Inspired by Shalev's model of loss aversion, we investigate the effect of loss aversion on a bimatrix game where the payoffs in the bimatrix game are characterized by triangular fuzzy variables. First, we define three solution concepts of credibilistic loss aversion Nash equilibria, and their existence theorems are presented. Then, three sufficient and necessary conditions are given to find the credibilistic loss aversion Nash equilibria. Moreover, the relationship among the three credibilistic loss aversion Nash equilibria is discussed in detail. Finally, for2×2bimatix game with triangular fuzzy payoffs, we investigate the effect of loss aversion coefficients and confidence levels on the three credibilistic loss aversion Nash equilibria. It is found that an increase of loss aversion levels of a player leads to a decrease of his/her own payoff. We also find that the equilibrium utilities of players are decreasing (increasing) as their own confidence levels when players employ the optimistic (pessimistic) value criterion.


Objective : Recently, there has been a worldwide increase in non-B and non-C hepatocellular carcinoma (NBNC-HCC), which are negative for both markers of hepatitis B and C virus infection. Here, we investigated the role of phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), a negative regulator of the phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase pathway in the development of NBNC-HCC. Materials : A total of 14 patients who received hepatectomy because of NBNC-HCC (NBNC group) were analyzed retrospectively. Nine patients who underwent hepatectomy for liver metastasis of colorectal cancer, were analyzed as the control. Methods : Expression of PTEN and p62, which is a marker of autophagic degradation, was evaluated in background liver, peritumoral region, and tumor by immunohistochemical analysis. Recurrence rate up to 7 years post-surgery was evaluated. Results : The expression of PTEN in the NBNC group was significantly decreased in all regions compared to the control, and it was notably reduced in the tumor. In contrast, the expression of P62 in the tumor of patients of the NBNC group was significantly increased. Recurrence rate at 7 years in NBNC group reached 85%, and recurrence time post-surgery was significantly longer in survivors with strong expression of PTEN in the peritumoral region. Conclusions : These findings indicate that the expression of PTEN decreases in NBNC chronic liver injury, which is possibly related to inhibition of autophagy as a trigger of carcinogenesis and the intrahepatic of NBNC-HCC.


Choosing an optimal congestion flow control mechanism is the most fundamental decision that to be made before transmitting large amount of data through online or offline network. Image resolution and data rate are two things which plays a major role while finding an optimal data rate that overwhelms congestion but doesn't waste network bandwidth. In this paper we propose a new congestion control mechanism ADMIT to overcome existing disadvantages and make its performance become much more efficient. ADMIT is an optimal solution for congestion free Medical Image transmission over a wireless networks and also enables error free visualization of medical images of numerous modalities such as PET, MRI, CT, or microscopy. ADMIT implements, a simple mapping of categorized medical image data to the receiver side instead of transmitting entire content at a time, and provides a standard userinterface and visualization tools, which a consultant or any person at remote sites (via the internet or intranet) can share enough details about the patient or any type of medical image data for analyses, thereby enhancing their ability to diagnose, monitor, and treat medical disorders. The ADMIT provides a basis for selection of the processing content and method in different clinical settings.


Control of venous insufficiency in stasis dermatitis or ulceration, or both, depends on preventing edema.In stasis dermatitis, bed rest and a 30 degree elevation of the lower extremities may be sufficient to alleviate the edema. Further treatment depends on the severity of the skin eruption, infection, etc.Principles of managing ulcerations are essentially the same as in stasis dermatitis; however, in addition to resolving the edema it is necessary to maintain a physiologic pressure gradient.The author describes the pressure-gradient technics which he has used for the past decade in healing stasis ulcers occurring below the knee.


With the support of the Office of Naval Research, 1400 measurements were made during March, 1961, of the ambient noise in a one‐octave band centered at 25 cps, using a bottom‐mounted three‐axis seismometer situated in a shallow water location in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. No pronounced differences were observed among the outputs of the three geophones. Acoustic data and environmental information including wind speed, wind direction, wave height, and tidal data were linearly correlated by electronic computer. The results show that significant correlations exist between the ambient noise and the wind speed, wave height, and the time derivative of the tidal level curve. The latter factor, a measure of tidal current, has a marked association with the sound level and is correlated with changes of the order of 25 db. Both lunar and solar tidal effects were detected. Recent preliminary data obtained with the seismometer buried in the bottom indicated that the greater part of the sound‐level variation can be...


Background: Pyazinamide (PZA) and Ethambutol (ETB) are tuberculosis drugs that can increase uric acidlevels by decreasing excretion and increasing uric acid reabsorption. Increased levels of uric acid can causearthritis, arthralgia and gout.Objective: To evaluate the association of uric acid levels with age, sex and body mass index (BMI) andarthralgia incidence.Method: The study was conducted in the lung outpatient treatment room at the Department of Pulmonologyand Respiratory Medicine. Method were uric acid levels examination before OAT administration, at week2 and 4. Paired t tests and spearman correlation test were used to analyze the association between sex, age,BMI and arthralgia with increased uric acid levels. The incidence of hyperuricemia and arthralgia wereperformed in percentage.Result: Seventeen subjects consisting of 9 (52.9%) males and 8 (47.1%) females who received oral antituberculosiscategory 1 mostly had normal BMI prior to treatment (9 patients, 52.9%). Uric acid levelsincreased significantly (p <0.005) at week 2 and 4 than before Oral Anti Tuberculosis (OAT) treatment.It was found significant relationship (p <0.005) between increased uric acid levels and arthralgia withhyperuricemia incidence of 82.35% and arthralgia incidence of 35.29%. There was no significant association(p <0.005) between increased uric acid levels with sex, age and BMI.Conclusion: It was found a high incidence of hyperuricemia (82.3%) in ETB and PZA treatment whilesymptomatic 35.29%.


Sri Lanka is one of the most attractive tourist destinations in Asia. The tourism industry started to form as a formal industry in 1960s and developed gradually over the years. However, the ethnic conflict which began in early 1980s and dragged over three decades largely obstructed the progress of the tourism industry. With the end of the war in 2009, the tourism industry came to the fore as a strategically important growth sector under the new development policy framework. The main objective of this article was to examine the progress of post-war tourism industry in Sri Lanka. In addition, it attempted to identify the challenges and the existing opportunities for progress. The analysis was mainly based on descriptive approach. The enquiry exposed that many aspects of the tourism sector have improved significantly in the post-war period but the achievements are far behind the targets and the potential of the country and also compared to the accomplishment of peers in the region. Further, estimated ANOVA models suggested that the war has negatively affected tourist arrival and tourism earnings. The SWOT analysis identified the entitlement of tourism capital endowment as the biggest asset for the progress of the tourism industry. Increasing competition of regional peers, anti-Sri Lankan campaign of Tamil Diaspora and increasing trend of the arrival of budget travelers were identified as main threats to the progress.


At present,under the enfluence of social environment,family education and campus environment,college students have such psychological problems as being self-righteous and self-centred,inferiority complex and distrust.In view of the above-mentioned problems,we should infiltrate mental health education into subjects teaching,develop healthy campus cultural activities and establish consutancy service organizations so as to constantly improve college students' psychological qualities of interpersonnel communication.


Three phase multilevel inverters are frequently utilized in moderate and high power industries by minimizing the electromagnetic interference (EMI), enhancing the voltage profile and improving the power capacity. Although various converter topologies are developed for multilevel inverters (MLIs), Z-source MLIs are widely used for higher voltage applications. Z-source MLIs diminishes the total harmonic distortion (THD), and it has good stability and efficacy for various electrical power system applications. This paper aims to develop a three phase Z-source seven-level cascaded H-bridge (CHB) inverter with multicarrier PWM control techniques. The Z-source CHB inverter with multicarrier PWM control is modeled and its performance investigation with shoot through and non-shoot through modes is carried out in MATLAB/Simulink software platform.


Information transmission along well bore plays a very important role in measuring and controlling a well trajectory.At present,drilling fluid pulse is widely used by most of wireless MWD systems,and how to improve the transimission depth and rate is a theme of research for this kind of systems.Based on the static and dynamic model theoretically,the attenuation regular pattern of positive pulse signal is discussed in this paper.The results show that the pulse signal of drilling fluid reciprocates along well bore and gradually declines in a similar way of damped oscillation,and the frequency of signals and the viscosity of drilling fluid are the main controllable factors related to the signal attenuation of drilling mud.


A study was undertaken to assess the inhibitory / allelopathic potential of eugenol–a volatile monoterpene found in Eugenia spp. and several other aromatic plants, against two weedy species viz. Cassia occidentalis and Bidens pilosa. Eugenol significantly inhibited the germination of both the weeds even at very low concentration. However, the effect was more on B. pilosa compared to C. occidentalis. Likewise, the seedling growth measured in terms of seedling length and dry weight of both the test weeds was appreciably reduced in response to the test monoterpene. Not only the growth, even the content of the total chlorophyll and cellular respiration in both the test weeds were appreciably reduced, thereby indicating that eugenol negatively affects the photosynthetic efficiency and the energy metabolism of the weed species. Based on the study, it is concluded that eugenol possesses weed-suppressing ability and can be used for future weed management programmes either directly or by serving as a lead molecule.


. The article substantiates the need for an integrated approach to the analysis of the reliability of automated process control systems, taking into account IEC 61508 / IEC 61511 standards. It is proposed to take into account both the hazard and the level of importance of a particular failure of the components of an automated process control system. The methodology for taking into account the reliability indicators of APCS differs from those considered earlier by a different priority function, taking into account possible destabilizing factors affecting the redundancy system. It is important that in order to achieve the required level of system safety, it should be ensured that it achieves the indicators set by the Safety Integrity Level. Such indicators are SFF and the probability of dangerous failures, in particular, such a failure will be considered a failure of a module operating hazardous energies or chemicals. The article considers a typical example of a chemically hazardous production (a section of the polycarbonate production process). The results presented in the article illustrate the effectiveness of the developed method and its applicability to the analysis and improvement of the APCS reliability indicators. An example of chemical production is considered; however, it should be noted that the proposed method can be applied to a wide range of technological processes in hazardous industry.


1. Variations in the relative biovolumes of dominant cyanobacterial taxa were evaluated in the context of environmental conditions using canonical correlation analysis (CCorrA) and Redundancy Analysis (RDA). The objective was to test a conceptual model in which underwater irradiance determines dominance by bloom-forming (high light adapted) or non-blooming (low light adapted) taxa.

2. The data set consisted of 404 contiguous observations, collected over a 3-year period at eight pelagic sites, in shallow Lake Okeechobee, Florida, U.S.A. Data included species biovolumes, total phosphorus (TP), total nitrogen (TN), dissolved oxygen (DO) and chlorophyll a concentrations, as well as two indices: underwater irradiance (Secchi depth) and the ratio of Secchi:total depth.

3. The first environmental canonical variable was strongly correlated with the two light-related indices, and negatively correlated with TP. This reflects the predominant role of resuspended P-rich lake sediments in controlling underwater irradiance in the shallow lake. The first species canonical variable displayed a strong negative correlation with Lyngbya limnetica and L. contorta, and positive correlations with Anabaena circinalis, Aphanizomenon flos aquae and Microcystis spp. The results support the conceptual model; the first pair of canonical variables explained 55% of the variation in the species–environmental data set. RDA results provided further support for the hypothesis that irradiance was the major force controlling community structure.

4. One unexpected result was a positive association between Oscillatoria spp. dominance and indicators of high irradiance. This conflicts with past research indicating that Oscillatoria is a low light adapted taxon, and the finding that it is the most abundant taxon in Lake Okeechobee. This may reflect the fact that the two Lyngbya taxa were more strongly associated with low light conditions than Oscillatoria. CCorrA results indicated that Oscillatoria densities are strongly controlled by water temperature. There is a need for more detailed studies of cyanobacteria ecophysiology in order to explain fully the seasonality of phytoplankton in this and other shallow subtropical lakes.


The number of web pages is growing at an exponential rate, accumulating massive amounts of data on the web. It is one of the key processes to classify webpages in web information mining. Some classical methods are based on manually building features of web pages and training classifiers based on machine learning or deep learning. However, building features manually requires specific domain knowledge and usually takes a long time to validate the validity of features. Considering webpages generated by the combination of text and HTML Document Object Model(DOM) trees, we propose a representation and classification method based on a pre-trained language model and graph neural network, named PLM-GNN. It is based on the joint encoding of text and HTML DOM trees in the web pages. It performs well on the KI-04 and SWDE datasets and on practical dataset AHS for the project of scholar's homepage crawling.


1,1-Disubstituted 3-aryl-2-propyn-1-ols undergo regio- and stereoselective cross-coupling on treatment with bis(trimethylsilyl)acetylene in the presence of a rhodium catalyst via cleavage of C(sp)-C(sp3) and C(sp)-Si bonds to produce the corresponding 2-hydroxymethyl-(E)-enynes. The subsequent desilylative Sonogashira coupling followed by base-promoted cyclization affords fluorescent dihydrofuran derivatives.


© The National Medical Journal of India 2015 This March (2015), I was privileged to be part of a selection committee at a national institute. We interviewed candidates for several posts of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor. Since the institute is highly reputed, there were several applicants for each post, from all parts of India. Working from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on four weekends, we studied the competences and capabilities of hundreds of candidates. When a series of candidates disappointed the 12 or more members of the committee and the two independent observers appointed by the institute to ensure fairness and justice, there was general depression in the room. When—as was usual on most days—one or two or three outstanding candidates appeared, there was joy. These young scientists were so good that they would have been grabbed by any of the major scientific institutes anywhere in the world. The cumulative experience of all the committee members and consequent discussions at lunch breaks resulted in some ideas that might help those aspiring to appointments in our major organizations.


This work highlights the various methods of lighting in a documentary film, also seeks to optimize the definition of documentary as such. And finally it defines the light and intro-duces the lighting techniques.


By definition, differential item functioning (DIF) refers to unequal probabilities of a correct response to a test item by examinees from two groups when controlled for their ability differences. Simulation results are presented for an attempt to purify a test by separating out multidimensional items under the assumption that the intent of the test constructors was to construct a unidimensional test for a given population. The procedure used to arrive at the purified and essentially unidimensional subtest used the multidimensional theory of DIF/bias proposed by Shealy and Stout (1993) and the statistical procedure DIMTEST for assessing essential unidimensionality. When applicable, the proposed methodology leads to a statistically validated construct valid subtest that can be used in the matching criterion for DIF/bias analysis. This methodology can be applied to an internal or external matching criterion. It is only applicable when the majority of test items are tapping the intended ability for a given population, while a few items are tapping other major abilities in addition to the intended ability. This method is not applicable when DIF/bias is pervasive. Ten tables summarize analysis results. (Contains 28 references.) (SLD) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************


Oxidization effects on transport properties have been investigated for half-metallic Sr2FeMoO6+δ film. Contents of the excess oxygen (δ) for the heat-treated films were estimated from elongation of the lattice constant c. With the increase of δ, the magnitude of magnetoresistance (-Δρ/ρ0 at 3 T) increases at 100 K from 0.2% at δ=0.09 to1.4% at δ=0.94. We interpret this enhancement in term of the spatial inhomogeneity of δ and resultant tunneling-type magnetoresistance beyond the insulating region with δloc≥0.5.


OBJECTIVE
We have previously demonstrated that reactive oxygen species (ROS) are involved in cartilage degradation. Decreased size of hyaluronan (HA), the major macromolecule in synovial fluid, to which it imparts viscosity, is reported in patients with arthritis. The purpose of this study was to determine the alteration in the molecular weight range of HA as a result of mechanical deformation loaded on the chondrocytes, as well as the involvement of ROS in this action.

METHODS
ROS were generated via the oxidation of hypoxanthine by xanthine oxidase. Cyclic tensile stretch was loaded using a vacuum-operated instrument. Levels of HA were measured using a sandwich enzyme-binding assay. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and ROS were measured using water-soluble tetrazolium and a chemiluminescent probe, respectively.

RESULTS
ROS depolymerized HA molecules. Cyclic tensile stretch depolymerized HA and induced ROS. SOD inhibited not only ROS induction but also HA depolymerization caused by the mechanical stress.

CONCLUSION
ROS play an important role in mechanical stress-induced HA depolymerization.


This contribution 1 compares the recently proposed Pseudo-Random-Postfix OFDM (PRP-OFDM) modulation scheme with the standard Cyclic-Prefix OFDM (CP-OFDM) modulator in the context of channel estimation and tracking. The PRP-OFDM modulation grants low-complexity channel impulse response (CIR) estimation in the receiver avoiding the usual overhead required for CP-OFDM in terms of preambles, pilot tones, etc. The evaluation criterion is the mean square error (MSE) of the CIR estimates and the overall system capacity. Results are given for the static context and for Doppler scenario s with a mobility of 30 m/s at a carrier frequency of 60 GHz.


Development journalism basically centres around how much freedom the media should have i.e. should they be able to publish whatever they wish to publish, at any time, or should there be controls and limits on this? In particular, how should they treat the government of the country? And, looking even more closely, how should they treat the government of a developing country? In such a case the government may have a difficult development task to do, because of poverty and a shortage of different resources. Thus the support of the media may be important to them in performing this task.


Archaeology has two main objectives: acquire greater knowledge of historical processes and provide value to cultural heritage. The latter contains the intent to create resources which can benefit local communities. The existence of said assets foreseeably attracts more tourists, which results in greater capital inflow from tourism. Nonetheless, there is rarely any assessment of whether a) these tourists really do come and b) if their arrival really facilitates the sustainability of the communities. In this article we will explore the inconsistencies of this transfer mechanism, and the dissociation between tourism benefit and sustainability.


Objective:To investigate the classification of basilar invagination so as to provide a criterion for surgery determination.Method:70 cases suffering basilar invagination determined by radiography,CT and MRI from March 2007 to March 2010 in our hospital were divided into two groups(stable group and unstable group) based on present of atlas-occipital or atlas-axis dislocation.The deformities such as occipital-atlas fusion,Chiari malformation,slippage of the axis facets,syringomyelia were recorded.Several parameters including clivus slope,distance from odontoid to Chamberlain line and distance form odontoid to foramen magnum line were measured,and the spine medulla compression and the surgical approach of each group were recorded respectively.Result:20 cases were termed as stable and 50 as unstable.Among the stable group,there were 18 Chiari deformity(90%) and 15 syringomyelia(75%);while among the unstable group,there were 2 Chiari deformity(4%),46 occipital-atalas fusion(92%),37 slippage of upper facets(74%),and 43 syringomyelia(86%).And the clivus slope angle was 168°±5° and 133°±11° for stable and unstable group respectively(P0.05);the distance from odontoid to the Chamberlain line was -4.8±4.2mm and -5.6±3.7mm for stable and unstable group respectively(P0.05);and the distance form odontoid to the foramen magnum line was 0.5±0.3mm and -6.9±2.9mm for stable and unstable group respectively(P0.05).In the stable group,2 cases complicated with ventral medulla compression,11 with dorsal and 7 cases with both underwent the posterior cranial fossa decompression;while all 50 unstable cases(44 with ventral and 6 with both ventral and dorsal medulla compressions) experienced transoral anterior release and instrumentation.Conclusion:The basilar invagination can be divided into two types based on present of atlas-occipital or atlas-axis dislocation,which is used to differentiate the anatomic and clinical characters for both groups and to determine the correspondent surgical approach.


The earthquake that struck Southern California at 4:31 A.M. Pacific Time on January 17, 1994 was responsible for 61 deaths, more than 9,000 injuries and $30 million in damages. From its epicenter in the Northridge section of the San Fernando Valley, about 20 mi northwest of downtown Los Angeles, the 6.6 Richter magnitude earthquake, located on a previously unmapped fault, was felt from San Diego to Las Vegas. The Northridge earthquake collapsed six bridges on major freeways, crippling highway travel in auto-dependent Los Angeles; broke natural gas and water pipelines; and damaged or destroyed 45,000 residences alone. The extent and broad scope of the damage—affecting virtually every aspect of the built environment—was extraordinary, given the relatively moderate intensity of the earthquake. In the days after the earthquake, CE's editors spoke with volunteers on site, seismic experts receiving early reports, Caltrans officials and others about their impressions of the damage and its implications for retrofit of existing structures and future design of bridges, buildings and lifelines.


At present, leading and ordinary employees engaged in informatization at the federal level have fuzzy ideas about the advantages of digital government and the transformation of e-government into a digital government, which hampers the introduction of relevant breakthrough technologies into the electronic government and the automation of government decision-making processes, keeping their quality at a low level. The authors of this work have studied the available online materials on the development of the US e-government and its transformation into the digital government, as well as reports of the company Accenture on the state and prospects of digital governments in the world until 2030. The US digital government was chosen because the US was the first country announced the successful completion of the corresponding initiative in mid-2013. In addition, the United States has a priority in the creation, production, and implementation of breakthrough innovative information and communication technologies that lead to a change in traditional business models in the private and public sectors. Now, when the question arose about Russia's participation, both in the global digital economy and in the regional digital economy of the EAEC, our study provides a basis for more meaningful tasks for transforming Russia's electronic government into a digital government of the digital economy .


We present guidelines for teaching students how to analytically solve problems that involve inhomogeneous media in electrostatic fields, stationary current fields, and stationary magnetic fields. At the introductory level, the focus is on recognizing classes of problems that can be solved in closed form and applying simple rules, based on comparison with solutions in homogeneous media. At the intermediate level, the focus is on strict proofs based on vector calculus.


Abstract A new way of structuring and interpretation of multiple domain matrix is proposed as the basis for categorisation of design parameter relations complexity. Depending on the kind and the degree of coupling of the parameters, the developed methodology activates the appropriate coloured Petri net (CPN) models for semi-automatic support of communication between the members of the design team. The proposed extension of MDM combined with CPN is a novel approach to predicting and managing communication patterns necessary during teamwork coordination on critical interfaces between product components.


PET image reconstruction using regularisation algorithms can provide good image quality and ensure convergence with suitable parameter selections, however they usually require many iterations to do so. A list-mode form of the BSREM regularised algorithm for PET image reconstruction is presented, with an acceleration technique whereby the number of list-mode events used in each subset is increased with increasing iteration number. This allows for quick convergence in early iterations, and avoids noise propagation from "small" subsets as well as limit cycles in later iterations.


This paper is devoted to a stochastic differential game of functional forward-backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE, for short). The associated upper and lower value functions of the stochastic differential game are defined by controlled functional backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs, for short). Applying the Girsanov transformation method introduced by Buckdahn and Li [1], the upper and the lower value functions are shown to be deterministic. We also generalize the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman-Isaacs (HJBI, for short) equations to the path-dependent ones. By establishing the dynamic programming principal (DPP, for short), the upper and the lower value functions are shown to be the viscosity solutions of the corresponding upper and the lower path-dependent HJBI equations, respectively.


"The Sugar -Cane" - a poem Grainger's preface to the 1764 edition Book I Book II Book III Book IV Grainger's notes to "The Sugar-Cane". Appendices: "Great Homer deigned to sing of little mice" Bryan and Pereene Colonel Martin's directions for planting and sugar-making Ramsay's account of plantation day. Additional notes to "The Sugar-Cane".


Abstract Novel benzocyclobutene derivatives, 3-mercaptobicyclo[4.2.0]octa-1,3,5-triene (2), and 3-chlorosulfonylbicyclo[4.2.0]octa-1,3,5-triene (3), have been synthesized in good yields from easily accessible bromobenzocyclobutene 5.


Applying theories of Vector geometry and differential calculus,this paper aims to infer the internal force and geometry equations for curved beam,whose axis curve is parabola and being distributing-load.The equations can be described with functions in Cartesian Coordinate System.In order to testify whether these equations are correct,this paper,by making the parameters approach limits,designs to get the internal force and geometric equations to completely regress to those for straight beam.The curved beam employed in this paper is regarded as a space curve,without taking the section size into consideration,what we obtained is just the internal force and curvature expressions in different section,and concrete distribution of stress in sections is not related.


Methodology for active structural control using neural networks has been proposed by Ghaboussi and his co-workers 1-8 in the past several years. The control algorithm in the mathematically formulated methods is replaced by a neural network controller (neuro-controller). Neuro-controllers have been developed and applied in linear and nonlinear structural control. Neuro-controllers are trained with the aid of the emulator neural networks. The emulator neural network is trained to learn the transfer function between the actuator signal and the sensor reading and it uses that past values of these quantities to predict the future values of the sensor readings. In this paper, we apply the previously developed neuro-control method in the benchmark problem of the active tendon system. The emulator neural network is developed and trained using the evaluation model given in the benchmark problem which is considered to be the true representation of the active tendon system. However, a reduced-order model has been developed and used, along with the emulator neural network, to train the neuro-controller. The evaluation model represents the three story steel frame structure, including the actuator dynamics. The absolute acceleration of the first floor and the actuator piston displacement are used as feedback. Three neuro-controllers, with different control criteria, have been developed and their performances have been evaluated with the prescribed performances indexes. The robustness of the neuro-controllers in the presence of some severe uncertainties, has also been evaluated.


The article deals with the usage of symbols as part of simile. The author speaks of the primary symbols which are related to the subconscious. The most important things and phenomena of human life were symbolized and regarded as standards or models of human life. Such symbols are used in simile to compare with them other objects.


Objective: To evaluate the role of oral rifampicin in the management of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy. Methods: Retrospective analysis of patients diagnosed with chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (duration >3 months) and treated with oral rifampicin 600 mg daily for a maximum period of 3 months was carried out. Baseline visual acuity, fundus fluorescein angiography, and optical coherence tomography were recorded and the patients were followed up. Resolution of subretinal fluid and improvement in visual acuity were the main outcome measures. Recurrence of subretinal fluid was noted. Any adverse reaction to the drug was monitored. Results: Nine eyes of eight patients were included in the study. The average age of the patients was 41.90 years (range 32–52 years). Mean duration of symptoms was 16 months (range 3–60 months). Mean duration of follow-up was 10.11 months (range 3–33 months). Fluorescein angiography showed four eyes with subfoveal leaks and five eyes with diffuse retinal pigment epitheliopathy. Complete resolution of subretinal fluid was achieved in four of the nine eyes – two patients at the end of 1 month, one patient each at the end of 2 and 3 months, respectively. Visual acuity improvement was noted in four of the nine eyes. Three patients had one-line improvement and one patient had a two-line visual improvement. None of the patients had severe adverse events for which the drug had to be discontinued. None of the patients had recurrence of subretinal fluid after the discontinuation of the drug. Conclusion: Oral rifampicin could provide a useful, effective, and cost-effective alternative for treatment of patients with chronic central serous choroidopathy and evidence of healthier retinal pigment epithelium, those with focal leakage. It was not effective in eyes with diffuse retinal pigment epitheliopathy.


OBJECTIVE
To analyze the normative and regulatory support of the state policy of development of health resort business in Russia and organizational and methodological aspects of its implementation, including those in emergency and coronavirus pandemic.

MATERIAL AND METHODS
The following current methods of community hygienic and medical-organizational research were applied: analytical, statistical, best practice study, monographic, etc. Data from state and departmental official sources, statistical books, scientific publications, and other sources were studied.

RESULTS
The main normative, regulatory, organizational and methodological aspects of the strategy implementation, developed in accordance with the order of the Government of the Russian Federation «On approval of the development strategy of the health-resort complex of the Russian Federation» dated 26.11.18 №2581-p were analyzed. Some discrepancies in the state and departmental statistics of health-resort organizations were found. The nomenclature of the health-resort area was reviewed, and the used term «health-resort treatment» was criticized, which does not correspond to the parts of this type of daily practice medical care, unlike the concepts «health-resort care» or «health-resort business». The article presents the author's vision of the issue of normative and organizational support of health-resort organizations in an emergency such as COVID-19 pandemic since 2020.

CONCLUSIONS
It is shown that the national and local experience of coronavirus infection control contributed to the development of a considerable number of federal regulatory documents in a short time frame. The publication describes an analysis and systematic review of the most important documents, including those related to the spa resorts. Addressing the demanding challenges of further development of the country's health-resort complex largely relies on the state of its facilities and resources. However, its objective analysis is hindered by the identified significant discrepancies in the state and departmental statistic data concerning the number of functioning health-resort organizations and its change over time. As opposed to the concept of «health-resort treatment», the term «health-resort care» most accurately describes its complexity.


This paper introduces the design and execution steps of using mind mappings to perform seminar based instruction on linear system stability in the course of Automatic Control Principles.Practical teaching effects show that the seminar based instruction method based on mind mappings is helpful to cultivate the ability of thinking and innovation of students,enhance their enthusiasm and go-aheadism of studying,and strengthen their understanding to the basic conception and principles in the curriculum.


We have performed large-scale density-matrix renormalization group studies of the lightly doped Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice on long three and four-leg cylinders. We find that the ground state of the system upon lightly doping is consistent with that of a superconducting state with coexisting quasi-long-range superconducting and charge density wave orders. Both the superconducting and charge density wave correlations decay as a power law at long distances with corresponding exponents $K_{sc}<2$ and $K_c<2$. On the contrary, the spin-spin and single-particle correlations decay exponentially, although with relatively long correlation lengths.


Rhodiola heterodanta belong to the stone crop family Crassulaceae, is an important medicinal plant and food crop in Trans-Himalayan cold desert. It is a well-known medicinal plant in the Amchi system of medicine (Tibetan system of medicine) being used in various ailments like anti-stress, anticancer, radio-protective, adaptogens, anti-inflammatory agent etc. Methanolic extract of R. heterodanta root was investigated in the present study to quantify total Phenolic content as well as anti-oxidant activity. Determination of total phenolic content of the methanol extract of R. heterodanta was achieved using Folin–Ciocalteau reagent. It was found to be 179.42±.63 mg GAE/g plant extract. The DPPH activity of the extract (0.05–0.5 mg/ml) was increased in a dose dependent manner, which was found in the range of (25.38-73.69%) as compared to ascorbic acid (31.48 – 77.17%). The IC50 values of methanol extract in DPPH radical, hydroxyl radical, nitric oxide radical and superoxide radical were obtained to be 0.28, 0.27, 0.28, 0.26 mg/ml, respectively. However, the IC50 values for the standard ascorbic acid were noted to be 0.21, 0.24, 0.22., 0.19 mg/ml, respectively. These results clearly indicate that R. heterodanta is effective against free radical mediated diseases and also helpful to draw special attention for further studies.


Objective: Amino-terminal propeptide of C-type natriuretic peptide (NTproCNP) is a synthesis product of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP). In this study, plasma levels of NTproCNP were compared before and after exercise in healthy young subjects who are physically active (PA) or not physically active (NPA). Methods: The study was carried on PA group (n=10) who defined the exercise duration more than 2.5 hours per week for at least one year and NPA group (n=10) whose exercise duration was lower than 1.5 hours per week. The level of maximal oxygen consumption was determined. Wingate exercise test was applied on the following day. Plasma NTproCNP levels were measured before the exercise and at the 1st, 5th and 30th minute after the exercise. Results: Exercise duration of physically active group was reported as 11.3±5.0 hours per week. Basal NTproCNP levels of the groups were found to be comparable. NTproCNP levels in the 5th minute (0.93±0.23 pmol/L; p<0.05) and in the 30th minute (0.77±0.21 pmol/L p<0.05) after exercise were higher than the levels before exercise (0.64±0.29 pmol/L) in PA group. Additionally, the plasma levels of NTproCNP after 5th minute of exercise were higher in PA group (0.93±0.23 pmol/L) than NPA group (0.74±0.16 pmol/L, p<0.05). Conclusion: Being physically active may be a fact affecting the secretion of CNP, which plays a protective role in endothelium, following exercise.


The thermal behavior and laser marking of a novel nematic liquid crystalline polymer is explored in this report. The glass transition and mesophase transition temperatures of this material are at 45 and 68°C, respectively, and allow the ready annealing of the nematic phase as well as conversion of the nematic to the isotropic phase by pulsed laser irradiation of metallized or dyed films of the polymer.


Improving the effectiveness of power system restoration planning becomes more important, since a higher NERC standard will be implemented in the near future. Standard EOP-005-2 concerns about the increased risk of large-scale system blackout due to the increased degree of uncertainty, as a very likely consequence of dynamic market activities, integration of large-scale less-dispatchable energy resources and other factors threatening the power system security. This paper presents a discussion of some of the important planning issues for power system restoration following a large-scale blackout. These issues were raised from several system restoration planning projects completed by the authors for several utility companies in Central United States and South China. Current practices at these companies are summarized. In addition, some bottleneck problems in effective restoration planning and possible solutions are suggested.


Having the correct posture is essentially important in our life to make our body functions properly and keeps us healthy. In our previous work, a posture detection system using consumer mobile devices for checking proper posture in a daily exercise was proposed, where, in addition to acceleration values obtained from each device sensor, the possiblitly of using the strength of RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) was investigated for measuring the distance between portable devices. However, we found that the strength of RSSI was unstable for the distance between 90 cm to 160 cm and could not be used for measuring distance. In this study, we show the basic design for tracking positions of human body parts, where the distance between human body parts is measured using sound wave through a set of speaker and microphone that is embedded as standard feature in many of the recent portable devices.


This article presents a consideration of a new robust telemetry (TM) system for future launchers. The main target is to increase the maximum data rate of TM system to at least 5 Mbps with improvements such as more efficient physical layer, advanced antenna solutions, lossless data compression, satellite relays, and adaptive coding and modulation (ACM). An extension module for Network Simulator 3 (ns-3) for launch vehicle (LV) TM communications was developed, which is capable of evaluating the system performance and potential gains of the proposed enhancements. The results show that the proposed telemetry system can reach close to the target capacity with new physical layer modulation and coding scheme and the performance may be further improved with retro directive antenna array and satellite relays.


This article is an illustration of the construction of coherent and generalized intelligent states which has been recently proposed by us for an arbitrary quantum system.1 We treat the quantum system submitted to the infinite square well potential and the nonlinear oscillators. By means of the analytical representation of the coherent states a la Gazeau–Klauder and those a la Klauder–Perelomov, we derive the generalized intelligent states in analytical ways.


The aim of the study was to determine trends for genetic and production parameters in a population of New Hampshire N-11 laying hens over 8 generations. Individual performance testing included body weight at 33 weeks of age (g), egg weight at 30 weeks of age (g), age at puberty expressed as days of age at first egg (days), and number of eggs laid to 39 weeks of age. As a result of implementing the genetic improvement programme based on NOVASEL electronic data processing system, egg production was increased, age at first egg was advanced and body weight of the chickens decreased in the N-11 line. The analysis of estimates of effective popu - lation size (Ne) and coefficients of inbreeding (Fx) shows that the cockerel and hen mating sys - tem used for reproduction effectively protects the population from an increase in inbreeding.


A personal selection of 32 recent papers is presented covering various aspects of current developments in bioorganic chemistry and novel natural products such as jasminoxepinone from Jasminum sambac.


What does it mean for theological anthropology and for soteriology that the notion of a human being is difficult to delineate in light of human evolution? Should the difficulty related to defining what counts as a human being have impact on theological anthropology or soteriology? Instead of offering an affirmative answer to the questions, it is suggested that Niels Henrik Gregersen's notion of Deep Incarnation may prove to be a fruitful point of departure for a more encompassing notion of the whole evolutionary process that allows for a wider notion of soteriology as well. Christology is suggested as the theological answer to the empirical realization that the evolution of humanity is unfinished.


A polysaccharide-rich extract was obtained from Herba Moslae by hot water extraction and purified by fractional precipitation with gradient concentrations of ethanol (20%,30%,40%,50%,60% and 70%). The separated fractions were deproteinized by Sevag method and six purified polysaccharide fractions,named HMP-1 through 6 were obtained. These fractions were subjected to UV-visible spectral analysis,the determination of sugar,soluble protein and uronic acid contents and monosaccharide composition analysis by gas chromatography (GC). Each of these fractions was an acidic polysaccharide,with high protein content. Arabinose and glucose were the main monosaccharides in HMP-1 and HMP-2,arabinose,glucose,galactose and ribose were the main monosaccharides in HMP-3,arabinose,glucose and galactose were the main monosaccharides in HMP-4,and arabinose,glucose,galactose and mannose were the main monosaccharides in HMP-5 and HMP-6. In addition,small amounts of rhamnose and xylose were also detected in each of the six fractions.


This paper describes an algorithm for rapidly and cheaply clustering humans moving in clusters during dense crowd conditions. The algorithm differs from other methods due to a focus on low cost, use of a single robot-mounted RGB-D sensor, and design choices driven by human perception and expectations of appropriate behavior. Use of a human-centered algorithm design process should lead to actions and decisions that are more aligned with human expectations since robots will mimic human perception and guesses during dense crowd motion.


Patient participation in various aspects of healthcare is rapidly expanding. However, patients' preferences with regard to participation in treatment decision-making remain relatively under-explored, as does the congruence between such preferences and patients' perceptions of their actual role in decision-making. The aims of this study were to identify and to compare treatment decision-making role preferences and perceptions of the actual decisional role in a sample of renal patients. A cross-sectional survey was conducted at a single regional renal unit in the North of England. A convenience sample of 405 patients was obtained (pre-dialysis N=155; dialysis N=103; transplant N=147). Preferred and perceived role were identified using a card sort technique (choice of five options, active to passive). Rationales for role preference were recorded verbatim. Most patients were found to prefer passive (N=186, 45.9%; 95% Cl 41.2- 50.9) or collaborative (N=147; 36.3%; 95% Cl 31.3-40.7) decisional roles; perceived role was typically passive (N=319; 78.8%; 95% Cl 74.8-82.8). Trust in health professionals, perceived lack of knowledge and severity of condition were the most frequently cited determinants of role preference. Patients' decisional role preferences were often at variance with their perceived roles. Taking a highly active role in treatment decision-making was undesirable to most patients. Trust in healthcare professionals was an important contributor to desire to defer or retain control over treatment decisions.


Hechtia glauca andHechtia iltisii are described as new and illustrated. Among the Bromeliaceae H. glauca is unusual in its glabrous, glaucous leaf surfaces. Inflorescence and floral dimorphisms are discussed forH. glauca andH. iltisii. A key to species ofHechtia from Novo-Galiciana and adjacent parts of Michoacan is included.


Swarm operations will benefit from a distributed navigation system where each vehicle will be able to share their navigation data with other nearby vehicles. An adaptive navigation system configured according to accuracy and sample rate requirements will provide a means to design simple and cost effective solutions sensor configurations for the vehicles in the swarm. The aim of this paper is to present the work that has been carried out in order to research the development of one such system. The paper presents the existing Synthetic Environment, Embedded Systems and User Interface modules. It also explores the currentstate-of-the-art in multi-vehicle navigation.


Nanostructured bismuth sulphoselenide (Bi2(S1−xSex)3) thin films have been synthesized using a simple, cost-effective chemical bath deposition (CBD) method at room temperature (300 K). Structural, compositional, morphological and optical characterization and photoelectrochemical performance testing of these Bi2(S1−xSex)3 thin films has been carried out. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) study demonstrates that these thin films are nanocrystalline in nature with pure orthorhombic crystal structures. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) show that the deposited thin films are nearly stoichiometric in nature. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) reveals different morphologies for the Bi2(S1−xSex)3 thin films. The linear nature of the plots seen in the UV-Vis-NIR absorption study confirms the direct allowed type of transition. J–V measurements with a solar simulator were carried out for all samples and the highest photoconversion efficiency, 0.3845%, has been recorded for the Bi2Se3 thin film. The significant boost in photoelectrochemical (PEC) performance might be due to the larger surface area with lower dislocation density and microstrain with a lower level of grain boundary resistance of Bi2Se3 thin films.


The asymptotic efficiency of each user in an asynchronous multiuser CDMA. system is characterized by the user's associated minimum distance D/sub k,min/. However, computing this quantity is in general, an NP-hard problem. Determining the distance distribution of the signal set in such systems is similarly difficult. We show that the distribution can be approximated by the Nakagami distribution when the channel undergoes quasi-static fading and when the product of the number of users and the number of bits of each user is large. We also provide an efficient algorithm which can compute D/sub k,min/ accurately for each user that makes use of a previously proposed multiuser detector.


Gearing to an audience of all ages, a demonstration apparatus is presented including student versions of Hermann von Helmholtz's tuning fork sounder, circa 1859 (where an intermittent current in an electromagnetic coil drives the tuning fork, which is located near a resonator), and Alexander Graham Bell's tuning fork experiment, circa 1876 (where a variable resistance circuit due to a slight tuning fork contact in a conductive liquid causes a relay to vibrate at the same frequency as the fork). Using the popularity of a basic mechanical acoustical apparatus and briefly unfolding the histories behind Helmholtz combining several of his tuning fork sounders to generate vowel sounds and Bell's first telephone, students are then given careful explanations of the demonstrations. Next, the focus shifts to well developed basic experiments that students can perform in a laboratory setting with emphasis placed on presenting the details of a carefully thought out scientific approach. "Project Listen Up" (an initiati...


Tin gravity slime tailings of Datun mineral processing plant in south-eastern China contains fine and ultrafine cassiterite. Tin recovery from the slime tailings was studies in the presence of different flotation reagents. A flotation process has been used on a laboratory scale to investigate the effect of various reagents such as collectors, auxiliary collector, activators, ect., and theirs dosages in neutral flotation environment. To reach an optimum tin recovery, different dosages of the reagents were also studied. Due to cassiterite is friable and a large amount of fines and slimes were generated. Usually de-sliming is used to prevent slime coating and to increase the recovery of tin. However, analyses have shown that fine particles in the sample mostly contain tin, thus de-sliming was not suggested. By applying the process, ultrafine cassiterite can be efficiently recovered from the tailings slime by one rougher process, and the concentrate assaying 1.20% Sn with a recovery of 89.10% was obtained.


Background: In face of the global spread of Corona Virus Disease (COVID)-19, best practice for mechanical ventilation in COVID-19 associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is intensely debated. Specifically, the rationale for high positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and prone positioning in early COVID-19 ARDS has been questioned.

Methods: The first 15 consecutive patients with COVID-19 associated respiratory failure transferred to a single ICU were assessed over the first 15 days of mechanical ventilation. Best PEEP was defined by maximal oxygenation, and was determined by decremental PEEP trials with monitoring of oxygenation, dead space fraction, airway pressures and trans-pulmonary pressures. In nine patients the impact of prone positioning on oxygenation was investigated. As well, the effects of invasive mechanical ventilation with PEEP and prone positioning on pulmonary opacities were determined.

Findings: Patients responded to initiation of invasive high PEEP ventilation with markedly improved oxygenation, which was accompanied by reduced pulmonary opacities within 6h of mechanical ventilation. Decremental PEEP trials confirmed the need for high PEEP (17·9 ± 3·9 mbar) for optimal oxygenation in early COVID-19 ARDS, while driving pressures remained low. Prone positioning substantially increased oxygenation in COVID-19 ARDS.

Interpretation: In early COVID-19 ARDS, substantial PEEP values were required for optimizing oxygenation. In our patient cohort, pulmonary opacities resolved during invasive mechanical ventilation with high PEEP suggesting recruitment of lung volume. Prone positioning improved oxygenation in early COVID-19 ARDS.

Trial Registration: Currently registered in the German clinical trials register and the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, ID: DRKS00021688

Funding Statement: German Research Foundation (DFG), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This study was supported by the Clinical Study Center of Berlin Institute of Health, Charite – Universitatsmedizin Berlin

Declaration of Interests: All authors declare no conflict of interest.

Ethics Approval Statement: The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin (EA2/066/20) and was performed according to the Declaration of Helsinki and Good Clinical Practice principles (ICH 1996). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients, or their legal representatives.


Optimal design of fault-tolerant, spatial type redundant manipulators is treated in this paper. Design objective is to guarantte three degree-of -freedom translational motions in the task space, upon failure of one arbitrary joint of 4 degree-of-freedom manipulators. Noticing the nonfault-tolerant characteristics of current, wrist-type industrial manipulators, five different fault-tolerant spatial-type manipulators which have 4 degree-of-freedom structures with one joint redundancy are suggested. Faault-tolerant character-sitics of two redundant manipulators anr investigated based on the analysis of the self-motion and the null-space elements. Finally, in order to maximize the fault-tolerant capability, optimal design is performed for a spatial-type manipulator with respect to the global isotropic index, and the performance enhancement of the optimized case is shown by simulation.


Attitude of mothers towards their children's autism may play a role in mothers' psychological well-being. We investigated the predictive value of how mothers understand autism (as a neurodivergence or a developmental disorder) on their psychological distress. A group of 371 mothers of children on the autism spectrum participated in this study. We found that understanding autism as a neurodivergence was related to lower psychological distress in mothers, even after controlling for the level of autism symptoms. However, when controlling for caregiver burden, their attitude towards autism was no longer significant in explaining their psychological distress. These findings suggest that the way mothers understand autism may be important for their psychological adjustment. However, it also suggests that mothers of children on the autism spectrum may adopt different attitudes towards autism, depending on their child's level of autism symptoms and the caregiver burden. Lay abstract Mothers of children on the autism spectrum experience high levels of emotional distress. Mothers cope with stress by having their own thoughts and opinions about their children. In this study, we tested whether the way mothers perceive autism may contribute to the level of distress they feel. Some mothers see autism as a developmental disorder that needs to be cured, but some see autism as a type of mind that needs to be accepted. Our findings showed that mothers who see autism more as a type of mind are generally less stressed. But we also showed that it matters how severe are the child's symptoms, and how heavy was the perceived burden of caring for the child. These results imply that it is worth working on attitudes towards autism to help mothers cope better. But at the same time, we argue that mothers should not be judged for their perceptions of autism, as there is a huge spectrum of a child's characteristics and family's life circumstances.


The experiment was carried out to study the differences in the aroma constituents(exudate,petroleum ether extract,plastid pigment) of tobacco leaves among different flue-cured tobacco genotypes(K326 H892) under different ecological conditions(being planted in Henan,Hubei and Guangdong respectively).The results indicated that the genotype had greater impact on the content of leaf secretion.For the content of petroleum ether extract,chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b,there was significant interactive effect between ecotype and genotype.For the content of carotenoid,there was no significant interactive effect between ecotype and genotype.


Objective To clarify the clinical imagingoanatomic correlation of pontine infarction. Methods We retrospectively studied the correlation between clinical manifestation and neuroimaging findings of 69 patients with acute isolated pontine infarction. Results The most important manifestations included contralateral hemiple-gia with supranuclear facial palsy ,vertigo,dysarthria,hemianesthesia,drinking choke and horizontal gaze abnormality. 9 patients had a progressive course in early stage. Foci located in paramedian pons in 51 and mid-upper levels of the pons in 59 of 69 patients. Angiography showed that 9 patients had vertebral or basilar artery stenoses in 45 patients. Conclusions Pontine infarctions, which mainly located in mid-upper paramedian pons, are usually due to vertebrobasilar artery stenosis and occlusion of pontine perforating arteries by hypertension. The common clinical features are hemiplegia with supranuclear facial palsy ,vertigo, dysarthria, hemianesthesia and horizontal gaze abnormality. The typical pontine syndromes are rarely found. Although a fraction of patients with pontine infarctions has progressive courses in early stage. The a majority of patients have a good prognosis.


Originally published in 1992 by Anchor Press, this translated and edited collection of folklore offers a panorama of Mayan mythic heritage. These legends narrate origin and creation stories, explain the natural world and reinforce cultural belief and values such as honesty, sharing, fairness, ability and industriousness.


We propose an accurate close-up shot detection method with parallel distributed processing. Straightforward approaches that divide a video into multiple fixed length partitions are not accurate because the partition boundaries terminate events before they actually end. To solve this problem, our method alters the shot based partitions to ensure complete coverage. Our method offers 2 processes for partitioning. Part-1 divides the video into multiple partitions and detects shot boundaries. Part-2 divides the video into multiple partitions by shot boundaries and detects close-up shot events accurately. An experiment shows that the proposed method can detect close-up shots accurately even with parallel distributed processing.


One of the major problems associated with solid waste processing technologies is effluent contaminants that are released in gaseous forms from the processes. This is a concern in both biological as well as physicochemical solid waste processing. Carbon dioxide (CO2), the major gas released, does not present a serious problem and there are currently in place a number of flight-qualified technologies for CO2 removal. However, a number of other gases, in particular NOx, SO2, NH3, and various hydrocarbons (e.g. CH4) do present health hazards to the crew members in space habitats. In the present configuration of solid waste processing in the International Space Station (ISS), some of these gases are removed by the Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS), demands a major resupply. Reduction of the resupply can be effective by using catalyst impregnated carbon nanotubes. For example, NO decomposition to N2 and O2 is thermodynamically favored. Data showing decomposition of NO on metal impregnated carbon nanotubes is presented. Comparisons are made of the existing TCCS systems with the carbon nanotube based technology for removing NOx based on mass/energy penalties.


The project team for a regional water infrastructure project in Colorado met with success by holding to a strategy of value engineering, continued cost‐consciousness, and stakeholder communication.


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Based on the new empty-nest status of the family in Neijiang city,Sichuan province,the research status of middle-aged empty nest couples emotional support on the basis of quantitative and qualitative level,think their children leave on the lives of middle-aged empty nest couples have had a significant impact.After the children left,middle-age adaptation of empty nest couples in good condition,emotional support rich content,and emotional support for providers and recipients of the emotional support frequency of interaction between closely related to the role of emotional support and made mental autotrophic should become an effective way for the middle-age empty-nest family "pension".


Speaker profiling, which aims to estimate speaker characteristics such as age and height, has a wide range of applications inforensics, recommendation systems, etc. In this work, we propose a semisupervised learning approach to mitigate the issue of low training data for speaker profiling. This is done by utilizing external corpus with speaker information to train a better representation which can help to improve the speaker profiling systems. Specifically, besides the standard supervised learning path, the proposed framework has two more paths: (1) an unsupervised speaker representation learning path that helps to capture the speaker information; (2) a consistency training path that helps to improve the robustness of the system by enforcing it to produce similar predictions for utterances of the same speaker.The proposed approach is evaluated on the TIMIT and NISP datasets for age, height, and gender estimation, while the Librispeech is used as the unsupervised external corpus. Trained both on single-task and multi-task settings, our approach was able to achieve state-of-the-art results on age estimation on the TIMIT Test dataset with Root Mean Square Error(RMSE) of6.8 and 7.4 years and Mean Absolute Error(MAE) of 4.8 and5.0 years for male and female speakers respectively.


Acknowledgments: Writing Magical History xi Harry Potter's Timeline xiii Introduction: A Half-Blood World? 1 Nancy R. Reagin PART ONE "The Burrow Is Just Outside Ottery St. Catchpole": When Muggles and Wizards Lived Side by Side 7 1 Magic for Daily Use and Profi t: Mandrakes, Charms, Bezoars, and Love Potions in the Muggle and Wizarding Worlds 9 Birgit Wiedl 2 Severus Snape and the Standard Book of Spells: Ancient Tongues in the Wizarding World 39 M. G. DuPree 3 Beastly Books and Quick-Quills: Harry Potter and the Making of Medieval Manuscripts 55 Alexandra Gillespie 4 Nicolas Flamel: The Alchemist Who Lived 73 Don Keck DuPree 5 Why the Statute of Secrecy? Real Historical Oppression of Witches and Wizards 91 Birgit Wiedl PART TWO After the Statute of Secrecy: Parallel Worlds 125 6 Was Voldemort a Nazi? Death Eater Ideology and National Socialism 127 Nancy R. Reagin 7 "Magic Is Might": How the Wizarding Government Gained Its Power 153 Janice Liedl 8 Were the Malfoys Aristocrats? The Decline and Fall of the Pure-Blooded 173 Laura Loiacono and Grace Loiacono 9 School Ties, House Points, and Quidditch: Hogwarts as a British Boarding School 193 Susan Hall 10 Of Marranos and Mudbloods: Harry Potter and the Spanish Inquisition 219 Ruth Abrams PART THREE Women and Witches, Werewolves and Muggle-Borns: Magical Hierarchies 243 11 Witches vs. Women: What Muggles Could Learn from Wizarding History 245 Janice Liedl 12 Marx, Magic, and Muggles: Class Conflict in Harry Potter's World 269 Susan Hall 13 Hairy Snout, Human Heart? Werewolves in Harry Potter's World and in European History 293 Eveline Brugger Hermione Raised Her Hand Again: Wizards Writing History 309 Anne Rubenstein The Hogwarts Faculty 323 Index: Notable Magical Words of Our Time 327


To accurately identify the range of each target, traditional Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar techniques not only require designing a shift matrix to describe different range bins but also a large number of snapshots. To alleviate this problem, a multidimensional parameter estimation method based on sparse iteration is proposed for a MIMO radar with Frequency Diverse Array (FDA). The FDA-MIMO radar uses small frequency increments across the array elements, and its transmit steering vector is a function of both range and angle. On the basis of the feature of the FDA-MIMO radar, we consider a weighted lq (0<q ≤1) minimization problem that is solved using a sparse iterative algorithm. Finally, the target parameters (the amplitude, range, and angle) are obtained using a single snapshot. Moreover, numerical simulations are used to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed method compared with those of DAS, IAA, and IAA-R. 第 7卷第 2期 雷 达 学 报 Vol. 7No. 2 2018年4月 Journal of Radars Apr. 2018 收稿日期:2016-11-01;改回日期:2016-11-28;网络出版:2017-02-09 *通信作者:巩朋成 email@example.com 基金项目:国家自然科学基金(61601178),中国博士后科学基金(2016M600729),博士科研启动金(BSQD14032) Foundation Items: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (61601178), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2016M600729), The Doctoral Starting up Foundation (BSQD14032)


Extraction efficiencies of Pd(ii), Rh(iii), and Ru(iii) from HNO3(aq) to [Hbet][Tf2N] were demonstrated, i.e., Pd(ii) is the most extractable, Rh(iii) is medium extractable, and Ru(iii) is the least extractable. The extraction seems to proceed through coordination of betaine to the metal ions and the cation exchange of the formed complex with H(+).


Propylene is second in importance only to ethylene as a petrochemical raw material building block. Propylene has traditionally been obtained as a by-product from steam cracking to produce ethylene and from refinery fluidized catalytic cracking processes to produce gasoline. Propylene is conventionally produced through FCC processes, dehydrogenation processes, and predominantly from steam cracking processes. The projected growth in demand for propylene has started to exceed that of ethylene so that existing processes cannot satisfy the foreseeable future growth in the demand for propylene. Typically, however, FCC units produce only around 5 wt % of propylene. As a result, propylene production from FCC units is forecast to grow by more than 40 % over the next 10 years, with a large part of this demand coming from Asia. Consequently, modifications to FCC units can increase propylene production are necessary. Several references disclose modified FCC processes to improve propylene yields [5]. The propylene demand from FCC is growing at a faster rate than global FCC capacity, and the propylene yields from FCC are increasing to keep up with demand (Figure 1).


Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most prevalent dementia worldwide. Although treatment remains focused on memory and cognitive decline, these changes are


This article presents the results of a national postal survey to determine the type and amount of educational input on HIV/AIDS received by British occupational therapy students. All respondents (18/25 courses, 72%) indicated that they currently provided such input, with an average of 11.9 hours of course time being devoted to it. The majority of presenters were occupational therapists, although colleagues from many other backgrounds were also involved. Much of the material was considered in small group settings, with the content being balanced among a range of aspects. The article concludes that most British occupational therapy students are 'positively prepared' to work with clients with HIV/AIDS.


With the advancement of new materials and techniques, smooth and high performance operation of critical systems such as fight simulators, satellite navigators and robots arms are desired in these systems, often more than one objective has to be accomplished. In the present study, the global criterion method is used as the multi-objective optimization tool. A general mass-spring-dashpot system is analyzed. Damping ratio and natural frequency are chosen as design variables. System settling time, percent overshoot and time to reach to maximum peak are objective functions to be minimized. Numerical solutions with the given constraints are presented and design specifications for the control system are suggested. It is also shown that this optimization tool is a good candidate for multi-criterion problems.


Exhibition catalogue with essays, timelines and entries on individual works of art accompanying the exhibition I created for the Rijksmuseum, travelling to MUNAL, Mexico. My scope was a sensory one, focusing on movement.


A design technique and the stability analysis of fuzzy-logic controllers for a class of nonlinear systems are studied. A new algorithm called `the phase portrait assignment algorithm', is introduced in order to establish a control rulebase that stabilizes a nonlinear feedback system by using the vector fields in the state space. This technique can substitute for classical control methods when the latter suffer from uncertainties since it provides flexibility, robustness, and asymptotic stability. The methodology provides a bridge between qualitative reasoning and stability of nonlinear feedback control systems even if a priori information is relatively unreliable. The design procedure of the phase portrait assignment algorithm is followed by stability analysis for nonlinear fuzzy regulators. As an example, a one degree-of-freedom robot arm is used for demonstrating the performance and the merits of the proposed fuzzy control mechanism.


We researched studied the implementation of the parallel algorithm of synthetic aperture radar images modelling. We used CUDA for computing the trajectory signal of scattered field from object and ground on 3D scene. The important task of effective recognition algorithm studying is a formation of a large database of image samples. Thus, we reached the high performance using parallel implementation of modelling program, which necessary to model many synthetic aperture radar images of an object in different positions. We discussed results of objects recognition with real images using modelled on the training stage. We achieved the result 80.24% of correct recognition of two classes using such approach.


All this modern sexual insanity may be a "footnote to Alfred Kinsey," but a few people are trying to set the story straight. When former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was told by a critic that "10 percent of the population is gay," she replied, "Well, that's according to the Kinsey Report." Her husband, Marcus, then added, "It's been a myth for many years."


The leaves of Erigeron breviscapus were used as explants to induce calli, buds and rooting in seven culture media. The optimal media were (1) initial medium, MS+6-BA (1.5 mg L-1) . +NAA (0.3 mg L-1); (2) clump bud generation medium, MS+6-BA (1 mg L-1); and (3) rooting medium, . . 2/3 MS+NAA (0.3 mg L-1). .


Introduction Numerous indications require regular upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (oesophagogastroduodenoscopy; EGD) in outpatients. In most cases, peroral gastroscopy is performed. The aim of this study was to evaluate the need of transnasal gastroscopy (nEGD) in outpatients. Methods A questionnaire was used to assess patients' preferred choice of method, previous experience with EGD, psychological aspects and sociodemographic data. Furthermore, patient satisfaction with and potentially perceived discomfort during the examination as well as preference for a method in regard to future examinations was evaluated. Results From September 2016 to March 2017, a total of 283 outpatients at endoscopy of the University Hospital of Leipzig were approached to participate in the study. 196 patients were eligible, of whom 116 (60%) chose nEGD. For 87 patients (87/283, 31%) nEGD had to be excluded for medical reasons. The average age in the total sample was 53 (±17) years. 147 (77%) have had previous experience with peroral EGD (oEGD). Of the nEGD examined patients 83% were fairly up to extremely satisfied with the procedure. Satisfaction significantly predicted the choice of future EGD examinations. Nasal pain experienced during nEGDs was associated with rejection of nEGD in further EGD examinations (p<0.01). Patients who did choose a specific procedure were more likely to select the same procedure as their future preference (χ²= 73.6, df=1, p<0.001); this preference was unaffected by the procedure that had been chosen previously (reselecting nEGD: 84%, oEGD: 89%, p=0.874). Conclusion nEGD without sedation is a viable alternative. Patient satisfaction with nEGD is high, and reselection rate for nEGD is similar to that for oEGD. As a result of this study nEGD is now offered as a routine procedure at the University of Leipzig. Trial registration number NCT03663491.


An anatomic method was set up to study the distribution,variance of thickness and connective way of gastric tunica muscularis in rabbits,dogs and pigs.Stomachs were fixed in 10 % formalin by using the turgor fixation and the no-tension fixation.Then,tunica serosa,tunica mucosa and tunica submucosa were striped so that intact tunica muscularis were reserved.The gastric tunica muscularis were striped from superficies externa or interna,respectively.The outer longitudinal muscular layer was striped,so that the outer longitudinal muscular layer and the middle circular muscular layer were observed clearly.And the internal oblique muscular layer was striped to observe the internal oblique muscular layer and the middle circular muscular layer clearly.The macroscopic observation was combined with the stereoscopic observation to study the gastric tunica muscularis.The principle of dissecting was from the bigger thickness of muscular fibers to smaller,from higher density of muscular fibers to lower,and along the muscular fibers.The conclusion was that the distribution of the gastric muscular layers was disproportion,and the thickness of the muscular layers was various in the different regions,and the connections of muscular fibers were non-uniform between every two gastric muscular layers.


This article studies the effect of hydrothermal modified polymerized whey protein(PWPC and PWPI) on the fermentation characteristics,curd state and storage stability of fermented soybean milk. The results show that the best formula is adding 7% polymerized whey protein concentrate 0.02%,sodium stearyl lactate(SSL150) and using mixed starter cultures. The mixed starter cultures contain five kinds of lactic acid bacteria including Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Streptococcus thermophilus,Bifidobacterium,Lactobacillus acidophilus and Lactobacillus casei. The inoculum size is 3%. The state of the product is stable,the viscosity and hardness are moderate,the mouthfeel is delicate and smooth,the tissue is soft and the flavour is favourable. Eventually,the pH of the sample is 4.5~4.6 and the titratable acidity is 65~700 °T. Dry matter content is 12.36%. The stability of the product is good after storing 28 days.


This chapter addresses the future aspects of the Japanese economic and social system, with a particular focus on the future direction of certain traditional values of the Japanese management system. To this end, we examine the most likely trends for lifetime employment, the seniority wage system, the enterprise union, bottom-up management, and certain secondary characteristics of the Japanese model. We offer proof that changing corporate governance rules at both the worldwide and domestic levels will overthrow the traditional Japanese model. This will also speed up the decartelization of the zaibatsu.


Although the design of legged robots may be dependent on the application, all of them share the need to safely deal with physical interaction with the environment in every step they take. Impedance controllers have been applied with success to handle contact, and some authors applied the concept of passivity to guarantee stability during the interaction. Whereas previous studies on the passivity of legged robots considered aspects such as inner force loop gains and actuation bandwidth influence on the Z-width (i.e. the range of renderable passive impedances), they did not take into account the role of the kinematic configuration of the leg on the stability of the interaction. Thus, in this work we present a systematic analysis of the effects of joint positions on the passivity conditions of a robotic leg and show that this is a very relevant aspect that may seriously affect the stability and passivity of an impedance controller. By analyzing a linearized model of the leg via its Nyquist plots and the respective Z-width diagrams, we were able to determine what joint configurations within the leg workspace are more suitable to physically interact with the environment or people.


The invention in a reduced-pressure atmosphere can be used, it can sufficiently withstand a stress caused by the pressure difference, and provides the ultraviolet ray generator, which at the same time to be smaller than the attenuation of ultraviolet ray transmitting intensity can be reduced in the device manufacturing costs and that a task. A UV lamp (1) and made of a material that transmits ultraviolet light, the UV lamp (1), gas feed port (6a) introducing nitrogen gas or inert gas into the protective tube (2) and a protective tube (2) for accommodating the have. Ultraviolet ray generator, an ultraviolet lamp, a protective tube, gas inlet


A distributional formulation of a one-dimensional two phase Stefan problem in a finite domain, with arbitrary boundary temperature conditions, is proposed. It is shown that the solution is the sum ...


Polylactide/ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer blends(PLA/EVA) with various blend ratios were prepared by melt mixing.The phase morphology and viscoelastic properties of the blends were then studied using scanning electron microscope(SEM),selective etching and rheometer,respectively.The results show that the PLA/EVA blends are typical thermodynamically immiscible blends with interfacial tension values of about 2.2 mN/m between the two polymers.Hence the blend systems present "sea-island " and co-continuous morphology at various blend ratios.The phase inversion content of EVA component is about 50 wt% ~ 60 wt%,which is in agreement with the results predicted by the viscous model.In contrast to that of the blend with co-continuous morphology,the linear viscoelastic response of the blend with"sea-island"morphology can be better described by the emulsion model.The relatively wide region of phase inversion of the PLA/EVA blend systems is mainly attributed to the rather high elasticity ratio between the two polymers and also to the yielding behavior of EVA.


At constant forward or reverse base currents the pulse length of a collector current pulse, which forces the transistor into secondary breakdown, is measured. For all transistors measured we plotted the logarithm of the collector pulse length, \log\Delta t , versus collector pulse height, with base current as a parameter. According to our observations one can discern between three types of transistors as far as their secondary breakdown behaviour is concerned. 1. Good epitaxial ones show a linear dependence of \log \Delta t to Ic with a negative slope. The curves for reverse base current are displaced parallel to the ones for forward base current, the energy of the pulses not being much different for both cases. 2. Bad epitaxial ones show an S shaped curve \log \Delta t versus Ic for reverse base currents. The dip occurs mostly between 100 and 300mA collector current. These transistors fail in practical circuits where a reverse base current is allowed to flow. 3. For homogeneous material the \log \Deltat versus Ic curves for all base currents practically coincide. For devices with a small collector series resistance the emitter to collector voltage just prior to the occurrence of secondary breakdown is practically a constant, regardless of collector current. Measurements of secondary breakdown characteristics as a function of case temperature have been performed. A discussion of the results will be presented.


PurposeThe development and clinical application of digital devices to support individuals with dementia can be challenging due to difficulties meeting the needs of a patient population with largely heterogeneous and progressive symptoms. Memjo Ltd has developed a digital interactive prototype tablet to promote cognitive stimulation and reminiscence. This proof-of-concept case-study aims to understand whether the engagement of individuals with dementia and Huntington's disease (HD) at an early stage is a useful approach to inform the initial development of meaningful digital activities and ultimately its potential introduction into clinical practice.Design/methodology/approachFive patients with dementia and HD at different stages of progression were recruited from an inpatient secure psychiatric hospital. Engagement, usability and preliminary benefits were assessed using a mixed-methods approach through observations, open-ended questions and subjective ratings.FindingsThe content of the tool triggered reminiscence, discussion and positive behavioural and emotional responses. The participants were confident using the tablet but needed support interacting with the touchscreen and, at times, to encourage communication. "Music" and "Videos", were particularly successful in engaging most participants despite their cognitive and physical difficulties.Originality/valueThis case-study shows that co-production in clinical practice can be successfully implemented to develop activities that meet the interests and needs of patients with dementia and Huntington's disease. The varied and flexible assessment provided rich feedback that will be used to improve the device. This highlights avenues of focus for the development of future pools of activities.


ABSTRACT As a candidate for lead-free piezoelectric materials, dense 0.95(Na0.5K0.5)NbO3-0.05LiTaO3 (NKN-5LT) ceramics were developed by conventional sintering process. Sintering temperature was lowered by adding Li2O as a sintering aid. Grain growth behaviors with Li2O addition were explained in terms of the effect of Li2O on interface reaction—controlled grain growth and the critical driving force. The electrical properties of NKN-5LT ceramics were investigated as a function of Li2O concentration., Excellent piezoelectric and electromechanical responses, d33∼ 250 pC/N, k P ∼ 0.37, were obtained for 1 mol% Li2O excess NKN-5LT samples sintered at 1000°C for 4 h in air.


I will describe what the scientific computing process is (should be?) when it is carried out by humans and indicate where symbolic and artificial intelligence methods can be used to significantly improve the process.


Left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction is among others attributed to cardiomyocyte stiffness. Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) have cardiac‐protective properties. We explored whether intravenous (i.v.) application of PLacenta‐eXpanded (PLX) MSC‐like cells (PLX) improves LV diastolic relaxation in streptozotocin (STZ)‐induced diabetic mice and investigated underlying mechanisms. Diabetes mellitus was induced by STZ application (50 mg/kg body weight) during five subsequent days. One week after the first STZ injection, PLX or saline were i.v. applied. Two weeks later, mice were hemodynamically characterized and sacrificed. At this early stage of diabetic cardiomyopathy with low‐grade inflammation and no cardiac fibrosis, PLX reduced LV vascular cell adhesion molecule‐1, transforming growth factor‐β1, and interferon‐γ mRNA expression, induced the percentage of circulating regulatory T cells, and decreased the splenic pro‐fibrotic potential in STZ mice. STZ + PLX mice exhibited higher LV vascular endothelial growth factor mRNA expression and arteriole density versus STZ mice. In vitro, hyperglycemic PLX conditioned medium restored the hyperglycemia‐impaired tube formation and adhesion capacity of human umbelical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) via increasing nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability. PLX further induced the diabetes‐downregulated activity of the NO downstream protein kinase G, as well as of protein kinase A, in STZ mice, which was associated with a raise in phosphorylation of the titin isoforms N2BA and N2B. Concomitantly, the passive force was lower in single isolated cardiomyocytes from STZ + PLX versus from STZ mice, which led to an improvement of LV diastolic relaxation. We conclude that i.v. PLX injection improves diabetes mellitus‐associated diastolic performance via decreasing cardiomyocyte stiffness. Stem Cells Translational Medicine 2017;6:2135–2145


In many insect species, the size and number of eggs decrease with maternal age. Thus, both the size and number of eggs must be considered to know the exact cost of reproduction with maternal age. The resource depletion hypothesis was examined in the bruchid beetle Callosobruchus chinensis. The hypothesis explains why the egg size decreases with maternal age based on the decline of the female's reproductive capacity. A decrease was found in reproductive effort (= egg size × the number of eggs) and the fitness component of offspring with maternal age. The effects of the female's nutritional status on the relationship between maternal age and the reproductive effort of females with and without food and water were also examined. The results indicate that the decrease in size and number of eggs with maternal age can be explained by the resource depletion hypothesis in C. chinensis.


The low interest in reading Indonesian students as one of the literacy skills. As an alternative solution to this, effective literacy improvement programs are needed for elementary school students.  This study aims to determine the method of child writer's class program as a program to strengthen children's literacy.  The subjects were 20 child writer class participants.  In this research, data was taken by a descriptive qualitative method.  The object was from students who have in 7th and 11th years old.  The program was done by organizes literacy activities such as seminars and writing training.  Activities in this program emphasize a percentage of 30.0% of theoretical and 70.0% of writing practice.  The results showed that the child in writing activity has strengthened literacy skills.  It was caused because they understood the program.  The program supported them to increase literacy skills especially writing.  This is evidenced by the success of the program in publishing two anthology books written by 67 young writers.


We develop a theoretical framework to explain why individuals respond differently to dissimilarity from their coworkers. We draw on regulatory focus theory to explore how chronic regulatory motivations cause individuals to view dissimilarity in terms of potential gains or losses. We use this argument to explain the mixed findings in previous research. We also use regulatory focus theory to predict individuals' cognitive and affective responses to dissimilarity, and consequently to outcomes like relationships with coworkers, altruism, conflict in workgroups, and withdrawal from the workgroup. Finally we use regulatory focus theory to explore how situational features like the diversity climate of the organization and whether the focal individual is a token in the workgroup shape their responses to dissimilarity by triggering different regulatory motivations. Taken together our motivational model of relational demography provides an overarching framework for understanding how attributes of the individual and the situation predict how they will respond.


─ The full wave simulation of reverberation chamber in time domain usually takes large computational time because of its resonant characteristic. This contribution makes the pioneer exploration of accelerating this kind of simulation by time-domain signal prediction. The prediction technique is based on the well known matrix pencil method (MPM). An approximation to the existing MPM is proposed to obtain a new kind of MPM, which is more computationally efficient. To conduct the prediction effectively, the signal's oversampling should be avoided and the singular values appeared in MPM should be judged appropriately. The signal can be resampled according to Nyquist sampling law while the singular values can be selected by the newly proposed criterion based on cavity theory. For wideband time-domain responses, it is suggested to apply digital band-pass filter before prediction to get higher precision. Using the proposed methods, the computational time can be reduced almost 50 % for the reverberation chamber's FDTD simulation. Index Terms – Digital band-pass filter, FDTD, matrix pencil method, reverberation chamber, and signal prediction.


This cross-section study aimed to evaluate the health-related quality of life in 230 dentists working in public dental healthcare service in Bahia, Brazil. The 36-Item Short Form Health Survey and a questionnaire were used covering work and socio-demographic information. Descriptive and multiple linear regression analysis were performed. Dentists had higher scores in Vitality (51,49) and Physical Functioning (51,35) domains; lower scores in General Health (43,25) and Social Functioning (47,78). Better Physical Component Summary was associated with Post-graduation in Public Health, absence of children, greater autonomy in work and contribution of work to the society, patients' access to the service and relationship with the patients (P<0.05). Higher scores in Mental Component Summary were associated with white ethnicity, absence of children and satisfaction with the relationship with patients, self-evaluation of work, and courses and training offered (P<0.05). The results alerts to the importance of work environment in personal life and occupational health.


To date, it is known that haloperidol is used to treat productive psychopathological symptoms in acute alcoholic hallucinosis, but its use is associated with a high risk of developing undesirable drug reactions (NLR). A number of isoenzymes of the cytochrome P-450 family take part in the metabolism of haloperidol. The biotransformation of haloperidol occurs with the participation of the CYP2D6 isoenzyme encoded by the gene of the same name. The CYP2D6 gene is highly polymorphic, and this polymorphism can lead to a change in the activity of the encoded isoenzyme. Changes in the rate of biotransformation of haloperidol may affect the profile of its effectiveness and safety. This review is aimed at analyzing the information accumulated in the literature on the role of genetic factors in the formation of an individual response to haloperidol therapy in patients with acute alcoholic hallucinosis.


The base classes of computer program development in the signal proceeding computer system, using multi-thread technique, were introduced. These classes can accomplish data acquisition and monitoring , the multi-filed sampling data and sampling parameter were synchronously saved.


The prime objective of this article is to explore the entropy analysis of third-order nanofluid fluid slip flow caused by a stretchable sheet implanted in a porous plate along with thermal radiation, convective surface boundary, non-Fourier heat flux applications, and nanoparticle concentration on zero mass flux conditions. The governing physical systems are modified into non-linear ordinary systems with the aid of similarity variables, and the outcomes are solved by a homotopy analysis scheme. The impression of certain governing flow parameters on the nanoparticle concentration, temperature, and velocity is illustrated through graphs, while the alteration of many valuable engineering parameters viz. the Nusselt number and Sherwood number are depicted in graphs. Entropy generation with various parameters is obtained and discussed in detail. The estimation of entropy generation using the Bejan number find robust application in power engineering and aeronautical propulsion to forecast the smartness of entire system.


Abstract There are several problems facing the construction industry in Iraq. Delays in construction projects affect one of the most important factors in project success, namely time. This delay causes many problems such as increasing the cost of the project, lack of timely operation, and on a larger scale, economic and social impact on the country. As being one of the metropolises of Iraq, the city of Najaf needs a lot of development projects in the development path. Public school construction projects are an example of projects needed in the city, and delays in these projects in recent years have sometimes caused the city's schools to operate on a mixed basis. This study deals with studies and researches related to the delay of construction projects in other countries, and after interviews and surveys of construction industry stakeholders in Iraq, new factors have been obtained and finally, using the opinions of the mentioned experts, prioritizing the factors extracted from both identified the source and the five main causes of project delays, including late payment to the contractor, design errors, construction length errors, problems with neighbors, and inexperience of contractors. In the next step, the amount of delay due to the main factors identified in the projects was analyzed using the official documents of 30 sample projects from the statistical population of completed school construction projects in Najaf city. Statistics on the amount of delay caused by factors and comparing it with some indicators, the need to use contractors with better ratings, skilled manpower, experienced project managers, and the number of sufficient engineers at the project site were presented.


Online downloading cataloging can improve cataloging quality and efficiency,thus data downloading is one of the important procedures in computer cataloging.The paper analyses some particular cataloging problems occurred in downloading CNMARC data and provides specific methods to solve those problems with the combination of realistic work.


We applied several types of time-delay neural networks (TDNNs), generally used for speaker-dependent and multispeaker speech recognition, to speaker-independent speech recognition and compared their performance. Six or 12 speakers were used to train each network, and recognition experiments for voiced stops /b, d, g/ were performed in open speaker mode. The best recognition rates were 91.3 percent and 93.6 percent, using six and 12 training speakers, respectively. We found that constructing modular networks, such as modular TDNN with each network corresponding to a speaker, is effective in terms of decreasing the number of training iterations needed, showing slightly better performance than with a single TDNN with a comparable network capacity. This is because the modular networks make use of limited capacity effectively. On the other hand, a single TDNN with an increased number of hidden units showed a recognition rate comparable to that of the modular TDNN.