Maintenance of ecological flow regime for aquatic biota is essential to river ecosystem health. To estimate ecological flow, habitat simulation methods have been widely applied because of their combination of hydrological regime and species hydraulic preference. However, few methods are available to provide a flow regime that varies over time due to time‐specific habitat requirements from different target species or from one target species at its different life stages. This paper described a novel approach for evaluating the ecological flow regime that was a time series of discharge considering different life stages of target species. First, an ecohydraulic model that combined multivariable habitat suitability curve of target species with a hydraulic module was developed to establish the relationship between habitat status and hydrological conditions. Then, the habitat connectivity index was adopted to assess the spatial patterns of habitat patches. Finally, the ecological flow regime considering the complete life cycle of target species was derived. The developed approach was applied to the middle reach of Huaihe River, where the flow is highly regulated by dams and sluices. The Chinese bream (Parabramis pekinensis) was chosen as the target species for ecological flow calculation. The ecological flow regime in the Lutaizi was provided for the river management. The study provided a promising method to support ecological friendly operations of hydraulic structures for river ecosystem restoration and management.


Strongly textured superconducting YBaCuO tapes can be prepared by an epitaxial deposition on thermo-mechanically textured metal tapes (RABiTS) covered with an oxide buffer layer as a diffusion barrier. An interesting possibility to prepare the oxide buffer layer is the self-oxidation (SOE) of the RABiTS tapes. In this procedure the RABiTS tape is oxidised in such a way, that the self-oxide grows epitaxially on the substrat. Oxidation experiments were performed to study the oxide layers formation on Ni, NiCr and NiV RABiTS tapes with respect to their suitability as buffer layers for superconducting tapes. The emphasis of this work is on the mechanisms of texture formation during the epitaxial oxidation. The oxidation experiments were performed on single-crystalline (100) Ni films. During the oxidation the NiO forms in two different orientations, the NiO(100) and the NiO(111) orientation. Both orientations grow epitaxially on the substrate. The ratio of the two fractions of orientations can be affected by the rate of oxidation, which depends on the temperature and the partial pressure of oxygen. At high rates of oxidation the NiO(111) orientation and at low rates of oxidation the NiO(100) orientation is mainly observed. Via in-situ x-ray measurements a model was developed, which describes the mechanisms of the epitaxial oxidation. According to this model the epitaxial oxidation can be divided into three phases of growth, which are characterized by two critical layer thicknesses. In the early stage a nearly single-crystalline NiO(111) initial layer is formed. This initial layer is stabil until a critical layer thickness is reached. In the second phase the NiO(111) orientation transforms into the NiO(100) orientation. The completion of transformation is determined by a second critical layer thickness. In the final phase epitaxial growth via grain boundary diffusion takes place. During this phase the quality of texture and the fractions of the different orientations remain constant. Therefore, the ratio of the different fractions of orientations depends on the ratio of the rate of transformation to the rate of oxidation. Possible driving forces of the orientation transformation are discussed.


This paper presents an estimator of fractal signal sizes based on correlation fractal dimension as applied to auditory signals. Correlation fractal dimension has been proposed for characterization of signals coming from chaotic sources. Practical estimations are made possible using a Takens algorithm, producing different estimates in each embedding dimension. The estimator consists of four processes: (i) signal measures creation, (ii) covering-counting, (iii) critical-exponent estimation, and (iv) size calculation. We study the resulting estimates of controlled signals to validate the estimator as well as to come up with a calibration scheme. The paper further discusses a possible application of fractal sizes to characterize coughs to identify the presense of respiratory diseases, such as in Covid-19 pre-screening.


AIM: To investigate PTEN and LIVIN expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and evaluate their clinical significance.METHODS: From July 2008 to May 2011,41 cases of untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma(DLBCL) specimens and 21 cases of benign lymph nodes hyperplasia(BLH) were selected from Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College.The expressions of PTEN and LIVIN in the 41 cases of DLBCL and 21 cases of BLH were measured by means of immunohistochemical S-P staining method and the relationships of PTEN and LIVIN expressions with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma stage and prognosis were evaluated.RESULTS:The positive rate of PTEN expression was 39.00% in the diffuse large B-cell lymphoma tissues,it was 80.95% in the benign lymph nodes hyperplasia tissues(P0.05).The positive rate of LIVIN expression was 65.90% in the diffuse large B-cell lymphoma tissues,it was 23.81% in the benign lymph nodes hyperplasia tissues(P0.05).PTEN were not positively related to the patient's gender,age,physical score,clinical stage,extranodular invasion,LDH,International Prognosis Index or the molecular type.LIVIN were not positively related to the patient's gender,age,clinical stage or extranodular invasion(P0.05).LIVIN were positively related to the patient's physical score,LDH,group B,molecular type and International Prognosis Index(P0.05).PTEN and LIVIN were inverse correlation in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.CONCLUSION: There are overexpressions of LIVIN in the diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.PTEN expresses in contrast.The positivity rates of PTEN is related to the group A and molecular type,while LIVIN are related to the patient's physical score,LDH,group B,molecular type and International Prognosis Index.PTEN may not predict the outcome in DLCBL.LIVIN might serve as biomarkers to the diffuse large B-cell lymphoma prognose.


The weather resistance of FEVE paints and acrylic polyurethane paints was studied by natural weathering test and ESEM analysis. The results showed that FEVE paints have superior weather resistance than acrylic polyurethane paints. FEVE paints are sensitive to humid tropical condition and salt fog,but not sensitive to simply ultraviolet radiation or industrial atmospheric environment.


: The present paper aims to study the presence of neo-Roman republicanism in the youth works of Hegel and Schiller. The first part deals with the modalities and reasons of the recovery of a Roman symbolism by the French revolutionaries. The second part deals with the coincidences and common sources between the Hegelian Unterredung and the Schillerian Fiesco . The last part ana-lyses the study case of the political interpretation of rapes, inspired by the Roman models of Virginia and Lucretia, as a new possible way of reading Schiller's dramas.


The k-nearest neighbor graph is an important structure in many data mining methods for clustering, advertising, recommender systems, and outlier detection. Constructing the graph requires computing up to n2 similarities for a set of n objects. This has led researchers to seek approximate methods, which find many but not all of the nearest neighbors. In contrast, we leverage shared memory parallelism and recent advances in similarity joins to solve the problem exactly, via a filtering based approach. Our method considers all pairs of potential neighbors but quickly filters those that could not be a part of the k-nearest neighbor graph, based on similarity upper bound estimates. We evaluated our solution on several real-world datasets and found that, using 16 threads, our method achieves up to 12.9x speedup over our exact baseline and is sometimes faster even than approximate methods. Moreover, an approximate version of our method is up to 21.7× more efficient than the best approximate state-of-the-art baseline at similar high recall.


In our paper we analyse the economic performances of urban and rural areas in Central and Eastern Europe depending on the accessibility of major cities. We assume that the more urban an area is and the closer it is to one of the major cities the more favourable (static and dynamic) economic performance it will have. Based on our results int can be said that the hypothesis has been verified. Different types of regions are interpreted as autonomous convergence clubs and characterized by unique growth paths. Although economic performance differs significantly from one region to another, growth factors do not do so. The explanation for this phenomenon is complex.


Ye describe a oonatruotlon of an u l t r a f i l t e r on the set oJT natural number* not belonging into tha oloiure of any countable discrete sat of minimal u l t r a f i l t e r * in Rudin-Frolfk order of/bN-N. Ve use tha technique of independent linked family developed by K.Kunen,


Strindberg's compelling transformation from empiricist to mystic has been a long-standing topic of intrigue among Strindberg scholars. His deep hunger for a comprehensive understanding of physical and spiritual reality is apparent in the synthesis of the numerous worldviews that color his work, specifically in his post-Inferno writing. His texts include overt references to Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and various mystical ideologies, but scholars have additionally acknowledged Judaism's position among the scattering of world views he studied. Rokem dates Strindberg's keen interest in the Jewish tradition back to 1897, when he approached Stockholm's chief rabbi in hopes of studying halacha [Jewish law] and the Hebrew language (Rokem 2004, 172). Scholars speculate that Strindberg also read the Talmud and the Book of Esther (Stockenstrom 1972,350; H. Lindstrom 1990,95). His interest in the Jewish faith was not only an intellectual one, but a personal one as well. In "Strindberg and Humanism," Delblanc suggests that Strindberg identified strongly with Judaism, observing that he may have sought solace in the Old Testament as he struggled to reconcile his "religious demand for submission" with the humanistic right to personal freedom (Delblanc 1988,11). His interest in Jewish theology only increased with his descent into the Inferno crisis, a time when mystical teachings steered the content of his work, serving as powerful directives for his artistic and literary development. In Till Damaskusll (1898; To Damascus II), he praised the Zohar, the principal text of the Kabbalah, as "den visaste av alia vishetens bocker" (Strindberg 1991b, 199) [the wisest of all books of wisdom]. He exclaimed: "Kabbalah onskar jag gerna!" [I surely desire Kabbalah!] in a letter written to Emil Schering, from whom he also requested to borrow synagogue prayer books (Eklund 1974, Vol. 15, 325). (1) Kabbalah resonated with Strindberg as did the other religious mysticisms he studied. Despite scholarly discussions of Strindberg's acclaim for and exposure to Jewish theological teachings, Judaism has taken a less prominent role as a platform for textual analysis compared to the other worldviews from which he took inspiration. Given Strindberg's thorough exploration of the Jewish faith and the intensely personal quality of his post-Inferno career, one would expect to find embedded in his work underlying themes reminiscent of Jewish theology. Indeed, close analysis illuminates the possibility that Strindberg's fondness for Jewish thought, specifically Jewish mysticism, pervades not one, but all three of his creative mediums, namely his literature, visual art, and scientific experimentation. What attracted Strindberg to Judaism was likely the same impetus that directed his studies with mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, for both streams of thought share a common thread: each ideological system is contingent upon belief in a cosmic unity that dispels the perceived chasm between physical and spiritual existence. For example, Swedenborg introduced Strindberg to the philosophy that the soul is comprised of matter, which suggests a reconciliation of opposing physical and spiritual forces assumed to be at odds with one another (Hedstrom 2001, 43). Likewise, Lurianic Kabbalah teaches that sparks of divine light permeate the physical world, negating cosmic discord between the heavenly and the mundane (Hoffman 1989, 23). Stockenstrom's remarks in "The World That Strindberg Found: Deciphering the Palimpsest of Nature" pertaining to this theme summarize the allure of mysticism through Strindberg's eyes: The precondition for all these interpretations of cosmos was, after all, the belief in the original unity of the universe, from which all 'reality' originated. This thinking in terms of the whole, where everything is seen in corresponding universal levels of creation, the series and degrees from the divine to the spiritual, to man and nature, is at the heart of Swedenborg's doctrine. …


Kotliar's fax to Bassiouni says the trust fund can pay for translation of the rape files, but Kotliar needs a cost estimate.


A novel fault-tolerant control paradigm that integrates fault detection (FD) with optimal control for path tracking is designed to ensure accurate path tracking in the presence of faults. The proposed approach is designed to maintain vehicle stability, dynamics, and maneuverability in the event of a faulty steering system. A sensor fusion-based fault detection and identification approach is proposed to accurately detect and identify sensor faults when they occur. A weight adjustment algorithm is considered to ensure accurate detection while providing robustness against parameter variations and uncertainties. Following FD and using the estimated fault vector, a fault-tolerant controller is designed to guarantee the stability of the closed loop system. The proposed controller incorporates a linear quadratic regulator (LQR)-based algorithm with a feed-forward gain. The LQR-based controller is designed to maintain system stability under faulty conditions while operating the dynamic system at minimum cost. The proposed approach is validated using a ground vehicle required to track various paths while being subject to multiple fault scenarios. For accurate performance analysis, vehicle handling and dynamics were implemented using CarSim, a high-fidelity vehicle simulator. Effective path tracking capabilities, vehicle handling, and stabilization under both fault-free and faulty conditions are the main positive features of the proposed approach.


A combined refrigeration and power cycle, which uses ammonia-water as the working fluid, is proposed by combining Rankine and vapour absorption cycles with an advantage of varying refrigeration capacity to power output ratio. The study investigates the usage of low temperature heat sources for the cycle operation. Results of parametric analysis are presented, which show the scope for optimization. Results of thermodynamic optimization of the cycle for second law efficiency performed using genetic algorithm for different ambient temperatures are also presented. The cycle shows good potential for obtaining refrigeration and power generation.


Venture capital firms typically invest in portfolios of only a few highly correlated enterprises. From a diversification perspective this seems suboptimal. We analyze venture capital budgeting focusing on the venture capitalist's decision to invest in correlated enterprises. We provide equilibrium conditions that emphasize the importance of information and the venture capitalist's role in resolving adverse selection on the entrepreneurial side. The importance of information increases the minimum carried interest offered to the venture capitalist. In particular, the carried interests received by venture capitalists are, by and large, determined by the size and level of correlation in their portfolios.


Complex numerical models and simulations from the microscale to the macroscale have been developed for the corrosion of aluminium (Al) alloys typically used for aircraft construction, such as AA2024. The main motivation for developing the corrosion models and simulations is to make significant technical advancements in the fields of aircraft design (using current and new materials), surface protection systems (against corrosion and degradation), and maintenance. The corrosion models address pitting and intergranular corrosion (microscale) of Al alloys, crevice corrosion in occluded areas, such as joints (mesoscale), galvanic corrosion of aircraft structural elements (macroscale), as well as the effect of surface protection methods (anodisation, corrosion inhibitor release, clad layer, etc.). The main output of the corrosion models and simulations is the corrosion rate of the Al alloys at the various scales and how that is influenced by its material properties and the surface protection methods. An end-user friendly simulation system (decision support tool (DST)) has been established for exploitation and implementation of the project results in scientific and technical applications. This large collaborative work between 10 different institutions around Europe (Germany, France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Belgium, Poland, and Greece) was achieved with the support of the European Union (EU) 6th Framework Programme via the project entitled SICOM (SImulation based COrrosion Management).


Abstract Maize cooking water is a common by-product of the agro-food processing industries. Such by-product is a current case of study for the research community. The present study analyzed the physicochemical properties of the extract during the ultrafiltration process at different weight reduction factor (WRF) values using a tight pore size membrane. The permeate samples coming from the filtration process were analyzed in terms of total soluble solids (TSS), total solids content (TSC), turbidity, pH, electrical conductivity, total polyphenols, total carbohydrates, and total organic carbon (TOC). At the end of the ultrafiltration process (WRF = 5), the retention efficiencies were of 100.0%, 78.4%, 30.5%, 32.6%, 43.8%, 75.9%, 79.9%, and 1.9% for TSS, TSC, turbidity, pH, conductivity, carbohydrates, TOC, and polyphenols, respectively. In this regard, it can be noticed that a significant quantity of the polyphenols contained in the initial extract was recovered in the permeate stream. According to the results, the selective filtration of this by-product by membrane technology represents a potential alternative for the recovery of its high-added value compounds. Finally, the highlighted results on polyphenol recovery are analyzed and discussed based on the separation process, molecule and membrane characteristics, and some other phenomena occurred in the recovery.


Temperature and angular dependences of upper critical field H c 2 in layered superconductor 2 H -NbS 2 have been investigated. Parallel-to-perpendicular critical field ratio was found to be 7.5∼8.1 in the experimental temperature range of T =4.9∼5.8 K. The experimental results were found to be well described by 3-dimensional model for anisotropic superconductors. This value is much larger than 2.3∼3.2 found in 2 H -NbSe 2 . It is suggested that absence of CDW in 2 H -NbS 2 keeps anisotropy of the Fermi surface high down to low temperatures and this is responsible for the large anisotropy or the upper critical field in this material.


Infection of rams with Actinobacillus seminis, as well as the symptoms and diagnosis, is discussed. Evidence of the existence of antigenically different strains of A. seminis is presented.


It is possible that thoracic-duct drainage, a major but neglected immunosuppressive adjunct, can have an important impact on organ transplantation. If thoracic-duct drainage is started at the time of transplantation, the practicality of its use in cadaveric cases is greatly enhanced. With kidney transplantation, the penalty of not having pretreatment for the first organ is compensanted by the automatic presence of pretreatment if rejection is not controlled and retransplantation becomes necessary. The advantage of adding thoracic-duct drainage to conventional immunosuppression may greatly enhance the expectations for the transplantation of extrarenal organs, such as the liver, pancreas, heart, and lung. There is evidence that pretreatment with thoracic-duct drainage of patients with cytotoxic antibodies may permit successful renal transplantation under these otherwise essentially hopeless conditions. Exploration of the neglected but potentially valuable tool of thoracic-duct drainage seems to the authors to be highly justified in other centers.


Husserl and the Question of Time (I). The Transcendental Constitution of Time at the Immanent Level of Consciousness. According to Husserl, time represents the general characteristic of all inner experiences (Erlebnisse) of consciousness and the internal time-consciousness is, together with intentionality, one of the two general structures of the pure transcendental consciousness. The problem of the consitution of the objectivity of the knowledge of the world pressuposes as a first level of inquiry exactly the consciousness of time and the detachment of the specific structures of this consciousness. However, the problem of the constitution of time cannot be exhausted throughout a descriptive analysis of the immanent level of consciousness for it asks for a diving to a pre-imanent (pre-subjective) level and requires some procedures which rather belong to what we could call constructive phenomenology. The central point which I am arguing for in this study is that the premise from which Husserl starts in his analysis dedicated to the constitution of time is from the beginning problematic and debatable: that is, consciousness as such would represent the origin of time and that one could reach this origin by following the line of a descriptive analysis.


This text is the result of an epistemological reflection on the functions, aims and objectives of the teaching of geography. From a literature search we assume that the teacher should reflect on the matter taught in the classroom or outside. It should not be guided only by opinion or by curricular materials, such as the textbook. Not only is it necessary to master the subject, content, curriculum, teaching methods and strategies, pedagogical and psychological foundations of education, but is central to the educational question, now, of geography. What geography teaching, why and what to teach geography? And where teaching geography? As a result of the work we propose a reflection on the role of geography in education not only formal but also non-formal and informal.


The increase of resistance of a column of mercury in a magnetic field, found in experiments on this effect, is due to the internal motion of the liquid produced by the action of the Ampere forces between the magnetic field and the electric current traversing the mercury. The hydrodynamic significance of the results of such experiments is considered and the consistency of the results shows that e.m.fs. as small as 10-6 to 10-7 volts, induced by a magnetic field in moving mercury, can be accurately measured. This result shows the practicability of the method of investigating the flow of liquids proposed in the previous paper.


The class size has an important influence on students' development.In recent years the small-sized classes have made it possible for the teachers to pay close attention to individual students and offer students more opportunities to participate and provide teachers the conditions to open the classes,which have positive influence on students' long-term development.Therefore,the small-sized class has become one of the educational policy options in many countries.To tap fully the potentials of small-sized classes,joint efforts from the following four sides are needed.The districts where the schools are located should provide supportive conditions and policy guidance;the schools should strengthen the force of reform and reform identification;the teachers should master the specialized knowledge and the refined practice;the families should keep track of the developments in the different stages and cooperate to make improvements.


In this paper, using the Fourier method in the Krein space, a singularly perturbed Cauchy problem for a second-order differential equation with constant coefficients is solved, and an asymptotic expansion of this solution is found using the theory of linear operators and functional analysis. The peculiarity of the method consists in the fact that the operator of the corresponding Cauchy problem does not have a spectrum, but, nevertheless, even in this case it is possible to expand its solution in a Fourier series in the Krein space and obtain an asymptotic expansion with an estimate of the remainder term. The estimate of the remainder term is obtained in the form of a convolution operator through the right-hand side of the equation and through the coefficients of the equation itself.


ABSTRACT Music education has faced considerable challenges in trying to bridge the gap between music in young people's lives and that taking place in the classroom. The 'Musical Futures' initiative aimed to devise new and imaginative ways of engaging young people, aged 11–19, in music activities through a process of informal learning based initially on popular music. This research aimed to explore pupils' perceptions of the impact of adopting the Musical Futures approach on students' learning and attainment. 671 students completed a questionnaire and 171 participated in focus group interviews to establish their perceptions of informal learning. The findings showed that the adoption of the Musical Futures approach enhanced student interest and confidence and increased their musical skills. Students appreciated the control that they had over their learning but some raised issues about working in groups and the level of support that teachers were able to offer.


Coordination of Supply Chain Inventory Systems with Private Information. (December 2006) Chi-Leung Chu, B.B.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong; M.B.A., University of New Mexico; M.S., Case Western Reserve University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. V. Jorge Leon This dissertation considers the problems of coordinating different supply chain inventory systems with private information under deterministic settings. These systems studied are characterized by the following properties: (a) each facility in the system has self decision-making authority, (b) cost parameters of each facility are regarded as private information that no other facilities in the system have access to, and (c) partial information is shared among the facilities. Because of the above properties, the existing approaches for systems with global information may not be applicable. Thus, new approaches for coordinating supply chain inventory systems with private information are needed. This dissertation first studies two two-echelon distribution inventory systems. Heuristics for finding the replenishment policy of each facility are developed under global information environment. In turn, the heuristics are modified to solve the problems with private information. An important characteristic of the heuristics developed for the private information environment is that they provide the same solutions as their global information counterpart. Then, more complex multi-echelon serial and assembly supply chain inventory systems with private information are studied. The solution approach decomposes the problem into separate subproblems such that the private information is divided as required. Global optimality is sought with an iterative procedure in which the subproblems negotiate the material flows between facilities. At the core of the solution


The local heat flux of spray cooling in the film boiling region were experimentally investigated for the spray region of D max = 0.005~0.03 ㎥/(㎡s). A twin-fluid full cone spray nozzle was employed for the experiment and the distributions of droplet flow rates were obtained for air-water full cone sprays. A stainless steel block was cooled down from initial temperature of about 800 ℃ by full cone spray. In the region near the stagnation point, it was found that the experimental data are in good agreement with the results predicted from the correlations between the local heat transfer and the local droplet flow rate proposed in the previous report. However, it was found that the experimental data of D r > 0.01 ㎥3/(㎡s) are a little smaller than the results predicted from the correlations.


Studies were carried out of the low-temperature optical and photoelectric properties of Ti-doped CdTe and Cd1-xHgxTe crystals. The absorption is due to intracentral transitions from the main 3A2(3F)-state to excited 3T1(3P)- (1.15 eV) and 3T1(3F)-(0.65 eV) states. It was shown that the maximum of photogalvanic current band corresponds to the energy 1.12 eV. It indicates that the excited 3T1(3P)-state of the Ti2+ ions is in the resonance with the conduction band and is located near the bottom at a distance not more than 50 meV. The analogous structure of the absorption and photogalvanic current spectra appear also the Cd1-xHgxTe:Ti crystals. In this case the long-wave edge of absorption band is some what prolonged. Therefore the use of Cd1-xHgxTe:Ti crystals makes it possible to move the spectral region of their photosensitivity to the long-wave side. On the base of the results of photoluminescence and photogalvanic current spectra it was shown that main structural defects for the investigated crystals are V Cd, and also acceptor complexes of type (V2-Cd + D+)-. These defects participate in compensation of charge in the investigated crystals, which are semiinsulating and therefore suitable for carrying out the photorefractive measurements.


Extremal geometries by P. Sarnak Extremal Riemann surfaces with a large number of systoles by P. S. Schaller On arithmetic genus 2 subgroups of triangle groups by N. Naatanen and T. Kuusalo Some lattices obtained from Riemann surfaces by M. Bernstein and N. A. Sloane Jacobian of the Picard curve by J. R. Quine Fermat's quartic curve, Klein's curve, and the tetrahedron by R. E. Rodriguez and V. Gonzalez-Aguilera The splitting of some Jacobi varieties using their automorphism groups by J. X. Ries Riemann surfaces admitting large automorphism gorups by R. S. Kulkarni Number theory, theta identities, and modular curves by R. Brooks, H. M. Farkas, and I. Kra Uniformization of some quotients of modular curves by R. Brooks and Y. Kopeliovich Teichmuller disks and Veech's $\mathcal F$-structures by C. J. Earle and F. P. Gardiner On the geometry and spectral asymptotics of degenerating hyperbolic three manifolds by J. Dodziuk and J. Jorgenson Differential equations for the quadratic periods of abelian differentials by D. Curtis and M. Tretkoff Zeta functions on $S^2$ by C. Morpurgo A minimum problem for heat kernels of flat tori by A. B. II.


Since publication of clinical trials regarding the efficacy of nintedanib in fibrosing ILD, including the ILD associated with autoimmune diseases, its clinical use has increased but not enough real-world data has been published.The aim of our study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of nintedanib in patients with interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) progressively fibrosing of several etiologies in a spanish third-level hospital.A retrospective study was designed to collect clinical and radiological data of 31 patients under treatment with nintedanib, followed up by Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, or Pneumology specialists since 2016.Chacteristics of the study population are collected in Table 1.The indications for nintedanib were a fibrosis progression in the previous 24 months, determined as a decrease of Forced Vital Capacity higher than 10% in 25 patients (41,67%) or a decrease of 5-10% in 5 patients (8,33%). The increase of fibrosis in CT in 17 patients (28,33%) and a clinical worsening in 25 patients (41,67%) were also indications for treatment, as in pivotal trials.The mean time with nintedanib was 12,58 months (± 13,20). The drug was stopped in 9 patients (29%), 1 of them due to progression and 8 due to adverse effects, none of them severe, being the most frequent gastrointestinal.12 patients died during follow-up. 7 (58,33%) were diagnosed with IFP, 4 with progressive fibrosis ILD, and 1 with ILD associated with systemic sclerosis. No significant differences between groups were found.Spirometric values were collected before treatment as well as at 3, 6, 12, and 24 months after starting treatment to compare the mean values of FVC (ml), FEV1 (ml), Tiffenau index and DLCO (%). The evolution of spirometric parameters is shown in graphic 1. No significant differences were found between them at baseline and after treatment, in accordance with the expected slowing of the progression to fibrosis. Regarding the evolution in radiological studies, fibrosis progression was only observed in a small percentage of patients.Nintedanib was one of the first anti-fibrotic drugs with indication in fibrosis ILD. Not only for IPF but also for ILD of diverse aetiology, including those associated with autoimmune diseases, after the publication of clinical trials. Therefore, its use is increasing despite limited inclusion criteria in trials and scarce real-life clinical data. Our real-world study, even with its limitations, shows consistent results with those of the clinical trials, stabilising progression of pulmonary fibrosis in our population for the next 24 months after its start.[1]Dister, O. Nintedanib for Systemic Sclerosis–Associated Interstitial Lung Disease. New England Journal of Medicine 380, no. 26 (2019)[2]Flaherty, K. Nintedanib in Progressive Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases. New England Journal of Medicine 381, no. 18 (2019)Table 1.CHARACTERISTICS (n: 31)N%N%Men2064,52Years (SD)74,35(±1,63)Ex-smoker1651,61No smoker825,81Comorbidities:Concomitant treatmentHTN1754,84Antihypertensives1651,61Dyslipidemia1445,16PPI1548, 39GERD722,58Bronchodilator1651, 61Cardiopathy619,35Statin1135,48SAD516,13ASA26,45COPD412,90Anticoagulant39,68DM412,90Oral antidiabetic26,45Other722,58Main diagnosisRadiologic findingsIPF1651, 61UIP2064,52PF-ILD1032,26NSIP1032,26 IPAF1016,13AD-ILD516,13BOOP13,23 SSc39,68 RA13,23 Sjögren13,23HTN: hypertension, GERD: gastroesophageal reflux disease hipertensión arterial, AD: autoinmune disease, COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, DM: diabetes mellitus, PPI: Proton pump inhibitors, ASA: Acetylsalicylic acid, UIP: usual interstitial pneumonia, NSIP: Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia, BOOP: bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia, FPI: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, PF-ILD: progressive fibrosing interstitial lung diseases, AD-ILD: interstitial lung disease associated with autoimmune diseases. RA: rheumatoid arthritisFigure 1.NIL.None Declared.


New vulnerabilities are constantly being discovered in Ethereum and the found vulnerabilities are fixed. This situation causes many vulnerabilities to be effective periodically. This article analyzes the smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum blockchain in 2020 and examines the ten most common vulnerabilities. By doing so, we aimed to determine a threat landscape for 2020. During this analysis, we studied how the vulnerabilities emerged, critical attacks that exploit the vulnerabilities, and what can be done to avoid them.


An exhibition and talk disseminating multi-disciplinary work at Hawthorn crater on the Somme as part of the wider exhibition on the scientific legacy or WW1. The project combines work in the field of chemical analysis, archaeology, anthropology, forensics, heritage preservation, digital scanning, recording and dissemination.

The Hawthorn crater is a relatively untouched site and the current investigations are the first time this type of work has been carried out. Our work records the intentions, discoveries and process of both preserving the site, making it accessible to the public and its historical legacy.


OBJECTIVE: To develop and test the inter‐rater reliability of a coding system for geriatric problems identified through Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) of hospitalized older persons, recommendations generated by the assessment, and implementation strategies for these recommendations.


A new species of Neostygarctus Grimaldi de Zio et al., 1982 is described from the Great Meteor Seamount summit plateau in the Northeast Atlantic. Neostygarctus grossmeteori sp. nov. is characterized by the number and position of dorsomedian spines (five spines on the cephalic plate and each body plate and on the caudal plate, the spines decreasing in length backwards); the presence of eyes and of one or two pairs of ventral cervical spines; a transversal row of two to five short but strong spikes on the ventral side of the lateral body processes; only the internal claws of each leg provided with a normal accessory spine. The new species is related to N. acanthophorus Grimaldi de Zio et al., 1982 but differs by details of the dorsal body spines and the sculptures, the presence of ventral neck spines and ventral spikes on lateral body projections. Neostygarctus grossmeteori sp. nov. differs from two other known species of Neostygarctus, N. oceanopolis Kristensen et al., 2015 (Condor Seamont, NE Atlantic) and N. lovedeluxe Fujimoto & Miyazaki, 2013 (submarine cave NW Pacific), even more obviously by the number and position of dorsal body spines.


AbstractAnalyses of pigments from palettes used by J.M.W. Turner (active c.1792–c.1850) by means of microscopy, microchemical analysis, thin-layer chromatography, energy-dispersive X-ray analysis, X-ray diffraction and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy are given. The occurrence of pigments in Turner's dated oil paintings and watercolours is also given, arranged by five-year periods. These findings are discussed in the context of published analyses of pigments from the first half of the nineteenth century. Turner used cobalt blue, emerald green, viridian, orange vermilion, barium chromate, chrome yellow, chrome orange and chrome scarlet within a few years of their known dates of discovery. It has become clear that Turner was using, or at least experimenting with, practically all the pigments known to be available at that time. In a few cases, in the light of these results, ideas on the availability of pigments to English artists have been revised backwards to the first known date of manufacture. Turn...


The military has taken extraordinary steps in establishing programs to support not only the member serving but their families as well. This article will examine military policy as it impacts single parents serving in the Air Force, highlighting existing programs, and calling for more research on this valuable population.


Conservation Corridors connecting protected areas and territories around them. They promoting those human activities are conducted in the area without destroying natural resources and benefiting local people. This is a new vision of combining conservation with sustainable development to reduce the ongoing destruction of biodiversity, as well as being a flexible tool in the planning field. Identification and characterization of Amazonian South Corridor was performed using GIS tools, making a diagnosis of biotic and abiotic factors, discussed by weights and geospatial analysis would result in Connectivity, Boundaries and Environmental Units Corridor. The Environmental Units are defined by Land Use and Ecological Importance of the different natural formations of the Corridor, with the results of the programs carried out management plan for each area, proposing solutions to conflicts found, together with conservation and capacity building.


Hilda warns Calvin to keep Edna's mental condition a secret. Hilda and Mary are housecleaning for Thanksgiving demonstrating that they have no servants. A young man visits. An enclosure from mother about Edna and a letter from Ida Welker in Montreal about Edna.


Pollution flashover of outdoor insulators is a common risk, which affects the safe operation of overhead transmission networks. Early electrical power systems, which feature insulators made from ceramic materials have been used all over the world with good performance. At present, non-ceramic insulators are in common use, as a result of their good electrical as well as mechanical properties. The aim of this paper is to discuss and compare the flashover performance of insulators typically used in power lines, such as, porcelain, ethylene-propylene-diene-monomer (EPDM) rubber, room temperature vulcanized (RTV) and high temperature vulcanized (HTV) coated silicone rubber. The effect of various parameters, including the severity of pollution, ice accumulation, and shade profile, are considered.. From the studies reviewed it was concluded that there is a distinct difference in the flashover voltages of different types of insulators, and the silicone provides the best flashover performance of all insulating materials.


This article studies the way folklore narrative leads to the representationof the territory, particularly in the discography proposal of the Santiagueneansin...


Application performance variability caused by network contention is a major issue on dragonfly based systems. This work-in-progress study makes two contributions. First, we analyze real workload logs and conduct application experiments on the production system Theta at Argonne to evaluate application performance variability. We find a strong correlation between system utilization and performance variability where a high system utilization (e.g., above 95%) can cause up to 21% degradation in application performance. Next, driven by this key finding, we investigate a scheduling policy to mitigate workload interference by leveraging the fact that production systems often exhibit diurnal utilization behavior and not all users are in a hurry for job completion. Preliminary results show that this scheduling design is capable of improving system productivity (measured by scheduling makespan) as well as improving user-level scheduling metrics such as user wait time and job slowdown.


Surfactants are known to influence functions of many proteins in membranes, cells and tissues. For the three metabolically important enzymes (namely, glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and malate dehydrogenase (MDH)), relative activities could vary more than 35 % with 1 ppm difference in anionic surfactant concentrations in solution. For the four anionic surfactants used in this study, there seemed to be a pH dependence on how hydrophilicity would affect single cellar protein transfer across a semipermeable membrane in solution. For the three enzymes with all the surfactant used in this study at pH 6.95, the amount of normalized mass transferred of individual enzyme across a semipermeable membrane was consistently in the same descending order: LDH, GDH, and MDH. For multiple enzymes without surfactant, pH would affect the permeability of the smallest enzyme (MDH) more than the largest enzyme (GDH) between pH range of 6.5 to 7.4. At pH 6.95, 0.1 ppm of hydrophobic surfactant in solution with GDH and MDH would nearly double the net mass transfer of GDH but revealed no significant enhancement to MDH.


Contents - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Wells and Biology - The Edible Predator: Wells and Food - The Slave Goddess: Wells and Sex - The Redeveloped Basement: Wells and Habitat - The Pugnacious Pacifist: Wells and Survival-Mechanisms - The Grad Earthly: Wells and Self-Image - Afterword: 1996 - Bibliography - Index


Topicality. The popularity of Khorasan wheat among consumers is due to the fact that their grain has more useful properties than traditional wheat types. The distribution of this wheat is restricted by the lack of accurate agrotechnological practices that would allow plants to maximise their genetically programmed productivity. Purpose. To determine the influence of the proposed elements of cultivation technology on the formation of biometric parameters by Khorasan wheat plants in the eastern part of the Northern Steppe of Ukraine. Methods. In 2021–2022, research was conducted in the field crop rotation of the Donetsk State Agricultural Research Station of NAAS, according to the method of B. O. Dospehov. The predecessor was a sunflower. The Khorasan wheat of Sarmat variety was used for sowing. Research methods were used: field, laboratory, mathematical and statistical. Results. Application of mineral fertilisers in the cultivation of Khorasan wheat contributes to the formation of better biometric parameters during the growing season compared to the control variant. At full maturity stage, the habitus of plants exceeds the control variant by 22 cm. The number of nodal roots per plant increases by 0.7 pcs and the productive tillering coefficient– by 0.1. When lower sowing rates are applied (2.0 and 3.0 million seeds/ha), plants form better biometric parameters regardless of nutritional background. The largest number of productive shoots of the Khorasan wheat forms in the nutrition background N30P30. Depending on the seeding rate, the coefficient of productive tillering varied from 1.4 to 1.2. Conclusions. Increasing or decreasing the seeding rate does not significantly affect the physiological ability of the crop to form a high plant density. Economically efficient plant density per unit area can be formed by increasing the seeding rate, which will reduce the number of productive stems per plant, but the total number of productive stems per 1 m2 will increase, as a result, grain yield will increase. Key words: Khorasan wheat, seeding rate, nutritional background, tillering coefficient, number of nodal roots, plant height, productive tillering coefficient, number of stems


We have previously demonstrated that PAS‐1, a 200 kDa protein from Ascaris suum, has a potent immunomodulatory effect on humoral and cell‐mediated responses induced by APAS‐3 (an allergenic protein from A. suum) or unrelated antigens. In this study, we investigated the mechanisms by which PAS‐1 is able to induce this effect on an allergic airway inflammation induced by OVA in mice. C57BL/6 mice were adoptively transferred on day 0 with seven different PAS‐1‐primed cell populations: PAS‐1‐primed CD19+ or B220+ or CD3+ or CD4+ or CD8+ or CD4+ CD25− or CD4+ CD25+ lymphocytes. These mice were immunized twice with OVA and alum by intraperitoneal route (days 0 and 7) and challenged twice by intranasal route (days 14 and 21). Two days after the last challenge, the airway inflammation was evaluated by antibody levels, cellular migration, eosinophil peroxidase levels, cytokine and eotaxin production, and pulmonary mechanical parameters. Among the adoptively transferred primed lymphocytes, only CD4+ CD25+, CD8+ or the combination of both T cells impaired the production of total IgE and OVA‐specific IgE and IgG1 antibodies, eosinophilic airway inflammation, Th2‐type cytokines (IL‐4, IL‐5 and IL‐13), eotaxin release and airway hyperreactivity. Moreover, airway recruited cells from CD4+ CD25+ and CD8+ T‐cell recipient secreted more IL‐10/TGF‐β and IFN‐γ, respectively. Moreover, we found that PAS‐1 expands significantly the number of CD4+ CD25+ FoxP3+ and CD8+ γδTCR+ cells. In conclusion, these findings demonstrate that the immunomodulatory effect of PAS‐1 is mediated by these T‐cell subsets.


In this paper the phenomena that time adverb can be used as attribute in contemporary Chinese is described,and according to the characters of the nouns,11 types of this phenomena are summed up.Then we analyze the semantic limitation and the syntactic rationality of this phenomena,and summarize the expression effect of this phenomena.


This paper considers teachers of 'ethics', which is a relatively new curriculum subject in school education in Poland. The paper focuses on the assessment of formal requirements for ethics teachers and on the evaluation of teacher education for teachers of ethics in Polish schools. The paper includes analysis of the perspectives of teachers of ethics concerning the future development of teacher education programs. The paper reports on a study of the place of ethics as a curriculum subject and on the practice of teaching ethics in schools in Poland.The study derives from a larger project completed between 2014-2016 and entitled 'Ethics in the Systems of Education in Poland and Selected Western Countries (Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, France, USA, Norway, Finland)'. The project was implemented under the National Program for the Development of Humanities of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The project was conceived as a contribution to educational research and knowledge on the teaching of ethics in the school system and to the building of ethics as a school subject in the Polish school system.


Abstract This paper documents the process and the findings of a study to benchmark property management practices of private residential developments in Singapore. Besides providing a set offinancial performance benchmarks for the promotion of a higher level of condominium management, the empirical evidence shows that management expenditure decreases with the number of units within a development due to economy of scale. The age of a development, however, does not significantly influence management costs. The data further reveal interesting implications on the economics of outsourcing versus provision of in-house services.


Cyclosporine A (CyA) is a cyclic undecapeptide, used in prophylaxis and therapy of graft rejection in all types of solid organ and bone narrow transplantations, as well as in treatment of a number of autoimmune diseases. However, prolonged repeated treatment with CyA may cause many side effects like nephrotoxicity, gingival hyperplasia and neurological disorders (1). Several controlled delivery systems of CyA has been studied so far as microspheres and nanospheres based on biodegradable aliphatic polyesters including poly(lactide-coglycolide), polylactide, and poly(e-caprolactone) (1, 2). Copolymers of TMC with L-lactide may be interesting in developing alternative delivery systems of cyclosporine A. PTMC degrades by surface erosion without acidic products, that could allow to obtain zero order drug release kinetics as well as protection of labile drug molecules (3, 4). Poly(Llactide) (PLLA) is a crystalline polymer which undergoes slow hydrolytic degradation via the bulk erosion mechanism by random scission of ester bonds (3). Since slowly degradable polymers are appropriate as carriers of cyclosporine A, the process of real-time release rate estimation may last even several months. Therefore, accelerated CyA release testing is very desirable in early research for fast screening purpose n selection of polymers or establishment of drug/polymer ratio. It can be achieved by the increase in polymer degradation via acid or alkali catalyzed hydrolysis, addition of surfactants to enhance drug diffusion or an increase in temperature, which enhances polymer chainsi mobility and drug diffusion (5). There are few literature reports on accelerated drug release testing from biodegradable carriers. It was demonstrated, that elevated temperature accelerated release testing was not suitable for PLGA microsphere systems where release was diffusion-controlled. On the other hand, elevated temperature accelerated testing was predictive of real-time release where erosion appeared to be the dominant mechanism of release (6). The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of accelerated CyA release testing obtained by elevated temperature. Drug release profile and ratio was analyzed as well as changes of physicochemical properties of copolymer.


Results of an analysis of deep images of 31 low-redshift QSOs and lower luminosity QSO/AGNs obtained with the prime focus CCD system on the CTIO 4 m telescope are presented. The host galaxies of QSOs are generally luminous systems populating the exponential tail of the galaxy luminosity function. Seyfert galaxies are apparently less luminous than the hosts of radio-quiet QSOs. The radio-loud QSOs are more luminous than the radio-quiet QSO hosts. For the sample of QSOs and QSO/AGNs, there is a trend for the radio-loud hosts to be better fitted by elliptical galaxy models and for the radio-quiet hosts to be fitted by disk galaxies, suggesting that the dichotomy known to exist between Seyfert and radio galaxies extends to much higher levels of nuclear luminosity. These results strengthen the empirical basis for a continuity in properties between Seyfert galaxies and radio-quite QSOs and between radio galaxies and radio-loud QSOs. 51 references.


Cynthia Ozick established the prevailing critical context for interpreting her fiction when she rather controversially claimed that no fiction produced by Jews in the Diaspora has had lasting value except that which is "centrally Jewish" (Art, 155). As her readers have consistently attested, Ozick's characters share an abiding concern with their status as Jews.1 For Ozick, though, there can be no fiction that is "centrally Jewish" that is not also somehow a reflection on the Jew's covenant with the one true Creator. As Suzanne Klingenstein observes, "the nature of the creative drive, condemned in Genesis as yetzer ha-ra (Gen. 6:5, 8:21), is the fundamental issue" confronted by her fiction (52). 2 Characters such as Isaac Kornfeld of "The Pagan Rabbi" or the narrator of "Usurpation" find themselves almost literally torn between their desire to create and the injunction not to be idolaters. Ozick's work, therefore, is concerned not only with what it means to be a Jew but with what both the fact and idea of creation mean to the Jew who would also write imaginative literature. So pointed has been Ozick's critical writing on this issue that her readers have been tempted to think that Ozick writes fiction in order to write theology, when actually it is probably more accurate to say that she writes theology in order to create more vibrant fictions. As Ozick's most perceptive critic, Elaine Kauvar, counsels, even if "for Ozick imaginative art never can be equated with what is deliberately Jewish," then it is also true that she "has always treated her tradition as a threshold rather than a terminus" ("An Interview," 361).3 In the critical context Ozick provides for her work, exploring the possibilities of creation endows her fiction with the presumption of possibly achieving the sacred.4 While Ozick is not actually a blasphemous or idolatrous writer even by her own strict definition, her fiction would lack its imposing power did it not risk this possibility.5 Ozick's interest in idolatry reflects her ambition to realize in her fiction culturally and aesthetically appropriate forms in which to express her creative desire.6


Structural biology has been extremely successful in providing functional insights for a large number of proteins and macromolecular assemblies, but in some cases, the structure has contributed a three-dimensional (3D) framework to interpret years of accumulated biochemical and genetic knowledge. In these particular systems, structural information has allowed us to learn things that would have been difficult to learn with other techniques. The periplasmic Escherichia coli DegP protease/chaperone exemplifies this scenario very well. This protein was initially identified in the 1980s (23, 24, 37, 38), and over more than two decades, several groups characterized its activities (2, 12, 16, 27). However, a comprehensive 3D functional model did not become apparent until the first DegP X-ray structure was revealed in 2002 (20). Following the discovery of this remarkable structure, a number of groups concentrated on testing the essentials of the functional model proposed from the crystal structure. Interestingly, this functional model was rewritten recently, after the structures of DegP in two additional oligomeric forms were resolved (13, 22). Current research efforts are now concentrated on probing the new functional model and also on answering new, interesting questions posed by these structures. Therefore, DegP provides an excellent example for the structure-driven study of protein function. This minireview aims to summarize how the functional model for DegP protein has evolved as the structures of the different oligomeric forms of the protein have been elucidated. E. coli DegP (also called HtrA or protease Do) is an important periplasmic protein with the unusual property of functioning both as a protease and as a chaperone (36). Unlike the cytoplasmic compartment, the periplasm lacks ATP and does not support the function of large protein machines powered by this molecule. However, in this cellular compartment, DegP can still degrade and refold misfolded proteins in an ATPindependent manner (2). Although DegP is not an essential protein, its activity is required for bacterial survival at high temperatures (34) and under harsh environmental conditions. Consequently, its expression is upregulated by both the Cpx and E protein quality control pathways under conditions of protein-folding stress (3, 29). DegP homologs have been isolated from a variety of species, including gram-negative and -positive bacteria, plants, and mammals. All these proteins constitute the HtrA family of proteases (2). In bacteria, members of this family are key players mainly in protein quality control in the periplasmic space. In eukaryotic cells, these proteins are involved in functions as diverse as the regulation of apoptosis (1, 4, 9) and the delay of the aggregation process of intracellular amyloid peptides (19). HtrA proteins usually contain a protease domain and at least one C-terminal PDZ domain. In some cases, members of this family of proteins also include additional domains, such as transmembrane regions, located usually at the N terminus. Specifically, in E. coli, DegP, DegQ, and DegS compose the HtrA family. There is a high degree of homology among these three proteins, particularly in the protease domain. However, the number of PDZ domains is variable. DegP and DegQ contain two PDZ domains, whereas DegS contains only one (16).


Decentralized partially-observable Markov decision processes (Dec-POMDPs) are a powerful tool for modeling multi-agent planning and decision-making under uncertainty. Prevalent Dec-POMDP solution techniques require centralized computation given full knowledge of the underlying model. Reinforcement learning (RL) based approaches have been recently proposed for distributed solution of Dec-POMDPs without full prior knowledge of the model, but these methods assume that conditions during learning and policy execution are identical. In practical scenarios this may not necessarily be the case, and agents may have diculty learning under unnecessary constraints. We propose a novel RL approach in which agents are allowed to rehearse with information that will not be available during policy execution. The key is for the agents to learn policies that do not explicitly rely on this information. We show experimentally that incorporating such information can ease the diculties faced by non-rehearsal-based learners, and demonstrate fast, (near) optimal performance on many existing benchmark Dec-POMDP problems. We also propose a new benchmark that is less abstract than existing problems and is designed to be particularly challenging to RL-based solvers, as a target for current and future research on RL solutions to DecPOMDPs.


Mesoporous hollow SnO2 nanococoons (mh-SnO2 NCs) were synthesized via the redox reaction between SnCl2 and Fe2O3 nanospindles in the presence of excess SnCl4. The Fe2O3 nanospindles act as a sacrificial template to oxidize SnCl2 to form a layer of SnO2 on the original Fe2O3 core surface and the following hydrolysis of SnCl4 on the as-generated SnO2 further produces SnO2 nanoparticles (NPs) to solidate the mh-SnO2 shell, resulting in the formation of a hierarchical structure on the surface. The surface morphology of mh-SnO2 NCs could be easily controlled by varying the synthesis parameters. The resulting mh-SnO2 NCs possess superior lithium storage properties with an exceptionally good cycling performance and an excellent rate capability.


Thinning algorithms are widely used in many image processing tasks. Many thinning algorithms were proposed but they usually tend to process all image pixels in every iteration. Two approaches to contour thinning are described and a short discussion about their features is given. These approaches can be implemented as sequential or parallel algorithms with different deletion rules. Results of comparison and analysis are presented in paper.


Low-resistivity phosphorus (P)-doped polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) thin films were prepared from amorphous silicon (a-Si) films deposited by catalytic chemical vapor deposition (Cat-CVD) and successive rapid thermal annealing (RTA). RTA was carried out at 1000°C for crystallization of heavily P-doped a-Si prepared by Cat-CVD. The films are suitable for the solid-phase crystallization (SPC) process because of their low hydrogen (H) content. It is revealed that both the crystallization and low resistivity of 0.001 Ω·cm are realized by RTA at 1000°C for only 5 s. Even after high-temperature RTA processes, perfect surface-flatness is maintained and neither peeling nor bubbling due to H atoms in the films is observed.


The purpose of this experiment is to offer the student an experience in a simple application of operational amplifiers that will improve the accuracy of an analytical experiment.


Current trends in multidisciplinary engineering education and real world challenges make it necessary for students to not only acquire but apply knowledge. Robots in general and mobile robots in particular provide an integrated platform for teaching engineering basics and programming. This paper documents the preliminary efforts undertaken by a student in the engineering program at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore under the charter of the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program over the spring semester of 2017. Keywords— Engineering education, robotics, programming.


This article analysis and compares two experiences of reuse of public property unused spaces, promoted by associations and groups of citizens in two important Italian cities (Milan and Naples). Through innovative processes, carried out with an energetic, provocative and incremental approach these subjects have given a new identity and form to some "suspended spaces". The communities reached an urban and social regeneration by strengthening the sense of belonging of the inhabitants, influencing the work of the local public institutions and changing the functional and physical nature of these spaces.


For the high-energy battery using Li metal as a negative electrode, the electrolyte is one of the most critical factors that significantly affects the cell performance. Herein, new 75Li(2)S center dot (25-x) P2S5 center dot xP(2)O(5) (mol%) solid state electrolytes are prepared by optimized mechanical milling technique and subsequent heat-treatment process. The electrolyte substituted with 1 mol% P2O5 presents the highest conductivity of 8 x 10(-4) S cm(-1) at room temperature, which increases up to 56% compared to that of the pristine sample. The enhanced conductivity could be attributed to the decrease of the activation energy for Li+-ion diffusion. The as-prepared 75Li(2)S center dot 24P(2)S(5) center dot 1P(2)O(5) electrolyte exhibits good electrochemical stability and compatibility with the metallic lithium electrode. The all-solid-state cell with a structure of LiCoO2/75Li(2)S center dot 24P(2)S(5) center dot 1P(2)O(5)/Li shows a discharge capacity of 109 mAh g(-1) at 0.1 C and high capacity retention 85.2% after 30 cycles at 25 degrees C, which are better than these of the cell use the 75Li(2)S center dot 25P(2)S(5) as electrolyte. (C) 2015 The Electrochemical Society.


We know that the 21st century is the age of information technology. This field is now the basis of all industries and is the impetus for their development. This article discusses the use of innovative methods in teaching English and the development of new methods.


Most accounts of Hinduism posit a radical difference between the aniconic fire sacrifice (yajña) and temple-based image worship (pūjā). The historical distinction between ancient Vedism and medieval Hinduism is often premised on this basic ritual opposition. Through an exacting study of ritual manuals, Rites of the God-King offers an alternative account of the formation of mainstream Hindu ritual through the history of śānti, or "appeasement," a form of aspersion or bathing, developed in order to counteract inauspicious omens. This ritual, which originated at the nexus of the fourth and somewhat marginal Veda (Atharvaveda) and the emergent tradition of astronomy-astrology (Jyotiḥśāstra), would come to have far-reaching consequences on the ideal ritual life of the king in early medieval Brahmanical society—and on the ideal ritual life of images. The mantric substitutions involved in this history helped to produce a politicized ritual culture that could encompass both traditional Vedic and newer Hindu practices and performers. From astrological appeasement to gifting, coronation, and image worship, the author chronicles the multiple lives and afterlives of a single ritual mode, disclosing the always inventive work of priesthood to imagine and enrich royal power. Along the way, he reveals the surprising role of astrologers in Hindu history, elaborates concepts of sin and misfortune, and forges new connections between medieval texts and modern practice. Detailing forms of ritual that were dispersed widely across Asia, he concludes with a reflection on the nature of orthopraxy, ritual change, and the problem of presence in the Hindu tradition.


Providing patients with access to their medical records can improve their communication with clinicians and increase their understanding of their illness. It's therefore baffling that only 3% of people in the UK have online access to them.1 This should increase given NHS England's pledge to give patients full access to their medical records by 2018.

The concerns Walker et al summarise about opening notes to patients2 were echoed in our practice two years ago, before we decided to offer patients full online access to their records. Concerns centred on …


Catalase plays important roles in plant salt tolerance.HcCAT1,a catalase gene from the perennial shrub Halostachys caspica,which distributes in saline-alkali arid land in Xinjiang,was isolated by homologous sequence cloning method.Sequence analysis showed that the ORF of HcCAT1 was 1 479bp,encodes492 amino acids with a molecular mass of 56.7kD and a pI of 6.84.HcCAT1 shared high similarity with those from other plant species.Semi-quantitative PCR results showed that the expression of HcCAT1 gene was up-regulated by salt stress.The recombinant plasmid pET32a-HcCAT1 was constructed and transformed into E.coli BL21(DE3),The fusion protein His-HcCAT1 was expressed by IPTG induction.SDSPAGE and Western blotting showed that His-HcCAT1 was 77.7kD,same size to the expected.Under low temperature,His-HcCAT1 was expressed in soluble form,and had certain catalase activity.Salt stress experiments showed that E.coli carrying the recombinant plasmid pET32a-HcCAT1 exhibited better growth phenotypes and higher growth rates than the control bacteria in the LB medium supplemented with 400mmol/L NaCl,400mmol/L KCl and 300mmol/L mannitol,demonstrating that HcCAT1 could enhance the salt stress tolerance for E.coli cells.These results will help to understand the molecular mechanism that H.caspicafor salt stress and oxidative stress.


Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of health problems in the world including Indonesian, so that new antibiotics from natural substance are needed. Pink oyster mushroom is a natural substance that is considered having antimicrobial compounds. The aim of study is to determine antibacterial activity and MIC value of oyster mushroom methanol extract on MRSA. The extraction method used is maceration with methanol solvent, while the test method used is method of wells and microdilution. Concentration of extract used for antibacterial activity test was 200 mg/200 μl, while for MIC test using extract concentration 100-0,05 mg/100 μl. Antibacterial activity test results in a zone of inhibition of 5,0 mm, while MIC test results can inhibit bacteria to the lowest concentration of 25 mg/100 μl.

Keywords: MIC, Methanol Extract, Pink Oyster Mushroom, MRSA


For all of its bright cleanliness and flowing breezes, the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, site of the Victorians and the World conference, put me in mind of Christina Rossetti's sonnet "Cobwebs" (1855). The poem begins, "It is a land with neither night nor day" (line 1), and describes an unidentified place of insistent negation, with "No bud-time no leaf-falling there for aye, / No ripple on the sea, no shifting sand" (8–9). Certainly, the waves of the Pacific beat ceaselessly along this shore, overlooked as far as one could see by bustling hotel bars much like ours, yet even these ripples seemed regulated, reassuringly family friendly. Although sunset summoned energetic poolside luau performances (viewable for an extra fee), it didn't augur darkness across the twenty-two always lighted acres, and although no doubt the occasional bloom or leaf fell from the fifty varieties of flora decorating the hotel grounds, not a one dropped without being swept away almost before it touched the landscaped path, along with any grains of wayward sand. Of course, part of the break offered by a resort is that it provides a vacation from mortality; upon check-in, one enters a region seemingly without detritus or decay. In a sense, this space—entirely and minutely managed by humans—is a space that denies the human, the mortal, the changing, the imperfect. Perhaps it was these reflections on human-made ecosystems' denial of the human that led me to conference papers that reflected on the precariousness of the nonhuman as well, even as moving daily through this manicured and manipulated landscape led to considerations of


We study the large deviations and moderate deviations of hypothesis testing for squared radial Ornstein-Uhleneck model. Large deviation principles for the log-likelihood ratio are obtained, by which we give negative regions in testing squared radial Ornstein-Uhleneck model and get the decay rates of the error probabilities.


Precomputed tsunami inundation data could be processed and analyzed to give predictive information on the impact of tsunami waves in the incident of potential tsunami earthquake. The objective of this study is the tsunami damage estimation based on the analysis of numerical model results, specifically inundation values in combination with the tsunami fragility curve. The inundation data used is based on the numerical model results in Banda Aceh obtained by the model TsunAWI for the tsunami event following the Mw9.1 earthquake on 26 December 2004. As initial preparation, the data is processed and analyzed first by using Geographic Information System (GIS) to extract the inundation depth data. After the inundation depth data is obtained, we perform the damage probability calculation by using fragility function based on the statistical analysis of the observed damages. From that result, it is possible to estimate the damage probability which in the investigated area turns out to be 50 % when inundation depths exceed 3 m. Moreover, the fragility curve shows 100 % of damage estimation when the inundation depth reaches 8.5 m. This preliminary research paper aims to expand the Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning System (InaTEWS) with modules that estimate damage in coastal areas by considering the fragility curve.


Spherical aberration degrades optical resolution during deep multiphoton imaging. Wavefront compensation within the objective or of the incident beam restores imaging quality. The use of a deformable lens for dynamic compensation is investigated.


Aim: Data anonymization aims to enable data publishing without compromising the individuals' privacy. The reidentification and sensitive information inference risks of a dataset are important factors in the decision-making process for the techniques and the parameters of the anonymization process. If correctly assessed, measuring the reidentification and inference risks can help optimize the balance between protection and utility of the dataset, as too aggressive anonymization can render the data useless, while publishing data with a high risk of de-anonymization is troublesome. Methods: In this paper, a new information theoretic-based privacy metric (ITPR) for assessing both the re-identification risk and sensitive information inference risk of datasets is proposed. We compare the proposed metric with existing information theoretic metrics and their ability to assess risk for various cases of dataset characteristics. Results: We show that ITPR is the only metric that can effectively quantify both re-identification and sensitive information inference risks. We provide several experiments to illustrate the effectiveness of ITPR. Conclusion: Unlike existing information theoretic-based privacy metrics, the ITPR metric we propose in this paper is, to the best of our knowledge, the first information theoretic-based privacy metric that allows correctly assessing both re-identification and sensitive information inference risks.


Stationary memoryless sources produce two correlated random sequences Xn and Yn. A guesser seeks to recover Xn in two stages, by first guessing Yn and then Xn. The contributions of this work are twofold: (1) We characterize the least achievable exponential growth rate (in n) of any positive ρ-th moment of the total number of guesses when Yn is obtained by applying a deterministic function f component-wise to Xn. We prove that, depending on f, the least exponential growth rate in the two-stage setup is lower than when guessing Xn directly. We further propose a simple Huffman code-based construction of a function f that is a viable candidate for the minimization of the least exponential growth rate in the two-stage guessing setup. (2) We characterize the least achievable exponential growth rate of the ρ-th moment of the total number of guesses required to recover Xn when Stage 1 need not end with a correct guess of Yn and without assumptions on the stationary memoryless sources producing Xn and Yn.


IP is an important method for mineral resources exploration,but it can only be applied in a few pivotal places because its difficult performance,and hence the information obtained from the survey area is very limited.The aim of this study is to find a simple and effective IP method with which we can get much valuable information form the survey area so as to improve the exploration effect.In the Yinan gold ore district,the authors applied the gradient sounding profile method,calculated 2D resistivity and obtained the IP model.The results show that the gradient sounding profile method is simple and effective.


Quantum criticality that goes beyond the Landau framework of order-parameter fluctuations is playing a central role in elucidating the behavior of strange metals. A prominent case appears in Kondo lattice systems, which have been extensively analysed in terms of an effective Bose-Fermi Kondo model. Here, a spin is simultaneously coupled to conduction electron bands and gapless vector bosons that represent magnetic fluctuations. The Bose-Fermi Kondo model features interacting fixed points of Kondo destruction with such properties as dynamical Planckian ($\hbar \omega / k_{\rm B} T$) scaling and loss of quasiparticles. Here we carry out a renormalization-group analysis of the model with spin isotropy and identify pair-wise annihilations of the fixed points as the spectrum of the bosonic bath evolves. Our analysis not only provides an essentially complete understanding of the previous numerical results of an SU(2)-symmetric model, but also reveals a surprising feature of sequential fixed-point annihilation. Our results lay the foundation for the understanding of quantum criticality in spin-isotropic heavy-fermion metals as well as in doped Mott-Hubbard systems.


In recent years, comparative corruption analysis has been fuelled by the growth of international survey data on related perceptions. Taking issue with the typological vein of such analysis, this article questions both the treatment of perceptions indices and the validity and pertinence of variables used to explain them. It is argued that perceptions are conflated with practice, whilst explanatory variables appear ungrounded in empirical reality. These limitations serve to reinforce expectations that corruption is a menace to be associated primarily with societies of the global periphery. Drawing on the supposedly paradigmatic case of Britain, the article suggests that the problem of bias in comparative scholarship is compounded by three factors: the failure of comparative and domestic-focused literatures to engage with one another in sufficient depth; the relative lack of qualitative research into corruption within core Western states; and the neglect of power in the study of perceptions and practices at comparative and domestic-focused levels of analysis.


1. The effect of cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK‐8) and pentagastrin on periodic pancreatic secretion was studied in fasting conscious dogs. 2. Both CCK‐8 and pentagastrin, in small doses, prolonged the interval of periodic pancreatic secretion. Periodicity was disrupted by large doses of CCK‐8 and pentagastrin. 3. CCK‐8, at the dose which did not disrupt the cycle, raised the peak and the valley‐to‐valley means, but not the valley mean, of protein secretion in one cycle. Except at large doses, pentagastrin failed to increase the peak and valley mean, but increased mean, valley‐to‐valley protein secretion. Large doses of both pentagastrin and CCK‐8 increased protein secretion at the valley. 4. The peak of periodic pancreatic protein secretion was about half the observed maximum protein response to CCK‐8. 5. Atropine reduced pancreatic fluid and protein responses to small doses of CCK‐8 to the levels of valleys. At large doses, however, both responses were augmented by atropine. Hexamethonium reduced the responses to any dose of CCK‐8 to valley levels or less. Volume and protein responses to pentagastrin following atropine or hexamethonium were of similar magnitude to those at valleys. 6. It is concluded that CCK‐8 and pentagastrin stimulate pancreatic enzyme secretion directly by acting on acinar cells and indirectly by modifying cholinergic ganglionic activities which control periodic secretion in conscious dogs.


Approximately two years ago TTM Consulting Pty Ltd was engaged by VicRoads to investigate Australian and international practices regarding the management of kerbside parking along major traffic routes. TTM conducted a workshop involving a range of participants from the real estate, property management, retail, town planning, urban design and traffic management professions. The results from this workshop were combined with the results from literature and other research to produce a set of Guidelines for Assessing & Reviewing Kerb Lane Management Plans Affecting Major or Principal Traffic Routes. These Guidelines were subsequently applied by VicRoads in pilot projects in two of Melbourne's suburban retail/commercial centres situated on major arterial roads. The Guidelines were then reviewed in the context of the pilot project experience. This paper summarises the views which emerged from the workshop, then current Australian and overseas practices and the Guidelines which were developed. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E205914.


We have improved on the characteristics of a diode-pumped, 1064-nm amplifier. The system can deliver 400 mJ @ 100 Hz with very limited wavefront distortion due to thermal effects. It follows that the amplifier can be powered on and reach full energy in a few seconds. The amplifier stable long thermal lens ensures that optical elements used downpath (potentially non-linear crystals for frequency conversion, or a telescope) are at no risk of laser damage, even during the short warm-up time. Additionally, the amplifying system can be operated at any repetition rate up to 100 Hz, and at any energy level, without having to adjust the hardware. The ease of operation, and number of shots saved on the diode lifetime can be a critical advantage in space. The amplifier pumping design enables duplication of the pump source with only 3% increase of the system mass: the doubling of the stacks does not require any additional optical component, nor any moving part. With solar radiation, the diode stacks are among the weakest link of the system, so this unique property is valuable for space applications. The laser amplifier was set-up and characterized as a laboratory breadboard, and a CAD version of a robust system was drawn and analyzed. We will review the properties of this compact amplifying system. Due to its uniform output beam distribution, it is very well suited for non-linear frequency conversion, and for long-range space applications. Additional presentation content can be accessed on the supplemental content page.


Sister Columba Kish talks about her parents and the hardships that they faced living in Hungary. They decided to immigrate to Canada, and Sister Kish provides information about the trip. The family initially settled Saskatchewan, in a Hungarian farming community. She talks about the Hungarian churches in Saskatchewan, as well as her early education and career goals. Sister Kish entered the community of Sisters of Social Service. She then went to nursing school in Montreal before moving to Toronto. Sister Kish talks about a man named Friar Leo Austin, and the Hungarian community in Toronto. The Sisters moved to Toronto and into a community centre on Grange Rd. They had a campaign to buy a church at the corner of Dundas and Spadina. She talks about the community spirit and dedication of the parish. Sister Kish explains about how new waves of immigrants who arrived between 1948 and 1956 changed the character of the parish. Sister Kish speaks more about the work of the Sisters of Social Service, the parish organizations and activities, Hungarian Saturday school, and also the future of church.


Eu-doped GaOOH nanoparticles with size of 5-8 nm were prepared by hydrothermal method using sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate(SDBS) as surfactant.Eu-dopedα-Ga2O3 andβ-Ga2O3 were further fabricated by annealing GaOOH:Eu and then characterized by X-ray diffraction(XRD),transmission electron microscopy(TEM) and photoluminescence(PL).The TEM results show that monodisperse Eu3 +-doped GaOOH nanoparticles form and then transform into Eu 3+-dopedα-Ga2O3 and β-Ga2O3 through annealing the GaOOH:Eu nanoparticles at 600 and 900°C,respectively.PL studies indicate that GaOOH:Eu has the highest intensity at 618 nm.Luminescence quenching is observed at higher Eu3 +concentration in all samples.


The technical characteristics are analysed synthetically on address space,mobility,security and quality of service of IPv6,the new generation Internet protocol.This paper studies thoroughly significant techniques utilized generally in IPv4/IPv6 integrated network,such as Dual Stack,tunnel and Translation,and analyses and compares them in respect of situation being utilized,compatibility and facility of implementation,lastly,provides a proposal of integrated network in the interim.It will be a valuable reference for research and practices of transition from IPv4 to IPv6.


To validate the reliability of BSP-ELISA kit for detecting residual bovine serum proteins in virus vaccines.Performanceverification of BSP-ELISA kit was carried on by six personnel from three departments,The outcome demonstrated that all eighteen tests done by six personnel had met tenable condition of standard curve of BSP-ELISA kit and the missionsuccess rate of building tenable standard curve is 100%.The precision was preferable because the coefficients of variation of the results among personnel detecting the BSP standards of 3,4,5,10,20ng/ml concentrations were from 1.96% to 6.24%,and the recovery from 94.8% to 98.7% indicated measuring results by various personnel had return accuracy.The detection quanta was as low as 3ng/ml.Furthermore,There is no cross reaction observed when detecting human serumalbumin,ovalbumin and vaccine protectins.the recovery is 90.0%and 117.1% when measuring BSA and B-IgG with BSP-ELISA kit respectively,The detection accord rate of residual bovine serum proteins between BSP-ELISA kit and BSA-ELISA kit in total 108 batches of eleven kinds of vaccines is 96.3%.The residual contents of bovine serum proteins is from 1.12 to 3.13 times as many as those of BSA in vaccines.BSP-ELISA kit can detect not only BSA but also other bovine serum proteins such as bovine IgG in vaccines sensitively but BSA-ELISA kit only can detect BSA,Which is most applicable on detecting residual bovine serum allergens in virus vaccines than the latterbecause BSA and bovine IgG are both primary residual allergen in vaccines.The kit would be useful for strict data quality monitoring of residual bovine serum in vaccines of our company.


The lure of exotic travel combined with first-rate education and the chance to meet pharmacists from across the ditch prompted New Zealand community pharmacist Ian Catto to sign up for the first Refresher conference, held in Noumea in 1977.


Timely and accurate land use mapping is a long-standing problem, which is critical for effective land and space planning and management. Due to complex and mixed use, it is challenging for accurate land use mapping from widely-used remote sensing images (RSI) directly, especially for high-density cities. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose a coarse-to-fine machine learning-based approach for parcel-level urban land use mapping, integrating multisource geospatial data, including RSI, points-of-interest (POI), and areas-of-interest (AOI) data. Specifically, we first divide the city into built-up and non-built-up regions based on parcels generated from road networks. Then, we adopt different classification strategies for parcels in different regions, and finally combine the classified results into an integrated land use map. The results show that the proposed approach can significantly outperform baseline method that mixes built-up and non-built-up regions, with accuracy increase of 250% and 30% for level-1 and level-2 classification, respectively. In addition, we examine the rarely explored AOI data, which can further boost the level-1 and level-2 classification accuracy by 13% and 14%. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach and also indicate the usefulness of AOIs for land use mapping, which are valuable for further studies.


In this chapter, I examine the education, careers, and professional contributions of women who trained in economics at the University Wisconsin during the Commons Era, including Helen Sumner Woodbury, Theresa Schmid McMahon, Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush, and Elizabeth Paschal. Despite several of masterful studies of Wisconsin Institutionalism (Kaufman 1993; Robert Lampman 1993; Rutherford 2011), the women of Wisconsin have received remarkably little consideration. Synthesizing the experiences of the many women who trained with Commons at Wisconsin, I conclude that their influence operated through a multitude of channels, including publications, field work, legislation, and teaching and was vitally important to the branding of Wisconsin Institutionalism.


Java Card is a version of Java developed to run on devices with severe storage and processing restrictions. The applets that run on these devices are frequently intended for use in critical, highly distributed, mobile conditions. This requires runtime verification approach based on Design by Contract to improve the safety of Java Card applications. However handling contract violation in Java Card applications is challenging due to their communication structure and platform restrictions. Additionally the Java Card exception handling mechanism requires that developers understand the source of an exception, the place where it is handled, and everything in between. As system development evolves, exceptional control flows become less well-understood, with negative consequences for the program maintainability and robustness. In this paper, we claim that such problem can be addressed by implementing an innovative exception handling model which provides abstractions to explicitly describe global views of exceptional control flows.


For the major organizations, businesses and government agencies the biggest constraints are cost, schedule, reliability, and quality for a given software product. And hence, more and more emphasis is put on software processes asking software engineers to follow it. The goal of this paper is to present a modified software process model using the Personal Software Process SM (PSP), Team Software Process SM (TSP) and six sigma. The new process model was used for an embedded systems project in automotive industry with 'Moderately complex and medium size'. The result of using this new process model has show 70% improvement in defects/KLOC.


We discuss the covariant forrn of the Dirac equation in orthogonaJ curvilinear coordinates and exhibit it explicitly. \Ve present explicit forrns of the Dirac equation in sorne of the cornrnon orthogonal curvilinear coordinates.


On August 31 2001, Baltic Rail Services closed a deal to take over Estonian Railways (Eesti Raudtee, EVR), part of the former Soviet rail network, at a cost of US$57 million. This is the first vertically-integrated privatisation of a national railway in Europe. The privatisation process is described. EVR is a freight railway that provides access to suburban passenger operator Elektriraudtee, intercity passenger operator Edelaraudtee and international passenger operator EVR Ekspress. Freight operations are similar to those of a Northern American railway, allowing used locomotives from North America to be used by EVR. The prospects of EVR are linked with those of Estonia's ports. The infrastructure is to be upgraded to increase capacity. Changes in operating practices will also be made.


Introduction: Oral health is an integral part of general health which not only depends on the environment in which an individual dwells but also the one in which he/she works. Exposure to various harmful substances in acid battery factory e.g. lead, sulphu affects various organ systems in the body with tissues of the oral cavity being no exception. Aim: The aim of this study is to assess the oral health status among production line workers of battery factories in Moradabad. Materials and Methods: study was conducted among 800 production line workers of twenty four battery factories in Moradabad. The study group comprised of all the workers in the factories including the production line. Oral health status was assessed using the WHO form, 2013. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 19. age of the study group (production line workers) was 29.15 ± 7.91 years and of control group (nonproduction line workers) was 35.49 ± 7.62 years 9.90 ± 7.35 for production line workers and 7.07 ± 5.97 workers. Periodontal pockets were found to be present in 31.11% of workers when compared to 12.2% of control group workers (P = 0.001). Pre found to be 49.5% among study groups as compared to 4.4% among the controls ( 0.001). Conclusion: This study demonstrate the association of various oral conditions with workplace environment. The present study points the ne educational, preventive, and treatment measures coupled with efficient scrutiny and monitoring in the workplace environment. The relationship that influences the way in which persons perform daily tasks and activities. An "occupational disease" is any disease contacted primarily as a result of exposure to risk activity. Some well-known occupational diseases include occupational lung diseases and occupational skin diseases. Lead is also one such element which is widely used in battery factories and has a marked effect on the health of workers. The perilous chemicals used in the battery process are lead oxide, spongy lead, and sulfuric acid.The workers, especially, those in production line are exposed to these chemicals through means of inhalation, ingestion, or dermal contact and are a major cause of toxicity. The dental changes in workers of battery factories and galvanizing occupations include gingivitis, periodontal conditions, erosions, abrasion, and decayed, missing, and filled teeth (DMFT). The long standing fumes may irritate soft tissues resulting in periodontal changes or oral mucosal lesions. Studies have also reported an relationship between occupational exposures to acids and Impact Factor: 6.614 13321-13323 .13323.2369


Given the importance of both academic and self-determination skills for students with disabilities, it is important to identify efficient ways to deliver instruction in these essential areas. This literature review synthesizes intervention research that has examined the effects of self-determination interventions on academic skills for students with learning disabilities (LD) and/or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Our findings revealed that self-management interventions were most often studied, followed by interventions that combined self-management with one or more other self-determination components. Effects ranged from very weak to very strong. Effects were strongest when (a) interventions that combined self-management with goal setting were used to increase students' productivity, and (b) goal-setting interventions were used to improve math skills. Most of the studies included in the review were of high quality; however, some areas could be improved.


This research aimed to study the Thai EFL students' perception of the development of English reading comprehension on Buddhist contents through PSQ6R technique. The sample included 47 students enrolled in Dhamma in English course at Nakhon Lampang Buddhist College in the 1st semester of academic year 2020. The samples were selected by the purposive selection method. The instrument for collecting data was a questionnaire. The data analysis was done using descriptive statistics which are percentage, mean score, and standard deviation. The research result revealed that the students strongly satisfied (x =4.59) with the development of English reading comprehension on Buddhist contents through PSQ6R techniques.


A common practice for the Ex Post LMP calculation at a number of U.S. ISOs uses a small constant range, typically from -2.0 to +0.1 MW, as each generator's lower and upper bounds. This paper shows that this is an unjustified practice as the marginal units and LMP may change if the bounds are changed. A simple yet effective improvement is proposed.


As part of her efforts to prepare her students for the state tests, Ms. Anderson, an English teacher, increased her use of homework assignments. However, despite frequent reminders to her students, she was disappointed by their inconsistency in completing their homework. To remedy the situation, she decided to send a letter to her students' families explaining the importance of homework and asking them to make sure that their children completed their homework.


The advent of the Rudd federal Labor government has seen the strengthening of the national presence in schooling. This includes new national accountabilities, a national curriculum and a range of national partnerships between the federal government and the states and territories. Recently, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has been established to oversee these national involvements. These national engagements have grown out of a new cooperative federalism in respect of schooling, facilitated – at least in the early stages of the Rudd government – by Labor governments in all the states and territories.


Caring for an older adult can be a full time job that sometimes results in increased stress and caregiver burden. With the growth of the older population, especially those ages 85 and above, and the incidence and prevalence of chronic disease and illness in old age, informal caregivers are becoming a more valuable, even essential, resource. Changes in health care policies, rules, and reimbursement procedures have shifted more of the care responsibility for elders from the formal to the informal (family and friends) system. Family caregiving is valued at $257 billion annually, more than twice the spending on institutional and home care combined. About four in five (78%) adults receiving long-term care at home rely entirely on family and friends; only 8% rely entirely on formal services. Care recipients ages 50 and above are found in more than 22.4 million American homes (Feinberg & Newman, 2004; Sawatzky & Fowler Kerry, 2003).


Specific characters,—Corallum turbinate, short, and marked with small accretion ridges. Calice circular, moderately deep. Columellarian boss rotund, slightly raised above the inner margin of the primary septa, and crowned by sub-convolute lamellae. Septa numerous, 60 primary, exhibiting well-marked lamina near their inner margin, whore they are fusiform, and curve gently towards the fossula, or from left to right. There is an equal number of secondary sej)ta, which pass inwards from the wall for about two lines. There they bend and become united to the primary septa. Each are laterally united with numerous angular dissepiments, which fill up the interseptal spaces. Height of corallum 2 in.; diameter of calice 1 in. and 11 lines. This species differs from Bod. Craigianum in its turbinate form, and the small ness of the central boss, and in the number and arrangement of the interseptal dissepiments. Position.—Found in a thin bed of shale overlying the low post of Limestone in Trearn Quarry, near Beith, Ayrshire. I dedicate this species to the late Prof. John Phillips, F.E.S., as an expression of my appreciation of his uniform urbanity and kindness, nowhere better exemplified than in Section C. at the Meetings of the British Association.