepus europaeus and predators were rigorously suppressed, which, acting together with the wealth, power, influence, and determination of the proponents of the importations, made establishment of hares in Australia almost certain. However, 11 of the hares landed alive were almost certainly L. nigricollis, and the fates of seven of those hares are not known. There are populations of hares in Australia at sites suited to L. nigricollis but not L. europaeus on the basis of climate and availability of C4 grass types, and the taxonomic status of those hares should be examined.


The general ordinary quasi-differential expression M of nth order with complex coefficients and its formal adjoint M + are considered over a region (a, b) on the real line R, -∞ < a < b < oo, on which the operator may have a finite number of singular points. By considering M over various subintervals on which singularities occur ony at the ends, restrictions of the maximal operator generated by M in L 2 w (a, b) which are regularly solvable with respect to the minimal operators T 0 (M) and T 0 (M + ). In addition to direct sums of regularly solvable operators defined on the separate subintervals, there are other regularly solvable restrictions of the maximal operator which involve linking the various intervals together in interface like style.


According to an exchange agreement with Moscow State University, Brock University occasionally invites one of its history professors to teach here for a semester. Our second visitor was Aleksandr Pavlovich Shevyrev, an associate professor (dotsent) with the section for nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russian history. He spent the Winter 2008 semester at Brock, during which he kept a diary. I have somewhat abridged my translation.


A state optimization algorithm is suggested in view of how to improve the reliability of multi-sensor data in a servo system. According to Bayes posterior estimation theory, the algorithm requires to convert the state optimization estimation of n data into seeking the estimated value Y( E? ) of the largest posterior probability maxPY|Eof Y, thus obtaining the optimization state value of multiple sensors to the same target and improving the reliability of theodolite. The algorithm has been applied to a servo system with three kinds of sensors and moving targets can be stably tracked with high-accuracy for a long time and system's stability has been greatly improved.


EDITOR,--The heart of Richard Horton's argument is that the presence of "spin" in a scientific paper is unjustified and serves the illegitimate purpose of empowering the "knowledge" that the author wishes to convey.1 The ensuing debate with Trisha Greenhalgh seems superficial because they discuss legitimacy rather than the underlying assumption that a paper can be categorised into two separate elements, spin and knowledge.

Horton proposes the use of critical literary analysis during …


Comprehensive analysis on the light Higgs scenario of the minimal supersymmetric standard model is performed in the framework of the non-universal Higgs mass model (NUHM). The NUHM is known to be the simplest framework realizing the light Higgs scenario with the unifications of gaugino and sfermion masses at the scale of grand unified theory being consistent. All important constraints from collider experiments, flavor-changing processes, and cosmological observations are considered in order to clarify the allowed region of the model parameter space, where the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method is used to obtain the region. We show that the region is excluded by current LHC results for the SUSY particle searches. We discuss possible extensions to save the LHS. Even with such extensions, the measurement of B_s to mu^+ mu^- would enable us to test the LHS in the near future.


Larval emergence at constant temperatures, i.e., 10, 15, 20, 30 and 40°C from old and new cists of H. avenae was studied. At fluctuating room temperature larval emergence from only old cysts was studied. The contents of field-collected cysts were also recorded during April, 1973 to November, 1974. In all, there were 100 cysts in four replicates at each temperature. The weekly observations revealed that differences in larval emergence from old cysts at 10°C, 15°C and 20°C were significant. As was evident from total hatch, the optimum temperature, the maximum larval emergence took place at l8°C. This points to the possible existence of optimum temperature between 15°C and° 20°C. For larval emergence from new cysts, there was significant increase at 15°C as compared to 10°C, a significant decline at 20°C and little emergence at higher temperatures. This indicated that for larval emergence from new cysts the optimum temperature might be between 10°C and 15°C. Thus, there appeared to be different temperature optima for larval emergence from old and new cysts of H. avenae. The monthly observations on contents of the field-collected cysts did not show any much greater variation except a slight decline during winter months.


The applications of HDD in mobile and compact devices pose higher requirement on the vibration rejection capability of HDD servo control. A novel vibration suppression method is proposed in this paper. It is not model based, so it is less sensitive to the variation of the plan parameters. It avoids obtaining disturbance observation by differentiation of position signal. It is an add-on feedforward scheme therefore it is easy to be on/off; through proper on/off of this add-on feature in different environments, the water-bed can be avoided and the vibration rejection is achieved without sacrificing the performance in other frequencies. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the scheme.


Contributing Authors. Preface. Part I: Setting the Scene. 1. Evaluation of voting technologies D. Jones. 2. In search of the perfect voting technology: No easy answers L.F. Cranor. 3. Verification for electronic balloting systems R. Mercuri, P. Neumann. 4. Electronic voting: Constitutional and legal requirements, and their technical implications L. Mitrou, D. Gritzalis, S. Katsikas, G. Quirchmayr. Part II: Trends and Perspectives. 5. Towards secure and practical e-elections in the new era M. Burmester, E. Magkos. 6. The theory and implementation of electronic voting systems I. Damgard, J. Groth, G. Salomonsen. 7. Secure electronic voting: The current landscape C. Lambrinoudakis, D. Gritzalis, V. Tsoumas, M. Karyda, S. Ikonomopoulos. Part III: Capabilities and Limitations. 8. Public confidence and auditability in voting systems R. Saltman. 9. Robust verifiable non-interactive zero-sharing: A plug-in utility for enhanced voters' privacy A. Kiayias, M. Yung. 10. Issues, non-issues, and cryptographic tools for Internet-based voting R. Peralta. 11. Private, secure and auditable Internet voting E. Gerck. 12. Remote voting via the Internet? The Canton of Geneva pilot project A. Trechsel, F. Mendez, R. Kies. 13. e-vote and PKI's: A need, a bliss, or a curse? D. Bruschi, G. Poletti, E. Rosti. 14. Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms D. Chaum. Index.


Volumetric bubble display using high viscosity liquid is presented. The bubbles are produced by the holographic parallel femtosecond laser pulse excitations.


Poly(propylene glycol) oligomers with molecular weights ranging from 1000 to 8000 g·mol -1 were end-functionalized with acetoacetate groups and subsequently crosslinked using carbon-Michael addition with PEG diacrylate. Gel fraction analysis, DMA, TGA, tensile, and swelling measurements were utilized to characterize the networks. The thermomechanical properties of the networks were analyzed with respect to the molecular weight between crosslink points (M c ) and the critical molecular weight for entanglement (Me). Sampling experiments during crosslinking revealed the evolution of molecular weight with time and monomer conversion. Kinetic analyses of the Michael additions were performed using 'H NMR spectroscopy, and the influence of basic catalyst and concentration was elucidated.


Background: In Factitious Disorder by proxy, one person (perpetrator) induces the disease in another person, thereby seeking emotional needs during the treatment process Diagnosis of this disorder is very difficult and there is not much consensus over it among experts. Lack of timely diagnosis of this disorder may lead to serious harms in patients. Case presentation: We will introduce a 19 year-old boy with mental retardation and history of multiple admissions to psychiatric, internal, urology and surgery wards. He has a 12 year-old sister and a 4 year-old brother, both with history of multiple admissions to pediatrics and internal wards. The father of family was 48 years old with chronic mental disorder, drug dependency and history of multiple admissions to medical, psychiatry and neurology wards. The mother of this family was diagnosed with munchausen syndrome by proxy.


This work explores the possibilities of using functionally graded material (FGM) layers to reduce normal and shear stress gradients due to internal pressure and thermal loadings at the interface of a two-layered wall pressure vessel. The two walls are made of an internal thin metallic layer (titanium used as a liner to avoid a chemical/physical reaction between the gas and the external layer) and an external thick layer (carbon fiber used as a structural restraint). Two main geometrical elements are investigated: a cylindrical shell and a spherical panel. The shell analysis has been made by referring to mixed layerwise theories, which lead to a three-dimensional description of the stress/strain fields in the thickness shell direction; results related to the first order shear deformation theory are given for comparison purposes. It has been concluded that it is convenient to use FGM layers to reduce shear and normal stress gradients at the interfaces. Furthermore, the FGM layers lead to benefits as far as buckling load is concerned; lower values of in-plane shear and longitudinal compressive stresses are, in fact, obtained with respect to a pure two-layered wall.


Abstract 4164 Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is composed of heterogeneous groups of lymphoma with pathophysiological, genetic and clinical features. Gene expression profiling identified two distinct forms of DLBCL: activated B cell-like (ABC) and germinal center B-cell-like (GCB) types. ABC DLBCL shows more activated phenotype characterized with high activity of the NF-kappa B pathway and worse prognosis than GCB DLBCL. CD5-positive (CD5+) DLBCL comprises 5 to 10% of DLBCL and is one of the immunohistochemical subgroups in the 2008 WHO classification. It shows many distinct clinical characteristics with elderly onset, advanced stage at diagnosis, high serum lactate dehydrogenase level and frequent involvement of extranodal sites. Despite the use of rituximab, CD5+ DLBCL shows a poor prognosis and high incidence of central nervous system (CNS) relapse. More than 80% of patients with CD5+ DLBCL are classified as non-GCB subgroup by Hans9 method; however, few molecular studies have been reported. To clarify the difference between CD5+ DLBCL and CD5-negative (CD5-) DLBCL in the gene expression profile, total RNA from 90 patients with de novo DLBCL including 33 CD5+ DLBCLs and 57 CD5- DLBCLs was examined using Agilent 44K human oligo-microarrays (Agilent 4112F). The expression of CD5 in tumor cells was confirmed by means of immunohistochemistry using frozen sections. Cases of primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma, intravascular large B-cell lymphoma and primary DLBCL of the CNS were excluded from the present study. Supervised hierarchical clustering of the expression data could separate the DLBCL cases into the two groups, CD5+ DLBCL and CD5- DLBCL. A signature gene set supervised by CD5 expression included some of the same genes (SH3BP5, CCND2, LMO2) in the predictor gene set to discriminate between GCB and ABC DLBCLs. To classify the difference between CD5+ ABC DLBCL and CD5- ABC DLBCL in the gene expression profile, the 90 DLBCLs were analyzed by the Rosenwald9s gene set (NEJM, 2002). Those cases were separated with 78 ABC DLBCLs and 12 GCB DLBCLs. Incidence of CD5+ cases was 42% (33/78) in ABC DLBCLs and 0% in GCB DLBCLs. A classifier based on gene expression at supervised analysis also correctly identified CD5 expression in ABC DLBCL. Signature genes to distinguish between CD5+ ABC DLBCL and CD5- ABC DLBCL were as follows: SNAP25, SYCP3, CCNA1, MAPK4, CCNA1, LMO3, NLGN3, GRIN2A, AQP4, FGFR2, NEUROD1, KL, FGF1, SYT5, etc., were overexpressed in CD5+ ABC DLBCL, and CYP4Z1, MDM2, IL7R, GRLF1, TNFRSF9, CD1A etc., were overexpressed in CD5- ABC DLBCL. Enriched Gene Ontology (GO) categories in CD5+ ABC DLBCL were synapse, multicellular organismal process, fibroblast growth factor receptor signaling pathway, cell projection, alcohol dehydrogenase activity and glucuronosyltransferase activity. Among them, synapse was the top GO category (P=6.1E-05). In conclusion, our current study confirmed that most of CD5+ DLBCLs are classified as ABC DLBCL by gene expression profiling. Our results suggest that neurological component- and function-related genes in the CD5+ ABC DLBCL signature gene set may be related to the high frequency of CNS relapse in CD5+ DLBCL. Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


The temperature-dependent diffusion coefficients of interstitial hydrogen, deuterium, and tritium in nickel are computed using transition state theory. The coefficient of thermal expansion, the enthalpy and entropy of activation, and the pre-exponential factor of the diffusion coefficient are obtained from ab initio total energy and phonon calculations including the vibrations of all atoms. Numerical results reveal that diffusion between octahedral interstitial sites occurs along an indirect path via the metastable tetrahedral site and that both the migration enthalpy and entropy are strongly temperature dependent. However, the migration enthalpy and entropy are coupled so that the diffusion coefficient is well described by a constant activation energy, i.e., $D={D}_{0}\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}\mathrm{exp}[\ensuremath{-}Q∕(RT)]$, with $Q=45.72$, 44.09, and $43.04\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{kJ}∕\mathrm{mol}$ and ${D}_{0}=3.84\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}6}$, $2.40\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}6}$, $1.77\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}6}\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}{\mathrm{m}}^{2}\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}{\mathrm{s}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ for H, D, and T, respectively. The diffusion of deuterium and tritium is computed to be slower than that of hydrogen only at temperatures above $400\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{K}$. At lower temperatures, the order is reversed in excellent agreement with experiment. The present approach is applicable to atoms of any mass as it includes the full coupling between the vibrational modes of the diffusing atom with the host lattice.


Abstract Large single crystals of GdCa4O(BO3)3 (space group Cm) were grown by the Czochralski method. Dielectric, piezoelectric and elastic coefficients at room temperature as well as specific heat capacity, thermal expansion and cation disorder were studied employing a variety of methods including resonant ultrasound spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, dilatometry and X-ray diffraction techniques. The electromechanical parameters (4 dielectric, 10 piezoelectric and 13 elastic stiffness coefficients) obtained on different samples are in excellent agreement indicating high internal consistency of our approach, whereas the values reported in literature differ significantly. The elastic behaviour of GdCa4O(BO3)3 resembles the one of structurally related fluorapatite, i.e. the elastic anisotropy is relatively small and the longitudinal effect of the deviations from Cauchy-relations exhibit a pronounced minimum along the direction of the dominating chains of cation polyhedra. GdCa4O(BO3)3 exhibits a maximum longitudinal piezoelectric effect of 7.67 × 10−12 CN−10, a value in the order of that of langasite-type materials. Significant changes of the calcium/gadolinium distribution on the 3 independent cation sites accompanied by characteristic anomalies of heat capacity and thermal expansion suggest processes of nonconvergent cation ordering above about 900 K in GdCa4O(BO3)3.


ScFv human anti-idiotypic capable of mimicking the tumor-associated antigen HER-2 / neu, wherein said scFv is directed against F (ab ') 2 of trastuzumab and comprises the amino acid sequence identification number sequence: 1, or the amino acid sequence with sequence identification number: 2.


The group mutual exclusion (GME) problem (also called the room synchronization problem) arises in various practical applications that require concurrent data sharing. Group mutual exclusion aims to achieve exclusive access to a shared resource (a shared room) while facilitating concurrency among non-conflicting requests. The problem is that threads with distinct interests are not allowed to access the shared resource concurrently, but multiple threads with same interest can. In Blelloch et al. (2003), the authors presented a simple solution to the room synchronization problem using fetch8add (F8A) and test-and-set (T8S) atomic operations. This algorithm has O(m) remote memory references (RMRs) in the cache coherent (CC) model, where m is the number of forums. In Bhatt and Huang (2010), an open problem was posed: "Is it possible to design a GME algorithm with constant RMR for the CC model using fetch8add instructions?" This question is partially answered in this article by presenting a group mutual exclusion algorithm using fetch-and-increment instructions. The algorithm is simple and scalable.


Water soluble lac varnishes were prepared using ammonia, morpholine, triethanolamine and borax. The varnishes were treated with 3% 4% & 5% urea as well as thiourea on the weight of shellac. The films of the varnishes developed on mild steel panels and glass slides were bakedat 100 ± 2 °C in oven for 90 minutes. Film propelties like water resistance, impact resistance, scratch hardness, flexibility and gloss were studied. An appreciable improvement in the properties ofthe varnishes were observed No adverse effect of water was noticed on the films of the varnishes upto 7 days of immersion in water. The highest values for scratch hardness and gloss were observed in case of 3% urea and thiourea treated varnishes. In general, thiourea treated varnishes showed better performance in comparison to urea treated varnishes.


Using the available data of half-life time of unstable nuclei given that the number of protons is greater than the number of neutrons, an elaboration was made on the dependence of half-life time of these nuclei on the value of the difference between the two numbers, which is referred to as the isospin asymmetry effect. The available data of half-life time was analyzed and two formulas of half-life time were suggested. The analysis of the data and the suggested formulas indicated that the half-life time of these nuclei and their decay mode are strongly dependent on the isospin asymmetry.

 Key words: Half-life time formula, isospin asymmetry, nuclei with.


process mediated by or involving microorganisms in which a product of economic value is obtained is called fermentation (Casida, Jr., 1968). The terms industrial microbiology and fermentation are virtually synonymous in their scope, objectives and activities. The microbial product may be microbial cells (living or dead), microbial biomass, and components of microbial cells, intracellular or extracellular enzymes or chemicals produced by the microbes utilizing the medium constituents or the provided substrate. The services generated by microorganisms range from the degradation of organic wastes, detoxification of industrial wastes and toxic compounds, to the degradation of petroleum to manage oil spills, etc. Industrial microbiology also encompasses activities like production of biocontrol agents, inoculants used as biofertilizers, etc. Obviously, the scope and activities of industrial microbiology are too extensive to be covered in any detail in a book like this scope; therefore, the coverage in this chapter remains generalized and rather elementary. The activities in industrial microbiology begin with the isolation of microorganisms from nature, their screening for product formation, improvement of product yields, maintenance of cultures, mass culture using bioreactors, and usually end with the recovery of products and their purification.


INTRODUCTION
The operation of parotic gland tumors are challenge for the surgeon. The main aim of these operations is tumor removal and facial nerve preservation. Despite of imaging examinations, showing the localization of the tumor, it's important for surgeon to have the opportunity to discriminate between tumor and normal parotic gland tissue during the operation, e.g. in color difference. Methylene blue (MB) has been used in intravital staining of various tissues for a long time.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
The aim of the study was an attempt of intravital staining of parotic gland, using MB during the surgery of five benign gland tumors.

RESULTS
In all cases parenchyma of the parotic gland was dark-blue stained and in all cases, while the tumor didn't show any staining.

CONCLUSIONS
Using of MB may be useful in the surgery of parotic gland.


Identification of presence of target acoustic sound or event from a single channel mixture is a challenging task of automatic sound recognition system. In presence of background noise, the detection and classification of target acoustic event becomes more difficult. Various methods have been proposed that extract features from spectrogram of sound and then the extracted features are used with traditional non negative matrix factorization for separation of overlapping sound. In his paper, we propose an approach to separate and classify single channel acoustic events. The method combines Common Fate Transformation and Cauchy Non-negative Matrix Factorization for feature extraction and finally fuzzy rule-based classifier is developed for classification. The proposed method, when applied to real data, gave high true positive rate. The method also gave better results in terms of true positive rate when compared to widely used support vector machine using the same real data. Moreover, the proposed approach is fast and can be used for the efficient separation of acoustic events from overlapping sounds.


Time series of ocean climate indices and catch records were used to identify the alternation patterns of pelagic fish populations in relation to climate regime shifts. During 1910-2008, an orderly alternation of dominant pelagic fish groups was observed in the Tsushima Warm Current (TWC; Yellow Sea-East China Sea-East Sea/Japan Sea) and Kuroshio-Oyashio Current (KOC; Northwestern Pacific) regions. After the collapse of herring fishery in the late 1920s, the sardine (A group) dominated in the 1930s, 3 other species (C group; Pacific saury, jack mackerel, and anchovy) dominated in the 1950s-1960s, chub mackerel (B group) dominated in the 1970s, and then sardine (A group) dominated again during cool regime in the 1980s. As sardine biomass decreased in association with the climate regime shift that occurred in the late 1980s, catches of C group immediately increased after the regime shift and remained at high levels during warm regime in the 1990s. Alternations of dominant fish groups occurred 6 times between 1910 and 2008. The dominant period of the 7 species lasted for 10-20 years. The catch of Pacific sardine in the TWC and KOC regions showed a negative correlation with the catch of the other 5 species (Pacific herring, anchovy, jack mackerel, Pacific saury, and common squid), suggesting that the abundance of the 5 species is strongly affected by the abundance of Pacific sardine in relation to the climate regime shifts. The total catch level of the 7 species in the KOC region was generally higher than that in the TWC region before 1991 but was lower after 1992, suggesting that the fish populations in the Pacific side are shifted to the TWC region by zonal oscillation of the oceanic conditions in relation to the climate regime shift in the late 1980s.


Due to a host of regulatory, technical and marketing factors, microcell-based public cordless telephone service has not achieved the expected penetration levels. Four operators were licensed to offer "telepoint" services and another three were granted licenses for PCNs. Now the two operators left in the field are trying to overcome the obstacles that have so far obstructed success.


A new control mode of diamond pressure machine wa s introduced,which takes advantage of DSP chip to explain and execute control co mmand from PC,controls input and output of analog and digital signals by CAN bus ,develops control board special for diamond pressure machine based on DSP,makes more CPU working together with different tasks to improve control precision,and is economic for the control mode.


This book contains over 40 selections. Some of the titles are: Radionuclide imaging of the cranio-cervical region; Magnetic resonance imaging in the cranio-cervical region: Experiences in 194 cases; NMR-finding in a case of Morquio's syndrome with syncope; The dynamic evaluation of the cervical spinal canal and spinal cord by magnetic resonance imaging during movement; and A review of clinical and radiological aspects of rheumatoid arthritis of head joints.


The standard enthalpy of formation ΔH°f,298 for hydroxyoxiranone is estimated as –377 ± 10 kJ mol–1 by means of ab initio molecular orbital calculations at the QCISD(T)(full)/6-311G(2df,p)//MP2(full)/6-311G(d,p) level of theory, corresponding to a conventional ring strain energy of 104 kJ mol–1. The hydroxy substituent on Cα stabilizes the α-lactone by 65 kJ mol–1 with concomitant elongation of the bond from Cα to the endocyclic oxygen On. There is a much larger stabilization (205 kJ mol–1) by the hydroxy substituent upon the zwitterion obtained by heterolysis of the Cα–On bond, and upon the carbene obtained by decarboxylation of the zwitterion. The relative energies of the α-lactone, zwitterion and carbene have been determined by MP2(fc)/6-31+G(d) calculations in vacuo and with the IPCM method for aqueous solvation. Solvation by this continuum method preferentially stabilizes the zwitterion, although at the IPCM-MP2(fc)/6-31+G(d) level the α-lactone is still 21 kJ mol–1 lower in energy than the zwitterion.


The notary employee helps provide services for the deed making, such as the process of preparation, registration, and ratification of documents or deeds made under the hand and be witnesses in the inauguration of the deed. The work carried out by Notary Public employees has an enormous responsibility with a lot of work weight. This study aims to investigate the Notary employee wages in Sidoarjo, whether already have decent wages according to the law or not. According to the previous research, shows that notary officers are workers referred to in the Manpower Act. Therefore, the contract must follow the district minimum wage (UMK). This research uses the method of statute approach and sociolegal. The results of the study showed that the unconsistency of wage among fellow notary in Sidoarjo is due to differences in the number of orders that can be found. Thus, in order to meet the standard of life eligibility (aspect of justice) for notary employees, although not according to the district/city minimum wage (UMK), formulated solutions where the price of wages is analogous to the equal profession of salary /Accountants Services.


OESTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBANK For Austrian households, cash payment is still the preferred choice for settling transactions: in 2011 more than 82% of transactions (65% of the transaction volume) were paid in cash, hardly less than 15 years ago. The use of point-ofsale (POS) terminals increased in this period from 2.4% to 25.8% in terms of volume, whereas in 2011 only 5% of the transaction volume was settled through credit cards (Mooslechner et al., 2012, p. 66). Retail transactions of households are limited by the amount of private consumption, which represents about two-thirds of GDP. Annual payments transferred over large-value systems, on the other hand, add up to 90 to 100 times GDP in most developed countries (Kahn et al., 2014, p. 1). The dramatic increase of the "payment intensity" i.e. the relation between the transaction volume and nominal GDP during the last decades has created enhanced responsibilities for policymakers, regulators and supervisors, as failures of payment systems could have dangerous knock-on effects within the financial sector and beyond. The collapse of Herstatt Bank (1974) and the difficulties encountered in September 2001 in the U.S. large-value system Fedwire have


We propose a framework to detect software bugs based on code pattern detection. Our framework will mine and generate bug patterns, detect those patterns in code, and calculate a vulnerability measure of software. While our framework performs well, we realize that it requires heavy manual tasks that render the framework infeasible to use in practice. However, we believe that recent advancements in machine learning will allow us to apply deep learning techniques to source code, which will help automate our framework for better practicality in the real world.


Nearly the entire U.S. supply of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) seed is produced in western Oregon. Little information is available regarding N fertilization effects on seed production of this crop in the region. Effects of 16 combinations of four N rates (0, 54, 81, and 108 lb N/acre) applied at the double-ridge (DR) stage of development, and the same four rates applied at the spikelet initiation (SI) stage, were measured on seed production of two older cultivars, Linn (forage-type) and Pennfine (turf-type). In a second experiment, effects of 60, 100, and 140 lb N/acre applied at the DR stage were also measured on two more recently developed turf-type cultivars, Regal and Pleasure. In both experiments, between 25 and 42 lb N/acre was applied in the fall. Seed yield of cultivar Linn was near maximum at 54 to 81 lb N/acre, but Pennfine seed yield was the highest at 108 lb N/acre. Growth stage when N was applied did not affect seed yield of either cultivar. Also, splitting the N application was not superior to applying all of the N at one time. Responses of Regal and Pleasure seed yield to N rates varied among years. In years without severe lodging, seed yields of Regal and Pleasure were the highest at 140 lb N/acre.


Introduction/ Background UNIM Ltd. specializes in pathology diagnostics and digital pathology. We have created the SAAS platform DPathology that can be used for saving and studying histological slides and it doesn't require an installation of a special software. You can use the platform with all the modern internet browsers. The SAAS platform gives all the specialists a chance to analyze remotely digital histological slides. It increases the accuracy of diagnostics and speeds up the medical assessment. The platform is used in several hospitals to get a consultation from the leading specialists from all over the world. It also can be used to create the Medical Big Data and the database for pathologists. . Aims Using our platform, we developed a digital multi-head microscope system for the professional society and we are planning on holding the first education program based on it onthe 15th of January 2016. Specialists fromCzechRepublicwill be our speakers and as the first round we want to show four cases of skin cancer. Methods This year we hold a competition for pathologists based on Dpathology software (www.finaldiagnoses.ru). 250 specialists registered to take part in the competition. There were fourteen cases from different specializations: we provided participants with clinical data and digitized histological slides. We got the cases from our partners from theCzechRepublicandItaly. Results When the competition ended, we received many favor- able reviews and we decided to start another project a little bit similar to the competition. Every month we show three interesting and difficult to diagnose cases provided by the leading Russian pathologists. The participants can look through the clinical data and digitized histological slides, and then discuss what they see among their professional society. There are 400  specialists  from  post  USSR countries.  Moreover, we get a few proposal of partnership to start a similar project in EU. And the last product in line is Pathology Assistant. It is a game changer. Pathology Assistant is a Digital Pathology©technology driven application for pathology diagnostics, tool to innovate pathology diagnostics in more simple, proven by analytical algo- rithm, automatically delivering anticipated support way. The service provides vast and structured database of validated cases, intuitive interface, fast and convenient system of analytical search. Pathology Assistant will streamline and simplify pathologist's way to the right decision. Pathologists from Memorial Sloan Catering and biggest EU labs are working on preparing the con- tent for the project.


In the field of non-destructive testing the tools that we use to conduct inspections has evolved over the years. Originally, inspectors used their senses: sight, hearing, and touch to evaluate structures, but now they use equipment such as: boroscopes, dye penetrant, microphones, and ultrasonic transducers, which can augment the human senses and/or make much finer quantitative measurements beyond any human capabilities. Recent developments in computer vision have created a "motion microscope", where small imperceptible motions in videos can be magnified and easily seen; this technique is called motion magnification. Additionally, the method enables quantitative analysis of structures from video as the information acquired for motion magnification also provides displacement signals as a basis for vibrational analysis. In this paper, we present applications of motion magnification to vibration analysis in non-destructive testing. We describe the methodology and theory behind motion magnification, the workflow from video to modal information, and discuss strategies for processing the numerous signals collected from video data. We demonstrate making video measurements of small structures and rotating machinery in controlled conditions, and in near real time, extracting displacements from video and doing simple modal and frequency analysis. We also present the results of outdoor measurements of civil infrastructure and discuss future applications for the methodology in non-destructive testing.


The article deals with the essence of living control in management practice, the cultural origins of live control are disclosed, humanitarian knowledge is systematized depending on control requirements. The philosophical, psychological, ethical, ontological tools of live control are revealed.


The time slot assignment problem (TSAP) or Satellite Communications scheduling problem (SCSP) for a satellite performs n×n ground station data traffic switching has been known NP-hard problem. This paper suggests O(n²) time complexity algorithm for TSAP of a satellite that performs n²×n² ground station data traffic switching. This problem is more difficult than n×n TSAP as NP-hard problem. Firstly, we compute the average traffic for n -transponder's basic coverage zone and applies ground station exchange method that swap the ground stations until all of the transponders have a average value as possible. Nextly, we transform the D matrix to D LB traffic matrix that sum of rows and columns all of transponders have LB. Finally, we select the maximum traffic of row and column in D LB , then decide the duration of κth switch mode to minimum traffic from selected values. The proposed algorithm can be get the optimal solution for experimental data.


Concern about occupational exposure to HIV has increased interest in the epidemiology of risk in the operating room. To learn more about how exposures happen, researchers at Yale-New Haven Hospital had nurses interview operating-room personnel immediately after a possible exposure occurred.

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The invention discloses an array observation method, and belongs to the field of rail communication. The array observation method includes the steps of selecting the frequency at which a train passes the location according to an overall power spectrum of data observed by an array, calculating separated time period power spectra and F-K spectra of oscillator fields in different time periods through the array according to a preset time period and signals observed at the frequency, and calculating the running speed of the trail according to the F-K spectra in different time periods. By calculating the F-K spectra of oscillation, generated when the train passes through one side of the array, of the array in different time periods, the different locations of the train relative to the array at corresponding moments are analyzed according to the characteristics of the F-K spectra in different time periods, the capacity for judging the running process of the train through the F-K spectra of the wave field of the array is shown, the running speed of the train is calculated, and the speed monitoring accuracy is improved.


The mobility patterns and trip behavior of people are usually extracted from data collected by traditional survey methods. However, these methods are generally costly and difficult to implement, especially in developing cities with limited resources. The massive amounts of call detail record (CDR) data passively generated by ubiquitous mobile phone usage provide researchers with the opportunity to innovate alternative methods that are inexpensive and easier and faster to implement than traditional methods. This paper proposes a method based on proven techniques to extract the origin–destination (OD) trips from the raw CDR data of mobile phone users and process the data to capture the mobility of those users. The proposed method was applied to 3.4 million mobile phone users over a 12-day period in Mozambique, and the data processed to capture the mobility of people living in the Greater Maputo metropolitan area in different time frames (weekdays and weekends). Subsequently, trip generation maps, attraction maps, and the OD matrix of the study area, which are all practically usable for urban and transportation planning, were generated. Furthermore, spatiotemporal interpolation was applied to all OD trips to reconstruct the population distribution in the study area on an average weekday and weekend. Comparison of the results obtained with actual survey results from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) indicate that the proposed method achieves acceptable accuracy. The proposed method and study demonstrate the efficacy of mining big data sources, particularly mobile phone CDR data, to infer the spatiotemporal human mobility of people in a city and understand their flow pattern, which is valuable information for city planning.


This project intends to develop a safety system that gives more information to the rider from the rear angles. The system is composed by a device that is mounted under the bicycle's seat and a user-interface application running on a smartphone that is fixed in the handlebar. With the urban mobility paradigm changing, with the development of different kinds of vehicles and different technologies, there is the need to adapt and evolve with different solution. In this work the focus is in one of the most used vehicles around the world, considered as the cleanest but sometimes underestimated, the bicycle. This vehicle is used daily by millions of people around the world, for different purposes. Although the possibility to ride in the road as a motorized vehicles, there are plenty of differences that make the riders vulnerable. The goal is to transform the bicycle into an intelligent and complete vehicle in order to increase the user security and comfort and at the same time encourage others to use it. Keywords—Urban Mobility, Road Safety, Bicycle, Embedded System, Sensors;


P2RX2 encoding P2X purinoreceptor 2 has been identified as the gene responsible for autosomal dominant deafness‐41 (DFNA41) as well as mediating vulnerability to noise‐induced hearing loss (NIHL). The objective of this study was to investigate the audiological and molecular characteristics of P2RX2‐related deafness, with emphasis on its role in NIHL by determining the audiological characteristics of a previously reported six‐generation DFNA41 family with a 10‐year follow‐up. We have also summarized phenotype–genotype correlations of P2RX2‐related deafness in human and mouse models.


This study is case study on the intervention in intellectual disability adolescent damaged by sexual violence. At
the time of counselling, the client attended special school, residing in facilities in the form of group home with
relevant social worker. The counselling mainly focussed on adolescent damaged by sexual violence with occasional
participation of relevant social worker or teacher. The counselling was made in 18 sessions from December 8,
2010 to January 26, 2011, namely, 16 interviews with the client and 1 interview with relevant social worker
and teacher respectively. The main counselling model applied to intervention was based on Food Art
Therapy(FAT) and Art Therapy and some kinds of psychological tests and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and
Reality Therapy known as means of diagnosis and therapy were used for supplementation. To properly assist the
client in the overall course of counselling, the counselor tried to maintain the main concept of FAT such as
affectionate vision, emotional exchange, hearty interest and the flow and viewpoint of animated forum.
After counselling, the client were more relaxed mentally and physically in facial expression or expression with
improved self-efficacy. The relevant social worker and teacher who cared client also reported that most of their
anxieties or protruding behaviors in daily life disappeared with improved relation with friends and ameliorated
adaptability in overall daily life.


It is significant to study the effect of the joint geometry parameters on stress concentration factor (SCF) for improving fatigue strength of welded structures.In this paper,the SCFs of butt-welded joints for symmetrical and single side strengthening weld height were calculated respectively by FE method.The effects of parameters such as weld bead flank angle,weld toe radius and plate thickness on the SCFs were analyzed,and the variation of stress concentration along the thickness direction at weld toe was studied.Base on the analysis of calculation results,the empirical formulas for evaluating the SCFs of two types of butt-welded joints were presented.The results show that it is possible to ease the variation of section shape and decrease the stress concentration factor of butt-welded joint by decreasing weld bead flank angle or/and increasing the weld toe radius,and the SCFs increase with the augment of plate thickness.The SCFs of single side strengthening height butt-weld joints are less than that of symmetrical ones,and the decreasing magnitude only depends on weld bead flank angle.


We are exploring power scale-up of semiconductor lasers through the use of arrays of amplifiers and coherent beam combining. In this paper we report 93%-efficient interferometric beam combining of the output of two saturated amplifiers yielding 372 mW in a single diffraction-limited lobe. A single mode semiconductor laser was amplified in a single stage and divided into two beams of 53 and 71 mW. Each beam was injected into a 10-stripe gain guided amplifier array having dimensions of approximately 100 μm wide by 250 μm long. Each amplifier had antireflective coatings (R~2%) on the front facet and high reflectivity mirrors (R~99%) on the rear facet. The output from the double-pass amplifiers produced 206 mW and 195 mW in the respective central lobes. Relative phase control was implemented by a mirror mounted on a piezoelectric stack before the beams were recombined at a common beam splitter. Proper adjustment of the relative phase resulted in a single beam having an output power of 396 mW with 94% or 372 mW, in a single diffraction-limited lobe. The corresponding single-lobe combining efficiency is 93%. The out-of-phase far-field profile was also recorded and indicated some mode mismatch as well as less than ideal coherence. Based on this data, we have shown that higher saturated gain may be achieved with multi-element systems.


We present a lattice Boltzmann study of a droplet dynamics on solid surface. For this purpose, a lattice Boltzmann model by Shan and Chen (SC) was used in modeling two-dimensional (2D) multicomponent multiphase (MCMP) of droplet dynamics. The miscible/immiscible region is determined for couples of initial densities and cohesion strengths through droplet tests. The chosen densities were then test with Laplace and good correlation was achieved. Then, the dynamic behavior of the droplet is investigated through the study of the surface adhesion strength between fluid-solid surfaces. The results were compared with the analytical solutions and good agreements were achieved. Gravitational effect was successfully included for simulating droplet dynamics on solid surface by incorporating Bond number. The simulation was extended by studying the displacement of droplets on solid surface due to variations of contact angle, plate inclination and Bond number. The results show the capability of Shan-Chen lattice Boltzmann model to simulate the problems.


The science of biometrics is based on discovering the identities of human beings by investigating their physical and behavioural traits. Of the many different biometric traits, i.e. fingerprint, iris, vascular, etc... the handwritten signature is still one of the most accepted techniques. Advancing progress in identification applications has led to widespread demand for new generation ID documents, such as electronic passports and citizen cards, which contain additional biometric information required for more accurate user recognition. This can be achieved by embedding dynamic signature features within the documentation. However, this would result in two significant drawbacks that must be addressed, these are: Memory Capacity and Computational Load. These problems and the increasing demand for standardized biometric verifications systems have motivated the research work performed in this Thesis. In order to achieve this, an attempt to reduce the information involved in verification processes is performed using feature selection criteria of the signature biometric data. Such reduced information content not only satisfies the memory capacity restrictions but also provides much more efficient use of the verification algorithms. In particular, two novel methods in the signature context, based on Principal Component Analysis and Hellinger Distance, are proposed here. The performance of the optimized features set obtained has been analyzed using two different verification algorithms. By reducing the sample size it has been observed that the error rates are maintained sufficiently low and the results obtained are in agreement with the current state of the art for signature techniques. It will be shown that in some cases that feature selection does not provide an adequate reduction solution, where a different strategy has been analyzed to achieve the aforementioned problems. A direct consequence of the widespread nature of biometric verification has led to demands for standardized protocols to improve interoperability. The work presented throughout this Thesis has considered current ISO/IEC signature standard data formats. It has been observed that the current compact data formats, 19794-7 Compact Format and 19794-11, do not meet the requirements of modern data formats. In particular, 19794-7 Compact Format, although having good compression ratios, has been found to imply an inadmissible loss in information. This problem has been solved by defining a new near-lossless compression data format based on lossless compression algorithms, and proposing different enhanced strategies to store signature data. This new data format achieves the same compression ratio, but without losing any relevant information. In addition, the problems found in the 19794-11CD2 regarding the lack of compression and information loss have been addressed. A new data format structure has been proposed, where the lack of compression is solved by reducing the data stored, avoiding duplicated data and providing a new singular point definition. This new structure has provided improved compression ratios, and, at the same time, carries more information. The two new data format definitions were presented to the ISO/IEC SC37 WG3 experts and accepted as the new third subformat "Compression Format" within the 19794-7 and the new committee draft for the 197974-11 CD3. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


This study determines the effect of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure on firm value. The population of this study is composed of mining companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange from 2016 to 2018. The study used a purposive sampling technique and obtained a sample of 66 companies. Applying moderated regression analysis, the results indicate a positive effect of CSR disclosure on firm value. Furthermore, profitability strengthens this effect on firm value, whereas leverage weakens it. CSR disclosure and its interaction with leverage reveal an influence on firm value. The lower the level of the leverage ratio of a company, the higher the CSR disclosure conducted by it, which subsequently increases firm value. This study contributes to business professionals by confirming that firm value will rise with increased CSR disclosure in financial reports.


Beam loss reduction and control challenges confronting the Fermilab Booster are presented in the context of the current operational status. In Summer 2002 the programmatic demand for 8 GeV protons will increase to 5E20/year. This is an order of magnitude above recent high rates and nearly as many protons as the machine has produced in its entire 30-year lifetime. Catastrophic radiation damage to accelerator components must be avoided, maintenance in an elevated residual radiation environment must be addressed, and operation within a tight safety envelope must be conducted to limit prompt radiation in the buildings and grounds around the Booster. Diagnostic and performance tracking improvements, enhanced orbit control, and a beam loss collimation/localization system are essential elements in the approach to achieving the expected level of performance and are described here.


In recent years,tourism industry in Korea has developed greatly. According to the features analysis in protection of traditional cultures,landscape exploitation and tour service,the paper indicates that advocating the primordial development pattern promotes Korea tourism developing quickly. Finding the "root" that inosculates tradition and modern,helping it withstand the economic impacts of tourism and keep its original style,are the strong bedrock to support sustainable development of tourism.


We present the first waveform migration for the lower mantle, focusing on the lowermost 400 km of the mantle beneath northern Siberia. We migrate vertical component P wave seismograms recorded in western Europe for earthquakes located in the Kuril Islands region. We focus on the time window between the direct P wave and the PcP wave, reflected at the core-mantle boundary, and we investigate the origin of PcP precursors. The data, selected for their good signal-to-noise ratio, are deconvolved by the source time function determined by the beam of the P wave. We observe the signature of a finite size scattering object located around 75°N, 85°E, at an apparent depth of ∼2650 km with respect to the IASP91 model. Its scale length is probably of the order of 100 km. This object is characterized by an anisotropic scattering diagram and may be related to the presence of an ancient subducted plate near the core-mantle boundary.


CD8α+ DC are implicated as the principle DC subset for cross‐presentation and cross‐priming of cytotoxic CD8 T cell responses. In this study, we demonstrate another unique facet of the CD8α+ DC and CD8 T cell relationship, by showing that CD8 T cells reciprocally activate CD8α+ DC, but not CD8α– DC, for IL‐12p70 production, the key Th1‐promoting cytokine. This effect was observed during an antigen‐specific interaction between DC and activated CD8 T cells, along with secondary TLR stimulation of DC by LPS. Activated CD8 T cells use a combination of IFN‐γ and CD40L, which is rapidly up‐regulated post‐stimulation, to prime DC for IL‐12p70 production during an antigen‐specific response. Our results suggest that the interaction between CD8α+ DC and antigen‐primed CD8 T cells may form an important component of Th1‐mediated immunity through the induction of IL‐12p70.


The haematological parameters in association with scattered microthrombi at necropsy are strong evidence for the occurrence of disseminated intravascular coagulation in this case. Release of tissue thromboplastin from necrotic tumour has been implicated in the induction of a hypercoagulable state (Amundsen et al., 1963) but the small size of the tumour and absence of invasion strongly militates against this being a significant mechanism in this patient. We think that the cushingoid state played a pivotal part in engendering disseminated intravascular coagulation in this case and are unaware of any previous case reports describing this association. The danger of such a state being engendered and increasing the morbidity and mortality of Cushing's syndrome seems to be great in view of the tendency to high levels of clotting factors, depressed reticuloendothelial system, increased susceptibility to infection, and in some cases associated tumours.


As a result of epidemic outbreaks of psitacosis-ornithosis we tried to establish the clinical-epidemiological-laboratory paralelism. Specific techniques employed were: Complement Fixation and LCL corpuscles search in respiratory secretations and blood (applied for the first time to psitacosis diagnosis on human beings).Forty-four patients were assisted,13 of whom were children.Clinical types are classified as: a) Non-apparent or non-symptomatic, b) Minor: rhinal-sinusitis; bronchopulmonary, c) Common or Influenzal pneumonitis, d) Serious: Diffuse dyspnoeic pneumonitis; pseudolobar pneumonitis with sanguinolent sputum; meningoencephalitis.Thirty per cent of the children showed morbilliform exanthema. Eight out of the 13 affected children had a positive complement fixation (> 1/8) and 10 had positive LCL corpuscles in respiratory secretations.The systematic study of LCL corpuscles, in serial samples is considered most useful, due to:1- It is an easy technique.2- The results are obtained within 24 hours.3- Corpuscles are not rendered negative with the start of a specific therapy with tetracyclines.


Lead‐free 0.95(K0.48Na0.52)(Nb0.95Sb0.05)O3‐0.05Bi0.5(Na0.82K0.18)0.5ZrO3 (KNSN‐BNKZ0.05) piezoelectric films with preferred crystal orientation and enhanced thickness are fabricated on silicon substrates from a chemical solution approach. Adequate K excess is introduced to obtain a single perovskite phase in the resulting thicker films. The effects of thickness, crystal orientation, and structure of the films on the performance are investigated. Outstandingly large effective piezoelectric strain coefficient up to 250 pm V−1 is demonstrated over a macroscopic scale using a laser scanning vibrometer in the [100]‐KNSN‐BNKZ0.05 film with an enhanced thickness of 2.7 µm, competitive to the benchmark oriented lead zirconate titanate films on silicon. Atomically resolved electron microscopy reveals the coexistence of oriented ferroelectric rhombohedral (R) and tetragonal (T) phases at the nanometer scale with gradual polarization rotation, which can lower the domain wall energy and facilitate the large piezoelectric response. The increased film thickness reduces the in‐plane mechanical clamping to enable more free deformation in the thickness direction and improve domain wall mobility, both further contributing to enhanced piezoelectric response.


To accommodate the flow of commerce, cargo inspection systems require a high probability of detection and low false alarm rate while still maintaining a minimum scan speed. Since objects of interest (high atomic-number metals) will often be heavily shielded to avoid detection, any detection algorithm must be able to identify such objects despite the shielding. Since pixels of a shielded object have a greater opacity than the shielding, we use a clustering method to classify objects in the image by pixel intensity levels. We then look within each intensity level region for sub-clusters of pixels with greater opacity than the surrounding region. A region containing an object has an enclosed-contour region (a hole) inside of it. We apply a region filling technique to fill in the hole, which represents a shielded object of potential interest. One method for region filling is seed-growing, which puts a "seed" starting point in the hole area and uses a selected structural element to fill out that region. However, automatic seed point selection is a hard problem; it requires additional information to decide if a pixel is within an enclosed region. Here, we propose a simple, robust method for region filling that avoids the problem of seed point selection. In our approach, we calculate the gradient Gx and Gy at each pixel in a binary image, and fill in 1s between a pair of x1 Gx(x1,y)=-1 and x2 Gx(x2,y)=1, and do the same thing in y-direction. The intersection of the two results will be filled region. We give a detailed discussion of our algorithm, discuss the strengths this method has over other methods, and show results of using our method.


The purpose of this seminar is to to study together the ways in which women are shaping the theological tradition through discussion of the method and content of recent constructive contributions to the discipline. Among several new texts by women on evil and hope, the seminar steering committee chose two, Emily M. Townes, ed" A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering, and Wendy Farley, Tragic Vision and Divine Compassion. These were chosen both for their intrinsic value, and because the seminar has been quite intentional about our pursuit of conversation among diverse women. Discussion began with the Townes book with Christine Firer Hinze and Cynthia Crysdale offering a sense of their readings of the text. Both women were clear about their own starting places as white middle class women and how that social location both shapes and limits their engagement with the essays, affirming at the same time the importance of the dialogue itself. Both also pointed out the richness of the experiential, narrative ground of the womanist essays. Hinze asked us as an ethical and theological concern to think about how to conceptualize what divides us, to also ask what unites us, and to search out hor'.to cross the divide. Crysdale described her initial frustration with the text, as it did not respond to her questions about theodicy. She also discovered the social location of privilege that shapes her own questions. The concrete sufferings of black women led her toward questions in three areas: the meaning of being both a victim and a sinner, the rendering of the resurrection within the situation of suffering to give meaning to the cross even when it does not restore justice, and the meaning of the servant symbol when servitude is rejected but servanthood as a way of discipleship may hold a value.


The reasons of Tao Yuanming's "fame seeking" have many aspects,namely the need of inner inspirit,the influence of historical culture,the influence of family meritorious service,the influence of social atmosphere and the influence of first virtuous morality and justice,as well as the flaw of Taoism's thought.Their existing further explains objective and inevitability of his "fame seeking",and powerfully confirms the complexity of his personality.


Lebanon, the Middle Eastern country with an area of about 10,400 km 2 , is known by a plenty water resources. It receives between 800 and 1500mm of precipitated water, snow covers around 2000km 2 ; hence this small land area encompasses 15 permanent watercourses (rivers) and more than 2,000 major springs, in addition, there is a number of aquiferous formations and karstic galleries, which are known to be filled with groundwater. However, there are parallel paths of increasing water stress stemming from both natural and human driving forces. Climate change, pollution, over-exploitation and the mismanagement of transboundary water resources are amongst the geo-environmental problems that affect these resources, the latter being the major water problem in Lebanon today. In the light of this issue, more than 74% of Lebanon's border is shared with neighboring countries, which makes the surface and subsurface water intermingle with neighboring regions, thus no volumetric measures are known. Two trans-boundary rivers between Lebanon and Syria in the north and one river with Israel to the South. Snow covers large areas of the mountain chains of Anti-Lebanon, which are shared with Syria, and Hermon chain with snow cover also shared with Israel. In addition, the three major aquifers of Lebanon extend to neighboring regions. To date, however, there is no creditable study to assess how to allocate these resources. Consequently, geo-political conflicts frequently exist due to the obscure nature of the hydrologic conditions. This study aims to introduce first hand information on the assessment and monitoring approaches to identify the principal hydrologic aspects of trans-boundary water resources of Lebanon, including quantitive measures and spatial delineations. This could be obtained through a systematic analysis of the shared hydrologic and hydrogeologic elements, thus conventional and recent tools and techniques.


The present invention is to provide a corrosion fatigue properties are excellent high strength spring and a steel wire for high strength springs, and their production method, by mass%, C: 0.35 to 0.50%, Si: 1.00 to 3.00%, Mn: 0.10 to 2.00% containing, and P a: 0.015% or less, s: 0.015% limited to no more than, and add balance of Fe and inevitable impurities is made of, and from 50 ℃ elevating the temperature range up to 600 ℃ to 0.25 ℃ / s differential scanning calorimetry when the measured, the peak of exothermic reaction is a steel wire, high strength springs for high-strength springs, it characterized in that only exist more than 450 ℃. Tempering temperature T [K], a method for manufacturing a high strength spring characterized in that the tempering treatment is performed under the conditions satisfying to the tempering time t [s], and content Si% [mass%] of Si. 16000 ≤ (T - 40 × [Si%]) × (31.7 + logt) ≤ 23000.


Since a typical vehicle contains several thousands of spot welds,it is often not practical in a vehicle structural analysis to model each and every spot-welded joint in detail.As such,simplified structural modals have been important in large-scale structural computations.The effects of different simplified joint model for strength of spot weld are studied by simulation with ABAQUS software.The results show the elastic-plastic joint failure modeling which are used to connect two elements coupling their translational and rotational DOFs turn up to a more suitable method to simulate the strength of spot weld because of its insensitivity of mesh size by the research between type of simplified finite element structural models and experiment.At the same time,the failure parameter is highly sensitive to the strength of spot weld.


Stone credits Lamine Zeroual for a "remarkable political stabilization program" (p. 253) that helped to undermine support for FIS and granted "substantial" concessions to the Berberists. For Stone, Zeroual accurately represented the views of most Algerians, e.g. moderate religious conservatism. As for the future, he emphasizes the need to recognize the particularity of the Kabyle "minority" and the Berber heritage of Algeria's Algerianity. Stone's optimistic belief that Zeroual's election in 1997 and the National Democratic Rally-led coalition of 1997-98 represented movement toward resolving Algeria's legitimacy crisis was shattered by the controversy over the April 1999 election of former Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika as president. With all other candidates pulling out the day before the election because of alleged fraud, institutional legitimacy proved to be far from resolved. The Agony of Algeria provides solid analysis of the political, cultural, and economic dynamics of the last ten years. However, it could be better organized to prevent redundancy and confusion. Also, notions such as "fundamentalists" and "Berber" or "Kabyle" minority need to be re-examined. While having an adequate grasp of the nature of the Islamist movement, Stone uses the value-laden and unhelpful word "fundamentalism." On the Berber issue, Stone uses the notion of "minority" without questioning it and without paying attention to the militants who claim that Algeria is populated by a Berber majority, not a minority. The expression "Berberophone minority" may be better, since only a minority speaks the Tamazigh language. While this may be an interesting book for people familiar with Algeria, its detailed observations may overwhelm those less familiar with the country. For the scholar, this book, which contains almost no references and no footnotes, may seem at best a well-informed anecdotal account.


The present invention relates to immunoreactivity improved fermented milk using probiotics lactic acid bacteria and a production method thereof. Disclosed is a production method of immunoreactivity improved fermented milk using probiotics lactic acid bacteria which comprises a step of injecting Lactobacillussp YH KCCM 10887P and ABT-5 lactobacillus to raw milk at the same time for fermenting.


The validity of the freedom regime in outer space regulated in the Outer Space Treaty in 1967 brings about many countries able to explore freely and use the outer space. One of the use of outer space is marked with various outer space satellite launching and operation which may cause a failure and hazard and or big loss on the surface of the earth such as the space shuttle explodes, the rocket does not meet the target or possibly the space objects drop down or the debris which enters the earth orbit so that causes a damage for another party. This will create another international responsibility related with the jurisdiction problem and controlled by the launching State to its space objects in the outer space.


Large amount of water is used and wastewater is created in coal mining industry. Coal mining wastewater treatment by reusing it for production and domestic purposes is then essential. Coal pit No 790 of Dong Bac Coal Corporation locates in the area of Mong Duong district, Quang Ninh province. Wastewater after treatment is within the limitation specified in the column B in QCVN 40:2011/BTNMT on industrial wastewater. The process effectiveness of treating turbidity, iron and Mn reaches the maximum level of83%, 30% and 40% (after Arkal filtering disc); 88%, 71% and 87% (after Media Filter); and 57%, 78% and 84% (after UF membrane filter) respectively.Those above indicators have met regulations for domestic water under QCVN 01:2009/BYT. However, the Coliform has insignificantly decreased after treating by Arkal filter which are hundreds to thousands of CFU/100ml. The amount of Coliform have decreased to 12 ÷ 51 CFU/100ml (after Media Filter) and from 1 to 18 CFU/100 ml (after through UF), respectively. The wastewate has been required for further treatment for purpose of domestic water supplying for workers and local people.


The volatile external prerequisites of today make bureaucratic organisations dysfunctional. New organisational forms characterised by decentralisation, integration and diversity is emerging. The key question changes from "Which is the best way to organise the work?" to "How to give conditions for a good organisation to emerge while the work is performed?". A Knowledge Matrix organisation has been studied through participative observation by one of its managers. The organisation and the reasons behind it are described. Positive effects like; holistic awareness, alignment, flexibility, learning, motivation, co-operation and shorter time to decision are stated. But there are also problems of insecurity and vagueness. One big threat against the matrix organisation is if managers do not dare to loose control by creating autonomy for employees. The organisation in question has also bee studied of researchers by explorative interviews. The result is presented through a lens of complexity theory and focuses upon the interaction between independent individuals, the collective that each member is a dependent part of, the vertical relations, and the evolution of the organisation. The main conclusion is that interaction is not good enough to nurture a common internal model. Another more successful matrix organisation is described to make the shortcomings of the first one clear. Managers in the success case were decisive to fulfil the change and trusted their co-workers. They made an extensive upfront work. And they invested heavily in communication to keep everyone informed and involved. Volatile times: new environmental conditions for old organisational structures It is possible to see two trends in organisational development. One trend is towards a postindustrial system with decentralisation, integration and diversity. The other goes back to old tayloristic and bureaucratic ideas, with focus on production and to compete with low price. It uses a rather simple organisation with a potent structure that determines most of the actions in the organisation: a one-boss hierarchy, centralisation, straight command and reporting lines, rules and instructions, negative feed-back control, and balance. We have more than 100 years of experience and research in using this type of industrial system and it may be reasonable to say that it is the most stable and efficient way to organise production. Why then do we have the other trend, towards a post-industrial system?


This monograph is a continuation of the monograph by V.V. Sadovnikov. Lateral interaction. Moscow 2006. Publishing house "Anta-Eco", 2006. ISBN 5-9730-0017-6. In this work, the foundations of the theory of heterogeneous catalysis and the theory of chemisorption are more easily formulated. The book consists of two parts, closely related to each other. These are the theoretical foundations of heterogeneous catalysis and chemisorption. In the theory of heterogeneous catalysis, an experiment is described in detail, which must be carried out in order to isolate the stages of a catalytic reaction, to find the stoichiometry of each of the stages. This experiment is based on the need to obtain the exact value of the specific surface area of the catalyst, the number of centers at which the reaction proceeds, and the output curves of each of the reaction products. The procedures for obtaining this data are described in detail. Equations are proposed and solved that allow calculating the kinetic parameters of the nonequilibrium stage and the thermodynamic parameters of the equilibrium stage. The description of the quantitative theory of chemisorption is based on the description of the motion of an atom along a crystal face. The axioms on which this mathematics should be based are formulated, the mathematical apparatus of the theory is written and the most detailed instructions on how to use it are presented. The first axiom: an atom, moving along the surface, is present only in places with minima of potential energy. The second axiom: the face of an atom is divided into cells, and the position of the atom on the surface of the face is set by one parameter: the cell number. The third axiom: the atom interacts with the surrounding material bodies only at the points of minimum potential energy. The fourth axiom: the solution of the equations is a map of the arrangement of atoms on the surface. The fifth axiom: quantitative equations are based on the concept of a statistically independent particle. The formation energies of these particles and their concentration are calculated by the developed program. The program based on these axioms allows you to simulate and calculate the interaction energies of atoms on any crystal face. The monograph is intended for students, post-graduate students and researchers studying work and working in petrochemistry and oil refining.


The present chapter reviews existing research concerning the motivations that terrorists have for their attacks and the political and psychological consequences of terror. It analyzes the use of terrorism in terms of current social psychological theories of decision making in conflict. The implications of social psychological models of tactical choices for Western and American attempts to reduce the likelihood of further attacks are delineated, and the prospects for increasing harmony versus escalation in the next few years are reviewed. The take-home message from this chapter is that attempts to deter terrorists from engaging in terrorist actions must adopt a broad focus on: (1) beliefs about the effectiveness of terror in relation to alternatives to terror, and (2) the psychological identities with which these beliefs are associated.


Solubilities of p-hydroxybenzoic acid (p-HBA) and mixtures of the para and ortho isomers have been determined in supercritical carbon dioxide at 318 and 328 K for pressures in the range 101−203 bar. The solubility of p-HBA in carbon dioxide (p-HBA/CO2 binary system) is 2 orders of magnitude lower than the binary system solubility of o-HBA. However, measurements undertaken with an equilibrium chamber of mixed para and ortho isomers demonstrate a strong enhancement in the solubility of p-HBA. Furthermore, the enhancement was found to be independent of the composition of the equilibrium chamber. The binary and ternary (p-HBA/o-HBA/CO2) solubility data were correlated using a modified form of the Peng−Robinson equation of state. Covolume-dependent mixing rules were also used with the Peng−Robinson model in an attempt to improve the correlation of solubility data. Conventional supercritical fluid (SCF) extraction of a mixture of the isomers is capable of producing an extract which is 99% pure o-HBA in one extr...


Cholesteatoma is a benign disease which can be associated with various extracranial or intracranial complications. Among the extracranial ones, Bezold's abscess is a rare occurrence but it can lead to serious sequel spreading downward along the great vessels and reaching the mediastinum. We present the case of Bezold's abscess as first sign of cholesteatoma recurrence many years after prior open cavity tympanomastoidectomy. Most otitic suppurative complications are caused by an underlying chronic inflammation of the middle ear, so in patients with suppurative neck mass and history of cholesteatoma, regional recurrence should be ruled out even several years after the primary surgical treatment.


In the existing railway network of the Republic of Croatia there is no direct connection between Rijeka and Trieste via Istria. It is theoretically possible to achieve this indirectly through several railway lines crossing Slovenia. As a result, our largest peninsula of Istria has remained completely isolated from the rest of the country from the point of view of rail transport. Trieste-Rijeka section is not included in the Mediterranean corridor, that is, in the basic TEN-T network. Some research [1], [2], [5] and facts show that there are numerous reasons for the construction of a new modern railway line between Rijeka and Trieste, which could be of great importance in the transport, technological and economic system of the Republic of Croatia and the European Union. The new concept of railway connection between Rijeka and Trieste envisages the construction of a new high-efficiency two-lane railway across the territory of Istria and partly across the territory of the Republic of Slovenia. In fact, the construction of a new railway line is foreseen on the Rijeka - Jurdani - Divača route, while the Divača - Trieste section is foreseen for reconstruction and modernization within the investment program of the Mediterranean Corridor. According to above research, this connection can be achieved in two ways: according to the first, the connection can be achieved by upgrading and modernizing existing lines on the route Jurdani - Pivka - Divača, and the second, by constructing a new line on the route Jurdani - Lupoglav - Divača. This second method of connection has the advantage in that it directly connects the Istrian railways into a complete system of Croatian railways.


Surface topography and deuterium retention in polycrystalline warm-rolled W and W-5%Re have been examined after exposure to a low-energy (76 eV), high flux (around 10 22 D/m 2 s) deuterium plasma to an ion fluence of 10 26 D/m 2 at various temperatures. The methods used were confocal laser scanning microscopy and the D( 3 He,p) 4 He nuclear reaction at 3 He energies varied from 0.69 to 4.0 MeV. During exposure to the D plasma at temperatures in the range from 348 to 673 K, small blisters of size in the range from about 1 to about 15 μm, depending on the exposure temperature, are formed on the W and W-5%Re surfaces. In the W-5%Re, the deuterium retention demonstrates its maximum at exposure temperature of 463 K, while in the W this maximum is shifted to 523 K. A difference in the temperature dependence of the D retention for the W and W-5%Re is explained, as a rough approximation, by temperature dependences of the ductility of these materials. *Corresponding author. Tel.: +81 76 445 6934; fax: +81 76 445 6931. E-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.com (V.Kh. Alimov).


The plant growth regulator was widely applied in agriculture and forestry plants especially in fruit trees and vegetables.Rational use can achieve a satisfactory yield.The effect of gibberellin(GA3) and indole acetic acid(IAA) which applied in coppice on the yield of fresh branches and leaves and borneol Cinnamomum camphora were analyzed and evaluated.


This study examines the potential of an evolutionary automatic programming methodology, Grammatical Evolution, to uncover a series of useful fuzzy technical trading rules for the ISEQ, the official equity index of the Irish Stock Exchange. Index values for the period 29/03/93 to 4/12/1997 are used to train and test the model. The preliminary findings indicate that the methodology has much potential.


There have been remarkable advances in the syntheses and applications of groups 13 and 14 homonuclear ethene analogues. However, successes are largely limited to aryl- and/or silyl-substituted species. Analogues bearing two or more heteroatoms are still scarce. In this work, we employed the block-localized wavefunction (BLW) method at the density functional theory (DFT) level to study dialumene and disilene bearing two amino substituents whose optimal geometries exhibit significantly stretched central M=M (M = Al or Si) double bonds compared with aryl- and/or silyl-substituted species. Computational analyses showed that the repulsion between the lone electron pairs of amino substituents and M=M π bond plays a critical role in the elongation of the M=M bonds. Evidently, replacing the substituent groups -NH2 with -BH2 can enhance the planarity and shorten the central double bonds due to the absence of lone pair electrons in BH2.


We derive the growth of density perturbations in Newtonian cos-mological models. A special case where the source of the particle creation is Ψ = 3nβH is examined. Constraints on the value of β from the observed anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation are also obtained.


In this paper we present a technique for content-based publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems that works without (distributed) explicit multicast group management. This technique, so-called LightPS, employs a rendezvous-based approach and, thus, maps subscription and event information into the peer-to-peer node Id keyspace. On the contrary to what could be expected, LightPS suits for high-dimensional pub/sub domains, requiring very low memory capacity and time to run subscription and event notification processes. We present its good performance through a formal theoretical analysis.


BACKGROUND: The prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition in older adults is reported to be as high as 60% and is associated with poor health outcomes. Inadequate feeding assistance and mealtime interruptions may contribute to malnutrition and poor nutritional intake during hospitalisation. Despite being widely implemented in practice in the United Kingdom and increasingly in Australia, there have been few studies examining the impact of strategies such as Protected Mealtimes and dedicated feeding assistant roles on nutritional outcomes of elderly inpatients.

AIMS: The aim of this research was to implement and compare three system-level interventions designed to specifically address mealtime barriers and improve energy intakes of medical inpatients aged ≥65 years. This research also aimed to evaluate the sustainability of any changes to mealtime routines six months post-intervention and to gain an understanding of staff perceptions of the post-intervention mealtime experience.

METHODS: Three mealtime assistance interventions were implemented in three medical wards at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital:

AIN-only: Additional assistant-in-nursing (AIN) with dedicated nutrition role.
PM-only: Multidisciplinary approach to meals, including Protected Mealtimes.
PM+AIN: Combined intervention: AIN + multidisciplinary approach to meals.

An action research approach was used to carefully design and implement the three interventions in partnership with ward staff and managers. Significant time was spent in consultation with staff throughout the implementation period to facilitate ownership of the interventions and increase likelihood of successful implementation.

A pre-post design was used to compare the implementation and nutritional outcomes of each intervention to a pre-intervention group. Using the same wards, eligible participants (medical inpatients aged ≥65 years) were recruited to the preintervention group between November 2007 and March 2008 and to the intervention groups between January and June 2009. The primary nutritional outcome was daily energy and protein intake, which was determined by visually estimating plate waste at each meal and mid-meal on Day 4 of admission. Energy and protein intakes were compared between the pre and post intervention groups. Data were collected on a range of covariates (demographics, nutritional status and known risk factors for poor food intake), which allowed for multivariate analysis of the impact of the interventions on nutritional intake.

The provision of mealtime assistance to participants and activities of ward staff (including mealtime interruptions) were observed in the pre-intervention and intervention groups, with staff observations repeated six months post-intervention. Focus groups were conducted with nursing and allied health staff in June 2009 to explore their attitudes and behaviours in response to the three mealtime interventions. These focus group discussions were analysed using thematic analysis.

RESULTS: A total of 254 participants were recruited to the study (pre-intervention: n=115, AIN-only: n=58, PM-only: n=39, PM+AIN: n=42). Participants had a mean age of 80 years (SD 8), and 40% (n=101) were malnourished on hospital admission, 50% (n=108) had anorexia and 38% (n=97) required some assistance at mealtimes. Occasions of mealtime assistance significantly increased in all interventions (p<0.01). However, no change was seen in mealtime interruptions. No significant difference was seen in mean total energy and protein intake between the preintervention and intervention groups. However, when total kilojoule intake was compared with estimated requirements at the individual level, participants in the intervention groups were more likely to achieve adequate energy intake (OR=3.4, p=0.01), with no difference noted between interventions (p=0.29). Despite small improvements in nutritional adequacy, the majority of participants in the intervention groups (76%, n=103) had inadequate energy intakes to meet their estimated energy requirements. Patients with cognitive impairment or feeding dependency appeared to gain substantial benefit from mealtime assistance interventions. The increase in occasions of mealtime assistance by nursing staff during the intervention period was maintained six-months post-intervention.

Staff focus groups highlighted the importance of clearly designating and defining mealtime responsibilities in order to provide adequate mealtime care. While the purpose of the dedicated feeding assistant was to increase levels of mealtime assistance, staff indicated that responsibility for mealtime duties may have merely shifted from nursing staff to the assistant. Implementing the multidisciplinary interventions empowered nursing staff to "protect" the mealtime from external interruptions, but further work is required to empower nurses to prioritise mealtime activities within their own work schedules. Staff reported an increase in the profile of nutritional care on all wards, with additional non-nutritional benefits noted including improved mobility and functional independence, and better identification of swallowing difficulties.

IMPLICATIONS: The PhD research provides clinicians with practical strategies to immediately introduce change to deliver better mealtime care in the hospital setting, and, as such, has initiated local and state-wide roll-out of mealtime assistance programs. Improved nutritional intakes of elderly inpatients was observed; however given the modest effect size and reducing lengths of hospital stays, better nutritional outcomes may be achieved by targeting the hospital-to-home transition period. Findings from this study suggest that mealtime assistance interventions for elderly inpatients with cognitive impairment and/or functional dependency show promise.


This paper describes a study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative hierarchical navigation schemes and to determine the relative advantages and disadvantages of specific design features and to identify information needs of the on-line shopping task. An experiment will be conducted to examine a participant's performance on a known-item, on-line shopping search task using one of three generalized hierarchical navigation schemes. The results of this study may provide insight into how to design effective navigational schemes for online stores, increase our understanding of the basic task of shopping in the "click-and-order" world, and classify the information needs of online shoppers.


Editorial Board: Poklad L.A. — Doctor of Economics and Management, Director of the State Autonomous Establishment of Supplementary Professional Education of the Nizhny Novgorod region «Center for Advanced Training and Professional Retraining of Health Professionals», chief freelance specialist on nursing management of the Volga Federal District. Vagina E.V. — Candidate of Medical Sciences, Deputy Director of the State Autonomous Establishment of Supplementary Professional Education of the Nizhny Novgorod region «Center for Advanced Training and Professional Retraining of Health Professionals». The collection of materials contains scientific and practical materials that reflect modern trends in the development of education and health care, ways of their effective interaction. The authors of the articles presented innovative approaches to nursing practice and professional education of medical workers, offered their views on the problem of increasing the professionalism and prestige of a nursing specialist, the implementation of continuous medical education for specialists with secondary medical and pharmaceutical education. The articles are published in the original, author's edition. The authors declare that there is no potential conflict of interest and that it is necessary to disclose it in the material.


The proportion of the ethnic minority populationliving in Britain who are over the age of 65 years hasincreased from 1% in 1981 to 3% in 1991 [1, 2]. Thelatter figure contrasts -with 17% of the indigenouspopulation aged over 65 in the same year [2]. Mostethnic elders are first-generation migrants, with lessthan 10% being born in the UK [2]. Almost 6% of the UKpopulation aged over 65 was born outside the country[2]. With the passage of time, the number of second-generation ethnic elders will increase and the number offirst-generation ethnic elders will decline. However,these projections assume constant immigration andemigration trends and mortality rates in ethnic elders.This increase in the ethnic elderly population willprobably be associated with an increase in the quantityof psychiatric morbidity in this population. Psychogeri-atric services will need to plan appropriately in order toprovide a sensitive and accessible service for ethnicelders. This will require data on demography, socialcharacteristics, epidemiology, presentation and naturalhistory, pathways to care and availability and utilizationof services and needs.


Recognizing the need for a transformative shift to advance scholarship and practice focused on traumatic stress, this paper emerged from a special invited panel at the 38th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). The panel brought together scholars from interdisciplinary backgrounds, including psychology, public health, and social work, to share their unique perspectives and experiences harnessing a collaborative, critical, and strengths-based lens in research. This piece invites the field to consider the importance of cultural humility as a foundational, nonnegotiable practice in traumatic stress studies. Details about participatory science and healing-centered practice are presented along with key questions to support the application of these frameworks in studies of traumatic stress.


Pitch period that is a important factor in speech signal processing is used in various applications such as speech recognition, speaker identification, speech analysis and synthesis. So many pitch detection algorithms have been studied until now. AMDF which is one of pitch period detection algorithms chooses the time interval from valley point to valley point as pitch period. In selection of valley point to detect pitch period, complexity of the algorithm is increased. So in this paper we proposed the simple algorithm using rotation transform of AMDF that detects global minimum valley point as pitch period of speech signal and compared it with existing methods through simulation.


In this paper, a bed-mounted vibration sensor-based system is proposed to monitor vital parameters during sleep, including heartbeat rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR), body movements and sleep postures. Our system enables smart healthcare that monitors daily sleep in a ubiquitous and non-invasive manner. Besides, the system is contact-free, as no external wearable devices and physical contacts are required. Furthermore, the vibration-based approach also avoids the privacy violation caused by the usage of surveillance cameras. To effectively monitor sleep status, a robust stable signal mode decomposition based HR and RR estimation method is developed for the complicated and noisy vibration signals. Besides, algorithms for body movement and sleep posture identification are also proposed based on vibration signal features. A prototype system is demonstrated with system details, showing great potentials in monitoring sleep status in a real-time user-friendly manner. Experimental results of short term and long term experiments with different participants and beds show that our system achieves satisfying accuracy compared with dedicated commercial devices.


: The aim of our study was to identify immunohistochemical diagnostic criteria for cervical glandular intraepithelial neoplasias (CGIN). We examined 136 women with cytological diagnosis of atypical endocervical cells. These patients were divided into three groups based on a grade of the lesion: 35 patients with CGIN1 (group I), 72 patients with CGIN2 (group II), 28 patients with CGIN3 (group III). Endocervical curettages were examined by hematoxylin-eosin and immunohistochemistry using monoclonal antibodies against Ki-67, EpAg, MNF116, CEA, EMA. We used histological algorithm created by us. The comparative analysis of immunohistochemical results showed that expression of Ki-67 is seen in CGIN 2 and significantly increased in CGIN3 (p 0,05) which indicates that the expression of these epithelium specific markers does not change according to the grade of atypia and carcinogenesis (they can be used for determination of tumor phenotype). The expression of CEA and EpAg is strongly increased in CGIN2 and CGIN3 (p 1, =1), stratification, hyper- and hypochromasia, size and amount of nucleoli, and stromal-parenchymal ratio. The immunohistochemical study should include the expression of proliferation marker (Ki-67), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)and Epithelial Antigen (EpAg). We recommend the classification of CGIN into two types: low grade cervical glandular intraepithelial neoplasia (CGIN 1) and high grade cervical glandular intraepithelial neoplasia including CGIN 2 and CGIN 3.


Preface. The Elements of a Judgment and Existence. Traditional Logic and Existential Presuppositions. To Be Or Not To Be? Is That The Question? Some Remarks On Definitions. Logische und semantische Antinomien. A New Approach to Realistic Epistemology. Ausgewahlte Probleme der deontischen Logik. An Attempt at the Definition of the Biological Concept of Homology. Similarity.


- Nanoparticles (NPs) are being widely used in different fields. Development of green nanotechnology is generating interest of researchers toward ecofriendly biosynthesis of nanoparticles. This study investigates an efficient and sustainable route of Green synthesis of stable silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) was done using TULSE leaf extract and its photocatalytic degradation of MB dye. The effect of some parameters like amount of Nano catalyst, PH and dye concentration are also investigated. Ag NPs were synthesized by using leaf extract of TULSE and aqueous silver nitrate solution through a simple, cost effective and eco-friendly method. Then the developed silver nanoparticles were characterized by using UV-Vis spectrophotometer, and Fourier transforms infra-red (FTIR) spectroscopy.