The standard view of contemporary unipolar politics is that systemic constraints impede the translation of American power capabilities into influence over security outcomes, rendering the United States (US) much less capable than its material capabilities imply. Challenging this logic, William Wohlforth and Stephen Brooks argue that systemic constraints under unipolarity are largely inoperative with respect to the security policies of the unipolar power. Indeed, the US is uniquely positioned in today's world to convert its enormous capability advantages into influence and usable power. While World out of balance is a masterwork of logical and rigorous argumentation, Brooks and Wohlforth, in their exclusive focus on the hegemon and its policies, do not attempt to offer a general theory of unipolarity. Thus, they do not consider the possibility that unipolarity does not constrain any actors or the issue of system change. This essay advances two routes out of unipolarity: (1) a 'delegitimation' phase followed by regular balancing behavior and (2) a sudden and dramatic shift from unipolarity to multipolarity brought on by an unforeseen US collapse.


Marchetto's theory of ranges for melodies in the ecclesiatical modes is analyzed. The contrast between authentic and plagal ranges is traced to Aristotle's account of binary oppositions. The structure implicit in Marchetto's formulation of ranges corresponds to a model of dyadic voice leading.


The author joined the delegation of New Century Teaching Research Institute of Ministry of Education and made a investigation and study on teaching quality assurance system of German vocational colleges.The paper talks about the quality philosophy of German vocational education in terms of the concept of education development of German higher vocational colleges;the structure of specialty and course;education system of Dual system;teachers;quality monitoring and so on.It is valuable in a sense for learning German vocational education experience and making reform of vocational education teaching in China.


This article explores the first 5 years of the State of Georgia's reform of its centralized civil service system, including an assessment of the environment leading to the reform. Additionally, the article explicates three organizing models for the delivery of public human resource management services and suggests that the state should have moved toward a strategic model that shared real personnel authority between the central personnel agency and the respective departments. The article concludes that the Georgia reform is an anomaly, not a trend.


Roller pump includes a drive shaft, a motor, roller head assembly, the stator housing, and a shield adjustment assembly. The drive shaft is coupled to the motor. Roller head assembly includes a hub, slide, and a roller. Hub is mounted on the drive shaft, to keep the slide and roller. Stator housing forms a raceway bearing surface. Shielding adjusting assembly operation knob, actuation structure, and a ground shaft. Actuation structure for joining a slider, thus the rotary knob roller and. Ground shaft supporting the knob is rotated separated from the drive shaft. User and arbitrarily control system can adjust the shield while the pump is continuously delivering fluid medium. .FIELD 1


The water property rights institution plays a key role in the water resource allocation and utilization. The change and innovation of Chinese water resource property rights lies in the Chinese social economic change process. After 60 years' change and reform,water property rights institution in China shows a trend of market-orientation. It is not only the subsystem of reform,but also is a positive response to the establishment of the socialist market economic system. This paper studies the institutional change and the innovation of Chinese water property rights,and some revelations and prospects are presented at last.


A fully kinetic code for ions [one dimensional (1-D) in space, and using the three velocity dimensions in velocity space] is used to study the problem of the formation of a charge separation with the self-consistent electric field in a plasma in the presence of a density gradient. Electrons are treated using an adiabatic law. Graphical results are presented which follow the formation of a 1-D steady state showing the formation of an oscillating positive potential bump toward the edge of the plasma. These oscillations are closely associated with the gyration of the ions. It is also shown that the presence of a small fraction of impurity ions at the plasma edge can have a significant effect on the rapid buildup of the potential at the edge, and in increasing the charge separation and the associated electric field at the edge, in comparison to the case when no impurity ions are included. The present results show the importance of a kinetic solution to the problem of the equilibrium electric field and charge ...


As China rises, the popular wisdom is that the US is in inexorable relative economic decline. A rapid loss of US power would affect the national-security interests of its close allies, particularly the UK. However, Doug Stokes argues that America's decline is not as pronounced as is commonly assumed. Even after the crisis, it remains, fundamentally, economically sound and its strategic power in important parts of the world means it retains the tools to manage a potential 'hegemonic transition'. Nonetheless, the financial crisis has quickened structural shifts in transatlantic relations, which will inevitably have an impact on European strategy.


Pietro Perugino and Giovanni Tedesco's Pala di Monteripido (1502–04 and ca. 1460). While the Franciscans clearly commissioned prominent examples of such devotional imagery, the author might have considered more the theoretical contributions of the Dominicans. Although she reconstructs such altarpieces as Mariotto Albertinelli and Giacomo Cozzarelli's Borghesi Altarpiece (1509–11/12) in Siena and makes passing reference to Giovanni Dominici, this final section would have benefited from the inclusion De modo orandi (1280s) collected by Bolognese followers of Saint Dominic and illustrated (Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana MS. Rossiano 3), which had such impact in the Quattrocento, as demonstrated by Fra Angelico's work at San Marco in the 1440s. At various points throughout the discussion the author touches on the transitions that emerged as the aesthetic focused on naturalism shifted toward the greater idealization prompted by Neoplatonism that underpinned the paragone of the sixteenth century. The Fra Bartolomeo-Donatello Pugliese-Triptych (1425–35 and ca. 1498) first reconstructed by Wilkins exemplifies something of this shift. Overall, however, the greatest contribution of this book is the retrieval of stunning projects long dismembered that combined media, enhanced religious worship, and created powerful aesthetic results. GAIL L. GEIGER University of Wisconsin-Madison


OBJECTIVE:
To describe the neuropsychological profile (NP) of patients with immune mediated encephalopathies (IME) during acute phase and follow up.
 BACKGROUND:
The NP of IME has not been fully described based on small samples or isolated reports either during acute phase o as an outcome. Al the moment of this redaction a cohort of 19 patients was the biggest published.
 DESIGN/METHODS:
Retrospective description of consecutive patients during 2005-2014 in two centers (FLENI institute and HIGA Eva Peron, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Assessment: Minimental Test (MMSE), verbal memory:California Verbal Learning test or Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Attention:Trail Making A, digit span; Executive function: Trail Making B, inverse-digit span, phological fluency and semantic fluency; language: Boston Naming Test; visuospatial processing: copy of complex Rey-Osterrieth figure. A score below <1,5 SD of expected for age and education was considered significant.
 RESULTS:
Recruitment: 25 patients, Demographics: Age:52 years(23-76), gender: 52[percnt] male, education:13 years. Clinical presentation: limbic encephalitis: 19, neuropsychiatric:1, ataxia: 2, subacute/slow progression amnesic syndrome: 2, panencephalitis: 1; etiology: autoimmune: 9 (VGKC:5, AntiMa2:1, GabaB:1, antiGad:1, Anti NMDA:1), paraneoplastic: 3, postinfectous: 2, idiopathic 11.
Rate of deficit: Verbal memory: learning 68[percnt], delay recall 80[percnt], recognition: 72[percnt], visual memory:inmediate:70[percnt], delay:83[percnt], recognition:53[percnt], Executive functions:70[percnt], attention:43[percnt], language:30[percnt], visuoespatial:36[percnt].
Follow up (n:9): Mean time 12 months. On one hand only 2 patients showed complete recovery (both receive treatment), on the other hand despite some improvement the deficit of verbal and visual memory persisted in the rest (2 of them did not received treatment).
 CONCLUSIONS:
Verbal and visual memory was affected in most patients with IME, followed by executive function and attention. Language and visuospatial processing were decrease in a minority of
patients; despite most patients showed improvement after treatment only a few recovered completely. A sequel in Memory and executive functioning was common.
 Study Supported by:
Fundacion Florencio Fiorini Disclosure: Dr. Fernandez Suarez has nothing to disclose. Dr. Fernandez Castano has nothing to disclose. Dr. Tirigay has nothing to disclose. Dr. Politis has nothing to disclose. Dr. Melano has nothing to disclose. Dr. Allegri has nothing to disclose.


We have found that sputtered amorphous films of Gd-Co and Gd-Fe have perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The demagnetized domain configuration consists of stripe domains, and bubble domains were nucleated in an applied field. By controlling the sputtering conditions, films with a wide variety of magnetic properties were obtained.


This LibGuide is a "What's-it-all-about" source on the possibilities of LibGuides to support the curriculum Easy way to organize class information


Abstract : Typically, decisionmakers are called upon to make decisions on aircraft inspection intervals on the basis of very limited analytic information. Under such circumstances, decisionmakers are understandably concerned about the risks incurred in extending inspection intervals. This Note presents in some detail a discussion of the phenomenon that although an immediate change is made in inspection intervals, it takes a considerable period of time for the fleet to transition to the changed interval. The slow fleet maturation may provide considerable opportunity to monitor and control the condition of the fleet during the transition period. Thus, in the case of extending inspection intervals, risk is reduced and spread over time while the payoff for the change is immediate. (Author)


The purpose of this study was to investigate the function of knee joints in patients with early osteoarthritis (OA, according to the criteria of the American rheumatology Association 2010) stage I-III using visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain intensity and treatment outcomes, Lequesne index, expert indicators, samples of 4 meter walk to assess the effectiveness of intra-articular injection Hyaluronic Chondro. 80 patients aged 28 to 55 years were examined. The treatment regimen included recommendations from the European rheumatology League (EULAR, 2016) and Russia (Nasonov E. L., 2017). The results of therapy were evaluated in two groups. The first group included 43 patients who received Hyaluronic Chondro in the form of intra-articular injections, the second-37 patients who received chondroprotectors inside or in the form of intramuscular injections. Conclusion . Intra-articular administration of the drug Chondrogard has a positive clinical effect in early stage II-III OA with moderate impairment of knee joint function. The course of treatment should last at least 2 months


Interest group theory, through both implication and explanation, assumes that some central occupational norms of lobbying strategy cause lobbyists to seek and maintain regularized access and entry to policymakers. Little data exist to support the contention that lobbying behavior is generally directed toward cementing these relationships, however. This study of twenty-six aging interests in four states finds no such norm convergence. Some states, depending on institutional and cultural characteristics, lend themselves to access-oriented lobbying styles, while others give rise to other norms regarding lobbyist/policymaker interaction. Data on legislative outcomes are used to question the appropriateness of these norms in exercising political influence.


In case of crisis in a Parkinson's patient, Apomorphine is also useful. It is a short-acting dopamine agonist that is administered subcutaneously or sometimes sublingually or intranasal 2 . An important side-effect is nausea and vomiting, but with the concurrent use of domperidone it may be well tolerated. It is particularly useful administered as an infusion to smooth out motor fluctuations or rescue patients from `off' periods. However, it is not widely available.


The concept of Behcet`s syndrome is progressing as a systemic disease involving multiple organs and system. In 1937 Behcet described a chronic relapsing triple- symptom complex of recurrent oral ulceration, genital ulceration, and ocular inflammation. Other manifestation of the syndrome include arthritis, cutaneous vasculitis, thrombophlebitis, epididymitis, ulcers of the gastrointestinal tract, and meningoencephalitis. Recently, we experienced a case of intestinal Behcet`s syndrome with obstructive ileus A 21-year-old female patient with incomplete type of Behcet`s syndrome suffered from abdominal pain, aphthous stomatitis, and genital ulceration. The frequent obstructive site of intestine is ileocecal area. The mucosa of ileum shows large geographic ulcer with fibrous wall thickening and multiple small round ulcers with punched-out in appearance. After ileocecotomy and administration of steroid, we showed rapid & remarkable symptomatic improvement.


(57) Abstract: higher than 1000 ° C., has a use temperature up to at least 1260 ° C., has a conventional refractory ceramic fibers and equivalent used after mechanical strength, and a non-durable in physiological fluids , silica, magnesia and as essential components, and containing zirconia optionally, the refractory glass fiber is produced from a melt containing optionally viscosity modifier.


The invention provides a method and a system for dynamically establishing secure connection of a virtual host in a cloud computing environment. According to the method and the system, in the cloud computing environment, nodes of a zero-credibility user virtual host are accessed into a virtual network, and a virtual IP (Internet Protocol) address is obtained through a credibility certification server; and the credibility certification server is used for carrying out strategy-based credible identity certification on the nodes of a source virtual host and a target virtual host, matching the security levels of the nodes of the source and target virtual hosts and assigning the type of an established secure connection protocol stack, and then, a source user virtual host can initiate secure connection establishment to a target user virtual host. According to the method and the system, the public online third-party credibility certification server is introduced in the cloud computing environment, so that the user virtual hosts with different service attributes and cross security domains dynamically establish the secure connection, and the problems that the conventional secure connection needs to be configured in advance, is established statically, is complicated in upgrading and maintenance, and the like are effectively solved. The method and the system have the advantages of simplicity, high efficiency, low cost and the like.


Objective [WT5"BZ]To explore significance of multifocal ERG(MERG) in evaluating visual function in patients with retinal detachment(RD). Methods MERG was tested using VERIS 4.0 visual evoked response imaging system for 21 patients with retinal detachment (22 eyes) and 36 normal subjects (42 eyes). The stimulative visual angles subtended ±26.6° horizontally and ±22.1° vertically. Burian Allen contact lens electrode was used to record the responses from 103 retinal locations in 8 min (16 segments). Results The latencies of a wave and b wave at the 4 quadrans, macular area and extra macular area in RD group were significantly delayed and their amplitudes markedly decreased comparing with normal group (P0.01). The amplitude densities of b wave at detached area, attached area in RD eyes and at the retina in normal eyes were (3.44±2.85),(6.34±3.31),(21.32±6.48) nV/deg 2 respectively. There was statistically significant difference among them (P0.05). Conclusion MERG can evaluate objectively and quantitatively the visual function at macular area, posterior polar detached area and attached area in RD.


Objective To explore the clinical situation,diagnosis,treatment and efficacy. Methods A retrospective analysis was performed on clinical data of 105 patients with adenomyosis(AM). Results The diagnosis rate was 69.5%,misdiagnosis rate was 4.8% and missed diagnosis rate was 25.7%.Period pain and menses were gradually decreased in 23 non-operation treated patients.The relief rate of dysmenorrhea in patients with LNG-IUS after radiofrequency ablation,single treatment with LNG-IUS,and LNG-IUS after adenomyoma resection was 92.3%,80.0% and 91.3%,respectively.Menstrual condition was improved and anemia was cured in all patients.One of the six patients with procreative requirements secured a successful pregnancy and childbirth after treatment.The rate of amenorrhea,pain in breast and nipples and weight increase in patients with single treatment using LNG-IUS was 30.4%,15.2% and 19.5%,respectively.The amenorrhea rate was 92.3% in patients with LNG-IUS after radiofrequency ablation. Conclusion The main reason of misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis was the complicated biological behaviour of adenomyosis and no specific diagnosis method was available.Patient′s age,procreative requirement and personal pathogenetic condition should be considered for a reasonable treatment scheme.


• The difference after system implementation: • Through this system, each tool has product inspection data everyday. So we can get quickly response from each tool.


In this paper, a vision-based obstacle avoiding path generation problem is considered for autonomous mobile robots under a top-view workspace. The collision-free path planning problem is converted to a convex optimization problem that can be solved numerically using linear matrix inequalities (LMI). A new optimal (shortest) path cost formulation is given for LMI optimization using a novel Line of Sight Meshing (LSM) method. As compared to the traditional meshing algorithms such as Voronoi and Delaunay, the LSM generates fewer mesh cells which results in reduced computation time. A virtual path diagram (VPD), consisting of all collision-free piecewise straight-line paths, is then found for robot navigation. The LMI optimization method is then used to find the optimal (shortest) collision-free path from the VPD set. In addition to distance, other constraints, such as terrain condition and curvature of the path can be incorporated in the cost function for constrained optimal solution. Finally, a rapid prototyping (RP) environment has been developed, which is used for hardware implementation of the algorithm. The generated paths are then converted to motion commands, which are sent wirelessly from a base-station to mobile robots for motion control.


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 Within the past 10 years the introduced exotic bivalve, Corbicula fluminea, has spread from the Savannah River through a riverine swamp into a third-order blackwater tributary on the Savannah River Site (SRS). We examined the effects of this invasion on a native bivalve, Elliptio cornplanata, and on seston concentration in the stream.

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 Corbicula fluminea has not yet colonized the entire stream and its distribution limit is coincident with the occurrence of gravel beds.

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 Corbicula fluminea appears to cause localized reduction of seston concentration and may rapidly clear the sediment boundary layer of food. There was no evidence of a negative impact on the distribution of the native bivalve in spite of high measured rates of water clearance by C. fluminea.


Background: Patients are traditionally advised to refrain from exposing their ears to water after most otological procedures. However, recent evidence suggests that water does not adversely affect the outcome for children with tympanostomy tubes. The evidence behind the potential harmful effects of water on the outcome of other otological procedures is scarce. Objective: The study was done to determine the current practice of otolaryngology consultants in the UK on the advice given to patients regarding swimming, diving and bathing in soapy water after myringotomy and tympanostomy tube insertion, mastoidectomy and myringoplasty. Method: Questionnaire based survey mailed to 382 members (consultants only) of the British Association of Otolaryngologists – Head & Neck Surgeons in the UK. Results: A total of 195 responses were received (reply rate 51 per cent). In all, 95.6 per cent of the respondents allowed their patients to swim after insertion of tympanostomy tubes, with 32.9 per cent insisting on the use of earplugs until extrusion of the tympanostomy tubes. However, 61.6 per cent of the respondents restricted diving in these patients. In comparison, the respondents were more conservative with water precautions following myringoplasty and mastoidectomy. More than half the respondents recommended earplugs for bathing after all three operations. Conclusion: This study reveals current national practice among UK otolaryngologists. There is no general consensus in post-operative advice following otolaryngological procedures, indicating a need for national guidelines.


The construction of a plasma torch device, which is suitable for ion etching and thinning applications has been described. The device consists of a stainless steel anode rod with a coaxial floating cylinder around it. The cylinder has an aperture on its surface for mechanical confinement of the discharge. The cathode target is placed opposing this aperture for micro machining with ion densities of the order of 160 mA/cm/sup 2/. N/sub 2/, Ar and He gases are tested using discharge voltages equal to 1.92, 2.3 and 1.56 KV respectively and at a pressure of 2.6/spl times/10/sup -4/ torr.


Under hypobaric hypoxia (HH), the heart triggers various defense mechanisms including metabolic remodeling against lack of oxygen. Mitofusin 2 (MFN2), located at the mitochondrial outer membrane, is closely involved in the regulation of mitochondrial fusion and cell metabolism. To date, however, the role of MFN2 in cardiac response to HH has not been explored.


This paper focuses on the use and response of students related to podcast media in literal listening subject to second semester students of the English Tadris Study Program at State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Palu. The author applies a qualitative research design. The method used in this research is interview and literature study, the results of the study show that the use and response of students regarding podcast media is good, this is evidenced by the results of interviews conducted by researchers with students who are taught using podcast media and lecturers who present material using podcast media.


Around the world, deaf and dumb people are sufferers of all kinds of activities due to a lack of proper sign language interpreters. Our research paper proposes a new hand gesture recognition framework toward Bangla sign language to eliminate the significant communication gap between deaf and non-sign language users. The hand was detected practicing HSV and YCbCr color space. In total thirty-seven (37) characters (8 vowels and 29 consonants) are recognized by deep convolution neural networks. We take 37 classes for 37 alphabets from Bangla sign language. Our framework also aided to gesture recognition system by a new dataset for the Bangla sign language. Our dataset consists of 3219 images from six different people. This new dataset facilitates us to gain an accuracy of 99.22%.


Abstract The desulphurisation by powder injection and blowing in the RH refining of molten steel and its mechanism have been considered and analysed. Based on the two-resistance mass transfer theory and the mass balance of sulphur in the system, a kinetic model for the process has been developed. The related parameters of the model, including the mass transfer coefficients and the effective amount of powder in the molten steel being treated for desulphurisation, have been reasonably determined. Modelling and predictions of the process of injecting and blowing the lime based powder flux under assumed operating modes with the different initial contents of sulphur and amounts of powder injected and blown in a RH degasser of 300 t capacity have been carried out using the model. The relevant circulation rate of the liquid steel and the powder injection and blowing rate were taken to be 100 t min-1 and 150 kg min-1, respectively. The initial contents of sulphur in the liquid steel to be treated and the amounts of powder injection and blowing were respectively assumed to be 0·007, 0·006, 0·005, 0·004, 0·003, 0·002 wt-%and 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3 kg/t steel. The total treatment time for desulphurisation under each mode was set at 24 min, equivalent to eight circulation cycles of the liquid steel to be treated. The results indicated that the predictions made by this model are in good agreement with data from industrial experiments and practice. By injecting and blowing the lime based powder flux with the composition of 85 wt-% lime (CaO) + 15 wt-%fluorspar (CaF2 ) of 3–5 kg/t steel, it is possible to decrease the sulphur content in the molten steel to an ultralow level below (5–10) × 10-4 wt-%from (60–80) × 10-4 wt-%. The total treatment time needed will be 12–20 min. Intensifying the powder injection and blowing operation and increasing the circulation rate of the liquid steel may effectively increase the rate of the process in RH refining. The model may be expected to offer some useful information and a reliable basis for determining the reasonable process parameters and help in optimising the technology of desulphurisation by powder injection and blowing in the RH refining of molten steel.


Imagine driving to Santa Monica, CA, from Chicago, IL. How can one determine the most efficient route to get to the destination? Is it the shortest distance? The most highways? The least construction routes? The most scenic routes? All the parameters need to be taken into account when evaluating the trajectory toward the destination.

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In this issue of Circulation Research , Kanelidis et al1 investigated the impact of cell delivery route for mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) to reach their destination, that is, the heart. Using a meta-analysis approach, they first confirmed that MSC therapy is indeed effective in improving left ventricular ejection fraction and reducing infarct size after myocardial infarction (MI) in rodents, swine, and human studies. Next, to determine which route is the most efficient (in this case, for achieving therapeutic effect), Kanelidis et al1 conducted a meta-analysis focusing on the impact of the delivery route on the therapeutic outcomes in swine and human studies. They found that transendocardial stem cell injection (TESI) was the most efficient in improving left ventricular ejection fraction and reducing the infarct size after acute MI in pigs and humans and chronic MI in pigs.

The study has several important implications. First, it provides strong evidence that cardiac MSC therapy can improve cardiac function and can also reduce the infarct size after an MI throughout the various species examined, including humans. Meanwhile, it is very interesting to find that the more advanced the species …


Four equations for the origin and propagation of nonrelativistic jets and winds are derived from the basic conservation laws of ideal MHD. The axial current density is negative in the vicinity of the axis and positive at larger radii; there is no net current because this is energetically favored. The magnetic field is essential for the jet solutions in that the zz-component of the magnetic stress acts, in opposition to gravity, to drive matter through the slow magnetosonic critical point. For a representative self-consistent disk/jet solution relevant to a protostellar system, the reaction of the accreted mass expelled in the jets is 0.1, the ratio of the power carried by the jets to the disk luminosity is 0.66, and the ratio of the boundary layer to disk luminosities is less than about 0.13. The star's rotation rate decreases with time even for rotation rates much less than the breakup rate.


The n-dimensional probability density functions (nPDF) is an algorithm for displaying, analyzing, and classifying data. The technique is developed from what are often called frequency perspective plots, but overcomes the inherent limitation of earlier approaches. The interactive classification procedure using the nPDF algorithm has led to new approaches for the classification of multi-dimensional data. The nPDF plots provide a clear perspective of the distribution of remotely sensed data, as well as the training fields selected in supervised classification schemes. After mapping the nPDF of multi-dimensional data and training field distributions, the nPDF space can be divided according to the distribution of training field data.


The set of vowel symbols introduced by Gimson in 1977 into the Jones English Pronouncing Dictionary for the representation of British pronunciation became so widely used that for two decades an unprecedented harmony reigned and an ever wider non-specialist audience became accustomed to accept that pronunciations should be presented to them via the International Phonetic Alphabet in this form. This unity was disrupted by the publication by one branch of the Oxford University Press of important reference books in which one in four of the Gimson twenty vowel-phoneme symbols were changed. The grounds for welcoming or deprecating each of these changes are discussed.


Leukosis, as it pertains to the chicken, is not a single disease, but a variety of neoplastic entities of distinct pathological manifestations designated collectively as the avian leukosis complex.' Certain of these conditions are of demonstrable viral etiology and were the first recognized members2, of the presently known group of virus-induced animal tumors. Intensive investigations of the different forms of leukosis 24-7 have revealed a highly complicated system of seemingly interrelated diseases of well-established pathological characteristics. Despite the numerous studies on occurrence, histology, transmission, and other aspects of leukosis, until recently little has been known of the actual nature of the causative agents themselves. A beginning has now been made in the experimental resolution of some of these etiological enigmas by the isolation and direct study of the physical, chemical, and biological properties of viruses of representative forms of the complex. The findings summarized here not only afford elements of clarification as regards etiological problems of leukosis; they also reveal unequivocal evidence of a relationship between leukosis and the avian malignancies classified as the chicken sarcomas.8


A user through a mobile or fixed terminal (5) informs an agent (33) hosted by an operator server (13) of subjects in respect of which content is requested. The agent (33) searches the internet for relevant content, and determines from a set of user preferences, relating to cost and timing of delivery preferences, a network for use in delivering the content to the terminal. Delivery may be made by a free network, e.g. a WLAN or Bluetooth network, if one is available, or over an expensive network such as a 3G, GSM or GPRS network if the content is requited quickly. If delivery is to be made over a broadcast network (11), such as a DVB-T network (11), a signal is sent to the terminal over a mobile telephone network (7) giving the time of broadcast, in response to which the terminal (5) enables its broadcast receiver at the appropriate time. Also, the agent (33) periodically reviews the content on a data carousel (45) which is awaiting broadcast, and informs the terminal (5) of any forthcoming content which is relevant to the user request.


Background. The Relative Atrial Index (RAI) ( RA area (cm 2 )/LA area (cm 2 )) is a novel tool that we have shown to be useful for identifying patients with significant atrial shunting. RAI was used to assess the degree of normalization following percutaneous Amplatzer secundum atrial septal defect (ASD) device closure. Methods. RAI was derived from the standard apical four chamber view in patients (n=85, mean age 38±21; 55 females) before and after percutaneous ASD closure as well as in the early (mean days 124) and late stages (mean days 390) of follow-up. RAI was also compared to normal valves observed in the general population (excluded significant intrinsic right heart pathology, n=4897). Results. The RAI in ASD patients was significantly higher than the general population (1.22±0.20 vs 0.81±0.15, p Conclusion. Resolution of right atrial enlargement occurs remarkably early after percutaneous ASD closure as demonstrated by the novel tool Relative Atrial Index (RAI). This suggests right atrial enlargement is largely volume-loading dependent rather than structural.


1 The vasomotor responses of individual cerebral pial arterioles on the convexity of the cerebral cortex to subarachnoid perivascular micro‐injections of dopamine and the putative dopamine receptor agonists, apomorphine, SKF 38393 and LY 141865, have been examined in 38 anaesthetized cats. 2 The perivascular microapplication of dopamine (10−9–10−3 M) effected dose‐dependent reductions in pial arteriolar calibre, with the maximum reductions in calibre (22 ± 2% from preinjection levels: mean ± s.e.) being observed at 10−3 M. The cerebrovascular constriction produced by dopamine (10−5 M) could be significantly attenuated by the concomitant perivascular administration of phentolamine (10−6 M) or methysergide (10−6 M). 3 The perivascular microapplication of apomorphine (10−8–10−4 M) effected dose‐dependent increases in arteriolar calibre, with the maximum increase (31 ± 6%) being observed with apomorphine (10−5 M). 4 The perivascular administration of the putative dopamine D1‐receptor agonist, SKF 38393 (10−9–10−4 M) increased arteriolar calibre, with the maximum response (24 ± 3%) being observed with injection of 10−7 M. The putative dopamine D2‐receptor agonist, LY 141865, also increased cerebral arteriolar calibre, but only at high concentrations (maximum calibre increase 25 ± 6.1 with 10−4 M). 5 The cerebrovascular dilatations elicited by apomorphine and by SKF 38393 were markedly attenuated by the concomitant perivascular microapplication of the putative dopamine D1‐receptor antagonist, SCH 23390 (10−8 M). The perivascular administration of SCH 23390 (10−9–10−5 M) per se did not alter arteriolar calibre nor the arteriolar dilatation provoked by microinjections of acidic cerebrospinal fluid. 6 These results point to the presence on cat cerebral arterioles of dopamine receptors (probably of D1 subtype) mediating dilatation.


This paper will seek to explicate the changes in the New Zealand health sector informed by the concepts of problematization, inscription and the construction of networks (Callon, 1986; Latour, 1987, 1993). This will involve applying a framework of interpretation based on the concepts of Latour's sociology of translation. Material on problematization and inscription will be incorporated into the paper in order to provide an explanatory frame of reference which will enable us to make sense of the processes of change in the New Zealand health sector. The sociology of translation will be used to explain the processes which underlie the changes and will be used to capture effects, such as changes in policy and structure, producing new networks within which 'allies' could be enrolled in support of the health reforms.


The book of Wen Fu by Lu Ji is a special literary theory. In this book, Lu Ji advanced a new thought of using brain to write at first. Using brain to write is a problem of literary writing psychology. In the Chinese history of literary criticism, a lot of people explained "brain" but only a few people touched the problem of literary writing psychology. Lu Ji was the first. In Wen Fu, Lu Ji explained literary writing psychology such as response and touch, image, language and inspiration etc., Researching the problems of literary writing psychology in Wen Fu related to the form of theory researching of "set brain above others" in ancient philosophy of China on source of theory.


This book aims to introduce readers of the Greek NT to discourse analysis (also known as text linguistics) and the insights that such an approach can bring to the study of this text. While traditional grammar has tended to focus on language at the level of the sentence and below, discourse analysis looks beyond the sentence to the wider context of an utterance—the extra-sentential level—and its function. The book is divided into four parts: Part 1 (Foundations) introduces discourse analysis and surveys connecting prepositions; Part 2 (Forward-Pointing Devices) surveys prominence-marking strategies; Part 3 (Information Structuring Devices) focuses on word order; and Part 4 (Thematic Highlighting Devices) examines ways in which the use of language influences readers' mental representations of discourse. A short summary at the end of the book provides a tabulation of some 14 distinct discourse devices. Discourse analysis is an undeniably complex field. However, Runge has produced an extremely lucid and useful introduction. The book does not seek to dispense with earlier or alternative approaches: as Daniel B. Wallace states in his forward, the present volume 'is a complement to traditional grammars, rather than in competition with them' (p. xvi). Indeed, Runge begins most chapters by reviewing the 'conventional' explanations of a linguistic phenomenon before presenting the 'discourse' ones. Runge makes extensive and helpful use of comparison with English discourse devices and offers ample illustrations from the NT (given in both Greek and English). This book is an intelligent guide to a difficult but vitally important approach to our understanding of texts.


ABSTRACT Political socialisation plays a crucial but complex role in determining how immigrants adjust to the political environment of their host country. This study examines the effects of initial political socialisation and resocialisation on immigrants' electoral participation in Canada. It addresses three questions: To what extent does the outlooks that develop from earlier political experiences in the country of origin shape immigrants' subsequent electoral participation in Canada? To what extent, and how, does subsequent experience with politics in Canada affect electoral participation? And finally, how does initial socialisation in the country of origin condition resocialisation in Canada? The results indicate that not only does resocialisation leave a unique and lasting imprint on immigrant electoral participation in the host country, but also that the nature of resocialisation process in the host country is conditioned by the distinctive political outlooks immigrants acquire under different political regimes in their respective countries of origin.


In this work, we propose a distributed cubature information filter based multi-object tracking method with an information weighted selection for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks. In an UAV network, multiple UAVs can observe multiple objects in the region of interest. Further, the UAVs can exchange the objects local information among themselves and fuse them together to obtain the global state of the objects. As the number of UAVs in the network increases, the information exchange among the UAVs suffers from scalability, bandwidth and energy limitations. Thus, it is usually desirable to allow only a desired number of UAVs with highly relevant information to participate in the information exchange. In our approach, the innovation vector within the information filtering framework is used to calculate the amount of information associated with each UAV. Further, a threshold based selection mechanism is proposed to facilitate the UAVs to take independent decisions on whether to participate in the information exchange or not. In the proposed method, the UAVs take the decision to participate in the information exchange based on the information associated with a dynamic subset of objects known as priory objects while keeping the total number of information exchanges in the network to a desired number (on average).


The producer must manage crop nutrients and soil fertility through rotations, cover crops, and the application of plant and animal materials.
The producer must manage plant and animal materials to maintain or improve soil organic matter content avoiding contamination.
Approved fertilizers:
(1) Raw animal manure (subject to further restrictions)
(2) Composted plant and animal materials
(3) Uncomposted plant materials
(4) A crop nutrient or soil amendment included on the national list of synthetic substances allowed for use in organic crop production
(6) A mined substance of low solubility
(7) A mined substance of high solubility, provided that the substance is used in compliance with the conditions established on the national list of nonsynthetic materials prohibited for crop production.

(Article § 205.203 and § 205.205)


As firms become more customer-centric, concepts such as customer equity come to the fore. Any serious attempt to quantify customer equity requires modeling techniques that can provide accurate multiperiod forecasts of customer behavior. Although a number of researchers have explored the problem of modeling customer churn in contractual settings, there is surprisingly limited research on the modeling of usage while under contract. The present work contributes to the existing literature by developing an integrated model of usage and retention in contractual settings. The proposed method fully leverages the interdependencies between these two behaviors even when they occur on different time scales or "clocks", as is typically the case in most contractual/subscription-based business settings.

We propose a model in which usage and renewal are modeled simultaneously by assuming that both behaviors reflect a common latent variable that evolves over time. We capture the dynamics in the latent variable using a hidden Markov model with a heterogeneous transition matrix and allow for unobserved heterogeneity in the associated usage process to capture time-invariant differences across customers.

The model is validated using data from an organization in which an annual membership is required to gain the right to buy its products and services. We show that the proposed model outperforms a set of benchmark models on several important dimensions. Furthermore, the model provides several insights that can be useful for managers. For example, we show how our model can be used to dynamically segment the customer base and identify the most common "paths to death" i.e., stages that customers go through before churn.


neutical discussion rather than the end. But at the same time it must be seriously questioned whether the way forward from Jeremías is to transpose Jülicher into an existentialist key. There is much else that is interesting and important in this book besides the actual exegesis of the parables which has been our concern in this review. We have concentrated upon that because it seemed to us that Via's effective demonstration of the possibilities inherent in his approach to the parables is the most important thing about his work. But there are two other aspects of this book which must be mentioned: the second chapter on "Parable and the Problems of Theological Language" and the sixth, "The Parables, the Gospels, and the Historical Jesus.' We can do no more than mention these by title and say that in each instance Via addresses himself to a major problem in current theological debate and shows himself to have mastered the points at issue and to have something significant to say. Incidentally, he also says it very well ! The only problem is that to get all that he wants to say into a compass of forty-four and thirty-nine pages respectively he has had to compress mercilessly both his review of the discussion and his own contribution to it, and his work is of such a calibre that this really is unfortunate. If this book receives the reception it deserves, however, perhaps this will persuade him to be more expansive in the future, and his publishers to give him the scope his abilities and viewpoint clearly warrant. τνΤ ." 1 NORMAN PERRIN


A novel polysilicon-assisted silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) is presented and analyzed in this paper, which is fabricated in HHNEC's 0.18 μm EEPROM process. The polysilicon-assisted SCRs take advantage of polysilicon layer to help by pass electro-static discharge (ESD) current without occupying extra layout area. TLP current-voltage (I-V) measurement results show that given the same layout areas, robustness performance of polysilicon-assisted SCRs can be improved to 3 times of conventional MLSCR's. Moreover, one-finger such polysilicon-assisted SCRs, which occupy only 947 μm2 layout area, can undergo 7-kV HBM ESD stress. Results further demonstrate that the S-type I-V characteristics of polysilicon-assisted SCRs are adjustable to different operating conditions by changing the device dimensions. Compared with traditional SCRs, this new SCR can bypass more ESD currents and consumes smaller IC area.


Objective To explore the effects of clinical nursing pathway on patients with intranasal endoscopic cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea repair surgery.Methods Totals of 69 patients received the implementation of the repair of cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea were recruited and randomly divided into intervention group (n =35) and control group (n =34).Control group received traditional preoperative visits and intraoperative coordination,traditional preoperative visits,while intervention group received clinical nursing pathway including preoperative interview pathway,operation day support pathway,and postoperative interview Pathway.Then,anxiety,surgical start time,blood loss,anesthesia recovery time and recovery period of anesthesia complications and patients' satisfaction were observed and compared.Results The SAS score of intervention group in one day before operation and before anesthesia was (46.38 ± 4.77),(49.86 ± 5.59),respectively,lower than that of control group [(50.76 ± 5.81),(53.99 ± 6.59)],and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.01).After the intervention,blood loss [(199.64 ± 46.72) vs (240.67 ±58.68) ml],anesthesia recovery time [(26.10 ± 5.09) vs (34.50 ± 6.76) min],hospital stay [(20.42 ±2.73) vs (24.61 ± 3.63) d],patients' satisfaction points [(4.56 ± 0.47) vs (3.07 ± 0.52)] in intervention group were significantly lower than that in control group (t =14.152,3.138,3.020,6.056,11.881,respectively;P < 0.01).Conclusions Patients with cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea repair treat with surgery clinical care path,can effectively relieve the patient's preoperative anxiety,reduce anesthesia recovery time,blood loss and anesthesia recovery complications and improve the therapeutic effect of perioperative and the patient satisfaction.

Key words:
Clinical pathway;  Endoscopy;  Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea;  Intraoperative period ; Nursing intervention


This paper emphasis the necessity of corporate profiles as tool for competitive intelligence. The difficulties in using company directories as source for company information are highlighted. Having selected a number of online company directories available through the Internet, the authors proceed to study a group of them. From the study, a general characterisation of the main qualitative and quantitative differences among online company directories is presented. The Corporate Profile Service offered by Consultorι`a Biomundi is explained.


Lead service lines in drinking water systems pose a serious public health threat, but many utilities lack complete records of their locations.


AIM: We sought to determine the effect of different part of coronary artery stenosis and myocardial risk areas on left ventricular contractile function in dogs by two dimensional echocardiography (2DE). METHODS: 20 mongrel dogs were placed under general anesthesia with intravenous sodium pentobarbital, intubated and placed on a respirator. A left lateral thoracotomy was performed and the heart was suspended in a pericardial cradle. A micrometer constrictor and electromagnetic flow meter were placed around the different part of the left descending coronary artery (LAD) and left circumflex coronary artery (LCX) to produce severe coronary artery stenosis and myocardial ischemia (70%~80% reduction was observed in coronary blood flow ). In 10 dogs, a selective injection of coronary artery with contrast agent were given at rest in order to measure the contrast enhance area and compare with the myocardial risk area and the supplied region of left coronary artery. RESULTS: In severe stenosis, the circumference extent of wall motion abnormality (CEWMA) is (18±6)% in LAD and (58±8)% in LCX at the mitral valve orifice short axis plane; CEWMA is (55±9)% in LAD and (36±6)% in LCX at the short axis apex level. The aortic peak velocity (APV), ejection fraction (EF) and cardiac output (CO) was significantly lower when proximal LXC or tow vessel stenosis was present. APV and EF was significantly lower when CEWMA over 55%, especially in the lateral segment. CONCLUSION: The change in myocardial risk areas and left ventricular contractile function showed positive correlation. 2DE is a simple and noninvasive technique for quantitative detection of left ventricular contractile function in coronary artery disease.


A preliminary study of leaves cut by Megachile leafcutter bees were documented in Singapore through photographic surveys from March to August 2014 (86 observations), pressed leaves from 2016 to 2019 (51 observations), and crowd-sourced photographs from 2017 to 2019 (24 observations). Of the 161 plant observations, 130 were identified to species (64 species), 7 to genus (five genera), and 24 undetermined. There were 67 distinct plant species or morphospecies (64 species; 3 genera— Connarus, Diospyros, and Rosa) from 59 genera and 21 families. The top two plant species with the highest number of observations were Dendrolobium umbellatum (Fabaceae; 11 observations) and Cratoxylum cochinchinense (Hypericaceae; 10 observations), which collectively accounted for a substantial proportion of the identified observations (15.3%; 21 out of 137). These plants are also floral associates of Megachile bees, thus, planting these species may augment pollinator populations. The highest proportion of plant species are from the Fabaceae (22 out of 67 species). These findings suggest that Megachile leafcutter bees do select for leaves of specific plants in Singapore. The majority of these plants were trees (42 out of 64 species), whereas 13 species were shrubs, and remaining nine were climbers, suggesting the bees can forage at a variety of heights. A total of 40.6% of plant species (26 out of 64 species) were exotic to Singapore, demonstrating that Megachile leafcutter bees utilise both native and exotic plant species. Five new bee–leaf associations at the species level were also recorded when a bee was directly observed cutting a leaf. These findings could have further implications for bioprospecting pertaining to antimicrobial properties of the leaves.


Objective To study the mutations in CACNL1A3 and SCN4A genes in a Chinese family with hypokalemic familial periodic paralysis (hypoKPP). Methods The clinical features of 27 patients with hypoKPP in a 6-generation Chinese family were summarized. The nucleic acid sequences coding the amino acid of 528 and 1239 in CACNL1A3, and of 669 and 672 in SCN4A gene were analyzed with PCR and DHPLC technology. Results This family showed typical clinical features of hypoKPP. The prognosis of most patients is benign. The nucleic acid sequences were normal coding the amino acid of 1239 in CACNL1A3, and of 669 and 672 in SCN4A gene. The C1582G nucleic acid substitution was found coding Arg528 in exon 11 of CACNL1A3 gene,resulted in the Arg528Gly substitution. Conclusion The Arg528Gly substitution does exist in Chinese patients,different not only from the known mutations of Arg528His, Arg1239His, and Arg1239Gly in CACNL1A3, but also from the substitutions of Arg669His, Arg672His, Arg672Gly,Arg672Ser,and Arg672Cys in SCN4A. It's a new substitution.


Samples of thermoplastic elastomers based on polyvinyl chloride (PVC) modified with ultrafine detonation-synthesed (nano) diamonds were obtained. It was found that small additives of nanodiamonds improve the strength characteristics and arrange the structure of PVC. A method that allows obtaining a uniform distribution of nanoparticles in a polymer matrix is proposed.


Dermatomyositis (DM) is an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy that can affect both the skin and the musculoskeletal system. The Cutaneous Dermatomyositis


Patient management problems are being increasingly used in medical education. The use of a random access slide projector to present the problems has a number of advantages. This approach makes possible more realistic and practical problems which can be used by students individually or in groups. Teachers can readily acquire the technique of preparing problems for use in this way.


In the present note the author establishes an inversion theorem for a convolution transform whose kernel involves a confluent hypergeometric function of several complex variables. It is shown how the main result can be specialized to solve a number of integral equations involving special functions of interest in applied problems. An extension of the method to a general class of integral equations is also considered.


A motor vehicle comprises a driver's cab for an operator and a running board with at least two steps (13, 14) for access to the cockpit through an opening (9) for a door (11), the steps (13, 14) being movable between a retracted position in which the steps (13, 14) are in the cockpit and an extended position wherein the steps (13, 14) are exposed to allow raising and lowering facilitated the operateur.Les steps (13, 14) are substantially offset with respect to one another on either side of a substantially vertical axis (V).


Downtrend forecast of the global economy, unfavorable conditions of the global markets, contraction in the real sector of the economy due to inflation, sharp growth of credits and anti -Russian sanctions, ban on the import of certain types of foodstuff s from the countries which introduced sanctions against Russia strengthen negative trends observed in the Russian foreign trade.


We examine the total electron content (TEC) from GPS receivers over the United States on March 25–26, 2015. We observe partial to nearly fully concentric rings of traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) with centers close to deep convection. Many of these TIDs have observed horizontal phase speeds cH > 300 m/s, suggesting they are induced by gravity waves (GWs) created in the thermosphere. We investigate the largest‐amplitude concentric TIDs at 23:00 UT on March 25 and 01:20 UT on March 26. We find that cH and the GW period τr increase linearly with radius and the horizontal wavelength, λH, increases quadratically with radius. This is expected if the GWs are excited by point sources. For these GWs, cH = 150–530 m/s, τr ∼ 8–40 min, and λH ∼ 100–500 km. Using reverse ray‐tracing, no GW with cH > 200 m/s propagates below z = 100 km, 73% of the GWs in the first case cannot propagate below z ∼ 100 km, all of the GWs in the second case cannot propagate below z ∼ 100 km, and the inferred thermospheric point sources are ∼2–4° from deep convection. Because the underlying GWs are most likely excited by a point source and most must be created in the thermosphere, we find that these concentric TIDs are most likely induced by GWs generated in the thermosphere, including those with cH = 150–200 m/s. Their close proximity to deep convection and the TEC map asymmetries suggest these TIDs are likely induced by secondary GWs from local horizontal body forces created by the dissipation of primary GWs from deep convection.


The article presents an integrative approach to teaching the Bulgarian alphabet to international students, enrolled in the English-language Masters programs in Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Pharmacy at Medical University – Plovdiv. With the aid of modern information technologies and various teaching techniques, we strive to help our students so that they can discover the differences between the Latin and Cyrillic characters, get familiar with the qualities and opportunities provided by the Bulgarian alphabet, initialize the process of proper articulation of Bulgarian sounds and inscription of Cyrillic graphemes, and begin to understand Bulgarian texts and converse in Bulgarian.Having in mind the objective difficulties that must be overcome by students of Bulgarian as a Foreign Language when learning the alphabet, it is taught in a separate 12-class unit. With the help of a special Power Point presentation, the alphabet is presented in light of the understanding of language as an organic whole, composed of linguistic, speech, and communication skills and knowledge, all based on the correct and rapid acquisition of letters and sounds. Our approach to teaching the Bulgarian alphabet relies on the interrelatedness of proper listening comprehension and the respective articulation skills. We do not overlook the fact that for our students the foreign language is not the means to acquire knowledge: acquiring language skills is the goal. Thus all exercises take into account the specific circumstances of our international students, who are non-native speakers of English that rely on their knowledge of English to learn Bulgarian.A main aspect of the exercises we offer is the wide array of activities that activate students' hearing and visual memory. Vocabulary acquisition is based on drawing parallels between real life and the chosen major. In this way students and their instructor can cooperate at the level of symbol (word) and symbolized (object), which prepares students for a period following the simulation phase, characterized by the practical application of the linguistic knowledge acquired throughout the whole course of studies.


Using INPUT data, Tom Tunstall completed provocative research at the University of Texas at Dallas that attempted to answer empirically the question "will outsourcing lead to the end of the firm as we know it?" Tunstall's study explores the proposition that, because of decreasing transaction costs, firms are actively exposing operational functions to direct market forces. They are driven by the need to increase economies and, in the process of doing so, make more efficient use of the factors of production. Lower transaction costs increase the number of possible transactions and thus allow an economy to build wealth at a much faster pace than would otherwise be possible. In theory, outsourcing better matches market signals with the factors of production and enables greater economic efficiency. If outsourcing is one of the tools that firms use to bring wage rates and costs into equilibrium, it is worth asking why firms outsource and what the result has been.


: We study the different quantum phases that occur in massive N = 2 supersymmetric QCD with gauge groups SU(2) and SU(3) as the coupling Λ /M is gradually increased from 0 to infinity. The phases can be identified by computing the exact partition function by saddle-points, combining supersymmetric localization and the Seiberg-Witten formalism. In all cases, we find two phases, a weak coupling and a strong coupling phase, separated by a critical point described by a superconformal field theory or involving superconformal sectors. In crossing the critical point, the dominant saddle-point hops from one singularity of the curve to another one. The theories seem to undergo a second-order phase transition with divergent susceptibility.


Alice Miller is a psychotherapist. She is interested in the importance of emotions in understanding seemingly irrational behaviour. Her thesis is that our emotional life governs our behaviour. Seemingly irrational behaviour becomes explicable once one understands a person's emotional life.1

Miller believes that our emotions are formed in early childhood. If we have happy childhoods then our emotions develop naturally and we behave in a rational way. However, if our childhoods have been unhappy, as a result of physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, our emotional world is damaged. Emotionally damaged adults may harm themselves or …


Objective:To explore the clinical manifestation of excessive pelvic inclination and mechanism of its correction. Methods:①Pelvic inclination angles were measured with an inclinometer in 1000 singleton pregnant women,whose cephalopelvic score 8,occiput-anterior position, and with out malformation of pelvis and spine. The clinical menifestation was inspected throughout delivery. ②Variations of pelvic inclination were also inspected in 100 pregnant women from early pregnancy to antepartum,and to postpartum.Results:Excessive pelvic inclination means 53 degrees in inclinometer,synonymous with 68 degrees in radiographic measurement. Hs prevalence was 7.8%.The main manifestations included:pendulous abdomen,positive span-pubis sign,nonengagement of fetal head, and severe perineum laceration. Conclusions:Excessive pelvic inclination is caused by enlargement of lumber-sacral angle. Head pressure axis directing at pubic is not on the same line with the pelvic axis during delivery,which lead to nonengagement of fetal head. Lumber vertebrae bend will change from ventral to dorsal direction on cyst-lithotomy position,then pelvis move forward and upward with lumber-sacral joint as a pivot. Thus small lumber-sacral angle and excessive pelvic inclination are corrected,and trans-vaginal delivery rate and obstetric quality will also be improved.


The purpose of this study was the investigation of the effect of the practice of Olympic wrestling on the modification of the behavior of sixteen elementary school special education students between the ages of eight and twelve years old. Ninety two percent of this group was enrolled in a special education program of which eighty six percent were classified with ADHD. The investigation lasted ten-weeks during which the students were evaluated before and after their participation in the wrestling program. During this period the students participated in Olympic wrestling training sessions, which consisted of many motor skill activities including axial skills, together with other activities such as artistic gymnastics, wrestling techniques, wrestling, and motors skills games. The evaluation instruments were constructed by three teachers: a specialist in special education and in Olympic wrestling, a special education teacher, and a wrestling specialist. The teachers of the students' regular classes and the wrestling trainer evaluated the students. The results indicated an improvement in the opinion of the students concerning their behavior in the classroom. Furthermore, the results demonstrated that the Olympic wrestling teacher and the teachers of the regular program saw an improvement in the behavior of the students. The results were found to be statistically significant. Introduction and Theoretical Framework Olympic wrestling is one of the most ancient sports in human history. It is an amateur sport involving physical competition between two competitors who try to take down the opponent and turn him/her on his/her back. There are many techniques and movements for a match in a predetermined time. Points are given to the competitors according to different styles and their rules. The authors could not find any studies based in Puerto Rico the related Olympic wrestling, as a mechanism of modification of behavior in the primary or elementary grades for children of special education; however, there are many examples of the use of different approaches to integrate and adapt motor skills and physical education at the elementary level (Lopez and Santini, 2008). In the United States, Kevin Russo, (an acknowledged behavioral consultant, and trainer of Olympic wrestling in high school) has worked with students with cognitive disabilities older than those studied in the present investigation. Sport, and physical activity has been used, by athletes (Donohue and others, 2004) as an effective mechanism in behavior modification. Behavior modification is based on the principles of operant conditioning, which were developed by American behaviorist B.F. Skinner (1904-1990). "Today, behavior modification is used to treat a variety of problems in both adults and children. Childhood disorders, for which behavior modification has been successfully used include obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), phobias, enuresis (bedwetting), and separation anxiety disorder (SAD)", (Gale Research 1998). One behavior modification technique widely used with children is positive reinforcement, 1 Betancourt: The Practice of Olympic Wrestling and Behavior Modification Published by Digital Commons @ RIC, 2012 which encourages certain behaviors through a system of rewards. This technique is particularly effective for children with ADHD (Myers, 2009). In the Olympic wrestling investigation, children who worked adequately were rewarded by taking them once a week to the swimming pool for adapted and fun training. Additionally the students were able to participate in trainings outside of school with other wrestling clubs in the area. If there were complaints by their teachers about inappropriate behavior, the children lost these privileges. The children in this study were at an ideal age of readiness for motor development, since they were between the ages of eight and twelve years old (Del Rio, 2008). Although in our study, Olympic wrestling was used as the principal instrument, many motor activities and games adapted to wrestling were used to convince children that wrestling was a game (Petrov, 1977). A parallel objective, besides the students modify their conduct, was to make sure they understood the sport of wrestling (Douglas, 1974). To ensure that students understood wrestling they were familiarized with the punctuation system in wrestling, taught the area of competition and taught the proper way to dress. This investigation follows J. Betancourt's (2004) interest in exploring the relationship between physical education and other disciplines that focused on the relationship between the academic preparation of regular physical education teachers and their attitude towards the inclusion of students with disabilities in their regular classes. Betancourt's next study was of the effect of physical and music education in the development of motor skills in children between the ages of six and eight years old in an inclusive environment (J. Betancourt & M. Hernandez, submitted to NALS for publication in 2009). These works are indebted to the theories of Ajzen & Fishbein, (1980), and Ajzen, (2002) who have studied how attitudes can help explain human actions; to Albert Bandura (1989), who developed theories of human modeling; and to Sage & Burrello, (1994); Podemski et al., (1995), and de Goor, (1995), who developed a new theoretical framework for leadership and the administration programs of inclusion for students with special needs; to the theories of Block, (1994),and Rizzo (1993), who studied the attitudes of Physical Education teachers toward the teaching of students with special needs.


The Brillouin light scattering technique is used to observe thermally excited acoustic phonons in backscattering geometry in a transparent, 1.8 μm thick diode sputtered c-BN film. The Rayleigh mode at the film surface and the quasilongitudinal bulk mode were detected under various angles of light incidence. The angular dependent phase velocity of the bulk wave provides evidence for an elastic anisotropy of the film material. Complete descriptions of the elastic properties are presented, assuming either isotropic or hexagonal film symmetry. The reduction of the film stiffness in comparison to the single crystal and the origin of the elastic anisotropy of c11/c33≈4/5, where c11 and c33 are the respective extensional stiffness constants parallel and perpendicular to the film, is discussed. Both effects are predominantly caused by sp2-bonded material and a structured film growth.


The luminescence and absorption spectra of gadolinium—gallium (Gd3Ga5O12), yttrium—gallium (Y3Ga5O12), gadolinium—scandium—aluminum (Gd3Sc2Al3O12), and yttrium—aluminium (Y3Al5O12) garnet single crystals, doped with Er3+ ions (the Er2+ concentration varies from 0.1 to 40 wt%) are investigated at 4.2 and 77 K. The Stark component level schemes for the above-mentioned single crystals are constructed. Two types (N and A) of Er3+ activator centres with greatly differing structures of the crystalline environment are revealed in the spectra of 4I15/2 ⇄ 4I13/2 transitions in Gd3Ga5O12 and Y3Ga5O12 crystals. The interaction of these centres at low temperatures are observed. The reason of these effects is discussed.

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In this paper, the dynamical behaviour of forced LSTAR model with delay is considered for different levels of noise intensity. The existence and stability of the equilibria of the deterministic system are studied. Numerical simulations are employed to show the model's complex dynamics by means of the largest Lyapunov exponents, bifurcations, time series diagrams and phase portraits. The phenomena of noise-induced intermittency is also discussed.


The design of a low power, low voltage, 12-bit 8 kHz bandwidth /spl Sigma//spl Delta/ modulator that achieves 0.34 mW power consumption at 1.95 V supply is described. The modulator employs a novel architecture in which a third-order modulator is stabilized by a local feedback loop around each integrator. Unlike multi-stage /spl Sigma//spl Delta/ modulators, this architecture is very tolerant to the modest DC gain of low voltage opamps. The architecture, together with special circuit techniques, permits a low voltage switched capacitor implementation at 1.95 V-3.3 V supply using standard 1.2 /spl mu/m CMOS technology.


The Oresund link project involves a number of connecting roads and bridges, of which the main road on Swedish ground is Yttre Ringvagen around Malmo. Parts of this road will be built where the bearing capacity of the existing ground is too low. Some of the contractors handle this by lime or cement stabilisation of the uppermost soil. Two of these stabilised sites were investigated with geophysical methods aiming at validating the efficiency of the stabilisation process. DC-resistivity was tested as a method for checking the homogeneity and depth penetration of the stabilisation, and SASW for determining the increase of the stiffness of the subsurface when stabilised.


Let us first define event marketing. There are many sim ilar or connected expressions to this term, such as: events, brand or special events, enter tai ment, experiential or experience marketing. A precise definition could be the task of another st udy, so we approach it from the possible areas of event marketing. We restrict our discussion to corpora te events, such as employee, client and supplier appreciation occasions, team-buildings, fam ily, jubilee and Christmas parties, or special events for customers, e.g. road shows. We do not deal with conferences, fairs and exhibitions, or concerts, festivals, sports and private events. We con centrate on those events that bring brand experience, entertainment, personal connection, have an indirect impact on their participants (and others who get in touch with them) and deliver message s and values. In many cases these events also expand sales.


The article covers aspects of working out a strategy of social and economic development of the region. Three types of strategy depending on their implementation terms are determined. Priority spheres of Siberia economic development strategy are pointed out.


This article presents a numerical investigation of the pulsatile flow of non-Newtonian Casson fluid through a rectangular channel with symmetrical local constriction on the walls. The objective is to study the heat transfer characteristics of the said fluid flow under an applied magnetic field and thermal radiation. Such a study may find its application in devising treatments for stenosis in blood arteries, designing biomechanical devices, and controlling industrial processes with flow pulsation. Using the finite difference approach, the mathematical model is solved and is converted into the vorticity-stream function form. The impacts of the Hartman number, Strouhal number, Casson fluid parameter, porosity parameter, Prandtl number, and thermal radiation parameter on the flow profiles are argued. The effects on the axial velocity and temperature profiles are observed and argued. Some plots of the streamlines, vorticity, and temperature distribution are also shown. On increasing the values of the magnetic field parameter, the axial flow velocity increases, whereas the temperature decreases. The flow profiles for the Casson fluid parameter have a similar trend, and the profiles for the porosity parameter have an opposite trend to the flow profiles for the magnetic field parameter. The temperature decreases with an increase in the Prandtl number. The temperature increases with an increase in the thermal radiation parameter. The profile patterns are not perfectly uniform downstream of the constriction.


The substantial and often recurrent distress and impairment associated with major depressive disorder (MDD) in youth has prompted increased interest in the identification and dissemination of effective treatment models. Evidence supports the use of several antidepressant medications, specific psychotherapies, and, in the largest treatment study of depressed teenagers, the combination of fluoxetine and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) as effective treatments.1-3 CBT is the most extensively tested psychosocial treatment for MDD in youth, with evidence from reviews and meta-analyses that supports its effectiveness in that population.3-5


We generalize the notion of hyperquasivariety and hyperquasiidentity to the notion of M-hyperquasivariety and M-hyperquasiidentity. Birkhoff's and Malcev's type theorems are presented.


This study was carried to establish the factors that affect the independence of the external auditors. The research sought to analyse how provision of non-audit services, audit tenure and how large proportion of audit fees affect the auditors" independence. The target population of study was the medium level audit firms in Nairobi. The research used a descriptive design and collected data from both primary and secondary sources by use of structured questionnaires and by interviewing the respondents. The research used a sample of 20 auditing firms to carry out the research. This sample was selected using stratified sampling technique because the population is heterogeneous. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics mean and standard deviation. The study revealed that provision of these services improved the quality of audit services to a very great extent. From the findings, relationship with clients improved over the time while to some was strong from the start. The study concludes that audit firm tenure affects audit firm independence, it was established that forcing a change of auditors lowers the quality of audits and increase their costs. The longer an auditor is with a company the more it learns about its personnel, its business and its intrinsic values. The study recommends that external auditors must maintain quality in accordance with the generally accepted auditing standard when accumulating and evaluating the auditing evidence as it is important in having better result of an audit process.


An attempt has been made with the help of this paper to recognize the entrepreneurial attitudes among students pursuing technical courses from institutes affiliated to Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. The present research paper aims to determine the roles of training at the secondary and graduation levels in familiarizing entrepreneurship as a career choice and boosting the interests among students to take up entrepreneurship as their preferred calling. In the present study, 206 scholars from different engineering courses were examined using the entrepreneurial attitude orientation scale. Outcomes indicate that a significant difference existed between the thinking of female and male students towards entrepreneurship. The respondents revealed that the approach of the education system does affect entrepreneurial orientation in an individual. Unfortunately, it was found that the Indian technical education system was not contributing significantly towards developing entrepreneurial orientation among students.


Aliphatic, aromatic and a, β-unsaturated ketones were readily reduced to the cor- responding secondary alcohols by iso-propyl magnesium bromide in the presence of a cataly- tic amount of bis(neomenthyl cyclopentadienyl) titanium dichloride, while diaryl ketches afforded reduction coupling product-pinacols under the similar reaction condition. Aliphatic and aromatic esters were also reduced to the corresponding. primary alcohols by Grignard reagent in the presence of the same catalyst. A possible mechanism is suggested.


The Court of Justice's decision in Skanska constituted a milestone in the development of the rules on private enforcement of EU competition law. The Court settled the widely disputed question as to whether or not the concept "undertaking" has the same scope under the rules relating to public and private enforcement of competition law. The Court answered this question positively and deduced that the theory of economic continuity developed in EU competition law also applies in cases for damages caused by the infringement of the EU competition rules.

Shortly after the Skanska decision a Dutch Court of Appeal deduced from the Skanska decision that a subsidiary can be held liable for damages caused by an infringement of the competition rules by its parent company.

The case note discusses whether this indeed follows from the Skanska decision in light of the Court of Justice's earlier case law on the theory of parent company liability and it relationship to the concept "undertaking".


This thesis provides an account of the storage strategies for mitigation of excess electricity production (EEP) from wind energy in the Oresund region of Denmark and southern Sweden, characterized by an increasing share of wind power. Hydrogen is a versatile storage technology with potential in both large and small scale options, and for utilization in several application areas. TIS framework and strategic niche management are used for analyzing the findings. It is found that hydrogen and storage systems are emerging technologies, which have greater potential than is being realized currently. This is primarily due to low articulation of demand, technological and regulatory factors.


For domestic condenser tubes using sea water for cooling,the titanium tubes are used widely,and the copper alloy tubes are used seldom due to water pollution and copper deposition.In foreign countries,not only the titanium tubes but also the super ferritic stainless steel tubes are widely used in the sea water cooled condenser.The accordance of tube material selection for sea water cooled condenser was discoursed,the various factors which must be considered in tube material selection were analyzed.


The purpose of these notes is twofold. First, it is an attempt to update the brief chapter on synchrotron radiation in the book by Mike Syphers and me[1]. Second, an immediate context for application of this material is the emittance transfer experiment under assembly at Fermilab[2]. When we were putting together the material for the book about twenty years ago, synchrotron radiation was mostly an irritation in the construction of accelerators for high energy physics. For electron synchrotrons, the main problem was the provision of enough RF acceleration to overcome the radiation loss per turn. Even in the case of proton synchrotrons of sufficiently high energy such as the LHC, radiation from protons was would be a major contributor to the cryogenic heat load and a vacuum system design problem.


The aim of this paper is to show a possibility to identify multivariate distribution by means of specially constructed one-dimensional random variable. We give some inequalities which may appear to helpful for a construction of multivariate two-sample tests.
Key words: inequalities; multivariate distributions; two-sample tests


According to a new report, primary school teachers in England are scared of basic numeracy. This report goes onto say that they should be required to study English and maths at A Level.


This study is the second part of an ongoing investigation that intends to f ill the research gap on consumers' preferences for frozen fried potatoes (FFP) by analyzing this market in an important urban area of a Latin American country, Argentina, where the demand for these products is swiftly growing. This article intends to explore consumers' heterogeneous preferences for health and nutritional attributes of FFP driven by demographic variables. Then, it identifies the relationship of price sensitivity and substitution patterns based on the individuals' demographic characteristics. Finally, it assesses the advantages of accounting for this heterogeneity-in-preferences estimation in order to obtain accurate implications for suppliers' decisions.


During the period of August 1995 through January 1996, I was appointed, "Visiting Scholar" at Michigan State University, where I had done my undergraduate work in Advertising from 1981-1988. Durin ...


The current work reports the role of cycloartenol synthase Rhizophora stylosa (RsCAS) and Kandelia candel (KcCAS) in the amino acid residue and the contribution from cycloartenol to the phytosterol synthase. Observation of the amino acid sequence highlights the significance of active sites of plant cycloartenol synthases using the CLUSTALW software. The phytosterol profile in the roots and leaves of R. stylosa and K. candel were analyzed using GC-FID and GC-MS. The residues of amino acid indicated for Tyr410 focused on the cycloartenol synthase in KcCAS and RsCAS, reinforcing the catalytic significance of this residue. The phytosterol pattern showed that 13-sitosterol is the main phytosterol composition both plants either in leaves or roots. This work found small content from cycloartenol of the leaves in K. Candel and R. stylosa, supporting those genes are involving for the phytosterol biosynthesis in these tree species.


Aiming at the importance of final accounts of building engineering,how to do well the final account of building engineering was discussed in deeply,and the problems need attention were strengthened from risk forecasting on bidding,changing in construction stage and the collecting of claims and material file,so as to ensure the reasonability of final accounts of engineering.


An evaluation of containment transient pressure due to the particulate debris/water/concrete interaction under severe accident conditions is presented for a pressurized water reactor with a large dry containment building. A particulate debris/water/concrete model is developed and incorporated into the MARCH computer code. Comparisons with the existing MARCH molten debris/concrete model were performed for the TMLB' and SD sequences. The results yield a much slower concrete decomposition rate and release less gases into the containment atmosphere. Contrary to the molten debris model, the particulate debris model exhibits a strong interaction with water and causes a higher containment pressure. The effect of gas influx on the debris bed heat transfer was found to be insignificant.


One of the important aspect of China's further implementing the western development under the new condition is paying more emphasis on ecological and...


Due to the impending need for raw materials coinciding with supply restraints, new opportunities have to be found and existing structures further developed to secure access to certain raw materials in the European Union (EU). Especially in the context of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE), access to raw materials is of major importance as various strategic raw materials, as defined by the EU, are used for the manufacture of EEE. Scarcity is expected to be the main driver for raw material sourcing policies in the future. The importance of improved collection and recycling of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) to gain access to secondary raw material sources therefore is crucial.


The objective of this work was to optimize extraction process and to validate the HPLC-DAD method for quantification of ascorbic acid content in mixed juice powder of acerola and seriguela with different dextrose equivalent maltodextrin (5, 10, 15) as an encapsulating agent. The influence of the extraction variables was studied through factorial design. Control variables were mass, percent of orthophosphoric acid and stirring time. Chromatographic method was validated in terms of precision, selectivity, linearity and accuracy. Chromatographic and titrimetry results were compared for all dextrose equivalent. Mass and percentage of orthophosphoric acid presented p 0.05. There were no significant differences among the dextrose equivalents ranging from 2,830.1 mg/100 g to 2,931.61 mg/100 g of ascorbic acid. Both values, intra and intermediary precision test coefficients of variation were less than 5%. The correlation coefficient was 0.99. Respective value of limit of detection was 0.001 mg/mL and for quantification was 0.003 mg/mL. The application of HPLC-DAD method can be considered acceptable for quantification ascorbic acid in fruit powder.


Absolute Monte Carlo predictions of the combined x-ray production and energy deposition in low-Z (Al) and high-Z (Ta) encapsulated thermoluminescent dosimeters for a 0.75-MeV electron/bremsstrahlung source have been experimentally verified over a large range of encapsulation thicknesses and conditions. The effect of the Al is primarily manifested by an alteration in the x-ray flux reaching the active CaF2 material in the dosimeter. For Ta encapsulation, however, there is clear evidence of high-Z/low-Z interface phenomena, where both fluorescence and photoelectrons from the Ta make significant contributions to enhanced energy deposition in the CaF2. During the experiment, this interface enhancement-factor for the encapsulation relative to Al encapsulation was measured directly. The good agreement between the absolute predictions and measurements reported here represents an important verification of the Monte Carlo model for predicting integral interface phenomena.


Adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) represents an enormous public health challenge in the US, with an estimated incidence of 140.7 per 100 000 persons per year.1 Of the 347 322 cases of OHCA assessed by emergency medical services (EMS) in 2015, 52% underwent resuscitation efforts with 10.4% of these surviving to hospital discharge.1 There is, however, significant regional variation in the incidence of, mortality due to, and survival to discharge associated with OHCA.2 Historically, management of OHCA in the US was guided by the model of rapidly transporting the patient to a hospital, in contrast to the model used in France and Germany of treating the patient at the scene.3 The promise of multiple potential in-hospital OHCA therapies4,5 and recent research into potential innovations in the out-of-hospital management6,7 have only fueled the debate between these 2 models, which in EMS parlance have been described, respectively, as "scoop and run" and "stay and play."8


In this thesis we aim to develop a framework for graph characterization by combining the methods from spectral graph theory and manifold learning theory. The algorithms are applied to graph clustering, graph matching and object recognition. Spectral graph theory has been widely applied in areas such as image recognition, image segmentation, motion tracking, image matching and etc. The heat kernel is an important component of spectral graph theory since it can be viewed as describing the flow of information across the edges of the graph with time. Our first contribution is to investigate how to extract useful and stable invariants from the graph heat kernel as a means of clustering graphs. The best set of invariants are the heat kernel trace, the zeta function and its derivative at the origin. We also study heat content invariants. The polynomial co-efficients can be computed from the Laplacian eigensystem. Graph clustering is performed by applying principal components analysis to vectors constructed from the invariants or simply based on the unitary features extracted from the graph heat kernel. We experiment with the algorithms on the COIL and Oxford-Caltech databases. We further investigate the heat kernel as a means of graph embedding. The second contribution of the thesis is the introduction of two graph embedding methods. The first of these uses the Euclidean distance between graph nodes. To do this we equate the spectral and parametric forms of the heat kernel to com-


In order to standardize the new prosthetic and orthotic engineering undergraduate education,Capital Medical University and its subordinate rehabilitation medicine school and biomedical engineering school are organized together to build new professional construction platform,and form a closely integrated medical and engineering talent training mode,especially a series of reform,practice and exploration in the areas of cultivation program design,compiling teaching materials,teachers team and the laboratory construction,practice teaching and the international certification and so on,achieving the international prosthetic and orthotic engineering senior talents training target.


Through analyzing modern epistemology and psychology,Mannheim created sociology of knowledge whose core views included that environment determines knowledge,group knowledge determines individual knowledge.He believed that previous theories of knowledge were the product of party politics,and sociology of knowledge was to establish a knowledge system which served for human and was non-partisan and purely objective.Since it lacks overall grasp of social issues and integrated study method,Mannheim's sociology of knowledge seems to be abstract,inane and difficult to achieve although it deepened the study on knowledge in the dimension of existentialism.


During epidemics, there is a critical need to understand both the likely number of infections and their time course to inform both public health and health care system responses. Approaches to forecasting the course of an epidemic vary and can include simulating the dynamics of disease transmission and recovery1,2 or empirical fitting of data trends.3 A common approach is to use epidemic compartmental models, such as the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model.1,2


Hence this article focuses on innovation in Textile wastewater treatment with emphasis on integration of Advanced Oxidation Technology (AOT) leading to complete treatment and mineralization of dyes and chemicals, reduction in sludge generation, bypassing bioremediation or integrating AOT with existing biological treatment systems to improve biodegradability, reduce load on downstream tertiary treatment and help in achieving ZLD and enhance water reuse efficiency, together making overall wastewater treatment much more affordable and sustainable.


A green‐colored marine unicell has been grown in unialgal culture and its morphology, chloroplast fine structure, and chlorophyll composition investigated. The organism is typical of dinoflagellates in its shape, flagellation, nucleus, mitochondria, and trichocysts. It is similar to Gymnodinium but possesses fine body scales. Chloroplasts and two kinds of vesicles bounded by double membranes, but no organelles obviously identifiable as nuclei or mitochondria, are associated in ribosome‐dense cytoplasm separated by a double membrane from the dinophycean cytoplasm. The chloroplasts are unlike any previously reported for dinoflagellates. Each is enclosed by an envelope consisting of a double membrane. Chloroplast lamellae consist of three appressed thylakoids. Interlamellar pyrenoids are present. Pigment analysis reveals chlorophylls a and b but not chlorophyll c. It seems likely that the organism is an undescribed dinoflagellate containing an endosymbiont with chlorophylls a and b and that the reduction of the endosymbiont nucleus and mitochondria has permitted a more initmate symbiosis.


Surface electronic states associated with defects produced by Ar-ion bombardment of TiO/sub 2/ crystals have been studied by ultraviolet-photoemission, electron-energy-loss, and Auger spectroscopy and low-energy-electron diffraction. Evidence is given for three distinct phases dependent upon the extrinsic surface-defect concentration. Phase I contains isolated surface states 0.7 eV below the conduction band, phase II is associated with the creation of Ti/sup 3 +/ pairs, and phase III consists of a surface layer or ordered Ti/sub 2/O/sub 3/. (AIP)


1550 nm optical transmission is the preferred technology to span long distances in hybrid-fiber-coax networks. In order to achieve a good transmission performance, however, impairments induced by Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS), Self-Phase Modulation (SPM) and chirp have to be avoided. This paper presents the results of investigations on impairments with respect to standard single mode fiber as well as advanced fiber types such as non-zero dispersion shifted fibers and wide band attenuation optimized fibers.


A small triple-reflection-type polariser has been designed, whereby one component can be swung away enabling unpolarised light to be obtained without breaking vacuum. The polariser has the additional advantage that it can easily be attached to the frequently used DC glow discharge lamp. The test of the polariser by angle-resolved UV photoelectron spectroscopy on CO adsorbed on Ni (001) is discussed. The transmission of the polariser is found to be 10% with an estimated degree of polarisation of more than 80%.


. Let A be a Malcev algebra, B be an ideal of A and J2(B) = J(B, A, A) where J(B, A, A) is the linear subspace of A spanned by all elements of the form J(x, y, z) =(xy)z +(yz)x + (zxry, x € B,y, z e A. For k > 1, define J^*l(B) = /(/*(B), A, A). Then B is called /~-potent if there exists an integer N > 1 such that J~(B) = 0. Now let A be a Malcev algebra over a field of characteristic 0 such that the radical R of A is /,-potent. Then R is complemented by a semisimple subalgebra and all such complements are strictly conjugate in A. The proofs follow those in the Lie algebra case. In


Part I: Appleton, A Developmental Framework for Understanding Children's Anxiety. Appleton, Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: A Brief Outline. Appleton, Help for Children Experiencing Severe and Complex Anxiety: A Brief Outline. Part II: Trickey, Experiencing Refugee Status After Previous Trauma. Richardson, Edge, Foster Family Change and Transition for a Looked-after Child. Bryon, Prevention of Disabling Fear and Anxiety in a Young Child and Family: A Case Illustration Following a Traumatic Accident. Appleton, Co-occuring Aggressive Behaviour and Anxiety - At Home and School: Developing a Formulation. Humphrey, Anxiety and Asperger's Syndrome. Bell, Complex Anxiety in an Adolescent with a Learning Disability: The Girl Who Split Off Her Stupidity. White, Jackson, Health Anxieties Within a Family Context. Appleton, Panic Disorder in the Context of Family Change and Transition. Appleton, Gaining Autonomy and Independence, Following Earlier Experiences of Maltreatment and Peer Victimisation. Part III: Appleton, Conclusion.


Personal health record is web based application that allows people to access and co-ordinate their lifelong health information .The patient centric secure sharing of PHR is achieved by storing them in a third party server, such as cloud server. Cloud server provides a promising platform for storage of data. Each patient is promised the full control of his/her medical records and can share his/her health data with a wide range of users, including healthcare providers, family members or friends. The Patient's only decide which set of users can access which set of files .To achieve fine-grained date access control for personal health records, use attribute based encryption to encrypt the data before outsourcing. This paper focuses on the multiple data owner scenario, and divides the users in the PHR system into multiple security domain that greatly reduces the key management complexity for owners and users. For multiple authority based access control mechanism, use Multi Authority Based Encryption (MA-ABE).