Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a not uncommon auto-somal recessive and potentially life-threatening disease. The hemochromatosis gene was identified by Feder et al. in 1996. About 1 in 200 individuals is estimated to be homozygous for the most common mutation—C282Y/C282Y. In the classical form of the disease, cysteine is substituted by tyrosine at amino acid 282 in both alleles. The so-called compound het-erozygoty is less common (representing about 10% of cases) but is also compatible with HH. Here, histidine is substituted by aspartic acid at amino acid 63 in one allele and cysteine by tyrosine at amino acid 282 in the other (C282Y/H63D). Due to increased intestinal absorption, homozygotes develop iron overload but penetrance is very variable (McCune et al. 2006). Most orthopedic surgeons meet patients with undiag-nosed HH on a yearly basis and an early diagnosis and treatment is important in order to avoid cirrhosis of the liver. Also, the risk of developing hepataocellular cancer is at least 20-fold higher than in their first-degree relatives (Elmberg et al. 2003). Fatigue and arthritis, unspecific and therefore often neglected, are common presentations whereas the classic bronze diabetes (darkened skin, diabetes, and cirrhosis) is the final stage of untreated HH that is very rarely seen (McDonell et al. 1999). A survey of 2,851 patients with hemochromatosis showed that patients had consulted a physician after an average of 2 years of symptoms, and on average it took a further 10 years before the diagnosis was made (McDonell et al. 1999). This is unfortunate, since medical treatment—i.e. regular phlebot-omy—is effective. During the period 2001–2008, I replaced 93 ankles in 86 patients and 4 of these patients proved to have hemochroma-tosis. Here I have reviewed the orthopedic manifestations in 7 patients who had one or both ankles replaced during this period, 3 of whom had had their ankles replaced elsewhere. Cases The original records from all orthopedics departments and units of gastroenterology involved were consulted and the author interviewed the patients at least twice. All but 1 patient were below the age of 45 when they had their first joint symptoms, and there was usually a long patient's and doctor's delay before diagnosis and treatment. In 4 cases the hip, knee or ankle joint, and not the MP joints, was the first joint to become symptomatic. Only in one case (patient 5) did the joint symptoms start after the time that the diagnosis of HH had …


and then hydrolyzing the acetal by adjusting the pH to less than 7, preferably 2-4. In the formulas, n is 1-3; Rll and R12 are independently an alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, or alkaryl group when n is 1, R11 or R12 is one of the groups when n is 2, or R11 and R12 are not present when n is 3; R3 is an alkyl group, optionally containing an ether linkage, or an aralkyl group; Rand R5 are indi vidually a hydrogen or a methyl group; R16, R17, and R18 are individually an alkyl group; Yis an anion; Z is an organic group capable of reacting with the poly saccharide base to form an ether derivative and selected from the group consisting of an epoxide, ethylenically unsaturated group, halohydrin, and halogen; R19, if present, is a divalent organic group containing no reac tive substituents; and A and A'0 are lower alkyls or together form at least a 5-membered cyclic acetal.


Asymmetric phase-transfer catalysis has been widely applied into organic synthesis for efficiently creating chiral functional molecules. In the past decades, chiral phase-transfer catalysts with proton donating groups are emerging as an extremely significant strategy in the design of novel catalysts, and a large number of enantioselective reactions have been developed. In particular, the proton donating groups including phenol, amide, and (thio)-urea exhibited unique properties for cooperating with the phase-transfer catalysts, and great advances on this field have been made in the past few years. This review summarizes the seminal works on the design, synthesis, and applications of chiral phase-transfer catalysts with strong hydrogen bonding interactions.


There is still no completely adequate theory to explain the discrepancy between the low absorption predicted by the classical theory of sound transmission and the much higher absorption observed in liquids, especially at supersonic frequencies. It seems obvious that as prelude to a better theory, a much larger and more accurate body of data on absorption under widely varying conditions is necessary. It is believed that the method herein presented, which is described in more detail elsewhere, is particularly suitable for measurement of supersonic absorption. This pulse method was developed during the war at the Radiation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, by a group of workers including the present author. Time did not permit full use of its possibilities, but a number of preliminary results were obtained, and in this paper are reported measurements of supersonic absorption at 15 mc for solutions of inorganic salts, organic liquids, and water at various temperatures, and also at 10 mc for water at various temperatures. It is shown that for water, and probably for other substances, the temperature coefficient of absorption may be larger than heretofore supposed, and hence more attention should be paid in the future to thermostatting of absorption apparatus.


Entrepreneur's profit theory, human capital theory and entrust agent theory provide theoretical basis for the reasonableness of the managers' stock right incentives. The implementation of such incentives in China is determined by such factors as law, market environment, accounting and taxation systems and the registration in industrial and commercial sectors. Therefore, we should adopt relevant measures to promote the implementation of the stock right incentives, such as the establishment and perfection of laws and rules, establishing reward and salary committee joined by external and independent directors, fostering and perfecting professional manager markets, setting up perfect stock right incentive system and reasonable systems for appraising managers' performance.


Recently, prompt-based methods have achieved a promising performance in many natural language processing benchmarks. Despite success in sentence-level classification tasks, prompt-based methods work poorly in token-level tasks, such as named entity recognition (NER), due to the sophisticated design of entity-related templates. Note that the nature of prompt tuning makes full use of the parameters of the mask language model (MLM) head, while previous methods solely utilized the last hidden layer of language models (LMs) and the power of the MLM head is overlooked. In this work, we discovered the characteristics of semantic feature changes in samples after being processed using MLMs. Based on this characteristic, we designed a prompt-tuning variant for NER tasks. We let the pre-trained model predict the label words derived from the training dataset at each position and fed the generated logits (non-normalized probability) to the CRF layer. We evaluated our method on three popular datasets, and the experiments showed that our proposed method outperforms the state-of-the-art model in all three Chinese datasets.


Objective of this project is to study the fundamental nature of the sorbent reactivity and reaction kinetics by systematically conducting kinetics experiments on the flue gas--calcium based sorbent reaction and analyzing the experimental data which would enable us to develop a realistic model for dry flue-gas-desulfurization process development. The objective of the first year research is to experimentally and theoretically study the kinetics of the simultaneous sulfation/dehydration reactions between the flue gas and the calcium-base sorbents in the form of CaO and Ca(OH){sub 2} under the influence of humidity and other gaseous components. Two types of experimental reactors, a fixed bed reactor and a TGA type both a small-scale TGA reactor and a large-scale TGA reactor, were used to conduct the slow-kinetic studies taking more than 1 minute. The fixed bed reactor and the TGA reactor can provide an effective experimental means to simulate the medium-to-high-temperature sorbent reaction in a fixed bed condition, like the potential high temperature (600--800{degrees}F) baghouse application on SO{sub 2} control. The work on computer data processing and modelling enables us to obtain the reaction history information, instead of the final information only. The history information is very helpful to reveal the reaction mechanism. The obtainedmore » dehydration kinetics model, which is less influenced by the mass transfer resistance, could be used to estimate the behaviors of suspended gas solid reactions as well as those take place in a fixed bed reactor. The fact that the TGA carbonation and sulfation results were so dependent on TGA sample size, indicates a significant effects of bulk phase mass transfer. The fixed-bed test results showed that the optimum sulfation temperature under the present test condition was about 700{degrees}F. The drop tube reactor, which is being constructed, will provide an effective means to study the sorbent--flue gas reactions--in suspended state.« less


When we talk about the Corporate Visual Identity, we can say that it is a system of communication, both internal and external, which pronounces the image from any point of view, being a fundamental tool at the time of distinguishing themselves from the competition.
"Recorriendo Rutas" is a company dedicated to providing services exclusively on tourism. This project originated from the need to recover the Corporate Visual Identity that is losing the company, improving its image and designing an appropriate Corporate Identity to project its target audience.
The design of its Corporate Identity has its main task the redesign Isologo (Image) of the Tour Operator "Recorriendo Rutas", since in the final image of the internal and external company staff projects, including graphics, texture , typography and shape, to obtain these results surveys (external public) and interviews (internal public) were performed, the development of a Corporate Visual Manual, which will provide information on the correct use of the image was also developed and all what refers to stationery, CD covers, clothing and outdoor advertising (outdoor or transit sites in transport).
In this proposal the development of a Media Plan, tactic applies different techniques to solve how massively spread a message of the most profitable and efficient joint, also it developed an institutional website which is expected to help and correct the development of their activities and tourist services.
Keywords: Visual Identity, Corporate Image, Tour Operator, Brand Visual.


Abstract:In 1910 the Omaha Tribe was allowed to file suit against the United States for claims emanating from their 1854 treaty. The land in question was also claimed by the Ponca Tribe, so the United States invited the Ponca to join their defense. Depositions were taken from seven Northern Ponca elders in 1912. While the Ponca provided compelling evidence to verify their claims, the courts rejected their arguments in three venues: the US Court of Claims, the United States Supreme Court, and, later, the Indian Claims Commission. However, these depositions stand the test of time because they provide invaluable insights into the Ponca's own perceptions of their homeland, allowing us to reconsider Ponca culture and history through the eyes of their elders.


This paper was aim to review studies about stress and coping among nursing students during their psychiatric clinical education. The search involved utilization of these databases: MEDLINE (Medical literature on-Line), CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), PsycINFO (Psychology Information) and PubMed (Psychology Information). The review included those studies that published between 2004 and 201 4; reported in English, and about psychiatric nursing clinical education. Five studies met the inclusion criteria. The results revealed that patients' care, relationships in clinical settings, and academic demands were considered the highest reported stressors. In terms of coping, the students usually utilized ineffective coping strategies to handle these clinical stressors. This review expands the existing knowledge concerning stress in clinical psychiatric settings and provides recommendations for future research. Nursing teachers should utilize the findings of this review to direct their students during clinical practice in psychiatric settings. This could help in promoting the quality of nursing education programs and improving the psychological health of the nursing students.


Three alumina samples were prepared from different sources including aluminium isopropoxide, aluminium chloride and aluminium nitrate, and were then used to prepare supported ZnSO4 catalysts via the impregnation method. The alumina and ZnSO4-supported samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), FT-IR spectroscopy and nitrogen physisorption methods. Dehydration of 1-butanol and the cracking of cumene were undertaken over the prepared samples using a pulse microcatalytic technique. For a given alumina sample, the surface area and total pore volume decreased continuously with increasing ZnSO4 content. Loading alumina samples with ZnSO4 improved their dehydration and cracking activities. The source of alumina played a role in determining the surface acidity and catalyst activity of alumina and alumina-supported ZnSO4 catalysts. Impregnation of ZnSO4 on alumina samples resulted in an increase in the concentration of Lewis sites and the creation of Brönsted acid sites on their surfaces. The catalytic activity of the investigated catalysts was found to depend strongly on both the chemical composition and the type of acid site present on the catalyst surface.


Objective: To evaluate the value of transvaginal three-dimensional ultrasound in evaluation of Polycystic ovary syndrome( PCOS),and the relationship between some clinical parameters and the ultrasound parameters. Methods: 35 PCOS patients and 20 women with normal menstruation were examined by transvaginal three-dimensional and color Doppler ultrasound. The ovarian volume,follicle number,and ovarian stromal vascular parameters including vascular index( VI),flow index( FI),and vascularizational flow index( VFI),were recorded. The BMI index and the endocrinal parameters were also examined. Results: BMI,LH, T,VI,FI VFI,ovarian volume,and number of follicles in PCOS group were all significantly different from the control groups. The ovarian volume of PCOS patients was positive related to the luteinizing hormone( LH)( r=0. 645,P0. 05),and ratio of testosterone( T)( r=0. 691,P0. 05). The follieular number of PCOS patients was positive related to LH and the ovarian volume( r = 0. 525,P 0. 05; r = 0. 554,P 0. 05). Conclusions: The ovarian volume in patients with PCOS determined by transvaginal three-dimensional ultrasound was associated with LH,T value and number of follicles. Examination of VI,FI,VFI,ovarian volume and follicle number by transvaginal three-dimensional ultrasound,in combination of hormone level detection,should contribute to the research and diagnosis of PCOS.


The paper analyzes the modern state of the agro-industrial condition of the market of agricultural machinery in Russia, studied indicators of security of the agricultural organizations of tractors and combines. Determined that during the study period, the availability of main types of agricultural machinery reducing from year to year, for the analyzed period from existing in 1990 tractor Park there are only 21,4 %, tractor ploughs and 15.2 %, various seeders left 18 %, and sugar beet harvesting equipment – 12,4 %, mowing machines left – 14,3 %, and sprinkling and irrigation machines and installations – only 6.7 %, milking installations of 12.4 %. Although only for the period 2005–2011, the agricultural organizations of the Ministry of agriculture of Russia receive 52 million hectares of sown area, farms with material and technical resources from year to year declined rapidly.


The author's article addresses very well-stated economic security, allowing us to draw not only scientific, educational and educational conclusions, but also practical requirements in view of the current developments in the country in the development of the market system. What really outlined the position of the author allows us to assert the presence of views on the part of citizens of the Russian Federation, who have citizenship of the United States, England, Cyprus, Germany, etc. countries to consider Russian resources as a source of enrichment (raw material base) and the ability to pay them increased taxes in those countries where they have not only citizenship of the CIVIL, but also accounts, real estate. In general, the author's judgment will allow to implement not only the requirements (concepts and strategies) of the President of Russia, but also in improving the activities of the legislation and activities of certain state bodies of the Russian Federation.


B. PURPOSE: This Intelligence Community Directive (lCD) establishes the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) policy and specifoes responsibilities for the oversigb~ management, and implementation or nauonal intelligence document and media exploitation (DOMEX) activities. Th.is lCD establishes the roles and responsibilities of the Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source (ADDNVOS) with re.<pect to OOMEX activities, the National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC), aod other Intelligenoe Community (IC) elements involved in DOMEX activities to ensure efficient and effective conduct of DOMBX acti"itics and to promote integration and oumpatibility of JC OOMEX activities with other related tllltional and defen.<e effon.<.


Objective To evaluate the relationship between matrix metalloproteinase - 9(MMP-9) expression and invasion, metastasis and prognosis of gastric cancer. Methods The expression of MMP-9 was detected immunohistochemically in 20 normal gastric mucosa, 20 dysplastic gastric mucosa, 108 gastric cancers tissues and 47 lymph nodes with corresponding cancer metastasis. Results The positive rate of MMP-9 expression was 20.0% (4/20) and 70. 0% (14/20) in normal and dysplastic mucosa respectively, and their positive expressions were weak. The positive tale of MMP-9 immunoreachvity was 88.9% (96/108) and 100.0% (47/47) in primary gastric cancers and metastatic lymph nodes respectively, and the positive rate of MMP-9 in gastric cancer was significantly higher than that in normal and dysplastic mucosa (P0.05). The staining intensity of MMP-9 was correlated with Ming's tumor growth pattern, the UICC TNM classification, lymphatic and venous vessel invasion and distant metastasis(P 0.05). The patients with MMP-9 strong positive tumor had low 5-year survival rate(P 0.05). Conclusion The MMP-9 expression is significantly correlated with invasion, metastasis and prognosis of gastric cancer.


The utility model relates to a clutch assembly of an electric lock. The clutch assembly of the electric lock comprises a lock joint shaft jointed with a lock body, a handle joint shaft jointed with a handle, and a clutch assembly which controls the lock joint shaft and the handle joint shaft to be separated and closed; a rotating cavity through which the handle joint shaft is inserted and coaxially rotates is axially formed in the lock joint shaft; the clutch assembly comprises a clutch rod which passes through the wall of the rotating cavity to be automatically restored toward the outside, and a clutch groove which is arranged to the handle joint shaft in a radial direction and is in match with the clutch rod; a restoring assembly for automatically aligning the clutch groove to the clutch rod is arranged in the rotating cavity. According to the scheme, the clutch assembly of the electric lock is long in service life.


The dissolved oxygen concentration in the wastewater treatment process (WWTP) must remain in a specific range while the factory operates. The augmented positive identification (PID) controller with a nonlinear element (sigmoid function) is proposed to assure stability and reduce uncertainties in the wastewater direct reuse/recycling model. The nonlinear controller gains (PID controller with sigmoid function) for uncertain wastewater treatment processes are tuned using the particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique. The proposed robust method for controlling wastewater treatment processes has good robustness during model mismatching, reduces treatment time compared to traditional positive identification (PID) controllers tuned by PSO, is easy to apply, and has good performance, according to simulation results.


Mutations of the CDC73 oncosuppressor gene, encoding for parafibromin, are associated with the HPT-JT syndrome, an autosomic dominant syndrome whose clinical manifestations are mainly parathyroid tumors and, less frequently, ossifying fibromas of the jaws and various types of benign or malignant uterine and renal anomalies.
There are no data in the literature about CDC73 mutational status in ossifying jaw tumors from HPT-JT patients.
In the present study, we identified a novel CDC73 missense substitution, Ile60Asn, in the mandibular tumor of a patient from a well-characterized HPT-JT kindred with a germline frameshift mutation in the CDC73 gene. Missense mutations of the CDC73 oncosuppressor gene are very rare and often involve residues at the N-terminal of parafibromin, whose structure and function are to date unknown.
According to an in silico prediction, the Ile60Asn substitution was predicted to be pathogenetic and involved a conserved amino acid. In order to analyze in vitro the tumorigenic potential of this mutation, we performed transfection experiments in HEK293A cells to assess effects on subcellular localization, mutant protein amount, cell proliferation, apoptosis, and cyclin D1 and c-Myc expression. We demonstrated that the Ile60Asn mutant was less expressed than the wild-type protein, lacked nucleolar localization, was less able to decrease cyclin D1 expression, and increased the percentage of cells in the G2-M phases of cellular cycle. No effects were observed on c-Myc expression and on induction of spontaneous apoptosis.
In conclusion, the Ile60Asn mutation exibited dominant interfering properties and not only determined production of an inactive parafibromin. The nucleolar localization of parafibromin is likely crucial to fully elicit the antiproliferative effects of parafibromin.
These results indicate that ossifying fibromas of the jaw arising in patients with HPT-JT syndrome are not secondary effects of hyperparathyroidism, but occur for a second distinct mutational event in the CDC73 gene.
CDC73 mutations are involved not only in familial forms of primary hyperparathyroidism; inactivating CDC73 mutations are found in 77% of sporadic malignant parathyroid tumors. A high percentage of sporadic carcinomas with CDC73 genetic anomalies shows a strong loss of immunoreactivity for parafibromin. By converse, in sporadic parathroid adenomas, CDC73 seems not to have a clear pathogenetic role: alterations in this gene are very rare (0-4%) in benign tumors.
Nevertheless, in previous observations of our research group, parafibromin immunoreactivity showed great variability, with no significant difference between benign and malignant sporadic parathyroid tumors. In addition, some cases of sporadic parathyroid adenomas without CDC73 mutations with low parafibromin expression were observed. We can hypothesize the presence of mechanisms different from CDC73 mutations that might result in decrease of parafibromin expression, like down-regulation by microRNAs (miRNAs). To date, in the literature there are only two studies on miRNAs expression profile in sporadic parathyroid tumors. We performed miRNA-profiling with miRNA-microarrays on 8 sporadic parathyroid adenomas and 3 sporadic parathyroid carcinomas, in order to identify differentially expressed miRNAs. A SAM approach failed to demonstrate significantly different miRNAs in sporadic adenomas vs. carcinomas, while Gene Set Enrichment Analysis on cell pathways-associated miRNAs found an enrichment for miRNAs linked to PKC and PTEN pathway in adenomas and for miRNAs linked to SHH pathway in carcinomas.
We selected for further analysis miR-9, acting in both PKC and PTEN pathways, and predicted in silico to target CDC73. Luciferase assay and western blot in HEK293A cells showed that miR-9 is able to downregulate parafibromin expression. In addition, there was an indirect effect on cyclin D1 expression, that was upregulated in cells transfected with miR-9.
In paraffin-embedded sections of the tumor tissues employed for miRNA-microarray analysis, there were no correlations between miR-9 level in real-time RT PCR and parafibromin or cyclin D1 immunoreactivity.
In conclusion, in sporadic parathyroid tumors we failed to demonstrate miRNAs differentially expressed between benign and malignant neoplasms. MiR-9 targets CDC73 in vitro, but in vivo it seems not to account for differences in parafibromin and cyclin D1 immunoreactivity


We present speckle interferometric measurements of binary stars performed during August of 2010 with the 1.5 m telescope and during November of 2010 with the 2.1 m telescope of the Observatorio Astronomico Nacional at SPM (Mexico). We report here the results of 238 measurements of 225 pairs with a primary limiting magnitude of V = 12.2; 211 of them have separations less than 1 '' . The mean error in separation is 0 '' .03 and 1.5 ◦ in position angle. Some of the position angles were determined with the usual 180 ◦ ambiguity.


The obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome is recognized as an independent risk factor for systemic hypertension. The OSA syndrome is characterized by cyclic episodes of oxygen desaturation due to the partial or complete obstruction of the air flow during sleep. Among the disturbances produced by OSA, the chronic intermittent hypoxia is considered the main factor for developing hypertension. Oxidative stress, inflammation, and sympathetic hyperactivity have been proposed as pathogenic mechanisms involved in the hypertension. However, evidence for a single mechanism has been difficult to establish in OSA patients, because of concomitant comorbidities. Since OSA patients show augmented reflex sympathetic, cardiovascular and ventilatory responses to acute hypoxia, it has been proposed that an enhance carotid body responsiveness to hypoxia is involved in the pathological alterations induced by OSA. This proposal has received further support, since studies performed in animals have shown that intermittent hypoxia selectively enhances the carotid body chemosensory and ventilatory responses to acute hypoxia, producing longterm potentiation of the motor ventilatory and sympathetic discharges. The mechanisms underlying the enhanced carotid body chemosensory reactivity to hypoxia induced by intermittent hypoxia are not completely known. Nevertheless, the available evidence indicates that the repeated episodes of hypoxia-reoxygenation produce local oxidative stress in the carotid body due to the accumulation of reactive oxygen species. In this chapter, we will review and discuss the new evidence supporting the essential role played by the carotid body chemoreceptors, and the contribution of the oxidative stress, endothelin-1 and proinflammatory cytokines to the progression of the cardioventilatory alterations induced by chronic intermittent hypoxia.


In the article questions of creation and use of various instruments of state policy used for development of certain territories are considered. The federal and regional measures of support of business and improvement of business climate, characteristic of various tools, which are carried out due to providing preferences (privileges) and construction of infrastructure for increase in investment attractiveness and providing favorable conditions for conducting business activity are compared and analyzed. The conclusion about need of development of the complex system of creation and functioning of instruments of territories development including requirements to the content of justifications of expediency of use of instruments of development of territories within one or several territorial subjects of the Russian Federation, criteria for evaluation of efficiency of their functioning taking into account multiplicative effect of complex application is drawn.


The book El escritor y el otro by the author Carlos Liscano from Uruguay, proposes a deep discussion on the games of fictional creation, and also reflects the possible limits of the authors factual life and its written form. With that starting point, this paper aims to argue how Liscano's text suggests the problematization between the fiction that appears to be a life story and the mutual contaminations derived from that crossing. In El escritor y el otro both life and writing are fictionalized, acting as a literature that looks inwards, that is self questioning. Beyond that, the book also reveals the diversity of the "I" of a Liscano that inscribes himself as fiction, and at the same time appeals often to self-referentiality, to data recognized as being from the personal life of the public man and also from Uruguay, projecting the desire to wipe off the frontiers between factual and fictional. Therefore, we start from the hypothesis that the stories present in El escritor y el otro are not limited to a testimonial literature neither to a autobiographical literature, but are projected through a script that is assumed to be undecided in terms of gender, in a text that reinvents a life in its words, and outlines the performance of an author and his spectacular image, as a way to mock the writers life and the same speculate form of the own text that he elaborates.


On exam, he was afebrile, had a blood pressure of 85/70 mmHg, and an oxygen saturation of 84% on room air. The patient had poor dentition, decreased breath sounds bilaterally, and multiple abdominal masses palpable in the left lower quadrant and along the liver border. Labs were remarkable for an elevated lactate of 2.3 mmol/L, hemoglobin of 7.6 g/dL, and albumin level of 1.9 g/dL. His white blood cell (WBC) count and arterial blood gas were within normal limits. Imaging revealed a large right-sided pleural effusion with septations and complete collapse of the right lung (Figure 1), as well as multiple intra-abdominal abscesses with air-fluid levels.


Excitation and propagation dynamics of spin waves in an iron-based garnet film under out-of-plane magnetic field were investigated by time-resolved magneto-optical imaging. The experimental results and the following data analysis by phase-resolved spin-wave tomography reveal the excitation of spin waves triggered by photo-induced demagnetization (PID) along the sample depth direction. Moreover, the fast relaxation of PID accompanied by the spin transfer due to spin-wave emission was observed. Possible scenarios of PID in the garnet film are discussed. Finally, we develop a model for the spin-wave excitation triggered by PID and explain the magnetic-field dependence in the amplitude of the observed spin waves.


ABSTRACT Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a petite-phenotype-positive ("petite-positive") yeast, which can successfully grow in the absence of oxygen. On the other hand, Kluyveromyces lactisas well as many other yeasts are petite negative and cannot grow anaerobically. In this paper, we show that Saccharomyces kluyveri can grow under anaerobic conditions, but while it can generate respiration-deficient mutants, it cannot generate true petite mutants. From a phylogenetic point of view, S. kluyveri is apparently more closely related to S. cerevisiae than toK. lactis. These observations suggest that the progenitor of the modern Saccharomyces and Kluyveromycesyeasts, as well as other related genera, was a petite-negative and aerobic yeast. Upon separation of the K. lactis andS. kluyveri-S. cerevisiae lineages, the latter developed the ability to grow anaerobically. However, while the S. kluyveri lineage has remained petite negative, the lineage leading to the modern Saccharomyces sensu stricto and sensu lato yeasts has developed the petite-positive characteristic.


The design and realization of general radar signal detecting system is introduced. The method of models manufacture based on ISA bus is depicted. The man-machine interface is realized by using lab windows/CVI software. The system has been popularized and used for armament equip maintain and ensuring as portable instrument.


Antepartum hemorrhage is bleeding in women after pregnancy at 28 weeks. Bleeding in the future have a higher risk of severe and dangerous than the bleeding before 28 weeks gestation. Pregnancy changes the mother's physical and mental in nature. Mom must have good health and have adequate nutrition before and after pregnancy. Maternal nutrition during conception must be in good condition and during the pregnancy the mother should get extra protein, iron, calcium, vitamins, folic acid and energy. Deficiency or excess food intake during pregnancy can be bad for the mother, fetus and on time delivery. The causes factors of maternal and fetal death due to lack of awareness for antenatal mothers, not helped in childbirth, malnutrition and others. This study aims to determine the effect of nutritional status of pregnant women with incident primigravida third trimester haemorrhage antepartum (HAP) in BLUD Hospital H. Moch Ansari Saleh Banjarmasin in 2014. Study using survey methods with cross sectional analytic. The study population was all pregnant women in the third trimester primigravida in delivery room BLUD H. Moch Ansari Saleh Banjarmasin. Based on the results of the chi square test, no effect of nutritional status of pregnant women in the third trimester primigravida incidence of haemorrhage antepartum (HAP) in the BLUD H. Moch Ansari Saleh Banjarmasin in 2014.


The paper deals with a sensor for temperature measurements in fluids. The sensor is based on a fiber optic sensing element and on a microcontroller-based signal processing hardware. After a brief recall of the sensor's physical principle, its application to power transformer hot spot temperature measurement is reported. In particular, experimental results are provided concerning both the laboratory sensor characterization and measurements carried out in a 25 kVA oil-cooled power transformer.


Processing a communication is disclosed. A first request to establish communication is received at a redirection node from a requesting communication participant. A destination communication participant associated with the request is determined. A communication session in which the requesting communication participant, the redirection node, and the destination communication participant are participants at the same time is established, including sending from the redirection node to an equipment associated with the destination communication participant a second request to establish communication between the redirection node and the equipment associated with the destination communication participant. A communication session processing feature not provided with respect to the communication session by a telecommunication service provider associated with a service provider network used to establish and provide the communication session is made available to at least one of the requesting communication participant and the destination communication participant.


Models for cost benefit analysis (CBA) of vibration monitoring (VM) and Health Usage Monitoring Systems (HUMS) are discussed. A brief overview of CBA methods with examples of its application to large government funded projects is given. The objectives and projected benefits of the South Carolina Army National Guard (SCARNG) Army Aviation Support Facility (AASF) Vibration Management Enhancement Program (VMEP) are briefly reviewed. The cost components associated with this activity at the SCARNG/AASF operational unit are identified and discussed. A list of most costly maintenance parts and operations is given. Possible cost savings and cost differing components are analyzed from CBA perspective. As the implementation of the VMEP project has just started, the last part of the paper presents the projected CBA evaluation results.


This paper proposes a solution based on computer vision to detect solar panels in images. It is based on the definition of a feature vector that characterizes portions of images that can be acquired with a standard camera and with no lighting restrictions. The proposal has been applied to a set of images taken in an operating photovoltaic plant and the results obtained demonstrate its validity and robustness. These results are meant to be used in later stages of a procedure for the optimization of energy efficiency.


The invention is applicable to the terminal application field and provides a method and a system for tanking desktop objects. The method comprises the steps of obtaining the desktop thumbnail of each desktop page in a desktop page set and showing all the obtained desktop thumbnails together on a desktop main page; monitoring a clicking operation sequence for the desktop thumbnails shown on the desktop main page and determining the clicking position of each clicking operation in the clicking operation sequence; and ranking and displaying the desktop objects on the various desktop pages on the multi-screen desktop according to the clicking position of each clicking operation in the clicking operation sequence. According to the method and the system, the desktop thumbnails of various desktop pages in the desktop page set are shown on the desktop main page together and clicking operations are carried out on the desktop main page so that the desktop objects on the various desktop pages on the multi-screen desktop are ranked and displayed; and therefore, the ranking operation is simple, the elapsed time is short and the positioning accuracy is high.


The Ethics of Clinical Research (M. Baum). Equipoise, Consent and the Ethics of Randomized Clinical Trials (S. Botros). Some Ethical Aspects of Current Fetal Usage in Transplantation (P. McCullagh). Child Abuse and the Role of Courts in Its Control (S. Cretney). Infertility Treatment: A Selective Right to Reproduce? (J. Stone). Making Public Policy on Medical-Moral Issues (I. Kennedy J. Stone). AIDS: Some Civil Liberties Implications (S. Spencer). Resource Allocation and the National Health Service (C. Miles). Medicine, Homicide and the Principle of Double Effect (P. Byrne). A Woman and Her Unborn Child: Rights and Responsibilities (I. Kennedy).


In view of the problem of low reliability and automation of advanced application functions such as sequential control in smart substation, the logic configuration mode of sequential control is analyzed based on the principle of logic virtual circuit of bay level equipment in smart substation, and the realization of sequential control function based on bay level equipment is proposed. This method improves the operational reliability and configuration flexibility of sequential control, and fundamentally solves the technical application problem, so as to improve the intelligent level of power grid.


Effects of directional selection on yield and component attributes in promising advanced generation progenies of selected exotic X Indian crosses of sorghum as compared to their parents and the corresponding F1 hybirds were studied. Some of the derived lines combined high yields with simultaneous reduction in plant height and days to maturity as compared with the Indian parents. Some derivatives such as 302 (CSV-2), 370 (CSV-3), 168 (CSV-5), 604 (CSV-6) and R-16 (CSV-7R) have also been released for commercial cultivation. It is indicated that with proper choice of parents and emphasis on between family selection, pedigree selection could yield desired results even when character associations tend to restrict progress from selection.


The report contains excerpts from the book dealing with Soviet designs of marine thermoelectric refrigeration system and thermoelectric air conditioning systems.


In this paper, we propose a novel complete two-dimensional shadow fading modeling on system level characterized by both spatial auto-correlation and site-to-site cross-correlation. Numerical results confirm that the proposed algorithm based on two-dimensional filter to generate shadowing auto-correlation is more approaching theoretical results comparing with the previous method, and the empirical cross-correlation coefficient is embedded well in our proposed model. Additionally, the linear interpolation scheme of the proposed model significantly reduces the computational complexity on system level simulation.


The invention mainly discloses an elliptic function low-path filtering path, which is arranged in a metal cavity. The metal cavity is provided with a plurality of sub-cavities which are communicated in turn. Resonant columns are arranged between every two adjacent sub-cavities. A conductor rod is arranged above the resonance columns. Through holes are formed corresponding to each resonance column on the conductor rod. Each resonance column is provided with a tuning threaded rod which runs through a corresponding through hole and penetrates into the resonance column to form capacitive coupling with the resonance column. The two ends of the conductor rod are provided with a connecting port respectively. The elliptic function low-pass filtering path provided by the invention has high electrical indexes and a novel and unique structure, and is convenient to machine and produce in batches. A communication cavity device formed by the elliptic function low-pass filtering path can generate relatively stronger restraints within relatively wider out-of-band band limits, thereby meeting the requirement of high isolation among communication systems.


This talk aims to discuss the main challenges in evolutionary optimization of complex systems to bridge the gap between the academic research and the urgent demands from industry. We will show that, while solving "hard" problems, such as multi-modal and strongly correlated problems, multi-objective optimization problems with a large number of objectives, and multi-objective optimization problems having a very complex Pareto front are popular in academia, industry is more concerned with complexity in formulating the optimization problems, choosing the right decision variables, defining the most important objectives, dealing with computationally very expensive and uncertain problems, and handling different time/cost constraints in the conceptual, design and verification phases. We will also point out that some assumptions in the present research on multi-objective and dynamic optimization are unrealistic, leading to results of little practical value. In the presentation, several application examples from industry, such as design optimization of vehicles, high-lift wing systems, micro heat exchangers, and steel-making and continuous casting will be used to illustrate the real-world challenges in evolutionary optimization. 16th World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) 9th Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) © 2015. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 13


To understand transportation of phosphorus in Etajima Bay, northern part of Hiroshima Bay, and evaluate impacts of oyster culture on the ecosystem, we have developed a pelagic and benthic coupled coastal ecosystem model expressing phosphorus cycle in Etajima Bay. This model consists of three sub-models, i. e. coastal circulation model, pelagic ecosystem model and benthic ecosystem model, considering all the concerned physical and biological processes. We have investigated characteristics of coastal circulation and exchange rate of sea water in Etajima Bay and also have studied the effects of oyster culture on the formation of oxygen-depleted water and resulted breakdown on the benthic ecosystem.


Economic globalization,which needs a healthy international economic order as its basic guarantee,is not only an important feature of the current world economic development,but also a main trend of the world economic development's future.In the construction of a new international economic order,the achievements of the BRICS financial cooperation and its cultural orientation play a remarkable role.The BRICS financial cooperation,which emphasizes the values and thinking patterns of dialogue and cooperation,consists with the spirits of Chinese traditional culture and world multiculturalism.To implement a cultural strategy of the BRICS financial cooperation is a necessary choice that is in line with the world peace and development trends of the times.


Aspirin, a non-steroidal antiinflammatory drug is one of the most widely used and prescribed analgesic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory agent utilized prophylactically to avert thrombo-embolic diseases. An oral effervescent tablet containing 75 mg aspirin was formulated with periwinkle shell bio-ash (Ugoeze-bio-ash) expected to generate carbon dioxide in the presence of water and other excipients such as citric acid triggering a rapid effervescence of the tablet to release its drug content. Tablet properties were considered using the British Pharmacopeia methods. From the results, intact, off-white, round and convex shaped effervescing tablets with low crushing strength, friability less than 1 % and disintegration time less than 5 min were obtained. Stability studies showed that the tablets prepared with Ugoeze-bio-ash did not show much changes in properties after 12 months when further analysis were carried out on them. Ugoeze-bio-ash could be a useful pharmaceutical excipient in the formulation of several effervescent pharmaceutical solid dosage forms. Its continual utilization as locally sourced raw material will add economic value to periwinkle shell which so far has limited application and still constitute environmental menace in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.


In this paper, we report our experience on flipping a second-year undergraduate course on software architecture and integration, taught in a Software Engineering degree. Several aspects characterize this study with respect to related works. In the first place, the methodology was applied in the practical classes of the course, where we managed to increase the time dedicated to exercises solving in 24 minutes on average. Second, due to the constant updates in tools and software used in the course, we applied an agile approach to the methodology, in which lecturers had to produce high-quality teaching videos in their own offices just in minutes. This paper summarizes some of the many lessons learned in this regard. Third, the study also stands out for its size, having been conducted over two academic courses, 2017 and 2018, involving a total amount of 434 students and 6 lecturers. The results of the study, backed by a solid statistical analysis of the data, demonstrate the suitability of this methodology to be applied in the laboratory classes in the Software Engineering area.


A continuous Buchwald–Hartwig reaction using the bulky N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) precatalyst [Pd(IPr*)(cin)Cl] 4 has been developed for the synthesis of a key pharmaceutical intermediate 2. Using microreactor technology, the reaction could be optimized under dilute conditions with low material burden and the kinetic parameters investigated. For larger lab-scale operation (gram scale), process-relevant concentrations could be employed and the conditions developed for continuous workup effectively demonstrated (batch methodology published concurrently). The stability of the NHC catalyst allowed for a continuous acidic extraction of the product and on-stream recycling of the catalyst in the organic phase. At this scale, sonication is employed to prevent clogging in the reactor unit. Finally, a bespoke continuous flow reactor has been developed for carrying out the reaction beyond lab scale. This novel reactor concept for running heterogeneous reactions in flow combines the flexibility of continuously stir...


The present article aimed to investigate the potent ial role of the ethanolic extracts of the aerial pa rts of Jasonia candicans and Jasonia montana in management of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in experimental model. Supplementation of drinking water AlCl 3 (0.3%) for 16 weeks induced AD in male rats with siginifcant increase in brain Acetylcholinesterase (AchE) activity, Tumour Necrosis Factor (TNF-α), Transforming Growth Factor β (TGF-β) and 8 hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) levels. AlCl3 supplementation produced significant decrease in Br ain insulin Like Growth Factor (IGF-1) and Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) levels as compared to the control values. Also, AlCl 3 supplementation caused significant decline in the expression levels of nuc leoporin P 62 (P 62 ) and a disintegrin and metalloproteinase 17 (ADAM 17) genes accompanied with significant elevation in the expression levels of brain cyclooxygenase (Cox-2) gene. Brain histopa thological examination of AD-induced rats showed formation of amyloid plaques in hippocampus and cerebrum. Oral administration of each of selected extract (150 mg/kg b.wt) in AD-induced rats daily f or 6 weeks resulted in significant decrease in brai n AchE activity, TNF-α, TGF-β and 8-OHdG levels. The treatment produced signific ant increase in brain IGF-1 and BDNF levels as compared to AD-induced rats. The treatment with these extracts could significantly increase the gene expression levels o f brain P 62 and ADAM17 accompanied with significant decrease in the expression levels of Cox-2 gene in the brain. Histopathological examination of brain tissue of the treated rats showed marked improvement in the morphological structure of the brain especially in the hippocampus and cerebrum areas. H igh content of terpenes, sesquiterpenes and flavonoids in the ethanolic extract of the selected plants may responsible for the anticholinesterase activity, anti-inflammatory action, antioxidant cap acity and neurotrophic effect as well as antiamyloidogenic potential of these extracts. These re sults suggest that these extracts may effectively ameliorate the inflammation and neurodegeneration characterizing AD. Thus, these extracts may have a therapeutic application in the treatment of Alzheim er's disease.


This paper presents a Chinese e-mail keyword filtering algorithm based on the maximal independent set, build a string-matching relation matrix helps us to improve the performance of maximal independent set for matching relation matrix. In addition, we developed a judgmental criterion according to the algorithm. We also design a behavior recognition technology, which can detect and reject the email which receiving.


Abstract The key to minimizing the failed back surgery syndrome and its complications is proper patient selection. The physician evaluating the multiply-operated lumbar spine patient must use an organized approach. The etiology of each patient's complaints should be accurately localized and identified. Nonorthopaedic causes should be considered early on. Once the spine is identified as the source of the patient's symptoms, specific features should be sought in the patient's clinical history, physical examination, and radiographic studies. When all of this information is integrated, the physician can separate patients with mechanical (and therefore surgically correctable) lesions from those with some form of scar tissue or discitis. Repeat surgery can yield acceptable results in the presence of a defined correctable pathologic lesion. If repeat surgery is undertaken the approach is best made at a new level because the dura at the previous laminectomy site has no osseous protection. Complications such as dural tears must be dealt with methodically. Expectations should be guarded. The chance of the patient returning to any kind of heavy work is low and the degree of permanent disability high. These patients need job retraining as quickly as possible and must be strongly encouraged to resume a functional role in society.


Allah's teaching requires us to always maintain the halal food that we consume; it certainly contains various purposes and benefits. This article describes the role of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) of Central Sulawesi Province in establishing halal labels on food products in Palu City. This study aims at finding out about the role of MUI in setting halal labels on food products for SMEs and the legal basis for setting halal labels on food products in Palu. The results of this study shows that the existence of halal certification provides benefits for producers if their product labelled a halal label in each package and has a halal certification. The seller's income can be increased because the consumers will trust to the product with a halal label. In fact, it is not only Muslim consumers who like to consume halal products, but also non-Muslims consumers consume a lot of halal products. The determination of halal label by MUI must go through the rules that have been applied in Law no. 33 of 2014 concerning the guarantee of halal products, it has been regulated that every product that has been circulated and traded in Indonesia, especially in Palu, must have a halal certification except for haram products.


Abstract Laser bow systems are used for intervention guidance by steering laser rays. Such systems have shown applications in biopsy, nasal surgeries, drainage, pain therapy. In this paper, we introduce an image-based laser guided CT intervention. Instead of relying on traditional laser bow rigidly mounted to the CT scanner, our approach performs registration making use of a patient tracker in image as well as CT data to find the orientation of laser bow with respect to the CT data. The image is acquired by a camera rigidly connected to the laser bow. The proposed approach allows movability to the laser bow system without compromising on accuracy. Using camera allows real-time view of the intervention and can be used for futuristic applications.


This paper theoretically analyzes the performance of multicarrier code division multiplexing (MC-CDM) and cyclically prefixed direct-sequence code division multiplexing (CP-DS-CDM) in multipath fading channels. The paper shows the relationship among the SNIR, diversity order obtained and BER lower bound for MC-CDM and CP-DS-CDM, and demonstrates some computer simulation results on performance comparison.


The purpose of this research is the planning, implementation and evaluation of Total Quality Management (TQM) in Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs) State Seririt school year 2015/2016. This study is a qualitative study using interactive analysis technique starting from interviews, observations, edit, classify, reduce, further activity data presentation as well as the data concludes. The results of this study are planning Total Quality Management (TQM) in Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs) State Seririt school year 2015/2016is to focus on customers, process improvement, total involvement. While fatherly implementation of Total Quality Management (TQM) is conducted by the management of the administrative system (school finance) properly, improved management of teaching and learning in the classroom. And improve the effectiveness of the transparency value. While the evaluation of Total Quality Management (TQM) refers to the increasing quality of the output, from the aspect of learning achievements of learners. Keyword : total quality management, quality of the output


In 1984, Estelle Mare published Complexity, Ambiguity and Totality in Greek Sacred Architecture; with Reference to the Temple Precinct at Delphi and the Acropolis of Athens 2, coauthored with Arthur Rapanos. I clearly remember the growing excitement with which I read that article all those years ago. Thinking back about it, I now know why I was so impressed with that piece of work: it was because it enabled me to think about architecture and about the teaching of architectural history and theory in new and surprising ways. No longer was the Parthenon merely a fac;:ade to me; it came alive as a key to the mystery of the Greek universe and as a point of arrival after a ritual interplay of concealment and disclosure. Even today fifteen years later and in a very different research and teaching environment I still use that work to surprise students with the complementarity between a structural approach to architecture and a procedural sensibility. Thus, I recently read Estelle's inaugural lecture with a sense of recognition and appreciation. Once again, she brings a rich and heterogeneous knowledge of the arts and a phenomenologist's "lived experience" of particular works of art and architecture to her task. She speaks as an " ... historian who is qualified in both science, namely Architecture and Town Planning, and in the humanities, namely in Literature and


Posterior glenoid augmentation with a bone graft is sometimes required in the management of posterior shoulder instability. We describe a new arthroscopic technique that consists of passing the graft through an anatomic portal: the rotator interval. This approach diminishes the damage on posterior structures. We believe that this less invasive approach might allow earlier motion recovery and reduce the complications related to an extensive or blind posterior approach. Clinical relevance: New technique relevant to arthroscopic management of posterior glenohumeral instability.


Not a biographical approach exists to one of the Carlist most important leaders in the years 30 in Spain: Maria Rosa Urraca Pastor. Through this article it is tried to achieve a first approach to their formation like speaker and propagandist in Woman Catholic Action, to their first political experiences during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera that they would be definitive to understand their jump to the first line of the Carlism in the years of the Second Republic. Their process was not only but if it was singular, because most of the Catholic activists formed in AC decanted to support parties conservative possibility. If during the first republican biennium it was part of the group of propagandist more important of the traditionalism, during the second, Fal Conde commended her, also, the organization and impulse of the Feminine Traditionalist Section and Socorro Blanco. It participated in the debats on the definition of the woman's paper in politics that there were in the Spanish rights of the years 20 and 30, of which could not not even be subtracted the Traditionalist Carlist Communion.


Despite the fact that males and females appear to differ in their hazard preparedness and mitigation attitudes and behaviours, emergency managers typically have not focused their efforts on this area. Psychological explanations of differences in gender preparations have traditionally revolved around gender stereotyping. PIE theory suggests that differing attitudes and behaviours result from differences in appraisal of resources relative to threat. The present study was conducted to investigate masculine and feminine differences in earthquake preparedness and to explore reasons for these differences. Results suggest that males and females may engage in different types of earthquake preparedness and mitigation activities, and that these differences may be the result of the way that males and females cognitively appraise the threat of an earthquake, an explanation that would be consistent with PrE theory. Disaster preparedness and mitigation is a topic of much concern, especially in earthquake-prone areas such as California (e.g. Bourque, Shoaf, & Russell, 1995; Duval & Mulilis, in press; Mulilis & Duval, 1995a, 1995b, 1995c, 1996, 1997; Russell, Goltz, & Bourque, 1995). Furthermore, this same body of literature reveals that males and females appear to differ in their efforts along these lines. Examples of such differences include (I) that due to the structure of many societies, females may be more at risk in a general way to the consequences of hazards and disasters than males (e.g. Morrow, 1995a; Valdes, 1995), (2) both formal and informal personal post-disaster community response services are more likely to be performed by females than males (e.g. Morrow, 1995a; Neal & Phillips, 1990; Reskin & Padavic, 1994; Valdes, 1995), (3) males tend to be more active in early post-disaster recovery efforts, while females tend to be more active in later post disaster recovery efforts (Morrow, 1995a), and (4) the family unit which has specific gender-related functions in the preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery aspects of the disaster cycle (e.g. Abel & Nelson, 1990; Drabek, 1986; Finch & Groves, 1983; Fitzpatrick & Mileti, 1991; Fogelman & Parenton, 1956; Hill & Hanson, 1962; Nigg & Perry, 1988; Perry, 1987; Quarantelli, 1960; Shelton, 1992). The above behavioural differences between males and females seem to point to the existence of a gendered dimension in disaster-related activities. Such a dimension would be consistent with the findings of Morrow (1995b) who notes that women are generally involved in more mitigation and preparedness activities than men, particularly for activities centred inside the house. Furthermore, mitigation and preparedness activities that men do perform, usually revolve around behaviours related to the outside of the residence (e.g. structural reinforcement of walls).


The present research seeks to investigate Shahram Rahimian's Dr. Noon Loves His Wife More Than Mussadiq [1] based on the literary historiographical theory of Hayden White. The central argument of this analysis is to demonstrate how Rahimian represents the history of Iran's 1953 coup in his novel through mentioning an Iranian historical figure, Dr. Mussadiq, and his relationship with other members of the political party. The history of Iran's coup and especially that of Dr. Mussadiq have been an interesting subject for most of the historians and writers. Rahimian in his novel impressively addresses the historical facts of the period and endeavors to focus on the realities and at the same time to create a new version of the events by fictionalizing the way he presents his characters. He attempts to convey to the readers that it is possible to have different versions of the apparent historical facts. This novel provides corresponding peculiarities with the postmodern approach of historiography that is presented by Hayden White particularly in his remarkable work, Metahistory (1973). White contends that there could be different versions of historical facts and it is the task of the historian and the writer of historical fiction to interpret the realities and to make his/her own version of the past. Employing White's significant concept of emplotment, the study explores the way Rahimian depicts the Iranian socio-political and cultural scene of the early 1950s in his novel from a historical perspective. [1]     All translations from Persian to English have been made by the present author.


Real-time identification of material parameters is one of the most important elements in the process of intelligent bending control for quadrangle parts, the duration of real-time identification and the level of generalization accuracy would directly affect the realization of intelligent control. The scheme of control system of quadrangle parts intelligent bending has been advanced in this paper by using numerical simulation, database and neural network technology synthetically in order to control the springback of sheet metal effectively, and the real-time identification of material parameters as key technology was also researched. The feed forward neural network of real-time identification for material performance parameters and friction coefficient of quadrangle parts was established, which could real-time identify the needed material performance parameters through the real-time monitoring variable, and predict the optimal process parameters, which has achieved the satisfactory convergence precision. The experiment results of quadrangle parts intelligent bending show that the network model has a higher recognition and generalization accuracy, which could satisfy the requirements of intelligent control.


Preeclampsia is a condition characterized by an increase in maternal blood pressure of at least 140/90 mmHg accompanied by proteinuria and other symptoms that occur after 28 weeks gestation. The incidence of preeclampsia in hospital DR M Djamil Padang reached 33%. The exact cause of preeclampsia remains unknown, but extreme maternal age, nulliparity, history of hypertension are suspected to be the risk factors for this. This study aims to determine the factors related with the incidence of severe preeclampsia in the hospital DR M. Djamil Padang. This was observational analytic study with case control study design. The population is divided into two, the case population (all mothers with severe preeclampsia) and the control population (all mothers with no severe preeclampsia). The sample was 85 people taken by simple random sampling with the comparison between case : control (1:1). Data were taken from the patient's medical records. Data analysis was performed using univariate and bivariate using  Chi square test with  p value < 0,05. The results of this study showed there was a relationship between age (p = 0,001), parity (p = 0,020) and history of hypertension (p = 0,003) with the incidence of severe preeclampsia in the hospital DR M Djamil Padang. While the factor that has no significant relation is multiple pregnancy. Mothers with age <20 years old or ≥35 years old, nulliparity, and having a history of hypertension are more at risk for severe preeclampsia. Therefore it is expected for health workers especially midwives to increase awareness to patients especially for those who at risk of  preeclampsia.


Cholinergic neurons in the monkey neostriatum were examined at the light and electron microscopic level by immunohistochemical methods in order to localize choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), the synthesizing enzyme for acetylcholine. At the light microscopic level a sparse distribution of cholinergic neurons was identified throughout the caudate nucleus. Neurons had large (25–30 μm) somata, eccentric invaginated nuclei, primary dendrites of unequal diameters, and varicosities on distal dendritic branches. Ultrastructural study showed that the cholinergic cells had a cytoplasm abundant in organelles. Within dendritic branches, mitochondria and cisternae were localized primarily to varicosities, Synaptic inputs were distributed mostly to the dendrites and at least four types that formed symmetric or asymmetric synapses were observed.


The structural, vibrational and electronic properties of ZnSe under different pressure environments up to ∼40.0 GPa were investigated using a diamond anvil cell in conjunction with ac impedance spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and high–resolution transmission electron microscopy. Under the non–hydrostatic condition, ZnSe exhibited a structural phase transition from a zinc–blende to a cinnabar structure at ∼4.9 GPa, indicated by the obvious splitting of the transverse optical mode in the Raman spectra and a noticeable variation in the slope of the electrical conductivity. With increasing pressure, metallization appeared at ∼12.5 GPa, which was characterized by the high–pressure Raman spectroscopy and temperature–dependent electrical conductivity results. When the pressure was increased up to ∼30.0 GPa, another phase transition was identified by the appearance of a new peak in the Raman spectra. Compared to the non–hydrostatic condition, a roughly 2.0 GPa delay of transition pressure for ZnSe was observed at the hydrostatic condition. However, the structural phase transformation was found to be irreversible only under the non–hydrostatic condition. The unique properties displayed by ZnSe under different pressure environments may be attributed to the constrained interlayer interaction owing to the presence of the pressure medium.The structural, vibrational and electronic properties of ZnSe under different pressure environments up to ∼40.0 GPa were investigated using a diamond anvil cell in conjunction with ac impedance spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy and high–resolution transmission electron microscopy. Under the non–hydrostatic condition, ZnSe exhibited a structural phase transition from a zinc–blende to a cinnabar structure at ∼4.9 GPa, indicated by the obvious splitting of the transverse optical mode in the Raman spectra and a noticeable variation in the slope of the electrical conductivity. With increasing pressure, metallization appeared at ∼12.5 GPa, which was characterized by the high–pressure Raman spectroscopy and temperature–dependent electrical conductivity results. When the pressure was increased up to ∼30.0 GPa, another phase transition was identified by the appearance of a new peak in the Raman spectra. Compared to the non–hydrostatic condition, a roughly 2.0 GPa delay of transition pressure for ZnSe was observed a...


Xerogel films of vanadium oxide, obtained via spin-coating method, have been analyzed by a micro Raman probe. A comparison has been made among xerogel samples coated at an angular velocity of 1500 rpm (water molar concentration 1.81, the same compounds after vacuum dehydration (water molar concentration 0.5) and the dehydrated gels intercalated with different amounts of Li+ ton. Only minor spectral changes are observed in the xerogel films after the partial dehydration. On the contrary, significant spectral modifications occur after electrochemical intercalation of Li+ ion, even for relatively low concentration (0.15 molar fraction). In fact, the strongest Raman mode of the oxide, occurring at 170 cm- ', disappears after intercalation. For increasing content of Lit (up to 0.4 molar fraction) new Raman bands occur between 800 and 950 cm-'.


Following Gibbs' approach, a general electrostatic model of heterogeneous systems with non-homogeneous interfaces is proposed. The intrinsic surface polarization is taken into account through the introduction of a surface dielectric constant and the electrostatic boundary conditions are generalized as two-dimensional Poisson equations. This model is applied to analyse the electrostatic potential of a charged step defect on a semiconductor surface. The step line charge density, the surface charge density, and the surface dielectric permittivity are determined from the experimental data for the InP (110) surface.


After using the ABM20 type driving anchor machine in zhang-ji mine, related people proceed originality innovation of the technology,actively groping the advanced equipment using experience at Huai-nan mining area of the high methane complex geological condition,against the difficulty of long tunnel through thin coal belt,roof fracture zone and roof fall,settled the difficult technical problem in the delivery such as roof,methane,dust-proof,mechano-electronic and so on.During the trial employment period at 14118 work face in zhang-ji mine,the summation footage was about 1377.6 metres at 14118 work face in zhang-ji mine,most about 603 metres.The expectant purpose has came true and gained fine social and economical profits.


The development problems of a rail transport and heightening of a technological level of a construction of an intermediate rail fastening are considered.


Violence against women is related to the issue of human rights, especially the importance of the subject in the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993, which states the following ((any act characterized by violence based on religion, gender, self or arbitrary deprivation of liberty Whether it occurs in public affairs or private affairs in life, and psychological violence that occurs in the family)), and we note that the most critical societies are the most prevalent of violence against women, although women have the right to equal enjoyment and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms In the political, economic, social, cultural and civil fields, international provisions define the measures that each country should take alongside the specialized agencies and agencies of the United Nations in order to eliminate violence against women


A method for calculating a shift amount of a microlens from a position of a light receiving element arranged in a pixel of an image pickup element is provided. The microlens collects incident light from an image pickup lens. The method comprises: acquiring an incident angle characteristic value indicating a relation between an arranged position of the pixel and an incident angle of the incident light to the pixel; calculating a sampled shift amount of the microlens from the position of the light receiving element corresponding the incident angle characteristic value based on light collection efficiency of the incident light; approximating the sampled shift amount by a second or higher order function to calculate a shift amount characteristic function indicating a relation between the arranged position and the shift amount; and calculating the shift amount of the pixel using the shift amount characteristic function.


The limit of current technology for mobile base station filters is the multimode filter, in which each cavity supports two (or possibly three) independent degenerate resonances. Shielded dielectric resonators with a rectangular cross-section are useful in this application. In the design of these filters, manufacturers are using software packages employing finite element or finite difference time domain techniques. However, for sufficient accuracy these procedures require large numbers of points or elements and can be very time consuming. Over the last decade research using the mode matching technique has been used to solve this kind of difficulty for various types of filter design and waveguide problems. In this thesis a mode matching method and computer program is developed to calculate the propagation coefficients and field patterns of the modes in a shielded rectangular dielectric rod waveguide. Propagating, complex, evanescent and backward wave modes are included and the work shows the presence of a dominant mode, and other fundamental modes, not previously identified. The effect of the shield proximity on the propagation characteristics and mode spectrum is investigated, together with the limitations on the accuracy of the mode matching method. In addition, the fields within the shielded rectangular dielectric rod waveguide, are used to calculate the attenuation coefficient of the dominant and fundamental modes. The influence on the attenuation coefficient of the proximity of the shield to the rod is also evaluated for these modes and limitations on accuracy are discussed. The calculated numerical results for the propagation and attenuation coefficient values are verified by measurement. The propagation coefficients results are typically within 2% of those measured. Verification of the attenuation coefficient results is achieved by comparing calculated and measured Q at the resonant frequencies of a number of shielded rectangular dielectric rod resonators. The difference between calculated and measured Q values is on average less than 4%. In the absence of a full solution of the shielded rectangular dielectric rod resonator, these results provide useful design information for this structure. In addition, the work reported in this thesis provides a basis for a full electromagnetic solution of this type of resonator. This would encompass the cubic dielectric resonator in a cubical cavity.


The invention relates to a fire control device of a weapon (10, 16, 30,) by a holder (A, A1, A2) of the gun, at a target (C), the device comprises at least one detecting means (R, R1, R2) operating on at least one detection mode selected by the device locating both the weapon and the cible.Application: fire control on ground targets, air, space and submarine radar detection means, sonar, lidar, optronics.


The western Mediterranean recorded subduction rollback, slab segmentation and separation. Here we address the questions of what caused Oligocene rollback initiation, and how its subsequent evolution split up an originally coherent fore arc into circum‐southwest Mediterranean segments. We kinematically reconstruct western Mediterranean geology from subduction initiation to present, using Atlantic plate reconstructions as boundary condition. We test possible reconstructions against remnants of subducted lithosphere imaged by seismic tomography. Transform motion between Africa and Iberia (including the Baleares) between ~120 and 85 Ma was followed by up to 150 km convergence until 30 Ma. Subduction likely initiated along the transform fault that accommodated pre‐85 Ma translation. By the ~30 Ma inception of rollback, up to 150 km of convergence had formed a small slab below the Baleares. Iberia was disconnected from Sardinia/Calabria through the North Balearic Transform Zone (NBTZ). Subduction below Sardinia/Calabria was slightly faster than below the Baleares, the difference being accommodated in the Pyrenees. A moving triple junction at the trench‐NBTZ intersection formed a subduction transform edge propagator fault between the Baleares and Calabria slab segments. Calabria rolled back eastward, whereas the Baleares slab underwent radial (SW‐S‐SE) rollback. After Kabylides‐Africa collision, the western slab segment retreated toward Gibraltar, here reconstructed as the maximum rollback end‐member model, and a Kabylides slab detached from Africa. Opening of a slab window below the NBTZ allowed asthenospheric rise to the base of the fore arc creating high‐temperature metamorphism. Western Mediterranean rollback commenced only after sufficient slab‐pull was created from 100 to 150 km of slow, forced subduction before ~30 Ma.


The present invention has a thermal expansion coefficient is small and the surface compressive stress due to physical reinforcement is high, to provide a reinforcing glass plate tempered glass excellent in low density and abrasion resistance is possible. Hereinafter has a composition consisting by weight percent, reinforced glass plate which is characterized in that it possible to enhance processing by heating and quenching. SiO B MgO 0.1~12%, CaO 0.1~12%, Na MgO + CaO + SrO + ZnO 3~16%, Al


By the grid cell method,40 samples were collected from greenlands of Hangzhou City,Zhejiang Province.Spatial heterogeneity and distribution pattern of the soil were investigated with the support of geo-statistics and geographic information system(GIS).The results showed that there were evident heterogeneities for urban soil properties in the urban area,and the orders of coefficient of variation(CV) were soil moisture content(SM)electric capacity rate(Eb) soil temperature(ST)pore water conductivity(Ecp)soil pH value(pH)conductivity of soil solution(Ecb);soil temperature demonstrated the " heat island effect " in some points;and there was a developing trend toward basicity and reducing of organic content in urban soil.Then spatial pattern of urban soil characteristics was deeply affected by human activities.


Service technicians in the field often come across difficult service problems that are new to them. They have a large number of resources that they can draw on to deal with such problems, including both people and documents. We have undertaken a detailed study of technicians' everyday work, and have discovered two distinct types of information use, reflecting two different problem-solving practices. The less frequently used problem-solving practice is instruction following, where technicians follow company-documented Repair Analysis Procedures (RAPs). The second, more common practice is gleaning, where the information is gathered from many sources -- including other technicians and informal tips, which are documents written by technicians describing their invented solutions to hard service problems. Our observations show how the informational and interface affordances of the system for accessing the tips support their easy incorporation into the gleaning approach for problem solving in difficult cases. We also recommend ways that RAPs can be augmented to provide affordances for gleaning, and more effective instruction following.


Aimed at the less detection precision and the more errors arising from the common electric parameter detecting method,this paper proposes a synchronous sampling method and radix 2 FFT algorithm.Depending on the sampling timing and the velocity controlled by the phase-locked loop,the method allows the calculation of plural sequence and voltage parameters.The error analysis and the calculation result indicate that this method is capable of an effective improvement in the detection parameters precision.


This document aims to provide secure authentication of hosts using Host Identity Protocol. The impact and occurrence of Denial of service attacks and Man in middle attacks are tried to overcome and minimized. Furthermore, the various limitations in the HIP protocol are addressed here. The packet loss, network congestion, replay attack, packet flooding and spoofing are major considerations of HIP protocol are aimed to overcome.


Russia's joining the international information space and increasing competition with foreign communication providers significantly challenges the competitiveness of domestic operators in the market of information-communication services. The authors consider the convergence process in the field of information-communication services in terms of its place and role information and development of the innovative forms of information and communication services, which is characterized as a process of convergence and interpenetration of diverse information and communication technologies that could lead to a qualitatively new technological solutions able to satisfy the demand of today's rapidly changing information environment. The researcher critically analyzes the traditional cycle of the mechanism of creating and implementing information and communication services, justifies the principles and prerequisites for convergence processes in the field of information and communication services, as well as their diffusion into other horizontal and vertical branches of economic activity. This article is intended for the students studying the methods of marketing research in service industries, the teachers of the "Marketing" disciplines as well as marketing managers and managers for communications providers who develop their companies' growth strategies.


This paper focuses on the implementation techniques and an application of the practical method of history matching of production rate and well bottom-hole pressure to a large heterogeneous reservoir with realistically complex geological structure and a long production history.The results show that the proposed method works well to reduce the production rate mismatch between production data and simulated results by 80% and global mismatch by over 40% with only 20 flow simulation runs.Suitable perturbation range can make the proposed method more efficient.


In this paper we investigate a semi-discrete mixed finite element method for the time-dependent Maxwell's equations of Electromagnetics with matrix parameters as functions of space. A weak formulation is derived for the electric and magnetic field with appropriate initial and boundary conditions, and the problem is discretised by means of Nedlec curl-conforming and div-conforming elements. We show that this method is stable and convergent.


Question–answering systems make good use of knowledge bases (KBs, e.g., Wikipedia) for responding to definition queries. Typically, systems extract relevant facts from articles regarding the question across KBs, and then they are projected into the candidate answers. However, studies have shown that the performance of this kind of method suddenly drops, whenever KBs supply narrow coverage. This work describes a new approach to deal with this problem by constructing context models for scoring candidate answers, which are, more precisely, statistical n‐gram language models inferred from lexicalized dependency paths extracted from Wikipedia abstracts. Unlike state‐of‐the‐art approaches, context models are created by capturing the semantics of candidate answers (e.g., "novel,""singer,""coach," and "city"). This work is extended by investigating the impact on context models of extra linguistic knowledge such as part‐of‐speech tagging and named‐entity recognition. Results showed the effectiveness of context models as n‐gram lexicalized dependency paths and promising context indicators for the presence of definitions in natural language texts.


A review of the development of APHO, its infrastructure, successes and sustainability. Presentation to the conference on learning from our world neighbour 26-27 November 2008.


Thin films have found a wide variety of applications because of the substantial improvement in their properties as compared to bulk metals. Metal oxide thin films are increasingly being used in various fields and are especially important in functional applications. They can be either p- or n-type in nature depending on the materials, dopants, and preparation route. Copper oxide is an example of a p-type metal oxide, which finds application in solar cells, photo-electrochemical cells, gas sensors, supercapacitors, and thermoelectric touch detectors. Both copper (I) and copper (II) oxides can be grown with the lower valence state oxide stable at low temperature and the higher valence state obtained by annealing at higher temperatures. In this work, we modify the optical and electrical properties of copper oxide thin films, by doping of silver through a thermal evaporation process route. Copper is thermally evaporated onto the substrate and silver is co-evaporated during this process. The films are then annealed in ambient under various conditions to obtain copper oxide. Structural and functional comparison is made between undoped and silver doped copper oxide thin films, prepared under the same conditions. Thermal evaporation is a simple route for obtaining doped metal oxides and the process can be extended to a variety of other systems as well.


The hydrogeological characteristics of Huzhong Coal Mine in Xinluo District are investigated in six aspects,which involves the surface river and strata,water-bearing aquifer,water-resisting aquifer,pyrogenic rock,water conducted zone,underground water supply and drainage conditions.Then the causes of formation of mine water disaster of Huzhong Coal Mine are analyzed in four aspects,which includes surface water body,water flowing fractured zone caused by fault transmissivity and overburden failure,old mine area and goaf hydrops,potential hydrop area of adjacent production mines.The paper finally puts forward corresponding control and prevention measures as well as water prevention measures to strengthen technical training for workers to identify the signs before water pouring and escape after water pouring.The paper also points out the importance of managing hydrogeology in preventing water disaster.


Background: Several new methods of skin closure had been used in surgical practice, and they are acceptable alternative to conventional trans cutaneous suture method, these are; Kufa Med. Journal 2008. Vol. 11. No.1 509 buried subcuticular vicryl suture, skin clips or stapler, and steri-strip adhesive tape. Thus the objective of this trial was to assess the impact of these closure methods on closure time, postoperative incision pain, potential wound complications, cosmetic outcome, and patient satisfaction. Methods: 75 patients undergoing different elective and emergency operations were enrolled in this prospective randomized trial. They were divided into 3 groups, in each group(n=25), the incision closed by one of 3 methods: subcuticular vicryl suture, skin clips(stapler) or steristrip adhesive tape. Closure time was assessed in theatre ; postoperative incision pain was assessed at day 1 and day 5 postoperative. wound complications, and procedure patient satisfaction were assessed in the first 10 postoperative days. Assessment of cosmetic scar appearance was evaluated at 4 weeks follow up after operation. Results: There was significant demographic difference among the three groups (p<0.05). There were no significant differences reported in postoperative incision pain (by visual analogue scale), wound complications (seroma, infection, dehiscence, and granuloma), patient procedure satisfaction, and cosmetic scar appearance(p>0.05). The skin stapler method was faster than other 2 methods (p<0.05). Conclusion: The three methods of skin closure (subcuticular buried vicryl, skin clips or stapler and steristrip) are not routinely plasticizing methods of skin closure in our surgical practice, but they are acceptable new methods and had equal chance of surgeon preference, except in regard to the speed of closure, the skin stapler method is superior to other 2 methods. Introduction: In recent times, with advent of elective surgery, more energy has been directed at achieving an efficient and uncomplicated healing of the deliberately inflected wound. (Never judge the surgeon until you have seen him closing the wound) is saying attributed to lord Moynihan.(1) The surgical scar remain the only visible evidence of the surgeon skills appearance.(1) The aim of closure of a surgical wound is to promote rapid healing by opposition of skin edges to leave a cosmetically acceptable scar. The technique should be watertight and tension free. The best methods of wound closure would be one that provide adequate tensile strength to the incision until the wound is healed, approximate the tissue in a way that normal healing mechanisms can occur under optimal circumstances, remain secure even in the presence of local or systemic infection, the suture material is well tolerated on a short and long term basis, and finally, should be able to be done with expediency.(2). The methods of skin closure generally used in surgery is with sutures which provide an extra source of contamination and are a potential source of foreign body reaction in the susceptible subcutaneous tissue(1). Kufa Med. Journal 2008. Vol. 11. No.1 510 This increases the complication rate besides being time consuming during application. To overcome these short comings, various methods of skin closure have been tried which include stapling and adhesive tapes. Proper closure technique is essential for obtaining good cosmetic results and avoiding infection, scarring and poor wound healing. Technique that must be mastered include good eversion of skin edges, avoiding suture marks, maintaining uniform tensile strength along skin edges and precise approximation of skin edges.(3) The subcuticular buried suture: Buried sutures are important for obtaining wound eversion, providing prolonged wound tensile support and closing dead space (3). The most common suture materials in this technique are vicryl (polyglactic acid), PDS (polydioxanone) and maxon (polyglyconate).(3) Subcuticular buried sutures is very often used to close a surgical incision or a very clean wound. Absorbable material must be used, so the suture will not be removed at a later time. No suture is visible on the skin surface.(4) Skin stapler: Skin stapler are sterile, disposable, cost effective, and useful for long linear laceration of the scalp, trunk, and extremities because they can be applied quickly with the same ultimate cosmetic results as suture.(4) It causing fewer infections than stitches.(5) Disadvantages of staples are permanent scar if used inappropriately and imperfect aligning of the wound edges, which can lead to improper healing.(5) Skin closure tapes: The steri strip surgical skin closure is a non – invasive, adhesivebased wound closure device designed to treat lowtension lacerations and surgical incisions and painlessly and without the use of needles.(6) The steri strip surgical skin closure is faster and easier to apply than suture, provide a time saving option for surgeon and other medical specialists.(6) Patients and methods: Prospective randomized clinical trials on 75 patients was done (male: 38, female: 37), their ages were between (10 – 65) years old, of different operations admitted to AlFurat hospital and ALSader Hospital in Al-Najaf city from December 2006 to july 2007. The patients were divided randomly into 3 groups, each has 25 patients. In the first group, the skin of incision was closed by buried subcuticular suture, in the second group, the skin was closed by metallic skin stapler, and in the third group, the skin was closed by steri-strip adhesive tape. All patients underwent elective and emergency operations ; infected operations were excluded. Each patients given per operative antibiotics prophylaxis when it s indicated, hair shaving, meticulous hemostasis and wound was irrigated by normal saline. Interrupted subcutaneous suture by using catgut 3/0 and then the skin was closed by one of the three methods. The choice of methods was random unless there is contraindications to clips or tapes, so we use subcuticular buried suture. We use disposable metallic skin stapler device containing 35 clips (proximate plus MD). The skin tapes, we were used steri-strip (3M health care, 10 mm) and the subcuticular buried suture used by vicryl 4/0 (polyglactin 910Sutupak). Kufa Med. Journal 2008. Vol. 11. No.1 511 Figure (1) show photograph of 3 patients of our study each one represent example of each method. Patients with anemia, malnutrition, jaundice, and uremia were excluded (to avoid additional factor affecting wound healing). All patients were operated by same surgeon. Kufa Med. Journal 2008. Vol. 11. No.1 512 ARight subcostal incision closed by buried subcuticular vicryl. BMidline incision closed by skin clips. CCollar incision closed by steri-strip Kufa Med. Journal 2008. Vol. 11. No.1 513 Figure (1): Methods of incision closure:(A,B, C) Any wound complications like seroma, hematoma, wound infection and dehiscence were identified and reported and treated accordingly from fifth to 10 post operative day and was changed dressing, and removal of clips or steri-strip depend on site of incision. We asked the patient to come back 4 weeks later for scar assessment. Scar assessment was done by one person (GP in dermatology) who had no idea about method of closure, who dose on of the five levels of scar appearance which were: (poor, fair, good, very good, excellent) and depend on alignment of scar, stitches marks, width of scar, elevation of scar and it s colour as compared to adjacent skin. The patients were asked about their satisfaction about the procedure type at 10 day post operative, so their answer were either YES (satisfied) or NO (not satisfied). Any patient didn't come for scar assessment was excluded from study. Anova test and Post Hoc test had been applied for differences between mean at level of significance in addition to Chisquare applied for categorical variable. Results: The methods of surgical incision closure were divided into 3 groups: Group 1(n = 25), include closure with subcuticular vicryl suture. Group 2 (n= 25),include closure with skin clips. Group 3 (n= 25), include closure with steri-strip adhesive tape. Age and sex: The mean age of patients with groups 1, 2 and 3 was 28.56, 36.96 and 25.44 years old respectively as shown in table (1). P value < 0.05 which is significant. Table (1): show mean age of the patients in the three groups. P value SE SD Mean Number Age distribution < 0.05 significant 2.28 11.43 28.56 25 1-subc. Vicryl (group 1) 2.83 14.16 36.96 25 2skin stapler (group 2) 2.13 10.46 25.45 25 3steri strip (group 3) SD: standard deviation SE: standard error Regarding the sex, females were more common in group 1 (68%),while males are more common in group 2 (64%) patients as shown in table (2). Table (2) show gender distribution of patients in the group 1, 2 Total Female Male Methods of closure 25 (100%) 17 (68%) 8 (32%) 1-Subcuticular vicryl (group 1) 25 (100%) 9 (36%) 16 (64%) 2-Skin stapler (group 2) 25 (100%) 11 (44%) 14 (56%) 3-Steri strip (group 3) Kufa Med. Journal 2008. Vol. 11. No.1 514 Incisional length and closure time: Regarding incision length and closure time, Table (3) show difference in Mean, Standard deviation, and Standard error between the three groups. Table (3) show incision length and closure time in the three groups. P value SE SD Mean closure time \ minute P value SE SD Mean incision length \ cm < 0.05 significant 0.22 1.22 4.03 < 0.05 significant 5.11 2.55 6.72 1subc. Vicryl(gruop1) 0.16 0.82 1.09 0.99 4.97 9.24 2skin stapler (group 2) 0.24 1.20 2.32 0.50 2.48 4.75 3steri strip (group 3) SD: standard deviation SE: standard error Pain assessment: Regarding pain assessment of incision of the patients in the three groups, Table (4) show difference in Mean, Standard deviation, Standard error between the three groups regarding pain at day 1 and at day 5 post operative. Table (4): visual analogue scale in day 1 and day 5 post operative. P value SE S


Herein, we applied soft somewhere dense sets to initiate six sorts of soft spaces called almost (nearly, mildly) soft $ SD $-compact and almost (nearly, mildly) soft $ SD $-Lindelof spaces. We study the master properties of these spaces and illustrate the relations between them with the help of examples. In addition, we clarify that the six soft spaces are equivalent under a soft $ SD $-partition. Moreover, the relationships between the initiated spaces and enriched soft topological spaces and other well-known spaces such as soft $ S $-connected are indicated.