Lifestyle modification is the cornerstone of population-based strategies for prevention of coronary heart disease and is the first line of therapy in patients with hypercholesterolemia. Diets low in saturated fatty acids and cholesterol have long been recommended to decrease low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels and reduce cardiovascular risk (1). Ample evidence suggests that polyunsaturated fatty acids and monounsaturated fatty acids have a similar cholesterol-lowering effect when substituted for saturated fatty acids (2-4). However, most studies of fatty acids and blood lipids have been done with fats and oils, rarely with whole fatty foods. Because people usually buy and consume whole food products, it is desirable to know the effects of specific foods on risk factors for coronary heart disease. Recent reports suggest that the regular consumption of nuts might reduce cardiovascular risk (5). Walnuts are particularly rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids (6), and epidemiologic evidence suggests that frequent walnut consumption protects against coronary heart disease (7). In a controlled feeding trial by Sabat and colleagues (8), a diet in which walnuts represented 55% of the energy from fat reduced blood cholesterol levels in normal young men when compared with a standard low-fat diet. However, the results cannot easily be extrapolated to the population at risk for coronary heart disease because women, older age groups, and hypercholesterolemic persons were not studied (8). In addition, because meals were served at a metabolic kitchen, the study did not address the question of whether free-living persons would incorporate substantial quantities of walnuts into their diets. Because oxidized LDL plays a key role in atherogenesis (9) and oxidative damage involves peroxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids in LDL lipids (10), there is concern that walnut intake may promote LDL oxidation. Therefore, we designed a dietary intervention study in free-living adult men and women with polygenic hypercholesterolemia to compare the effects of a walnut-rich diet with those of a cholesterol-lowering Mediterranean diet on serum lipid levels, lipoprotein levels, and LDL resistance to oxidation. Methods Patients Adult men and women with polygenic hypercholesterolemia attending the Lipid Clinic of the Hospital Clnic of Barcelona were eligible if they had serum LDL cholesterol concentrations greater than 3.36 mmol/L (130 mg/dL) and triglyceride concentrations less than 2.82 mmol/L (250 mg/dL); no evidence of alcohol, tobacco, or drug abuse; absence of diabetes mellitus and liver, kidney, thyroid, or other endocrine diseases, as assessed by medical history, a complete physical examination, and laboratory tests; no intake in the previous 8 weeks of medications known to affect lipid metabolism, including hypolipidemic agents and estrogen compounds in women; infrequent consumption of nuts and no known history of allergy to them; and no use of multivitamin or vitamin E supplements. Because the target population had common (polygenic) hypercholesterolemia, we excluded persons whose elevated blood cholesterol levels had a strong genetic basis (such as heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia or familial combined hyperlipidemia), as established by standard criteria. On admission to the Lipid Clinic, all patients were advised to follow a Mediterranean-type hypolipidemic diet (11). For a crossover design, statistical power calculations indicated that to detect mean differences of 0.39 mmol/L (15 mg/dL), 34 patients would need to complete the two treatment periods ( statistic, 0.05; power>0.8). From a computerized register of clinical records, 75 hypercholesterolemic patients (35 women and 40 men) who initially met the eligibility criteria were selected for screening and were asked to participate in the study. They were offered free walnuts but no monetary compensation. Study Design A crossover design was used. Patients were randomly assigned to the two diet sequences by using a computer-generated random-number table, with stratification by sex. Because patients followed each diet for 6 weeks and lipoprotein changes due to dietary intervention stabilize in less than 4 weeks (12), we did not incorporate a washout period between diets. In their crossover feeding study with walnuts, Sabat and colleagues (8) did not observe a carryover effect. In the week before the trial began, patients received expert dietary counseling individually and in a group class. Twice during the pretrial week and on weeks 5 and 6 of each one of the two dietary periods, patients came to the clinic for a medical visit, an interview with the dietitian, anthropometric measurements, and blood extraction. The main outcomes of the study were changes in serum levels of total and LDL cholesterol from the control diet period to the walnut diet period. Secondary outcomes were changes in other lipid variables and oxidizability of LDL particles. The study protocol was approved by the institutional review board of the Hospital Clnic of Barcelona, and all patients gave informed consent. Diets The experimental diets were individually prescribed and were based on estimated energy requirements. Because participants ate on their own, detailed dietary information was provided to them and, if appropriate, to their partners. Diets were calculated in increments of 200 kcal to cover the range from 1600 to 2200 kcal. The control diet was Mediterranean and was composed of natural foodstuffs. Red meat and eggs were limited, vegetable products and fish were emphasized, olive oil was indicated for culinary use, and no nuts were allowed. The walnut diet was similar to the control diet, but walnuts partially replaced olive oil and other fatty foods. Prepackaged daily allowances of raw, shelled walnuts were provided daily in amounts varying from 41 g to 56 g (the equivalent of 8 to 11 walnuts), according to the participants' total energy intake. Walnuts were consumed as snacks or with meals in desserts or salads. In the walnut diet, walnuts contributed approximately 18% of the total energy and 35% of the total fat. To improve compliance, each family unit was given 1000-g packs of walnuts at the beginning of the walnut diet period. Adherence to the study diets was carefully monitored. Unannounced 24-hour diet recalls were performed weekly by telephone during the two dietary periods, for a total of 12 recalls per patient. This method allows reliable estimations of food intake (13). The nutrient composition of the diets was calculated with Food Processor Plus software, version 5.0 (ESHA Research, Salem, Oregon), which was adapted to nutrient databases of specific Mediterranean foods when appropriate. We defined noncompliance as at least 20% deviation from dietary instructions regarding walnut or nutrient intake. Compliance during the walnut diet was also assessed at each clinic visit by a count of the empty walnut packages. The fatty acid content of LDL lipids was analyzed as a biological measure of adherence to the prescribed diets. Laboratory Measurements Blood samples were obtained after an overnight fast, and serum and EDTA plasma were collected and processed immediately. Serum lipid and apolipoprotein levels were determined as described elsewhere (11). In brief, serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels were measured by using enzymatic reagents (Trinder, Bayer Diagnostics, Tarrytown, New York) adapted to a Cobas Mira automated analyzer (Hoffmann-LaRoche, Basel, Switzerland). High-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol was quantified after precipitation with phosphotungstic acid and magnesium chloride. Levels of apolipoprotein A-I and apolipoprotein B were determined by an immunoturbidimetric method (Unimate 3, Roche Diagnostic Systems, Basel, Switzerland). Measurements of the cholesterol content of very-low-density lipoprotein particles and LDL particles were based on preparative ultracentrifugation (11). Lipoprotein(a) levels were measured by using an immunoturbidimetric method (Lipoprotein[a] SPQ II Test Kit, DiaSorin, Stillwater, Minnesota). To obtain the LDL fraction for fatty acid and oxidizability studies, lipoproteins were fractionated by sequential centrifugation adjusting with NaBr to separate very-low-density lipoprotein particles (d=1.006 g/mL) and to obtain LDL particles (d=1.063 g/mL), as described elsewhere (14). Low-density lipoprotein fatty acids were measured by capillary gas chromatography in the cholesteryl ester, phospholipid, and triglyceride lipid fractions (14). Low-density lipoprotein susceptibility to oxidation was determined by measuring the -tocopherol content of LDL particles and conjugated diene kinetics after incubation of 50 g of LDL protein with 5 mol of copper sulfate at 37 C (15, 16). Statistical Analysis The two measurements obtained at baseline and at the end of each dietary period were averaged. Means and SDs are presented for each measurement. With methods described by Fleiss (17), two-tailed t-tests were used to compare changes in outcome variables in response to dietary treatment and diet period and carryover effects for the two-period crossover design. Differences between the walnut and control diets were also tested by analysis of covariance using general linear models; baseline values or sex were used as covariates. Analyses were performed by using SAS software (SAS, Inc., Cary, North Carolina) (18). Role of the Funding Sources The California Walnut Commission provided funding and walnuts. Research grants were also obtained from national and local nonprofit agencies. The funding sources were not involved in the design of the study and had no role in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of the data or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. None of the authors has any financial interest in the nut food industry. Results Patient Characteristics Of the 75 eligible patients, 20 left the study before randomization for va


Bonded labour is widespread in Pakistan. This paper is an attempt to illustrate the nature of bonded labour in the agricultural sector and the brick kiln industry in the country. Despite the introduction of Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1992, bonded labour thrives because of the power and influence of big landlords in rural and factory owners in urban localities. It is argued that without effective land reforms or land distribution bonded labour cannot be eliminated. In additional to land reforms, effective governance based on strong democratic culture free of the influence of big landowners is essential to address the issue of bonded labour in Pakistan.


AbstractThe research objective was the evaluation of surface texture parameters of commonly applied asphalt mixtures without any special requirements regarding noise reduction on one side, and porous asphalt and thin noise-reducing asphalt on the other. The research considered three geometrically and four acoustically relevant surface texture parameters determined by an optical three-dimensional (3D) measuring device based on the strips projection principle. The mean arithmetic height was identified as the most suitable for the geometrical characterization of surface texture and showed the best correlation with the shape factor. The shape factor was recognized as an especially good acoustical properties indicator for the thin noise-reducing asphalt, which was confirmed by the close-proximity (CPX) method measurements, but was unsuitable for the porous asphalt. The considered parameters also have a potential for distinguishing different types of mixtures, providing a basis for their inclusion into the reco...


2 University of Applied Arts, Institute for Art and Technology, 14 Expositur Salzgries, A-1010, Vienna, Austria Metal threads in medieval and post-medieval ecclesiastical textiles, also Greek Orthodox dating to the Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods, have been studied in a considerable extent by means of scientific investigations. The chemical composition of these metal decorations is very important for future conservation works and helps, alongside with morphological studies, for dating and provenience studies. Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive X-ray Analysis System (SEM - EDX) is a widely, routinely used technique. No comparable information exists for Romanian ecclesiastical textile. Majority of them are preserved by the monasteries in the storages and some are exhibited in small but wellknown museums like those from Putna, Suceviþa - Suceava County or Golia - Iaoi County. The paper presents the obtained results for the identification and characterisation of the metal threads that have been sampled from the above mentionated ecclesiastical textile collections. Decoration of silver, gilded silver and copper were found to be the most common. Many surfaces present a thin layer if corrosion and some are much degraded. The majority of metal threads (silver and gilded silver) have a textile core made from undyed silk while some have a yellow cellulosic core.


Turbulence in the ocean, caused by the wind, tides and currents, plays an important role in regulating the global ocean circulation and the movement of gases and nutrients between the surface and deeper waters. Now new research suggests that organisms as small as krill, can contribute to this turbulence.


A systematic method for the design of disturbance-decoupled linear residual generators for fault detection and isolation (FDI) in nonlinear systems is developed. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of linear residual generators for nonlinear systems are derived. As long as these conditions are satisfied, we obtain explicit design formulas for the residual generator, with eigenvalue assignment. The proposed formulation and results provide a nonlinear generalisation of standard FDI methods for linear systems. The method is applied to three case studies: a bio reactor, a continuous stirred tanked reactor (CSTR) and a process network.


16. Abstract We sampled arthropods biweekly from ashe juniper, Texas oak, live oak, and cedar elm throughout the activity period of the golden-cheeked warbler (GCWA) in central Texas (March 1 July 31). A datatbase of arthropod species collected by date, site, height, and tree species was compiled. To provide a better context for discussion of these data, we also re-examined the stomach contents analyzed by Pulich (1976) for his study on GCWA diet. We collected and identified over 50,000 arthropods from tree species in which GCW As normally forage. These totals include approximately 35,000 insects and 15,000 arachnids (mostly spiders). At least 1600 species were represented in the samples, ranging in size from less than 1 mm (certain mites and parasitic wasps) to more than 5 cm (2 inches) (several walking sticks). Based on analysis of the stomach contents of 22 GCW A, as well as observations on feeding behavior made by Pulich and others, all of these arthropods are potential prey for warblers.


Abstract This paper presents and discusses the factors influencing the yield of Ti-Al alloy in the TiPro process which is a process developed at the University of Waikato for producing titanium alloy powders by mechanically activating Al/TiO2 powder mixtures and subsequently preheating the resultant composite powder in order to ignite a combustion synthesis reaction and separate the liquid Ti-Al alloy by extrusion. In this study, TiO2/Al composite powders with different powder particle microstructures have been produced and used to study the effects of starting composite powder particle microstructure on the solid/liquid separation of TiAl from solid Al2O3 by extrusion. Results obtained so far indicate that maximizing the time the Ti-Al alloy phase is maintained in the liquid state after the reaction between TiO2 and Al is one of the critical factors to increase the yield of Ti-Al alloy produced through the separation of liquid Ti-Al from the solid Al2O3 phase by extruding the mixture of liquid Ti-Al and Al2O3 formed through reactions and heating.


The recently suggested notion of total mass density for closed universes is extended to closed universes with a positive cosmological constant. Assuming that the matter fields satisfy the dominant energy condition, it is shown that the cosmological constant provides a sharp lower bound for the total mass density, and that the total mass density takes this as its minimum value if and only if the spacetime is locally isometric with the de Sitter spacetime. This notion of total mass density is extensible to non-compact 3-spaces of homogeneity of Bianchi class A cosmological spacetimes.


Abstract We are traditionally educated to consider noise a nuisance, hindering the transmission and detection of signals. Recently, however, the paradigm of stochastic resonance (SR) proved this assertion wrong: indeed, the appropriate amount of noise can facilitate signal detection in noisy environments. Due to its simplicity and robustness, SR has been implemented by mother nature on almost any scale, from celestial mechanics to ion channels. The present mini-review outlines the basic mechanism underlying SR phenomena, and discusses recent quantum optical scenarios, in the deep quantum regime.


Aeroelastician s are tasked with determining that the basic air -vehicle is flutter free within 115 percent flight envelope maximum speed. Fighter aircraft often carry large varieties and combinations of externally mounted stores. The total combination of possible store carriag e configurations sometimes number clos e to a million. An automated procedure for examining the "Worse" or "Critical" flutter configuration would be ben eficial and reduce the amount of analysis require to certify the aircraft. The previous attempts at a "Critical Flutter Finder" were hampered b y the intense computational resources required and the extreme length of time required for the solution process. A new method/technique is presented in this paper that uses a trained Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to predict the flutter speed and flutter gradients that in turn are used by a constrained optimizer. The new technique is employed on two test cases. The first test case examined was a cantilevered wing with twenty -four locations additional mass placement. The second test case considered was a ge neric fighter aircraft that had two pylon locations per wing. The inboard pylon was assumed to have an external fuel tank while the outboard pylon carried a generic store whose store weight and pitch inertia was constrained to be within the range of all po ssible stores. The new technique was shown to be accurate and computationally efficient .


Boron doped microcrystalline silicon (p-µc-Si) films were successfully deposited by the Hot Wire Cell method using a gas mixture of pure silane (SiH4) and diborane (0.5% B2H6 in H2). The influence of various deposition parameters on the structural and electrical properties of the films was investigated to obtain highly conductive p-µc-Si films. A high dark conductivity (σd) of 84.6 S/cm and a low activation energy of 0.02 eV were achieved for 550-nm-thick films. For thin films with a thickness of 15 nm, a σd of 4×10-2 S/cm was obtained. The thin p-µc-Si was incorporated into p–i–n amorphous silicon (a-Si) and microcrystalline silicon (µc-Si) solar cells, in which intrinsic layers were deposited by photo chemical vapor deposition (photo-CVD). The initial conversion efficiencies of 9.04% and 6.17% were obtained for a-Si and µc-Si solar cells, respectively.


The public health surveillance (VSP) consisting of systematic and continuous process of inspection, monitoring and enforcement of standards and processes to ensure adequate safety and health conditions related to human health. Currently the PFS operating in the country under the scheme of notification forms predefined events, which are home to a large number of variables, however, is required to use child records to increase the sensitivity of the current system. One of the most relevant child records are Individual Records Servicing (RIPS). The structural attributes of consistency and completeness mostly exceeding 90% which allows for analysis of these variables facilitating the general description of the state of health, however, the opportunity exceeds the expected time to access information which affects the availability of information for decision making. On checking code Users Administrators Companies Benefit Plans (EAPB) have a low proportion 69% (95% CI 69.1 - 69.2%) of consistency with established codes for these entities. Diagnoses related 1, 2 and 3 in the query files, hospitalization and emergency department have a low (significantly less than 80%) of structural consistency and completeness, although it is of note that contain up to 16% of diagnoses related to old events and 43% (both in query logs) for new events of public health interest that were not detected in the early diagnosis. The analysis in this study helped to identify the status of the quality of the variables of the RIPS considered useful for public health surveillance and raised this source of information on the strategies of new events that are not currently monitored by the chips SIVIGILA notification.


Objectives: Effective implementation of prevention and control actions by health professionals is substantial to contain the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, this study aimed to assess health care worker's practice of using personal protective equipment and psychological preparedness against the COVID-19 pandemic in Eastern Ethiopia. Methods: A facility-based cross-sectional study design was used. The health care workers (HCW) who were working in the selected health facilities were randomly selected. Variables that had p-value of < 0.15 were transformed to multivariable logistic regression model. Finally, the significance level was declared at the p-value < 0.05 with a 95% confidence interval (CI). Results: A total of 418 HCWs were randomly selected and included in this study. The study participants mean age was 27.96 years with a ±5.6SD. HCWs who were male (adjusted odds ratio(AOR) = 2.21, 95% CI: 1.29–3.79), regularly using sanitizer, accessing COVID-19 management guideline (AOR = 2.83, 95% CI: 1.46–5.47), trained on COVID-19 prevention methods (AOR = 2.6, 95% CI: 1.4–4.7), hopeless of eventually getting COVID-19 at workplace (AOR = 1.9, 95% CI: 1.13–3.28), and feeling unsafe at work when using standard precautions (AOR  = 0.46, 95% CI: 0.27–0.79) were associated with good PPE using compared to their counterparts. Moreover, nursing/midwifery professionals practiced good personal protective equipment compared to physicians (AOR = 3.7, 95% CI: 1.8–7.7). Conclusion: The study demonstrated that being a male, being a nurse/midwifery, regularly sanitizing hands/medical equipment, having COVID-19 management guidelines, trained on COVID-19, and feeling of eventually getting COVID-19 at workplace had a positive association with PPE utilization. Besides, the study revealed that not feeling safe at work when using standard precautions was negatively associated with PPE utilization of HCWs. Therefore, the prevention priorities should be given to frontline HCWs by providing all possible support and strictly implementing the prevention and control guidelines of COVID-19 to prevent the health system from collapse.


In this paper, we consider the improved estimation of average production of peppermint at block level of Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh State (India). We suggest certain estimators for population-mean. Here, population refers to production population as study variable and auxiliary-variable refers to Area of field. We study the sampling properties naming bias and MSE of estimators, which are presently proposed by us in the paper. We compare our proposed estimators with other ones existing in literature. For the support of the theoretical findings, we carry out a numerical study for the natural population on primary data collected from Banikodar Block of Barabanki District situated in Uttar Pradesh State.


The invention relates to an automatic detection method and an automatic detection device of an intelligent television. The automatic detection method comprises the following steps that when the intelligent television is turned on, a line of the intelligent television is detected, and whether the line has a fault or not is determined; if the line has the fault, the fault point of the fault of the line is located, and a line fault signal of the fault point is obtained and output; if the line is good and a flash memory can be identified, the flash memory of the intelligent television is detected, and whether the flash memory has a fault or not is determined; if the flash memory has the fault, a fault signal of the flash memory is obtained and output. The automatic detection method of the intelligent television is simple and rapid to implement, and automatic detection of the intelligent television can be conducted without the need of operation of too many workers.


There has been done the simulation of the optimal motion model of an electric car with a traction induction motor by the horizontal road section, optimal by the criterion of minimum electrical losses, using the models synthesized by the authors, based on a mathematical model of the magnetization curve in the form of inverse hyperbolic sine and variational variant of the Lagrange`s indefinite multipliers method. Four simulation variants with different values of model parameters and different values of boundary conditions were implemented using the MATLAB application package. The obtained results are visualized by constructing appropriate graphs for the output coordinates of the models that characterize the optimal mode of motion.
The analysis of the results of all four modeling variants using synthesized models is carried out, on the basis of which it is established that the movement of an electric car on a horizontal section of the road, if its control system will implement the law based on synthesized models the electric car of the same distance for the same time will use the minimum consumption of electric charge of the power accumulator battery from which the electric drive of the electric car receives the electric power.
Thus, the simulation results and their analysis confirm the theoretical statements and the effectiveness of mathematical optimal motion models of the electric car by a horizontal section of the road, synthesized in authors' previous works.


Systemic anticoagulation after pediatric liver transplantation (pLT) is believed to reduce the incidence of vascular thrombosis, but it may also cause an increase in hemorrhagic complications.


An iterative procedure for determining the joint positions corresponding to a minimum mass space truss is presented. Displacement constraints and nonconstant stress constraints (stability) are taken into account. The truss is presumed to carry consecutively a large number of different systems of forces. The iteration includes a sequence of linear programming problems (SLP, with move-limits), and for each of these problems only the nearby constraints are considered. Analytical expressions are given for the gradients describing the linear problems. A dome is optimized using different constraints.


It has been established that dental treatment puts the patients and this stress causes increased catecholamine in the blood. Pain often accompanies daily dental treatment, and this pain is also known to cause an increase of catecholamine in the blood. Because of these two factors, the increase of catecholamine in the blood is said to cause much injurious reflex in density. Muchi,2} has been reported about the influence exerted on both cerebral blood flow (CBF) and metabolic rate for oxygen (CMR02) by catecholamine in the blood, but a little3,4} is known about the effects of pain. This investigation, therefore, was undertaken in order to study the influence on CBF and CMR02 in painful dental treatment,


Superacid ternary ZrO2 SiO2 SnO2 oxide has been synthesized by the sol-gel method with a different atomic ratio Zr:Si:Sn. The highest strength of acid sites has been observed in the ranges of 20 ≤ Zr4+ ≤ 29, 60 ≤ Si4+ ≤ 67, 11 ≤ Sn4+ ≤ 20 at.%. According to the XPS spectra and 119Sn, 29Si MAS NMR spectra of ZrO2 SiO2 SnO2 a partial shift of electron density from zirconium to silicon ions was observed resulting in the formation of superacid Lewis sites. It was shown that superacid Zr29Si60Sn11 mixed oxide efficiently catalyzes acylation of toluene with acetic anhydride at 423 K in a flow reactor with 45% conversion of anhydride at 100% selectivity towards p-methylacetophenone.


The aim of this study is to develop a survey to measure the level of scientific literacy for university students in Geography Education Branch about strengthened greenhouse effect / global climatic change and ozone depletion. A survey of 20 items was developed in this research and conducted among 150 students. The Cronbach alpha coefficient was .82 for overall survey and Split half coefficient was .67. A factor analysis was used in order to check the variety of the survey and one sub dimension was deleted.


The well-known central-slice, or projection-slice, theorem states that the Radon transform can be used to reduce a two-dimensional Fourier transform to a series of one-dimensional Fourier transforms. In this paper we describe a practical system for implementing this theorem. The Radon transform is carried out with a rotating prism and a flying-line scanner, while the one-dimensional Fourier transforms are performed with surface acoustic wave filters. Both real and imaginary parts of the complex Fourier transform can be obtained. A method of displaying the two-dimensional Fourier transforms is described, and representative transforms are shown. Application of this approach to Labeyrie speckle interferometry is demonstrated.


Abstract Conjugate gradient algorithms come in a wide range of flavors. Conjugate gradient techniques primarily concentrate on the coefficient conjugate. We introduce a novel conjugate gradient approach that computes the parameter by using Newton updates. In addition, we have demonstrated that our conjugate gradient algorithms are globally convergent and descent property. For the specified test issues in [1] the performance profiles revealed that the novel conjugate gradient approach is effective and efficient.


It is a well established fact that the presence of columnar defects ~CD's ! in high-temperature superconductors ~HTSC's ! enhances the critical current ( Jc) due to the strong pinning and the inhibition of thermal wandering when the flux lines lay into these tracks. 1,2 In the YBa2Cu3O7 ~Y:123! compound, the directional pinning produced by these correlated structures becomes evident when the angular dependence of Jc is studied. 3,4 In the last decade several works have shown that a sharp peak in Jc(Q) appears when the applied field H is aligned with the direction ( Q D) of these linear defects 1,3,5‐ 8 ~here Q and Q D are the angles formed by the crystallographic c axis with H and the CD, respectively!. However, this behavior only holds when H is high enough to ensure that the average vortex direction is parallel to H .A t lower fields, both material anisotropy and geometry effects become relevant and modify the vortex orientation, 9 which consequently may not coincide with that of H. Since maximum pinning occurs when the vortex orientation ~given by the internal field B rather than by H) is aligned with the CD, Jc(Q) should maximize at an angle Q maxfiQD . In other words, any misalignment between B and H manifests itself as a shift in the angular position of the peak in Jc(Q) with respect to the tracks direction.


Responsive Web design is a new concept in the world of web design that serves a successful user experience. It is also a concept that develops continuously to cover many aspects. Egyptian News Websites have been tried to keep pace with the increasing use of small screens and smartphones in browsing websites through the development of elements' distribution patterns for interfaces' design. In this study, it was checked the use of RWD of Egyptian news websites as well as It was tested the most six popular news websites in Egypt. The objectives of the current study were to analyze the presence of responsive web design on the Egyptian daily news websites by checking the elements distribution patterns of purposive sample of these websites interfaces on different display screens, and to evaluate the usability of these sites through responsive web design and users feedback. So, a descriptive design was utilize intended to provide a complete picture about that, which was carried out on two levels (User interface analytical study and survey study of the user's opinions). The study results revealed that the majority of users prefer to browse the news websites through the small screens "smart phones on different sizes". And that the users up tell now didn't able to recognize the importance of the Responsive Web Design because most of their dealings with screens were limited in one type. Accordingly, the study was recommended that the design of the Egyptian newspapers should be reviewed in order to comply with all responsive web standards and even be able to realize the new concepts of "Adaptive design" which focuses on the user not the browser. Keywords: Responsive Web Design (RWD), Egyptian's News Websites, User Interface (UI), Laptop, Tablets & smart phones.


The paper presents the results of research aimed at identifying the asynchronous mode of excited syn-chronous electric motors and their safety and stability. It is proposed to identify the asynchronous mode using a power polynomial from the ratio of the degrees of active and reactive power, determined from measured instantaneous values of currents and stator voltages of a synchronous electric motor. It is proposed to control the excitation system of a synchro-nous motor by cyclically switching the excitation winding to an additional resistance or an exciter based on a criterion rep-resenting the derivative of the power polynomial from the ratio of the active and reactive powers of the synchronous mo-tor. The proposed methods for detecting the asynchronous mode of excited synchronous motors and controlling the excitation system to ensure successful resynchronization of a synchronous motor without unloading the driven unit can be used in microprocessor-based protection devices for synchronous electric motors. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is confirmed through mathematical modeling.


It has been found that Gluconobacter liquefaciens metabolized 5-ketogluconic acid. In order to clarify metabolic pathways of this compound, the oxidation products by resting cells of this organism were investigated.. Rubiginol, rubiginic, comenic, 2,5-diketogluconic, glycolic and tartronic acids were detected or identified in the reaction fluid. On the basis of these results and the data obtained by means of manometric experiments, the oxidation pathways of 5-ketogluconic acid were discussed.


As for the drawbacks of the current maketing decision support systems in data integration, history data, query functions and data analysis,we analyse the marketing characteristics,discuss the application of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining in marketing decision support systems and design the architecture and functional stucture of an intelligent marketing decision support system based on the XML technology and the ROLAP data pattern design principle.


The changes in crystal growth habit of electrodeposited zinc oxide with zinc nitrate concentration are explained by changes in the levels of saturation at the electrode. Three growth regimes are found between 0.5 and 50 mM. For concentrations less than 2 mM, the growth is one-dimensional. Nanorods grow by screw dislocations from the outside inward, no coalescence is observed, and their surface shows pyramid-like features. For concentrations above 20 mM, the growth is two-dimensional. Large levels of supersaturation favor the nucleation on the low indexes faces and large sheets are observed. In the intermediate regime of growth, the growth is pseudo three-dimensional. Nanorods with a conical ends grow initially before coalescing and forming dense films.


This paper designs a DC monitoring terminal DOG to timely detect DC earthing and DC parasitic circuit through testing the branch differential current and the change of system typology structure.Based on DC monitoring terminal DOG,a distributed DC monitoring system is proposed.The proposed system can be disposed by different styles,which include entire distribution,bottom distribution and the distribution on demand,and it can detect minimum range of DC earthing or DC parasitic circuit quickly.By deploying different alarm colors in different circuits,it is convenient for finding troubles and maintaining.The distributed DC monitoring system is widely used in 220 kV, 110 kV and 35 kV substation and presents good performances.


For cultivating animal cells in bioreactors the maintenance of a fixed pH-value is of elementary importance. In a perfused cell culture system the pH-value is measured by electrochemical flow rate sensors. For the acceptance of a technical solution the integration in complex workplaces is necessary, thereby small size and low costs are the main features. For that a special measurement module was developed, consisting of measuring amplifier and microcontroller component with CAN-Bus-interface.


Abstract Zausodes areolatussp. nov., belonging to the family Harpacticidae Sars, is described and figured from the Bahamas. The new species appears to be related to Z. sextus Lang.


This dataset comprises of 8 Microsoft Excel xlsx files. The files contain the raw data for CD, HPLC and FRET analytical measurements. The titles of the file indicate to which measurements the data belong.

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This is an Author Accepted Manuscript version of the following chapter: S. Blomskog and M. Hjelmblom, An Analysis of a Sustainability Index, published in Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I: Challenges and Development, edited by R. Bali Swain and S. Sweet, 2021, Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-030-56371-4.


The article examines the problem of the understanding of the nature and place of dogmas in the Church and their relation to the Christian life through the prism of anthropological and epistemological challenges that face the Christian in the postmodern era


Most historians of children's literature agree that the first books in English intended for the entertainment of children were products of the eighteenth century. Of course, these works also had didactic elements, as does much of children's literature even to the present day. But they were not, as previous writings for children had been, exclusively instructional in content, and they did consider the entertaining of the child a legitimate literary objective. The landmark children's book of that era, John Newbery's (1966 [1744]) A Little Pretty PocketBook, had as its motto Delectando Monemus ("Instruction with Delight"), an idea which, in the context of the catechisms, primers, courtesy books, and other instructional manuals that had previously constituted literature for children, was undeniably revolutionary. Nevertheless, I wish to present a case for a pre-eighteenth-century instance of "instruction with delight." I believe that in the last quarter of the fifteenth century three medieval romances, Sir Amadace, Sir Ysumbras, and Sir Gowther, were edited for the entertainment and instruction of the young and that these revised romances have implications both for the history of children's literature and for our understanding of the medieval conceptions of the child and of education. The texts of these romances which I believe to have been adapted for children appear in Advocates MS. 19.3.1 (National Library of Scotland). This manuscript has been fully described by Phillipa Hardman (1978) in an article in Medium Aevum. Hardman was the first scholar to


Objective: Evaluation of single preoperative dose of pregabalin in terms of postoperative pain after laparoscopiccholecystectomy.Study Design: Randomized controlled trial (RCT).Place and Duration of Study: Study was conducted in Surgical Department of Military Hospital Rawalpindi overa period of one year fromJan 2013 to Dec 2013.Material and Methods: One hundred patients (50 in each group) were included in this study. They weredivided into two groups. Group-A was given pregabalin and group-B was given placeboafter laparoscopiccholecystectomy.Results: Mean age was 38.2 ± 11.0 years in group A and 36.9 ± 11.7 years in group B. Regarding distribution ofgender, 14 patients (28.0%) in group-A and 17 patients (34.0%) in group-B were males while 36 patients (72.0%) ingroup-A and 33 patients (66.0%) in group-B were females. Mean visual analogue score at 24 hours was 4.98 ± 1.87and 6.58 ± 2.03 in group-A and B, respectively. The difference between two group was statistically significant(p<0.001). Analgesia was required in 17 patients (34.0%) in group-A and 37 patients of group-B.Conclusion: A single preoperative oral dose of pregabalin 150 mg was found very effective method for reducingpostoperative pain in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy.


Load reduction devices are extensible components installed along mooring lines to provide peak and mean mooring load reduction, and are of articular interest for floating offshore wind. Various concepts exist, including ballasted pendulums, thermoplastic springs and hydraulic dampers, all of which provide compliance to environmental loads. This enables lighter mooring lines, smaller anchors and increased fatigue life of mooring lines — contributing to higher reliability and lower cost. Load reduction devices are designed to exhibit a non-linear load-extension behaviour: lower stiffness in the operational strain range to reduce loads, and higher stiffness at high strain. These devices are becoming an increasingly common consideration for FOWTs, and are pushing traditional analysis/design to readily incorporate nonlinearity. Well-established static catenary equations, used to define mooring tension-offset profiles, only account for linear elasticity such that capturing non-linear response typically requires finite element modelling. This paper presents an alternative through parameterising equations for three different non-linear load-extension curves and incorporating them into the existing catenary equations. For a given non-linear load-extension curve and length of load reduction device, the resulting analytical model can be solved quasi-instantaneously using Newton-Raphson or Newton-Krylov iterations to give vertical and horizontal mooring line tensions and thus strain of the device. Results from the new analytical model are compared with finite element predictions showing agreement to within 1%. The analytical model can be solved for any two unknowns, such that optimal load reduction device length and stiffness can be determined instantaneously given maximum environmental load and allowable surge. The new analytical equations are implemented into a graphical app, which allows the user to input any load reduction device parameters and visualise the resulting mooring system's geometry and tension-offset profile.


The application of a software functional measurement method is an intellectual process carried out on a complex abstract artifact: this process includes both a mapping phase between the measurement model and the software model, and a measurement phase for the instantiation of the measurement rules to the derived mapping model. In industrial contexts, two types of difficulties often occur when measuring software: 1the software models might not be available, and, when they are, they may be incomplete and, as frequently happens, may not use the same modeling approaches and formalisms and 2applying the specific formalisms of a measurement method to a wide variety of intellectual products which are usually not fully documented can lead to problems of homogeneity (coherence) of measurement results, even among experts. The activity of mapping the functional measurement method to any type of software model, and then instantiating the specific measurement rules, in a specific context, is characteristic of an "expert task" which can itself be modeled in turn within a knowledge system. This paper explores the cognitive issues arising from these mappings, and the necessary context interpretations needed to address these issues, and then proposes an expert-system approach to tackle these cognitive issues in order to achieve consistency in the measurement results. 1 Human expertise, even in a relatively narrow domain, is often set in a broader context which involves a good deal of common-sense knowledge about the everyday world (11, p. 5). The functional size measurement method selected to investigate the feasibility of the approach is COSMICFFP, and the knowledge system to be used is Help CPR. In this paper, we present: 1 the various phases of the measurement process; 2 – cognitive issues in the application of COSMIC-FFP in the context of an organization; 3 the experimental case-based reasoning (CBR) approach proposed to address these issues; 4 some examples of the resolution of problems using a CBR-type tool within a diagnosis procedure. 1. Measurement process According to Abran et al. (3), there are four phases in the measurement process, as follows, and illustrated in Figure 1: 1Design of the measurement method; 2Measurement method application, in a specific context; 3Measurement results analysis; 4Exploitation of the measurement results, for instance in decision-making models, quality models and estimation models. 2 We replace the word "step" used in the Abran et al. article (2) by the word "phase", in order to avoid confusion with the steps of the COSMIC-FFP method..


Core plasma ion cyclotron emission driven by fusion-born ions Ion cyclotron emission (ICE) signals whose spectral peaks match the fundamental cyclotron frequencies of hydrogen and tritium in the plasma core, near the magnetic axis, are observed in ASDEX Upgrade deuterium plasmas. In these cases the only source of energetic (1 MeV) hydrogen and tritium ions is D–D fusion reactions between neutral beam injected deuterium ions and bulk deuterium ions. Hydrogen-matched core ICE is observed in a wide variety of ASDEX Upgrade plasmas, while tritium-matched core ICE is (so far) only observed in so-called H-mode density limit plasmas. In all cases ICE signals are detected directly using B-dot probes, which provide information on the emission frequency, the amplitude, and, in principle, the parallel wavenumber values. These observations support the idea of using an ICE-based diagnostic to monitor the presence of fusion-born alpha particles in tritium-burning fusion plasmas on devices such as JET, ITER, CFETR, or DEMO.


1. Rolfe IE, Powis DA. Selecting Australian doctors of the future [editorial]. Med J Aust 1997; 166: 229-230. 2. Aldous CJH, Leeder SR, PriceJ, et al. A selection test for Australian graduate-entry medical schools. MedJAust 1997; 166: 247-250. 3. The Sydney Morning Herald, January 1928. Q medical schools'> prompted me to examine the backgrounds of the 49 graduates of the 1933 University of Sydney medical school. The number was the smallest between the wars and I knew all my fellow students (a quite impossible feat today)! What were the factors influencing the entry of some 70-odd students into the faculty of medicine in 1928? Outstanding was the ability to pay the fees and associated costs of the most expensive faculty. The only financial relief was through Public Exhibitions (a type of scholarship), which paid all lecture and laboratory fees. The exhibitions were awarded on the results of the Leaving Certificate examination and no means test was applied. Twenty-one were offered following the 1927 exam, but not all were taken Up.3 Fourteen exhibitioners graduated in 1933. During the Great Depression, with an unemployment rate of some 30%, there were no part-time jobs for students. Independent or family finance was needed to cover living costs and university expenses. I believe the choice of medicine as a career grew from a desire to become a doctor. What was the outcome of these 70-odd students? Of the 49 graduates in 1933, 41 remained from the original 1928 intake and eight had transferred from other faculties or repeated academic years. Forty-two had been school-Ieavers and seven were matureage students. Nineteen were of higher academic standard (obtaining honours during their studies or on graduation) and 30 were of average standard. Based on my recollections of fellow students, 18 had a high socioeconomic background, 28 were of the middle class and three came from impoverished families. The 19 students who frequently appeared in the annual examination honours lists and in the 1933 honours at graduation list I consider to have had a higher academic standard. All graduates practised medicine for most of their lives: 20 became general practitioners, 23 became specialists and six followed other avenues such as public health and administration. Will the changes now occurring make for "better doctors"? Did the resulting high academic intake following the abolition of fees make for any change in the nature of doctors? Over-regulation of entry to medical schools could be an expensive disaster. Selecting Australian doctors of the future 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 TER


The healthcare industry is the largest industry in the US, and costs are growing rapidly. There is also an increase in waste, medical errors and patient injuries. One central problem is that hospitals have compartmentalized and disaggregated business models in which clinical specialists duplicate information. An international project called Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is underway to develop consistent information enterprise architectures for hospitals. The Operating Room (OR) is one of the most complex parts of the hospital, involving many other departments like laboratory, radiology, pathology, pharmacy, anesthesiology and billing, so a formal IHE design for the OR has not yet begun. This current research describes a collaborative workflow model for the OR using Event-Driven Process Chains, a popular and successful process reengineering tool used in ERP systems engineering.


This paper interrogates contemporary communication policy practices of the Ghanaian state. The rise of the global digital economy has transformed the hitherto bland telecommunication sector in developing countries into a steamy and juicy pie that attracts the attention of big business, the expertise and finance of international capital, as well as local businesses. In its bid to increase phone access, the postcolonial state in Ghana, under the tutelage of organizations such as the World Bank, has embarked on setting in place a new regime of liberalized and privatized telecom industry. A new regulatory agency, National Communication Authority has been put in place to independently oversee the sector. But can the state and its purportedly independent regulator face up to the challenges and the temptations of the new digital economy? What are the motives of the policy choices made? What are the forces that shape policy trajectory? These are some of the questions discussed in this article as it tells the story of the vagaries of policy action in the apparently indomitable new world of telecom politics in Ghana.


The current studies on Su Qing mainly focus on her essays depicting on common people,while the studies on her narrative and lyric prose based on her hometown remain scarce.In fact her essays of this genre are moving and of unique artistic flavor.This paper,focusing on this genre of Su's essays,explores the charm of them.


It has been suggested that some of the difficulties that today confront the Christian believer, as a believer, are due to the fact that, after a long period in outer space, circling at a safe distance above more mundane problems and concerns, he is today attempting to integrate his faith with other dimensions of his experience: to make a 're-entry' into the atmosphere. The question with which this paper is concerned might, therefore, possibly be recast in the form: Is the Christian provided with an adequate heatshield for this re-entry? Very few disciplines, today, are free from an element of methodological uncertainty, but there Seem to be few areas in which questions of method are currently as confused as they are in theology. Many disciplines seem at least to be moderately clear about the nature and scope of their subjecti'natter. But if one asks: 'What is the subject-matter of theology?', it is not at all clear what the answer ought to be. The aim of the present paper, therefore, is necessarily a very restricted one: to break up the ground a little, raising many problems and dealing adequately with none, in order to suggest the context in which one might reflect on the sort of thing Which would count as evidence for the claims of Christian belief, and on the way in which that evidence might show itself. In his book God-?&, John hlacquame says : 'Theological language arises out of religious language as a whole, and it does so when religious faith becomes reflective and tries to give an account of itself in verbal statements'? While I am not entirely happy about the implied restriction of theological statements to second-order statements, I think that that description is helpful in that it implies a distinction between the status of faith-claims and the status of second-order theological assertions. In other words, the assertion 'I believe in God' is not necessarily shown to be


· AIM: To investigate the expression of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (TREM-1) in the aberrant inflammation within the corneal epithelium at early period of fungal infection. ·METHODS: A total of 65 Wistar rats were randomly divided into control group, sham group and fungal keratitis (FK) group, in which the cornea was infected by ( ). After executed randomly at 8, 16, 24, 48 and 72h after experimental model being established, the severity of keratomycosis in rats was scored visually with the aid of a dissecting microscope and slit lamp. Then corneas in three groups were collected to assess the expression of TREM -1 through quantitative reverse transcription -polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), immunofluorescence technique and Western blot analysis. The correlation between FK inflammation and expression of TREM -1 was also analyzed. ·RESULTS: Corneal inflammation scores increased with time after fungal infection (F =49.74, =0.000). The inflammation scores in FK group were obviously higher than those in sham group on the whole (F=137.78, = 0.000). Levels of TREM -1 in the infected rat corneal epithelium had elevated at 8h and peaked at 48h ( <0.001, compared with control group). Western blot analysis also showed an obviously elevated TREM -1 level in rat corneal epithelium at 24h and 48h after fungal infection. Immunofluorescence technique showed that TREM -1 mainly existed in corneal epithelium and infected corneal stoma of rat. TREM-1 protein expression was enhanced after fungal infection. Moreover, severity of FK inflammation was significantly related to TREM -1 expression in FK ( =0.942, =0.000). ·CONCLUSION: TREM-1 may contribute to amplify the inflammation in the cornea infected with and play critical roles in the battle against in the innate immune responses. ·


Miriam Rothschild, who died January 20, 2005 at 96, was an honorary member of the American Society of Parasitologists. Born into the English branch of the famous banking family on 5 August 1908, Rothschild might have spent her life in leisure. Rather, she chose to follow the lead of her father, Charles, and his older brother, Walter, who both were naturalists, as well as financiers. Before his untimely death in 1923 when Miriam was still a teenager, Charles Rothschild had assembled the world's best collection of fleas, and he and the famous entomologist, Karl Jordan, had published important papers regarding these insects, including Xenopsylla cheopis, with reference to its role as a vector of bubonic plague. Miriam Rothschild spent many years, in concert with G. H. E. Hopkins, preparing an illustrated catalogue of the Rothschild Collection of Fleas housed in the British Museum, a fact that led many to refer to her as the ''Queen of Fleas.'' Miriam Rothschild's breadth of interest rivaled that of her Uncle Walter (the 2nd Lord Rothschild) whose life she chronicled in her book Dear Lord Rothschild (the title refers to the letter in which the Balfour Declaration of 1917 was transmitted to the Jewish community committing to the creation of a homeland). It is a revealing portrait of an eccentric naturalist who had a private museum with thousands of preserved specimens and a scientific staff to delve into the natural history of the myriad species he collected, including many that were kept alive in a private zoological garden at the family home, Tring. Tring Park was originally the family home of Miriam's grandfather, the first Jewish Lord, Nathaniel Rothschild. Nathaniel's father, Lionel, was a man whose fortune was vast and whose bank was so solid that, in 1875, he loaned the British government money to buy an interest in the Suez Canal, thereby earning the gratitude of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and Queen Victoria. Formally known as Honourable Dame Miriam Rothschild, in recognition of her status as a member of the order of knighthood, she published more than 300 papers in a wide range of scientific journals. She was awarded eight honorary doctorates from institutions in three countries. Rothschild was a member of the Royal Society, elected in 1985. [She and her brother, Victor, the 3rd Lord Rothschild, who was also a naturalist, were the first brother-sister members of the Royal Society.] In private life she was married in 1943 to a Hungarian, Captain George Lanyi (changed to Lane), with whom she raised 6 children (2 adopted), 4 daughters and 2 sons; although divorced after 14 years, they remained friends. Aside from her enormous contributions in cataloging the Rothschild flea collection, she also studied behavior, recognizing synchrony between the host's sexual cycle and that of its fleas, e.g., the rabbit flea. She studied the mechanism for jumping that is so valuable a part of host seeking in fleas. In 1986, she published (with Y. Schlein and S. Ito) A Colour Atlas of Insect Tissues Via the Flea, which is a lavishly illustrated work that was written, at least in part, ''. . . to excite the aesthetic susceptibilities of students. . . . '' She was well known to the British public for her work as a naturalist, making many appearances on radio and television; some of the latter programs were later broadcast on public television channels in the United States. As well as extensive scientific contributions regarding butterflies, Rothschild wrote Butterfly Cooing Like a Dove, which did much to inform the public about these insects. She was a member of both the Royal Entomological Society and the Royal Zoological Society. Long before she worked on either fleas or butterflies, Rothschild was fascinated by marine biology and studied in Naples and later worked at the Marine Biological Station at Plymouth, England. It was while studying marine snails that she was captivated by helminths, specifically digenetic trematodes. She published more than 35 papers related to trematodes; this body of work would undoubtedly have been larger had she not lost her laboratory and masses of data during a Nazi attack that destroyed the oil storage tanks at Plymouth in 1939. Concerning this incident, she said: ''Where was the pile of my notebooks and manuscripts? Where were the labeled drawings? Where were the cultures of intermediate hosts . . . and the hundreds of isolated infected snails? Where were the microscopes, the Cambridge Rocker, the Camera Lucida, the watch glasses, the finger bowls, the tubes, the shelving, the jars? Gone. Seven years' work had vanished, pulverized with a ton of glass.'' Even with the devastating experience at Plymouth, Rothschild did not lose her fondness for flukes nor abandon them completely. In 1952, she wrote (with T. Clay) Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos, which made parasitology readily available to general readers, even those who have no scientific training and, in 2001, Homage to Wendell Krull, a tribute to this American parasitologist's enormously successful work on trematode life cycles. She had sought Krull's help when she was frustrated by trying to elucidate a fluke life cycle in the early 1930s; he responded, she said, ''. . . with a 10,000 word letter.'' She was a prodigious letter writer and she and Krull maintained a correspondence until his death in 1971. She referred to Krull as a genius and also commented that some of the fluke life cycles he solved were so complex that they could only have been invented by a humorous God! It was my good fortune to assist Rothschild in her 10th decade as she revised the tribute to Krull that she had begun writing in the 1940s. On a visit with her at Ashton Wold, the family home in which she was born and where she lived again for the last several decades of her life, it was a pleasure to meet part of her family, including two nieces who were following the Rothschild interest in natural history. One had studied at Kew Gardens and was then working in Italy and the other lived in Scandinavia, but was intimately involved in the Dragon Fly Preserve at Ashton Wold. As her eyesight failed and microscopy became extremely difficult, Rothschild concentrated on restoring habitat for wildflowers and on producing wildflower seeds. She advised the Royal Family, especially the Prince of Wales, on such matters and provided seeds for his estate. She also advised Lady Bird Johnson in her work to beautify America. Although far more interested, personally, in natural populations of plants, she published (in 1997) The Rothschild Gardens, a book detailing characteristics of the 100 or so European gardens that various branches of the Rothschild Family established over the years. The breadth of Miriam Rothschild's contributions to parasitology— and more generally to biology—is nothing short of astonishing. Our Society limits its honorary membership to 15 individuals and Rothschild certainly qualified to be among that select group. We have lost from our midst an amazingly able and complex figure. She is survived by three daughters and one son.


Purpose – In spite of the fact that management of a tourist destination is aimed at reaching a larger number of markets, each market consists of consumers who have similar but not necessarily homogenous needs (Cobert et al, 2007), and measuring memorable tourism experience becomes the basis for planning future tourist activities. The purpose of this study is to explore the segmentation of tourist visitors of the chosen destinations with regard to their rating of memorable tourism experience. Design – In order to adequately address visitor needs for memorable tourism experience in a tourist destination, hierarchical segmentation was applied. The survey was conducted in 2017 on 1452 respondents who had visited eight tourist cities in the Republic of Croatia. Methodology – The study applied a reliable and valid MTE instrument (Chandralal and Velenzuela 2015) from which for the purpose of segmentation from the latent dimension Perceived Significance the variable ME5 was extracted: 'It was a special experience for me'. Approach – Hierarchical clustering followed by K-means procedure extracted 3 clusters of visitors. Inferential statistical analysis was used to test (demographic) characteristics of identified segments followed by description of all three segments based on the determined differences. Findings – Differences between the segments were identified on six demographic variables. Each segment has been described on the basis of variable ME5 and demographic characteristics. Originality of the research – The research findings refer to geographic, socio-demographic and psychographic determinants of the tourist offer at tourist sites in the Republic of Croatia.


A 12-month-old toddler will often display tantrums. The following are points for both parents and pediatricians to keep in mind in managing the behavior of a 1-year-old.


Optically transparent MgIn2O4 thin films were prepared on SiO2 glass substrates by a radio-frequency sputtering method. Direct current conductivity of the as-sputtered film was lower than 10-9S·cm-1. Lithium ions were implanted to the films at room temperature to a total fluence of 2×1015cm-2. Carrier electrons were generated by the implantation. Conductivity of the as-implanted film was 8×10-2S·cm-1 and the carrier-generation-efficiency was -2%. By the post-annealing at 300°C, the efficiency drastically increased to -80% and the conductivity increased to 3S·cm-1. These results indicate that the inactive Li+ ions in the asimplanted films are incorporated into the electrically active lattice sites during the post-annealing.


The aim of this study was to determine whether there is a correlation between catalase activity of Aspergillus flavus, grown on substrates which either induce or inhibit the synthesis of aflatoxins. The work used GMS and PMS liquid media which only differ in glucose (GMS) and peptone (PMS) content. Following cultivation of mold, extraction, and immunoaffinity clean-up, aflatoxin levels were determined using HPLC. Based on the results, glucose has a higher degree of conversion to mold biomass than peptone. A total of 23 ppb aflatoxin was detected in the PMS medium, while the GMS had a significantly higher amount of up to 362 ppb. Pepton is a source of nitrogen which made the PMS medium more suitable for protein synthesis. Catalase activity was lower in the glucose-based GMS medium, as expected. The enzyme activity and the amount of aflatoxins were inversely proportional regardless of medium: GMS r = -0.91 (p = 0.03) ; PMS r = -0.94 (p = 0.02). Apparently, the decline of catalase activity may have contributed to cellular oxidative stress prompting molds to aflatoxin synthesis.


ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCEClouds are the great uncertainty of climate prediction. If researchers could get them more or less right in their models, they could be more definite about how warm it could get this century. Plenty remains wrong with model clouds, but researchers are now fixing a crucial shortcoming.


The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice is ethics at its best. It is a fine mix of moral and political philosophy with material on the law and economics of taxes. The book begins with a discussion in chapter 2 of the main criteria proposed in the tax policy literature to evaluate the fairness of tax laws such as the Benefit Principle, according to which a person's taxes should be in proportion to the benefits he or she receives from governmental services, and the Ability to Pay Principle, according to which a person's taxes should be in proportion to the taxpayer's ability to pay, assessed in a variety of ways. Chapter 3 provides a survey of diverse theories of social, political, and economic justice that have implications for how tax policy should be evaluated. Chapter 4 distinguishes two primary functions of tax policy. The first is to determine how much of society's resources will come under the control of government to be spent in accord with some collective decision procedure, and how much will be left in the discretionary control of private individuals as their personal property. The second is to determine how the social product is shared out among different individuals in the form of private property and in the form of publicly provided benefits. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 take up three central issues about the design of a tax system: What should be taxed? Should taxes be progressive? What form of inheritance tax, if any, is justified? Chapter 8 takes up some specific charges of discrimination among taxpayers such as the "marriage penalty." The general message which resonates throughout the book is that property rights are conventional and that as such they are to a large extent the product of tax policies that have to be evaluated by standards of social justice. Hence, they cannot be used to determine what taxes are just. To support this message, the authors argue against libertarianism or, more specifically, against a view they call "everyday libertarianism." According to this view, the pretax distribution of resources can be regarded as the distribution produced by the free market, which in turn gives rise to property rights. Murphy and Nagel do not only think this libertarian view is mistaken; they think it is conceptually mistaken. They claim that there is no market without government and no government without taxes, and that the type of market there is depends on laws and policy decisions that governments must make. It follows that it is logically impossible for people to have any kind of entitlement to their pretax income. According to Murphy and Nagel, all people are entitled to is what they would be left with after taxes under a system that is supported by legitimate taxation. This shows, they claim, that we cannot evaluate the legitimacy of taxes by reference to pretax income. The logical order of priority between taxes and property rights, they say, is the reverse of that assumed by (everyday) libertarianism.


The temperature dependences of the heat capacities Cp and the temperatures and enthalpies of phase transitions of methyl, methoxyphenylbenzoate, and anisic esters of 11-tetramethyldisiloxyundecanoic acid were studied in an adiabatic vacuum calorimeter over the temperature range 6-350 K; the error of measurements was ∼0.2%. The esters specified above were shown to exist in the partially crystallized and liquid states in the temperature range of measurements. The experimental data were used to calculate their thermodynamic functions C° p (T), H°(T)-H°(0), S°(T)-S°(0), and G°(T)-H°(0) from T → 0 to 350 K. The influence of isomerism on the thermodynamic properties of the esters was estimated.


The present disclosure, modifying vascular tissue repair, and / or methods and compositions for manipulating, and in particular, provides the use of such constructs for treating vascular suffering.


The history of education is never easy to write, and that of medieval ed ucation is among the hardest of all. The topic is so vast, and it touches so many aspects of social and cultural life that except when approached via specialized monographs, it has the simultaneous characteristics of the hydra and the Cheshire cat. Since World War I I historical studies, in both Western Europe and the United States, have been shaped by the emphasis of the Annalistes upon 'total history'. This approach or method was advocated by such charter members of the club as Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre when they found ed Annales, Economies, Societes, Civilisations in 1929, and it has been sus tained in recent years by such second generation members as Fernand Braudel and Jacques Le Goff. By 'total history' they meant that the Tight for history' was now to be waged in such fashion as to 'warn those in terested in history against the dangers of confining it within too narrow limits, to make use of the methods of all social sciences, and to study the present better, in order to understand the past better.' (1) This bold insistance upon totality, upon seeing society as a construct of connected though not necessarily harmonious or compatible segments, owed ob vious debts to Marx and Engels, to Max Weber, and to Durkheim. It also, in a less explicit fashion, had deep roots in such seemingly unrelated and antiquarian inquiries as field studies, an interest in the physical re mains of the past (the realia), weather and climate, and local archival and genealogical research.


The satisfaction of audiences participated in the sport events has been considered as a very important factor to increase in the marketing. Thus it is vital to maximize the satisfaction level of event visitors within organization"s resource capability. In previous research, the satisfaction of sport event has been researched as a key influence factor on future behavioral intention. The purpose of this study is to evaluate sport event audiences" experience satisfaction level and it"s influence on overall satisfaction, future intention of revisit and recommendation. The experience factors affecting visitor satisfaction were extracted from previous research, resulting in two elements of affective experience & physical experience. The sport event audiences of Korea"s professional baseball league have been selected as the respondents of this empirical research, and the survey questionnaire was distributed at the Jamshil and Mokdong stadium, a total of 295 useful responses were collected. The data were analysed by SPSS program for factor analysis and regression analysis. Findings revealed that: (a) all experience factors affected overall satisfaction and future behavioral intention; (b) between the experience factors, physical experience had the more influence on visitor satisfaction and future behavioral intentions. The results of this study can provide a sport event organizer with insights into areas for planning and operation, and by doing so, can help the sport event to reach a more sustainable position.


In this paper,the frequency domain space-alternating generalized expectation-maximization(FD-SAGE)algorithm is extended to the joint transmit-receive polarization multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO)case in order to determine the 3-D angular,temporal and polarization channel characteristics in joint transmit-receive radio link.Synthetic environments are generated to testify the efficiency of the proposed algorithm in a severe polarization multi-path indoor scenario.The results reveals that the proposed algorithm demonstrates an effective identification of the joint transmit-receive polarization MIMO channel and have stable performance.


Light-driven water splitting for the production of clean energy hydrogen is one of the most important solutions for alleviating energy crisis. However, the catalytic water oxidation to molecular oxygen is still the bottleneck of the entire process. This obviously limits their practical application in the water-splitting device. Recently, significant progress has been made in this field, in which well-defined molecules are opening up entirely new possibilities for the design of more rugged and efficient catalysts, with the hard work of scientists who are working on solving the worlds energy problem. In the present review, we summarize the recent progress in water oxidation catalysts, which is mainly divided into four sections: the selection of metals and ligands, effects of geometric structure, advantages of self-assemble.


The invention relates to a novel three-way plug valve. The novel three-way plug valve comprises a valve body, a valve rod, a handle, a valve cover and a valve plug, wherein a sealing cavity is also formed in the valve body and is communicated with the valve rod; a sealing gasket assembly is arranged in the sealing cavity and is fixed by the valve cover; the sealing gasket assembly comprises a first sealing gasket, a second sealing gasket, a third sealing gasket and a fourth sealing gasket; a first transition channel and a second transition channel are formed in the valve plug; a circle of first transition plates, a circle of second transition plates and a circle of third transition plates are arranged from outside to inside of the first transition channel; a circle of fourth transition plates, a circle of fifth transition plates and a circle of sixth transition plates are arranged from outside to inside of the second transition channel; the third transition plates are connected with the sixth transition plates through seventh transition plates. The novel three-way plug valve is excellent in sealing performance and high in stability, and is relatively safe and reliable; the service life is prolonged; the working efficiency is improved.


In this paper, we propose sensor signal processing algorithm and its system-on-chip implementation for bio-sensor systems and intelligent robots. It exploits spatial relation sensor signal processing, temporal sensor signal processing, and periodic relation sensor signal processing. Its system-on-chip implementation consists of three sensor signal processing units, RAM controller, data format converter/recover, and top controller/configurator. According to sensor unit specification or MPU performance, Signal processing unit use each processing algorithm adaptively.


A prototype suite comprised of calibrated radiometric cameras was developed to derive estimates of key cloud properties such as brightness temperature and droplet effective radius, with high spatial and temporal resolution. The system was assembled aboard an airplane to measure shortwave radiation scattered by clouds, and longwave infrared radiation emitted by clouds. This allowed deriving cloud droplet radii in shallow cumuli, with values ranging from about 6 to 14 µm. The measured longwave radiance was inverted using Planck's equation to derive the brightness temperature, with results ranging between −18 °C and +15 °C.


Assessment of land damage has been included in several Indonesian government policies, but it tends to have zero dimensions or only one point in the year. This study tried to propose an inter-time assessment of land damage with a land stability index by including the development of knowledge and technology at nickel mining sites in the easternmost part of North Konawe Regency. Orthophoto and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) images from drones in 2020 were taken in a field survey and used as primary data. While the SPOT 5 Imagery in 2014 and National DEM were collected as secondary data. The developed method combining slope, soil, TRI (Terrain Ruggedness Index), and land cover factor has been considered moderately accurate. Applying the method between different periods has produced a temporal land stability index where a positive value means more unstable, zero means unchanged, and a negative value means more stable. The results showed that after six years, the largest area due to nickel mining in the area has not changed much or had zero value. This is because the area tends to remain a natural forest. The more stable area is located in the southern part of the study site. However, the increasingly unstable area is located in the northern part of the study site. If no reclamation action is taken, the potential for further damage will occur.


We report the case of a patient with a hemiparetic stroke whose metatarsalgia was successfully managed by reducing the spasticity of plantar flexor using neurolysis with 20% ethyl alcohol. A 57-year-old female patient with left hemiparesis following an infarct of the right corona radiata and basal ganglia one year previously presented with pain (numeric rating scale: 7) in the forefoot under the second to fourth metatarsal heads for six months. We diagnosed her with metatarsalgia and considered that the forefoot pain was associated with mechanical stress around the metatarsal head due to the spasticity (Modified Ashworth Scale: 1+) of the ankle plantar flexor. We performed neurolysis of the medial and lateral motor branches of the tibial nerve to the gastrocnemius muscle with 20% ethyl alcohol. After the alcohol block, foot pain and spasticity significantly reduced (numeric rating scale: 1; Modified Ashworth Scale: 0). Moreover, this effect persisted for at least three months. Clinicians should consider the possibility that spasticity can contribute to the development of foot pain in a patient with stroke.


Acknowledgements Introduction The United States' Cold War Priorities and the Middle East, 1945-1953 American Diplomacy and the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty The Baghdad Pact and the Alpha Plan From Cooperation to Confrontation: The Unveiling of the Alpha Plan Operation Omega and the Policy of Antagonism The Suez Crisis The Eisenhower Doctrine Conclusion Footnotes Bibliography Index


While the counteraction of youth heftiness is the main suitable, suffering, financially savvy answer for the corpulence scourge, viable techniques for it stay tricky. Moreover, methodologies to impact obesogenic situations remain generally unexplored. So as to have the option to grow amazing populace level mediations and general wellbeing arrangements to forestall youth stoutness, it is essential to comprehend its etiology and those situations that are generally amiable to quantifiable change. In this article we will tell about the
how obesity is caused and how it can have effect on child oral health.

Keywords: Obesity, Children, Caries, Periodontal, Unhealthy foods.


Effect of vaccination against BRSV on the productivity of dairy cows Stokol, T., Randolph, J. F., Nachbar, S., Rodi, C. & Barr, S. C. (1997) Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 210, 1779 Antibodies to salmonella in muscle fluid from cattle Hoorfar, J., Wedderkop, A. & Lind, P. (1997) American Journal of Veterinary Research 58, 334


Each vertex in a simple graph is in one of two states: ''on'' or ''off''. The set of all on vertices is called a configuration. In the σ -game, ''pushing'' a vertex v changes the state of all vertices in the open neighborhood of v, while in the σ-game pushing v changes the state of all vertices in its closed neighborhood. The reachability question for these two games is to decide whether a given configuration can be reached froma given starting configuration by a sequence of pushes. We consider the lit-only restriction on these two gameswhere a vertex can be pushed only if it is in the on state. We show that the lit-only restriction can make a big difference for reachability in the σ -game, but has essentially no effect in the σgame. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


Music education is the weak link of basic education in rural primary and secondary school, and has a certain distance between requirement for quality education. This paper accord to "situation analysis investigate cause induction reason propose solution" research ideas, basic theoretical research as the basis, take theoretical research and practical research combined with macro and micro research process of combining, investigate on the basis of the current rural primary and middle school basic music education, summarize existing problems, on this basis and learn from the successful experience of the western developed countries, the corresponding countermeasures from the aspects of music education content, educational effect, teachers, educational facilities, teaching philosophy, etc., has a positive role in promoting and practice value for rural primary and middle school basic music education.


Using corporation organize model,this paper provides a kind of dynamic modification technology which consists of active execute personnel and workflow's dynamic modification. To amend a node member of workflow by this technology, we needn't alter process example and only need amend organize model and can be satisfied with the need of multi-group cooperative work's dynamic modification.


The case of Yndira Sandoval contributes to elucidate three aspects whose relevance we intend to show in these pages. First, how the modern state, as a social construction contains an excess that encourages control technologies applied to bodies marked by ethnic and sexual difference. Second, how this control technology is supported by a fantasy of sexual violence that authorizes a real scenario linked to the role of the nation-state. Third, how the case unveils the scenario that crosses the fantasmatic concept of the nation-state in relation to the differences that became pressing among the Mexican feminist activism.


Abdominal epidermis in vitro 135, 308 Acetaminophen toxicity 78, 328 Acetylcholinesterase reactivation in vitro 292 regulation of secretion 494 Acridines and QSAR 471 ACTH-release in vitro 398, 609 Acute toxicity 159, 344, 441, 486 of industrial effiuent 289 see also LD50 test Acyclovir in vitro and in vivo activity of 465 Adenylate cyclase system 141, 220, 567 Adhesives in orthopaedic surgery 550 Adrenal medullary chromaffin cell cultures 43 Adrenergic receptor number changes during cell culture 42 Adult spinal cord cell culture of 40 Aflatoxin-B1 cytoxicity in vitro 111 metabolic activation and bacterial mutagenicity of 115 toxicity in vitro and in vivo 318 Age fetal 225 intracellular 297 -related changes in vitro and in vivo 589 Air pollutants detection of 272 see also inhalation studies Airborne particulate material effects of 59, 388 Airways human in vitro and in vivo 128, 142, 322, 327 Alcaligenes faecalis in vitro cytotoxicity of 120 Aldicarb neurotoxicity 10 Allergy testing in vitro 105 Alternatives to the intact animal 63, 182, 278, to ocular irritancy testing 118 Alpha-2-adrenoceptor antagonist potency 553 regulation 579


Globally, 382 million individuals are estimated to have diabetes, and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is expected to affect nearly 10% of the world's population by 2035 [1]. More than 25% of the US population aged 65 years has DM [2]. Aging of the overall population is a significant driver of the DM epidemic, and DM in older adults is linked to higher mortality, reduced functional status, and increased risk of institutionalization [3]. The epidemic of type 2 DM is clearly linked to increasing overweight 한국 성인의 고 위험 당뇨에 대한 스트레스와 체질량 지수의 성별 차이


A colorimetric method, based on methylene blue adsorption, for rapid analysis of soil CEC is described. The effect of soil pH and organic matter was examined by multiple regression. For 44 test samples CEC was predicted well from transmittance measured at 550 nm (r2 = 0.735**); the r2 increased to 0.815** by excluding two moderately calcareous soil samples, and to 0.872** by including organic matter as a second independent variable. Key words: Methylene blue adsorption, CEC, colorimetric method


Introduction: Gender Identity Disorder(GID) is still a complex and poorly understood condition.The perception that transsexuality doesn't emerge as an isolated entity has been discussed for the past few decades,and its experience remit us to an inherent co-morbidity.Following Sexual Reassignment Surgery(SRS),changes at psychopathology clinical symptoms and social adaptation level become evident,but regarding the personality profile no solid evidence has ever been granted that could prove its modification.This gap in scientific data on this important subject led the researcher to conduct the present study,aiming that these orientations might contribute for a better acuity in this area of clinical care.Objectives: To identify the characteristics of the personality profile and structure,clinical psychopathological symptoms,and the level of social adaptation at the moment of clinical evaluation for diagnosis confirmation.Following the analysis of the former results,compare them,in a similar way,with those at a different moment,following SRS,providing evidence of changes at the personality profile level,psychopathology and social adaptation,in this group of Transsexuals,before and after SRS.Material and Methods: Initially a prospective and descriptive study of a group of transsexuals at the moment of clinical evaluation,and a posterior comparative study,with the same group of transsexuals,before and after SRS,using a non-randomized sample of twenty two individuals with the diagnosis of gender identity disorder.Besides a semi-structured interview,other self-assessment instruments were used: Symptom-Check List-90 Revised(SCL-90),Sociofamily Life Questionnaire,Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II(MCMI-II),Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2(MMPI-2).The statistical procedures were done using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences PASW 18 software.Results and Conclusions: At the moment of clinical evaluation,gender identity disorder does not emerge as an isolated clinical entity.After SRS,we've observed clinically significant changes at various levels: psychopathological symptoms,clinical and personality disorders,and also in social adaptation,referring to a positive evolution,with an equilibrium and stability in various dimensions.We've also found changes at the personality profile level,in GID,after SRS.Therefore,significant changes are exhibited when compared to the initial phase of the sexual reassignment process,not only at a psychopathological level,but also at the structure and basic personality pattern.Existence of a better balance,at various levels,when these individuals are envisaged,and evaluated,according to their gender identity;and,a total consistency of their gender role consistent with their gender identity.


Abstract The causal effects of central bank communication on economic expectations and their underlying mechanisms are tested in controlled laboratory experiments. We find that central bank communication has a stabilizing effect on individual and aggregate outcomes, and the size of the effect varies with the type of communication. Announcing past interest rate changes has the largest effect, reducing volatility of individual price and expenditure forecasts by one-quarter and four-fifths, respectively, and cutting a quarter of macroeconomic volatility. Forward-looking announcements have less effect on individual forecasts, especially if they do not clarify the timing of future policy changes. There is little evidence that central bank communication transmits via its influence on forecasters' ability to predict future nominal interest rates. Rather, communication is effective via simple and relatable backward-looking announcements that exert strong influence on less-accurate forecasters.


Acquisition, or the opportunity to practice skills within the classroom to the point of understanding and mastery, is different than formal learning. For the purposes of this text, acquisition refers to the opportunity to practice skills and technologies appropriate to the online classroom. Learning, in this context, refers to the background material necessary for understanding online education and the metacognitive understanding of choosing one technology for an online classroom over another. Learning, although a unique part of online teacher training, works in conjunction with acquisition in order to create a well-rounded and sufficient online educator. This chapter examines the role that acquisition and learning play in education and the necessary balance of these in order to provide setup for the following chapter incorporating acquisition and learning into an online teacher training program.


It appears that both before and since the occurrence of vomiting she had been in the habit of drinking tea very frequently?as often as four times a day. On examining the abdomen at the date of admission, a marked swelling was observed in the middle line, between the ensiform cartilage and the umbilicus (this always subsided after vomiting); and, by percussion, the outline of the greatly distended stomach could be made out. It appeared to overlap the left lobe of the liver, and this organ, as well as the heart,


This study aimed to determine the production of BSF maggots as feed cultivated with different media. The research material was 6 grams of BSF larvae eggs. The method used in this study was an experiment with a completely randomized design (CRD) where there were four treatments three times repetition so that 12 experimental units were obtained. The experiment consisted of P0 = rice bran, P1 = market waste, P2 = household waste, and P3 = Restaurant Waste. The results showed that BSF maggot production used different media against rice bran, market waste, household waste, and restaurant waste had a significant effect (P> 0.05) on the maggot production. The best treatment is in the P3 treatment, and the lowest treatment is in the P0 treatment, where the P3 treatment uses a comparison of the restaurant's organic waste media with the same amount, namely 7.3 kg to 21 days of age from 0.50 grams of BSF maggot eggs and is able to produce 2816.66 adult maggot gram


Growth of ZnSe/MgS strained‐layer superlattices (SLSs) has been carried out by molecular beam epitaxy. The crystal quality of SLSs degraded with MgS thickness of more than about 3 monolayers. Photoluminescence due to the transition between quantized levels was observed. Photoluminescence peak energies higher than 3.0 eV at 77 K were observed, which are comparable to that of ZnMgSSe quaternary material.


This paper discusses the history and prehistory of the so-called affiliative form in Ainu, also known as the "possessive" or "concrete" form of nominals. In earlier research, this form has been understood as belonging to the sphere of suffixal morphology, complicated by the impact of vowel harmony and/or nominal classes. This paper shows, however, that the marking of the affiliative form actually involves a trace of the original stem-final vowel otherwise lost in the language, followed by a recently grammaticalized separate particle. This means that Ainu must have undergone a general process of final vowel loss, which has substantially changed its morpheme structure and ultimately caused the morphophonological alternations connected with the affiliative form. This conclusion potentially opens up the way towards a more comprehensive internal reconstruction of Ainu.


Suspension of Maryland's clinical review panels lasted more than a year. The Maryland court listed what additional protections needed to be written into the law, and new legislation on panels was passed during the next legislative session and went into effect on July 1, 1991. The new law restores the use of the review panels for patients who refuse drug treatment. It provides more procedural protections for patients, and it also includes requirements for possible judicial appeals for patients if the panel decides on medication. The new law includes language from a U. S. Supreme Court ruling in February 1990 in the case of Washington V. Harper, in which the court decided that the patient's interests were adequately protected by "allowing the decision to medicate to be made by medical professionals rather than a judge . . . under fair procedural mechanisms" (1). As Ford (7) has noted, "Due process does not have to mean judicial process." Before the panels were suspended, our state hospital had used them onl...


The 55th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research was convened at 9:00 A. M., March 31, 1977, in the Hotel Scandinavia, Copenhagen, Denmark. The following opening remarks were made by Mogens R. Skougaard, Honorary President and Chairman of the Organizing Committee as he welcomed the members and guests to Copenhagen: "President Fullmer, distinguished guests, fellow members of IADR -On behalf of NOF, the Scandinavian Division of IADR, and of the Organizing Committee, it is my privilege to welcome the 55th Annual Meeting of the IADR to Copenhagen. The Organizing Committee has worked hard during the preparation of this meeting and we hope that your stay here will be not only scientifically rewarding but that you will enjoy your stay in our city. "NOF stands for Nordic Odontological Association and this year NOF celebrates its 60th anniversary, which means that NOF is three years older than the parent organization. Although IADR in a way is the kid brother of NOF we are proud of the fact that NOF in 1969 was recognized as the Scandinavian Division of the IADR. As already mentioned we are this year celebrating the 60th anniversary of NOF and we feel that this is being celebrated in the best possible way -the Scandinavian Division is hosting the Annual Meeting of the IADR. "The Organizing Committee is extremely grateful to Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II who has greatly honoured this meeting by accepting that it be conducted under Her Majesty's Patronage. Queen Margrethe was invited to be present at the opening ceremony but was unfortunately unable to come. Last night the following telegram was sent to the Queen: "The membership of the International Association for Dental Research express their gratitude to your Majesty for your patronage of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association now being held in Copenhagen. 2,000 representatives from 27 nations extend their warmest greetings to your Majesty."


Text embedded in image provides high-level semantic information for automatic annotation, indexing and retrieval. Extraction of text is difficult due to the complex background in image, font size, shape, orientation, as well as color variance, and these make it a challenging task. In recent years many methods have been proposed for text extraction in different images. In this paper the comparative evaluation analysis of various text extraction techniques is presented. It has been shown that the Morphological - Region combined algorithm is computationally more expensive and performs better than the texture based and multi-scale edge based text extraction methods under almost all scenarios.


The EU Proposal for a General Data Protection Regulation represents an evolution of the existing EU model, derived from the implementation in every country of the Directive 95/46/EC. The author points out the positive effect of the provisions of the EU proposal, which reinforce user's trust and self-determination in social networks, by means of a more adequate and updated legal framework


In this paper, we give a two dimensional analogue of the Euler-MacLaurin summation formula. By using this formula, we obtain an integral representation of Weil's elliptic functions which was introduced in the book "Elliptic functions according to Eisenstein and Kronecker".


In the cold frozen food product packaging production line, as the products' geometric parameter is changing, so the manual work remains the main ways in today's food packaging production line, in order to enhance the degree of automation, this paper designed a control system of Vision-Based food packaging line with Adept robot and proposed the double adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control to investigate joint trajectory control of food packaging line robot. The simulation results indicate that the proposed double adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control method can effectively guide the joint trajectory and is much better than traditional sliding mode control.