Today's DSP processors are so complex, it has become impossible to program them using assembly. To get the maximum performance out of the applications running on such devices very good compilers are needed. This paper analyzes the capabilities of those compilers by optimizing a compute-intensive 3D-image reconstruction algorithm on the TMS320C6701 ('C67) DSP processor from Texas Instruments. Because the 'C67 is a VLIW processor, performance depends on the ability of the compiler to detect parallelism. By rewriting the C source code, we made it clear to the compiler which code was not data dependent, and thus could be executed in parallel. Over all optimizations the average instructions per cycle rose from 0.41 to 2.61 (/spl times/6) and the number of instructions to be executed was divided by 3.6. The net result was a performance increase of 2200%. For every discussed optimization step we state the problem that prevented efficient code generation by the compiler and say how we overcame this problem. We show that for a lot of the steps the performance problem was caused by a lack of provisions to efficiently communicate between the user and compiler. We had to trick the compiler in doing the optimizations we wanted by writing the program the right way. This was a long and tedious process. Therefore, we look at what provisions should be added to improve communication and reduce development time and time to market.


Pure Noise Records tour will feature THE STORY SO FAR, HANDGUNS, I CALL FIVES, DAYBREAKER, THE AMERICAN SCENE and FOREVER CAME CALLING. THE STORY ...


This study focused on household funds of knowledge or "historically accumulated bodies of knowledge and skills essential for household functioning and well-being" (Gonzalez, Andrade, Civil, & Moll, 2001). A Funds of Knowledge approach provides both a methodological and theoretical lens for educators to understand both themselves and their students in more complex ways. Participants included five culturally, economically, and linguistically diverse students and their families. The study setting was a middle- and working-class first-ring suburb in the Midwestern United States. Data collection included visits to home, church, and Sunday school settings; observations in Language Arts classroom settings; and informal conversations and ethnographic semi-structured interviews with students, parents, and teachers. Data sources included interview transcripts; fieldnotes and reflections on those fieldnotes; and data collected from each student's school cumulative folder. I coded parent and child interview and home visit data to create a multifaceted portrait of each household. Findings reveal that households possess a breadth and variety of resources, skills, bodies of knowledge, and strengths. These findings provide compelling counterevidence to deficit discourses by demonstrating that these households possess valuable knowledge and experiences.


Many aspects of human and animal behaviour require individuals to learn quickly how to classify the patterns they encounter. One might imagine that evolution by natural selection would result in neural systems emerging that are very good at learning things like this. Explicit simulations of the evolution of simple developmental neural systems confirm that such rational behaviour can indeed emerge quite easily. However, the same simulations also reveal that there are situations in which evolution seems to let the species down, and populations emerge that appear to perform rather irrationally. There are actually many reasons why this might happen. I shall present the results from a selection of my simulations that begin to explore the issues involved.


We consider the value 1 problem for probabilistic automata over finite words. This problem is known to be undecidable. However, different algorithms have been proposed to partially solve it. The aim of this paper is to prove that one such algorithm, called the Markov Monoid algorithm, is optimal. To this end, we develop a profinite theory for probabilistic automata. This new framework gives a topological account by constructing the free prostochastic monoid. We use it in two ways. First, to characterize the computations realized by the Markov Monoid algorithm, and second to prove its optimality.


BACKGROUND
Several biomaterials have been suggested to augment the jumping gap during immediate implant placement.

PURPOSE
The aim of this study was to compare the effect of xenograft or platelet derived growth factor (PRF) to graft the jumping gap in immediate implant placement in the maxillary premolar region.

MATERIALS AND METHODS
Twenty patients underwent atraumatic extraction followed by immediate placement. The patients were equally divided into two groups. The first group received xenograft as a jumping gap filling material. The second group received PRF to graft the jumping gap. All patients received preoperative, immediate postoperative, and 6 months postoperative cone beam CT scan (CBCT). Implant stability quotient ISQ values were taken for the installed implants immediate postoperative and at 6 months.

RESULTS
Implants receiving PRF as a jumping gap graft material demonstrated a significantly greater amount of crestal bone loss 1.85 ± 0.89 mm as compared to xenograft group 0.77 ± 0.32 mm (t = 3.52, p = 0.005). PRF group showed significantly greater reduction in buccopalatal direction 1.63 mm as compared to xenograft group 0.59 mm (t = 4014, p <0.001). ISQ values were similar immediately postoperative (t = 0.070, p = 0.945) while the ISQ values were significantly lower in PRF group as compared to xenograft graft at the six-month interval (t = 0.248, p = 0.023).

CONCLUSION
The use of xenograft material as a jumping gap filling material resulted in superior results compared to PRF with regards to crestal bone loss, buccolingual socket reduction, and ISQ values.


The main focus is the Reynolds number dependence of Kolmogorov normalized low-order moments of longitudinal and transverse velocity increments. The velocity increments are obtained in a large number of flows and over a wide range (40–4250) of the Taylor microscale Reynolds number Rλ. The Rλ dependence is examined for values of the separation, r, in the dissipative range, inertial range and in excess of the integral length scale. In each range, the Kolmogorov-normalized moments of longitudinal and transverse velocity increments increase with Rλ. The scaling exponents of both longitudinal and transverse velocity increments increase with Rλ, the increase being more significant for the latter than the former. As Rλ increases, the inequality between scaling exponents of longitudinal and transverse velocity increments diminishes, reflecting a reduced influence from the large-scale anisotropy or the mean shear on inertial range scales. At sufficiently large Rλ, inertial range exponents for the second-order moment of the pressure increment follow more closely those for the fourth-order moments of transverse velocity increments than the fourth-order moments of longitudinal velocity increments. Comparison with DNS data indicates that the magnitude and Rλ dependence of the mean square pressure gradient, based on the joint-Gaussian approximation, is incorrect. The validity of this approximation improves as r increases; when r exceeds the integral length scale, the Rλ dependence of the second-order pressure structure functions is in reasonable agreement with the result originally given by Batchelor (1951).


In this paper we study the feasibility of disseminating reports about resources via vehicular ad-hoc networks. Each disseminated report represents information about a spatial-temporal event, such as the availability of a parking slot at a particular time. The simple flooding algorithm is used for dissemination in a VANET. The feasibility is analyzed by comparing the effectiveness of VANET with that of client-server. The performance measure integrates throughput and response time, the two traditional measures for evaluation of data dissemination algorithms. The comparison is based on realistic simulation of vehicle mobility in a real road network and of the 802.11 protocol. The comparison enables determining the superior architecture (VANET or client-server) for a given environment.


Renal artery occlusions occur in patients with severe aortic atherosclerosis, panarteritis, as well as as a result of previous operations and are severe vascular pathology. It is very difficult to restore renal blood circulation in such patients, since this often affects the areas of bifurcation or trifurcation of the renal arteries. Cases of multiple renal arteries are especially difficult. It is known that surgical treatment for occlusions consists in creating bypass anastomoses, in particular the anastomosis of the superior mesenteric artery with the renal artery using the great saphenous vein [5]. However, the formation of this anastomosis is feasible only when treating a single renal artery, while its multiplicity is observed in 1538% of cases [13].


Precipitation (PPT) changes affects both aboveground vegetation dynamics and belowground carbon cycling processes, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. However, it remains unclear how extreme PPT variation can affect soil carbon sequestration potential.

 A 3-year PPT manipulation experiment with five levels (±40%, ±20% and ambient PPT) was conducted in a desert grassland of western Loess Plateau. Aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) and soil respiration (Rs) were measured to examine whether the responses of ANPP and Rs to PPT changes displayed a double asymmetry model.

 The ANPP was more sensitive to extreme drought than extreme wet treatments in wet and dry years, which displayed a negative asymmetric model. The change in ANPP was mainly due to the direct effect of PPT change, and plant density variation also exerted some influence in the dry year. In contrast, Rs displayed a positive asymmetry response to PPT change in dry year. This may be ascribed to enhanced autotrophic respiration due to the enhanced positive responses of plant growth and ANPP to wet treatments as well as stronger birch effect of rainfall events on heterotrophic respiration. The saturating response of Rs to extreme drought (-40% PPT treatment) was also found in the dry year. Nevertheless, the response of Rs to PPT change displayed a negative asymmetry model in wet years. The contrasting models for ANPP and Rs in response to altered PPT regime suggest that extreme wet or dry treatments may increase soil C pools effluxes toward debt in this desert grassland.


OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 1000, FI-02015 TKK http://www.tkk.fi Author Lic. Tech. Sanna Carlsson Name of the dissertation An electroanalytical toolbox for bioapplications Manuscript submitted 16 April 2009 Manuscript revised Date of the defence 27 November 2009 Monograph Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Faculty Faculty of Chemistry and Materials Science Department Department of Chemistry Field of research Physical Chemistry Opponent(s) Associate professor Henrik Jensen Supervisor Professor Kyösti Kontturi Instructor Docent Anna-Kaisa Kontturi Abstract This thesis describes the utilization of electrochemical methods for studying polyion-surfactant interactions, drug transfer through biomimetic phospholipid membranes and lateral charge transfer in DNA. Different aspects of oligonucleotide drug development and the corresponding delivery problem are considered and thus, the literature review in the beginning of the thesis is divided into four parts, giving an overview of the research field. The problem of oligonucleotide delivery has been approached using a surface-active compound as a carrier for the charges, thus making its incorporation into the lipophilic cell membrane and transfer through it more probable. Thermodynamics and kinetics of surfactant-oligonucleotide binding have been measured using advanced electrochemical methods based on the electrified liquid-liquid interface. A micropipette-based technique provided information on the stability and energetics of surfactant-oligonucleotide complexes, as well as the degree of binding. The kinetics of the surfactant-oligonucleotide interaction has been approached with a hydrodynamic technique enabling the control of the residence time of surfactant and oligonucleotide. Membrane activity is the most important property of the oligonucleotide-carrier complex. Carrier complexes should penetrate the biological phospholipid membrane, then escape the interior of the lipid membrane and transfer to the interior of the cell. Membrane activity of the surfactant-oligonucleotide complexes has been studied using a biomimetic phospholipid monolayer immobilised at an electrified liquid-liquid interface. In a related study, charge transfer in DNA immobilized on silicon surface has been studied by scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) to get fundamental information on nano-sized immobilized DNA-architectures.


We propose two approaches for testing non-correlation between the innovations of two nonstationary possibly cointegrated vector processes, in the general case where the processes have infinite-order autoregressive representations. The first approach is based on cross-correlation matrices, while the second approach uses partial crosscorrelation matrices. We show that, under the hypothesis of non-correlation, residual cross-correlation matrices follow the same asymptotic Gaussian distribution as the corresponding cross-correlation matrices based on the true innovations, and similarly for partial cross-correlations. Portmanteau tests based on both type of residual crosscorrelations are derived. A simulation study is presented to investigate the finite sample properties of the proposed tests.


Intermediate temperature (IT) proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) offer a future that does not rely on the burning of fossil fuels, but dictate durable and high performance component materials. At operating conditions of 120 °C and 50 % relative humidity (RH), composite proton exchange membranes (PEMs) offer increased performance due to enhanced water uptake and retention resulting from the hydrophilic filler material.

This project aimed to relate measured data for composite PEMs with literature data on Nafion-graphene oxide (GO) PEMs. In order to achieve this, the membrane casting method was optimised and GO was synthesised in-house. A range of membranes were tested using a calibrated and optimised high temperature test stand. In-situ and ex-situ testing was carried out between 80°C and 120°C, and between 25 and 95 % RH.

In contrast with some published data, this study found inconsistent trends between water uptake, ion exchange capacity, membrane resistance and single cell performance. Overall it was found that recast and composite membranes had higher in-plane resistance than Nafion 212, but that composite membranes with low filler loading had comparable in-situ performance to the commercial membrane. Further single cell optimisation is likely to result in further advances for composite PEMs.


To identify mental, Common Mental Disorder (CMD) and risk of suicide in the elderly
attended at Basic Health Units (UBS). This is a cross-sectional study on the
quantitative measures performed in three UBS in the city of Vitoria de Santo Antao PE. The city was made by 71 elderly people accompanied in the UBS. The
sociodemographic characterization and the verification of the prevalence of CMD,
using three instruments: 1. the present variables: sex, age, years of study, income
and occupation; 2. Self-report questionnaire (SRQ-20); and 3. Kessler's Brief Scale
of Suffering (K-10). Regarding SRQ results, the mean was 6.94 points and 71.83% (n
= 51) related to the CTM proposal. On the evaluation of the K-10 scale, 57.74% (n =
41) presented a mental evaluation frame, an average score of 16.14. As for the risk
of suicide, 15.5% said they have already thought about taking their own lives. The
data were geared towards the elderly with the mentality at the time of primary care,
which demonstrates the need for intersectoral strategies to promote mental health,
prevention of mental suffering and suicide to improve the quality of life elderly,
identify and prevent them from getting worse.


Punching shear failure may occur at columns supporting flat slabs or at concentrated loads. The rupture is brittle and may occur clearly below the flexural capacity of the slab. This work aims to analyse the symmetric punching resistance of reinforced concrete flat slabs with shear reinforcement. Twelve 200 mm thick slabs representing regions around columns, loaded at the centre and reacted at the edges, were tested up to failure. Short offcuts of steel I-beams were used as shear reinforcement. The principal variables considered in the tests were the area, number and distribution of the shear steel elements. All the slabs failed by punching, and the failure load of the specimen with the most reinforcement was more than twice that of the slabs without shear reinforcement.


In this letter, a novel wideband circularly polarized (CP) dielectric patch antenna (DPA) featuring low profile and relatively high gain property is investigated for Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E applications. Multiple modes of the feeding structure are excited which produces a wide impedance bandwidth (IBW). The introduction of FR4 branches in the air cavity helps to achieve a wider IBW of 48.3% (4.63–7.58 GHz). The E-field inside the air cavity acquires perturbation from the coupling of two dielectric patches (DP), which contributes to obtaining better CP performance. It can help achieve a wide axial ratio bandwidth of 35.3% ranging from 5.15 to 7.36 GHz for the proposed DPA. As the upper dielectric patch works as a director, a measured peak gain is increased to 8.47 dBic. Based on the multilayer PCB structure, the high permittivity dielectric patches loaded are packaged inside the FR4 substrates and fixed by branches. Therefore, a low-profile DPA with a height of 0.13 λ0 is obtained and exhibits self-packaging for DP elements.


Gastric mucosal hypoperfusion can be assessed tonometrically by measuring the gastric intramucosal pH (pHi); its ability to predict outcome in the critically ill has been demonstrated previously. This study employed the new technique of recirculating gas tonometry to measure gastric pHi following oesophagectomy; its ability to predict anastomotic complications was tested, since ischaemia at the oesophagogastric anastomosis is thought to be an important factor in their aetiology.


The present study aims to investigate the determinants of satisfaction and the resulting continuance intention in the e-learning context. The constructs of decomposed expectancy disconfirmation theory (DEDT) are evaluated from the perspective of users of a virtual learning environment (VLE) in relation to expectations and perceived performance. An online survey collected responses from 197 students of a public management distance learning course. Structural equation modeling was operationalized by the method of partial least squares in Smart PLS software. The results showed that there is a relationship between quality, usability, value and value disconfirmation with satisfaction. Likewise, satisfaction proved to be decisive for continuance intention. However, there were no significant relationships between quality disconfirmation and usability disconfirmation with satisfaction. Based on the results, it is discussed the theoretical and practical implications of the structural model found by the research.


We propose a novel method for identifying and classifying motions that offers significantly reduced computational cost as compared to deep convolutional neural network systems with comparable performance. Our new approach is inspired by the information processing network architecture of biological visual processing systems, whereby spatial pyramid kernel features are efficiently extracted in real-time from temporally-differentiated image data. In this paper, we describe this new method and evaluate its performance with a hand motion gesture recognition task.


SYNOPSIS The roof-pond night-cooling technique was investigated for possible use in storage of fruits grown in northern Thailand. A 3 x 3.5 X 2 m experimental test room was constructed and monitored over a one-year period. Two varieties of pear and one variety of persimmon were stored in the cool room during 1983. Results showed that room temperature varied between 9–17°C, and room relative humidity ranged from 85–90%, during the period tested. With 50% good fruits still remaining, the Pien Pu variety of pear could be stored in the cool 'room for 35 days (under normal pressure) and 99 days (under 160 mmHg pressure), compared with 10 days at normal room temperature. The New Century variety of pear could be stored in the cool room for 42 days, compared with 7–10 days at room temperature. For P-1 persimmon, storage in the cool room extended the fruit's life to 119 days (under 160 mmHg pressure), compared to 7 days at normal room temperature, and 7 days in the cool room at normal pressure. These results indic...


Traditionally, Aspilia africana is used in the management of pain in Ghana and most parts of W est Africa . This study therefore investigated the analgesic effect of the petroleum ether, aqueous, and hydro - ethanolic leaf extracts of Aspilia africana using rodent models. Preliminary p hytochemical screening was done on all the extracts , which showed the presence of alkaloids, flavonoids, saponins, ta nnins, glycosides, phytosterols and terpenoids . The extracts (40 - 400 m g/kg p.o. ) were administered to Sprague - Dawley rats and tail flick latencies (Tail flick analgesic model) were measured in a preliminary analgesic study. The order of analgesic efficacy established was hydro - ethanolic > aqueous > petroleum ether extract. T hin layer and high performance liquid chromatographic analyses were carried out on the hydro - ethanolic extract to o btain chromatograms as fingerprints for identification purposes. These revealed seven s pots (TLC) and two peaks (HPLC) . Acetic acid - induced w rithing and Capsaicin - induced nociception analgesic tests were carried out in ICR mice using the hydro ethanolic leaf extract . This significantly (P ≤ 0.001) and dose - dependently suppressed the time - course of acetic acid - induced writh ing and capsaicin - induced nociception similar to 10 mg/kg D iclofenac sodium (P ≤ 0.001) and 5 mg/kg, Ketamine (P ≤ 0.001) . In conclusion, the leaf extract s of Aspilia afr icana has


A numerical framework for continuous-time consumption-portfolio problems is set up by Markov chain approximation with the logarithmic transformation (We call it MCALT1 algorithm). We show that the complexity of the algorithm is a polynomial. An example with and with prohibition of short-sale on risky securities is provided to demonstrate the proposed numerical method.


Nile mosaic having a ' pseudo-helical design'; pp. 109-11, forced comparison between the Tabula Iliaca Capitolina and Trajan's Column; p. 131, the hunt scene as '"an image of the masculine erotic, a movement of pursuit and linear thrust"'; p. 163, the claim of a 'decline in hermeneutic subtlety'. Thirdly, many of the ancient literary parallels seem extremely forced, such as with Quintilian's oratorical techniques (p. 73), Caesar's use of the ablative absolute (p. 102), or Plutarch's Parallel Lives providing parallels for the'analogous relationship between Meleager and their Roman patrons' for Roman sarcophagi sculptors (p. 164), thus undermining his basic thesis. But despite all this, the fact remains that B. has attempted a serious and scholarly treatment of vitally important but little-discussed aspects of ancient art history, concerning which he has offered here a range of interesting ideas, which should stimulate widespread discussion.


This research is in the form of emergency lights and security equipment in the room using Arduino which is made to assist the community in making it easier to activate/deactivate and avoid any danger as soon as possible in a special room. This system is made by designing, manufacturing and implementing a system of components that include a microcontroller as a controller and an LCD as an output to display system status and ADC values from sensors, AC and LED as room lighting, DVR Camera as output to record room conditions, and as an output. The MP3 module is the output of the sound information media which provides information on the status of the emergency and security lighting systems and information on the existence of a fire that is issued with the speaker as output according to the specified program. The system also uses an LDR Sensor to detect light in the room as input, an MQ2 Sensor as an input to detect smoke content, ACS712 Current Sensor as an input for measuring current from activating AC lights, and Remote Control as an input to manually activate and deactivate the system. The results of the study indicate that the tool made can work well and can be developed on a larger scale.


A method of comprehensive experimentation is used in experimentation teaching to probe into the influence of the reform of experimentation teaching of "Occupational Health and Medicine"course on the students majoring in preventive medicine,which proves to have a favorable effect on the students.


With the gradual use of VR technology on a global scale, it has gradually begun to be used in data multimedia teaching, involving more areas. This technology is conducive to improving teaching quality and teaching efficiency. In order to further improve the recommendation effect of digital digital media, this paper uses the design in the LDA model for digital multimedia synthesis and scheduling and decision-making. According to the data information of the feature mapping, combined with the LED model used, the user characteristic behavior of the digital media recommendation is carried out for data. Cluster analysis is used to obtain comprehensive data information of digital media user behavior, and digital media recommendation optimization is performed according to the obtained entropy weight.


Streets are channels of movement and a symbolic representation of local tradition and culture. In South East Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, they are avenues for socialization just as what plazas are in Europe. They are publicly acknowledged joints for entertainment of peer groups, family members, and guests alike. The physical quality of a street determines the human activities it could support. The changing identity of Petaling Street activity character with the introduction of a permanent cover for the traditional market altered its original activity pattern. It is therefore imperative to evaluate the impact of the new physical environment on human activities within it. The behavioural analysis of the covered street was conducted to appraise its ability to support or restrict human behaviour. User activities of the environment were observed systematically to establish behaviour pattern of the street. Behavioural mapping, behaviour categorisation and behaviour analysis were carried out to identify the functional characteristics associated with covered streets. The research findings show that there is a very strong functional characteristic of the covered street which is consistent with theories of environmental quality enhances human activity. They play a very important role in determining the user of the street, their activities and behavioural patterns. It also realized that the built environment could be to be manipulated to control human behaviour. The research identified that elements such as pedestrian comfort and adjacent land uses appear to influence the level of use within the pedestrian malls. This research will enhance the understanding of design decisions at different scales, such as the introduction of covered streets in Malaysian traditional markets like Petaling Street.


luminum (Al), a ubiqu itous metal in the natural and industrial environment, has long been considered a harmless substance. It may be a natural or an added ingredient in food and drinking water. In past decades, it has been suggested that Al in drinking water plays a role in Alzheimer's disease. Al concen trations < 100–200 μg/L in drinking water do not appear to be an importan t risk for th e n orm al popu lation.1–3 A different situation exists with regard to the role of Al in dialysis encephalopathy in hemodialysis patients. That Al causes th is neurological disorder is beyon d dispute.4–6 Early epidemics of Al in toxication in dialysis centers were largely due to contamination of hemodialysis flu id made with tap water. The geograph ical distribu tion of In 1996 in Curaçao, acute alum inum (Al) in tox icat ion sickened patients in a d ialysis center that used tap w ater to prepare dialysate. The m ortality rate w as 32 percent. A new factory-lined cem ent–m ortar w ater d istribut ion p ipe had recently been installed. It is know n that substant ial am ounts of barium , cadm ium , and chrom ium can leach from cem ent–m ortar lin ings. This art icle show s that h igh concentrat ions of A l can leach from cem ent m ortars for at least tw o years in soft , aggressive w ater. The new ly installed p ipe, cem ent contain ing four t im es as m uch Al as usual, corrosive w ater, the h igh pH and tem perature of the w ater, long residence t im e, and perhaps the corrosion inh ibitor po lyphosphate m ay have prom oted th is leaching. Cert ificat ion of cem ents used to line w ater p ipes is w arranted. Central w ater treatm ent p lants m ust d istribute noncorrosive w ater, especially p lants that use m em brane desalinat ion or o ther reverse osm osis or nanofilt rat ion processes. Dialysis un its should be prom ptly in form ed of any im pending change in w ater treatm ent that m ight increase the Al content o f tap w ater and also of any accidental po llu t ion of the w ater d istributed. Dialysis centers should alw ays pract ice extended purificat ion of tap w ater used for d ialysate. Although Al as a risk factor for A lzheim er's d isease in the general populat ion is st ill debated, there is no doubt that A l causes dialysis encephalopathy. For executive summary, see page 175.


We prove that an infinite (bounded) involution lattice and even pseudo-Kleene algebra can have any number of congruences between 2 and its number of elements or equalling its number of subsets, regardless of whether it has as many ideals as elements or as many ideals as subsets. Furthermore, when they have at most as many congruences as elements, these involution lattices and even pseudo-Kleene algebras can be chosen such that all their lattice congruences preserve their involutions, so that they have as many congruences as their lattice reducts. Under the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis, this means that an infinite (bounded) involution lattice and even pseudo-Kleene algebra can have any number of congruences between 2 and its number of subsets, regardless of its number of ideals. Consequently, the same holds for antiortholattices, a class of paraorthomodular Brouwer-Zadeh lattices. Regarding the shapes of the congruence lattices of the lattice{ ordered algebras in question, it turns out that, as long as the number of congruences is not strictly larger than the number of elements, they can be isomorphic to any nonsingleton well-ordered set with a largest element of any of those cardinalities, provided its largest element is strictly join-irreducible in the case of bounded lattice-ordered algebras and, in the case of antiortholattices with at least 3 distinct elements, provided that the predecessor of the largest element of that well-ordered set is strictly join{irreducible, as well; of course, various constructions can be applied to these algebras to obtain congruence lattices with different structures without changing the cardinalities in question. We point out sufficient conditions for analogous results to hold in an arbitrary variety.


The reviewer would have loved a book such as this to have a collection to use as a textbook for my class. Unfortunately, this book is not it. Its flaws are legion, starting with a misspelling in the first paragraph that a spell-checker would have caught. Almost immediately after the preface are the names and titles of the editors with a photo of one of the editors that is badly out of focus. The writing is varied (true in any edited work) but consistently trite. The editors use a numbering system that obscures information more than it helps guide the reader. Unfortunately, for the authors, editors, and publishing house, the reviewer is left with the same question I began with: "Who would want to read this book?"


Based on the numerical method of the contact of wheel and rail with water medium, a numerical method of analyzing the adhesion force between wheel and rail with a water medium is developed. The sharp decrease characteristics of the adhesion force between wheel and rail with the increase of the train speed is discussed when there is a water medium between wheel and rail. A qualitative description is used to explain the reasons of such decrease characteristics in this paper.


Blockchain has the advantages of decentralization and distributed sharing of global ledger, but at the same time, it also has the risk of data privacy leakage. In order to prevent the privacy of blockchain users from being stolen by malicious attackers, there is still a large space for development of various protection mechanisms. At first, this paper analyzes the architecture of chain block, the Blockchain data privacy threat mainly summarized data for the application layer, network layer, data privacy threats to privacy, consensus layer data and transaction layer data privacy threats to privacy, and respectively summarized this paper introduces the principle of all kinds of privacy protection mechanism, characteristics, and different ways of implementation, Finally, it points out the future research direction of blockchain data privacy protection.


The jet flow problem concerning the discharge of a fluid (from an orifice in a container) into the atmosphere is studied herein in the framework of the Helmholtz-Kirchhoff model. The problem is reduced to the study of a system of nonlinear equations. Using Leray-Schauder's fixed point theorem we prove that the system of functional equations has at least one solution. Then we present a semi-inverse method which gives us the possibility to calculate numerically the unknown free lines for symmetric jets whose walls consist of semi-infinite straight lines and arcs of circle and for non-symmetric jets whose walls consist of semi-infinite straight lines.


Transient Receptor Potential Ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) is an ion channel which is activated by environmental irritants (e.g. formaldehyde and acrolein) and pungent stimuli such as mustard oil, garlic and cinnamaldehyde. TRPA1 is known to be expressed in a subset of nociceptive sensory afferent and thus, playing an important role in defensive reflexes. However, TRPA1 has also been implicated in fibroblast, epithelial cell and smooth muscle cell function, thus it is not entirely clear the extent to which TRPA1 function is restricted to sensory neurobiology.


Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a disease caused by the bite of infected Aedes mosquito by one of the four types of dengue virus with clinical manifestations of fever, muscle aches or joint pain which followed by leukopenia, rash, thrombocytopenia and hemorrhagic diathesis. There are six criteria for determining and catagorizing a positive or negative dengue patients, the variable gender of the patient, the patient's age, the increase in hemoglobin (Hb), increased hematocrit (Hct), the level of platelet and leukocyte levels.Based on these criteria, data of positive and negative catagorized patient will be classified by Support Vector Machine (SVM) using Matlab software. The concept of classification with SVM define as a search for the best hyperplane which serves as a divider of two classes of data in the input space. Kernel function is used to convert the data into a higher dimensional space to allow separation. In order to determine the best parameters of kernel function, hold-out method is used. In the classification by SVM method, 96.4286% obtained as the best accuracy value by using polynomial kernel function. Keywords: Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF), Classification, Support Vector Machine (SVM), hold-out, Kernel Function.


Introduces the main problem and the reconstructive project of ash handling system of 2×220?MW boiler in Shouyangshan Power Plant, analyses the effect of reconstructed system.


BACKGROUND
The effect of freezing (in liquid nitrogen at -196 °C , at -80 °C and at -20 °C) on the food matrix structure and the consequent effect on the bioaccessibility of total polyphenol content (TPC) and antioxidant activity (AA) of beetroot was investigated by an in vitro digestion method. The in vitro digestion involved incubation in simulated saliva followed by incubation in simulated gastric juice. Bioaccessibility of bioactive compounds was evaluated by measuring the TPC and the AA during in vitro digestion in both the beetroot matrix and the gastric juice.

RESULTS
Release of TPC and AA of beetroot was higher in frozen samples (55 ± 5% for TPC and 68 ± 5% for AA) than in the fresh beetroot sample (∼46% for TPC and ∼53% for AA). The mass transfer kinetics were described by using a Weibull model with mean relative errors lower than 8.5% contributing to a better understanding of the influence of freezing on the bioaccessibility of bioactive compounds.

CONCLUSIONS
From the treatments tested in this study, freezing with liquid nitrogen resulted in the greatest increase in bioaccessibility of the antioxidant and phenolic compounds of beetroots. © 2018 Society of Chemical Industry.


t was carried out to optimize combination scheme experiment of three factors among level-border specifications, irrigation quota and fertilizer methods under the condition of level-border and plastic film irrigation for corn in the sand of soil by cross experiment methods. The result indicates that the main factor affecting corn production is irrigation quota, fertilization methods; a secondary factor is level-border specifications. According to variance analysis of corn physiological characteristics and yield, the optimum combination scheme of the three factors is at level-border specifications 0.133 hm2, irrigation quota 1050 m3/hm2 and fertilization methods that is one-off hole postponed fertilizer through analysis of physiological properties and yield for corn.


Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have emerged as a popular means of causing mass targeted service disruptions, often for extended periods of time. The relative ease and low costs of launching such attacks, supplemented by the current inadequate sate of any viable defense mechanism, have made them one of the top threats to the Internet community today. Since the increasing popularity of web-based applications has led to several critical services being provided over the Internet, it is imperative to monitor the network traffic so as to prevent malicious attackers from depleting the resources of the network and denying services to legitimate users. This paper first presents a brief discussion on some of the important types of DDoS attacks that currently exist and some existing mechanisms to combat these attacks. It then points out the major drawbacks of the currently existing defense mechanisms and proposes a new mechanism for protecting a web-server against a DDoS attack. In the proposed mechanism, incoming traffic to the server is continuously monitored and any abnormal rise in the inbound traffic is immediately detected. The detection algorithm is based on a statistical analysis of the inbound traffic on the server and a robust hypothesis testing framework. While the detection process is on, the sessions from the legitimate sources are not disrupted and the load on the server is restored to the normal level by blocking the traffic from the attacking sources. To cater to different scenarios, the detection algorithm has various modules with varying level of computational and memory overheads for their execution. While the approximate modules are fast in detection and involve less overhead, they provide lower level of detection accuracy. The accurate modules employ complex detection logic and hence involve more overhead for their execution. However, they have very high detection accuracy. Simulations carried out on the proposed mechanism have produced results that demonstrate effectiveness of the proposed defense mechanism against DDoS attacks.


The experiment was carried out during Rabi season of 2010–11 and 2011–12 to estimate the morphological variability of 18 French bean varieties collected from ICAR institutes and SAUs for 21 morphological traits (20 visual and 01 measurable). The varieties, viz., Pusa Himalaya show circular to elliptic, Kentucky Wonder and Swarna Lata showed elliptic and rest 15 varieties showed kidney shaped seed however, none of the variety had round seed shape. Five varieties, i.e. Kentucky Wonder, Lakshmi, HAFB-3, HAFB-4 and Swarna Lata have small seed size moreover five varieties (Azad Rajmah-1, Kashi Param, Pusa Himalaya, RCFB-56 and RCMFB-1) expressed medium seed size while, Swarna Priya have very large seed size and rest seven varieties were categorized under large seed size. The results suggest that the characterization of these varieties were done in order to use these varieties as reference varieties for protection of other new varieties under PPV&FR Rules, 2001. The best strategy for this research is to collect the information about distinct features of these varieties. The database generated may be useful for the selection of suitable varieties to be compared against the candidate varieties. This investigation may also be helpful to the researchers with respect to breeding of French bean varieties for particular traits. Moreover, farmers can also get benefited with regards to selection of suitable varieties of their interest.


Understanding how point defects and defect clusters interact with dislocations in urania is important for a number of phenomena. For example, dislocations are one (of many) trap sites in the fuel where fission gases may accumulate and ultimately nucleate fission gas bubbles. Further, some creep mechanisms are governed by the flow of point defects to dislocations. Thus, for a variety of reasons, it is important to examine how dislocations attract and accelerate the kinetics of point defects.


The purpose of this paper is to suggest how "collective investigation of disease" may be put upon a more scientific basis than is usually attempted, to urge the importance of such scientific investigations, and to point out how they may be equitably maintained, through the cooperation of physicians and governments. A few illustrations of what has already been accomplished will also be mentioned. The term "Collective Investigation of Disease" has been employed by the British Medical Association to designate a method of investigation inaugurated by that Association in 1881, but urged by Dr. Arthur Ransom in a paper before that Association in 1864. The movement was favored by Professor Humphry, Sir William Gull, Sir James Paget and others. Referring to the first number of the "Collective Investigation Record," Dr. William Roberts said: "No one can read it attentively without acquiring a feeling almost amounting to a conviction that the movement


The Arabian Sea hosts the largest OMZ (Oxygen Minimum Zone) in the world and strong denitrification occurs throughout the entire Arabian Sea. Previous sedimentary δ 15 N records in the Arabian Sea show the denitrification of this OMZ was strongly associated with the monsoon strength and the ventilation of intermediate waters. However, the δ 15 N records show regionally different trends, suggesting the complex and variable dominant mechanism for the denitrification in the Arabian Sea. Here, we present new records of δ 15 N and Br/TOC (Total Organic Carbon) from two cores at different waters on Makran margin to build high-resolution denitrification history in the northernmost Arabian Sea and discuss the controlling mechanism. The gravity core MPG10 retrieved from 2277 m spans the last 37,000 years and the other core (MPG06 from 1254 m) has higher sedimentation rate, spanning about 17,500 years. High-resolution δ 15 N records from the two cores display large-amplitude millennial changes which well mirror climatic changes recorded in Greenland ice cores δ 18 O and stalagmite δ 18 O. The low δ 15 N values during Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) stadials suggest the denitrification was inactive or weak during cold periods, while warm interstadials had increased denitrification rate. The changes in marine productivities and ventilation variations of the Antarctic Intermediate waters were mainly responsible for millennial changes in the denitrification intensity in the northern Arabian Sea. The new δ 15 N records confirm the finding by Pichevin (2007) from the MD04-2976, showing that the increased denitrification associated with the Indian summer monsoon-driven upwelling during


Authentication by biometric verification is becoming increasingly common in corporate, public security and other such systems. There is scads of work done in the area of offline palmprints like palmprint segmentation, crease extraction, special areas, feature matching etc. But to the best of our knowledge no work has been done yet to extract and identify the right hand of a person, given his/her left hand or vice versa from a given database. This kind of identification assumes special significance in cases like bomb blasts, air crash etc., where body parts of various persons get mutilated and mixed up. A framework has been designed where palmprint feature vectors are extracted using 2-D wavelet transform and then a OPMAOP Clustering algorithm (proposed in this paper) is applied to cluster the palmprints to get the opposite hand. Using this approach one can easily achieve the said target with a very high accuracy rate. The FAR of the result has been discussed graphically in subsequent sections.


Carlton puts Laud in the context of his times, showing how closely his personal life was woven into his political and religious career.


Health is a basic need for everyone. Health Seeking Behavior is the behavior of people or communities who are experiencing illness or other health problems, to get treatment so healed or overcome health. This research use correlation design with cross sectional approach. The goal is to know the factors that influence the health seeking behavior of the family. Population in this research all family in Tutul Village of Balung Jember District. The sampling technique used cluster sampling and data collection techniques using questionnaires. Data analysis in this study used univariate and multivariate with multiple linear test. The result of this research is culture factor (p value = 0.021), education factor (p value =  0.004), disease seriousness factor (p  value = 0.024) and  insurance coverage factor (p value = 0.000). From the data, it is found that all factors influence the health seeking behavior, but the insurance coverage factor becomes the most dominant factor influencing the health seeking behavior of the family. Therefore, there is a need for attention for government agencies responsible for the equitable distribution of insurance holdings managed by the government. Keyword : The   Family,   Culture   Factor,   Education   Factor,   Disease Seriousness Factor, Insurance Coverage Factor, Health Seeking Behavior.


In this article we discuss some of the important similarity rules, or scaling laws that apply to robotic mechanisms. The important question is: "What information can I derive about a smaller or larger system from a similarly configured, operational system?" The scaling laws elucidated here are useful for the initial configuration of new designs.


The problem of designing and implementing optimal controllers for a class of affine nonlinear systems is considered. Nonlinear optimal control problem generally leads to the difficulty of solving nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation, in order to avoid the HJB problem, State-dependent Riccati equation (SDRE) method is adopted firstly to design nonlinear optimal controller. And then, a method of choosing weighting matrices of state-dependent is proposed. In order to avoid solving algebraic Riccati equations for P(x) at each sampling step, an Improved Newton Method (INM) is adopted secondly for implementation of SDRE controller, which can get P(x) by its own iteration, therefore computational and storage burden can be reduced for complex and high-order systems. Finally, simulation is carried out by a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) model to evidence the effectiveness of the method proposed in this paper.


The study focuses on the antimicrobial activity of nanocellulose films (NFC) embedded with thyme, cinnamon, and oregano essential oils for active packaging application. The activity against model pathogenic bacteria was first tested to obtain each oil's minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC). The tests showed that the surface area of the films and the quantity of essential oil strongly influenced the antimicrobial effect. Then, the different active packaging systems were tested directly on packed raspberries to study their actual commercial packaging conditions. Through 12 days of storage at 1°C, it was observed that thyme and oregano essential oils were more effective in maintaining the firmness and reducing the weight loss of the fruits compared to cinnamon essential oil or the control; no significant effect was observed on the other quality parameters that were considered. The essential oils independently proved effective in preventing fungal growth. However, the combined impact of thyme+oregano (NAP_TO) demonstrated the best performance.


The energy of a flowing fluid consists of internal and kinetic energy. The rate of increase of the energy content of the fluid present within a control volume at a given instant is equal to the sum of the net flux of energy into the control volume and the work done on the fluid within the control volume by body forces and surface forces acting on it. Bird et al. go through a careful derivation of the mathematical form of the equation of conservation of energy in Chapter 11. The initial balance is written for the total energy and then the part involving the kinetic energy (known as the mechanical energy balance, obtained by taking a dot product of Cauchy's equation with the velocity) is subtracted. After using some thermodynamic relationships, the final form of the equation of conservation of thermal energy is obtained. Various versions are given in Table 11.4-1 of the book. The most common version that we shall use assumes that the density ρ and thermal conductivity k are constant, and is given below.


There is the fear that long term application of inorganic fertilizers to the soils of the Ebonyi state Agro- ecology could have contributed to the soils productivity constraints.  A study was therefore conducted in the major crop production communities, representing the major soils of the state, to assess the impact of long term use of inorganic fertilizers on the soils.  Soil samples were collected from fifteen different farm locations that have the records of continuous application of inorganic fertilizers and analyzed for their physical characteristics, chemical properties, and microbial population. The Results of the analysis indicated that the soils were very strongly Acidic to strongly acidic (4.0-5.6), whereas exchangeable acidity (EA) was very high across the entire locations. Organic carbon (OC) ranged from low to high (0.51-1.84); Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) was very low across the locations (1.65-4.5), whereas base saturation ranged from very low to low (42.06-50.10). Total Nitrogen and exchangeable phosphorus ranged from moderate to medium (0.09-0.19 and 5, 70-24.8); potassium, calcium, magnesium and sodium ranged from very low to low (0.05-0.32; 0.86-5.10; 0.30-2.0 and 0.09-0.25) respectively across the locations. The soil microbial populations were however stable and consistent with normal microbial population for natural agricultural soils. The application of lime and complementary use of organic manure and mineral fertilizers were recommended as a sound fertility management strategy for these soils. Key Words: Inorganic Fertilizers; Soil Acidity; Nutrient elements; Microbial population; Soil fertility.


The quick rise of smartphone malware indicates that cybercriminals are switching from traditional personal computer systems to mobile devices. For adequate security, technology specialists are currently creating new anti-malware techniques. This study proposes the use of a block chain to identify malicious smartphone applications. Two internal and external proprietary block chains are combined to create a private dual block chain and a block chain alliance for the decision-making process in the system. While the external block chain stores the blocks for apps of existing models, the private internal block chain stores include blocks drawn from both statically and dynamically driven function removers. Additionally, the proposed system blocks the outside parties, enabling anti-malware vendors to provide more precise solutions. Because cloud resources can control loads and durability, resource monitoring may be dynamic in nature. The additional feature of the proposed system is that authentication techniques like cryptography and digital signature can be integrated. Finally, the effectiveness of the suggested structure is assessed in terms of throughput and precision rate for malware detection.


An illumination optical system having a high degree of freedom with respect to a change in polarization state. An illumination optical system for illuminating a surface to be irradiated by the light from the light source is arranged on the first surface are disposed in the optical path from the first spatial light modulator having a plurality of optical elements to be controlled individually, the first than cotton target surface side, the first light flux passing through the first region in a plane transverse to the optical axis of the illumination system, given the changes in the other polarization state and the second light flux to the first area and pass through a second different area in the plane transverse and the polarization member, the first are arranged in than cotton irradiated surface side of the second surface of the optical path in the or a first than cotton light source side optical path of a plurality of optical elements to be controlled individually, the light intensity distribution on the illumination pupil of the illumination system and a second spatial light modulator for forming a variable.


Abstract:This essay examines Kim Hyoyeon's photographic series Gamgak isang (Abnormal sense) (2018–2021), which explores the memories of Korean A-bomb victims (pipokja) living in Hapcheon, South Korea. Starting from the artist's own memory of her grandmother, Kim's work focuses on the lives of the victims and their descendants, who retain painful memories as a form of physical and psychological suffering. The essay examines the historical contexts in Japan and South Korea that rendered memories of Korean A-bomb victims invisible and mute. On the basis of such historical analysis, it discusses the ways in which Gamgak isang breaks down grand narratives into units of personal memories in order to make sense of what happened to the individual victims. Focusing on the ways in which the series sheds light on the realm of the familial, the essay also analyses how it suggests the potential for creating a new form of postmemorial kinship through visual means. Such discussions will lead to the proposition that vernacular memories can eventually offer a transnational lens to view the memory of the Asia-Pacific War and its aftermath, thus letting us think outside the traditional boundaries of nation-states.


Achieving an effective combination of various temperature control measures is critical for temperature control and crack prevention of concrete dams. This paper presents a procedure for optimizing the temperature control scheme of roller compacted concrete (RCC) dams that couples the finite element method (FEM) with a sensitivity analysis method. In this study, seven temperature control schemes are defined according to variations in three temperature control measures: concrete placement temperature, water-pipe cooling time, and thermal insulation layer thickness. FEM is employed to simulate the equivalent temperature field and temperature stress field obtained under each of the seven designed temperature control schemes for a typical overflow dam monolith based on the actual characteristics of a RCC dam located in southwestern China. A sensitivity analysis is subsequently conducted to investigate the degree of influence each of the three temperature control measures has on the temperature field and temperature tensile stress field of the dam. Results show that the placement temperature has a substantial influence on the maximum temperature and tensile stress of the dam, and that the placement temperature cannot exceed 15 °C. The water-pipe cooling time and thermal insulation layer thickness have little influence on the maximum temperature, but both demonstrate a substantial influence on the maximum tensile stress of the dam. The thermal insulation thickness is significant for reducing the probability of cracking as a result of high thermal stress, and the maximum tensile stress can be controlled under the specification limit with a thermal insulation layer thickness of 10 cm. Finally, an optimized temperature control scheme for crack prevention is obtained based on the analysis results.


This paper is based on the principle that the relative luminous strength of luminol-H2O2-Co2+ chemiluminescence quenching is extinguished by zinc. The contents of zinc in Flos Carthami, Radix Codonopsis Pilosulae, Radix Ginseng and Fructus Lycii were measured in optimol experimental conditions.


Objective To study the therapeutic effect of hypo-heterectomy by lower-abdominal transverse incision on uterine.Methods Fifty-six cases of patients were divided into reform group, and 66 cases of patients usual group. The reform operation can be performed within short incision. It includes: (1) The incised connect tissues closing uterine were sewed instead of clipped;(2) The uterine body was pulled to upper abdominal cavity, which would help bladder-uterus peritoneum to be displayed;(3) The uterine blood vessels were sewed directly, and incised with uterine body.Results The reformed operation has several advantages: (1) The incision lengths of reform group were shorter than those of usual group significantly (P0.05), and all operations can be performed.(2) The operation times of reform group were shorter than those of usual group significantly (P0.05),and the bleeding volumes were the same(P0.05);(3) The investigation showed that the patients were satisfactory with their performed operations. Conclusion The reformed operation of hypo-heteretomy has good therapeutic effect for patients suffered from uterine leiomyoma and adenomyosis.


Three 8-(dialkylaminoalkoxy)-theobromine compounds were prepared by reacting the appropriate sodium dialkylamino alcoholate with 8-chlorotheobromine. Nine quaternary salts were prepared from the above three compounds by reacting each with methyl iodide, ethyl iodide, and benzyl chloride. The nine quaternary compounds along with nine corresponding caffeine quaternary compounds, previously reported, were tested for their curariform activity.


Approved by the RF Government resolution of April 15, 2014 № 295 the public program "Development of education" al-located subprogramme I "Development of vocational education". Its aim is to dramatically increase the contribution of voca-tional education in the socio-economic and cultural modernization of the Russian Federation, in increasing its global competi-tiveness, ensuring relevance to the economy and society of each student. Among the important priorities of the Russian state isagro-industrial complex, where today the problem of food security and food independence of the country, import substitutionof agricultural products, raw materials and food for the Russian agro-industrial market and the transition to export-orienteddevelopment of agriculture and other agricultural entities of Russia solved. Development and implementation of innovationsin agricultural production and technological modernization objectively would require the availability of highly qualified per-sonnel agricultural specialists, not only of the highest caliber, but also workers. Therefore, the development of agriculturaleducation should be viewed as an integrated system, including the rural classes, institutions for training of mass professions,colleges and technical schools, agricultural areas, agricultural universities with structures for professional development andadditional education of working professionals of agro-industrial complex. The article discusses the status and challenges ofpreparing highly qualified personnel for the organizations of agricultural complex of the Sverdlovsk region. To boost activitiesof training of qualified specialists for agrarian sector and the rural economy, in our view, it is needed on the example of theMinistry of education and science of the Russian Federation to take the departmental target program aimed at development ofan integrated system of highly skilled personnel of the organizations of agro-industrial complex of Russia.


AMY L. WAGGENER: The Chlorophyll-a Maximum of the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Nutrient Dynamics and Trophic Interaction at the Most Productive Region of the System (Under the direction of Dr. Hans W. Paerl) Often, in the eutrophied subtropical lagoonal Neuse River Estuary, a relatively large proportion of the total phytoplankton is located in a compact area, the chlorophyll a maximum (Cmax). This productive zone was investigated using bioassays to determine its response to nutrient pulses (nitrogen and phosphorus) and as a conduit of trophic transfer to mesozooplankton, especially copepods. The Cmax and nearby waters generally were nitrogen limited. Both nitrogen and phosphorus addition caused phytoplankton carbon to nutrient molar ratios to decrease accordingly when that nutrient was limiting and often when it was not. Nauplii were identified as potentially important NRE grazers. Phytoplankton elemental content was found to influence trophic transfer, with high nutritional quality phytoplankton necessary for, but not guaranteeing, copepod success. Both nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment influenced copepod growth and abundance. In the context of water quality, relationships between eutrophication, phytoplankton distribution, copepod food quality, and carbon and nutrient fate are discussed.


The Aesthetic Channel takes a closer look at the FDA's recent warning against the use of energy-based devices to treat a host of vaginal conditions and symptoms that fall under vaginal "rejuvenation."


Abstract When George Bush declared to his global audience that they were either 'with us or against us', he appeared to directly invoke the Schmittian antithesis of friend vs. enemy. Against the historical backdrop of Bush's war on terror, and the scholarly attention his foreign policy received in relation to Carl Schmitt's concept of the political, this paper examines whether the Obama administration's targeted killing regime has marked a departure from Schmitt's paradigms of war and enmity. Focusing specifically upon the rapid increase in use of drone strikes during Barack Obama's presidency, this paper argues that the production of the enemy's abstractness and drive for its annihilation together push at the limits of the Schmittian political logic. However, rather than denoting the point at which political relations are unexplainable through a Schmittian lens, this paper proposes that this produced enemy and its treatment in drone 'warfare' obfuscates the lines between a complex of Schmittian paradigms.


Sentiment analysis is a computational study of opinion from various opinions, which is part of the work that conducts a review related to the computational treatment of opinions, sentiments, and perceptions of the text. To solve various problems in sentiment analysis, needed a good text representation method. In this study, a deep learning analysis was carried out using the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) method and the Word2Vec Model as word embedding in sentiment classification. The sentiment dataset used comes from user reviews on Twitter (tweets) on the health protocols implemented by the public from the government's appeal. The results showed that the RNN model using sigmoid activation resulted in the greatest accuracy of 66%. The training process in this test uses 10 epochs and 32 batch sizes so that the precision value for negative sentiment is 54% and for positive sentiment is 67%.


Noise is daily introduced in the environment people live in. Noise provokes mental and physical discomfort that may trigger health problems and loss of life quality to the local population. Current study analyzes the noise background in Maringa PR Brazil, by noise monitoring with a sound pressure meter at three city sites. Each site was observed during 5 minutes and data collected every 10 seconds. Sound intensity levels and statistical indexes L10, L50 and L90 were calculated for an analysis of noise at the three sites. Results were compared with standards on ideal sound pressure levels for these specific city zones. Since rates were higher than those established by the city's planning directory, suggestions were forwarded to minimize background noise so that life quality could be improved.


The cultivation of intellectual property right talents who bear the mission of blockchain era becomes the key in the new breakthrough of integrating blockchain and intellectual property rights to form new sources of economic growth in the new/old kinetic energy conversion. Higher education is the major way to cultivate talents. Nevertheless, blockchain law courses currently offered by international colleges and universities are developed from technology fields of technology finance, distributed systems, and cryptocurrency, but not the instruction from legal perspectives. The experimental design model is applied in this study to the experimental research of students majoring in intellectual property rights in the same grade from same-level schools in Guangxi. Total 170 students are preceded the 16-week blockchain law knowledge on-campus experimental teaching. The research results show significant correlations between blockchain law course integrated multimedia dynamic teaching and learning motivation, remarkable correlations between blockchain law course integrated multimedia dynamic teaching and learning effectiveness, notably positive effects of learning motivation on learning effect in learning effectiveness, and significantly positive effects of learning motivation on learning gain in learning effectiveness. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to cultivate domestic students majoring in intellectual property rights, from legal vision, establishing the systematic way of thinking and knowledge system from know-why, to practical application, and then to legal regulations to enhance the learning effect of blockchain law knowledge and core skills to solve blockchain law issues of students majoring in intellectual property rights.


Marine fish populations have suffered the consequences of overfishing for a long time, leading to a loss in biodiversity. Traditional methods have been historically used to survey fish diversity but are limited to commercial species, particularly on the high seas. Environmental DNA (eDNA) has been successfully used to monitor biodiversity in aquatic environments. In this study, we monitored fish diversity in the Clarion–Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Eastern Pacific Ocean using eDNA metabarcoding. Our results identified 2 classes, 35 orders, 64 families, and 87 genera. The genera Mugil, Scomberomorus, and Scomber had high relative abundance in the mesopelagic and demersal zone. Fish diversity varied with sampling sites, and the greatest number of species was found at a depth of 2500 m. Environmental changes drove fish aggregation, and our results indicated that Chla was negatively correlated with fish communities, while DO was positively correlated with fish communities. This study released the fish diversity pattern and the effects of the environment in the CCZ, which would provide useful information for biodiversity management and an environmental baseline for the International Seabed Authority.


The status of the Ruddy-headed Goose Chloephaga rubidiceps (Aves, Anatidae) is reviewed on the basis of observations in Chilean Fuego-Patagonia in 1985-1988 and 1993. The species was observed on a total of 35 days out of 103 field days: 9 on the continent and 26 on Isla Grande ofTierradel Fuego. The species was not seen on Navarino Island. Proof of breeding was obtained only once. Observations of C. rubidiceps in Argentine Tierra del Fuego in 1993 and in Neuquen, Argentine Patagonia, in 1992 outside the normal range of the species, are also cited. The total number of birds seen is estimated to be less than 75. The distribution and relative abundance of C. rubidiceps in Fuego-Patagonia in 1985-1988 and 1993 are compared with its three congeners C. picta, C. poliocephala, and C. hybrida. Although C. rubidiceps was found in several sectors of Chilean Fuego-Patagonia it is quite rare in this region, and its numbers have dramatically decreased in the last four decades. The total population in Chilean and Argentine Fuego-Patagonia may not exceed several hundred birds. The possible causes of this decline are discussed, and measures are suggested for the urgent job of conserving this species, which is in serious danger of becoming extinct in South America. These measures include immediate removal of C. rubidiceps from the list of pest (plaga) species and its placement on the endangered list, and a campaign to advertise the plight of the species and to indicate to residents of Patagonia the importance of the species in the steppe ecosystem of their region.


Zz_ It is assumed that the reader is familiar with~$2ncept of the public key system, as developed, for example, by W. Diffie and M.E. Hellman [2]. The most common example of an one-way function is (I) z(x,a) _= xa(mod p), where a is the private key of an arbitrary, but fixed member of the key system, x is a primitive element of the finite field GF(p) and p a large prime number. The public keys of two such members of a public key system are then a x b x and (mod. p) ab ba and x = x is the common key used for encryption and decryption of the secret messages to be transmitted. We now derive a very general modification of this system. It is shown that the public key of any two members or the key system must obey a functional equation, which can be solved in a closed mathematical form: Let (a) and (b) be again two arbitrary members of a general public key system with a given fixed one-way function f(x,'). Let us suppose that (a) and (b) have the private keys a and b respectively that x is a common variable of the system, fixed,


There is an emerging practice in urban arterial design which seeks to shift the focus from segregating different users of the street to integrating them. In this respect the integration of traffic and place functions is identified as the way forward. After a review of the U.S. design models - Complete Streets Smart Codes, Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) and Quilt-Net approach, this paper using a functional, physical and social evaluation approach to urban arterials, proposes a model for arterial classification. Drawing on their research based in Perth, the authors present a classification and design model 'FUS-ion' (Function, Universality, Scale) based on a management tool proposed by Curtis and Tiwari (2008) which the authors have subsequently refined and further developed after its application on an existing urban arterial segment in Perth, Australia. This model brings together three key dimensions of Transport, Built-form and People. It responds to varying scales ranging from street segment to metropolitan thoroughfares and is geared to be used as a tool to manage the arterial system, both within an existing urban framework as well as for the planning of new developments.


The first part of the Committee's Report appeared in December 1953 issue of the Transactions, pages 938–944. Attention was there directed to a second part of the Report to appear later. It was stated that this would consist of a paper by F. J. Veihmeyer and A. H. Hendrickson: Does Transpiration Decrease as the Soil Moisture Decreases? This paper was presented before the Section of Hydrology on May 4, 1953.

After reading all contributions here presented upon the question provided by the title of the paper itself, it is evident that wide differences of opinion prevail concerning the answer. The Chairman of the Committee will simply point out that there may be two possible explanations of these differences: (1) all participants are not, in actual fact, considering precisely the same phenomenon, and (2) the phenomenon under discussion has not, in all cases cited in support, been directly measured.


An Intrusion detection system (IDS) monitors network traffic and system activities and report to administrator. In some cases the intrusion detection may also respond to anomalous or malicious traffic by taking action such as blocking of user or source address from accessing the network. IDS comes in variety of flavor but its goals to detecting suspicious traffic in different ways. There are network based and host based intrusion detection system. The IDS is detecting based looking for specific signature of known threats as it antivirus and firewall. The anomaly detection is used to comparing traffics against the baseline. The detection is described briefly in this paper using fuzzy and genetic algorithm.


The delivery of human services has become highly complex and is increasingly reliant on the capacity of experienced local service providers to evaluate complex datasets so as to provide adequate decision-support for critical and costly service delivery needs. Traditionally, localized human service agencies which are of relatively small size have limited resources and must control administrative expenditures to provide human services.


In this paper the formulation of a new triangular facet shell element for analysis of composite laminate shell structures is presented. The element formulation is based on a combination of degenerate shell theory and the use of an assumed shear strain field. The thickness interpolation is based on a linear layer-wise approximation. The tickness degrees of freedom are eliminated at assembly level using a substructuring technique. An example of the good behaviour of the element is presented.


Most mid-seventeenth-century English songbooks are, as one might perhaps expect, concerned almost entirely with native repertoire. Though there was, it seems, a certain amount of Italian (and some French) solo vocal music available, it appears to have circulated mainly in imported prints and in manuscripts copied by a variety of foreign scribes. Among the very few sources in which both ayres and arias are combined by an English copyist (as yet unidentified) is an interesting little anthology of 63 pages dating from the early 1660s which, to the best of my knowledge, has never yet been described in print. Formerly in the Prussian State Library in Berlin, it is now in the Jagiellonian Library in Kraków, where it is bound up with a copy of Henry Lawes's third book of Ayres and Dialogues published by Playford in 1658 (Day & Murrie 11). Also included under cover of the same press-mark (Mus.ant.pract. P 970) are copies of Playford's Select Ayres and Dialogues For One, Two, and Three Voyces; to the Theorbo-Lute or Basse-Viol (1659; Day & Murrie 14) and the second (1655) book of Lawes's Ayres and Dialogues (Day & Murrie 8). Pasted on the verso of the title-page of the first of these is the beautifully engraved bookplate of 'Charles Barlow Esq; of Emanuel Colledge, Cambridge' (whose signature, together with the name of his college, also appears on the title-page itself).


This article provides an in-depth study of methods and approaches to the management of environmental innovation projects developed by domestic and foreign scientists. As a result of the analysis of methods and approaches, it was revealed that they do not take into account the importance of influencing factors on an innovative project, while this does not detail management activities at all stages of the life cycle of an innovative project. A methodology for managing environmental innovation projects was developed. The technique allows you to form a sequence of actions for the subjects of management at the enterprise in order to select the most effective projects that contribute to the achievement of the strategic goals of the enterprise, taking into account the influence of external and internal factors.


The non‐spin‐polarized mixed‐basis self‐consistent pseudopotential method has been used to investigate the electronic properties of hexagonal close packed Co1−xCrx alloys. For x=0.0, 0.25, and 0.5, total charge densities, effective charges, and band structures are reported. The effects of in‐plane (a‐axis) and c‐axis stresses on the electronic properties have been investigated. The charge transfer from Cr to Co, which is about 0.04 electrons per Co/Cr bond, does not show large changes with stress. For x<0.25, we can expect that the band structure of Co will not show significant changes with alloying.


Background: The effect of residual stress resulted from the manufacturing process on the performance of bogie frame has been attracting more and more attention with the increasing of running speed of maglev vehicle, which could develop cracks on the frame and compromise the operational safety.
Aim: It is necessary to determine and understand the distribution rules of residual stress on the bogie frames.
Methods: Barkhausen effect is one of the effective methods used to measure residual stress.
Results: This paper presents a experiment system designed for residual stress detection and the principle of electromagnetic stress detection is expounded, finite element simulation analysis on magnetization device is carried out, and the effect of magnetization under different excitation conditions is analyzed.
Conclusion: The feasibility of the online magnetic detection method of internal stresses in bogie frame is verified through the simulation, which would provided the basis for bogie frames internal stresses detection.


EMF distributions established in high-speed train cars as experienced by a 5.2 GHz wireless LAN terminal were estimated. Based on field distribution analyses, the energy absorption effects of the passengers' bodies were determined. This absorption cannot be neglected inside train cars. The proposed numerical estimation method can evaluate the degradation in quality and service availability of wireless access due to the absorption effects quantitatively and will contribute to the advancement of radio link designs for wireless LANs operating inside train cars. We intend to conduct other estimations that consider different train models, more antenna sources, and different types of transmitting antenna.


A regression analysis of the bare hull upright resi stance of the DSYHS was presented in a previous pap er. This new regression includes also tank test results of h eeled and appended hulls of the DSYHS and in additi on those of the US Sailing Nine Model Series.


Kinetics of the thermal decomposition of pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) in condensed state has been investigated by high temperature infrared spectroscopy (IR) and thermogravimetry (TG) in conjunction with pyrolysis gas analysis, differential thermal analysis (DTA) and hot-stage microscopy. Kinetics of thermolysis has been followed by IR after suppressing volatilization by matrixing and by isothermal TG without suppressing volatilization to simulate actual user conditions. The best linearity was obtained for Avrami-Erofe'ev equation, n ˆ 1, in IR and isothermal TG. Activation energy was found to be 152 kJ molÿ1 and log A (in sÿ1) 16.96 by IR. The effect of additives on the initial thermolysis of PETN has been studied. Evolved gas analysis by IR shows that NO2, H2CO are produced in the initial stage of decomposition followed by NO, N2O, CO2, HCN and H2O. The decomposition in KBr matrix shows relative preferential loss in NO2 band intensity which indicates that the rupture of OÿNO2 bond is the primary step in the thermolysis of PETN.


Most communications based train control (CBTC) systems include a train-to-wayside radio frequency (RF) datalink as an integral element of the system. CBTC systems must be designed so that the safety of the system will not be a function of the performance of this RF datalink. This paper addresses the potential CBTC radio frequency options, discusses the issues related to train-to-wayside radio frequency communication in a mass transit environment and provides a description and the benefits in the use of spread spectrum communication technology.


This article explores the presence of pain in residential programs for children and youth. The challenges associated with acknowledging and interpreting the behavioural manifestations of this pain — for the young people and for front-line practitioners — are discussed and interpreted through a constructive-developmental lens. The notion of the organization as a holding environment is reviewed, with a key focus on the role of the supervisor in absorbing the pain, providing emotional containment, supporting practitioners "where they are", encouraging reflection, promoting developmental growth, and maintaining a stable presence. Implications for the organization are reviewed.


Clock signal of I2C controller through logic device is connected to I2C interface of some removable light transmitting and receiving modules. When CPU needs to read E2PROM inside a light transmittingand receiving module, CPU writes the port number needed to read into the register inside logic device, then sends out operation command through I2C controller. the logic device sends the time clock of the I2C to relevant module to read out the information of E2PROM inside removable light transmitting and receiving module. The invention makes CPU connect to I2C interface inside removable modules such as GBIC or SFP easier as well as realize reading information of E2 PROM inside light transmitting and receiving modules through I2C controller.


Patients can improve Orthoptic Exercise outcomes with this home reinforcement Vision Therapy system. Letters provide orientation to the vortex image above below and even with the image at +/600 seconds of arc. This Vortex (with central targets) is often recommended for esophoria and esotropia. Vortex provides 16 diopter range for base-in (divergence) training and 24 diopter range for base-out (convergence) training for a total accommodation range of 40 diopters. Kit includes: Right and Left Vortex Vectographs, Vecto Guide, Adult Stereo Viewer, Therapy Binder, Administrator and Patient Manuals and Recording form with pen.


We are delighted to welcome the Fourth International Conference on Communities and Technologies: Communities and Technologies 2009 (C&T 2009) to the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) of the Pennsylvania State University.

In an increasingly networked world, the concept of community has taken on new meanings and inspired the development of a wide range of technologies aimed at forging connections, improving communication, and enabling coordination among groups of people. Concepts and tools such as community networks, virtual community, blogging, podcasting, social networking sites, and smart mobs have become commonplace, yet each represents a complex system of hardware, software, and people, shaped by perceptions, norms, rules, and habits, and occurring within varied social and cultural settings. It is clear that successful outcomes for information and communication technologies depend upon our understanding how these technologies interact with and can effectively support dynamic human communities. This is no small endeavor.

The Communities and Technologies biennial international conference serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities -- both physical and virtual -- and information and communication technologies. Researchers, designers, educators, and students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between community and technology contribute to this conference. These areas include anthropology, art and architecture, business, cognitive science, communication studies, community informatics, computer science, design studies, education, ergonomics, geography, graphic design, human-computer interaction, information science, information systems, industrial engineering, interaction design, journalism, knowledge management, law, learning science, linguistics and semiotics, management, psychology, requirements engineering, sociology, software engineering, technical communication, and user experience design.

The conference program for C&T 2009 includes competitively selected, peer-reviewed papers, as well as workshops, tutorials, a doctoral consortium, and invited speakers.


With acrylamide(AM) and diallyl dimethyl-ammonium chloride(DMDAAC) as the material,CPAM was synthesized,then aluminum chloride was injected into CPAM,the composite flocculant PAC-CPAM was prepared by dropping alkali solution slowly.The influence of the synthesis conditions,dosing quantity on the effect of flocculation were discussed.Also the characteristics of morphology of PAC-CPAM was investigated using ESEM.The results showed that the optimum synthesis conditions were obtained as follows:alkalinity B 0.5,m(CPAM) ∶m(Al) 0.05,intrinsic viscosity(η) 455 mL/g,the reaction temperature 65 ℃;treatment of drilling wastewater by PAC-CPAM showed the removal rate of COD was up to 95% and residual turbidity was less than 6 when dosing quantity of PAC-CPAM was 4.2 g/L.The flocculation effect of PAC-CPAM was much better than that of only adding PAC or both adding PAC and CPAM under the same conditions.


In the process of conducting combat,it is very popular way for carrying on auxiliary policy decision by relational knowledge system and mathematic methods.This paper puts forward an efficacious auxiliary model of utilizing reserve forces which based on the polymerous model of multi-combat zone.


The spline finite strip formulas for static analysis of thin flat-walled structures are derived from displacement function quoted from ref. [1]. The authors has made some progress in such aspects as implementation on microcomputers, coordinate transformation and multi-cases of loading, etc. It provides an effective and reliable micro-computer analytical program for static calculations of special structures on the surface of coal mines.


Considering market fluctuations and risk aversion, this paper analyzes the decisions of a dual-channel supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer and compares the differences in the centralized structure, manufacturer-dominated structure, retailer-dominated structure, and Nash equilibrium structure. This paper also analyzes the impacts of market fluctuations and risk aversion on supply chain profits. The results show that the direct selling price is not influenced by market fluctuations and risk aversion under the retailer's risk aversion, and the manufacturer-dominated structure and the retail price, direct selling price, and wholesale price in other power structures are negatively correlated with market fluctuations and risk aversion, but the order quantity in the four power structures is positively correlated with market fluctuations and risk aversion, and the profits of supply chain are impacted differently by the market fluctuations and risk aversion.


In this study, we compared preoperative diagnosis (clinical examination, double –contrast arhrography) with intra-operative findings in 118 patients who had menisectomy between 1983-1987. We found a discondance of 90.29% between pre-and intraopeative findings. The importance of arthorscopy of the knee in clarification of intraaticular abnormalities has also been reviewed.


Abstract We studied the ligand-displacement reaction of the Xylenol Orange complexes of Eu, Tb, and La with EDTA in a cetylpyridinium chloride micellar medium and determined the optimal conditions for the kinetic spectrophotometric determination of the different binary mixtures of the three rare earths, which were quantified over the ranges 0.061–0.532, 0.063–0.556, and 0.055–0.486 μg ml−1Eu, Tb, and La, respectively, with the aid of a partial least-squares (PLS) multivariate calibration procedure.


The paper provides a framework consisting of three different steps: digital business eco-system creation, monitoring and evaluation. In the creation phase, the analysis of available financial resources has to carried out, the value creation and sharing among the actors of the digital business ecosystem have to be stimulated and strategic decisions have to be chosen. After the creation it essentially embodies an active management where the digital business ecosystem is continuously monitored as well as its healthiness is actively improved. In order to carry out the management of the digital business ecosystem some parameters are important to considered such as: quantifiable parameters, competitive assets and current roles and strategies. Finally the impact of DBE have to be measured in term of productivity, robustness and niche creation.


Corresponding EPO Official communication. Partial English language translation of the following: Office action dated Jul. 30, 2013 from the Japanese Patent Office in a Japanese patent application corresponding to the instant patent application. This office action translation is Submitted now in order to Supplement the understanding of patent document JP 2006-152071 which are cited in the office action and are being disclosed in the instant Infor mation Disclosure Statement.


This article discusses about material and device-design considerations for extending semiconductor lasers to the tetrahertz regime. Semiconductor-based laser sources have recently become available in the THz regime using a quantum cascade laser design. A new set of device structures based on a semiconductor quantum dot gain medium is discussed.


We read with interest the editorial comments by Drs. Gillespie and Hayes.1 We agree completely that the baseline characteristics of cirrhotic patients in the carvedilol group included significantly less portal hypertension (23.62%) and varices (3.78%) when compared to nadolol (74.88% and 13.60%, respectively), and propranolol (72.88% and 13.74%, respectively) (see Table 1 from our original article).2 We also agree that it would be interesting to explore the indication for carvedilol given that the majority of cirrhotic patients who took carvedilol did not have portal hypertension and varices as opposed to the nadolol and propranolol groups. Unfortunately, the Cerner Health Facts database included standard codes for medication, but the rationale behind why the medication was prescribed was not available. We could not control the possibility of coding variability which may lead to missed reporting or misclassification of certain conditions.2 This is one of the limitations of the populationbased cohort analysis.3 However, we might assume that cirrhotic patients in the carvedilol group took the medication for heart disease or hypertension (not for portal hypertension or varices) given that the carvedilol group had significantly higher heart disease (95.65%) and hypertension (89.55%) comorbidities when compared to nadolol (58.27% and 73.52%, respectively), and propranolol (54.58% and 72.34%, respectively) group.2 This brings to the discussion the point made by Drs. Gillespie and Hayes1 that carvedilol may slow down the disease progression before developing decompensated cirrhosis or cirrhosis with complications (ascites, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatorenal syndrome, portal hypertension, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, and varices). The PREDESCI study demonstrated that longterm nonselective betablockers (NSBBs) (carvedilol or propranolol) reduced incidence of decompensated cirrhosis (mainly from ascites) in patients with cirrhosis and clinically significant portal hypertension.4 Perhaps carvedilol should be considered early in cirrhotic patients without complications or decompensation to help prevent clinical decompensation and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). To further elucidate this point, we performed subgroup analysis to assess the 100month cumulative incidence of HCC among cirrhotic patients without complications who took NSBBs including carvedilol, nadolol, and propranolol compared with no NSBB group. Interestingly, cirrhotic patients who took NSBBs had significantly less incidence of HCC compared with no NSBB group (carvedilol [4.24% vs 8.87%], nadolol [12.18% vs. 21.15%], and propranolol [4.56% vs 14.4%] [all Pvalues < 0.001]). Similarly, the


The common cyclical condition of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) has been renamed premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) by the American Psychiatric Association in the DSM IV classification in an attempt to codify a more serious psychiatric condition than PMS [1]. This is an unfortunate name because dysphoria, the opposite of euphoria, does not correctly include the range of physical and emotional symptoms and reinforces the view that it is a psychiatric condition which it is not. The symptoms of depression, anxiety, irritability, breast pain, headaches, bloating, weight gain and loss of libido and energy are more logically an endocrinological disorder, which can be even reproduced by the administration of cyclical oral progestogen [2]. The principle causation of this is ovulation or ovarian activity and not menstruation. If ovulation is suppressed by various drugs such as transdermal oestrogens or GnRH analogues which stop ovarian function, the cyclical symptoms due to the cyclical hormonal changes (whatever they are), disappear. Thus, suppression of ovulation is a very effective treatment for this condition [3]. There are other conditions which are well known to deteriorate premenstrually. These include asthma, migraine, epilepsy, depression, rheumatoid pain, which are all somehow dependent on the hormonal changes of the ovarian cycle – not to menstruation [4]. The monthly exacerbation of these symptoms can be ameliorated by suppression of ovulation by estrogens [5]. There is a move to rename this condition yet again to include the somatic symptoms of headaches, bloating and joint pain for a future DSM V classification. This could be an improvement but it is important to include 'ovulation, or ovarian activity or the ovarian cycle' in the name. This will clarify the causation of the condition and offer some clues to effective management. The term Ovarian Cycle Syndrome has been used in the past to describe the cyclical symptoms that occur after hysterectomy with the ovaries left behind. These women frequently have cyclical depression, anxiety and irritability for 10 days or more (i.e. PMS without the M!) followed by 2 or 3 days of headaches or migraine (i.e. menstrual migraine without the menstruation!) as well as cyclical mastalgia [6]. It is logical that the diagnosis of ovarian cycle syndrome should be used to include all of the cyclical physical, behavioural and emotional changes of mood that occur monthly following ovulation and that this name should replace PMS or PMDD. If we do not achieve this recognition of the true hormonal cause of this disorder, more and more women will suffer the results of many years of multiple unsuccessful anti-depressant and anti-psychotic therapies with long-term problems, which include dependency and unresolved depression.


With the rapid development of the Internet, steganography on Voice over IP (VoIP) has been attracted a lot of research efforts. To date, existing VoIP steganography research commonly focus on information hiding in the LSB bits of Network Audio Streams, yet, we found this approach may raise serious security threat, where the hidden information may be easily removed, detected and attacked. Towards this issue, in this paper, we propose AVIS, a novel Adaptive VoIP steganography approach to hide information within Network Audio Streams. AVIS consists of two parts, named VAMI and VADDI. VAMI works by dynamically select multiple bits based on the VoIP vector value, while VADDI dynamically changes embedding intervals to avoid detection and attacking. We also implemented AVIS and conducted extensive experiments in real systems. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed AVIS scheme.


The objective of this paper is to present methods for determining a target amount of working capital on the basis of turnover indicators. It is to differentiate among them: net operating cycle, cost approach or cost participation in revenues method. On the other hand, planning for working capital requirements needs for costs and revenues estimates. The distribution of costs into variable and fixed elements implies forecasts possibilities. In the first case Excel's algorithm "Add trend line" was used to construct non-linear trend curves. The latter were predicted based upon average values, showing the mean level of the phenomenon over time.