This article presents the principal processes for instantising foods, compares their advantages and disadvantages, and discusses them with the aid of examples. In this instantisation of foods it is important to not that additives for improving wettability are used only in limited quantities or not at all, and that aroma components are frequently present which should be preserved unchanged in the products as far as possible. Methods used for measuring instant properties are shown and fast method is presented. Discussion of the special difficulties encountered in the instantisation of strongly swelling foods and in the determination of their instant properties


would become the outer component in a sandwich variance estimator, and then estimate the expectation of the outer product of the efficient score function. This last step is the most difficult because it requires differentiating the profile likelihood, which, as mentioned earlier, can be quite difficult and is nearly impossible for some models. An interesting issue that the authors do not address is that of higher-order properties of the sampling scheme, which has been shown to be only first-order accurate. The nonparametric bootstrap has been shown to be second(and higher-)order accurate for certain parametric inference settings (Hall 1992), but not for semiparametric settings. Recently, Cheng and Kosorok (2007) showed that the profile sampler (Lee et al. 2005) enjoys higher-order properties in semiparametric settings with infinitedimensional nuisance parameters. Does the estimating equation approach share similar properties? Does the choice of prior influence higher-order accuracy?


Combined with the pritice of developing a offcial automatic management system, database management system meeting users requirement is designed based on network and database technology, and a disscass about implement scheme is carrialout.


Speaker dialect has been found to play an important role in listening comprehension by learners of a second language (L2) (see, for example, Brown, 1968; Eisenstein & Berkowitz, 1981; Major et al., 2005; Wilcox, 1978). L2 listeners have been tested on their comprehension of various international, regional, and nonnative varieties of the target language, and differences in comprehension have been found according to dialect. It has been proposed by Tauroza and Luk (1997) that these differences in target language comprehension according to dialect are in fact due to dialect familiarity, with greater comprehension of those varieties to which the learner is exposed. This study addresses the role of the target language variety, or dialect, on listening comprehension of Spanish as a second language. Specifically, the goal of the study is to determine if exposure to a previously unfamiliar dialect of Spanish through a three-week study abroad program in the Dominican Republic has an effect on the performance on listening comprehension tasks by L2 learners of Spanish. Previous studies on the effect of dialect on listening comprehension by L2 learners have frequently considered English as the target language, but no previous study has examined the effects of dialect on listening comprehension of Spanish as the L2. Also, this study is the first to offer an examination of the effects of exposing L2 learners to a previously unfamiliar variety of the target language by following the learners' listening comprehension abilities from pre-exposure to postexposure to the unfamiliar variety via a study abroad program in the targeted dialectal region. The following section presents an overview of previous work on the role of study abroad in L2 listening comprehension as well as the relationship between target language dialect and L2 listening comprehension. Section 3 describes the phonological characteristics of the targeted Spanish variety spoken in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. Section 4 presents the methodology employed in the current study, and Section 5 describes the results found. A discussion of the results and final conclusions are presented in Sections 6 and 7.


IN GENERAL, SOVIET educators never made a secret of the fact that their educational theories primarily originated from the combination of their own educational concepts and experiences with the constantly revalued educational achievements of various countries and the writings of authors from practically the entire world. As a matter of fact, they did not always use these souces of inspiration as often as they did during the formative period of the new socialist educational world-outlook when all the schools and extra-school


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The purpose of the current study is to examine trend of prose published in the Readers' column of 『Hakwon』. The writings in the Readers' column shows the inside, and recognition for reality and view on literature of students of the times. Teenagers accepted view on literature through 『Hakwon』 and repeated production and enjoyment of texts. This repetitive learning effect greatly influenced reproduction of new view on literature of the Korean literature world after 1960s when those students became writers. In this study, works of main writers who were introduced through the Readers' column such as Lee Cheong-jun, Jeon Sang-guk, Choi Myeong-hee, Kim Won-il, Choi In-cho, etc. were examined. Those writers reproduced view on literature important for the Korean literature history, and their writings published in the magazine possessed unique views on literature. In addition, by analyzing their works, it can be found that views on literature of selectors who were responsible for examination were presented. Like this, acceptance and struggle for controversies over purity-participation that were important issues at that time such as 'enlightenment and modernization', 'Korean things', etc. were shown in teenagers' writings. Therefore, 『Hakwon』 is very meaningful in as sense that it not only discovered writers important in the Korean literature history, but also reproduced literature.


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The aim of this study was to explore students' and teachers' perceptions of teacher burnout in relation to the occurrence of disruptive student classroom behaviour and the teachers' competence to cope with this kind of behaviour. First, the study shows that the Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Coping with Disruptive Behaviour Scale and the Perceived Disruptive Behaviour Scale could be adapted to students to report perceived burnout symptoms among their teachers, the occurrence of perceived disruptive student behaviour and the students' perception of their teachers' competence to cope with disruptive student behaviour. Second, students' perceptions do not differ according to their age. Third, we found that there was a significant difference between the perceptions of male and female students in respect of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, but not in respect of personal accomplishment. Fourth, according to the students' perceptions, a considerable percentage of variance in each of the three burnout dimensions was explained by teachers' competence to cope with student disruptive behaviour and perceived disruptive student behaviour. Finally, with respect to the teachers' self-reports, it appeared that teachers' and students' reports differed significantly with respect to depersonalization, personal accomplishment and the competence to cope with disruptive student behaviour. The hierarchical regression analyses of the teachers' data showed that the competence to cope with disruptive student behaviour significantly contributed to depersonalization and personal accomplishment, whereas the teachers' age was significantly related with personal accomplishment. Although the students' perceptions and the teachers' self-reports on the teachers' well-being differed on some dimensions, the students' information may contribute valid information on some aspects of teachers' mental health and classroom processes. Please address correspondence to: Dr Welko Tomic, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, PO Box 2960, 6401 DL Heerlen, The Netherlands. Email: email@example.com School Psychology International Copyright © 2004 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi), Vol. 25(2): 131–148. DOI: 10.1177/0143034304043670 Introduction Research reveals that burned out human service professionals, including teachers have had and perhaps are still having a hard time. Although the fit between them and their job has been disrupted (Galloway et al., 1986; Smith and Bourke, 1992), they continue their work, and by doing so, may well harm their own health and the wellbeing of their clients. Students need mentally and physically fit adults who can guide them as they find their way in our world. Burned out teachers suffer from irritability (Huberman, 1993), and they are found to be responsible for student apathy (Jenkins and Calhoun, 1991). Teachers are known to continue working in spite of burnout symptoms (Dworkin, 1985; Hock, 1988) or reduced classroom management skills (Blase, 1984; Smith and Bourke, 1992). As burned out teachers negatively affect themselves, their students, and the educational system (Hughes, 2001), it is necessary to develop and promote the use of instruments to accurately measure teacher burnout. As a complement to teachers' reports on their own health, their students could give valid information about them, thus helping to discover burnout among teachers at an earlier stage and making timely preventive or restorative intervention strategies possible. Teachers play such a valuable role in helping our children grow up that any opportunity to promote their physical and mental health should be seized.


—This paper introduces a virtual assistant framework that combines knowledge-based and statistical techniques to produce meaningful task-oriented conversations that are enhanced by "chatty" style dialogues in order to increase system's naturalness and user engagement. The paper describes how appropriate ontologies, semantic reasoning, dialogue management and policy learning techniques can be linked together and integrated through the dialogue process to enable a) the internal representation of the conversational state, b) the conversational awareness that drives the retrieval of appropriate information from the Knowledge Base (KB) and the inference of unrelated system actions with the current conversational state, and c) the dynamic selection of the most appropriate strategy at each dialogue turn, tackling both informational and social-related needs of individuals. The framework is exemplified by a use case from the healthcare domain where companionship and supportive care-related services are prerequisites for an efficient human-system interaction through a conversational agent.


The need for high-speed data acquisition and control algorithms has prompted continued research in the area of multiprocessor systems and related programming techniques. The result presented here is a unique hardware and software architecture for high-speed real-time computer systems. The implementation of a prototype of this architecture has required the integration of architecture, operating systems and programming languages into a cohesive unit. This report describes a Heterogeneous Hierarchial Architecture for Real-Time (H{sup 2} ART) and system software for program loading and interprocessor communication.


In the present study, we formulated and tested a basic model of the educational success of young people in out-of-home care. We used data from 2007 to 2008 and 2008 to 2009 on a sample of 1106 young people in care in Ontario, Canada. The youths were 12–17 years of age; 56.24% were male and 43.76% female. The indicators of educational success in both years were the youth's average marks and the youth's school performance in reading, math, science and overall, as rated by his or her caregiver. Based on resilience theory and on a model of the influence of maltreatment on educational achievement, our model included four categories of predictors: control variables (youth gender and age and, in the longitudinal analyses, the year 7 value of the year 8 dependent variable), three placement types (foster, kinship care or group homes), three risk factors (previous repetition of a grade in school, a health-related cognitive impairment index and a measure of behavioural difficulties) and three protective factors (caregiver involvement in the youth's school, caregiver educational aspirations for the young person and the youth's total number of internal developmental assets). Cross-sectional and longitudinal hierarchical regression analyses provided mixed support for the proposed model. The youth's gender, level of behavioural difficulties and number of developmental assets, and the caregiver's educational aspirations for the young person, emerged as the most consistent predictors of educational success. The implications and limitations of the findings were discussed.


The problem of determining the existence, maximum number and positions of the limit cycles of the planar discontinuous piecewise linear differential systems is an important problem in the qualitative theory of differential systems. In this paper, we study two families of piecewise linear Hamiltonian systems without equilibria in [Formula: see text] separated by a nonregular curve. We provide the maximum number of crossing limit cycles that each family can have and show when this maximum is reached. In this way we are solving for each family the extended 16th Hilbert problem.


ABSTRACT Fenton's reagent is an effective oxidant for pretreatment and toxicity reduction in wastewater contaminated with 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (TCP). The reaction, and its dependence on various parameters (e.g., molar ratios of the reacting chemicals, pH, temperature, etc.) have been reported elsewhere. In this paper a mechanistic interpretation of the reaction pathway, with identity of the intermediate reaction products, has been presented. An empirical expression for the rate of reaction has also been proposed in terms of the disappearance of TCP in water, as a function of the concentrations of the TCP itself and of the oxidant, hydrogen peroxide. Key words: trichlorophenol; wastewater; oxidation; Fenton; peroxide; mechanism


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In a survey of repatriation and other general hospitals between 1965 and 1969, a study was made of the operation of departments of radiology, particularly those aspects which reduced the speed of service. A previous article (McEwin, 1970) discussed these factors in a general way. The present paper is in two parts, and includes details of the investigations made and their results.

Part 1 deals with the speed of operation of the radiology service by measurement through work study. In Part 2 the causes of delay in the service, both in the department and in the hospital generally, are analysed and ways of overcoming these delays suggested.


Qudratullah Shahab was a civil servant during the British Raj. After the partition of India, he served as the chief of staff of three heads of state of Pakistan. He also served as the ambassador of Pakistan to the Netherlands and as information secretary and education secretary of Pakistan. He authored many short stories and, in his later years, he opened up about his spiritual journey. "Chandervati," which was included in his memoirs, recounts his coming of age during the thirties, at a time when interreligious marriages were taboo. The author expresses his deep connection to a Brahmin girl named Chandervati. Despite their love for one other, they understood their societal and religious divide. [Article copies available for a fee from The Transformative Studies Institute. E-mail address: email@example.com Website: http://www.transformativestudies.org ©2023 by The Transformative Studies Institute. All rights reserved.]


Two classes of molecular markers, RFLPs (restriction fragment length polymorphisms) and RAPDs (random amplified polymorphic DNA) were used to assess genetic diversity among Australian bean rust isolates (Uromyces appendiculatus (Pers.) Unger var. appendiculatus) collected from diverse geographic locations spanning the period 1973-1990. Initially we screened 22 isolates using WLPs from five DNA probes. This was followed by analysis of a subset of 12 of these isolates using RFLPs from 10 cDNA probes and RAPDs from 10 arbitrary primers for a comprehensive evaluation of background genotype. Polymorphic bands revealed the existence of two divergent clusters of isolates, representing genotypes designated A and B. The RFLP markers showed 30% band dissimilarity between A and B, and RAPDs 16% dissimilarity. Isolates in a third cluster (genotype AB) exhibited most of the polymorphic bands present in A and B, but no unique polymorphic bands of their own, indicating that they had most probably arisen from recent hybridisation between isolates of genotype A and B. The subset of 12 isolates included 10 race phenotypes, but no clear correlation between background genotype (as assessed by RFLP and RAPD markers) and race phenotype was evident. We suggest that Australian races of bean rust have most probably evolved by a combination of mutation to virulence from common A and B background genotypes, and genetic recombination.


: Food industry is a major source of waste water pollution. Several techniques are available to remove pollutants from food industry waste water. One of the promising technologies for the removal of pollutants from food industry waste water is coagulation and flocculation. In the present work, various coagulants like lime, alum and ferrous sulphate were applied on waste water to select the suitable one with optimum removal efficiencies for further treatment with polyelectrolytes. Parameters such as turbidity, Total suspended solids (TSS), Chemical oxygen demand (COD), Biological oxygen demand (BOD) and oil and grease content were evaluated. On the basis of results, lime was proven to be the most efficient inorganic coagulant for further treatment. It could remove 55.2% turbidity, 51% TSS, 49.6% COD, 51% BOD and 51% oil and grease at its optimum dosage of 50 mg/L. Generation of sludge in the coagulation-flocculation process was also studied. The volume of sludge was 22.5 mg/L at the optimum dosage of lime. Further cationic polyelectrolyte Organopol 5470C and anionic polyelectrolyte Chemfloc 430A were also studied in conjunction with lime. Organopol 5470C in conjunction with lime showed better result because of low dosage, maximum pollutant removal and minimum quantity of sludge generation. It could remove 94% turbidity, 95.5% TSS, 83.5% COD, 89% BOD and 92.5% oil and grease; whereas Chemfloc 430A in conjunction with lime could remove 91.2% turbidity, 90% TSS, 77.8% COD, 83% BOD and 86.8% oil and grease. The volume of sludge produced while using polyelectrolyte and lime together was much lower than using lime alone. The amount of sludge produced in case of Organopol 5470C and lime together is 8.9 mg/L, while sludge generation by Chemfloc 430A in conjunction with lime is 10.4 mg/L.


This paper describes a new encapsulating method using resin sheets. There are three important points to develop this method. 1. New molding process and encapsulating molds. 2. Resin suitable for this method. 3. Measuring method for resin state. This method is suitable for fabricating thin packages. These thin model packages showed the high reliability of pressure cooker test and thermal cycle test.


I study dynamic random utility with finite choice sets and exogenous total menu variation, which I refer to as stochastic utility (SU). First, I characterize SU when each choice set has three elements. Next, I prove several mathematical identities for joint, marginal, and conditional Block–Marschak sums, which I use to obtain two characterizations of SU when each choice set but the last has three elements. As a corollary under the same cardinality restrictions, I sharpen an axiom to obtain a characterization of SU with full support over preference tuples. I conclude by characterizing SU without cardinality restrictions. All of my results hold over an arbitrary finite discrete time horizon.


and References. Информационные технологии. Системы управления в промышленности 65 22. Yang, Y., Guan, H. You, J. (2002). CLOPE: A fast and Effective Clustering Algorithm for Transaction Data. Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining. New York: ACM, 682–687. 23. Levykin, V., Ievlanov, M. (2006). Meta-model of functional structure of information system. New technologies, 1 (11), 67–72. 24. Ievlanov, M., Neumivakina, O., Karamysheva, A. (2012). Global goals of Provider and Consumer of IT-services. Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, 5/2 (59), 12–17. Available at: http:// journals.uran.ua/eejet/article/view/4137/3900 25. Matveev, V. A. (2005). The final noncooperative games and balances. Pskov: PGPI im. S. M. Kirov, 176. KNOWLEDGE-ORIENTED DATABASE FORMATION FOR DETERMINATION OF COMPLEX METHOD FOR QUALITY IDENTIFICATION OF COMPOUND SYSTEMS (p. 13-21) Tatiana Kozulia, Natalia Sharonova, Mariia Kozulia, Iaroslav Sviatkin Feasibility substantiation of resorting to the provisions of synergy and the theory of nonlinear processes of compound systems in modeling the system object behavior is considered. Any self-organizing system of social, ecological and economic content is open dissipative, which removes entropy growing in destructive phenomena in the interaction with the environment. The use of the entropic approach to the analysis of complex objects allowed reviewing the structure of the analytical system and representing it as "0-state of the object – process – i-state of the object", the estimate of which is agreed due to the versatility of quantitative analysis based on the entropy function. The proposed analytical system allows applying methodical approaches to solving complex problems for safety evaluation of different objects of the study. Software for implementing the complex method for quality evaluation of compound systems is provided. The proposed software allows speeding up the solution of problems regarding the computation of the overall state of the object with the identification of risk factors using the considered method. The computer application with the user-friendly interface is made, which allows displaying results in an analytical form and in the form of graphs. This simplifies the perception of information regarding the research results obtained.


Abstract Objective: In this study we investigated adolescent students' (13–15 years old) social representations of the vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) by analysing their iconographic productions of the vaccination. Design: A qualitative study with workshops was set up in three volunteer schools. Student groups created a total of 27 posters about the vaccination. Results: Two types of messages emerged: the first presented vaccination as a means of preventing cancer, while the second presented it as a means of promoting sexual health. Conclusion: The choice between using one message type or the other seemed to stem from the fact that students appropriated the subject of the workshops differently.


This article is an application of light and electron microscopic immunocytochemistry to the study of the neuronal circuit of the superficial layers in the rat dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN). An antiserum against the intrinsic marker glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) is used to identify and map axon terminals and neurons that use gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) as a neurotransmitter. It is demonstrated that layers 1 and 2 of the DCN contain a very high density of GABAergic boutons, matched only by the granule cell domains of the ventral cochlear nucleus, especially the superficial granule cell domain. These two layers also contain much higher concentrations of GABAergic cell bodies than all other magnocellular regions of the cochlear nuclear complex. Cartwheel and stellate neurons, and probably also Golgi cells, previously characterized in Golgi and electron microscopic investigations, appear immunostained and, therefore, are presumably inhibitory. The synaptic relations between parallel fibers, the axons of granule cells, and cartwheel and stellate neurons are confirmed. The present study also supports the conclusion that stellate cells are coupled to one another by gap junctions. Also scattered in layer 1 are large, GABAergic neurons that occur with irregular frequency and presumably represent displaced Purkinje cells, previously identified with a Purkinje‐cell‐specific marker. Granule neurons and pyramidal neurons remain unstained, even after topical injection of colchicine, which enhances immunostaining of the other glutamate‐decarboxylase‐positive cells, and therefore must use transmitters different from GABA.


The present invention relates to a direct printed lightweight panel, in particular a flooring panel, comprising a lightweight MDF or LDF carrier board with a density of <=750 kg/m3; a decor layer printed onto the carrier board; and a transparent protective coating. The different layers and coatings are applied in such a manner so that surface structures and/or optical characteristics of the carrier board are at least partially visible and thereby incorporated into the design of the decor layer.


A pot experiment was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of sepiolite-induced immobilisation remediation of Cd contaminated soil. The results demonstrated that adding sepiolite significantly increased the soil pH and resulted in 35.1–66.0%, 30.3–48.9%, and 31.6–51.6% reduction in toxicity characteristic leaching procedure of Cd (TCLP-Cd), respectively, for the Cd levels of 1.25, 2.5, and 5 mg/kg compared with the no-sepiolite controls. These decreases in TCLP-Cd were associated with reductions in plant phyotoxicity and Cd absorption, and sepiolite-treated soils resulted in increases of 3.2–38.0%, 34.2–52.3%, and 8.4–51.5% in shoot biomass, respectively, and in decreases of 26.7–39.6%, 17.3–28.5%, and 6.1–21.8% in shoot Cd contents, respectively, under soil Cd concentration of 1.25, 2.5 and 5 mg/kg compared to the unamended soils. The greater microbial biomass and catalase and urease activities after applying sepiolite implied a certain degree of recovery in metabolic function recovery during soil remediation. These results demonstrated that the application of sepiolite not only was effective at reducing Cd bioavailability and the rate of Cd accumulation in plants, but also improved soil environmental quality.


Introduction: Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a rare diagnosis, however commonly tested. We hypothesize that the 4T score, a diagnostic tool to diagnose HIT, is underutilized by clinicians. This may subsequently lead to unnecessary testing for HIT, administration of costly alternative anticoagulants, and mislabeling of heparin as allergy. We present preliminary data of our quality improvement study. Our aim was to analyze patients previously labeled with heparin allergy and analyze the 4T9s scores, optical density values (OD), and serotonin release assay (SRA) results. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of patient at two tertiary care hospitals who were evaluated for HIT from October 2015- present. We were notified by pharmacy when a HIT panel was sent and alternative anticoagulation was started. Patients with unknown heparin administration from outside institutions were excluded from the study. We calculated the 4T9s score and further categorized low (0-3), intermediate score (4-5), and high (6-8) score. We considered the patients to have "true HIT" if they had 4T9s score > 5 or optical density values >0.4 and positive SRA. Results: We analyzed 50 patients who were evaluated for HIT and placed on alternative anticoagulation. We observed that 64% (32/50) of the patients were listed as having heparin allergy secondary to HIT, while 36% (18/50) were not listed to have HIT as allergy on electronic health record. 19 of the 50 (38%) had scored had low 4T9s score, of that two tested for HIT with a score of 0 (4%, n=50), 22 (44%) had intermediate, and 9 (18%) had high. When we utilized the 4T9s score as pre-test clinical score, 0/13 patients with low score (6 not tested for SRA) and 0 /18 with intermediate score (4 were not tested) had positive SRA. 4 of the 9 (67%) high score were positive (3 were not tested). When we evaluated SRA results for patients with OD value >0.4, we observed 3 with OD value >2 and 1 with OD value of 0.798 had positive SRA. Interestingly, 1 with OD value of 2.136 had negative SRA. 8 patients with OD values > 1 had negative SRA. Conclusion: Preliminary results show that patients are frequently tested for HIT, misdiagnosed with HIT, and mislabeled with HIT in electronic health record. When 4T9s is used as clinical score, patients with low probability should not be further tested for HIT. Our study has different results for compared to study of Lo GK et al who utilized 4T9s score as pre-test clinical score . 1 According to the study patients with low score had Reference: Lo GK, Juhl D, Warkentin TE, Sigouin CS, Eichler P, Greinacher A. Evaluation of pretest clinical score (4 T9s) for the diagnosis of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in two clinical settings. J Thromb Haemost 2006; 4: 759-65. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.


Most software agent lifecycles are designed in such a way that they mimic the lifecycles of humans (anthropomorphism). This position paper presents a set of operations for software agents which have no immediate biological analogies, such as splitting and merging agents. We argue through a series of scenarios the potential benefits of this approach. We present a method to implement these operations in the Bond agent framework.


AIMS
High salt diet can aggravate oxidative stress, and renal fibrosis via the brain and renal renin-angiotensin system (RAS) axis in chronic kidney disease (CKD) rats. (Pro)renin receptor (PRR) plays a role in regulating RAS and oxidative stress locally. However, whether central PRR regulates salt-induced renal injury in CKD remains undefined. Here we hypothesized that the reduction of central PRR expression could ameliorate central lesions and thereby ameliorate renal injury in high-salt-load CKD rats.

RESULTS
We investigated RAS, sympathetic nerve activity, oxidative stress, inflammation and tissue injury in subfornical organ and kidney in high-salt-load 5/6 nephrectomy CKD rats after silencing of central PRR expression by intracerebroventricular lentivirus-RNAi. We found that the sympathetic nerve activity was reduced, the level of inflammation and oxidative stress were decreased both in brain and kidney. Renal injury and fibrosis were ameliorated. To explore the mechanism by which central inhibition of PRR expression ameliorates kidney damage, we blocked central MAPK/ERK1/2 and PI3K/Akt signaling pathway as well as ACE1-AngII-AT1R axis. Salt-induced overexpression of renal RAS, inflammation, oxidative stress, and fibrosis in CKD rats were prevented by central blockade of the pathways.

INNOVATION
This study provides new insights into the mechanisms underlying salt-induced kidney damage. Targeting central PRR or PRR-mediated signaling pathway may be a novel strategy for treatment of chronic kidney disease.

CONCLUSIONS
These results suggested that silencing of central PRR expression ameliorates salt-induced renal injury in CKD through Ang II-dependent and -independent pathways.


Significance
 Nevertheless, multinationals face mounting pressure to deliver on their sustainability programmes, while Ivorian and Ghanaian regulators face new pressures to bolster domestic sectors.

 Impacts
 While wary of reputational damage of flagrantly skirting the LID, multinationals will continue to seek alternative supply options.
 The CCC and Cocobod will reserve the threat of revoking certification programmes that underpin major multinationals' sustainability efforts.
 The limited LID benefits for Ivorian farmers thus far could undermine popular support for the mechanism, and strain bilateral cohesion.


The application of D501 resin in separation of tungsten and trace molybdenum was studied in this paper.It was found that the separation efficiency was rather good under the existence of H 2O 2 when pH=1.0 and content ratio of Mo and WO 3 in the original solution is 0.036 7%.


The paper proposes a condition that should be satisfied when using the combination with different carrier phase observations to get the high precision...


Wereport preliminaryinvestigation of several molten salt electrolytes containing CdCl 2 and TeCl 4 for the electrodeposition of CdTe films at temperatures wellabove (>250 °C) those used with aqueous and organic electrolytes. These high temperatures have potential to dramatically increase the crystallite size (Poole, Engelken, et al., 1994), as is important for optoelectronic device applications of CdTe, a leading II-VI semiconductor. This paper will survey the results obtained withelectrolytes such as B 2 O,/HBO 2 (m.p. - 230'C), NaCH3COO (m.p. » 324°C), ZnCl 2 (m.p. - 283*C), and LiCl/KCl (m.p. * 350°C), with an emphasis on the latter two. Key material to be presented includes 1) voltammetric data for the solutions, 2) x-ray diffractometry data for deposited films, 3) a discussion of the numerous practical problems associated withhigh temperature electrochemistry, especially in corrosive, volatile systems, and 4) emphasis of the value of an operationally feasible high temperature plating system to the commercial viability of electrodeposited semiconductor films.


Eleven mango cultivars which were cultivated popularly in China were selected as materials in this study. The ascorbic acid, α-tocopherol, total carotenoid, total ployphenol, total flavonoid, and mangiferin contents, and in vitro antioxidant capability of the fruit pulp were tested for comparison of individual cultivars. Comparisons of parameters were further conducted after dividing all cultivars into three groups, i.e., red (Zill, Zillate, Renong No. 2, Keitt and Lippens), green (Guire No. 82, Yuexi No. 1 and Zihua) and yellow (Chunhuang, Renong No. 1 and Tainong No. 1) in peel color. The results showed that antioxidant contents and in vitro antioxidant capabilities varied among cultivars and among groups. Guire No. 82 had the highest total polyphenol and flavonoid contents; Renong No. 1 showed a dramatically large value of α-tocopherol content; and green peel mangoes accounted for higher ascorbic acid, total polyphenol, total flavonoid contents, and total in vitro antioxidant capability. Besides, correlation analysis and principal component regression analysis indicated that antioxidants (except α-tocopherol) were positively correlated to total in vitro antioxidant capacity; polyphenolic chemicals were deemed to be one of the most critical factors affecting on total in vitro antioxidant capability.


Abstract High temperature (HT) effects on pistil tissues and female gametophyte have been scarcely investigated in crops species. HT in strawberry can induce fruit malformations due to poor pollen performance in pistils, reducing the fertilization level. In this study, Fragaria × ananassa cvs. Earlibrite and Fortuna were exposed to ambient temperature (AT) or HT at late flower bud development over the duration of 3 or 5 days. To evaluate the capacity of heated apical and basal pistils to support and guide pollen tubes, we examined the performance of unheated pollen grains and their path along the pistil, as well as the anatomy of reproductive tissues. HT significantly induced a decrease in the number of adhered and germinated pollen grains and of pollen tubes in the style and the ovule micropyle. Microscopic observations revealed loss of stigmatic papillae turgidity and fertilization failures due to abnormal pollen tube paths. The latter finding was related to the high incidence of immature female gametophytes in apical pistils and unviable female gametophytes in basal pistils. Facultative apomixis is also described. This is the first report of impaired pistil functions when strawberry buds are exposed to HT, as revealed by in vivo poor pollen performance 24 h after pollination.


The transportation sector is on the threshold of a revolution as advances in real-time communication, real-time computing, and sensing technologies have brought to fruition the capability to build Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS) such as self-driving cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, adaptive cruise control systems, truck platoons, and so on. While there are many benefits that TCPSs have to offer, a major challenge that needs to be addressed to enable their proliferation is their vulnerability to cyber attacks. In this article, we demonstrate, using laboratory prototypes of TCPSs, how the approach of Dynamic Watermarking can secure them from arbitrary sensor attacks. Specifically, we consider two TCPSs of topical interest: (i) an adaptive cruise control system and (ii) a system of self-driving vehicles tracking given trajectories. In each of these systems, we first show how cyber attacks on sensors can compromise safety and cause collisions between vehicles in spite of the presence of a collision avoidance module in the system. We then apply the approach of Dynamic Watermarking and demonstrate that it detects attacks with "low" delay. Once an attack is detected, the controller can take appropriate control actions to prevent collisions, thereby guaranteeing safety in the sense of collision freedom.


Equal pay for equal work is an important part of labor rights.It is closely related to the realization of labor's rights and interests.However,the current backward labor legislation makes the regulation of equal pay for equal work deficient for the post-retirement employees,a new type of laborers different from the traditional ones.How to protect the right of equal pay for equal work of the non-standard laborers not only has become an urgent issue to be solved in the study of labor laws,but also is of great theoretical and practical significance.


There are many problems in the transformation of agricultural science and technology achievements in China such as low efficiency,poor cooperation,and less and unstable input.According to these problems,the development countermeasures are put forward including improving the quality of agricultural science and technology achievements,making clear the duty of each extension channel,strengthening the cooperation,and increasing the input and so on.


The objective of this work is to approach the problem of the translation conceived as an interaction process where the actors are able to transformations, associations and commutations that they require of an interaction structure characteristic of the scientific communications. Specifically, I will analyze the translation from English, in the treatment of the science and the technology, for being of interest for investigators that work in the context of the philosophy and the languages with scientific and technological aims.


We aimed to characterise the global surgical gastric cancer population and variability in disease presentation across different resource settings.

 GlobalSurg3 was a multicentre, international prospective cohort study of patients undergoing surgery for cancer. Primary outcomes were death or major complications (Clavien-Dindo III/IV) within 30 days of surgery. Income levels were defined using the World Bank classification. Patient characteristics, presentation and disease factors were analysed across income levels. Multilevel logistic regression models were used to explore the effect of patient factors on outcomes.

 This analysis included 1337 patients from 263 hospitals (high income countries (HICs) N = 712, upper middle income countries N = 289, low and lower middle-income countries (LMICs) N = 336). Most patients presented with gastric adenocarcinoma (81.4%, N=1088) in the distal third of the stomach (43.2%, N=578). Patients undergoing surgery were on average 10 years younger in LMICs compared to HICs (55.4 vs 67.4), and proportion presenting with >10% weight loss was double (64.3%, N=216 vs 30.8%, N=219). Patients in LMICs were twice as likely to require emergency surgery (10.7%, N=36 vs 4.2%, N=30), as did those operated on with palliative intent (21.1%, N=71 vs 11.1%, N=79). Having an increased Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status (ECOG) was associated with significantly increased 30-day mortality (ECOG 2 aOR= 7.99 (2.67–23.94, p<0.001), ECOG 3/4 aOR= 13.31 (4.04–43.89, p<0.001)).

 Functional status is independently associated with 30-day mortality after cancer surgery. Variation in outcomes across income levels may be influenced by inherent differences between surgical populations.


In Smart Grids (SG), Electricity Theft Detection (ETD) is of great importance because it makes the SG cost-efficient. Existing methods for ETD cannot efficiently handle data imbalance, missing values, variance and non-linear data problems in the smart meter data. Therefore, an effective integrated strategy is required to address underlying issues and accurately detect electricity theft using big data. In this work, a simple yet effective approach is proposed by integrating two different modules, such as data pre-processing and classification, in a single framework. The first module involves data imputation, outliers handling, standardization and class balancing steps to generate quality data for classifier training. The second module classifies honest and dishonest users with a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. To improve the classifier's learning trend and accuracy, a Bayesian optimization algorithm is used to tune SVM's hyperparameters. Simulation results confirm that the proposed framework for ETD significantly outperforms previous machine learning approaches such as random forest, logistic regression and SVM in terms of accuracy.


One of the more melancholic, at times devastating, laws of history lies in the fact that it is only with the decay of a given object-with the ruination of an institution, the break-up of a cultural formation, the obsolescence of a conceptthat its history becomes visible for the first time, that it becomes available for historical contemplation. What then are we to make of a Documenta exhibition defined by its curator as a "retroperspective," as an exhibition that will look back upon its predecessors to define more clearly the cultural situation of the present? What should we make of an exhibition that will specifically turn to the important Documenta exhibitions of the 1960s and 1970s in order to isolate what its curator


264 Background: Postoperative symptom burden is high in surgical oncology patients. Electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) remote monitoring systems are rapidly proliferating and have the promise of improving care. However, implementation in diverse practice settings is understudied. More information on ePRO participation may determine addressable barriers. Methods: Patients presenting to the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program for surgery were prospectively enrolled. ePROs assessing common postop symptoms and functional impairments were administered via a web-based platform daily for 14 days and then weekly until 3 months post-discharge. Automated reminders were provided by email. Phone calls were made for 2 consecutive missed ePROs. ePRO participation levels were categorized as high (> 80%), medium (50-80%), low (1-49%), and none. Patient characteristics were examined by participation level via Fisher's exact and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Results: From 2020-2022, 202 patients were recruited to participate, and 113 (56%) agreed. There were no differences in demographics of agreed vs. declined. 99 patients initiated ePROs after discharge. Mean age was 60.5 years (sd 13.4), 37.8% were male, 72.5% were White, and the majority (64%) had lung resection. Patients participated in ePROs for an average of 82 days (sd 24) before discontinuing. Overall, 57.7% (1383/2397) of delivered surveys were completed; response rates were lowest in week 1 (48%) and highest in week 7 (71%). Participation levels are described in Table. Married/partnered patients were significantly more likely to have high levels of participation (p = 0.003), and those who regularly used a computing device almost reached significance (p = 0.057). Age, gender, race, employment, email/internet use, financial status, and quality of life did not vary across ePRO participation levels. Conclusions: Monitoring symptoms with ePROs after discharge from thoracic surgery is feasible in a large academic public hospital. Participation levels in ePROs are lower immediately after discharge, when symptomatic complications drive the highest rates of readmissions. This suggests an opportunity to improve ePRO implementation during the post-acute period when intensive monitoring is desired and in patients who are not partnered or are less frequent device users. As length of stay and readmissions are increasingly targeted for expenditure reduction in academic inpatient settings, it is paramount to design and implement systems to effectively monitor at-risk patients. Clinical trial information: NCT04342260. [Table: see text]


The purpose of family planning counseling programs is to facilitate client decision making on the basis of information about the structure and function of the reproductive system and about various contraceptive methods. It is not appropriate to tell the client what to do. Counseling assumes particular importance now that incentives to encourage family planning and disincentives for large families are being used in many countries. The right of the client to choose the method and timing of sterilization must be respected. A problem in this area is the failure of professional schools in the health sciences to teach students basic interpersonal skills. Effective counseling requires the ability to establish rapport recognize verbal and nonverbal responses be a good listener show empathy and warmth and reflect feelings and express oneself clearly in simple language. Respect for the clients feelings beliefs and fears should be conveyed. The alternatives benefits risks and possible side effects of each procedure or medication should be explained. An encouraging development was a regional training program organized by the International Project Association for Voluntary Sterilization in the Philippines aimed at popularizing family planning counseling. If this approach continues it should become possible for each individual to make sound decisions about fertility without coercion.


This article presents a scheme of actualizing PACS,and analyzes several key technologies including substanˉdard DICOM gateway and information communication subsystem in the course of developing and implementing them.


Compared with traditional radical polymerization,Living/Controllble radical polymerizations are good at controlling the polymer structure and molecular weight distribution.Among the controllable radical polymerizations,ATRP and RAFT are the most popular polymerization methods suitable for kinds of monomers under relatively mild condition.VAc is a highly reactive monomer.RAFT has been successfully utilized to produce PVAc in a controllable manner,but the polymerization using ATRP has met with limited success.Most of the research works reported of VAc polymerization by RAFT are in bulk or emulsion polymerization instead of solution polymerization.In this article,MESA was used as chain transfer mediated reagent to control the PDI under 1.8.The effects of concentration of MESA,polymerization temperature and time have been studied.


We investigate competition between network providers that offer service to two types of traffic differing in their sensitivity to delay. We first consider competition amongst network providers who offer differentiated services by providing a priority queue for the delay sensitive traffic. We compare this to a situation in which all the competing network providers have network architectures that treat traffic of both types the same way. Our model of competition is Cournot in that service providers choose a rate to offer traffic of each type, and in-turn the total rate offered to each type of traffic determines the price of each traffic type. We are interested in the price of anarchy in these games of competition, which is defined as the ratio of the maximum achievable social utility versus the social utility attained when service providers selfishly maximize profits and reach a Nash equilibrium. We find that the price of anarchy is no more than 4/3 in our model of competing providers who offer differentiated services. In competition with providers that do not offer preferential service to delay sensitive traffic, we find the price of anarchy can be higher than 4/3, and we derive bounds for a number of important cases.


filming conditions. These have included: suspending a digital handheld camcorder with tape to the main theatre light, attaching a camera to the surgeon's headlight and finally a camcorder mounted on a tripod secured to a suspension table. Each proved unsuitable with low quality footage. The flexible tripod 'Gorillapod' available from Jessops (Fig. 1) firmly attaches to the compact digital camera. The flexible legs can be secured around the main theatre light made possible by the ball and socket type joints. Whilst it is possible in some hospitals to liaise with medical photography this can be inconvenient, requires forward planning and involves an additional person in theatre. This device is convenient, simple to use and low cost.


The results of experimental and numerical studies of the generation of runaway electrons (RAE) in a pressurized air-filled diode under the application of 20 ns, 5 ns and 1 ns duration high-voltage pulses with an amplitude up to 160 kV are presented. It is shown that with a 1 ns pulse, RAE with energy ⩾20 keV reach the anode prior to the formation of the plasma channel between the cathode and anode. Conversely, with 20 ns or 5 ns pulses, RAE with energy ⩾20 keV were obtained at the anode only after the formation of the plasma channel. In addition, the high- and low-impedance stages of the development of the discharge were found. Finally, a comparison between experimental and numerical simulation results is presented.


Combining second harmonic imaging, polarization-sensitive second harmonic imaging and two-photon excitation fluorescence imaging, the invention performs high spatial resolution imaging on a retina to realize the early diagnosis on retina diseases. Through the coupling between a laser-scanning confocal ophthalmoscope and an ultrashort pulse laser, the invention performs two-photon excitation fluorescence imaging, the second harmonic imaging and the polarization-sensitive second harmonic imaging mainly on three retina cell layers with important functions that are a pigment epithelium cell layer, a photoreceptor cell layer and a ganglia cell layer, and acts the compound imaging of the second harmonic imaging, the polarization-sensitive second harmonic imaging and the two-photon excitation fluorescence imaging on same cell layer; a synthetic image of all cell layer images and the same cell layer is obtained through a computer processing system, thereby obtaining the functional information of all cell layer images. The invention provides a novel retinal single-cell imaging modality with three-dimensional high spatial resolution to the pathological research as well as the early diagnosis of various retinal diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, etc., and the research of the vision science; in addition, the invention has important significance for reducing the blindness risk of patients suffered from the retinal diseases.


A method for realizing color ring-back tone includes triggering SSP to SCP when calling to called party is received by SSP, reporting and continuously calling when SCP requests SSP to monitor ringing event and answering event, reporting monitored called-ringing event when called-ringing is detected by SSP, dividing current call to be calling section of calling party and calling section of called party according to indication of SCP, connecting the calling section of calling party to IP according to IP address provided by SCP and playing custom made color ring-back tone of called party to calling party by IP.


Although the introduction of unpremeditated liability and the establishment of the liability insurance system and social security system pose a challenge to the tort law, the fundamental principles of the law remain unchanged. This challenge does not indicate a crisis of the tort law but a chance for further improvement. Its essence is a crisis of the thought inherent in our mind about law.


It relates to a power converter of the present invention, a power factor correction circuit, which is coupled to a power converter, the power converter to adjust a power factor, power factor correction by a feedback voltage based on an output of the power converter circuit signal to produce a voltage command signal, the arithmetic circuit receives the power converter a voltage input signal and a current sensing signal and the voltage command signal, and the operation circuit generates a multiplication signal according to the voltage input signal and the voltage command signal, and according to the voltage input signal and a current-sense signal to generate a first reference signal, and thereafter, then the arithmetic circuit based on the multiplication signal and the reference signal for generating a first control signal, the switching circuit according to a control signal and a second reference signal, and generating a switching signal for switching a switching power converter. Thus, the present invention is to avoid the use of a multiplier by a divider, so that the power factor correction circuit of simple structure, thus achieving a volume reduction of the power factor correction circuit, and can achieve cost reduction.


Correlation is based pattern recognition is primarily based on the matching of contours between an unknown target image and a known reference image. However, it does not usually include the color image information in the decision making process. In order to render the correlation method sensitive to color change, we propose a generalized method based on the decomposition of the target image in its three color components using, either the normalized RGB (red, green, blue) color space, or the normalized HSV (hue, saturation, value) space. Then, the correlation operation is carried out for each color component and the results are merged in order to make a final decision. The aforementioned steps can alleviate majority of the problems associated with illumination changes in the target image by utilizing color information of the target image. To overcome these problems, we propose to convert the color based contour information into a signature corresponding to the color information of the target image. Test results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed technique.


R is defined as the science of the deformation and flow of matter. It is a science that studies the nature of how matter flows. For flexographic printers, having a basic understanding of ink and coating flow properties and how they flow is important to a predictable experience in the press room – and can assist in troubleshooting complex problems. Knowing the viscosity of the ink or coating is important to achieving good, consistent results. But beyond the viscosity numbers are the transfer properties of the fluid itself – or what are called the rheology properties of the material. This article explores the rheology dynamics of fluids being transferred in the ›anilox surface-transfer zone‹ environment of a printing/coating press. Over the years, coating roller surface technology has been greatly limited in its accuracy and predictability on press, making it more of an art than a science in the production process. This guess work on press continues to frustrate coating development engineers and chemists when attempting to transfer lab results into the production environment an all too frequently a long and often uncompromising process. The cause of this unpredictability can, for the most part, be traced to a misunderstanding of the fluid transfer dynamics for any given printing/coating application. The result is typically created by certain assumptions being made when attempting to reproduce laboratory results on press, causing downtime and lost quality on the press.


The urban features are strong non-linear character,multiple in type,and complex in spatial distribution.The Kernel Principal Component Analysis(KPCA) can express this high-level relationship of pixels and provide an independent KCP,by changing the feature space to the high dimensional kernel space.In the paper,by adding multi-scale texture features for application of the details of spatial distribution of features,KPCA method is used to extract the non-linear characteristics of urban features,increasing the separability between the categories;and decision tree classification method is used to the high-resolution remote sensing image to extract the urban features.The experimental results show that: KPCA can extract the good non-linear characteristics between the features,and combined with KPCA and multi-scale texture,the decision tree classification method can effectively extract the type of features,extraction accuracy of 79.3%,KAPPA coefficient of 0.763.


An extended kindred in the Sudan, where a severe muscular dystrophy has been interpreted as of autosomal recessive inheritance, has been further analysed. The within‐sibship ratio, the autosomal and X‐linked inbreeding coefficients, and the creatine kinase levels suggest a possible alternative interpretation: X‐linked muscular dystrophy with failure of clinical expression in some males.


Support Vector Machine is amongst the popular machine classifier due to its rigorous theory background and remarkable generalization performance. Hence, in this paper, the performance of SVM is evaluated to classify gait abnormalities due to Parkinson disease based on three kernels namely radial basis function, polynomial as well as linear. In addition, two types of normalization is applied to these gait data namely intra group norm and inter group norm. Initial findings showed that basic spatiotemporal parameters found to be the most significant features. Results also proven that intra group norm and RBF kernel are capable to to be used in detecting anomaly gait pattern between normal and PD patients based on the accuracy rate attained.


Spontaneous formation of clotted material occurs occasionally in all stored red cell units, but larger amounts have been noted in SAG‐M optimal additive suspensions. These can be substantially reduced by substitution of the SAG‐M solution by a SAG‐M/CPDA‐1 mixture suggesting that there is insufficient citrate in SAG‐M red cell suspensions to completely inhibit coagulation of the residual plasma.


The intrinsic electric field that exists in certain classes of materials plays a key role in many fields of electronics. Researchers reveal and correct a shortcoming in the way that the electric polarization has been modeled in a technologically important class of these materials.


More general form of "quasi-coincident with" relation (q) is introduced, and related properties are investigated. The notions of (∈, ∈∨ q0)-fuzzy subgroups, q0-level sets and ∈∨ q0-level sets are introduced, and related results are investigated. Relations between an (∈,∈)-fuzzy subgroup and an (∈, ∈ ∨ q0)-fuzzy subgroup are discussed, and characterizations of (∈, ∈∨ q0)-fuzzy subgroups are displayed by using level sets and∈∨ q0-level sets. The concepts of∈∨ q0-admissible fuzzy sets, admissible (∈,∈∨ q0)-fuzzy subgroups and δ-characteristic fuzzy sets are introduced. Using these notions, characterizations of admissible (∈, ∈∨ q0)-fuzzy subgroups and admissible subgroups are considered.


10 Salt tectonics is typically caused by the flow of mobile evaporites in response to post11 depositional gravity gliding and/or differential loading by overburden sediments. This situation 12 is considerably more complex near the margins of salt basins, where carbonate and clastic rocks 13 may be deposited at the same time and interbedded with, more mobile, evaporite strata. In these 14 cases, syn-depositional salt flow may occur due to density differences in the deposited 15 lithologies, although our understanding of this process and related produces is relatively poor. 16 We here use 3D seismic reflection and borehole data from the Devil's Hole Horst, West Central 17 Shelf, offshore UK to understand the genesis, geometry and kinematic of intra-Zechstein 18 Supergroup (Lopingian) minibasins and their effect on post-depositional salt deformation. 19 Unlike much of the North Sea and other salt basins, the area is affected by only modest post20 depositional, salt-related deformation, meaning it is a prime location to understand syn21 depositional salt-related deformation. We show that intra-basin highs are dominated by 22 immobile, pinnacle-to-barrier-like, carbonate build-ups and anhydrite, whereas mobile halite, 23 which flowed to form large diapirs, dominates in the deep basin. At the transition between these 24 two main domains, a belt of intra-Zechstein minibasins occur, forming due to the subsidence 25 of relatively dense anhydrite into underlying halite. Depending on primary halite thickness, 26 these intra-Zechstein minibasins created topographic lows, dictating the position for nucleation 27 and subsequent down-building of Triassic minibasins. Our study refines the original 28 depositional model for the Zechstein Supergroup in the Central North Sea, with the results also 29 helping us better understand the style and distribution of syn-depositional salt flow in other 30 layered evaporitic sequences and the role intra-salt heterogeneity and related deformation may 31 have in the associated petroleum plays. 32


Ahydroponic experiment was conducted to study the effects of brassinolide(BR)on the growth and isozyme expression of antioxidant enzymes of cucumber seedling under calcium nitrate stress.These results showed the growth of cucumber seedlings were significantly inhibited while BR alleviated the growth inhibition in cucumber seedling which induced by calcium nitrate with increasing more fresh weight and dry weight after 9 days calcium nitrate stress and calcium nitrate induced the expression of superoxide dismutase(SOD),catalase(CAT)and peroxidase(POD).However,BR increased the expression of SOD and POD isozymes by 14.77 % and 17.49% on the day 6 and decreased the expression of POD by 16.59% on the day 9.Our results suggested that calcium nitrate stress inhibited the growth of cucumber seedling and BR might regulate the isozyme expression of antioxidant enzymes of cucumber seedling and alleviated the damage effects of calcium nitrate stress to cucumber seedling.


An efficient ultrasonic assisted extraction procedure of phytosterols was established from corn silk (CS). The orthogonal test was applied to optimize the process parameters and a maximum phytosterols recovery as high as 10.59±0.12 mg/g was achieved by ultrasonic treatment for 55 min with liquid–solid ratio of 12:1 at 35 ℃, 220 w. The ultrasonic extraction temperature has the most significant effect on extraction yield of phytosterols.


As the software systems are becoming more and more complicated, developers have an increasing dependency on code recommendation tools to assist them to fulfill their development tasks. However, the current historical-code-based recommendation methods are directly affected by the quality of the historical codes and the program-environment-information-based recommendation methods cannot provide satisfactory recommendation results for static methods because it is difficult to know all possible static members only using the program context, and even if we know all the static members, we still cannot add all of them to the entry point for search because its large number may cause a space explosion. In this paper, we propose a type conversion sequence recommendation method based on program environment information. Combing with the reachability analysis using semantic Web technology, the proposed method tries to reduce the searching entry points to solve the space explosion problem caused by the recommendation of static methods. We implemented an Eclipse plug-in based on the proposed method and conducted experiments on Tomcat source code. The experimental results showed that the proposed method can not only recommend type conversion sequences with static methods effectively, but also has a higher accuracy for the recommendation of object methods compared with the Eclipse Code Recommenders.


After its first use in vitiligo in 1997, narrowband ultraviolet B (NBUVB) has been evaluated in the treatment of this condition by several groups of researchers. Its better efficacy and safety compared with psoralen plus ultraviolet A has helped it to be become the preferred modality for use in generalized vitiligo. In this article, we have reviewed the available data pertaining to efficacy and safety issues for NBUVB as monotherapy, its comparison with psoralen plus ultraviolet A and other modes of phototherapy, combination regimens that have been tried and future prospects of NBUVB in vitiligo.


A compact reference UVC source based on commercially available LED has been developed. The article presents the design and results of the study of the optical characteristics of the radiation of the reference UVC LED source. The source provides a power density of radiation up to 400 μW/cm2 on area of 3×3 mm with inhomogeneity of 1.5 %.The emission band of a source with a maximum of 265 nm is predominantly 97 % in the UV-C spectrum region, and a small part of it is inUV-B and UV-A regions, 2.7 % and 0.3 %, respectively. The use of ComboSource for laser diodes allowed to precisionally stabilize the injection current and temperature of the LED. It is shown that overheating of the active region of the selected UV LED is only 10°C - 25°C at the recommended injection currents due to the peculiarities of its design. This results in a low degradation rate of the UV LED. Possible ways to improve the characteristics of the reference UVCsource are discussed.


The Ulchin 3&4, which are 2825 MWt PWRs, adopted Safety Depressurization System (SDS) to mitigate the beyond design basis event of Total Less of Feedwater(TLOFW). In this study the results and methodology of the analyses for the determination of SDS bleed capacity are discussed. The SDS design bleed capacity has been determined from the CEFLASH-4AS/REM simulation according to the following design criteria : 1) Each SDS flow path, in conjunction with one of two High Pressure Safety Injection (HPSI) pumps, is designed to have a sufficient capacity to prevent core uncovery if one SDS path is opened simultaneously with the opening of the Pressurizer Safety Valves (PSVs). 2) Both SDS bleed paths are designed to have sufficient total capacity with both HPSI pumps operating to prevent core uncovery if the Feed and Bleed (F&B) initiation is delayed up to thirty minutes from the time of the PSVs lift. To verify the results of CEFLASH-4AS/REM simulation a comparative analysis kas also been per-formed by more sophisticated computer code, RELAP5/MOD3. The TLOFW event without operator recovery and TLOFW event with F&B are analyzed. The predictions by the CEFLASH-4AS/REM of the transient too phase system behavior are in good qualitative and quantitative agreement with those by the RELAP5/MOD3 simulation. Both of the results of analyses by CEFLASH-4AS/REM and RELAP5/MOD3 have demonstrated that decay heat removal and core inventory make-up can be successfully accomplished by F&B operation during now event for the Ulchin 3&4.


This study aims at finding out whether or not the use of video improves the learners' vocabulary of the young learners. This study applied pre-experimental method with one group pre-test and post-test design. Twenty junior high school learners in Mataram involved in this study. The data were collected through vocabulary test (pre-test and post-test). This study used cluster random sampling technique. A t-test was used to measure the significance of animated video usage in improving young learners' vocabulary achievement. Mean score of post-test was greater than the mean score of the pre-test. This study revealed that using animated video can improve learners' vocabulary of the young learners


FLAVERS is a finite state verification (FSV) approach that uses data flow analysis techniques to verify user-specified properties of sequential and concurrent software systems. To date, FLAVERS has been restricted to considering programs with only finite executions. In this paper we propose extensions to the FLAVERS analysis algorithm that allow FLAVERS to check both safety and liveness properties on software systems with infinite executions. Enabling FLAVERS to check safety properties on infinite executions involves a modification of the property representation and a small modification of the analysis algorithm. To check liveness properties, we use Tarjan''s algorithm for computing strongly connected components in the representation of the analysis problem produced by the FLAVERS data flow algorithm. Although this general approach is similar to the one used by several other FSV techniques, the way in which it is used in the FLAVERS framework provides several important benefits: (1) the ability to deal with systems written in actual programming languages and to perform incremental improvements of analysis precision is retained; (2) language- and application-specific fairness conditions can be easily constructed; and (3) information about whether loops may be infinite or not is used to improve precision of the analysis.


The research entitled "Composition of Herbs Plant Species in The Mountain Forest  Around the Kalimpa'a Lake Lore Lindu National Park Central Sulawesi" was conducted in April to June 2016. This research aims is to study and to determine the species composition of herbaceous plants that grow in the mountain forest around Kalimpa'a Lake Lore Lindu National Park area. The environmental factors such  as;  air temperature, humidity and light intensity were measured by Thermohygrometer and Lux meter.  GPS was used to measure the position geography and altitude. The data of  rainfall was obtained from the Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics Mutiara Sis Al-Djufire Airport Palu. The research carried out in a survey with using single plot method with 50 x 50 m in size. In this  plot was subdivided into 25 subplots of 2 x 2 m² (recording units) to observe herbs diversity. The resut of the reseach showed that  there were twenty six (26) species, consist of  twenty five (25) genera and nineteen (19) families herbs plant species with the number of individuals 469. The dominant species of was Borreria alata (Aubl.) DC. with Important Value (IV) of 32,06%. It followed by Alpinia sp and Goodyera celebica  with IV  23.73% and 21,23% respectively. Meanwhile, the lowest of Important Value (1,21%) was Genarium potentilloides . The species diversity index (H') in this research was chategorized to medium with H' = 2.73. Of the 26 species of herbaceous plants founded, a number of them were endemic to Sulawesi namely; Goodyera celebica Blume, Alyxia celebica D.G.Middlleton and Freycenetia minahassae Koord.


We present an algorithm for modelling coupled dynamic interactions of a very thin flexible structure immersed in a high‐speed flow. The modelling approach is based on combining an Eulerian finite volume formulation for the fluid flow and a Lagrangian large‐deformation formulation for the dynamic response of the structure. The coupling between the fluid and the solid response is achieved via an approach based on extrapolation and velocity reconstruction inspired in the Ghost Fluid Method. The algorithm presented does not assume the existence of a region exterior to the fluid domain as it was previously proposed and, thus, enables the consideration of very thin open boundaries and structures where the flow may be relevant on both sides of the interface. We demonstrate the accuracy of the method and its ability to describe disparate flow conditions across a fixed thin rigid interface without pollution of the flow field across the solid interface by comparing with analytical solutions of compressible flows. We also demonstrate the versatility and robustness of the method in a complex fluid–structure interaction problem corresponding to the transient supersonic flow past a highly flexible structure. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Eccentric arrangement of shear walls leads to torsional vibration, which is one of the reasons for collapses or severe damages of huge number of wooden houses in the past earthquakes. Therefore eccentricity ratio Re is defined in Japanese Building Standard Law to confirm the adequacy of shear walls' arrangement. Although Re is calculated in each story and in each direction, it does not consider interaction between different stories. In this paper, prediction method of displacement mode for two-story wooden structure with eccentricity is proposed. The accuracy is confirmed by comparison with numerical analyses considering wide range of parameters.


Loss of pronation affects most activities of daily living. We report 2 cases of traumatic loss of pronator teres function and successful reconstruction by transfer of a redundant motor branch to the flexor digitorum superficialis to the pronator teres branch(es). Follow-up period was 2 years and pronation strength was restored to +4/5 and 5/5 in the 2 patients. The anatomy of the median nerve in the proximal forearm was examined by dissecting 31 cadaver specimens. A branching scheme was formulated. The histomorphometric properties of the individual muscular branches were studied in 15 fresh specimens to evaluate their suitability and size match for nerve transfer.


Brake is one of vital motorcycle element, which serves as a speed reduction mechanism. This section reinforced with retaining plate which serves to hold the wheels when braking process occurs. Research on the plate strength is still rarely found. Stress distribution that occurs on the plate due to shock loads is also not well known. Therefore, this study aims to obtain the strength retaining plate with a numerical analysis of the distribution of stress and deformation which occur on plate. Research done in two ways, experimentally and numerical simulations. Experimentally, direct measurements on the amount of stress that occurs on the plate. The research was done by putting strain gage on the connection plate and brake. In simulation, using Nastran software with the primary data based on the results of the experimental measurements. Based on the results of the numerical analysis of the stress distribution that occurs is obtained that the maximum stress distributed around the staging area in direct contact with the brake. Therefore, motorists should be aware that section and provide additional anchoring structure to further strengthen the structure of the retaining plate rear brake.


Affection is a fundamental need, however, humans vary in their expression and interpretation of affectionate behavior which may affect the degree to which this need is met. This study examines dyadic written accounts of affection within romantic relationships. Results indicate a high level of variance between partners' accounts of recent affection expressions. Furthermore, these accounts contain multiple affection behaviors per episode, multiple types of affection behaviors, and reflect sex differences regarding recall of recent affectionate expressions. Implications for individual and relational health are discussed. Further, study results are compared to existing affection measures and suggest a need to modify existing indexes to account for the role of context in affectionate communication revealed from qualitative affection accounts.


We determine the asymptotic capacity of a Gaussian multiple-relay channel as the number of relays tends to infinity. The upper bound is an application of the cut-set theorem, and the lower bound follows from an argument involving uncoded transmission. Hence, this paper gives one more example where the cut-set bound is achievable, and one more example where uncoded transmission achieves optimal performance. In the latter sense, the result is an extension of the work of Gastpar, Rimoldi and Vetterli (see IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, May 2001). The arguments of this paper are also relevant to wireless networks, yielding an asymptotic capacity result.


In this paper, an influence on ventilation efficiency and airflow distribution with the different types of furniture arrangement were analyzed by numerical simulation based on computational fluid dynamics(CFD). The furniture layout of students' bedroom has been classified three kinds of patterns so that the airflow distribution and SVE3(scale for ventiation efficiency 3) in the rooms can be analyzed. According to the results of the study, it is showed that the SV@3 have the maximum value in a space with furniture between and a corner of the room, and the furniture arrangement have influenced the ventilation effiency. For improvement of the ventilation efficiency, it can be expected to take into consideration the relationship between the wind direction and outlet position, and to reduce the space vetween furniture. It has been recognized that ventilation plan needs applicable study on occupied or breathing space(area) in room for resident's health.


Based on the data obtained from cam plastometer,this paper calculated the model of flow stress in high quality carbon steel.The calculating method uses the self-suit adjustment of the parameter μ in the network to increase the convergence speed and then to improve the prediction accuracy of metal flow stress.


The ultrastructure of cotyledon cells is described at five stages of lupin seed development, distinguished on the basis of their morphological features. It was found that the endoplasmic reticulum nad dictyosomes participate in the synthesis and transport of storage protein, and that protein is deposited in the central vacuole or in newly forming ones. In the investigated zone of lupin cotyledon cells two forms of protein bodies were observed differing in the contrast and compactness. Both were the simple protein, bodies. Parallelly to storage protein synthesis, thickening of the cell walls was observed which may indicate synthesis and deposition of hemicellulose in them. Storage lipids surrounding the protein bodies form in the end stages of seed development.


All of us worry. In fact, most people spend a lot of time worrying. It is estimated that 38% of people worry every day. Over a lifetime, people literally spend hours and hours of valuable time worrying, time that they will never get back.


Important element which funds the base of Foucaultian social science is his thesis on the locality of power, on its material and corporeal characteristics. We are discussing here his very relationship with capitalism, and, indirectly, with Marx himself. Foucault claims, that power has no center and it is not commanded from any kind of headquarter. That has enormous epistemic, as well as political consequences. Foucault stays suspicious to systemic thinking, if we consider system following Hegel, that is, both a point of departure and a point of arrival of research. His controversy with Marxism has many levels, but one of the most important refers to the issue of power: system of power does not have its center, which according to Marxists lays in the political economy, and it has no dualistic character, that is structure and superstructure.


A carrier fiber optic connector, comprising: a housing having a first end, a second end, and a pair of opposite sides extending between first and second ends; a housing including a cavity extending from the first end to the second end for receiving a fiber optic connector including a dust mounted about a ferrule; configured the first end of the housing to engage the fiber optic connector when the fiber optic connector and the mounted dust are arranged in the cavity; including each of the opposite sides a flexible arm extending from adjacent the first end toward the second end place, and a fixed tab arranged adjacent the second end; each arm including a proximal end and a distal portion, the proximal end being attached to the corresponding side of the housing adjacent the first end and including distal part a movable tab with an outer ramped surface which is angled toward the first end and a surface opposite blocking the fixed tab when the arm is arranged in an undeflected position; each arm including an inner surface and each side including an inner surface within the cavity, with the inner surfaces of the arm and the corresponding side being generally aligned when the arm is arranged in an undeflected position; and the inner surface of each arm extending into the cavity beyond the inner surface of the corresponding side and preventing insertion of the fiber optic connector into the cavity when each arm is arranged in a deflected position.


We investigate the a matrix-type coring associated to a complete covering of an algebra, its Amitsur complex and propose a definition for the related Cech cohomology relative to the covering.


The reaction between potassium persulphate and oxalic acid has been studied in diffused light. I t has been found tha t the oxidation of the oxalate ion is proportional to the persulphate concentration, but persulphate decomposition is independent of the oxalic acid concentration. The reaction is catalysed by glass, porcelain and silica surfaces. Nitrogen and carbon dioxide gases exert a catalysing influence, while oxygen exerts an inhibitive influence on the velocity of this reaction. Hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, potassium chloride, potassium sulphate and mercuric chloride enhance the reaction velocity. These observations have been explained on the basis of a chain mechanism. Introduction In our previous publication [1] on the kinetics of the decomposition of potassium persulphate it was pointed out that oxalic acid catalyses the decomposition of the persulphate and by increasing the concentration of oxalic acid the reaction tends to attain zero-order. The reaction between oxalic acid and potassium persulphate has been studied by a number of workers [2—7], They have observed that the reaction is auto-catalytic and that neutral salts have a negative effect on the reaction. From the above mentioned references it may be observed that the kinetics of this reaction without a catalyst has not been investigated from the view point of the influence of different gases, surfaces and elctrolytes. 1 L. K. Saxena and Dr. C. P. Singhal, Agra/India, Chemical Laboratories, Agra College. 180 L. Κ. Saxena and C. P. Singhal It is with this aim that the investigations presented in this paper, were carried out in order to throw some more light on the mechanism of the reaction between potassium persulphate and oxalic acid. Experimental Standard solutions of potassium persulphate (Kahlbaum AG) and oxalic acid (A.R.B.D.H.) were prepared in conductivity water. Different amounts of potassium persulphate and oxalic acid solutions were taken in separate conical flasks kept in a thermostat maintained at 60 °C. The reaction was started by mixing the two solutions in the reaction vessel. After suitable intervals of time, 10 cc of the reaction mixture was withdrawn and added to ice-cold water containing 5 cc of 0.1 Ν MnSOi and 5 cc of 4 Ν Η 2SOt. This was titrated with standard potassium dermanganate solution in cold, to estimate the amount of oxalic acid. The estimation of potassium persulphate in the reaction mixture at various intervals of time was carried out by a slight modification of the B a r t l e t t and Cotmanns [8] method as mentioned in our previous publication [1], The influence of different gases (carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen), surfaces (glass, porcelain and silica) and electrolytes {HCl, H2SOi, KCl, K2SOi and HgCls) on the velocity of this reaction was also determined. Observations I. Re la t ionsh ip between the In i t i a l Concentrat ion of oxa l i c ac id and amount of potass ium persu lpha te decomposed The reaction was studied with different initial concentrations of oxalic acid with constant concentration of potassium persulphate. The amount of persulphate decomposed was determined after 5 hours. Results are summarised below: Table 1 Temperature = 60 CC No. Initial conc. of oxalic acid in moles Concentration of X ^ O , in moles K¡S2Oa decomposed in 5 hours in moles 1 0.000062 5 0.001 0 0.000170 2 0.0001250 0.0010 0.000180 3 0.0005000 0.0010 0.000175 Investigations on the Mechanism of the Reaction 181 From the foregoing table it is seen that the amount of potassium persulphate decomposed in five hours with different initial concentrations of oxalic acid remains almost constant. This suggests that the reduction of potassium persulphate is independent of oxalic acid concentration. II. Relationship between the Init ial Concentration of potass ium persulphate and amount of oxalic acid oxidised The reaction was studied with different initial concentrations of potassium persulphate with constant concentration of oxalic acid. The amount of oxalic acid oxidised was determined after six hours. The results are tabulated below: Table 2 Oxalic acid = 0.001 M; Temperature = 60 °C No. Initial conc. of Ä J S J O , in moles Oxalic acid Oxidised in β hours in moles Moles of oxalic acid oxidised per mole of Initial W . 1 0.00005 0.00002 0.4 2 0.00010 0.00004 0.4 3 0.00020 0.00006 0.3 4 0.00040 0.00012 0.3 5 0.00080 0.00024 0.3 From Table 2 and Fig. 1, it is seen that the amount of oxalic acid oxidised is almost proportional to the initial concentration of potassium persulphate. 182 L. Κ . Saxena and C. P. Singhal III. Re la t ionsh ip between the amounts of potass ium persu lphate decomposed and oxa l i c ac id ox id ised Table 3 Oxalic acid = 0.001 M; Temperature = 60 °C No. Initial Cone, o f X J S J O , i n moles KjStOg decomposed in moles Oxalic acid oxidised in moles Molee of Oxalic acid oxidised per mole of K¡S2Oe decomp. 1 0.00005 0.00002 0.00002 1.0 2 0.00010 0.00004 0.00004 1.0 3 0.00020 0.00006 0.00006 1.0 4 0.00040 0.00008 0.00012 1.5 5 0.00080 0.00015 0.00024 1.6 From the foregoing table and fig. l a it is observed that the ratio of the moles of potassium persulphate decomposed to the moles of oxalic acid oxidised, remains 1 · 0 upto a limiting concentration of potassium persulphate and then the value reaches 1.5. IV. Inf luence of d i f f e ren t Su r f ace s The reaction was studied at 60 °C in the presence of glass wool, porcelain pieces and silica pieces and also without any of these. The amount of oxalic acid in each case was determined at different intervals of time by titrating 10 cc of the reaction mixt ure with standard potassium Investigations on the Mechanism of the Reaction 183 permangenate solution in presence of manganous sulphate and sulphuric acid, in cold. The results are summarised in table 4. Table 4 K¡S2Os = 0.02 M; Oxalic acid = 0.02 M; Temperature = 60 CC t 150 cc flask With Glass Wool With Porcelain With Silica. (a-x) dx/dt (a—x) dx/dt (a-x) dx/dt (a-.r) dx/dt 0 min 9.8 cc — 9.4 cc — 9.8 cc — 9.4 cc — 60 9.1 0.0116 7.7 0.0283 7.8 0.0333 8.0 0.0233 120 8.2 0.0150 6.5 0.0200 6.4 0.0233 7.4 0.0100 180 7.6 0.0100 5.5 0.0166 5.1 0.0216 6.8 0.0100 240 7.2 0.0066 4.7 0.0133 4.3 0.0133 6.2 0.0100 300 6.8 0.0066 4.0 0.0116 3.6 0.0116 5.6 0.0100 360 6.4 0.0066 3.4 0.0100 3.0 0.0100 5.0 0.0100 From the above table it is observed that glass, porcelain and silica surfaces catalyse the reaction. Hence the reaction should be governed by a heterogenous cum homogeneous mechanism. V. In f luence of Oxygen, Nitrogen and Carbon dioxide Influence of different gases such as oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, on the reaction was studied by passing each of them separately through the reaction mixture for 30 minutes before placing the reaction vessel in the thermostat. The amount of oxalic acid, at different intervals 184 L. Κ. Saxena and C. P. Singhal of time in the reaction mixture, was determined as before. The results are summarised in table 5. Table δ ÄjÄ208 = 0.02 M ; Oxalic acid = 0.02 M ; Temperature = 60 CC t air oxygen nitrogen carbon dioxide (a—x) dxjdt ( « · < · ) dxjdt (a—x) dxjdt (a-x) dxjdt 0 min. 9.2 cc 9.2 cc 8.9 cc 8.8 cc 60 8.6 0.0100 8.8 0.0066 6.8 0.0350 5.6 0.0533 120 7.7 0.0150 8.3 0.0083 6.0 0.0133 3.9 0.0283 180 7.2 0.0083 8.0 0.0050 5.6 0.0066 3.4 0.0083 240 6.8 0.0066 7.8 0.0033 5.2 0.0066 3.3 0.0016 300 6.4 0.0066 7.5 0.0050 4.8 0.0066 3.2 0.0016 It is observed from the above table and fig. 2 that oxygen exerts an inhibitive effect on the reaction while nitrogen and carbon dioxide accelerate it; the accelerating effect of carbon dioxide being greater than that nitrogen. It is interesting to observe that the velocity of the oxidation of oxalic acid from 180 minutes on wards remains almost constant in every case. VI. Inf luence of HCl, H2SOt, KCl and X2-S04 The reaction was studied in presence of HCl, KCl, Hì80i and K2SOi by estimating oxalic acid in the reaction mixture in each case at various intervals of time. Results are given below: Table 6 if^S'/Jg = 0.02 M ; Oxalic acid — 0.02 M; Temperature = 60 CC Mixture With 0.05 Ν With 0.05 Ν With 0.05 Ν With 0.05 Ν t (a-x) HCl KCl H2SOt KßOt 0 min 9.2 cc 9.5 cc 9.5 cc 9.2 cc 9.2 cc 60 8.6 S.3 8.3 8.3 8.2 120 7.7 6.0 6.3 7.1 7.6 180 7.2 5.1 5.3 6.2 7.0 240 6.8 4.8 4.8 5.8 6.2 300 6.4 4.3 4.5 5.0 6.0 360 6.0 3.7 4.1 4.2 5.8 From the above table it is seen that all these electrolytes have a catalysing influence on the reaction and their catalytic influence is in the following order: HCl > KCl > H,S04 > A'2,S'04 > no electrolyte. Investigations on the Mechanism of the Reaction 185 VII. Inf luence of Mercuric Chloride The reaction was studied in presence of different concentrations of mercuric chloride. The amount of oxalic acid oxidised at different intervals of time was determined by standard KMnOi in cold in presence of MnSOt and H2SOt. Results are given below: Table 7 K2SzOa = 0.02 M; Oxalic acid = 0.02 M; Temperature = 60 °C t Mixture (a—x) With M/200 HgCl2 With M/100 HgClt With M/50 HgClt 0 min 9.5 cc 9.5 cc 9.5 cc 9.4 cc 30 9.1 8.8 8.7 8.1 60 8.6 5.9 4.6 3.8 90 8.4 3.9 2.6 2.2 120 8.2 3.4 2.1 1.6 180 7.8 3.1 1.8 1.1 240 7.4 2.6 1.3 0.5 From the above table it is observed that mercuric chloride strongly catalyses the oxidation of oxalic acid by persulphate. The catalysing influence of mercuric chloride increases with its increasing concentration as shown by fig. 3. VIII. Comparative s tudy of the inf luence of H+-ion and if'-ion in this reaction with and wi thout HgClz The oxidation of potassium oxalate by persulphate was also studied with and without mercuric chloride. The amount of potassium oxalate 186 L. Κ. Saxena and C. P. Singhal oxidised at different intervals of time was estimated identically to oxalic acid. The comparative tabulation is given in table 8. Table 8 K ¡ S 2 0 , = 0.02 M ; (COOH)2 = (COOK)2 = 0.02 M ; Temperature = 60 °C t Mixture with (C00t f ) 2 Mixture with (COOK)2 Mixture with (COOH)2 a n d M / 5 0 HgCl2 Mixture wi


The present global political landscape continues to encourage the development of new technologies for the detection of hidden illicit materials, especially explosives, in packages ranging in size from small mail items to cargo containers. The various approaches using fast neutrons for contraband detection, presently under development, are reviewed.


In this paper,based on the statistical smoothing strategy,a image region feature generative probability estimation method is proposed by exploiting maximum weight matching algorithm.By further analyzing and measuring the semantic correlations between words based on the training set,a novel image annotation algorithm for adopting the generative model is presented.The first annotation keyword is obtained by using the proposed image region feature generative probability estimation algorithm.Then,a heuristic iterate function is proposed to exploit the keyword semantic correlation.Finally,the semantic correlation between the annotation and the image can be improved by our annotation algorithm.The proposed annotation approach is tested on a real-world image database,and promising results are achieved.


The effects of nuts on CVD risk have been well studied, but little is known about pistachios. A randomized, crossover, controlled feeding study was conducted to compare the effects of 2 doses of pistachios on CVD risk factors in hypercholesterolemic adults (n=22; LDL‐C = 133 ± 4 mg/dl). Subjects were fed 3 isoenergetic diets for 4 wk each after a 2‐wk run‐in diet [35% total fat (TF), 11% SFA, 8% PUFA, 13% MUFA]. Diets included a Step‐I diet without pistachios (25% TF, 8% SFA, 5% PUFA, 9% MUFA), with 1.5 oz/d (1.5 PD, 10% en; 30% TF, 8% SFA, 6% PUFA, 12% MUFA), and 3 oz/d (3 PD, 20% en; 34% TF, 8% SFA, 8% PUFA, 15% MUFA). There was a significant (P < .05) reduction in IL‐1 expression after the 1.5 PD (−36%) and 3 PD (−44%). Those with low serum CRP (<1 mg/L) had a greater decrease in IL‐1 expression (P<.05). After consumption of the 3 PD, IL‐1 expression was directly associated with expression of TNFα (r = .9, P < .0001), CRP (r = .5, P < .05), IL‐6 (r = .7, P < .001) and ICAM (r = .8, P < .0001). Changes in IL‐1 expression were directly associated with plasma PUFA (r = .3, P < .05), specifically 18:3 n‐6 (r = .4, P < .01) and 20:4 n‐6 (r = .4, P < .01), and inversely associated with MUFA (r = −.5, P < 0.001), specifically 18:1 (r = −.6, P < 0.0001). Including pistachios in a heart healthy diet reduces IL‐1 expression, thus beneficially affecting CVD inflammatory risk status.


An investigation into the nature of immanence, musical ideas and thought invested in a ground-breaking visual arts exhibition in fin-de-siecle Vienna


18,219. Anderson, F. A. Aug. 11. Liquids, purifying.-In apparatus for treating water with lime-water, the lime-water is made in the lower portion of the settling-chamber 1, the water to be treated being divided into the requisite proportions and admitted through pipes 23, 24, Fig. 2. Furring-up of the pipe inlets is prevented by means of hoops 29, 30 having inwardly-inclined lower portions. Slaked lime is introduced through a pipe 28. The limewater as it rises mingles with the water entering by the pipe 24, and the treated water passes through filtering-material packed between perforated plates 10, 11 to an outlet 32. A stirrer 4 with chains 9 attached to a shaft 5 is driven by a water-wheel 12, Fig. 5, placed in a casing at the side of the tank 1 and operated by the water to be treated. The water is supplied to the casing by a pipe 20 and leaves through a passage 22 connected to the pipes 23, 24. Diaphragms 25, 26, having perforations equal in area but differing in number, determine the proportion of the water which passes to the pipes 23, 24, respectively.


Objective:To investigate the effect of yangxin tongmai tablets(YTT) on the expression of cyclin E and cyclin dependent kinase 2(CDK2) in the vascular intima of rabbit atherosclerosis models.Methods:New zealand rabbits were divides into four groups: Yangxin tongmai group,simvastatin group,model group and healthy control group,then fed with high-fatty diet except healthy control group.After 30 days,all rabbits were killed and the aorta was dissected,the expression of cyclin E and CDK2 were detected by immunohistochemistry assay.Results:The expression of cyclin E and CDK2 in yangxin tongmai group was lower than those in model group(P0.01 or P0.05),but there was no significant difference compared with healthy control group and simvastatin group(P0.05).Furthermore,compared with the healthy control group,the expression of cyclin E and CDK2 was higher in simvastatin group(P0.05).Conclusion:The result indicated that the expression of cyclin E and CDK2 is enhanced in atherosclerosis,yangxin tongmai tablets can downregulate its expression,possibly result in the inhibition of vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and attenuation of the atherosclerotic plaque.


H2D + and HD2 + ions, the deuterated isotopologues of H3 + , play an important role in the chemistry of interstellar medium, especially as precursors for formation of deuterated molecules [1]. The observed column densities can be used as probes of the conditions in different regions of interstellar medium, for example the measured densities of orthoand para H2D + were used to estimate the age of cloud core forming Sun-like stars [2]. These model calculations strongly depend on the actual values of the recombination rate coefficients of H3 + , H2D + and HD2 + . The recombination of H3 + ions with electrons (and to lesser extend also of D3 + ions) has been subject of extensive studies for over 50 years (see appropriate chapter in book by Larsson and Orel [3]). There are not so many works on recombination of H2D + and HD2 + with electrons [4,5,6,7]. The present experimental study focuses on recombination of H2D + and HD2 + ions with electrons, the main aim being the evaluation of possible influence of buffer gas number density on measured recombination rate. The experiments were performed at temperature of 80 K.


We propose a hand–eye coordination system for a humanoid robot that supports bimanual reaching. The system combines endpoint closed-loop and open-loop visual servo control.
The closed-loop component moves the eyes, head, arms, and torso, based on the position of the target and the robot's hands, as seen by the robot's head-mounted cameras.
The open-loop component uses a motor–motor mapping that is learnt online to support movement when visual cues are not available.