Microengineered medical devices offer many potential benefits for point-of-care healthcare and rapid diagnosis, particularly in the field of rapid cancer detection. We have developed a microengineered system using the electrostatic phenomenon dielectrophoresis (DEP) to non-invasively determine the electrophysiological parameters of normal and cancerous oral brush biopsies, looking at both samples consisting primarily of keratinocytes and those consisting primarily of fibroblasts. The cells were isolated from patients after informed consent and the normal, dysplastic/ cancerous state of oral biopsies were confirmed histopathologycally. Cytoplasmic conductivity and specific membrane capacitance were determined using DEP. Cancerous brush biopsies exhibited significantly different electrophysiological fingerprints to normal oral mucosa. KCND2, a gene encoding a member of voltage-activated potassium ion channels was found to be differentially expressed between CAFs and NOFs.


Floating debris that obstructs the spillway reduces its discharge capacity and could thus constitute a dam-safety risk in an extreme flood situation. Tests are made in a 1:60 Laxede dam model, with ...


Results of many calculations of the MP2 correlation energies for ground states of closed-shell atoms (referred to as MP2/CA energies) are presented and studied. Special attention is paid to laying down rules which govern the dependence on the nuclear charge (Z dependence) and on the number of electrons (N dependence) of (a) the partial wave (PW) increments to the second-order pair energies, (b) the second-order pair energies, and (c) the configurational pair energies. It has been found that these energy increments disclose many regularities useful from both the physical and computational points of view. Some of the MP2/CA increments are quasi-transferable between similar systems. The results obtained are used as a starting point for an extensive discussion of the methodological significance of MP2/CA studies, and for indicating various actual and potential areas of application of the MP2/CA approach in many-electron theory.


For quickening the information construction of the military hygienic system, it is expounded in this article that the basic instance of the hygienic information construction in the whole army and the expectation of the hygienic information construction in the whole army in new century. The firm foundation is conquered for the long range planning of the information construction of the hygienic system in the whole army.


The role of television in the increased candidate orientedness of voters in U.S. presidential elections was examined using data from eight National Election Studies conducted by the Survey Research Center at The University of Michigan. The importance of candidate personal qualities and traits was estimated using voter responses to open-ended questions about the candidates. Candidate personal qualities became more important for television dependent voters during the 1960s, and in each post-1964 election were less important for voters who relied on newspapers than for those who relied on television. The differences did not appear to be a function of the higher level of education of newspaper readers. The availability of over thirty years of carefully collected survey data has made possible the study of change in how voters choose among presidential candidates. An important finding of studies utilizing these data is the increased importance of candidate personal qualities (see, among others, Popkin et al., 1976; and Kirkpatrick et al., 1975). Coincident with this change has been the birth and development of television, now the most widely used medium of political information. This paper examines the role of television in the increased candidate-orientedness of the public, and offers empirical support for the proposition that television has facilitated and encouraged vote choices based upon the personal qualities of candidates. Television's potential for affecting the criteria of choice in elections was noted from the start. Looking ahead to the first "TV election," Jack Gould, television critic for the New York Times, wrote in the summer of 1952 that SCOTT KEETER is Director of the Commonwealth Poll in the Survey Research Laboratory, and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University. The data were made available by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, which bears no responsibility for the analysis and interpretation presented here. The author wishes to thank John Brigham, William Gormley, Gerald Pomper, and this journal's anonymous reviewers who commented upon earlier drafts. Public Opinion Quarterly Volume 51:344-358 ?) 1987 by the American Association for Public Opinion Research Published by The University of Chicago Press / 0033-362X/87/0051-00/$2.50 This content downloaded from 220.127.116.11 on Sat, 08 Oct 2016 05:08:45 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Candidate Personal Qualities and Voter Choice 345 a TV-aware electorate is not going to be voting for a man merely on the basis of his reputation, or his thoughts as recorded in the printed word, or his disembodied voice as it comes out of a loudspeaker. Television makes the candidate of today a human being at one's elbow, who is going to be judged on the same terms as a man greets any new acquaintance. (Gould 1972:21) Since then, television's image-making power is thought to have been influential in most elections, particularly in the Nixon-Kennedy debates, in Nixon's return to politics in 1968, and in Carter's campaign of trust and honesty in 1976. And yet the search for clear evidence of television's impact has been mostly futile. As Joseph Wagner's (1983) review of research indicates, except for event-specific or group-specific phenomena, the quantitative literature has for the most part confirmed the "minimal effects" thesis. Beyond this, content analyses of television and newspapers suggest that the two media present very similar images of candidates (Hofstetter, 1976; Meadow, 1973; Evarts and Stempel, 1974; Patterson, 1980). Voters' perceptions of the personal qualities of candidates do not appear to vary with the particular mix of their information sources (Patterson and McClure, 1976; Miller and Jackson, 1973). However, while voters may hold similar images of candidates regardless of how they obtain political information, the importance of candidate images-relative to other information-may be greater for voters who depend upon television. Despite similarities with other media, television by its nature provides a qualitatively different product. It provides the candidate as a person. This is a function of the visual and actual nature of television's content, and is reinforced by practices of its news organizations and personnel that serve to downplay cognitive content. Doris Graber's analysis of campaign news on television and newspapers supports this view: The skimpiness of television issue coverage, particularly the dearth of quotes by candidates, meant that people who relied primarily on television for campaign information learned little about the candidates' stands on issues and even less about the candidates' priorities. This left the television viewer with information weighted heavily in favor of using characteristics of the man, rather than issue positions, as voting criteria. (Graber, 1976:300301). Wagner (1983:415-426) provided evidence that the television's slighting of issues leaves the television-dependent voter less able to discriminate between candidates on the basis of issues (see also Clarke and Fredin, 1978). Thus, voters choose as best they can. Television makes information about candidates personal qualities cheaper to obtain than This content downloaded from 184.108.40.206 on Sat, 08 Oct 2016 05:08:45 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms


This article is a preliminary report about the campaign of excavations of 1997 was centred in the access of the settlement. The work has exposed to view a circular tower, found in a exceptional conservation, and, according to the materials dated in the III to I century bC. This construction is associated to several contemporary structures aren't connected with the tower.


Volume 27 • Number 2 • 2016 Neutron News 14 Introduction After one year of hot commissioning, Australia jumped to the forefront of neutron imaging with the startup of the instrument DINGO on the OPAL reactor at ANSTO in early 2014. With barely a dozen neutron imaging stations world-wide, this brought the much-needed capability of state-of-the-art neutron radiography and neutron tomography setups [1, 2] to the Asia-Oceania region. Acquisition speed and spatial resolution can be tuned by choosing amongst different sets of apertures, scintillation screens, and detector systems to meet the needs of the broad user community. Researchers, curators, and industrial clients now have access to one of the highest-intensity neutron-imaging instruments in the world, able to obtain detailed radiographs of scientifi c objects, museum artefacts, and engineering pieces in seconds to minutes, three-dimensional tomographs in several hours, and movies of processes such as running engines or motors, and the fl ow of fl uids in fuel cells, all non-destructively.


Inbred crosses through three generations and reciprocal backcrosses through five generations using Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) from Stoneville, MS, and H. armigera (Boddie) from Tashkent, Russia, were studied for backcross sterility. A high percentage of mated females reproducing indicated a high degree of genetic compatibility between the two species. No indication of backcross sterility was detected in these studies.


The wetting behavior of a two-dimensional liquid meniscus fomred under a horizontal plate was investigated theoretically. In the previous report, we considered the wetting mechasism from a macroscopic viewpoint ; that is, we assumed that Young's equation could be applied to the apparent macroscopic wetting problem. In this report, in order to substantiate the assumption made in a previous report, the same problem was analyzed precisely from a microscopic viewpoint when there existed infinitesimal two-dimensional roughnesses on the horizontal plate. The thermodynamic energy change of the system with the meniscus moving along the roughend surface was calculated. When the apparent macroscopic angle between the meniscus and the plate was equal to the advancing or receding contact angle, the system became unstable. This result agreed with that of the previous report. The assumption that Young's equation could be used macroscopically was verified by this precise analysis.


Within academic circles, the "deficit" model of public understanding of science has been subject to increasing critical scrutiny by those who favor more constructivist approaches. These suggest that "the public" can articulate sophisticated ideas about the social and ethical implications of science regardless of their level of technical knowledge. The seminal studies following constructivist approaches have generally involved small-scale qualitative investigations, which have minimized the pre-framing of issues to a greater or lesser extent. This article describes the Gene Week Project, sponsored by the Wellcome Trust, which attempted to extend this work to a large-scale consultation on genetics and health through the medium of a local daily newspaper. Readers were invited to respond to a set of open-ended questions that accompanied stimulus material published each day for five consecutive weekdays. The articles were written with the intention of extending the limited range of discourses around genetics and biotechnology that are usually presented by the popular media (hope, fear, tragedy and bravery). Responses raised overarching issues about the place of emerging health technologies in society reminiscent of previous open-ended consultations in this field. The paper ends with a critical discussion about the potential of this method to contribute to the further development of open-ended public consultations.


We point out that in nonequilibrium relaxational processes the magnetic field of the initial state (instead of the initial magnetization) has to be considered as the additional scaling field (related to the initial state). Taking this into account the interpretation of the scaling behavior observed in the paper by Zheng becomes more straightforward.


A link layer protocol that supports multi-rate on OCDMA network is proposed based on multi-coding techniques to improve the performance of the network Our objective is to allow users of different data rates to access the network simultaneously without affecting or reducing the networks performance. Signature sequences are achieved using OCFHC/OOC 2D codes. System throughput and average packet delay are derived for two receiver models, namely, the correlation and chip-level receivers. In our analysis, we only take the effect of multiple access interference (MAI) into account and neglect the effect of receiver noise, as it is relatively minor. The network users are classified into two classes with two different transmission rates. Furthermore, the number of classes is generalized and we are able to show that the overall performance of the network is even better.


In all VET educational programmes, 40% of provision is compulsory practice. Apart from school-based VET, in recent years, work-based learning (WBL) and dual education have gained a lot of attention. While WBL is mainly a learning concept that integrates theoretical knowledge with hands-on experience, dual VET, which is the most integrated form of WBL and particularly responsive to the job market, goes much beyond the design of learning processes and is particularly dependent on systemic cooperation between the state, business sector and civil society. The introduction of dual education programmes began in 2016, significantly enhancing the employment and self-employment opportunities of VET graduates. At the same time, modularisation of VET programmes together with competence-based teaching and assessment are being introduced throughout the national VET system.


Through experiment,the sensitiveness to impact,friction and detonation are measured for the mixed explosive of nitroguanidine.The effects of nitroguanidine's crystal,granule size.charge density,charge diameter etc upon the sensitiveness to detonation are tested;It is proved that the nitrogunaidine of β crystal is suitable very well as a component of low vulnerability explosive either from the ratio of energy to safety or from the performance of security.


Various studies have consistently shown that collocations are processed faster than matched control phrases, both in L1 and in L2. Most of these studies focused on adjacent collocations (e.g., provide information). However, research in corpus linguistics normally uses a span to identify collocations (e.g., ± 4 words), and these non-adjacent collocations (e.g., provide some of the information) occur very frequently in language. Nevertheless, how they are processed is less established. A recent study on reading non-adjacent collocations seems to suggest similar processing advantages as for adjacent collocations (Author 2016), but this study was limited to the performance of native speakers. The present study addresses the question of whether advanced non-native speakers also show processing advantages for nonadjacent collocations as native speakers do. Forty advanced non-native speakers of English read collocations in either adjacent or non-adjacent conditions, and their eye-movements were recorded. Mixed-effects analysis of their eye-movements was carried out. The results suggest that non-native speakers read adjacent collocations faster than non-formulaic controls, but this facilitation almost disappears for non-adjacent collocations.


Summary From a survey conducted in the Republic of Ireland, data are given on the opinions of 754 married women and 194 husbands regarding the Government ban on and the desired availability of contraception. Data are given stating the extent of family planning and the methods used.


In order to utilizing the warning resources effectively, deeply analyzes the task assignment of anti- Tactical Ballistic Missile (TBM) warning by satellite and ground radar. The assigning rules are put forward; the decision-making model is established based on the task assigning. Combined with the fact of ATBM warning task, the solving method is given, which bases on the decomposing of task and PSO. The simulation result shows that the method accords with the fact of anti-TBM warning, and it can deal with the task assigning effectively.


The article considers and systematizes methodology of teaching of reading at English lessons at professional pre-higher educational establishments. The different types of reading are shown. The analysis of the necessity of the cognitive-communicative approach, focused on the development of the competence of communicating at English lessons during teaching of reading, which is the basis for successful mastery of a foreign language, has been given. The inclusive education is described as an important aspect of getting education at present. Peculiarities in the approach to teaching reading to students with special educational services (SES) are revealed. The article describes certain groups of students with SES, for whom it is necessary to individualize learning tasks, taking into account their needs in the perspective of the peculiarities of learning to read in a foreign language. Namely: a group of students with speech, vision, hearing disability; a group of students with autism spectrum disorders, a group of students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; a group of students with cerebral palsy. Pieces of advice on methods of teaching reading in a foreign language to students with special educational services of each group are provided. The authors provided examples of exercises for the development of reading competencies such as: expressive reading aloud at different speeds, reading alternately cut text, dramatic reading, text as an answer to questions, analytical reading, text processing, highlighting the main text, categorizing the text, deriving patterns by text, text extensions and others. The article proposes the principles of elaboration of educational material, which contribute to the development of language competencies of students of polytechnic professional pre-higher institutions of Ukraine.


Objective To study the application value of Bevacizumab combined with Pemetrexed plus Cisplatin in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC). Methods A total of 240 advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients enrolled between January 2007 and December 2008 were randomly divided into observation group which was given bevacizumab + pemetrexed + cisplatin, and control group which was given pemetrexed + cisplatin, each group with 120 cases. Then recent and long-term therapeutic effect and adverse reaction were observed and compared. Results(1) The overall remission rate(ORR) and disease control rate(DCR) of the observation group were significantly higher than those of control group, and the differences had statistical significance(P0.05).(2) The 1-year, 3-year and 5-year survival rate of observation group were significantly higher than those of control group. The progression free survival and overall survival time of observation group were significantly longer than those of control group. All the differences had statistical significance(P0.05).(3) The differences of adverse reactions incidence rate had no statistical significance between two groups(P0.05). Conclusion Bevacizumab combined with pemetrexed + cisplatin have positive clinical value, for it contributes to improve the remission and prolong overall survival time, meanwhile it will not increase adverse reaction of NSCLC patients.


A variety of vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) electrodes, which maintain their original morphology prepared by a chemical vapor deposition technique, has been successfully fabricated by a transfer methodology from a seedbed substrate to a current collector. No ohmic potential drop on a galvanostatic discharge was observed for an electric double-layer capacitor (EDLC) containing electrodes with not only a MWCNT length of 10 μm but also a length of 200 μm. Cyclic voltammograms for electrodes with MWCNT lengths of both 10 and 200 μm showed no distorted current response, even at an extremely high scan rate of 50 V s -1 . These results demonstrate that the present EDLC with the MWCNT electrodes can provide an outstanding rate capability irrespective of the MWCNT length when prepared by our transfer methodology. To find suitable MWCNT electrodes for high-performance EDLCs, we investigated several relationships among the specific capacitances of aligned MWCNT electrodes and their major properties, i.e., their gravimetric and volumetric capacitances, length, diameter, and number density.


A compact multi-gas sensor system based on a single quartz crystal tuning fork (QCTF) and multi-frequency synchronous modulation strategy is proposed for trace gases detection. To demonstrate the novel detection technique, three near-infrared continuous-wave (CW) distributed feedback (DFB) diode lasers with center wavelengths of near 1391 nm, 1574 nm, and 1653 nm and a standard 32 kHz QCTF were integrated for simultaneous detection of H2O, CO2, and CH4, respectively. Wavelength modulation spectroscopy with second harmonic detection (WMS-2f) was selected for enhancing sensitivity. Design of sensor configuration and primary performance between the traditional single frequency modulation and the proposed tri-frequency modulation were experimentally investigated and compared in detail. The results indicate that the proposed sensing technique has significant advantages of cost effectiveness, portability and ease-of-use, and the detection limits of 1.4 ppm, 353 ppm, 3.1 ppm for simultaneously measuring H2O, CO2, and CH4, respectively, are obtained, corresponding to the normalized noise equivalent absorption (NNEA) coefficient of 2.65×10-10 cm-1W/√Hz, 8.09×10-10 cm-1W/√Hz, 8.28×10-10 cm-1W/√Hz. Moreover, the use of an erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) has been demonstrated as an effective method for sensitivity enhancement.


This paper describes an e ffi c ient method for construc ting a tiling between a pa ir of planar contours. The problem is of interest in a number of domains, inc luding medical imaging, bio logical research and geological reconstructions. Our method, based on ideas from multiresolution analys is and wavelets, requires O( n) space and appears to require O( n logn) time fo r average inputs, compared to the 0("/1 2 ) space and 0("/1 2 logn) time required by the optimiz ing a lgorithm of Fuchs, Kedem and Uselton [4]. The results computed by our a lgorithm are in many cases nearly the same as those of the optimizing a lgorithm , but at a small fraction of the computational cost. The performance improvement makes the algori thm usable for large contours in an interactive system. The use of multiresolution analys is provides an e ffi c ient mechanism for data compression by discarding wave let coeffi cients smaller than a threshold value during reconstruction. The amount of detail los t can be controlled by appropriate choice of the threshold va lue. The use of lower resolution approximations to the orig inal contours yie lds significant savings in the time required to display a reconstructed object, and in the space requi red to store it.


The synthesis and a study about the influence of the solvent in the alkylation reaction of 2-Carboxy-6-chloro-9(10H) acridone (3b) and 2-Carboxy-6-chloro-7-nitro-9(10H) acridone (3a) was done, obtaining the N-ethyl ester derivative of the alkylated products. Using the liquid-liquid phase transfer catalysis only the N-alkylated derivative was obtained in both cases with an improved yield.


Natural convection and heat transfer in a discretely heated enclosure with one/two discrete heat sources was investigated numerically. The governing equation for the conservation of mass, momentum and energy were solved by means of finite difference scheme using SIMPLER algorithm. The results show that for an one heat source configuration heater located closer to the bottom of the enclosure yield the higher heat transfer in the high Grashof number range. Discrete heat sources located near the enclosure bottom are found to yield the highest heat transfer in the two heater configuration. The location of heat sources for maximum heat transfer rate in both heater systems is explained in terms of the intensity of the buoyancy driven flow in the enclosure.


Under batch conditions in 0.1 M H 2 SO 4 a study was made of the light-induced nonequilibrium phase trasition in the Briggs-Rauscher (BR) reaction from a quasisteady state (I) with low concentrations of I 2 and I - , to a quasisteady state (II) with high [I 2 ] and [I - ]. The dependence of the lifespan τ of state I on exposure H=I 0 t ill (where I 0 is light intensity and t ill is illumination time) has a threshold


Background: Trans-femoral access (TFA) is used conventionally for mechanical thrombectomy (MT) for large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke. Trans-radial access (TRA) is not only an alternative access r...


This paper investigates relations between several measures of trade execution costs and price rounding practices for sets of NYSE and Nasdaq listed firms. Percentage execution costs on each exchange are found to be positively related to the rounding of transaction prices and quotes, both in the cross-section and when comparing across trades within firms. However, after controlling for variation in market making costs attributable to trades' information content, there is a strong positive relation between execution costs and price rounding frequencies for Nasdaq issues, but not for NYSE issues. These empirical findings are consistent with the assertion that price rounding conventions have effectively increased bid-ask spreads and trade execution costs on the Nasdaq market.


Midwifery Basics: Caring for Women with Medical Conditions series, part 3. Complications caused by sickle cell disorder and thalassaemia in pregnancy. The implications for midwifery practice in antenatal care, labour and childbirth and postnatal care are examined.


The term 'financialization' is often used to describe the major changes that occurred in the macroeconomic regimes of most developed and, to a lesser extent, emerging economies since the beginning ...


Abstract Optimal filtering problem for a continuous linear time delay system having delayed observations containing coloured noise is considered. The problem is solved by making use of the innovations approach.


Objective To explore the diagnostic value of three parameters of color Doppler flow imaging( CDFI) of evaluation of internal carotid arteriostenosis( ICAS). Methods A total of 60 suspected ICAS patients with 120 branches of the internal carotid artery in Hospital of Laiwu Iron and Steel Group Co.,Ltd.during Dec. 2011 and Dec. 2012 were selected as the objects of study. Evaluation of the degree of stenosis was based on the 2003 American Ultrasound Medical Association,2006 Australian Ultrasound Medical Assoication,2006 Ultrasound Department of Capital Medical University Teaching Hospital recommended three CDFI parameters of ICAS. Results The consistency test results showed that the three assessment results of CDFI parameters were consistent with the standard DSA( Kappa1 = 0. 71,Kappa2 = 0. 76,Kappa3 = 0. 62),the standard two had the highest concordance with DSA. The sensitivity( 64. 0% and81. 2%) and accuracy( 89. 2% and 96. 7%) of diagnosing medium and severe internal carotid artery were significantly higher than those of the other two standards. Conclusion The CDFI three standard parameters can effectively evaluate ICAS,and is of significant value for the clinical diagnosis.


ObjectiveTo evaluate the changes of portal vein pressure by (PVP) radionuclide imaging in cirrhotic patients undergoing portacaval shunt or esophageal transection-splenectomy.MethodThe radionuclide imaging was used to calculate portal pressure perioperatively in 15 shunt and 20 esophageal transection-splenectomy patients of portal hypertension.Results were compared with direct portal vein manometry.ResultPVP by manometry in portal hypertension patients 〔(37±4)?cm?H 2O〕 was very close to that calculated by preoperative imaging 〔(36±4)?cm?H 2O〕r=0.81,P0.01.Not the postoperative pressure calculated by imaging in 15 shunt patietns nor that in 20 devascularization patients were correlated significantly with the changes of portal pressure by postoperative manometry.Conclusions Radionuclide imaging is valuable in the evaluation of portal vein pressure only in preoperative portal hypertension patients.


Facial palsy and orofacial swelling in childhood represent a challenge in differential diagnosis for paediatricians and dermatologists. One possible entity, Melkersson–Rosenthal syndrome (MRS), is a rarity in childhood. We describe a 9‐year‐old girl with the diagnosis of MRS who had episodic swelling of the upper lip and complete peripheral facial palsy, associated with herpes and recurrent bacterial infections. Therapeutic options for MRS in childhood are limited. Our patient benefited from a 2‐month course of prednisolone 1 mg kg−1 daily. We review previously published cases of MRS in childhood, and discuss the differential diagnosis of orofacial swelling and facial palsy as well as treatment options in children.


Thermal spray coating (TSC) is one of the coating methods to prevent direct interaction between the surface of the substrate and the operating environment, which has the potential to degrade the function and lifetime of the component or even the system as a whole. In this study, an investigation of Ni-Al coating quality as a bondcoat and Ni-C as a topcoat on AISI 321 Steel substrate with 3 variations of the treatment of the specimen. Variation of treatment (treatment) ie the first specimen is directly tested for bond strength, while the second specimen is given heat treatment and the third specimen is subjected to mechanical cleaning. Both substrate, bond coat and top coat are characterized by testing bond strength, hardness, microstructure and chemical composition. Bond strength test results are 2042-5404 psi for specimens with heat treatment, 597-731 psi for specimens with mechanical cleaning, and 842 psi for specimens of thermal spray results, while the hardness value is 261-308 HVN for top coat, 333-HVN for specimens with mechanical cleaning, and 195-240 HVN for specimens with heat treatment.


A 32-Gb ReRAM test chip has been developed in a 24-nm process, with a diode as the selection device and metal oxide as the switching element. The memory array is constructed with cross-point architecture to allow multiple memory layers stacked above the supporting circuitry and minimize the circuit area overhead. Die efficiency is further improved by sharing wordlines and bitlines between adjacent blocks. As the number of sense amplifiers under the memory array is limited, a pipelined array control scheme is adopted to compensate the performance impact while utilizing the fast switching time of ReRAM cells. With the chip current consumption being dominated by the array leakage and sensitive to array bias and operating conditions, a charge pump stage control scheme is introduced to dynamically adapt to the operating conditions for optimal power consumption. Smart Read during sensing and leakage current compensation scheme during programming are applied to the large-block architecture and achieve a chip density that is several orders of magnitude higher than prior ReRAM developments.


Objective To examine the variation of GPBB , CK and CK - MB in the patients with acute coronary syndromes. Methods The plasma GPBB,CK and CK- MB were measured in the patients with stable angina pectoris or unstable angina pectoris or acute myocardial infarction. Results The concentration of these enzymes showed no difference between the control and stable angina pectoris groups. GPBB increased in the unstable angina pectoris groups but the others did not. In the AMI group, GPBB increased earlier and the peak value emerged earlier compared with CK and CK - MB. Conclusion GPBB may be used to diagnose AMI in early stage.


Pipelining techniques execute some loops with cross-iteration dependences in parallel, by partitioning the loop body into a sequence of stages such that the data dependences are not violated. Obtaining good performance for all kinds of loops is challenging and current techniques, e.g., PS-DSWP and LBPP, have difficulties handling load-imbalanced loops. Particularly, for loop iterations that differ substantially in execution time, these techniques achieve load-balancing by assigning work to threads using round-robin scheduling. Algorithms that rely on work-stealing e.g., Piper, efficiently handle load-imbalanced loops, but the high overhead of the scheduler implies poor performance for fine-grained loops. In this paper, we present Proteas, a programming model to allow tradeoffs between load-balancing, partitioning, mapping, synchronization, chunking, and scheduling. Proteas provides a set of simple directives to express the different mappings to handle a loop's parallelism. Then, a source-to-source compiler generates parallel code to support experimentation with Proteas. The directives allow us to investigate various tradeoffs and achieve good performance according to PS-DSWP and LBPP. In addition, the directives make a meaningful comparison to Piper possible. We present a performance evaluation on a 32-core system for a set of popular pipelined programs selected from three widely-used benchmark suites. The results show the tradeoffs of the different techniques and their parameters. Moreover, the results show that efficient handling of load-imbalanced fine-grained loops remains the main challenge.


Based on the teaching practice, this paper made a research on students' psychological obstacles in the course of college athletics teaching, analyzed the causes from the perspectives of psychology and physiology, and put forward ways to overcome the psychological obstacles like bringing about teaching and learning circumstances, producing teaching and learning atmosphere, creating opportunities for success and designing competitive system.


Objective
To investigate the effects of entecavir combined with compound glycyrrhizin on liver function and serum levels of hyaluronic acid (HA), type Ⅳ collagen (Ⅳ-C) and type Ⅲ procollagen (PC-Ⅲ) in patients with hepatitis B cirrhosis.

Methods
Eighty-six patients with hepatitis B cirrhosis admitted to the Third People's Hospital from January 2017 to December 2018 were selected for the study. And they were divided into observation group and control group by random number table method, with 43 cases in each group. Patients in the control group were given entecavir, and patients in the observation group were given combined therapy of compound glycyrrhizin and entecavir. The therapeutic effects of the two groups were compared. The effects of therapy on liver function, serum fibrosis and immune function indexes were analyzed, and the occurrence of adverse reactions was recorded.

Results
The effective rate of treatment in the observation group was 95.35% (41/43), significantly higher than the 79.07% (34/43) in the control group (P<0.05). After treatment, the levels of albumin (ALB) in the two groups were significantly increased, while the levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and total bilirubin (TBiL) were significantly decreased in the two groups (P<0.05). After treatment, the level of ALB in observation group was significantly higher than that in control group, while the levels of AST, ALT and TBiL were significantly lower than those in control group (P<0.05). After treatment, the levels of laminin (LN), HA, PC-Ⅲ and Ⅳ-C were significantly decreased, and the levels of LN, HA, PC-Ⅲ and Ⅳ-C in observation group were significantly lower than those in control group (P<0.05). After treatment, the cluster of differentiation (CD)4+ and CD4+ /CD8+ were significantly increased, while the CD8+ was significantly decreased in both groups (P<0.05). Moreover, the CD4+ and CD4+ /CD8+ in the observation group were significantly higher than those in the control group after treatment, while the CD8+ was significantly lower than that in control group (P<0.05). There were no adverse reactions in neither group.

Conclusions
Entecavir combined with compound glycyrrhizin has exact efficacy in the treatment of patients with hepatitis B cirrhosis, and it can significantly improve the liver function and immune function, and relieve liver fibrosis, with high safety .

Key words:
Entecavir; Compound glycyrrhizin; Hepatitis B cirrhosis; Liver function; Hyaluronic acid; Type Ⅳ collagen; Type Ⅲ procollagen


Trimethylaluminum (TMA) is often used as a source gas for composite semiconductor or gate insulator films containing aluminum. However, TMA readily reacts with O 2 and this reaction causes film performance to degrade. Film formation is affected by the decomposition properties of the source gas, so it is important to investigate the influence of O 2 on the decomposition behavior of TMA. The starting decomposition temperature of TMA was 332°C in an Al 2 O 3 tube filled with Ar gas, and the decomposition rate increased rapidly above 380°C. However, when TMA was heated in an atmosphere containing more than 1 ppm O 2 , the temperature at which TMA began to decompose increased. It is assumed that this phenomenon resulted from the formation of methoxy groups through reaction between TMA and O 2 . Thus, the presence of O 2 in TMA not only caused the films to be contaminated with oxygen atoms but also altered the decomposition behavior of TMA. This means that fluctuations in the deposition rate and film performance are caused by the presence of O 2 in TMA when deposition conditions are otherwise kept constant. As a result, it is desirable that the O 2 concentration present in TMA is maintained below 0.1 ppm during deposition.


The construal level theory proposes that interpersonal intimacy reflects a social distance,and people construct more abstract representations(high-level construals)of information pertaining to psychologically distant objects or events and more concrete representations(low-level construals)of information pertaining to psychologically distant objects or events.The present study adopted both trait sentences and action sentences as the materials to examine the effect of social distance(close roommate/common classmate in same gender)on representation of others' positive and negative action,to investigate the role of valence of the content of evaluation in the psychological distance effect of the construal level.The results showed that(1)as the social distance increases,individuals construct more abstract representations of others in the positive representation,while there is no such effect in the negative representation;(2)Participants show higher scores in the positive and negative representation for the psychologically closer one than the distant one,which implies that interpersonal familiarity may regulate the representation of others' behavior.


Experimental realizations of a two-qubit quantum logic gate based on cold atom collisions have been elusive mainly due to the decoherence effects introduced during the quantum gate operation, which cause transitions out of the two-qubit space and lead to a decreased gate operation fidelity. This type of decoherence effects, due to the non closeness of the interacting two-qubit system, are characteristic of the electromagnetic interaction, since the electromagnetic vacuum acts as a reservoir whose eigenmodes might become active during the gate operation. To describe the cold-atom collision we consider the quantum non-Hermitian dipole-dipole interaction instead of the less realistic s-scattering approach widely used in the literature. By adding an ancillary qubit, we take advantage of the spatial modulation of the non-Hermitian part of the interaction potential to obtain a "resonant" condition that should be satisfied to achieve lossless operation of a specific two-qubit quantum phase-gate. We demonstrate that careful engineering of the collision is required to obtain a specific truth table and to suppress the effects inherent in the openness of the system arising from the electromagnetic interaction.


The theme which I am talking about is to make an effective media for the Gothic subculture, knowing about the economics and culture aspects. Through the virtual investigation, bibliographic and the one that is realized in the field to have the real information where the Gothic subculture involves all their things. It's important to create a Commercial development, between the stores and the people from the Gothic Culture for a symbiotic relationship they need to have for an improvement in their way of offering the products for them. They are going to have a web page where all the businesses and people who want to sell their products will have direct access to their target and the target will have access to all the business and people who offers products for them. This web is going to help all the businesses no just with the commercial aspect, otherwise, they will have direct access with them (Gothics) in ommunication and information where all the stores can sell products to them too. Is important with the teoric investigation to take important aspects in shape as: the traditional Communication and web communication, where the relationship between all the people included can improve the way they sold and search for information. Is important to the investigation too the study of the conduct of the clients who buy or wanto to consume any product, for all the targets is important to know how they act when they want to buy a product, because it depends in what grouo of people they are involved. From the investigation is important to discover which media is more adapted to solve the comercial needs from the stores whose sell products for the Gothic subculture.


The problems connected with the presence of international migrants in the Russian labour market are analysed in this article. The study reveals the role of foreign citizens in the labour market structure of the capital of Russia - Moscow - and the effect of the presence of migrants on the employment of Muscovites. The particular character of the main flows of migrants is described and its effect on different spheres of the Moscow population's activities is determined. The study also looks at migrants' social protection. Muscovites' relations to international migrants of different social groups, and the causes of these relations, are defined. Finally, the article looks at possible measures regulating the flows of labour migrants.


Heráclito cristiano, Francisco de Quevedo's early collection of moral poetry, contains microtextual and subtextual allusions to America that renew classical topoi and anchor the sinner's lyrical voice close to historical circumstance; in the process, metaphysical worries of sin and conversion, which hold an equally important weight for the imperial project, become re-semanticized by way of the speaker's inner evolution as he echoes, criticizes, and embraces those notions aided by melancholic doubt. The resulting lyrical voice unfolds a psychology partly structured by the tensions and crises of colonial history contained in the renewed metaphor of greed.


Ojala, Kristiina Adolescents' self-perceived weight and weight reduction behaviour Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, a WHO Cross-National Survey Jyvaskyla: University of Jyvaskyla, 2011, 151 p. (Studies in Sport, Physical Education and Health ISSN 0356-1070; 167) ISBN 978-951-39-4264-9 (nid.), 978-951-39-4281-6 (PDF) English Summary Diss. The aim of the present study was to investigate 13 and 15-year-old adolescents' perceptions of their body weight and attempts to lose weight. The cross-national objectives of the study were threefold: I) to determine prevalence of weight-related body dissatisfaction and weight reduction behaviour in 13 and 15-year-old adolescents; II) to estimate the influence of weight status on the likelihood of weight loss attempts; and III) to study the contribution of gender, age, body weight status, self-perceived weight, and country of residence on attempts to lose weight. The international data were obtained from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study 2001/02. The Finnish national trend studies determined the self-perceived fatness and weight reduction behaviour. The country representative Finnish data used in this study has been obtained from data collection in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006. Relations between weight loss attempts and consistency of meal patterns as well as physical activity among Finnish adolescents were also studied. In addition, the stability of the responses was investigated by test-retest study conducted in the provinces of Eastern and Western Finland in 2005 and was found to be acceptable. Some 40% of the girls and 20% of the boys regarded themselves as obese. Every second one of the girls and one in four boys had gone on a diet, changed their eating habits or done something else to control their weight during the 12 months leading up to the survey. One in five girls and one in 13 boys reported trying to lose weight at the present time. The majority of adolescents' weight control practices could be considered safe. Overweight adolescents were several times more likely to try to lose weight than their non-overweight peers internationally. Self-perceived fatness, being overweight and younger age in boys and older age in girls were significant individual-level factors determining attempts to lose weight. Country of residence was a significant second-level factor in multilevel models, but no clear geographical pattern in weight reduction behaviour in Europe was found. Attempts to lose weight were a significant factor in models explaining irregularity of meal patterns in girls and 13-year-old boys in Finland. Overweight adolescents considered weight related reasons to be important in their food selection more often than their normalweight peers, and also reported weight controlling to be important reason for them to take physical exercise. However, neither finding the weight related matters as important reasons to exercise, nor BMI, were in connection to physical activity levels. The importance of promoting positive body image for adolescents was highlighted by the fact that self-perceived fatness was found to be the most important factor leading to weight reduction activities, irrespective of weight status. The prevention of weight accumulation through healthy eating and exercise habits, which are not focused on weight controlling or appearance, might be functioning tools not only in the prevention of the obesity, but generally in the promotion of the health of the adolescents.


Emerging countries' MNEs have become significant players in the global market and their success is attributed to internationalisation strategies. In spite of entering the global market at a later stage, these firms have aggressively involved at their initial stage. Their acceleration in international expansion has challenged the MNEs' internationalisation as discussed in the conventional theories. This paper attempts to shed light on the international expansion by emerging markets MNEs and highlight their differences in the internationalisation theories. Based on an internationalisation model developed by previous scholars, this paper qualitatively analyses several Malaysian MNEs that have expanded using various modes and strategies. The paper focuses on the view of springboard international expansion and the processes that they went through despite their immature presence in the global market. The findings indicate that the motives and drivers of Malaysian MNEs differ from MNEs in other larger emerging countries like India and China.


We extend Feynman's analysis of an infinite ladder circuit to fractal circuits, providing examples in which fractal circuits constructed with purely imaginary impedances can have characteristic impedances with positive real part. Using (weak) self-similarity of our fractal structures, we provide algorithms for studying the equilibrium distribution of energy on these circuits. This extends the analysis of self-similar resistance networks introduced by Fukushima, Kigami, Kusuoka, and more recently studied by Strichartz et al.


Adult bladder tumor is estimated to be the 10th most common tumor worldwide. However, its incidence is much less common in children. It is a disease of the elderly that peaks in the sixth decade of life. Nevertheless, bladder tumors could also affect children, adolescents, and young adults with a prevalence of <1% in the first four decades of life. Ethiopathogenically and epidemiologically, the frequent association with congenital malformations can also explain the occurrence of bladder tumors by the cytotoxic action of chemotherapy treatment in the context of hematological malignancies in children. Most bladder neoplasms are surgically resected. Cystoscopy, if possible with biopsy, confirms the diagnosis of anatomy pathology.


The utility model discloses a load switch operating device comprising a base plate and a panel which are connected through a support pillar; a main switch operating mechanism, an energy storage mechanism, a ground switch operating mechanism are arranged between the base plate and the panel; an interlocks are arranged between the main switch operating mechanism and the energy storage mechanism, and between the ground switch operating mechanism and an access door of the load switch; the load switch operating device has the advantages of compact structure, convenient assembly and disassembly, and good security performance.


2-Substituted 3-formyl-4H-pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidin-4-ones can be synthethized by Vilsmeier-Haack formylation with the dimethylformamide-phosphoryl chloride complex only from those 4H-pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidin-4-ones which contain a substituent with electron-releasing resonance effect in position 2. The products were characterized by uv, ir and 1H nmr spectroscopy.


An improvement is required in the meteorological support for the future Air Traffic Management (ATM) System. New concepts of weather services must be tailored to enable a safer and more efficient aviation: better accuracy, increased data availability, real time support, digital service and shared information are some of the foundational elements underlying trajectory optimization, automation of operations, and fuel & time cost-reductions. A Digital Meteorological Service (DMET) is cornerstone in a net-centric service-oriented ATM system architecture where available data, air-ground connectivity and modern computational resources are taken advantage of to attain a 4D predictive model specifically designed for real-time support to aircraft operations. The effort presented here consists on the development of a prototype DMET service that computes atmospheric data from several sources to produce predicted 4D atmosphere scenarios regularly available to subscribers. By using many data sources –such as forecasts from global and mesoscale weather models, in-situ observations and the introduction of local airborne parameters, a well-tailored forecast product is developed. It consists of a 4D grid of pressure, temperature and wind data fields that are valid into an airspace cube of about 150 × 150 × 20 km, within a time interval of 2.5 hours. On top of this model, minimum time, minimum consumption and other interesting weather-based optimization functions are covered, all being processed in parallel for a future migration to a supercomputing centre.


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This article summarizes a little experience in the treatment of patellar dislocations by the arthroscopic method. In total, from 2018 to 2021, we performed 450 arthroscopic operations on the knee joint, of which the stabilization of the patella in case of dislocation was 7. Thus: in the case of primary traumatic dislocation, we performed 4 operations, with the usual - 3. Thus, carrying out arthroscopy, which allows you to restore the biomechanical axis with the elimination of patellar dislocation simultaneously or sequentially at the stage of treatment, allows you to get positive results.


The existence of a benign vourse in multiple scerosis (MS) counteracts the belief that multiple sclerosis is a crippling disease. By studying the benign course, important knowledge may be obtaines that could help understand why certain MS patients still do well decades after the initial symptoms and others do not. ... Zie: Summary


This study aims to see the abundance of macrobenthos and those that dominate macrobenthos on the coast of Karang-Karangan village, Bua sub-district, Luwu district and also to see its diversity index. This research was conducted in September 2020 on the coast of Karang-Karangan, Bua District, Luwu Regency. The type of research used in this research is descriptive research that describes the existence of macrobenthos on the coast of Karang-Karangan. The data analysis technique used in this research is descriptive data. The results of the research on the diversity of macrobenthos showed a low level of diversity, namely station I 0.57, station II 0.22 and station III 0.43.


Optimising the production of insects for food and feed and ensuring their health are growing concerns for producers. Insects suffer from a range of insect pathogenic microorganisms, and the managem...


We propose a light weight algorithm to classify cane-toads, a non-native invasive amphibian species in Australia as well as other native frog species, based on their vocalizations using sharply resource-constrained acoustic sensors. The goal is to enable fast in-network frog classification at the resource-constrained sensors so as to minimize energy consumption of the sensor network by reducing the amount of data transmitted to a central server. Each sensor randomly and independently samples a signal at a sub-Nyquist rate. The vocalization envelopes are extracted and matched with the original signal envelopes to find the best match. The computational complexity of the algorithm is O(n). It also requires less than 2KB of data memory. Our experiments on frog vocalizations show that our approach performs well, providing an accuracy of 90% and a miss rate of less than 5%.


Since the ethylacetate (EtOAc) extract of the roots of Zhumeria majdae had the potent cytotoxic effect (IC50 < 50 μg/ml) on three cancer cell lines; MCF-7, PC3 and MDA-MB-231, therefore the purpous of this study is to isolation of the responcible cytotoxic compounds from the plant. Isolation of the extract led to the identification of four diterpenoids named as lanugon Q (1), 12,16-dideoxy aegyptinone B (2), 12-deoxy-salvipisone (3) and manool (4). The chemical structures have been determined on the basis of 1D and 2D NMR experiments. Compound 1 is reported for the first time in the plants of Zhumeria genus. The results of cytotoxic and apoptotic evaluation revealed that compound 2 had the strong cytotoxic effect with the IC50 value of 15.90 μg/ml against MCF-7 cell lines. Sub-G1 peak in flow cytometry histogram of cells treated with EtOAc axtract and compound 2 showed the induction of apoptosis. Changes in the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio and cleavage of PARP were observed. It is to be noted that owing to strong cytotoxic effect, Z. majdae extract could be represented as therapeutic agent against cancer.


Electron tomography (ET) reconstructs a 3D model of materials using their 2D projections. Recently, there has been growing interest in developing optimization-based reconstruction techniques, often colloquially referred to as "compressed sensing electron tomography" [1], that obtain reconstructions by formulating and solving a specific optimization problem. Compared with traditional back projection, optimization-based methods are more flexible in using additional prior knowledge about the object to improve reconstruction quality with reduced sampling. However, extra parameters introduced in optimization problems often have significant impacts on images, yet are seldom explored in literature. Here, we demonstrate the use of a power spectrum analysis to facilitate robust automatic parameter selection for ET using the popular total variation (TV) minimization method.


In any wireless telecommunication systems, the radio resource is always limited. Network evaluates the use of radio resource all the time and adjusts the allocation of radio resource in time so as to satisfy the needs of every terminal for resource. During the process, the flow control is an important procedure. The flow control in TD-SCDMA system penetrates into every sub procedures. This paper introduces in principle how to deal with flow control in TD-SCDMA system, and the relationship between resource assignment and flow control.


This study assessed the influence of inventory audit on performance of procurement function in selected public universities in Western Kenya. The study was guided by theory of inspired confidence. A census survey research design was adopted for the study. The study target population comprised of 72 procurement officers and internal auditors from the selected public universities in Western Kenya. Structured questionnaire was used to facilitate in data collection. A pilot study was carried out at Kaimosi University College before the main study to find out the likely weaknesses in the data collection tool by the use of validity and reliability tests. The data from pilot study was analyzed using Cronbach's Alpha coefficient which was 0.847 meaning the items in the questionnaire were reliable for this research. SPSS software was used for data analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The study results showed that the selected public universities carried out inventory audit. The study showed that elements of inventory audit had a strong positive and significant influence on performance of procurement function in the sampled public Universities. The researcher recommended that public Universities to put in place inventory audit measures since it had a significant influence on the performance of procurement function. Key word: Inventory Audit, Procurement Function Performance, Public Universities CITATION: Mathias, J. M., & Kwasira, J. (2019). Inventory audit and performance of procurement function in selected public universities in Western Kenya. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management, 6 (2), 2379 – 2384.


We thank Dr. Talih for his commentary (1) on our paper regarding temporal comparisons of health disparities (2). Curiously, Talih agrees with our key conclusion: Changing relationships between dimensions of socioeconomic position (e.g., education and income) can result in bias when comparing disparities over time, especially when researchers rely on a single measured indicator of socioeconomic position. What are Talih's criticisms? They are that we 1) "reduce" education to income and treat education as a linear variable, disregarding the importance of credentials; 2) violate causal agnosticism via our use of causal directed acyclic graphs; and 3) aver that the slope index of inequality (SII) was not intended to be used for temporal comparisons. These erroneous concerns are all easy to address. First, we concur with Talih that education cannot be reduced to income and likely influences health through pathways above and beyond its association with material resources. Nevertheless, extensive evidence exists regarding associations between income and health and dramatic changes in both educational attainment and its relationship with income (3, 4). Thus, even if education has strong independent effects on health (e.g., via literacy), estimates of educational disparities in health (as shown by our models) will reflect both the independent mechanisms connecting education to health and the likely substantial effect of pathways involving income and material resources (refer to our Web Appendix 2 available at http://aje. oxfordjournals.org/), and these concerns hold whether education is treated as a continuous or categorical variable. Our findings of potential bias stand. Second, we find Talih's call for "causal agnosticism" to be highly problematic. Although we concur that the conditional independence approach he advocates (with only undirected edges) would yield the same simulated data as our directed acyclic graph–based approach, on a conceptual level, we argue that causally complex situations require researchers to be more explicit, rather than less explicit, about the variety of possible causal structures that can give rise to observed multivariate associations (Figures 1 and 2 of our paper) (2). Multiple competing causal graphs can sharpen thinking by requiring explicit attention to which variables are hypothesized to be confounders or mediators. Here, one is not trying to infer causality from regressions, as Talih asserts, but rather, using regressions as tools for estimating associations between nodes of a causal graph. We should not run from explicit causal propositions; rather, we should embrace and test them! Third, Talih would do well to refer back to the classic 1985 paper by Pamuk that introduced the SII (5). In her article, Pamuk explicitly stated the following:


Contents: Introduction, David J. Galbreath and Carmen Gebhard The EU and the Council of Europe: difference, duplication or delegation?, Martyn Bond Governance between international institutions: analysing interaction modes between the EU, the Council of Europe and the OSCE, Malte Brosig Cooperation and conflict in the promotion and protection of democracy by European regional organizations, Richard Burchill Managing ethnopolitics from above: inter-organizational cooperation and European integration, David J. Galbreath The EU-NATO conundrum in context: Bringing the state back in, Luis Simon 'No exit'? International organizations, human rights and the politics of withdrawal in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Joanne McEvoy African solutions to European problems? Conditioning cooperation among international organizations on peace operations in Europe and Africa, Heidi Hardt Conclusions, David J. Galbreath and Carmen Gebhard Index


Background: Fruit have been a part of the human diet since the earliest time. Dadima (Punica granatum L.) of family Lytheraceae, is one among the fruits described under Phala Varga (group of fruits), a classification under Ahara Varga (group of dietetic articles) of Charaka Samhita and has been highlighted for its wide range of use as an Ahara (diet), both preventive and curative in different diseased conditions. Aim: To have a comprehensive review on Dadima or its parts as an ingredient in various Ahara Kalpana (dietetic preparations) containing from available classical texts of Ayurveda. Results: Dadima as an ingredient being included in 634 formulations. Among them, 102 are uses as Ahara Kalpana indicated for its internal uses and 1 for external use. There are 39 formulations where Dadima is used as Bhavana Dravya during its preparation. Dadima is also recommended as an anupana for 44 formulations being indicated for various diseases.   Conclusion: Dadima as a fruit, both in preventive and therapeutic, has wide range of clinical applications. It found to be an ingredient in 103 Ahara Kalpana being indicated in 31 different disease conditions. It is also used as an anupana with other drugs for many diseases.


The author addresses a common criticism to undergraduate inorganic chemistry: namely that there are relatively few underlying concepts that tie descriptive chemistry together. The author describes a laboratory activity that can be performed that provides an illustration of one such concept.


The opium is dissolved in a solvent, heating the dissolved opium solution, the dissolved opium solution was cooled, the pH of the dissolved opium solution combined with at least one first weak acid, the filtrate dissolved opium solution was filtered It was collected; then at least one alkaloid from the filtrate comprising separating and purifying method for extracting at least one alkaloid from opium. Preferably, this is the pH of the dissolved opium solution after combined with at least one first acid comprises the further step of cooling the opium solution. At least one preferred method for separating and purifying alkaloid in the filtrate, including the use of preparative liquid chromatography, however, can also be used a solvent extraction and filtration.


The growing popularity and proliferation of mobile devices has resulted in an exponential growth of mobile data traffic or also known as mobile data explosion. Cellular network providers are struggling to address the challenges of bandwidth scarcity and also to meet end user's expectation of high network capacity. Due to the abundance of existing WiFi infrastructure and significantly inexpensive deployment compared to cellular network upgrade, WiFi offloading seems the most viable solution at the moment. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) reported in Internet User Survey 2016 that more than half (59.6%) of Internet users in Malaysia used free Wi-Fi to go online. This work presents a real trace of quantitative study on the role of WiFi networks in augmenting mobile data offloading in Malaysia scenario. The research investigated how much traffic load WiFi offloading takes away from cellular network and its utilization pattern according to a different group of users. An extensive measurement study was conducted by collecting statistics of WiFi connectivity from 100 Android platform users for 18 days. Findings from the preliminary results showed that WiFi offloaded a significant amount of data traffic in user's daily mobile data consumption. Therefore, it is an interesting alternative for cellular network operators in to accommodate and augmenting the current traffic growth as well as providing insights into their network planning or creative price plans.


We presented a method to construct an all-fiber laser by using an acoustically-induced fiber grating (AIFG) in two-mode fiber (TMF) within the laser cavity to generate cylindrical vector beams (CVBs) in communication band. Based on the polarization dependent vector mode coupling characteristic of an AIFG, the CVBs were generated by respectively coupling HE 11 x and HE 11 y modes to TM01 and TE01 modes, which have radial and azimuthal polarizations characteristics, respectively. The output of the all-fiber laser could be adjusted from a linearly-polarized Gaussian mode to a radially or an azimuthally polarized vector mode through a polarization controller to adjust the linear polarization direction of the input mode of H 11 x / y and an acoustic flexural wave applied on TMF. This work provides a method for generating CVBs with convenient mode conversion characteristics.


[1] Current plans to drill boreholes in the surface of Mars suppose that diamond drill bits will be used on drilling equipment developing drilling power of 100 W or less. Such drilling produces very fine cuttings. At Martian ambient pressure, it has been shown that quite small gas flows are capable of clearing these cuttings from the hole. For example, the release of 1 L of gas compressed to 50 torr is capable of removing 25 g of cuttings from a borehole 50 mm in diameter and at least 250 mm deep. Generating such volumes of gas by compressing the Martian atmosphere would not be difficult. Alternatively, the required volume of gas could be provided by the sublimation of ice trapped in the pore spaces of soil or rock in the Martian surface. Once heated by the friction of the drill bit, the ice transforms into vapor, and blows the cuttings out of the hole. Since the cuttings are, in effect, freeze-dried, they do not choke the drill bit or hole, with the result that the drilling efficiency is much greater than under terrestrial pressures and temperatures.


Based on findings of soil investigation and growth of Phragmites australis in polders on Dongtan wetland of Chongming,discussions were held on how the soil environment factors subject to impact of fluctuating groundwater level affect growth of Phragmites australis.Results show that(1)groundwater level fluctuation varied in magnitude and time from quadrat to quadrat,resulting in different soil water regimes(P1,2=0.004,P1,3=0.001,P2,3=0.040),which hence led to sharp variation of Phragmites australis in plant height and plant leaf-area,and the plants in the quadrat the highest in soil water content were found to be the tallest in plant height and the biggest in plant leaf-area;(2)soil total nitrogen content is significantly related to density and biomass,either above-or below-ground,of Phragmites australis.


The history of thought is the hardest one to understand from all forms of history of human. The history of philosophy is even harder to understand. Hegel has a great achievement in understanding the logic of the history of philosophy,but the logic of the history of philosophy which is understood by Hegel has ended the history of philosophy. The article tries to understand the logic of history of philosophy through analyzing Hegel's arguments in Lectures on the History of Philosophy,and to review the development of philosophy from the view of the logic of the history of philosophy.


Fashion local brands are brands of fashion clothing local to a particular country, manufactured and produced locally, including the ones in Indonesia. Fashion is always developing and creating the latest trend in which is a big potential for local fashion brands to take this opportunity because consumers are becoming more selective when it comes to selecting superior, long-lasting, and practical products. In Indonesia, the Fashion Industry is one of the subs that contribute to the creative industry, accounted for 28.29% of the whole creative industry, and ranked 9th in the Global Revenue Ranking. In addition, the current pandemic condition has pushed many brands to close retail stores and switched to almost entirely digital operations. Among many social media platforms used by brands, Instagram has been identified as the most efficient tool for reaching out to customers and marketing a business. However, the way local fashion brands use Instagram as a marketing tool has not always been effective. This research aims to assess the effectiveness factors of Instagram in local fashion brands that have a high engagement in purpose to make them as the benchmarks about the content strategy in building high online engagement that makes Instagram as a marketing tool effective. The data was collected through Instagram analytics software, HypeAuditor, and Analisa.io towards a total of 50 Instagram account fashion local brands with a high number of engagements according to HypeAuditor Instagram Engagement Rate Calculator. The data analysis is processed using Microsoft Excel and Smart PLS. The result shows that all independent variables have a positive relationship to online engagement and the effective factors for local fashion brand Instagram accounts are Entertainment, Tag, Weekdays, and Peak hours factors. The brand could utilize posting feeds containing entertainment and information content while also posting it during peak hours and weekdays.


A randomized multicenter 96-week study of an elsulfavirine (ESV),  non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) of novel  generation, in combination with 2 nucleoside/ nucleotide reverse  transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) was conducted in naive HIV adult  patients, divided by 2 parts: 1) partially blind comparative to  efavirenz (EFV) 48-week study, 2) open-label observational study  during additional 48 weeks. High virological and immunological  effectiveness maintained during the study: proportion of patients  with HIV RNA <50 copies/ml in 48 weeks achieved 81,6%, in 96  weeks – 83,9% (MITT-analysis) and 91% (if patients withdrawn from the study due to other reasons not related to treatment were excluded). No resistance mutations were found in patients with viral  replication blips (HIV RNA 50-1300 copies/ml). CD4+-lymphocytes  count was increased by 187,5 at week 48 and 251,0 cells/mcl at  week 96. Good tolerability and safety were confirmed during second year of treatment: no additional safety data which could influence  benefit/risk ratio were recorded as well as withdrawal from the  treatment due to adverse events. Serious adverse events, connected with treatment, allergic reactions were not registered during the whole 96-week study. Conclusion. Results of the 96-week study confirm earlier data from  48-week study on high efficacy and safety of ESV. Based on these  data ESV was included into "National recommendations on  dispensary follow-up and treatment of patients with HIV-infection" as the first-line ART regime in combination with 2 NRTIs.


Sachs' boring-out method is used for determining the residual stresses in a cylinder. When a test piece that is separated from a longer cylinder -solid or hollow- is too short, the boring-out test will not yield the same residual stresses that would have been observed in the original cylinder. Buhler has stated, from his experimental investigation, that the residual stresses in the separated specimens are roughly the same as those in the original longer specimens, provided the ratio of length to diameter remains greater than about 2.One of us studied theoretically the influence of end faces of the separated specimen, proving that for any arbitrary distribution of longitudinal, the tangential and radial stresses over a cross section, Buhler's experimental conclusion is always valid.In the present study, experiments have been carried out to find the influence of the end effect of detached specimens by X-ray stress measurement, that is, the residual stress distributions of the longitudinal (σ1) and the trangential (σ2) stresses on the specimen surface are determined by shifting the specimen from end to mid-length.In the X-ray measurements, "Twin-counter method"is employed together with an ordinary film method. The twin-counter method enables us directly to read out a small shift in the position of X-ray reflection line which is caused by lattice strain; then (σ1+σ2) are continuously recorded from end to mid-length. The difference of σ2 between end and mid-length zone is negligibly small, and σ1 is zero at the end, then σ1 in the mid-length can be determined without using the sin2ψ method which is a well known method in the X-ray stress measurement, the result showing a good agreement with the ordinary Sachs' boring-out method.The residual stress distributions are suddenly changed within the distance comparable to the radius of the cylinder from the end. However, they are gradually changed in the same direction for the distance of the same radius. Beyond the point at the distance of the diameter from the end, the stress distributions are almost kept constant, and it appears that the residual stresses of this zone are the same that would have existed in the original cylinder.These experimental results can lead us to the conclusion that the residual stresses in the original cylinder remain unchanged in the vicinity of mid-length of the separated specimen, provided the ratio of length to diameter exceeds 2.


. The paper demonstrates the application of cognitive modeling methods to study the functioning problems of semi-structured complex economic systems. The aim of the research is to study the structural stability of the relationship between knowledge-intensive sectors and regional economy using cognitive analysis. The concepts and factors influencing the studied systems are determined, cognitive maps of the relationship between knowledge-intensive sectors and regional economy are created, a qualitative analysis of the properties and cycles has been carried out. Impulse and scenario modeling made it possible to draw a conclusion about structural stability of the developed cognitive model. Various scenarios of the system's behavior under the influence of impulse modeling are visualized. The research results can be used to support decision-making process due to developing strategies and policies for the balanced development of knowledge-intensive markets and socio-economic systems.


The major characteristic of COPD is systemic inflammation. This inflammatory process stimulates hematopoietic system, especially bone marrow, to release leukocytes and stimulates the liver to produce acute-phase proteins such as fibrinogen. Fibrinogen levels tend to increase with severe airflow obstruction. High neutrophil levels are associated with a decrease in FEV1 even beyond exacerbations. In this study, we evaluated the relationship between fibrinogen and neutrophil levels with severity of COPD. The objective of this study was to analyze the correlation between fibrinogen and neutrophil levels with the incidence and severity of COPD. Design of this study was observational with a cross-sectional approach to population of COPD patients from May to July 2017 and healthy people as control. Consecutive sampling did a sampling of COPD patients. We evaluated clinical, CAT score, history of exacerbations, number of cigarettes consumed, fibrinogen, and neutrophil levels. From 35 COPD subjects and 21 healthy controls, we found that fibrinogen and neutrophils levels increased in COPD subjects compared to control (p 0.05), Fibrinogen levels was significantly higher in exacerbation COPD than stable (p 0,05), there was significant correlation between fibrinogen levels with COPD severity (p <0.001) but not with neutrophils. Conclusion of this study is there was a correlation between fibrinogen with COPD incidence and severity.  However, neutrophils levels associated with COPD incidence.


The AgriSupport project is aimed at developing a generic decision support system (DSS) for farm
planning and designing and implementing a computer tool to support this DSS. It essentially involves the
implementation of a number of tools for designing and building advisory DSSs for agriculture.
The system comprises two elements: a model and a system. A model is necessary because the project is
based on defining a set of abstractions to structure knowledge of the elements involved in the agricultural
production process, as well as specialised algorithms. When set to work on the abstractions, these
algorithms enable planning along with other calculations and logical deduction tasks associated with
planning. A system is necessary, because the project materialises as a set of software tools that enable
DSSs to be built using the above-mentioned models and algorithms.
The model includes a system of knowledge representation and algorithms to calculate solutions that
combine algorithmic programming and restriction-based heuristic search. The system implements these
concepts as a set of C++ libraries, including an algorithm especially designed for the project based on
integer programming to program agricultural operations.
The system has been validated at different places in Spain. Two applications produced by the system are
presented here: a DSS for planning machinery and another for planning irrigation.


JSP Lumley and P-MG Bouloux. 307 pages. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann; 1994. $27.50. ISBN 0-7506-1671-7. Order phone 800-366-2665. A heavily illustrated primer on physical examination; the color photographs show techniques clearly. The opening sections summarize the methods and aims of history taking; the closing sections summarize diagnostic investigations and briefly summarize their methods and interpretations. This text speaks mainly to medical students, but subspecialists who have forgotten methods outside of their fields might find it useful for reminders.


In view of intermittent chaotic signal identification problem for chaotic oscillator weak signal detection under strong noise background,a novel method based on a difference Poincare mapping is proposed using the characteristics of parameter sensitivity in chaotic system.This method implements difference through the Poincare mapping of two chaotic oscillators which is different slightly from each other at periodic force amplitude.The characteristic is adopted that the output signal is convergent in periodic state and divergent in chaotic state.Thus the influence to period regions caused by the noise is largely eliminated,and the Signal-to-Noise of input signal reaches to the level of-87dB.It is revealed that the method can still detect effectively intermittent chaotic signal in the condition that time field or Poincare mapping is failed to identify.


ISSR markers were used to study genetic diversity and relationship of different ecotypes of longan germplasm resources.The results showed that 12 primers from 100 ISSR primers were selected for amplify the genome DNA of 39 materials.Totally 152 ISSR loci including 117 polymorphic loci were produced,with a polymorphism rate of 76.97%.The genetic similarity coefficients among 39 different ecotypes longan materials were between 0.57 and 0.92.That means ISSR markers can reveal the genetic diversity of these tested materials.All of the cultivars could be separated into three groups at about 0.65 similarity value with UPGMA,inchuding a group of south subtropical ecotype longan from China;a group of south subtropical ecotype longan Shixia and Dawuyuan,and tropical ecotype longan Sijimi genotype,and a group of longan from Vietnam and Thailand.It was also showed that the genetic relationship has a higher level of genetic background in different ecotypes of longan.These results will provide much more useful information for studing classification,genetics,and evolution of longan germplasm resources.


Low magnification electron micrographs were used to construct montage maps of cross sections of the three roots of the second abdominal ganglion of the crayfish Orconectes virilis. Arbitrary fiber diameter size ranges were established within the total size range of 0.2 μ to 55 μ. Fibers within each of the ranges were counted and their positions noted. The first root contains 2,451 fibers and is divided internally into distinct anterior and posterior halves. The posterior half contains 98.2% of the roots total number of fibers below 1 μ in diameter and these are contained primarily in 13 bundles. The second root is divided internally into five subregions and contains a total of 2,741 fibers. The size distribution of the fibers within each of the subregions is noted and compared with the fiber size distribution of the peripheral branches. The subregions are assigned functions based on their similarity to root branches of known activity. The third root contains two distinct elements, a phasic branch containing 13 fibers ranging from 6 μ to 55 μ and a tonic branch containing six fibers ranging from 3.5 μ to 21 μ.


The present invention relates to optical modulation by controlling the intensity and phase characteristics of the optical radiation by using a relief phase variations and the surface plasmon resonance phenomenon. The present invention is achieved by combining the advantages of the relief phase history with the surface plasmon resonance phenomenon. The proposed possible technical result achieved in the implementation of the present invention is, due to the opportunity for full deviation (conversion) of the radiation from the primary optical axis from the conversion of the input electric signal, consists of increasing the control efficiency of the light radiation. > by the plate-like effect is achieved, where the sensitivity of the optical information processing, it is possible to increase the contrast and the resolution. For the first time, in both prism and a diffraction grating to obtain the time for the dynamic control of the surface plasmon resonance phenomenon. The proposed method and modulator, a high-sensitivity sensor that responds in real time to the characteristic variation of the dielectric medium, in particular, can be used in nanotechnology. The present invention is adjustable as a diffraction grating, an optical machinery industry, (biology of, etc. Chemical) gas, liquid and solid dielectric medium of high sensitivity and high resolution sensor control, projection and display TV, print and communication facilities, optical fiber switching and optical and a filter device, a high speed linear and matrix printers and can be applied to other art. 11 of the drawings. Two tables.


All bacteriologists are familiar with the antiformin method of examination for tubercle bacilli. Antiformin is an alkaline antiseptic which dissolves the mucin and freezes the tubercle bacilli so that they can be sedimented. For a more expeditious use of the antiformin process, I have devised a special sputum cup, which should prove of particular benefit to private laboratories and to general practitioners sufficiently interested in tuberculosis to desire to make their own examinations of suspected sputum. This cup and the antiformin solution are given to the patient with proper instructions how to admix the sputum with the antiformin. The essential principles operative are the insolubility of tubercle bacilli in the antiformin, and the filtering of the homogeneous mass through an exceedingly fine filter, on which as a residue the tubercle bacilli arc found clumped together abundantly. The cup consists of two metal receptacles, A and B , which may be screwed


Objective To observe the anti respiratory syncyntial virus(RSV) effect of an active compound (AD 1) from Chinese medicinal herb antiviral agent No.1.Methods The anti RSV effect of AD1 were observed by the technique of cell culture,using Ribavirin as a positive control.Results In Hela cell culture,AD 1 was a potential inhibitor of RSV in concentration dependent manner( P 0.01).Its 50% toxic concentration,50% effective concentration,and therapeutic index were 25.98mg/ml,0.758mg/ml,34.29 respectively.Conclusion The AD 1 has a significant anti RSV effect.


The invention provides a vitamin A nano-emulsion and a preparation method thereof. The vitamin A nano-emulsion comprises vitamin A and tween-80 in a mass ratio of 1:(1.5-5), and water of which the mass is 0.5-3 times of the total mass of vitamin A and tween-80. The method comprises the following steps: adding vitamin A and tween-80 into a container, uniformly mixing, and adding water to obtain a mixed solution; performing ultrasonic treatment on the mixed solution until the mixed solution is clear and transparent, thus obtaining the vitamin A nano-emulsion. The method is used for preparing the vitamin A nano-emulsion by adopting an ultrasonic emulsification method, is simple in production process, mild in condition, short in preparation time and low in equipment requirement. The prepared vitamin A nano-emulsion is of an oil-in-water mode, is clear and transparent, excellent in water solution and good in stability, has a grain distribution range of 23-62nm and average grain diameter of 38nm, and accords with the basic characteristics of a nano-grade material.


Abstract Two experiments were conducted utilizing 312 egg production-type hens which had been maintained for ten months of lay in individual cages. A depletion diet of 0.11% calcium was fed to cause the hens to go out of production. After production ceased, diets containing graded levels (0.02, 0.06, 0.10, 0.18 and 0.54%) of calcium were fed. It was found that hens fed 0.54% calcium started to come back into production, but that lower levels down to 0.02% did not adversely affect tibia breaking strength or tibia ash. It was concluded that the non-laying hen's calcium requirement for bone maintenance is 0.02% or less. There was a highly significant correlation between breaking strength and tibia ash, and between body weight and breaking strength.


Blending principle between eddy current brake force and pneumatic brake force was analyzed after linear eddy current brake mode was added in brake system of high speed EMU.The model creation method of temperature growth of the rail and abrasion of disc pad was discussed.Based on empirical formula,in order to reduce temperature growth of the rail and abrasion of disc pad,an optimization strategy of distribution between eddy current brake force and pneumatic brake force was presented.Through optimization computation,the distribution relation between eddy current brake force and pneumatic brake force was provided.


Tricholoma matsutake is an ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungus that produces economically important mushrooms. The study firstly applied SRAP technique into genetic diversity of T. matsutake. A total of 129 strains from 13 geographical locations in northeastern China, were amplified by using selected 12 primer pairs. The polymorphic band number amplified by each primer pair ranged from 7 to 13. In total 154 bands were observed, of which 118 were polymorphic (76.62%). Abundant genetic variation was detected within individual populations. Dongning maintained a higher genetic diversity while Hunchun was lower. The analyses found a significant positive correlation between genetic distance and geographical distance and no correlation between genetic distance and altitudinal differences among populations. Based on the UPGMA cluster diagram, the 13 populations may be divided with the genetic distance of 0.035 into three groups.


other hand we are told that some 'have but a superficial grasp of its basic tenets' (p. 70). Moreover, in the analysis of why some people are attracted to the movement while others are not, even given the importance attached to the Moonies as 'active' agents, to the Moonie 'bundle' of characteristics, the significance of their personalities and previous experiences, the specific 'pushes towards' and 'pulls away' from the movement, and their quite conscious and explicit desire to transform society, it is still not at all clear how the Moonie search for an ideal ofwhich he/she was previously largely 'unconscious' can constitute one of the principal discriminating variables between those who join the movement, nonjoiners and the control group (pp. 230-1). There are other matters which one might take issue with, for example the question of the response to the Moonies, which perhaps would benefit from a more in-depth theoretical analysis. While the media may well be responsible along with the so-called anti-cult organizations for the generally negative image that exists of the Moonies, what we may well be seeing in much of the criticism is a defence, however badly and crudely mounted it may be on occasion, of certain cultural and social values at the micro and macro levels in the face of what appears to be an all-embracing total ideology 'from without'. Furthermore, on the question of choice over against brainwashing, free will over against determinism (pp. I 36ff) , it is perhaps worth making the point that some forms of determinism are not incompatible with genuine freedom. None of this, however, or the difficult style not made any easier by the numerous parentheses, detracts from the value of this most thorough study.


We study corotational wave maps from $(1+4)$-dimensional Minkowski space into the $4$-sphere. We prove the stability of an explicitly known self-similar wave map under perturbations that are small in the critical Sobolev space.


In the progress of urban modernization, underground space plays a very important role in urban space structure as a pow- erful shaping force. Because the modernize evolvement of metropolis area depends on its traf- fic modes, on the one side, urban development and renewal are conspicuously oriented by the subway system with a progress along an axis. On the other side, the underground space in central district became an act of conglomerating. In the future, urban space structure will accompany with the form of underground space.


The present article concerns the place and significance of literature in the life and works of Stanislaw Moniuszko, a composer who created different musico-literary genres, songs, operas, can- tatas as well as stage music for dramas. Moniuszko's correspondence, which often featured litera-ture-related topics, constitutes the basis for the analysis of literary contexts of his works. The com- poser wrote about his favourite books, poets and writers as well as the lyrics to songs and librettos. Above all, however, his letters contain evidence of his search for new librettos in the existing liter- ary texts and numerous traces of his attempts to invite contemporary writers, poets and playwrights to collaborate on musico-dramatic works. The letters written to several eminent representatives of mid-century Polish literature are a testament to Moniuszko's ambitious intentions. The contents of those letters also confirm that it was difficult for the composer to find a writer who would collabo- rate with him as the author of the lyrics to a musico-dramatic piece. The article also presents a collection of Moniuszko's librettists, which includes the best writers and playwrights of the time. The most remarkable of Moniuszko's works are well-written in terms of lyrics, which is a proof of the effectiveness of the composer's efforts and, in the context of the popularity of his works, also of the significance of his achievements, not only for music, but also for the literature and literary culture of the nineteenth century.


We investigate the sensitivity of Higgs(-like) inflation to higher dimensional operators in the nonminimal couplings and in the potential, both in the metric and Palatini formalisms. We find that, while inflationary predictions are relatively stable against the higher dimensional operators around the attractor point in the metric formalism, they are extremely sensitive in the Palatini one: for the latter, inflationary predictions are spoiled by |ξ4| ≳ 10−6 in the nonminimal couplings (ξ2 ϕ2 + ξ4 ϕ4 + ⋯)R, or by |λ6| ≳ 10−16 in the Jordan-frame potential λ4 ϕ4 + λ6 ϕ6 + ⋯ (both in Planck units). This extreme sensitivity results from the absence of attractor in the Palatini formalism. Our study underscores the challenge of realizing inflationary models with the nonminimal coupling in the Palatini formalism.


Noise generated by a transformer core has been reduced by improving material and design, but further reduction is still required. To obtain the reduction, the comprehension of noise generating mechanism is important. It is achieved by detailed investigation of core vibration. A vibration measuring system utilizing a laser Doppler vibration meter was developed, and the vibration of a 3-phase 3-limb transformer core was measured. The following results were obtained. The vibration on the front and back of the core was two or three times higher than the other surfaces. The vibration occurred mainly in the limbs of the core, and the vibration direction was perpendicular to the core surface. The vibration waveforms were out of phase between the center limb and both of the side limbs. These results reveal that the principal cause of the vibration on the core was resonance. On the upper surface of the yoke, the vibration was higher in the right and left part and the middle. It is likely that the vibration on the right and left parts is derived from the magnetostriction of the side limbs. The vibration in the middle was considered to be generated by the magnetostriction under the rotational magnetization which occurs in the T-joint area of a 3-phase transformer core. © 1997 Scripta Technica, Inc. Electr Eng Jpn 119(1): 1–8, 1997


Bowers and Davis (2012) criticize Bayesian modelers for telling "just so" stories about cognition and neuroscience. Their criticisms are weakened by not giving an accurate characterization of the motivation behind Bayesian modeling or the ways in which Bayesian models are used and by not evaluating this theoretical framework against specific alternatives. We address these points by clarifying our beliefs about the goals and status of Bayesian models and by identifying what we view as the unique merits of the Bayesian approach.


Some are regarding active share as the "Holy Grail" of investing—that is, a surefire way to identify tomorrow's outperformers and avoid the dog funds. Certainly, the computational simplicity is appealing, but unwavering devotion and unwitting reliance on the measure can lead to dubious conclusions. The reality is that the calculation might be the only simple thing about active share.


Although the globally attractive sets of a hyperchaotic system have important applications in the fields of engineering, science, and technology, it is often a difficult task for the researchers to obtain the globally attractive set of the hyperchaotic systems due to the complexity of the hyperchaotic systems. Therefore, we will study the globally attractive set of a generalized hyperchaotic Lorenz–Stenflo system describing the evolution of finite amplitude acoustic gravity waves in a rotating atmosphere in this paper. Based on Lyapunov-like functional approach combining some simple inequalities, we derive the globally attractive set of this system with its parameters. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is illustrated via numerical examples.


In the presented project the investigation on discrimination of geographic origin of wine in from border areas is carried out. Authentic wine samples from the border areas of Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia (and from Serbia) are investigated and compared by applying different physico-chemical methods (e.g. IRMS, NMR, ICP-MS, ICP-OES, EPR, HPLC, UV-VIS, etc.). The comparison of the data sets from the participating countries and the different applied methods will show, to which extent a differentiation can still be achieved in the border areas of the respective countries, which methods prove most efficient and sensitive and if a combination of methods will lead to an increased sensitivity. Furthermore, we also investigate the causes for the potential differentiation, which might be environmentally determined, due to different agricultural and/or enological practices. Results from the first investigated vintage 2016 show a good separation of the respective geographic origins by isotope ratios and element concentrations as well as by other parameters. The relevant parameters for differentiation now have to be critically evaluated to exclude potential lab influences.