Abstract Options in prenatal testing continue to expand as technology advances. These options allow for clarification of many diagnoses, which can assist in prenatal planning from medical and family perspectives. They can provide additional information to families before the birth of their child regarding diagnosis, underlying etiology, treatment options, short-term outcomes, and long-term outcomes. Our objective was to provide an overview of the available prenatal testing options while outlining the strengths and limitations of these options. In addition, we describe the additional testing that may be recommended in the neonatal period for further clarification of prenatal testing and diagnoses.


The government has launched a review into British gambling law "to make sure it is fit for the digital age". A coalition of activists has proposed a range of anti-gambling measures, including an advertising ban, low stake limits, a monthly spending cap, slower gameplay, and a ban on VIP schemes, bonuses and inducements. Despite the perception of a gambling "epidemic" in Britain, the number of people who gamble has not risen in the last decade, and there has been no rise in the rate of problem gambling since 1999. The number of children who gamble has halved since 2011. In real terms, the amount spent on gambling has declined since 2015. Many of the policies proposed by the anti-gambling coalition would be incompatible with the government's stated aim of respecting "the enjoyment people get from gambling" and "the freedom of adults to choose how they spend their money". There is little evidence that an advertising ban would have any impact on problem gambling. A ban on sponsorship would similarly hinder licensed operators from establishing their brands and compromise many sports without yielding any benefits. Stake limits for online games would make them unplayable for many gamblers. This is not regulation in the normal sense, but a form of neo-prohibition that would drive players to unlicensed, unregulated, and untaxed websites and undermine the key objectives of British gambling law. However, the technology exists to track harmful patterns of play and intervene. Sophisticated algorithms and timely interventions for the minority of high-risk gamblers are more effective than simplistic, blunt tools. The ability of "Big Data" to identify problem gamblers and prevent harm is unlike anything we have seen before. Regulated online operators use a range of practical harm reduction measures, which advance the government's objectives without infringing on the rights of the average punter or handing a competitive advantage to the unregulated sector. Not every company uses their technology to prevent harm in the same way, but best practice could be made standard through regulation. It is these practical solutions that could be the focus of the government's review.


The article presents a method for evaluating and reviewing books of compiled readings or readings books, which can be used in conjecture with standard reviewing methods. This method evaluates the n...


We investigate degradation of QPSK CO-OFDM system due to components most susceptible to high PAPR. We vary transmitter design parameters and uncover appropriate working conditions and clipping effectiveness regions.


Mobile and wireless communication technologies have enabled the provision of innovative services for individuals, organisations and society, while at the same time they have spawned a plethora of research opportunities. This special issue encapsulates four of the best papers that were presented during the 9th International Conference on Mobile Business/9th Global Mobility Roundtable. The papers discuss four seminal m-commerce topics. In our course to introduce the special issue, we perform a short outline of the trajectory of m-commerce research under three perspectives: technology, applications and core research themes.


A number of developing countries especially in Asia and Pacific have recently undertaken structural reforms to the health care delivery system An important component of these management processes is the establishment of a reliable, timely and effective information systems. A model for understanding organisational change , based on the contextualist principles is utilised to analyse case studies in a number of country situations. One can recognise in almost all the cases that the content and process are linked . The process issues relate to poor management support, lack of managerial ( and information management) skills, poor motivation and leadership in the systems . Strategies some countries have adopted are presented. It would be more efficient if countries with less resources , first addressed issues of their information system content and then developed workable management systems before investing heavily on technological solutions that have grave recurrent cost implications.


Hexamethyl-1,2,3-tristanna-[3]ferrocenophane (1) was prepared by the reaction of 1,1′-bis(dimethylstannyl)ferrocene (3) with bis(diethylamino)dimethylstannane. The molecular structure of 1 was determined by X-ray crystallography. The monoclinic unit cell (space group P21/c; a = 18.659(4), b = 17.311(3), c = 13.719(3) A; β = 111.02(3)°) contains two independent molecules which differ slightly in their conformation. The cyclopentadienyl rings are almost parallel, but the positions of the substituted carbon atoms are twisted by τ £ 62° with respect to the ecliptic positions. The reactivity of 1 towards iodine and chalcogens E (E = S, Se, Te) was studied. Iodine reacts to give 1,1′-bis[iodo(dimethyl)stannyl]ferrocene (6) and dimethyltin diiodide. In the case of the chalcogens, the detectable and isolated products are 1,3-distanna-2-chalcogena-[3]ferrocenophanes (E = S (7), Se (8), Te (9)) in addition to trimeric dimethyltin chalcogenides, (Me2SnE)3. Crystals suitable for X-ray structural analysis could be obtained of 1,3-distanna-2-thia-[3]ferrocenophane (7); the triclinic unit cell (space group P 1) has the dimensions a = 6.538(2), b = 9.013(2), c = 15.442(2) A; α = 92.15(2), β = 91.89(2), γ = 109.43(2)°. The molecular structures of 1 and 7 are compared with those of other 1,3-distanna-[3]ferrocenophanes. All compounds were studied by NMR spectroscopy (1H, 13C, 77Se, 119Sn and 125Te NMR) in order to establish the presence of the [3]ferrocenophanes 7–9 and of the cycles (Me2SnE)3 in solution.


As an object of study, I take Clarice Lispector's novel, Near to the Wild Heart, in order to highlight how Joana's choices for the adventure of the path reverberate the myth of the Wandering Jew and, at the same time, outline the topos of wandering in the author's fictional work. I read Lispector's inaugural poetics as a novel of subjective errancy and then highlight three aspects of the subjective diaspora that are present in the work: errancies in object, in space and structure.


Doubtlessly, wood identification is critically important for a number of sectors, including government organizations, the wooden-based industry, museums, law enforcement, and scientists working in the fields of botany, ecology, forestry, and wood technology. Unfortunately, most wood species listed as "the least-known species" lack essential knowledge or even their anatomical feature and basic properties to promote their usage. This research aimed to investigate the anatomical characteristics and fiber quality of the least-known timber species of Apocynaceae family, which are authentic wood collection from Xylarium Bogoriense, namely  , Ervatamia. sphaerocarpa, E. aurantiaca, Kopsia flavida, Lepiniopsis ternatensis, Plumeria acuminata, P. rubra, and Voacanga foetida.  Wood samples have indistinct growth ring boundaries, diffuse-porous vessels in diagonal and/or radial pattern, vessels in radial multiples of 4 or more cells, simple perforation plate, alternate intervessel pits; distinct borders of vessel-ray pits, similar with those of intervessel pits in size and shape throughout the ray cell, and septate fibers with simple pits to minutely bordered pits which are common in radial and tangential walls. Based on the fiber length and the derived values of fiber dimension, some species are classified into Quality Class II and III, and the rest of them are classified into Quality Class II or III for pulp and paper manufacturing. Based on general characteristics, commonly Apocynaceae can be used as handicrafts raw material. Based on the fiber quality, some species which are classified into Quality Class II, are predicted to have potential as pulp and paper material with medium quality.


Single phase nitridometallates Li3−x−yMxN (0.05 ≤ x ≤ 0.27; M = Co, Ni and Cu) with potential use as negative electrodes in lithium (Li+) ion batteries have been synthesised in <10 minutes via solid state reactions in a single mode cavity microwave reactor without an external susceptor. Reaction times are reduced by up to four orders of magnitude over previous synthetic methods. A combination of powder X-ray and neutron diffraction has provided detailed crystal structures of the vacancy-disordered nitrides. The electrochemical performance of these materials is comparable to that observed in conventionally-heated analogues.


Microwave-assisted spouted bed (MSBD) drying of lettuce cubes was investigated experimentally. Response surface methodology was used to optimize the process with spouting air temperature, microwave power level, and superficial air velocity. The dried product obtained was compared with that obtained using other drying technologies such as hot air drying, air spouted bed drying, vacuum microwave drying, and vacuum freeze drying. The comparison is based on the rehydration ratio, chlorophyll content of the product, color, and the drying time required.


The aim of this session is to bring together aquarists and designers for an open dialogue on what parameters need to be considered when designing exhibits for live corals. All too often, live coral exhibits are an afterthought in the overall aquarium design process. In most cases, architects and designers have predetermined the shape and location of exhibits long before anyone with actual husbandry experience is brought on board. This paper examines issues such as working within a design team, life support system considerations, exhibit design problems with respect to aquascaping, view panels, exhibit size and shape, the use of backdrops and coral placement.


OBJECTIVES
To study the joint association of coffee consumption and serum gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) levels on the risk of developing type II diabetes.

DESIGN, SETTING AND SUBJECTS
A total of 21,826 Finnish men and women who were 35-74 years of age and without any history of diabetes at baseline (years 1982, 1987, 1992 and 1997) were included in the present analyses. They were prospectively followed up for onset of type II diabetes (n=862 cases), death or until the end of the year 2002. Coffee consumption, serum GGT and other study parameters were determined at baseline using standardized measurements. Analyses were stratified by the serum GGT level classified into two classes using the 75th sex-specific percentiles as the cut point.

RESULTS
Coffee consumption was significantly and inversely associated with incident diabetes among both men and women. Serum GGT modified the association between coffee consumption and incident diabetes. Subjects in the high category of coffee consumption with the GGT level > or = 75th percentile showed a significant inverse association for women, and for both sexes combined. The association was not significant in subjects with the GGT level < or = 75th percentile. There was a significant interaction effect of GGT and coffee consumption on risk of type II diabetes in data of women (P=0.05) and in both sexes combined (P=0.02).

CONCLUSIONS
Habitual coffee consumption is associated with lower incidence of type II diabetes particularly in those with higher baseline serum GGT levels.


The Legend of Yemin Moshe A History of the Neighborhhood During the Years 1860-1948 Yemin Moshe: From the War of Independence to the Six Day War, 1948-1967 The Evacuation Period, 1967-1977 Yemin Moshe After Renovation: Results of the Evacuation and the Meaning of Renewal Lessons From Yemin Moshe Bibliography Index


The profiles of 0.429 and 0.478 MeV gamma-ray lines from Be-7 and Li-7 (produced by interactions of flare-accelerated alpha particles with ambient He in the solar atmosphere) and of the 4.438 MeV line from C-12 (produced by inelastic scattering of C-12 by accelerated protons) depend on the angular distribution of the interacting accelerated particles. The line profiles resulting from various assumed accelerated-particle angular distributions are calculated and it is shown that it will be possible to distinguish among them using observations of gamma-ray spectra from solar flares obtained with high resolution detectors. 28 references.


Abstract In a multicenter cohort of 963 adults hospitalized due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), 5% had a proven hospital-acquired infection (HAI) and 21% had a proven, probable, or possible HAI. Risk factors for proven or probable HAIs included intensive care unit admission, dexamethasone use, severe COVID-19, heart failure, and antibiotic exposure upon admission.


The computer generating force(CGF) entity is an important component and key study content in the attack or defensive battle simulation,also it is an important technique support in the simulation system for integrated training of element's tactics.This paper gives CGF entity's function and topology structure according to the HLA protocol in the battle simulation system,introducing study the contents of CGF modeling and the technology of entity modeling,at last it has pointed out the way of applying AI technique into setting up the behavior decision about CGF entity.


This paper attempts to compare SUN Zhi-li with SUN Yi's translation novel Emma in artistic conception as proposed by Translation Aesthetics,and also view their artistic reproduction of aesthetic connotations in the novel.


Domain encoding is a common technique to compress the columns of a column store and to accelerate many types of queries at the same time. It is based on the assumption that most columns contain a relatively small set of distinct values, in particular string columns. In this paper, we argue that domain encoding is not the end of the story. In real world systems, we observe that a substantial amount of the columns are of string types. Moreover, most of the memory space is consumed by only a small fraction of these columns. To address this issue, we make three main contributions: First we survey several approaches and variants for dictionary compression, i. e., data structures that store the dictionary of domain encoding in a compressed way. As expected, there is a trade-off between size of the data structure and its access performance. This observation can be used to compress rarely accessed data more than frequently accessed data. Furthermore the question which approach has the best compression ratio for a certain column heavily depends on specific characteristics of its content. Consequently, as a second contribution, we present non-trivial sampling schemes for all our dictionary formats, enabling us to estimate their size for a given column. This way it is possible to identify compression schemes specialized for the content of a specific column. Third, we draft how to fully automate the decision of the dictionary format. We sketch a compression manager that selects the most appropriate dictionary format based on column access and update patterns, characteristics of the underlying data, and costs for set-up and access of the different data structures. We evaluate an off-line prototype of a compression manager using a variation of the TPC-H benchmark [15]. The compression manager can configure the database system to be anywhere in a large range of the space / time trade-off with a fine granularity, providing significantly better trade-offs than any fixed dictionary format.


We present corrections for the change in the apparent scalelengths, central surface brightnesses and axis ratios due to the presence of dust in pure disk galaxies, as a function of inclination, central face-on opacity in the B-band (τ f B ) and wavelength. The correction factors were derived from simulated images of disk galaxies created using geometries for stars and dust which can reproduce the entire spectral energy distribution from the ultraviolet (UV) to the Far-infrared (FIR)/submillimeter (submm) and can also account for the observed surface-brightness distributions in both the optical/Near-infrared and FIR/submm. We found that dust can significantly affect both the scalelength and central surface brightness, inducing variations in the apparent to intrinsic quantities of up to 50% in scalelength and up to 1.5 mag in central surface brightness. We also identified some astrophysical effects for which, although the absolute effect of dust is non-negligible, the predicted variation over a likely range in opacity is relatively small, such that an exact knowledge of opacity is not needed. Thus, for a galaxy at a typical inclination of 37° and having any τ f B > 2, the effect of dust is to increase the scalelength in B relative to that in I by a factor of 1.12 ± 0.02 and to change the B - I central colour by 0.36 ± 0.05 mag. Finally we use the model to analyse the observed scalelength ratios between B and I for a sample of disk-dominated spiral galaxies, finding that the tendency for apparent scalelength to increase with decreasing wavelength is primarily due to the effects of dust.


Introduction: Surgical site infection is a well-known and relatively common complication of orthopaedic surgeries. Despite the dreaded effects, there's no common agreed protocol at most of the Hospitals in India. Since the patient's skin is a major source of pathogens that cause surgical-site infection, proper optimization of preoperative skin antisepsis may decrease postoperative infections. Objective: To compare the effect of 10% povidone iodine and 70% ethyl alcohol-0.5% chlorhexidine gluconate antiseptic solutions on lowering bacterial load pre operatively in patients undergoing Orthopaedic Surgery at Ruby Hall Clinic. Methodology: It was a randomized controlled trial, done at Department of Orthopaedics, Ruby Hall Clinic. A total of 44 consecutive patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery in the month of March, 2019 were recruited into the study and randomized to receive one of two antiseptic solutions (10% Povidineiodine or Chlorhexidine gluconate 0.5% with ethyl alcohol 70%). Swabs were taken from incision site and analyzed via qualitative and quantitative analysis before and after skin preparation. Results: The proportion of positive culture was significantly higher in the Povidone iodine group (28.6%) than in the Ethyl alcohol-chlorehxidine gluconate group (4.5%) (p=0.035). 70% Ethyl-Alcohol0.5% chlorhexidine gluconate solution is more effective than 10% Povidone iodine in Ankle region (p0.013). Age, sex, type of ward (Private, Semi Private or General) and the duration of hospital stay do not influence efficacy of either 10% Povidone iodine or 70% Ethyl-alcohol-0.5% chlorhexidine gluconate solutions. Conclusion: We suggest that alcohol-based formulation (Eg 0.5% chlorhexidine gluconate-70% ethyl alcohol) be used for skin preparation in Orthopaedic surgery as it is superior to Povidone Iodine.


Kadincik shrub (Flueggea anatolica Gemici), which was recently found in Turkey, is a relict and endemic shrub species. The only known distribution area of the species up to today occurs near the Kadincik I Dam in Tarsus district, Mersin province. A new distribution area of this species was found by us at Gedikli village of Kozan district, Adana province. In this article, the above-mentioned two distribution areas of the species were introduced. The species has a very local distribution in the two areas. Because the number of its individuals is very limited, the existence of the species is under risk. The existing distribution areas and gene resources of this species, which is important for sustaining Turkey's biodiversity, should be protected.
Keywords: Kadincik shrub, Natural distribution, Biodiversity


The invention belongs to the field of medical equipment, and particularly relates to a medical bed with an auxiliary rehabilitation device. The medical bed with an auxiliary rehabilitation device comprises a bed body used for the lying and rest of a patient. The medical bed is characterized in that any end of the bed body is provided with an auxiliary rehabilitation device, wherein the auxiliary rehabilitation device comprises a vertical support frame arranged on the bed body, the top of the vertical support frame is provided with a horizontal support frame, the left end of the horizontal support frame is provided with a servo motor for driving the rehabilitation device to work, and the servo motor drives a retraction and release device for driving one part of a human body to move. By using the medical bed with an auxiliary rehabilitation device, automatic rehabilitation operation can be carried out by the auxiliary rehabilitation device, or manual rehabilitation operation can be carried out by the patient, so that the patient can conveniently make some simple exercises on the bed, thereby improving the resistance of the patient and being beneficial to the physical rehabilitation of the patient.


In this paper, the optical spectrum and paramagnetic g factor of Cr 3+ in CsCl and CsBr crystals are calculated by the parameterized d orbital theory and the two spin orbit coupling parameters model. The calculated results are in good agreement with the experimental results.


In this article the main directions of modernization of Russian economy in the modern conditions which implementation will allow to provide structural changes in economic life of society are considered and analyzed. Necessity of modernization of the Russian economy is justified.


THIS book by Professor Chatley may certainly be considered one of the best from this author's pen, in fact among such ones as are known to the reviewer, it is the best. The subject is an admittedly difficult one, and to a still greater degree, is a confusing one, the motions being apparently so unnatural, but Professor Chatley has managed to propound the principles in a surprisingly lucid manner, tabulating where necessary, and giving examples, the better to help the understanding.


Summary form only given. Current-voltage characteristics of the tunnel contact of a STM-tip and an H-terminated n-Si(111) surface have been studied under optical excitation. We have used the abrupt increase of the reverse tunnel current and its strong dependence on the light illumination of the tunnel contact to realise an optical governed point transistor. The observed dependencies of the STM tunnel contact demonstrate new possibilities for using the STM-tip-tunnel separation-semiconductor structure as an optical controlled nanosize Auger-transistor.


Introduction: Nutritional status and immune response of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV-AIDS) patients are closely connected. There are limited studies assessing the influence of Body Mass Index (BMI) on immune response recovery among HIV patients in Indonesia. This study aimed to identify the BMI and other predictors of immune response recovery among HIV-AIDS patients following two years of Antiretroviral (ARV) therapy. Methods: This research was a retrospective cohort study among HIV-AIDS patients who started ARV therapy from January 2014 to December 2016 at Dr. Sardjito Hospital, Yogyakarta. Data were collected from ARV registry and medical reports. Data were analysed using linear regression. Results: A total of 255 patients were included in the study, with a median BMI of 20.07 kg/m2. Results showed that BMI was not significantly correlated with immune response recovery at the 6th, 12th, 18th, and 24th months of ARV therapy (p>0.05). But, the increase in cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) cell count was higher in overweight and pre-obese patients than underweight patients, especially in the 18th and 24th months of therapy. Factors related to immune response recovery were the regularity of treatment at the 12th, 18th, and 24th months of ARV therapy, and the use of Tenofovir at 18th-month therapy (p<0.05). Conclusion: Immune response recovery was higher in overweight and pre-obese patients. Using Tenofovir type ARV and doing treatment regularly can increase CD4 cell counts. Underweight patients need to enhance their nutritional status to improve their immune response during ARV therapy.


The article is a discussion on the brain, which consists of the left and right hemispheres. It focuses on the cross functioning of right and left brains by showing the connection between the two as well as uncovering the functions of the brain elements for the early early childhood learning. It argues that in education, the brains have three different functions, i.e. the rational (IQ), the emotional (EQ), and and the spiritual (SQ). In neurosains, playing can stimulate the rational brain activation (IQ), singing (i.e. musics and arts) can stimulate the emotional brain activation (EQ), and story-telling can stimulate the spiritual brain activation (SQ). In addition, quantum learning, which is a strategy to employ motivation, to grow interests, and to build active learning, is closely connected with the brain performance. Keywords : Brain, Quantum Learning, Early Childhood Learning


This article gives an account of the development of a scope-and-sequence based curriculum, the Verbal Behavior Curriculum, and an overview of the learning principles that directed its design and incorporation of instructional delivery and management procedures. The curriculum was informed by both Skinnerian and post-Skinnerian accounts of complex language and cognitive behaviors, instructional design and delivery technologies derived from discrete trial-based, Direct Instruction and Precision Teaching research as well as application concepts. The bulk of the article details that part of the curriculum's design intended to instantiate 3 critical behavioral repertoires (aka cusps): (a) early stages of participative, listener and observant skills, essential components for social behavior, (b) readiness/attention skills that enable the acquisition of missing prerequisite skills to acquire high order generative language, and (c) use of language skills in social situations to develop the full potential of the learner, sometimes turning into a fully verbal individual.


An experimental program is described that had the objective of measuring the effects of the time-dependent structure of downlink (air craft to ground) interference generated by the Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System (ATCRBS) in an active air traffic terminal area that are relevant to system and ground controller response time. The results of this program indicate a number of interesting details concerning the correlation of the level of the downlink interference with changes in the arrival and departure rates of aircraft at the local terminal sites.


Resilience to flooding' does not equate to 'defended from flooding', but means using a portfolio of responses to reduce the probability of flooding, limit the exposure to flooding and reduce the vulnerability of those that are exposed. We use the Future Flood Explorer (FFE) to emulate the behaviour of important aspects of Eden Catchment flood risk system and allow a rapid, yet credible, evaluation of the effects of climate and alternative adaptation strategies on flood risk. The FFE uses available datasets on the sources, pathways and receptors of risk to inform the emulation, ensuring the results are consistent with current risk estimates. Our analysis suggests that by the 2080s, under the assumption of a continuation of current levels of adaptation, direct residential economic flood risk in the Eden could increase by 50-160%, assuming a 2C and 4C climate future respectively. To manage flood risk more effectively an 'enhanced whole systems' approach is needed. Such an approach is shown to be capable of not only maintaining current risk levels but reducing them; direct residential flood risk in the Eden reduces by 5-30%, assuming a 2C and 4C climate future respectively.


Objective:To understand the influence of polysulfone membrane bioreactor experimental system to severe hepatitis plasma and explore the possibility of polysulfone hollow fiber membrane reactor as bioartificial liver reactor.Methods:Porcine hepatocytes aggregates formed by magnetic stirring method were seeded into the outer space of polysulfone hollow fiber membrane reactor.Concentration of ammonia,total bilirubin and prothrombin time of severe hepatitis plasma were examed and the levels of TNF-a,TGF-β1 of severe hep atitis plasma were detected.Results:Concentration of ammonia,total bilirubin and prothrombin time of severe hepatitis plasma continued to decrease in the whole experiment time.The levels of TNF-α,TGF-β_1 of severe hepatitis plasma continued to decrease in the whole experiment time.Conclusion:Polysulfone membrane bioreactor experimental system can be constructed preliminarily and this system can eliminate small molecule poisonous substance,reinforce wholesome components and reduce the levels of cytokines of severe hepatitis plasma.


The research aimed to determine the psychometric evidence of the Inventory of Violence and Psychological Harassment at Work in public entities ́s collaborators in the health sector of the Piura city. The sample was 202 contributors. It was concluded that in the validity of the construct, the 22 items show factor loads of 0.50 and 0.73 in the frequency of Violence and Psychological Harassment at Work, and in relation to their peer values between 0.41 and 0.75. In reliability, 0.933 was obtained in the frequency of Violence and Psychological Harassment at Work and in relation to his / her peers 0.923. Likewise, the percentile norms were determined, in the frequency of Violence and Psychological Harassment at Work, it was obtained in men 0 at least and maximum of 47, and in relation to their peers 0 and 50 points; women also obtained in the frequency a minimum score of 0 and a maximum of 33; and in relation to his teammates, 0 and 50 points. Finally, as cut-off points, low, medium and high levels were obtained.


Industrial Relations returned to the forefront of the Australian public debate in 1998 with the dispute between the Federal Government and Patrick Stevedores on the one hand and the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) on the other. This article, which was written in April 1998 at the height of the dispute, concentrates on the economic issues involved and the facts about 'waterfront reform'. The article analyses the economic aspects of the dispute in terms of employment issues, productivity issues, industrial relations and the relationship between waterfront reform and Australia's international trade. It concludes that economic issues must be understood carefully in order to distinguish between genuine practical concerns about waterfront efficiency and purely political points made by those who oppose the MUA and trade unionism in general.


Several public sector undertakings in India and across the world have taken up corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in education to promote social welfare. The effectiveness of these initiatives depends on the level of stakeholder engagement in them. Integration of human values ensures that stakeholder engagement becomes holistic leading to co-created value for the benefit of all involved. This paper discusses a holistic values-based framework of stakeholder engagement inspired by the philosophy of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Illustrations from the CSR initiatives of public sector undertakings in India have been provided to stress the benefits of integration of human values in stakeholder engagement.


Abstract. In some computer vision applications, it is necessary to calibrate the geometry relationships of nonoverlapping cameras. However, due to lacking a common field of view, the calibration of this camera topology is quite difficult. A calibration method for nonoverlapping cameras is proposed and investigated. The proposed method utilizes several light planes, which can be generated by a line laser projector or a rotary laser level, as the calibration objects. The fact that local light planes available in different cameras are identical in global coordinates is used to recover the geometries. Results on both synthetic and real data show the validity and performance of the proposed method. The given method is simple and flexible, which can be used to calibrate geometry relationships of cameras located in large-scale space without expensive equipment such as theodolites and laser trackers.


The objective of this project was to develop guidance for a Type Approval for FRP handrails in fire integrity applications offshore. BP, MODEC, PETROBRAS, ABS and NOV Fiber Glass Systems came together to form an FRP Industry Group which developed a Fire Integrity Matrix intended to be used as the basis for a Fire Integrity Type Approval for FRP handrails.
 The notation R0, R3, R2 and R1 performance levels for FRP Handrails were adopted with the aim to correlate these levels as far as possible to already existing Service and Location definitions set out in the PFM 2-98 for FRP Grating. Heat flux and duration requirements for the R0, R3, R2 and R1 performance levels were proposed, based on industry practice and HSE guidance regarding heat flux levels.
 An industry FRP handrail product (MARRS Offshore) was subsequently subjected to the Fire Integrity Matrix tests by Southwest Research Institute in Texas and found to meet all the test requirements. The data was subsequently assessed by ABS and the product was awarded a new Type Approval allowing, for the first time, use in fire integrity applications offshore.


Extensive research has been conducted in order to improve the security and efficiency of electronic auctions.
However, little attention has been paid to the design issues. This paper discusses design issues and contrasts
the differing security requirements between various auction types. We demonstrate that poor design for an electronic auction breaches the security of the system and degrades its practicality, irrespective of how secure/efficient the building blocks of an electronic auction are. This is accomplished by illustrating design flaws in several existing electronic auction schemes. Furthermore, we provide a solution to these flaws using a group signature scheme and give recommendations for sound auction design.


The purpose of this study was to determine whether the scores of Indian children from North Central Montana were significantly different from scores of white children from the same area of Montana on the. Wechs-ler Intelligence Scale for children. The Information, Comprehension, Arithmetic, Similarities, Vocabulary, Picture Completion, Picture Arrangement, Block Design, Object Assembly, and Coding subtests, and the Verbal I.Q., Performance I.Q., and Full Scale I.Q. means of the Indian sample and the white sample were tested by t-tests at the .01 level of confidence to determine if there was a significant difference in performance. The study was based on 105 Indian subjects and 105 white subjects attending the same schools in North Central Montana. The results were also examined to determine if the sex of the examiner had any significant difference on the results, and the results were also examined to determine on the basis of sex of the subjects, i.e., male performance versus female performance. The total white sample (male and female) scored significantly higher than the total Indian sample beyond the .01 level of confidence on all five subtests and the Verbal I.Q. on the Verbal Section of the test. The mean scaled score was 6.562 on the Information subtest, 6.371 on the Comprehension subtest, 6.010 on the Arithmetic subtest, 7.629 on the Similarities subtest, and 6.962 on the Vocabulary subtest for the Indian sample. The total white group was also higher on all subtests, except the Block Design and Object Assembly, on the Performance Section beyond the .01 level of confidence. The mean scaled score was 8.686 on the Picture Completion subtest, 7.819 on the Picture Arrangement subtest, 8.143 on the Block Design subtest, 8.771 on the Object Assembly subtest, and 7.667 on the Coding subtest. The Performance I.Q. was also higher for the white sample than the Indian sample beyond the .01 level of confidence. The difference between the results obtained by male and female examiners testing Indian children failed to reach the .01 level of confidence on any of the thirteen variables tested, although the female examiners secured somewhat higher results on eight of the ten subtests, the Verbal I.Q., the Performance I.Q., and the Full-Scale I.Q. The Indian males were significantly higher than the Indian females at the .01 level of confidence on the Picture Completion and Picture Arrangement subtests. The Indian males were also higher than the Indian females on the Information, Comprehension, Arithmetic, Vocabulary, Block Design and Object Assembly subtests, but the differences were not significant at the .01 level of confidence. The white males exceeded the white females at the .01 level of confidence on only the Block Design subtest; however, they exceeded the females at a level below the .01 level of confidence on all of the other nine subtests except Coding. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF..THE PERFORMANCE OF INDIAN AND WHITE CHILDREN FROM NORTH•CENTRAL MONTANA ON THE WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN {/ by .RAYMOND LESTER PECK A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty^Ln partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION


Here are three solutions to reduce paperwork and improve the health of your practice by ensuring that patients receive more personal care and attention.


The article contains sections titled:

Introduction
History of HTGRs and Coated Particle Fuel Development
HTGRs Built and Operated
HTGRs Designed but Not Built
Modular Reactors (1980s Design)
Current Modular Reactor Designs

Coated Particle Fuel Development
Development in the UK
Development in Germany
Development in the US
Recent Directions

Fuel Manufacturing Processes
Fuel Kernel Manufacture
Powder Metallurgical Process
Sol–Gel Process
Gel-Precipitation Process for UO2 Kernels
Gel-Precipitation Process for UCO Kernels
Fabrication of PuO2 Kernels

Ceramic Coatings by CVD
Pyrolytic Carbon (PyC) Coatings
Silicon Carbide (SiC) Coatings

Fuel Element Manufacture
Spherical Fuel Elements for Pebble-Bed Cores
Hexagonal-Block Fuel Elements for Prismatic Cores

HTGR Fuel Materials Properties
Properties of UO2 Fuel Kernels
Thermal Properties of UO2
Mechanical Properties of UO2
Swelling Rate of UO2

Properties of Pyrolytic Carbon (PyC) Coatings
Thermal Properties of PyC
Theoretical Density of PyC
Mechanical Properties of PyC
Irradiation-Induced Dimensional Change of PyC

Properties of Silicon Carbide (SiC) Coatings
Thermal Properties of SiC
Mechanical Properties of SiC
Swelling Rate of SiC

Fuel Quality Control and Performance Evaluation
Quality Control of UO2 Kernels
Quality Control of Coated Particles
Quality Control of Spherical Fuel Elements
Failure Statistics and Performance Requirements
The Mathematics of Failure Statistics
Statistical Analysis of Fuel Element Manufacture
Statistical Analysis of Irradiation Performance
Statistical Analysis of Accident Condition Performance
Comparison to Performance Requirements

Fuel Performance under Normal Operating Conditions
Irradiation Testing of Modern UO2 TRISO-Coated Particles
Accelerated Irradiations in Material Test Reactors
HFR-P4 Test
SL-P1 Test
HFR-K3 Test
FRJ2-K13 Test
FRJ2-K15 Test
FRJ2-P27 Test
Conduct of the Accelerated Tests

HTR MODUL Proof Tests
HFR-K5 and HFR-K6

AVR Real-Time Irradiation Testing
Performance Assessment for Normal Operating Conditions

Fuel Performance under Accident Conditions
Simulation of Core Heat-Up after Depressurization under Dry Conditions
Analysis of Accident Simulation Testing

Behavior after Water and Air Ingress
Simulation of Water Ingress
Simulation of Air Ingress

HTGR Fission Product Generation and Transport
Fission Product Generation
Fission Product Transport
Equivalent Sphere Model for Gas Release
Recoil Release from Fuel
Kernel Release from Post-Irradiation Heating Tests
Release of Short-Lived Xe and Kr Isotopes

Retention by a Single Coating Layer
Release for a Single Shell
Diffusion Data for Coating Layers
Applicability and Uncertainties of Transport Data

Transport and Release from Fuel Elements in Reactor Tests and HTGRs
Fission Product Chemistry and CO Generation in UO2

Coated Particle Failure Mechanisms
Pressure-Induced Failure
Internal Gas Pressure Buildup
Predicting Pressure-Induced Particle Failure

STRESS Modeling
The Redlich–Kwong Equation for Internal Gas Pressure
Cracking of PyC Coatings due to Fast Fluence
iPyC Failure
iPyC–SiC Interface Debonding
oPyC Failure
Fast Neutron-Induced PyC Cracking

Kernel Migration (Amoeba Effect)
Kernel Migration in UO2-Coated Particle Fuel
Kernel Migration in Uranium Carbide Coated-Particle Fuel
Kernel Migration in Thorium Oxide Coated-Particle Fuel

Corrosion of the SiC Layer
CO Attack of SiC
Palladium–SiC Interactions
Silver Migration through SiC Layer
Rare Earth Fission Product Attack

SiC Decomposition
As-Manufactured Defective Particles
Contamination during Manufacture
Irradiation-Induced Failures

Summary of Coated Particle Failure Mechanisms

Keywords:

High-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGR);
HTGR fuel elements;
nuclear graphite;
coated fuel particles;
UO2 kernels, pyrocarbon and silicon carbide coatings;
particle failure mechanisms;
fuel performance under operating and accident conditions;
fission product generation and transport


Barriers to lithium ion battery development, such as the limited energy density of Li-ion batteries and the scarcity of Li, have led to great interest in exploring multi-valent ionic batteries containing earth abundant intercalation elements, such as magnesium or calcium [1]. Magnesium-ion batteries have the potential of becoming the next stable, rechargeable, and high-energy-density batteries that can rise above the limitations of current Li-ion batteries. Reversible intercalation of Mg 2+ ions is a crucial part in constructing a stable battery, which, when combined with high capacity, charts a promising pathway towards high performance and future designs of Mg-ion batteries. High levels of reversible Mg 2+


t Tropical cereals and legumes available at Peshawar were assayed for heavy metals such as lead, copper, cadmium and zinc using potentiometric stripping analysis technique. Among cereals, maize gra~~s contained maximum am~~nts of lead 0.72 u g g ) and cadmium (0.09 u g g ) and the minimum values of these metals were in barley 1 grains. Maximum amo':!~ts of copper (8.10 lJ g g) and zinc (38.5 u g g ) were in the wheat while the. lQw.~~( l.q, I:&~r-.~ grains, A;nong legumes, max}rrum amount.s oJ reao' was In lenti~l (0.078 lJg g ), copper in soybean (12.9 -l}1g g ), cadmium in chickpea-w~~te (0.04 lJg g ) and zinc in soybean (40.2 lJg g ). Determination of coefficient of variation among vegetables and legumes revealed generally wide differences for lead and cadmium than copper and zinc.


Abstract A simple circuit has been designed for reading out at TV rate the two-dimensional CCD on the Automated Patrol Telescope. Because it is controlled by a programmable Cathode Ray Tube Controller integrated circuit it is very flexible and applicable to frame transfer CCDs having a wide range of formats.


Chemosensory proteins (CSPs) are small soluble acidic proteins formed during long evolution and abundantly distributed in antennae, tarsi and other sensory appendages. Chemosensory proteins among insects are well conserved and the identity is generally 30%-90%. They are believed to be involved in chemical communication, including perception, identification, transport and transduction of semiochemicals from environment (including olfaction, taste and others) and may be associated with regulation of circadian rhythms and maturation of tissue or appendage. Recent advances in chemosensory proteins of insects are reviewed in this paper, including evolution significance, localization of distribution and expression, biochemical characteristics, molecular structure, physiological function and research methods. Clearly, further researches on chemosensory proteins are required, which are significant to elucidate the essence of insect behavior and semiochemicals, explore the new approach for pest management and utilization of beneficial insects, and develop new insect behavior regulators.


We develop in this paper two types of heuristic methods for solving the positive 0-1 polynomial programming PP problem of finding a 0-1 vector x that maximizes cTx subject to fx ≤ b where c, b ≥ 0 and f is an m-vector of polynomials with non-negative coefficients.

The various heuristics were first tested on randomly generated sparse problems of up to 50 variables and 50 constraints, and their performance in terms of computational time and effectiveness was investigated. The results were very encouraging. Optimal solutions were consistently obtained by some of the heuristic methods in over 50% of the problems solved. The effectiveness was on the average better than 99% and no less than 96.5%. The computational time using these heuristics is on the average 5% of the time required to solve the PP problems to optimality. Some results for very sparse problems with up to 1,000 variables and 200 constraints are also reported.


The present work was developed in the dependences of the Fruticulture Section of the Agrarian Center of Sciences, of the State University of the Parana West (UNIOESTE), Marechal Cândido Rondon-PR, among September of 2006 to March of 2007, with the objective of evaluating the development of figs plants obtained from a rooting process of cuttings using sucrose diluted in solutions of IBA at nursery. Woody cuttings of the apical part of the branch were collected, standardized with 20 cm of length and immerged in solutions with or without sucrose at 2% diluted in IBA (100, 200, 300 mg L -1 and testimonial absentee at IBA), for 24 hours. The cuttings were transferred to recipients measuring 26 x 14 cm, filled with substrate composed by soil and it sand (2:1 v/v) and stayed at nursery conditions under irrigation and temperature control. After 60 days, the roots and aerial part were evaluated. Another part of the plants were transferred to the field in recipients constituted of rigid plastic with 5 L of capacity, filled with a substrate composed by soil and cow mature (3:1 v/v). After 120 days, it was verified that both the cuttings treated with sucrose and IBA or the stakes that were not treated had similar behaviors at the field and that the treatment with IBA only increased the rooting percentage.


This paper focuses on the theoretical concepts of lazy reason and ethical translation as relevant for contemporary postcolonial theory and takes as its object of analysis, in order to exemplify the relevance of these concepts, the issue of current indigenous education policy in Brazil.


Soot Formation in Non-Premixed Laminar Flames at Subcritical and Supercritical Pressures HYUN IL JOO Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Aerospace Science and Engineering University of Toronto 2010 An experimental study was conducted using axisymmetric co-flow laminar diffusion flames of methane-air, methane-oxygen and ethylene-air to examine the effect of pressure on soot formation and the structure of the temperature field. A liquid fuel burner was designed and built to observe the sooting behavior of methanol-air and n-heptane-air laminar diffusion flames at elevated pressures up to 50 atm. A non-intrusive, line-of-sight spectral soot emission (SSE) diagnostic technique was used to determine the temperature and the soot volume fraction of methane-air flames up to 60 atm, methane-oxygen flames up to 90 atm and ethylene-air flames up to 35 atm. The physical flame structure of the methane-air and methane-oxygen diffusion flames were characterized over the pressure range of 10 to 100 atm and up to 35 atm for ethylene-air flames. The flame height, marked by the visible soot radiation emission, remained relatively constant for methaneair and ethylene-air flames over their respected pressure ranges, while the visible flame height for the methane-oxygen flames was reduced by over 50 % between 10 and 100 atm. During methane-air experiments, observations of anomalous occurrence of liquid material formation at 60 atm and above were recorded. The maximum conversion of the carbon in the fuel to soot exhibited a strong power-law dependence on pressure. At pressures 10 to 30 atm, the pressure exponent is approximately 0.73 for methane-air flames. At higher pressures, between 30 and 60 atm, the pressure exponent is approximately 0.33. The maximum fuel carbon conversion to soot is 12.6 % at 60 atm. For methane-oxygen


Lead (Pb) accumulation and distribution in organs and tissues of raspberry (variety Sputnitza) and blackberry (variety Tornfree) cultivated without fertilizers and against the background of N90P90K90 have been studied. Maximal Pb accumulation was observed in plant roots, while minimal - in fruit of the studied genotypes. Pb concentration in shoot tissues increased proportionally to the shoot age: the highest concentration was in the perennial rhizomes and the lowest one was in annual shoots. The average Pb content in the plants cultivated with fertilizer application was higher than without N90P90K90 MPC exceeding in lead in fruit of the studied crops was not observed.


Despite recent advancements in Machine Learning, many tasks still involve working in low-data regimes which can make solving natural language problems difficult. Recently, a number of text augmentation techniques have emerged in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) which can enrich the training data with new examples, though they are not without their caveats. For instance, simple rule-based heuristic methods are effective, but lack variation in semantic content and syntactic structure with respect to the original text. On the other hand, more complex deep learning approaches can cause extreme shifts in the intrinsic meaning of the text and introduce unwanted noise into the training data. To more reliably control the quality of the augmented examples, we introduce a state-of-the-art approach for Self-Controlled Text Augmentation (STA). Our approach tightly controls the generation process by introducing a self-checking procedure to ensure that generated examples retain the semantic content of the original text. Experimental results on multiple benchmarking datasets demonstrate that STA substantially outperforms existing state-of-the-art techniques, whilst qualitative analysis reveals that the generated examples are both lexically diverse and semantically reliable.


Objective:To assess the value of plug mesh tension free hernia repairing in abdominal hernia.Methods:11 tension-free-plug mesh repairing in abdominal hernia performed in our hospital from August 2001 to August 2002 were retrospectively reviewed.And the operation of tension-free-plug mesh repairing was discussed.Results:All patients healed by first intention with no incision infection or death,and were discharged 5 day average,all patients were followed up with 1-12 month.There was no recurrence during the follow-up.Conclusions:Plug mesh tension free hernia repairing in abdominal hernia has the advantages of less trauma,little postoperation discomfort,rapid recovery and low recurrent rate.


Development, in general, is a process of planned change from a domestic situation that the national situation to others who scored higher. As the development has a negative impact on society, such as road construction in Trans Sumatera Jorong Gantiang Kecamatan Sijunjung Kabupaten Sijunjung. The purpose of this study is to describe the causes of the disturbances to the community after the construction of the Trans Sumatera in Jorong Gantiang and describe a community effort so that no more security problems after the construction of the Trans Sumatera in Jorong Gantiang. Reality in this study were analyzed with the theory of social change. This research used a qualitative approach with descriptive type. Type a descriptive study seeks to explain and describe phenomena certain. Techniques taking informant by purposive sampling. Criteria informants, namely people who've been or lived before and after the Sumatera highway renovation in Jorong Gantiang, 15 informer number of people. This type of data is the primary data. Data was collected by observation, interview and documentation. The unit of analysis is the group with Miles & Huberman data analysis comprising the steps of reduction, data presentation / analysis of data, and drawing conclusions. Results of the study revealed that a security breach since the construction of the Trans Sumatera in Jorong Gantiang occur due to several causes including negligence of society, society's ignorance of the abandoned house in an empty state and the absence of the control or supervision of public figures (head Jorong and police). To cope with such cases the community has to patrol or siskamling in turns every night, people also perform a prime position on the provision that they fear.


We employ azimuthally polarized laser beams to demonstrate experimentally variations of the Fano resonance profiles in the linear spectra of individual AlGaAs nanoantennas and reveal their links to optical bound states in the continuum.


Cluster analysis is important for analyzing the number of clusters of natural data in several domains. Various clustering methods have been proposed. However, it is very difficult to choose the method best suited to the type of data. Therefore, the objective of this research was to compare the effectiveness of five clustering techniques with multivariate data. The techniques were: hierarchical clustering method; K-means clustering algorithm; Kohonen's Self-Organizing Maps method (SOM); K-medoids method; and K-medoids method integrated with Dynamic Time Warping distance measure (DTW). To evaluate these five techniques, the root mean square standard deviation (RMSSTD) and r2 (RS) were used. For RMSSTD, a lower value indicates a better technique and for RS, a higher value indicates a better technique. These approaches were evaluated using both real and simulated data which were multivariate normally distributed. Each dataset was generated by a Monte Carlo technique with 100 sample sizes and repeated 1,000 times for 3, 5 and 7 variables. In this research, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 clusters were studied. Both real and simulated datasets provided the same result, with the K-means clustering method having the closest RMSSTD and RS results to the SOM method. These two methods yielded the lowest RMSSTD and highest RS in all simulations. Hence, both K-means and SOM were considered to be the most suitable techniques for cluster analysis.


A unique X-ray source, of exceptional brightness and with pulse widths as low as 30 fs rms, has been proposed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Named the Sub-Picosecond Photon Source (SPPS), the facility takes 30 Gev bunches from the linac and compresses them in three stages to achieve peak currents of 30 kA in the Final Focus Test Beam (FFTB) beamline. The existing FFTB can accommodate an undulator of up to 10 m in length which will deliver ~108 1.5 A photons per pulse in a 0.1% bandwidth with a peak brightness of ~1025 photons/sec/mm2/mrad2/0.1% BW, in a pulse width of ~80 fs FWHM. The short electron bunches are also ideal for plasma and wakefield studies as well as providing abundant R&D possibilities for verifying short bunch behavior in the future Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).


This paper studies the effect of initial crack location on the face/core debond fracture toughness under different mixed mode loading conditions. The mixed mode loading at the crack tip is defined in terms of the mode-mixity. In order to achieve the desired initial debond crack location, a pre-cracking technique is developed, where the mode-mixity, number of cycles, crack increment and load level are accurately controlled. Results show that the debond fracture resistance of foam-cored sandwich specimens depends on parameters such as loading condition (mode-mixity), core and face properties, as well as initial debond crack location. Lower fracture toughness values were measured for specimens with the initial crack location in the face laminate.


Three types of primary cell culture can be established from organs of hybrid catfish (Clarias gariepinus x Clarias macrocephalus) namely, caudal trunk, gill and liver. Cell cultures from caudal trunk and gill are composed of mixed cells of fibroblasts and epitheloids, whenever cell cultures from the liver are composed of fibroblastic cells only. All cultures grow well in either Eagle's minimum essential medium (MEM) supplemented with 15-20% fetal calf serum (FCS) or Leibovitz's L-15 medium supplemented with 5-20% FCS. The optimum growth temperature is 27 °C in an atmosphere either with or without 5% carbon dioxide. The diploid chromosome number as determined from the 19th passage of the caudal trunk cell culture is 56. The cell cultures can be stored at 4 °C for at least 2 months. Experiments were then performed to investigate the possibility of using the established catfish cell culture for screening toxicity of organotin pesticides (triphenyltin hydroxide, TPTH). The results show that the culture is highly suitable for the purpose. The effect of TPTH on cell culture is recognized at a concentration of 3 μm l -1 when cell detachment is used as the test criterion. Established cell culture from hybrid catfish has a great potential as a powerful tool in tropical aquatic toxicology as a method of screening chemicals prior to in vivo testing.


DNV is currently running a Joint Industry Project, NorMoor JIP, which is now approaching the end of phase 3. In this phase the fatigue limit state (FLS) of mooring lines with studless chains for permanent units has got the main attention. Phases 1 and 2 was covering the ultimate limit state (ULS) and accidental limit state (ALS) respectively.
 The NorMoor JIP has participants from energy companies, engineering companies, rig-owners, manufacturers and marine authorities. It is a global study covering Gulf of Mexico, Northern Europe and Brazil waters. Thus, areas with hurricanes, winter storms and combinations of wind sea and swell are covered. The results from the study will be applicable to most locations around the world, except for areas with squall.
 Our motivation for initiating a study on mooring line reliability was that all the global standards (API, ISO, DNV, others) are mostly based on work from late 1990s, when frequency domain analysis was prevalent, and the reliability level implied by the codes was not known. With this backdrop NorMoor Phase 1 and 2 was initiated, and recommendations on more recent and advanced analysis methodology and accompanying safety factors for ULS and ALS was developed.
 For FLS DNV calibrated safety factors for permanently moored units using frequency domain calculations in 1998. Now two decades later the age of the fleet of the world's production units is growing, and FLS is the governing limit state for life extension. The NorMoor JIP Phase 3 was initiated to ensure that the FLS code provides consistent and accurate safety level, and to see if improvements could be made to the analysis methodology. Phase 1 and 2 of the NorMoor JIP has shown that more cost-effective mooring systems can be obtained, without jeopardizing the safety level. Further potential for cost optimization of mooring designs has been investigated in Phase 3 by improving the FLS code.
 The focus in the present paper is the methodology and application of structural reliability analysis for mooring line fatigue where the probability of fatigue failure is calculated as function of safety factor. The paper also includes the subsequent calibration of a fatigue safety factor and a recommendation for a revised fatigue design procedure.
 A series of 3 papers is published at the OMAE2022 documenting the work done in the NorMoor Phase 3 on the fatigue limit state of mooring lines. The deterministic fatigue analysis method is supported by an accompanying paper at this conference, OMAE2022-81441, in which an importance sampling technique developed in the NorMoor JIP is documented to provide the most accurate fatigue estimates for the minimum of sea states analysed. Furthermore, another accompanying paper, OMAE2022-81465, provides statistical analysis results of a comprehensive database of fatigue test data, including both new and used studless chains. With this input, it has been possible implement an improved fatigue analysis methodology that also accounts for the mean loads as well as degradation based on extent of corrosion.
 The present work provides a unique and comprehensive set of results, where advanced reliability methods are used to calibrate a mooring design code where the mooring line tensions are calculated in the time domain. The results provide a basis for regulators, such as ISO, to update their rules. The paper concludes with a recommendation for a revised fatigue design procedure, and the plan is to implement this in the next revision of DNV-OS-E301.


When a new product has just been introduced or the economy has just entered a new phase, a firm is often at a loss as to what the underlying demand pattern has become let alone how best to respond to it. In "Dynamic Inventory Control with Fixed Setup Costs and Unknown Discrete Demand Distribution," Davoodi, Katehakis, and Yang faced off this challenging problem by tailoring ordering decisions to empirical distributions formed out of past demand observations. In the presence of fixed setup costs, however, an (s,S) policy optimal in the conventional known-distribution setting would take many periods for its long-term benefit to be realized. Therefore, a good online policy has to balance between letting ordering decisions settle for long periods and adjusting them frequently to take advantage of newly available information. When properly balanced, such policies could indeed achieve tight bounds for the performance measure of regret.


Latin America is currently one of the main participants in the interesting processes of forming new models of diplomacy. The region demonstrates an example of the evolution of collective forms of diplomacy with the participation of the population - NGOs, civil society institutions, the academic community, indigenous peoples. The article examines the growth of public participation in international processes. Attention is drawn to the fact that the diplomacy of peoples is one of the most important elements of the process of transformation of the state and the formation of fairer and more equitable societies. The main elements of peoples' diplomacy are analyzed, including civil diplomacy, paradiplomacy and indigenous peoples' diplomacy. Special attention is paid to the diplomacy of indigenous peoples living in Latin American countries. Formal and informal channels of implementation and tools of new models of diplomacy are considered on the example of Bolivia and Ecuador.


Based on the different characteristics between signal and noise, this paper studied wavelet denoise method on ECNT (Eddy Current Nondestructive Detecting), authors found regularity of noise and nondefect signals arising from the support plate used to hold the tubes, and introduced a new method removing the support plate disturbance using wavelet multi-scaling edge detecting technology. The result shows that this method is better than the current one in the respect of hardware cost.


The invention discloses a robot device. The robot device comprises a base station and a robot. The base station transmits guiding signals. The robot respectively receives the guiding signals through three receivers, wherein one receiver is configured on the robot, and the other two receivers are respectively configured on a left side and a right side of the above receiver in different angles. The robot determines turning directions according to the guiding signals received by the receivers on the body. The robot turns towards the right side or the left side, and when signal strength received by the central receiver goes weak, the robot stops turning, and rotates in situ and searches the guiding signals again. The robot performs fine tuning until the guiding signal strength received by the central receiver is maximum, and the robot returns to the base station to charge.


action of an epista Lie or inhilbiting factor I. Thus the eonstitution of the Snowflake singles giving rare slender progeny may be IS'Dlis'd or DS'I/ds'i. A serious theoretical difficulty seemed to arise in the apparent necessity for several 'specific " inhibitors"' all giving the same ''normal'' type, and also for relatively frequent dominant mutations. Perhaps, however, the apparent mnutation may usually consist in the, development or disappearance of some condition of duplication in one chromosome of the pair concerned. Origin of apparent mutants thirougoll duplication of whole chromosomes, as seems to have been demonstrated for a remarkably similar series of mutant forms in Datura (Blakeslee, Belling and Farnham, 1920), seems to be precluded in these cases by the evident linkage phenomena. HOWARD B. FROST CINIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA


AN.lESTHESIA FOR UPPER ABDOMINAL SURGERY. lZtonesponbence. mercial producers in the United States of America to supply it. 5. Favourable results have been reported in a few cases of miliary tuberculosis by treatment with streptomycin, but it cannot be regarded as an effective cure in all cases. 6. Streptomycin will be included amongst the drugs to be submitted to the Pharmaceuticai Formulary Committee for consideration for inclusion in the formulary under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Act.


Introduction. The paper examines the problem of updating the literary education toolkit in the context of the new longread technology. The study aims to substantiate the application of this technology in literary education, to prove that the work with classic literature can be interesting and effective, and analyze the developmental and motivational resources of this technology. Materials and Methods. The study relied on an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and was aimed at updating the technologies applied in the educational process. The longread technology used in journalistic practices was considered as a new toolkit. The substantiation of its application in literary education involved a survey of schoolchildren and students. Analysis and systematization of the survey results proved the assumptions of the authors' to be true. The study was conducted in the schools in Irkutsk and at the Humanities and Aesthetic Department of the Pedagogical Institute of Irkutsk State University. Results. The scientific literature has been analyzed and the characteristic features of the current socio-cultural situation, which determine the specificity of perception and thinking of modern schoolchildren, have been identified. Developing resources and problematic aspects of the longread technology application in literary education are described. The findings indicate the reserves of this technology for the reader and creative development, its controversial aspects, and the specifi city of the longread when used in diff erent stages of literary education. In conclusion, the authors emphasize that provided there is an understanding of how, under what conditions, and to what works the longread can be applied, this technology can undoubtedly contribute to the involvement in reading and co-creation. Mastering new information technologies is a requirement of the time for a modern teacher and opens up prospects for their professional development. Keywords: digitalization, media space, communication, technology, creolized text, longread, multimedia elements, editing, text markup, interpretation


To the Editor:— Aldosterone excretion in urine has been measured in few infants and newborns. The aim of this study was to determine serially normal aldosterone excretion during the newborn period and to see whether there was a relationship between the initial neonatal weight loss and aldosterone excretion. Four normal premature male infants were studied because of the relative ease of collecting 24-hour urine samples in males. Their birth weights ranged between 1,814 to 2,267 gm (4 to 5 lb) and their gestational ages were between 33 and 35 weeks. Three 24-hour urine samples were collected from each: (1) during the first 24 hours; (2) during the 24 hours when they had reached the lowest weight; and (3) during the 24 hours when the regained their birth weight. These infants were fed 5% dextrose in water at 4, 8, and 12 hours of age, and then were fed a milk


Human society and coastal ecosystems are very closely interlinked and interdependent. A vast majority of the population live in coastal areas, and depend on marine and coastal resources for food, employment and income. Focused assessments made by United Nations University (UNU) indicate that this human dependence on the life-sustaining coastal resources is under threat from a range of destabilizing effects associated with human activities, including different forms of pollution and over exploitation (Adeel and King, 2002). Coastal communities need to respond to these issues with informed management of coastal areas, and to share the lessons that they have learned in rising to this challenge.


SUMMARY In this paper, mathematical models of kinematics, statics and inverse dynamics are derived firstly according to the mechanical structure of leg hydraulic drive system (LHDS). Then, all the above models are integrated with MATLAB/Simulink to build the LHDS simulation model, the model not only considers influence of leg dynamic characteristics on hydraulic system but also takes into account nonlinearity, variable load characteristics and other common problems brought by hydraulic system, and solves compatibility and operation time which brought by using multiple software simultaneously. The experimental results show the simulation model built in this paper can accurately express characteristics of the system.


"Y'know-Babylon once had two million people in it, and all we know about 'em is the names of the kings and some copies of wheat contracts , . . and contracts for the sale of slaves. Yet every night all those families sat down to supper, and the father came home from his work, and the smoke went up the chimney, same as here. And even in Greece and Rome, all we know about the real life of the people is what we can piece together out of the joking poems and the comedies they wrote for the theatre back then." -The Stage Manager, Our Town by Thornton Wilder It may seem odd and even out of place to introduce an article on the work of Amos N . Wilder with a quotation from the work of his brother Thornton. Yet, in these few lines we find much of the thought of these two giants of this century. Although their careers were more intertwined than parallel, the basic questions each asked and the theories each applied were quite similar. Coming from an extremely creative family background, Thornton and Amos Wilder are to the twentieth century what Henry and William James were to the nineteenth. Although Thornton worked in the realm of poetry and theatre and Amos stuck more to poetry and literary criticism, both shared an intense interest in the close relation of the concrete and the personal to the mystical and the universal. Thornton once wrote in a preface to a volume containing his three plays Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth and The Matchmaker (Bantam): As an artist (or listener or beholder) which "truth" do you prefer that of the isolated occasion, or that which includes the resumes the immeasurable? Which truth is more worth telling? . . . It is through the theatre's power to raise the exhibited individual act ion into the realms of idea and type and universal that it is able to evoke our belief. I t was this key insight that provided the genius behind Thorton's Pulitzer Prize winning The Bridge of San Luis Rey and his later plays Our Town and The hlatchmaker which have become contemporary American classics. Amos applied this insight to poetry and biblical criticism with equal results.


Abstract : This monograph recommends that the U.S. Army adopts the operational planning process, found in Joint doctrine, for decision making at the division and corps level. The operational planning process is compared to the military decision making process. This comparison identifies tasks that are unique to the Joint operational planning process-determine center(s) of gravity and decisive points, conduct a force structure analysis, and determine an operational end state. The impact of introducing these new tasks is that the staff's decision making performance declines. The interaction of feedback and experience on decision making performance is examined. An analysis of the transition between the military decision making process to the operational planning process identifies the demand for the staff to develop experience in these new tasks. Lack of experience not only effects the staff's performance, but also degrades the ability of the chief of staff to improve the staff's performance through feedback. Since the analytical task of the military decision making process are mirrored in the operational planning process, the recommendation to change processes is made in order to satisfy the demands to develop experience.


Indium doped zinc oxide films (ZIO) were deposited on non-alkali glass substrates by radio frequency (RF) magnetron sputtering at room temperature. The structural, electrical and optical properties of the ZIO films were investigated as a function of their In₂O₃ content (3.33-15.22 wt%). The ZIO films deposited with an In₂O₃ content of 9.54 wt% showed a relatively low resistivity of 9.13×10 ?4 Ω㎝ and a highly c-axis preferred orientation. The grain size and FWHM were mainly affected by the In₂O₃ content. The crystallinity and resistivity were enhanced with increasing grain size. The average transmittance of the ZIO films was over 85% in the visible region and their band gap varied from 3.22 to 3.66 eV depending on their doping ratio.


We show assumptions of boundedness and Lipschitz conditions that guarantee the existence of a unique solution to a nonlinear differential boundary value problem. The result utilizes a variation of parameters of formula due to V. Lakshmikantham, et. al. and depends upon a contraction mapping.


Staphylococcus aureus is an infrequent invader of the central nervous system. The organism may enter the neuraxis by direct spread from a focus of infection about the skull or spine or by hematogenous dissemination. The former occurs in such conditions as facial cellulitis, septic cavernous sinus thrombosis, head trauma, and subdural and epidural abscess,1the latter in staphylococcal septicemia.2Prior to the availability of antibiotics, staphylococcal meningitis was almost always fatal, and until 1942 only 48 recoveries from the disease had been reported.3 Since the introduction of antibacterial agents, the number of cases of staphylococcal meningitis seen yearly has risen.4It is not known, however, whether there has been a change in the manner in which the organism gains access to the nervous system or in the pattern of the disease which results. To answer these questions, the records of patients with staphylococcal meningitis seen at


Acute‐on‐chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a sinister prognosis, and there is a need for accurate biomarkers and scoring systems to better characterize ACLF patients and predict prognosis. Systemic inflammation and renal failure are hallmarks in ACLF disease development and progression. We hypothesized that the combination of specific inflammatory markers in combination with clinical scores are better predictors of survival than the originally developed CLIF‐C acute decompensation (AD) and CLIF‐C ACLF scores.


Arif Nihat Asya, one of the important names of Turkish literature in the Republican Period, never severed his ties with art and literature in the fifty-five years from the 1920s when he became interested in art. Arif Nihat Asya, who is a versatile artist, has made a lot of mention of his name with his works in the field of poetry, but he has an important place in Turkish literature with his works in the field of prose. The artist, who tried genres such as jokes, mensur poetry, travel writing, letters and short prose in the field of prose, collects his works in this field in ten books.
Although Asya started its artistic life by writing poetry, its interest in prose poetry, which was frequently preferred by Tanzimat, Servet-i Fünûn and national literary artists, which entered our literature through translations from Western literature especially between 1930 and 1945, increased during this time. The artist, who concentrated on prose poetry between these years, managed to attract the attention of many writers and poets of his time with his works in this genre.
In this study, the prose poems written by Arif Nihat Asya throughout his art life will be examined thematically and technically, and explanations will be made by giving examples of prose poems.


With fresh Mango as raw materials,mango jam is processed deeply after some steps such as peeling,nuclear removing,sterilization,enzymes killing,and color and taste protection et al..The best ingredients for Mango jam were: 50% Mango puree,0.8% CMC-Na,15% brown sugar and 34.2% purified water.The optimun processing conditions were: heat at 85℃,enzymes killing at 80℃ for 60min.


This paper deals with the FPGA-implementation of a configurable hardware/software (HW/SW) architecture for data acquisition (DAQ) systems. The novelty of this paper is to present a HW/SW architecture which can manage most of possible applications in DAQ systems in a very flexible way meeting the performance targets. This architecture can be dynamically reconfigured and therefore adapted depending on the performance of the I/O devices. We implemented and tested our system with three representative applications for large format printers. These three applications differ in terms of sampling frequency, amount of memory and synchronization complexity. The proposed system can also be integrated in an ASIC implementation.


The creation of two-revolution and three-revolution cyclical surfaces is presented in the paper. Classification and vector equations of the surfaces are given. The surfaces are created by translation of the circle along the curves and its centre is on the curve. The curves are created by revolution of a point about any edge of the trihedron of the previous curve and this trihedron moves simultaneously along this curve. All specific forms of surfaces are illustrated in figures visualized in Maple.


Red tourism is a kind of special culture tourism.Red revolutionary cultural resources are the foundation and power of Red-tourism development,therefore importance should be affached to the reasonable development of the revolutionary cultural resources in the course of red tourism development in Jinggangshan.This article sets forth the obstacles of red revolutionary culture resources in Jinggangshan in the tourism deep development,and proposes some corresponding measures.


Spectral absorption UV-Vis investigations on association of copper(II) octacarboxyphthalocyanine in aqueous solutions are reported. In 5.0.10 - 7 -5.0.10 - 5 mol/dm 3 concentration range monomers and dimers are mainly present. The calculated dimerization constant 10 6 dm 3 /mol at 25°C and the hypsochromic spectral shift for the dimer 1164 cm - 1 (688 nm → 637 nm) indicate a stack-like association of molecules and suggest π-π interactions between Pc macrocycles in dimer and higher aggregates, in contrast to hydrogen bonding between carboxylic groups of adjacent Pc molecules.


Abstract It is proposed that coverage of the class of material described in BS 5930 as weak rock, is in need of improvement. Results from research into the behaviour of weak sandstone (0.5-20 MPa uniaxial compressive strength) are presented to illustrate this need. The strength, deformability, and propagation of compressional waves are reported for weak sandstones and recommendations presented for describing these materials and for testing their strength and deformability. Problems associated with the measurement of compressional wave velocity are also considered. An index test for assessing the strength of weak sandstone (the index of vacuum saturated moisture content) is described and presented.


Viewed from science and technology of Marxist natural dialectics,dialectical relation between computer,network and modern civilization created by mankind is discussed and the infinite developing law that computer and network are special parts of modern productivity is revealed.


Exemplification is employed to demonstrate the differences between two Japanese words of purpose Tameni and Yooni,including those when their predicate subjects are in unity or disunity,when the latter is followed by the negative nai(not),or when both words are used interchangeably.As is pointed out hereafter,the predicate subject of Tameni usually has a strong sense of purpose,while that of Yooni focuses on the purpose under certain conditions.Moreover,it is necessary to take into account,when they are used in concrete contexts,specific elements apart from the foregoing basic rules.


First published in 1978, this is the story of Charles Arrowby who, retiring from his glittering London world in order to abjure magic and become a hermit turns to the sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother. But he finds his solitude is peopled by the drama of his own fantasies and obsessions,


The responses of the time-dependent resonance fluorescence spectra of two-level atoms in the presence of (a) strong cw laser fields and (b) short pulsed laser fields to functional disturbances in these fields have been studied by the use of functional-sensitivity-analysis techniques. For the cw case, the transient and steady-state response regions are explored separately. It is found that the response to the field disturbance occurring during the earlier transient period is most prominent at the positions of the well-known three peaks of the corresponding spectrum. In contrast, the response to a disturbance taking place in or near the steady-state region tends to increase the separation between the peaks and lower the intensity of the line center, in exact agreement with the direct calculation of the perturbed spectrum. For the pulsed case, the response to the disturbance is most visible at the line center and at the accompanying multiple peaks caused by the population oscillation of the upper atomic level. The response strongly depends on the magnitude of the pulse area, thus giving rise to distinct asymptotic behavior for (2n+1)\ensuremath{\pi} and 2n\ensuremath{\pi} pulses. As the pulse area becomes large enough to cause significant population oscillation of the upper atomic level, the response of the spectrum shows a resemblance to that of the cw case.


OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the in vivo antimicrobial activity of chlorhexidine (CHX) in saliva 7 h after its application using an epifluorescence microscopy technique.

SUBJECTS AND METHODS
Fifteen volunteers performed a single mouthrinse with sterile water (SM-water) and with 0.2% CHX (SM-0.2% CHX). Saliva samples were taken at 30 s and 1, 3, 5 and 7 h after each application. The bacterial suspension was mixed with the SYTO 9/propidium iodide staining and observed using an Olympus BX51 microscope. The mean percentage of viable bacteria was calculated for each sample.

RESULTS
In comparison with baseline values, the frequency of viable bacteria decreased significantly at 30 s after the SM-0.2% CHX (P < 0.001) and presented significant antibacterial activity up to 7 h after the mouthrinse (P < 0.001). In comparison with SM-water, the prevalence of viable bacteria was significantly lower at 30 s after the SM-0.2% CHX (P < 0.001) and showed a significant antibacterial effect up to 7 h after the mouthrinse (P < 0.001).

CONCLUSIONS
Epifluorescence microscopy permits evaluating the antimicrobial activity of CHX on the salivary flora in real-time. Fluorescence assays could be particularly useful to analyse simultaneously the effect of antimicrobials that alter the cytoplasmic membrane integrity on different oral ecosystems.


Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of Artekin and Artekin(T),the two compounds dihydroartemisinin (DHA) for treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria patients Methods The 60 cases were randomly divided into 2 groups,each consisted of 30 cases and adult total dose of 8 tablets were given to the 2 groups 4 times in 2 days The cure rate,average parasite clearance time,average fever clearance time and side effects were also observed Results The average parasite clearance time in Artekin groups was (56 7±16 3)h and (58 4±18 6)h in Artekin(T) Group;the average fever clearance time in Artekin group was (20 2±1 3)h and (22 8±1 1)h in Artekin(T) group A recrudescence occurred in each group after a follow-up of 28 days The cure rate in Artekin group and Artekin(T) group was 96 7% The side effect nausea and stomach ache were mild in the two groups Conclusion Artekin and Artekin(T),the compound dihydroartimisinin are of high efficacy,rapid action and low toxicity for treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria patients and both of them can be used for treatment of patients in multi-drug resistant falciparum malaria endemic areas


This paper considers the role of transport in pollution of the environment based on statistics from West Germany taken to be typical of Europe. Past and future trends that are relevant to effects on the environment are discussed including vehicle numbers and vehicle use. Information is provided on the source and effects of pollutants including carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, ozone, hydrocarbons, particulates and soot. Reduction targets set for NOx, HC and CO2 are considered. Additional targets are suggested together with similar limitations for benzene, toluene, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, formaldehyde, cyanide, hydrogen sulphide and dioxins. Tables and graphs illustrate the effect of noise on the population. Figures are provided for forms of environmental pollution including consumption of space, consumption of resources, waste and water and soil pollution. It is concluded that technical measures will not be enough on their own to curb environmental pollution. A shift to environmentally friendly modes and a reduction in the need to travel are also required. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 856322.


Background.  Certain regions of South Africa exhibit an extraordinarily high incidence of esophageal carcinoma that develops via an esophagitis–dysplasia–carcinoma sequence. Bacteria belonging to the family Helicobacteraceae are candidates for involvement in the initiation of the esophagitis. We investigated patients with esophageal carcinoma for the occurrence of Helicobacter‐related species.


Tom Smith Introduction In May 2012, the Law Society hosted its annual Criminal Law Conference, this year entitled 'Fighting For Justice'. The conference focused on the future of legal aid funding in criminal law services, particularly criminal defence representation in the police station and courts. What emerged from the conference was the impression of a defence profession embattled by Government reforms and cuts. In this report four of the addresses given will be summarised with critical commentary. The review is broadly divided between two 'sides' – the Government, with its pro-reform approach, and practitioners and academics, critical of the changes that have occurred in criminal funding and procedure in recent years. However, one address attempted to straddle both sides of the argument with interesting reactions. Whichever way the conflict is resolved, there will clearly be significant implications for criminal defence practice and procedure, adversarial justice, and fair trial rights in England and Wales. Criminal law and practice are unquestionably vital elements of any stable society. In a time of deep cuts to public spending, the administration and delivery of criminal justice has become progressively tougher and the risks to the concept of 'justice' more pronounced. In this context, the Law Society chose to host a fascinating and insightful conference headlined with a keynote speech by the Attorney General, Dominic Grieve. Aimed at practitioners, the conference tackled various issues of significance, but with a golden thread running through all: the challenge of ensuring justice is done in the face of severely adverse economic conditions. An apt feature of the conference was its adversarial nature. Two divided sides clashed over the future direction of criminal services which I will attempt to capture and comment on these divergent strands of thought.


The current development of statistical theories of the fracture strenght for thd reliability analysis of ceramic materials has been comprehensively reviewed in this paper.The classical staitstical methods for the building of strenght distrbution functions are analyzed in detail,and then the feasibility and the reasonbility of their applications in the reliability analysis of ceramic materials and the desighn of ceramic components is discussed.It shows that researches in this field should be strengthened further.


Objective:To study the clinical features of aged patients with sudden cardiac death (SCD).Methods:The clinical data of 37 SCD patients aged between 6184 years old was analyzed retrospectively.Coronary artery angiography and autopsy were performed in part of the patients.Results:81.1% of the patients had coronary heart disease and 56 8% of the patients had coronary heart disease accompanied by hypertension.The results of coronary artery angiography and autopsy revealed extensive and serious atherosclerotic coronary artery disease in every case.Male patients and patients with left ventricular dysfunction had higher SCD risk.Conclusions:Clinical efforts aimed at improving myocardial function are mandatory for the decrease of SCD risk in aged patients with coronary heart disease and hypertension.


In twenty-first century, the industry competes heavily. Entrepreneurs try to use technology to develop their business. However, using technology generates high costs. So companies need to find a ne ...


A numerical study was carried out to evaluate the influence of engine combustion chamber geometry and operating conditions on the performance and emissions of a homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine. Combustion in an HCCI engine is a very complex phenomenon that is influenced by several factors that need to be controlled, such as gas temperature, heat transfer, turbulence and auto-ignition of the gas mixture. An eddy dissipation concept (EDC) combustion model was used to take into account the interaction between turbulence and chemistry. The model assumed that reactions occur in small turbulent structures called fine-scales, whose characteristic lengths and times depend mainly on the turbulence level. The model parameters were slightly modified with respect to the standard model proposed by Magnussen, to correctly simulate the characteristics of the HCCI combustion process. A reduced iso-octane chemical mechanism with 186 species and 914 chemical reactions was employed together with a sub-mechanism for NOx. The model was validated by comparing the results with available experimental data in terms of pressure and instantaneous heat release rate. Two engine chamber geometries with and without a cavity in the piston were considered, respectively. The two engines provided significant differences in terms of fluid-dynamic patterns and turbulence intensity levels in the combustion chamber. The results show that combustion started earlier and proceeded faster for the flat piston, leading to an increase in both the peak pressure and gross indicated mean effective pressure, as well as a reduction of CO and UHC emissions. An additional analysis was performed by considering a case without swirl for the flat-piston case. Such an analysis shows that the swirl motion reduces the time duration of combustion and slightly increases the gross indicated work per cycle.


This article mainly puts forward that the attention to the introduction of cultural background differences should be paid by means of emphasizing word connotations between English and Chinese Vocabulary.Teachers should consciously give explanations of cultural background to students and lead them to understanding of the cultural connotations beneath the superficial language in order to improve efficiency in English learning.


Introduction: Prevention is the most cost effective way for coping cancer disease. Effective and comprehensive health education is the most important way to prevent cancer. This study aimed to investigate the effect of cancer prevention education on studentrs knowledge, attitude and practice in Hashtbandi city. Methods: This study is an interventional quasi experimental study with a control group and the study population were 360 student from Hashtbandi city who were selected through simple randomized sampling. Data were collected by a researcher-made questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS software and Wilcoxon, mann whitney, and Spearman tests. Results: Results showed that before the educational intervention, there was no significant difference in the mean scores of knowledge, attitude, and behavior between the two groups (P-Value>0.05), but after the intervention, a significant difference was observed between the mean scores of knowledge, attitude, and behavior in the intervention and control groups so that in the intervention group the mean score of these variables increased significantly (P-Value<0.05). Conclusion: Results indicated the positive effect of educational intervention on promotion of knowledge, attitude, and preventive behavior of cancer in the students. Therefore, considering the priority of prevention over the treatment and also lower costs of prevention in comparison to the treatment, especially about the cancers, it is necessary to developm and implement educational programs.


Abstract:The Valley Migrant League (VML) was formed in 1965 using federal Office of Equal Opportunity grant funds with the aim of improving the lives of migrant farmworkers through poverty reduction. In 2021, the Oregon Historical Society's (OHS's) research library staff digitized over 300 images from the Valley Migrant League photographs collection, providing increased access to the images and filling in important details about the people and activities documented in the images. In this essay, Sifuentez reflects on the importance of the digitized collection and provides historical context about the VML, situating it among local, state, and national events. Throughout the essay, OHS Photographs Librarian Laura Cray has chosen images from the Valley Migrant League photographs and provides context for those images in detailed captions. See also Cray's article, "Provenance as Collections Care: Rebuilding Context in the Valley Migrant League Photographs," also published in this issue.


Environmental monitoring technologies and applications have developed rapidly because of growing interest in environmental issues. Previous research on environment monitoring can be divided into two major categories: sensing data collection and heterogeneous system integration. With the improvement of sensing devices, the operational condition of a device is also regarded as environmental information. This study proposes a sensor web enablement (SWE) and simple network management protocol (SNMP)-based management framework. The proposed framework defines the entity management information base (MIB) of debris-flow sensors to integrate the management of various debris-flow sensors. An administrator can describe an object and its attributes to construct the tree-based SWE management architecture. This framework provides dynamically managed objects and standardises the message management between the management system and sensors. Data access and collection are based on the SWE standard message format, which enhances the exchangeability of sensing data. The proposed system integrates the SWE and SNMP services into a web service-based interface that provides real-time, seamless, and remote management services. The proposed system also provides dynamic monitoring functions for different rainfall events.


Aim:  to understand how primary health care nurses experience the care of people with coronary artery disease in a longitudinal perspective.  Method:  qualitative study using semi-structured interviews to collect data and thematic analysis to handle them. It was attended by 16 nurses in the period between January and April 2016.  Results:  we raised the main category "Nurses' role in consolidating longitudinal care for people with CAD", underpinned by two subcategories addressing nurses' actions and factors interfering with the follow-up of the person with coronary artery disease.  Final considerations:  the follow-up of people with coronary artery disease in primary health care is based on welcoming, follow-up and conscious referral to other services of the health care network, as well as the effective communication among services of different technological densities, which can significantly contribute to the continuity and longitudinality of care.


Rapid diagnosis of VTE is vital in reducing the significant morbidity and mortality rates associated with this disease. Although angiographic studies remain the "gold standard" for diagnosis, many noninvasive diagnostic procedures are available and are appropriate for evaluation in clinically stable patients. The algorithm presented in this article facilitates the practical and efficient use of available resources in diagnosing and treating VTE.