T he first intravenous (IV) irons were associated with severe acute reactions, and were unsuitable for use. With the development of iron dextran, IV iron could be given more easily, but infrequent severe acute reactions still occurred. In 1964, Marchasin and Wallerstein published results of administration of 1,000–3,000 mg of the high molecular weight iron dextran (HMW ID) Imferon (Fisons, UK), which is no longer available, to 37 patients, with one delayed reaction consisting of fever and chills without hypotension or wheezing [1]. Yet, 16 years passed before the first prospective study was published on IV iron use in 471 patients, again with Imferon, by Hamstra et al. [2]. While all patients responded, three developed signs of anaphylaxis, including respiratory arrest and hypotension. There were no deaths. The authors concluded IV iron should be reserved for those extreme clinical situations when oral iron could not be used. Significant danger with the administration of IV iron continued to be perceived, and, to a lesser degree, persists today. Imferon remained on the pharmacopoeia as a minor product, to be used only when oral iron was inadequate or poorly tolerated. However, in 1989, the erythropoiesis stimulating agent (ESA), recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO), became available for use in dialysis patients establishing a need for IV iron. Immediate improvements in hematopoietic responses, decreased ESA dosing to target hemoglobins, with subsequent cost savings and improvements in quality of life variables were appreciated. Nonetheless, rare serious adverse events occurred. In 1991, the then only available formulation, Imferon, was removed from market. Serendipitously, at the same time, low molecular weight (LMW) ID, INFeD (Schein, now Watson, NJ), and then another HMW ID, Dexferrum (American Regent, NY), in 1996, were released for clinical use. In 1999 and 2000 two iron salts, ferric gluconate (Ferrlecit, Schein, then Watson, now Sanofi-Aventis, Paris) and iron sucrose (Venofer, American Regent), the most widely used product in the world today, were approved, rapidly replacing iron dextran in most dialysis centers, ostensibly because of perceived increased safety. However, in 2004 and 2006, Chertow et al. [3][4] published analyses on over 30 million doses of IV iron and reported that the overwhelming majority of serious adverse events were associated with the HMW formulations. Nonetheless, the perception of improved safety of the iron salts over iron dextran persisted and without any prospective or comparative data, claims of lower adverse event rates with their use abounded. All IV iron products continue to bear the stigma of risk with use despite data in hundreds of thousands of patients, across a broad group of diagnoses associated with iron deficiency, supporting safety and efficacy. Data on the use of IV iron in pediatrics is scarce. In this issue of Pediatric Blood & Cancer, Crary et al., in a retrospective review of 37 children with iron deficiency anemia refractory to oral iron, effectively show the ease of administration and effectiveness of IV iron sucrose to correct the anemia. At least 20 of these children had gastrointestinal toxicity. In patients with GI disorders, oral iron frequently causes severe side effects, is poorly absorbed and often ineffective. In patients with inflammatory bowel disease whereas oral iron worsens bowel symptoms, IV iron has been shown to be an effective and a much less toxic alternative [5]. In their review the authors site only one clinically significant reaction in a child who received 500 mg of iron sucrose in a single infusion, a method of administration that the author's appropriately reference, had been proscribed (Chandler and MacDougall) [6]. Intravenous iron has been shown to be a safe and effective adjunct to ESAs in chemotherapy induced anemia, to markedly reduce postoperative transfusions when administered preoperatively to anemic patients undergoing elective surgery, to improve anemia in patients who underwent bariatric surgery, to be more effective and less toxic than oral iron in patients with iron deficiency and obstetrics and gynecology disorders and to correct anemia in patients with chronic bleeding where the iron loss is greater than oral iron can supply or in those who are intolerant of it. Recently IV iron has even been shown to correct the symptoms of patients with restless legs syndrome in both iron deficient and iron replete individuals [7]. For those who prefer a full replacement dose in a single setting, LMW ID, can be given with equal safety and efficacy as a total dose infusion in 1–4 hr. While no prospective, comparative safety data on the two iron dextrans has ever been published, as appropriately pointed out by the authors, it appears prudent to use HMW ID with caution. The only data on long term toxicities with IV iron use are in dialysis patients. However, during two decades of standard use in the dialysis population, numerous analyses have identified no long term morbidity [8][9] or increased incidence of infections [10]. There are no contradictory published data. This well done and well referenced review of intravenous iron therapy administered on a University Pediatric Service, reiterates the near ubiquitous safety of IV iron, when used appropriately, in published trials across a wide range of diagnoses associated with iron deficiency. As an adult hematologist, I have had the privilege of interacting with a large number of primary care and pediatric


A series of novel arylpiperazine derivatives was synthesized. The in vitro cytotoxic activities of all synthesized compounds against three human prostate cancer cell lines (PC-3, LNCaP, and DU145) were evaluated by a CCK-8 assay. Compounds 9 and 15 exhibited strong cytotoxic activities against LNCaP cells (IC50 < 5 μM), and compound 8 (IC50 = 8.25 μM) possessed the most potent activity against DU145 cells. However, these compounds also exhibited cytotoxicity towards human epithelial prostate normal cells RWPE-1. The structure–activity relationship (SAR) of these arylpiperazine derivatives was also discussed based on the obtained experimental data.


In men with prostate cancer, gonadotropin‐releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists increase fat mass, decrease insulin sensitivity, and increase triglycerides, features that are shared with metabolic syndrome. To the authors' knowledge, however, less is known regarding the effects of GnRH agonists on other attributes of the metabolic syndrome.


ABSTRACT Actinobacillus ureae, previously Pasteurella ureae, has on rare occasions been described as a cause of human infection. Owing to its rarity, it may not be easily identified in clinical microbiology laboratories by standard tests. This report describes a patient with acute bacterial meningitis due to A. ureae. The identity of the isolate was determined by means of DNA sequence analysis of a portion of the 16S rRNA gene.


Grassland areas contribute significantly to the greenhouse gas (GHG) budget from terrestrial sources in the Netherlands. About half of the Dutch agricultural land is classified as grassland. Thus, realistic estimates of the greenhouse gas budgets from land sources in the Netherlands require reliable estimates of grassland emissions. Although for practical purposes grassland is considered to be a homogeneous biome, a large variability in emissions from grasslands may be expected due to differences in soil type and waterand land-management practices. We have analyzed the variability of GHG budgets between grasslands with the objective to improve regional GHG balance estimates and to enable assessment of the uncertainty in inventory reports. This analysis may help to devise high potential options for mitigation through land-management. A meta-analysis of various datasets of fluxes of CO2, N2O and CH4 is presented. The datasets used are from the past decennium and represent contrasting grassland sites in the Netherlands. Comparison of the sites is based on the construction of ecosystem response characteristics, such as the photosynthesis-light response or fertilization rates and practices. Differences between the responses are then related to soil characteristics and grassland management. Significant differences between grasslands that are often treated as one and the same biome occur even on small scales. We identified regional specific and feasible management options for mitigation of GHG emissions from grasslands through water and fertilization management. Session "Human impacts and policy relations" HU7 Poster Presentations 2 Implications of Carbon-cycle feedbacks for stabilisation and overshoot mitigation policies Chris Jones, Spencer Liddicoat, Jason Lowe Met Office Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research Fitzroy Rd, Exeter, EX1 3PB email@example.com


The purpose of this study is to determine the accuracy of some of our present-day clinical instruments, on which the physician relies for important information concerning his patients' status and progress. The study has been limited to the thermometers and urinometers in use at a 500-bed general hospital. The success of modern medicine does not depend on the absolute accuracy of these instruments either for correct diagnoses or for proper management of the patient. The healing art was far along when the physician estimated temperature rise by the laying on of hands. The "urinologists" of former years could roughly discern whether a person's urine was too concentrated or too dilute. Today, however, we have at our fingertips numerous instruments of precision that have rightfully taken the place of guesswork in medicine. Many times a physician comes into the modern hospital and sees on his patients' charts incongruous temperature graphs, weight


This paper presents a brief review of the different position sensorless strategies reported in the literature. The sensorless schemes are classified based on the method of position detection and control strategy The schemes for both PM brushless DC motor and for PM synchronous motor are discussed. The advantages and limitations are presented.<<ETX>>


Microsatellite DNA sequences were isolated and characterized from a Puerto Rican population of communally nesting smooth-billed anis for use in a parentage/kinship study. Lambda Zap Express (Stratagene) was used to construct a library of 350 000 independent recombinant phage and screened with TG and AAT probes. In total, 85 positive clones (73 TG and 12 AAT) were isolated. Primer pairs were designed for 17 sequences and five polymorphic loci were found (three TG and two AAT). The five loci were characterized with between four and nine alleles and heterozygosity values ranged from 0.538 to 0.840. The combined total parental exclusionary power (with neither parent known) of the five loci was 0.8869.


This paper presents the LTAG Workbench, a set of graphical tools and parsers freely availabl e for LTAG. The system can be view as a modern alternative to the XTAG system. We present first the outlines of the workbench including different graphical editors and two chart parsers. T he encoding of resources and results is based on an XML application called TagML. We prese nt then future works dedicated to speed efficiency: Optimization based on sharing tec hniques and preprocessing of features. The whole system has been developed in Java which allows a strong portability and interesting reusability properties.


This article made the analyses to 15 000 m~(3)/h in the production of the oxygen manufacture machine that exists some questions.It argued the equipment of the plan of raising the quality and the output of the argon.


This study aims to determine the effect of wages, education, and economic growth on employment and knowing the effect of wages, unemployment, investment, and labor on economic growth in Riau Province. The analysis tool used is a regression of simultaneous equations - Two-Stage Least Square (TSLS). Based on the results of the study indicate that in the simultaneous equation I (Labor), Wages have a positive and significant influence, while education has a negative and significant influence, and economic growth is negatively and not significantly related to employment absorption; In simultaneous equation II (Economic Growth), Wages have a negative and not significant relationship, while unemployment and investment have a positive and insignificant effect, and for labor has a positive and significant relationship to economic growth.


Following the first prize in a two-stage limited design competition, the Anglo-German team of Knight Architects and Schüßler-Plan Berlin have developed two new bridges which will be the central part of the Berlin-Kostrzyn-Gorzów railway modernisation programme: one is over the River Odra crossing the German- Polish border and the other crosses the river floodplain on the German side.The team's solution for the main crossing is an elegant network arch spanning 130m. The majestic steel structure, with its crown positioned above the axis of the state border, will be a landmark that will not only highlight the importance of the location but will be also a welcoming gesture to everyone traveling between the countries. The smaller "Odervorflut" bridge, located 500m west uses the same architectural language as the main bridge creating a family of slender and elegant structures.


In any geography, it is observable that locations better connected to many other locations attract urban activities and therefore, are in relatively more advantageous positions than the less connected locations in the competition for growth. In that sense, a thorough analysis of the connectivity of different locations in a region will enable regional planners to evolve workable spatial strategies for the development of that region. The study presented in this paper is a test of this relationship between the trends of urban agglomerations and the patterns of connectivity of the urban centres in Kegalle district of Sri Lanka. The study was based on the node-axial diagrams derived from road maps of the region, in which the axial nodes represent urban centres. The relative connectivity of the axial nodes was computed at local and global levels in terms of their accessibility from all other nodes in the area selected for the purpose. The prevailing states of urban agglomerations of the centres were evaluated in terms of the availability of urban facilities, commercial, trade and informal activities in those centres. The relative connectivity values are correlated with the urban agglomeration values to test the relationship between the two. The results indicate a high possibility of connectivity analysis to predict the urban agglomeration trends in a region.


Abstract 7‐Tesla (T) magnetic resonance imaging may allow for higher resolution images but may produce greater acoustic noise than 1.5‐ and 3‐T scanners. We sought to characterize the intensity of acoustic noise from 7‐ versus 3‐T scanners. A‐weighted sound pressure levels from 5 types of pulse sequences used for brain and inner ear imaging in 3‐ and 7‐T scanners were measured. Time‐averaged sound level and maximum sound levels generated for each sequence were compared. Time‐averaged sound levels exceeded 95 dB and reached maximums above 105 dB on the majority of 3‐ and 7‐T scans. The mean time‐averaged sound level and maximum sound level across pulse sequences were greater in 7‐ than 3‐T (105.6 vs 91.4, P = .01; 114.0 vs. 96.5 dB, P < .01). 7‐ and 3‐T magnetic resonance imaging scanners produce high levels of acoustic noise that exceed acceptable safety limits, emphasizing the need for active and passive noise protection.


We propose an image segmentation method based on morphological decomposition and graph-based region merging using contour dynamics. The input image is initially decomposed into a set of primitive homogeneous regions through the morphological watershed transform applied to the image intensity gradient magnitude. This decomposition is represented by a region adjacency graph (RAG) that is input to a hierarchical merging process in which neighboring regions of high similarity are merged. The region similarity criterion is based on the concept of watershed contour dynamics. The robustness of the segmentation to the presence of noise and/or low contrast is improved by a regularization of the contour dynamics. Experimental results on various kinds of synthetic and real images, as well as comparison of the proposed method with other wellknown region merging algorithms are presented.


Atacama Large Millimeter Array [C ii] line and continuum observations of five redshift quasars are presented. This sample was selected to probe quasars with lower black hole mass than most previous studies. We find a wide dispersion in properties with CFHQS J0216–0455, a low-luminosity quasar with absolute magnitude , remaining undetected implying a limit on the star formation rate in the host galaxy of , whereas other host galaxies have star formation rates up to hundreds of solar masses per year. Two other quasars have particularly interesting properties. VIMOS2911 is one of the least luminous quasars known with , yet its host galaxy is experiencing a very powerful starburst. PSO J167–13 has a broad and luminous [C ii] line and a neighboring galaxy a projected distance of 5 kpc away that is also detected in the [C ii] line and continuum. Combining with similar observations from the literature, we study the ratio of the [C ii] line to the far-infrared luminosity, finding that this ratio increases at high redshift at a fixed far-infrared luminosity, likely due to lower dust content, lower metallicity and/or higher gas masses. We compile a sample of 21 high-redshift quasars with dynamical masses and investigate the relationship between black hole mass and dynamical mass. The new observations presented here reveal dynamical masses consistent with the relationship defined by local galaxies. However, the full sample shows a very wide scatter across the black hole mass–dynamical mass plane, whereas both the local relationship and simulations of high-redshift quasars show a much lower dispersion in dynamical mass.


After investigating the livestock breeding industry and environmental issues in the Anshan area,we has proposed the construction of a large scale gas plants to explore the use of animal waste for providing energy in rural areas.


I've been thinking about the recently published information about salaries of PPS employees, and about why it struck me as pretty worthless from all perspectives:


This article examines the effect of institutional change-the shift from redistribution to markets-in altering the mechanisms of stratification. New institutionalists maintain that interests are embedded in institutional arrangements and change as institutions change. China has undergone rapid and extensive household income mobility, incrementally altering the stratification order based on socialist redistribution. The shift to markets causes a decline in the significance of positional power based on redistribution relative to the gains of producers and entrepreneurs. Comparative institutional analysis is employed to examine the effect of regional variation in the extent of institutional change.


The proposal of cognitive radio can fundamentally solve the problem of the insufficiency of spectrum. Among them, the dynamic spectrum allocation is the key to decide how to use the limited spectrum efficiently. However, the existing graph colouring algorithm does not consider the priority of user nodes, leading to the delay of spectrum allocation. In this article, an advanced dynamic spectrum allocation algorithm based on the priority of user nodes will be put forward. During the spectrum allocation, the priority of channel and the priority of user nodes will be considered, using the thoughts of best-available-multiple-allocate in order to meet the requirements of the users' bit error rate and the need of delay. The simulation analysis shows that the advanced algorithm based on the priority of nodes can not only satisfy the customers' needs, providing higher allocation efficiency, but also reflect the fairness of spectrum allocation better.


Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries, which in recent years have been aimed at a high gravimetric energy density of 500-600 Wh kg-1, indicate particular potential in aerospace applications such as aircraft, satellites and drones.1,2 In light of this, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has been pursuing a strategy of developing and researching metal-sulfur batteries for a decade. Herewith, we present the results of a fundamental study on the investigation of structural and compositional parameters affecting the electrochemical performance of sulfur-carbon composite cathode.
 Highly porous carbon materials are widely employed in composite cathodes in Li-S batteries to compensate for the non-conductive property of the sulfur element. Indeed, this would have significant effects not only on the conductivity of the cathode, but also on the diffusion and charge transfer parameters. Herewith, we have systematically studied porous carbon-based electrodes employing electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. Using a suitable transmission-line model peculiar to the porous electrodes, the resistance of bulk and pore electrolyte, inter-particles, and charge transfer is defined and quantified. The dependence of the identified processes at the open circuit voltage on the fraction of the active material, the porosity of utilized carbon and thickness of the electrode is investigated elaborately. It is indicated that the electrolyte resistance in the pore increases on increasing the content of active material, electrode thickness and on reducing the pore size distribution of the C component.
 Additionally, an innovative symmetrical three-electrode cell configuration with an integrated Li-ring serving as counter electrode is implemented, enabling the investigation of the cathode impedance at different depths of discharge to shed light on the kinetics of the charge transfer depending on the infiltration method. To this end, various porous carbon materials such as Ketjenblack® (mesoporous) and carbon aerogel (microporous) in combination with different sulfur infiltration techniques including gas, melt and mechanical mixing have been employed as model systems3. The thermodynamic and kinetics of charge transfer mechanisms as a function of infiltration method as well as the variation of the charge transfer resistances upon discharge/charge are discussed in details4.

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Shot is often used as basic unit for both analyzing and retrieving video. The approach for automatic shot detection, using the texture character of eight neighbors, is better than traditional one on efficiency. For improving the accurate rate, this method is combined with the color information by adding key colors extraction. At last the result of experiment is given to approve the validity of the method.


Star graph has desirable properties for WDM multihop lightwave network, such as node and edge symmetry, low diameter, simple routing, etc. A multihop lightwave network, based upon the star graphs, is studied. Schemes for embedding the star graphs and a cluster of stars in physical lightwave networks are proposed. The resulting networks have many desirable properties: high capacity, self-routing, fault tolerant and good scalability.


Systematic development has been a high priority of Ghanaian leaders, particularly since Independence. The impetus for this national objective has been recent budgetary innovations aimed at far-reaching implications for a healthy national economy, including meaningful development. This article evaluates these innovations with a view to finding out the extent to which such forces of innovation have improved overall public financial administration, as well as the masses' living conditions via development. Finally, the results of these innovations and the lessons learned are summarized.


Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and mobile laser scanning (MLS) data can be used to obtain abundant and precise side information of trees. Therefore, it can enable extracting individual tree parameters, such as the tree height, crown size, crown base height, and diameter at breast height, and it can provide basic data for forest research and management. This study proposes a technical framework for segmenting individual trees from TLS and MLS data. This framework contains six steps: 1) data preprocessing, 2) octree construction, 3) spatial clustering, 4) stem detection, 5) initial segmentation, and 6) overlapped canopy segmentation. This framework makes two main contributions: 1) a top-down hierarchical segmentation approach, including connectivity-based spatial clustering (regional scale), stem-based initial segmentation (individual tree scale), and fine segmentation of overlapped canopy (canopy scale), is proposed to reduce technical difficulties and improve process efficiency; and 2) a modified node similarity calculation for normalized cut method aiming at segmenting overlapped canopy, which can effectively separate neighboring trees even if their canopies are overlapped, is proposed. The proposed framework was tested on a leaves-off terrestrial LiDAR dataset and a leaves-on mobile LiDAR dataset. For terrestrial LiDAR data, our framework achieved completeness of 92.4%, correctness of 95.4%, and F-score of 0.94. For mobile LiDAR data, the corresponding values were 94.0%, 93.7%, and 0.94.


Self-report criminal activity in a sample of 86 methadone-maintained opioid addicts is examined. Of the participants, 52% report some criminal offending, with drug-related and property crimes accounting for the majority of the offending. One quarter of the females in the sample were involved in prostitution. Of all the demographic factors used in this study, only gender discriminated between the sample in terms of level of offending, with females reporting the highest crime rates. Heroin use and crime measures were also associated, with persistent criminality related to the continued use of heroin. An analysis of the heroin use–criminality association found that only female gender predicted both increased rates of heroin use and increased rates of criminality. Implications of this finding are discussed.


A novel test scheme, which uses an oscillation source to supply the test signal and a transition detector to detect the arrival of the transition of the test signal through the CUT within the specific delay time, is proposed. The scheme is ideal to test embedded chips in the boundary scan environment within an SOC.


Iowa was very fortunate to receive two weeks of warmer than normal weather, and more importantly lower than expected humidity in the air. This has allowed soybean harvest to be nearly completed, and rapid progress to be made on corn harvest, with moistures now in the low 20s and upper teens. The eastern and far northern Corn Belt still have much wetter corn in the field. New problems have arisen, and efforts now turn to conditioning grain for storage.


The effects of donor Nb-ion doping on the structural, electrical, and multiferroic properties of an Aurivillius Bi7Fe3Ti3O21 thin film were investigated. Incorporation of Nb -ions into the Ti-sites of the Bi7Fe3Ti3O21 thin film resulted in a substantial improvement of its electrical and multiferroic properties. From the study of the electrical properties, the Bi7Fe3Ti2.94Nb0.06O21+δ thin film exhibited a low leakage current density of 5.11×10−6 A/cm at 100 kV/cm, which was about one order of magnitude lower than that of the untreated Bi7Fe3Ti3O21 thin film. The ferroelectric P−E hysteresis loops of the Bi7Fe3Ti2.94Nb0.06O21+δ thin film showed a large remnant polarization (2Pr) of 20.6 μC/cm 2 at 630 kV/cm whereas the 2Pr value measured for the untreated Bi7Fe3Ti3O21 thin film was 3.5 μC/cm 2 at 318 kV/cm. Furthermore, a well-saturated magnetic hysteresis loop with an enhanced magnetization was observed for the Bi7Fe3Ti2.94Nb0.06O21+δ thin


This book on the Kiærand Solberg involvement in the Norwegian and Scandinavian industry during the years 1890–1920 presents a fascinating and interesting insight into industrial entrepreneurship in the period. Though the family is not widely known nowadays, in 1918 it controlled assets that amounted to more than one percent of the Norwegian gross national product. The Kiær-Solberg family possessed 0.8 million acres of forest in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, and was heavily involved in the forestry and wood processing industry in all four countries. The family truly ran a multinational industrial company. In addition, the family business involvement included other industrial activities, as it was one of the major Norwegian investors in important domestic companies such as Nestlé Norway, Farris, Meraker Smelteverk, Odda Smelteverk and NEBB. The family was involved in some of these huge industrial engagements along with other major Norwegian industrial entrepreneurs, e.g. Fearnley, Stang, Egeberg, Astrup, Heftye, Andresen, Plathe, Kiøsterud, Krag, Olsen, Schjelderup, Wilhelmsen, Jacobsen, Juel and Mathiesen. Contrary to most writers of Norwegian economic history, Sogner and Christensen conclude that these families together constituted a significant capitalist bourgeoisie in Norway. Admittedly, their illustrations and arguments in this field are quite convincing. Perhaps Norway still had an industrial bourgeoisie involved in the forestry and wood processing industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book provides a detailed and relevant analysis of the impressive expansion of the family's industrial engagements, from the1890s to 1920. The family business first expanded during the Napoleonic wars. Initially, the business activity was concentrated on exports of timber and planks from the Drammen and Fredrikstad area, but for just under 30 years, from the 1890s to 1920, this expanded nationally and internationally into the new, scientific-based industries such as pulp and paper, carbide, ferrocilisium and electro-technical products. The family invested heavily in Mid-Norway, Sweden, Finland and even Russia. The expansion is seen in the light of the second industrial revolution and Norway's dependence on the international economy and markets. Thus, the book gives an insight into family, business, macroand international economic history. It should be appreciated that the authors to some extent try to give the family history a broader perspective, and also to make the micro history relevant as an important part of the macro-economic history. Though it has to be said that, given the comparative advantages of the authors, perhaps greater attention should have been devoted to the micro history and less to the macro history. It is also a matter of dispute whether a second industrial revolution took place in Norway in 1890–1920. One might just as well argue that it was the first industrial revolution, or even argue that there was no industrial revolution at all in the country. According to the historical national Scand. J. History 27, pp. 125–126. ISSN 0366-8755


Brassica napus;ATP sulfurylase;O-acteylserine(thiol) lyase;SO This experiment was carried out to breed a very early maturing variety of Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) in Grassland and Forage Crops Division, National Institute of Animal Science, RDA, Cheonan from 2009 to 2010. A new variety, 'Green farm' is a diploid variety with green in leaf color and has erect and semi-erect growth habit in late autumn and early spring, respectively. 'Green farm' was on 28 April in heading date as a early-maturing variety. 'Green farm' was also wider by 0.4 ㎜ in flag leaf width, longer by 0.8 ㎝ in flag leaf length and shorter by 5 ㎝ in plant height than those of control variety, 'Florida 80', respectively. 'Green farm' was thicker in stem thickness and stronger in winter hardness than those of the 'Florida 80'. Dry matter (DM) yield (11,790 ㎏/ha) of 'Green farm' was similar to that of 'Florida 80'. In vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD), total digestible nutrient (TDN) and crude protein (CP) of 'Green farm' were 68.7, 63.3 and 10.3% which are 1.9, 1.7 and 0.6% higher than those of 'Florida 80', respectively. Acid detergent fiber (ADF) and neutral detergent fiber (NDF) of 'Green farm' were 32.5 and 54.6% which are 2.2 and 4.3% lower than those of the 'Florida 80', respectively. uptake;Glutathione;S supply level


The present invention relates to a semiconductor device. His device, include pads on the substrate, an insulating layer on the substrate and, with the wire in the insulating layer, the insulating layer. The pads are arranged at a position corresponding to the signal pads connected to the wiring, and alignment errors between and spaced from the signal pad, the center of the signal pads and the probes that contact the signal pad, the by the wiring may comprise a pad arranged to be coupled to the signal pads.


This paper introduces the study on a machine vision system used to detect and track the center position of multiple trays moving on the omnidirectional robotic device for material transportation in industrial environments, even when they are subject to partial occlusion. The performance of the system was evaluated in terms of different degrees of occlusion over the trays and the response time of the software implementation.


A mixed integer programming model is proposed for multiple-class discriminant and classification analysis. When multiple discriminant functions, one for each class, are constructed with the mixed integer programming model, the number of misclassified observations in the sample is minimized. This model is an extension of the linear programming models for multiple-class discriminant analysis but may be considered as a generalization of mixed integer programming formulations for two-class classification analysis. Properties of the model are studied. The model is immune from any difficulties of many mathematical programming formulations for two-class classification analysis, such as nonexistence of optimal solutions, improper solutions, and instability under linear data transformation. In addition, meaningful discriminant functions can be generated under conditions where other techniques fail. Examples are provided. Results on publically accessible datasets show that this model is very effective in generating powerful discriminant functions.


Dr. Smith is Professorand Chair of theDivision of Hematology/Oncology and PalliativeCare at the VirginiaCommonwealth UniversityHealth System, Richmond,Virginia.Mr. Coyne is Director ofClinical Services on theThomas Palliative CareUnit of the VirginiaCommonwealth UniversityHealth System, Richmond,Virginia.Correspondence to: Thomas J. Smith, MD, Division ofHematology/Oncology, Virginia CommonwealthUniversity, MCV Box 980230, Richmond, VA 23298-0230;telephone: (804) 828-9723; fax: (804) 828-8079;e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


Metastatic Crohn's disease is a rare granulomatous extraintestinal manifestation of Crohn's disease. We are reporting a case of a 22-year-old male with knife-cut ulcers in his groin, and a biopsy suggestive of Metastatic Crohn's disease.


This study aimed to evaluate the difference in fetal thymus diameter, which we measured ultrasonographically, between the healthy pregnant group and the pregnant group with gestational diabetes.


In this paper we study the generating function f(t) for the sequence of the moments \int_{\gamma}P^i(z)q(z)d z, i\geq 0, where P(z),q(z) are rational functions of one complex variable and \gamma is a curve in C. We calculate an analytical expression for f(t) and provide conditions implying the rationality and the vanishing of f(t). In particular, for P(z) in generic position we give an explicit criterion for a function q(z) to be orthogonal to all powers of P(z). Besides, we prove a stronger form of the Wermer theorem, describing analytic functions satisfying \int_{S^1}h^i(z)g^j(z)g'(z)d z=0, i\geq 0, j\geq 0, in the case where the functions h(z),g(z) are rational. We also generalize the theorem of Duistermaat and van der Kallen about Laurent polynomials L(z) whose integral positive powers have no constant term, and prove other results about Laurent polynomials L(z),m(z) satisfying \int_{S^1}L^i(z)m(z)d z=0, i\geq i_0.


A method was established for the determination of 7 perfluorinated compounds(PFCS), including perfluorohexanoic acid(PFHxA), perfluoroheptanoicacid(PFHpA), perfluorooctanoiacid(PFOA), perfluorononanoic acid(PFNA), perfluorododecanoic acid(PFDoA), perfluorotetradecanoic acid(PFTA), perfluorooctane sulphonate(PFOS) in popcorn bucket by solid phase extraction couple with liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry(SPE-LC-MS/MS). The sample was extracted with 1% formic acid-methanol by ultrasonic wave and cleaned up on C18 SPE column. 7 PFCS were separated on a C18 reversed-phase column using gradient elution with 0.1% methanol accetonile and 2 mmol/L ammonium acetate and analysed by LC-MS/MS ESI(-) under MRM mode with the external standard phase. The limits of detection for the method(LODS) were between 0.03~0.52 μg/kg, the average recoveris were between 88%~110%, and the RSD for repeated measurements(n=6) was between 1.7%~5.0%. The method was simple, accurate and sensitive. It was suitable for the determination and confirmation of PFCs in popcorn bucket, proving a feasible method for the determination of PFCs in food contact materials.


During the screening for inhibitors of K88 antigen synthesis that suppress hemagglutination by E. coli E68 NIH 457-71, we found Streptomyces sp. No. 207 produced two active substances, one of which was identified as hygromycin A. Another new compound, named methoxyhygromycin, was very similar to hygromycin A but methoxyhygromycin had a methoxy group on the neoinosamine-2 moiety instead of the methylene dioxy group found in hygromycin A. Although hygromycin A and methoxyhygromycin had almost no effect on the growth of E. coli E68 NIH 457-71, they inactivated the hemagglutination activity of E. coli at low concentrations of 12.5 μg/ml and 25 μg/ml, respectively.


I supose that school extra curricularactivities in korea are some problems in three points of view. One, there is in the conceptual confusion of school extra curricularactivities. Another, Individualization teaching in school extra curricularactivities operation does not working. and the other, when the school extra curricularactivities are operated, there is a lack of self-control in each school level is suitable to school features and community conditions. In these aspects, this thesis is studied to search the device to activate the school extra curricularactivities This study is concluded as follow, First, it is must be defined as the school extra curricularactivities is enlighten the students` personality, and it could be more important rather than intellectual curriculum. So, school extra curricularactivities is the curriculum to enlighten the students personality, not extra curriculum or outside curriculum in school education. Second, self-control in school extra curricularactivities must be entirely given to each school level, and The Ministry of Education must not control over the school, has to support and service to school more positively. And it is needed that school should be operated as open education system in order to invite a lecturer in local community or parents of students in the special field which teacher can`t teach. Third, The Ministry of Education has to appreciate the teachers` authority and expert knowledge. The Ministry of Education must widely support to the teachers with professional disposition are able to exhibit full to teach students in school extra curricularactivities teaching. Forth, the teachers` college must reinforce to teach students educational theory and teaching methods of extra curricularactivities and many things concern extra curricularactivities education.


The simultaneous determination of Ag,Cu,Fe,Pb,Bi and Sb in gold ingot by flame atomic absorption spectrometry(FAAS)was proposed.The detection limits for Ag,Cu,Fe,Pb,Bi and Sb were 0.008,0.020,0.015,0.032,0.22 and 0.25 μg/mL.The recoveries for six elements were between 94%~108% and the relative standard deviations were less than 1.8%,the method is rapid,and convenient accurate.


Landscape architectural practice should be a site for insurgency rather than its more common state as a site of paranoia. Anarchy and parodic anti-heroes are a strong part of Australian culture but has Australian landscape practice lived up to this? Australian landscape practice reflects the dilemma of much of Australian cultural production. It is caught between either representing the stimulating peculiarities of the local world or trying to impress the unassailable indifference of the major global metropolis.1 A challenge lies in making art of this dilemma. Some creative forms of Australian cultural production have explored a defiant vernacular. Others have tried to occupy the 'space-in–between', 2 but most landscape practice in Australia are versions of European or American practice. There is, however, an emerging form of landscape practice which reflects Australia's cosmopolitanism, namely the cosmopolitanism derived form a much travelled populace, who is engaged in debates about identity and has a healthy scepticism about strident certainties. In parallel with the defiant vernacular, the incipient cosmospolitanism and the ersatz global is another form of practice, which can be described as 'understated Australian'.


Feminism on the theme of gender equality is emerging as an important issue in the overall Korean culture. Feminism is not only a level of claiming or advocating women's rights, but an essential subject of gaze and thought, not a distorted, artificially portrayed image of women distorted or typified in a story created by men in the past It is a film that explores the problem of the individual's life in society fundamentally. Jun Koeun 's movie' 'micro-habitat'(2018) 'expresses a feminist theme that shows a strong self selection and transcendental thinking in male oriented stereotypes and inequal social structure. The film, which focuses on the public insight into society and the enhancement of the ideal human being from the viewpoint that the public film should lead the educated enlightenment character that raises the broad insight into the world and lead the mature social culture, I think it will play a


While cloud computing is transforming society, today's public clouds are black boxes, implemented and operated by a single provider that makes all business and technology decisions. In 2013 we launched the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) with the vision of creating a production cloud that would enable innovation by a broad industry and research community. This open cloud has become a laboratory for cloud research and innovation, resulting in hundreds of publications, contributions to open source software, and collaborations between researchers, open source developers, and production operations staff. Recently we launched the Open Research Cloud Initiative (ORCI) to provide a framework to coordinate the bazaar of interrelated projects and initiatives that have evolved since 2013, including the Red Hat Collaboratory@BU, Open Cloud Testbed (OCT), New England Research Cloud (NERC), Northeast Storage Exchange (NESE), Operate First, and OpenInfra Labs. With its launch, the MOC inspired and enabled research in cloud security. For example, the Modular Approach to Cloud Security (MACS) SaTC NSF frontier project, launched in 2014, brought together cryptographers, operating system, database and computer architecture researchers from BU, MIT, UConn and NEU. This security research resulted in new open-source software and products that are today enabling new services in the ORCI bazaar. This talk will discuss the ORCI cloud bazaar, some of the security research and projects it inspired, and some exciting new collaborations happening now to make the cloud both open and secure.


Queen Elizabeth's visit to the Irish Republic in May 2011 was seen by many as a significant moment in the long process of normalisation in Anglo-Irish relations, facilitated by the peace process in Northern Ireland. For journalists, it was a newsworthy story because it captured the values of this process of peace-making in a concrete, organised media event, involving high-profile heads of state, official speeches and photo opportunities. This article examines the representation of this state visit in British and in Irish daily newspapers, and finds similar coverage across a number of shared themes. Journalists in both countries supported the conciliatory message embedded in the media event, with very little questioning, and marginalised voices of opposition. This approach contributed to an ideological consensus that the conflict between the two countries was in the past, with conciliation and collaboration the only future.


A simple plane-wave lens, using lead wave shaper and nitromethane donor explosive, has been designed. The arrival time deviation of wave front of plane-wave lens is controled by adjusting the height of initial explosion point. The experimental results show that the arrival time deviation of wave front of plane-wave lens designed in this subject is less than 20 ns within 50 mm diameter and have good symmetry.


To optimize thermal performance of passive elements inside the building as a whole of its results is not yet achieved due to fluctuations and internal generation. To identify the energy need. This research work aims to improve the consumption behavior of a building located in the city of tangier. to automate and control this building. IOT allows to better exploit and collect the data of the building and consists in a simplified way in connecting the objects. this is the ability to interconnect the objects and make them interact with their physical environment, which also allows a good control of the behavior of active and passive consumers with regard to energy consumption


The paper analyzed the theory of improving start performance of coiling asynchronous motor and proposed a control scheme of improving start performance of asynchronous motor,namely parallelling chopper and start resistor of rotor rectifier circuit,and continuously changing duty cycle of the chopper to make start resistor of motor maintain a constant value with increase of rotate speed of motor in starting process,so as to ensure little start current when motor torque is large,shorten start time,speed up start process,and achieve purpose of improving start performance.It discussed implementation method of the control scheme and gave calculation formula and an example of start resistor parameter.The calculation principle and example demonstrated feasibility of the control scheme.


Volume . of the AICCM Bulletin is dedicated to the proceedings of the th AICCM Book, Paper & Photographic Materials Symposium, which took place from  to  November  at Melbourne Museum, Museums Victoria, Australia. It was the vision of the Organising Committee that the symposium would provide a forum to learn, reflect, share and connect. We wanted not only to disseminate new information and ideas within the conservation community, but to promote interdisciplinary research, encourage reflection on our treatment and preservation approaches, and to consider how the world around us affects our decisions. This volume presents a selection of papers and keynote addresses that clearly represent this vision. In particular, these papers are united by their focus on unfamiliar, uncharted or challenging territory that asks the authors and readers alike to reconsider traditional approaches. The first two papers demonstrate the criticality of understanding the historical, material and social interests of the collections in our care, to ensure their appropriate long-term preservation and to inform treatment decisions. In particular, they remind us that it's the responsibility of the conservator to 'know when we don't know' and to seek out the appropriate resources or advice. In Keppel's paper, Nineteenth-century Islamic Manuscripts and Printed Books: Revisiting a Survey of the Michael Abbott Collection, State Library Victoria, specialist knowledge was sought for a collection that had lost proximity to the communities that could best interpret and maintain its cultural meaning. A collection survey of Qur'ans and religious texts undertaken in  is re-examined in light of new skills learned during an Islamic Bookbinding workshop presented at the Islamic Arts Museum ofMalaysia. Revisiting the survey in  identified previously overlooked structural features and provided a crucial frame of reference, giving original observations greater depth and meaning. In Murphy's paper, Art on Paper / Variable Installation: Sara Hughes' Torpedo at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, traditional conservation approaches are found to be at odds with the variable nature of contemporary art. The author considers the issues of originality, authenticity and variability posed by contemporary art on paper installations through the examination of Torpedo by Sara Hughes. In this case, close collaboration with the artist and systematic documentation processes resulted in a conservation and display approach that ensures the care and maintenance of the physical object, while also embracing the work's inherent variability. The next two papers demonstrate that sometimes it is the conservator's role to be intrepid and make the best decisions possible with the information at hand—even if that means embarking on a complex treatment without precedence in the conservation literature, or to strike out and generate that research ourselves. In each instance, these papers aim to ensure that future conservators will have the tools to make informed decisions. In Conservation of the th Battalion Book of Remembrance by Melzer, Mitchelson and Woodward, time and resources were in short supply when a fire and flood-damaged parchment volume arrived at Grimwade Conservation Services. Understanding the limitations of traditional disaster response methods in the case of bound waterlogged parchment, the authors consulted widely with colleagues and searched available literature. However, few useful case studies were available. Nonetheless, the swift disbinding and freezing of the object bought crucial time to separate and flatten the parchment leaves, resulting in a successful outcome and proving the feasibility of this treatment pathway. In Chu and Nel's paper, Characterisation and Deterioration of Stone Papers, the authors address a research gap in the conservation literature pertaining to the properties and degradation of stone paper. Invented in the late s, this synthetic paper-like material is commercially available in the form of books, notebooks and artists' paper. However, for environmental reasons stone paper is designed to photo-degrade rapidly, complicating its future preservation and care. The authors use a range of visual and analytical techniques to provide a greater understanding of the composition of stone paper, its ageing trajectory, and its response to environmental factors. This data will help to inform the identification, storage, display and treatment of stone paper collections. Our keynote papers give us important insights into what researchers and artists value in paper-based and photographic collections and introduce new ways of thinking about what attributes are important to preserve during preservation and conservation activities. Antarctic historian Elizabeth Leane prizes the 'dispersed, disordered and deteriorated condition' of polar and asylum archives, which proved integral to understanding an Antarctic wireless operator's lived experience. These important records effectively


Nurses are having more and more difficulty distinguishing between ethical and legal aspects of nursing practice as health care becomes more and more complex. Conflicts between personal moral beliefs and codes of professional ethics may pose dilemmas for nurses, as may conflicts with other health care disciplines. To clarify those differences, this article will provide a brief introduction to basic ethical and legal principles that affect nursing practice in the United States.


The grand plan undertaken by Tredi (NZ) Ltd, a small environmental engineering company engaged in the difficult business of toxic and hazardous waste recovery and disposal to use and adapt the ISO 14001 standard is discussed. The key procedural and process changes carried out by the company are highlighted.


Between 2010 and 2019, US productivity grew more slowly than in any other decade of the post-World War II era. The business sector grew by an average of 1.1 percent per year, less than half of the 2.5 percent average annual growth from 1950 to 2009. Analysts have struggled to explain this slowdown during the longest business cycle expansion in US history and why productivity growth in 2020 soared to 4.1 percent, a sudden surge during a year marked by the short but sharp pandemic recession. In A New Interpretation of Productivity Growth Dynamics in the Prepandemic and Pandemic Era US Economy, 1950–2022 (NBER Working Paper 30267), Robert J. Gordon and Hassan Sayed challenge the widespread notion that deviations of productivity growth from its long-run trend result solely from autonomous "productivity shocks." Rather, the researchers show that these deviations from trend, which they call "productivity gap changes," are strongly procyclical. As growth in output fluctuates, due to such demand-driven components as consumer durables, fixed investment, and inventory investment, firms react by adding or cutting total hours of work — that is, total employment times weekly hours per job. But the hours response is partial and lags the change in output. Since productivity changes are by definition equal to output changes minus changes in hours


The anadromous, or sea-going, life history form of brown trout, or sea trout (Salmo trutta), may lead to potential mixing of populations while foraging at sea. In this article, we assess the potential that multiple populations are using common semi-enclosed estuaries and quantify the potential levels of straying (i.e. dispersal) of foreign-produced individuals into populations by using otolith chemical signatures as natural 'tags'. To do so, we created a database of juvenile fish otolith chemistry (a marker of freshwater production) from four rivers and compared the chemistry of harvested fish in two estuaries important to anglers, the Renews River and Chance Cove Brook, to the database. A discriminant function analysis revealed significant differences in the otolith chemistry of juvenile fish inhabiting the four rivers with a 97% cross-validated accuracy when classifying individual juveniles to their natal river, indicating our baseline was robust. When assigning adults caught over 3 years (2007-2009) in the recreational fishery in the Renews River estuary, it was determined that over 95% of the fish caught each year originated from Renews River. In contrast, harvested fish in Chance Cove during 2009 were disproportionately comprised of fish produced in Renews River, suggesting the potential for source-sink population dynamics in Newfoundland. Taken as a whole, these results indicate limited population mixing in nearshore estuaries of this region, but also highlight the potential for some populations to subsidise the harvest by anglers in different areas.


With the advent of the Internet of Things, collection and processing of large datasets on embedded systems become increasingly important. Therefore, to enable embedded processors with more data processing capabilities, this paper applies the MapReduce parallel programming model to embedded multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC). We implement the proposed MPSoC in system-level SystemC and evaluate its performance using commercial ESL tools. Experimental results show that the proposed MPSoC can achieve up to 2.1× performance improvement compared with Phoenix on general-purpose embedded platform.


Integrated support is very important to improve battle effectiveness of equipment.The implementation of integrated support is able to solve the problems of reliability,maintainability,testability,safety and supportability fully.However,reliability,maintainability,testability,safety and supportability can obtain important information from implementation of FMECA that can direct the implementation of integrated support,find out the shortcoming of equipment and suggest the failure correction measure.This paper emphasizes the significance of FMECA in the integrated support,puts forward the requirement and realization method of FMECA,and makes FMECA as the nuclear contents in integrated support.In radar integrated support analysis,FMECA is used as a very important method of solving the problems in integrated support design.


Steric exclusion chromatography (SXC) is a method for separation of large target solutes based on their association with a hydrophilic stationary phase through mutual steric exclusion of polyethylene glycol (PEG). Selectivity in SXC is determined by the size or shape (or both) of the solutes alongside the size and concentration of PEG molecules. Elution is achieved by decreasing the PEG concentration. In this study, SXC applicability for the separation and purification of single-stranded (ss) and double-stranded (ds) RNA molecules was evaluated for the first time. The retention of ssRNA and dsRNA molecules of different lengths on convective interaction media (CIM) monolithic columns was systematically studied under variable PEG-6000 and NaCl concentrations. We determined that over 90% of long ssRNAs (700–6374 nucleotides) and long dsRNAs (500–6374 base pairs) are retained on the stationary phase in 15% PEG6000 and ≥0.4 M NaCl. dsDNA and dsRNA molecules of the same length were partially separated by olyethylene glycol (PEG) SXC. Separation of RNA molecules below 100 nucleotides from longer RNA species is easily achieved by SXC. Furthermore, SXC has the potential to separate dsRNAs from ssRNAs of the same length. We also demonstrated that SXC is suitable for the enrichment of ssRNA (PRR1 bacteriophage) and dsRNA (Phi6 bacteriophage) viral genomes from contaminating cellular RNA species. In summary, SXC on CIM


Abstract There are two common periods in use for stating a hen's egg record. One is 365 days, beginning with her first egg; the other the calendar year, beginning usually with November 1. Besides this, a third method should be in use which begins with the first egg of a hen and continues until she stops in her second summer or fall. Such periods vary greatly in length and may be more or less than 365 days. All records can be expressed concisely in the form of a fraction, the numerator indicating the number of eggs laid, the denominator the length of the laying period, i. e., first egg to last inclusive. If the record is for two or more years, a reversed compound fraction might be employed, but seems unnecessary. Examples may be given to make this use clear. 201/325 indicates that the bird laid 201 eggs in 325 days, …


This paper develops a modelling methodology to estimate both delays caused by freeway incidents and the Time to Normal Flow (TNF). A prototype knowledge based expert system is described which includes several aspects of the problem. For the covering abstract see IRRD 867248.


Currently, there are no standard criteria for evaluating response to therapy in patients with brain metastases. An international multidisciplinary group, The Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) Metastatic Working Group has proposed a RANO-Brain Metastases (RANO-BM) Criteria is based on a modification of RECIST 1.1 criteria and uses unidimensional measurements. Since the CNS is considered as a separate compartment. CNS response will be scored independent of extracranial response. Measurable disease is defined as a contrast enhancing lesion that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension with a minimum size of 10 mm, visible on two or more axial slices that are preferably at most 5 mm apart with no gap. In addition, although the longest diameter in the plane of measurement is to be recorded, the diameter perpendicular to the longest diameter in the plane of measurement should be at least 5 mm for the lesion to be considered measurable. Best overall CNS response represents a composite of radiographic CNS target and non-target response, corticosteroid use, and clinical status. In non-randomized trials where CNS response is the primary endpoint, confirmation of PR or CR at least 4 weeks later is required. The proposed criteria are: Complete response (CR): Disappearance of all CNS target lesions sustained for at least 4 weeks; no new lesions; no corticosteroids; stable or improved clinically. Partial response (PR): At least a 30% decrease in the sum longest diameter (LD) of CNS target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum LD, sustained for at least 4 weeks; no new lesions; no corticosteroids; stable or improved clinically. Progressive disease (PD): At least a 20% increase in the sum LD of CNS target lesions, taking as reference the smallest sum on study (this includes the baseline sum if that is the smallest on study). Stable disease (SD): Neither sufficient shrinkage to qualify for PR nor sufficient increase to qualify for PD. The group is further refining the proposed criteria to address a number of situations specific to brain metastases. These criteria will hopefully help standardize assessment of response in brain metastases trials and improve the ability to conduct these studies in a more uniform manner.


Strategic management is, as a concept developed over time. One of its aspects of development draws the connection with the all the present endeavours to manage work efficiency of the employees and all the human resources of the company. The work efficiency presumes that the good job is designed using the motivational, mechanistic, biological or peceptual approuch, considering that every employee won't do its best if the design of the operations are not according to its qualifications. Managing the job design, work efficiency and the integral connection of the human resources and strategic management along with the right strategy are the challenges confronting the today's strategic management.


Porous organic polymers possessing CO2-philic moieties have captured attention of the researchers due to efficient adsorption of gas molecules. By the condensation of organic rigid and contorted precursors, amide-linked organic framework polymers with low skeletal density have been prepared via a cost-effective protocol. Polyamide chains were synthesized via low temperature condensation of 2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazine with terephthaloyl chloride and isophthaloyl chloride to yield PA-1 and PA-2, respectively. The synthesized polymers were further carbonized at 600°C to fabricate nitrogen-doped carbon materials (PA1-600 and PA2-600). The as-prepared materials were analyzed by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), CHN elemental analysis, textural analysis, and CO2 adsorption measurements. The maximum CO2 uptake determined is 42.85 mg/g at 273 K and 1 bar. The triazine rings with basic nitrogen atoms and amide bonds in the main chain are responsible for CO2 capture by the polymers.


Based upon rates of decrease in the activities of citrate cleavage enzyme (EC 220.127.116.11), malic enzyme (EC 126.96.36.199), fatty acid synthetase, UDPglucose pyrophosphorylase (EC 220.127.116.11), UDPglucose 4-epimerase (EC 188.8.131.52), and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 18.104.22.168) in rat mammary glands after adrenalectomy–ovariectomy on the 11th day of lactation, the half-lives of the enzymes were estimated to be 28, 31, 28, 50, 20, and 24 h, respectively. The half-life estimates for UDPglucose pyrophosphorylase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase compared favorably with previous estimates of 35 and 20 h, respectively, obtained in rats 5 days postpartum utilizing specific immunological techniques. In a second experiment, increases in the activities of enzymes in adrenalectomized, lactating rats after initiation of cortisol therapy were investigated. Rats were adrenalectomized on the 5th day of lactation and cortisol therapy was started 5 days later. The estimated half-lives for citrate cleavage enzyme, malic enzym...


The buckling of columns with finite shear stiffness such as built-up and laced columns is investigated. The methods of analysis associated with Engesser and Haringx are compared. The difference between the methods can be traced to the direction of the axial force and the shear force used in the analysis. It is concluded that when the usual shear stiffness of the column is used, the Engesser method is the correct one for columns modeled as continuous Timoshenko shear beams. The appropriate method to use for helical springs is not investigated. The effect of the shear stiffness on the column buckling load for the usual standard boundary conditions is also presented analytically, and in the form of graphs.


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2008. This final project is written based on the job training which was carried out by the apprentice at SMPN 1 Karangpandan. The purposes of the project is to know and to understand the process of teaching reading at SMPN 1 Karangpandan, including its problems faced by the students and the teachers, also its solutions for those problems. In writing this final report, the apprentice collected the data by observing the class, interviewing to the student and directly teaching in the classroom and the different resources that related to the problems that are discussed in this report. The apprentice provided some component in teaching reading for the students which are categorized into five: curriculum, syllabus, material, method and classroom procedure. During the process of teaching reading, the apprentice found one difficulties faced by the students and teachers. The difficulties are categorized into three; the method, the problems of the students, and the teacher's problems in giving the material. The apprentice also presents the solutions to solve the problems. The apprentice used communicative approach in the process of teaching reading. Besides, the apprentice also used grammar traditional method during teaching reading process in the class. From the discussion in this report we can know that in teaching reading, the relation among five components (presentation and explanation, the materials, the method, the exercise, and the test) cannot be separated. The process of teaching will not run smoothly if one of those components is not involved.


Giant cells of the algae Chara braunii and Nitella flexilis were exposed to VHF, UHF, and X-Band electromagnetic radiation. Their responses were measured by examining their vacuolar potential for (a) small (≳5 μV) dc offsets with short (≲50 msec) rise times, (b) intermediate-sized (≳250 μV) dc offsets of somewhat larger (≲100 s) rise times, (c) largish (≳5 mV) dc offsets of still greater (≲20 min) rise times, (d) very small (≳250 nV) ac offsets phase-locked to a pulse modulation frequency, and (3) slow (≲20 min) drifts in the RMS level of membrane noise over the band 0.2-2.0 Hz. Both continuous-wave (cw) and pulsed irradiation protocols were employed, and the cw was used in both discrete frequency and swept-frequency modes. The average power levels ranged from 0.1 to $5000\ {\rm W}/{\rm m}^{2}$ . In no case was a bioeffect detected.


In an open economy, a deliberate reduction of exchange rate is considered to be an important policy option, not only to improve trade balance but also to gear up economic growth. The economy of Fiji has undertaken 20% reduction in the currency value in 2009. Although, it is too early to make conclusive statement, the trade balance seems to be improved marginally and contributed to the output growth. While exports registered an improvement, the imports also went up, leading to a weaker impact on the trade balance on the net. Domestic inflation has been limiting the effectiveness of devaluation partly, because it is highly influenced by the recent oil and food price rises on top of the increased money supply and trade costs. We argue that oil price rise tends to reduce output by raising the cost of production. Under such situation, a government usually employs expansionary policy to raise the effective demand. Fiscal instruments cannot be pursued effectively when the deficit is too high. So, the expansionary monetary policy has been deployed in order to raise investment level. Investment has not increased so far particularly on the major exportable sectors, but contributed much on the inflationary process. As a result, the transformation process from importable to exportable goods and services has been weak and limiting the effectiveness of devaluation. The investment has not increased mainly for two reasons. One, a drop in interest rate in an inflationary situation leads to a negative real interest rate which has limited the domestic saving and generated liquidity problems. Second, the liquidity problem raises risk and lack of confidence in investment. This appears to be a serious problem to sustain the improvement in trade balance


The major types of AIGaAs high-power cw single-mode diode lasers are reviewed and compared. The basic approaches for achieving high-power (20 to 50 mW/facet) single-mode operation are presented first. Emphasis is placed on the CDH-LOC (constricted double-heterojunction large optical cavity) laser type, which has demonstrated cw single-mode operation to 40 mW/facet and 50% duty cycle fundamen-tal mode operation to 100 mW/facet. By using CDH-LOC devices, signal-to-noise ratios close to 70 dB were achieved, and peak powers of 40 mW (50% duty cycle) were coupled into 0.2 N.A. fibers. Life tests of CDH-LOC lasers at 40 mW/facet initial output power and 50% duty cycle have shown small drops in output even after 10,000 hours of operation. Monolithic ten-unit arrays of CDH-LOC lasers delivering up to 300 mW in cw operation have been demonstrated as well.


Polyethylene terephthalate or PET is used as packaging material for different food products, beverages,
edible oils, mineral water etc. It is lightweight, usually transparent; though available in a range of colours.
The present study was investigated to evaluate the suitability of PET bottles for food contact applications
along with their shrinkage behavior at high processing temperature. PET bottles and preforms were evaluated
for their suitability in food packaging by overall migration of additives using different food simulants such
as distilled water for aqueous/non acidic foods (pH ~ 5) without fat, 50% ethanol for alcoholic beverages,
3% acetic acid for aqueous, acidic food (pH:5:5) without fat at 40°C/10 days and n-Heptane for edible fatty
foods at 38°C/0.5 as per Bureau of Indian Standards IS - 9845-1998 (2004). Overall migration values of PET
bottles were well below the safety limits of 10 mg/dm2 and 60 ppm as per IS:12252-2004. Shrinkage behaviour
was also studied for water bottle and juice bottle using distilled water and 3% acetic acid as simulants at
60°C, 70°C, 80°C, 90°C and 100°C for 2 hr., and it was observed that shrinkage of water bottle was upto 4.4%
at 80°C and 25.8% at 100°C whereas juice bottles showed shrinkage upto 3.9% at 90°C and 12.7% at 100°C.
This low shrinkage values in juice bottles is due to their construction design and higher thickness.
Further investigation is needed to assess the toxic effects of some specific components of PET bottles
like antimony, acetaldehyde, terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol migrating from PET to food.


The 1967 referendum's lesson is that our leaders can bring out the best in us, writes Jackie Huggins In some ways I feel my life has been building up to this week for 40 years -- the choices I've made and even the person I've become. I remember the day of the 1967 referendum well and see it still, in many ways, through the eyes of the 11-year-old girl I was at the time. And I also remember some of the long lead-up to it. God forbid if I were asked to make one more toffee or lamington for a fund-raising drive (or do the hula) or stand on another street corner handing out badges.


The rapid development of information technology has led to a huge amount of data generated by large or complex systems and devices. Applications in information technology, medicine, and many other fields generate large volumes of data that challenge analysts. Data mining analysis finds application in areas where statistical and analytical methods and the models built through them are not sufficient. The paper discusses sources of medical data, use cases, and data analysis in medicine, as well as methods and algorithms for data analysis. The purpose and objectives of the study, presented in the paper are to propose an algorithm for processing X-Ray images based on tools and techniques from the field of machine learning. The preprocessing phase is concerned with image transformation, feature extraction, and the selection of training and testing datasets. Preprocessing data enables the processing of data that would not otherwise be appropriate by adjusting the data to the specifications established by each data retrieval procedure. Each feature is examined in the second stage to identify and classify any potential patterns. In the final stage, the most effective model to capture the pattern or behaviour of the data is chosen using a machine learning algorithm. The proposed algorithm is verified using publicly available X-Ray image datasets consisting of four classes: Normal, Lung Opacity, Pneumonia, and COVID-19. A medical image classification workflow was designed for verification. In the experimental workflow, five algorithms in the field of machine learning are determined and implemented: Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, Random Forest, SVM, and Neural Network. In comparison to the outcomes of Random Forest, Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes, and SVM, the findings of the experimental analysis and results demonstrate that Neural Networks produce the greatest results, and these results can be taken to be the most dependable.


Our study aims to investigate the mechanism whereby microRNA (miRNA)-23b alleviates kidney damage in septic rats. Herein, we set up septic rat model, control group and sham-operated model to evaluate the kidney tissue damage. The glomerular mesangial cells isolated from rats were transfected
 with plasmids expressing miR-23b followed by analysis of the expression of miR-23b, Smad3, TLR4, HMGB1 and expression of autophagy-related proteins (LC3, beclin-1) by western blot and RT-qPCR. The level of TNF-α, IL-6 and BUN and SCr were significantly elevated in the model group and
 decreased after overexpression of miR-23b with elevated LC3-II, Smad3 and Beclin-1 expression. miR-23b mimic group presented highest expression of miR-23b, followed by miR-23b NC group, and miR-23b inhibitor group. The levels of TLR4, and HMGB1 and positive rate of NF-κBp65 in miR-23b
 mimic group were significantly lower than those in miR-23b inhibitor group (p < 0.05). Importantly, miR-23b has a targeted relationship with Smad3. Overexpression of miR- 23b induces autophagy by promoting the Smad3 expression, alleviates kidney damage in septic rats, and reduces
 inflammation and inactivates NF-κB signaling pathway.


Aims Biological invasions represent one of the most important threats to the conservation of biodiversity; however, the mechanisms underlying successful invaders remain unsolved. Many of the most aggressive invaders show clonal growth, and capacity for clonal integration has been pointed out recently as an important trait explaining the success of invasive plants. We aim to determine the role of physiological integration in the capacity for self/non-self genotype recognition in the clonal invader Carpobrotus edulis and the implications of this capacity for the expansion of this aggressive invader.


Various flood disasters in the last decade have confirmed that the risk from flooding has been increasing significantly worldwide. The driving factors for the risk are the unabated increase in global population, the concentration of people in high-risk areas such as coasts and flood plains, the rise in vulnerability of assets, infrastructure and social systems, and the consequences of climate change. Risk reduction is based on comprehensive risk management from identification of the hazard and assessing the risk to building defenses. To achieve this, general awareness at all levels in a society is key. It is not sufficient merely to be aware of the situation-findings must be acted upon with no significant delay. Flood-related computations have progressed considerably in recent years, but model results can only be as good as their input data. Modeling floods and flood losses is very complex, as model parameters are subject to change during an event and conditions sometimes greatly depend on small-scale factors. Water is responsible for most natural disaster losses in the world. Every year, various regions suffer from flood disasters resulting from rainfall or snowmelt, storm surges or tsunamis. 2013 in particular was a year with some exceptional floods. The most severe in terms of loss of life and property occurred in the Philippines (storm surge during Typhoon Haiyan), Central Europe and Uttarakhand/India, but there were also significant, and for the area concerned disastrous, events in


It has recently been observed that the number of learners who pass their National Senior Certificate (NSC) with the minimum admission point score (APS) is increasing. This is the case despite the fact that subjects at matriculation level are now offered at one level as opposed to the previous Senior Certificate Examination (SCE) (which offered both Higher Grade (HG) and Standard Grade (SG)). However, it has been observed that the expected knowledge and understanding of the content of the subject matter is rather contrary. This has been a recent observation experienced by first year physics lecturers at University of Johannesburg (UJ). One area of difficulty for the first year students is the basic understanding of vectors. The Physical Science Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) from the Department of Education (DoE) has been consulted with the aim of establishing the contents done in Further Education and Training (FET) band. A study was undertaken whereby diagnosis of the problematic areas in this section of vectors was investigated. This paper reports on the findings of that diagnosis test.


Objective To investigate the value of urinary podocalyxin (PCX)in the early diagnosis of type 2 diabetes nephropathy(DN). Methods The level of urinary PCX was detected by immune turbidimetry method in 62 patients with type 2 diabetes,then compared with that in 64 healthy controls.Results The level of urinary PCX was not significantly increased in diabetic patients with normal urinary microalbuminuria (mAlb). With the development of diabetes,the level of urinary PCX increased continuously with the rising of urinary mAlb level,but decreased when the serum creatinine(SCr) level higher than 135 μmol/L. No correlation was found between the level of urinary mAlb and PCX.In the early stage of DN,the level of urinary PCX increased with the rising of fasting glucose level.Conclusions Urinary PCX is important for the monitoring of early renal dysfunction in type II diabetes. Blood glucose level is correlated with the level of urinary PCX.


Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal lung disease accounting for 1% of UK deaths. In the familial form of pulmonary fibrosis, causal genes have been identified in ∼30% of cases, and a majority relate to telomere maintenance. Prematurely shortened leukocyte telomere length has also been associated with IPF, as well as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease with a similar demographic and shared risk factors. Using Mendelian randomisation (MR), our study aimed to determine whether short telomeres cause IPF or COPD.We performed an MR study for telomere length causality in IPF and COPD with up to 1,369 IPF cases, 14,103 COPD cases and 435,866 controls of European ancestry in UK Biobank. Initial studies using polygenic risk scores followed by two-sample MR analyses were carried out using seven genetic variants previously associated with telomere length, with replication analysis in an IPF cohort of 2,668 IPF cases and 8,591 controls and a COPD cohort of 15,256 cases and 47,936 controls.Meta-analysis of the two-sample MR results provided evidence that shorter telomeres cause IPF, with a genetically instrumented one standard deviation shorter telomere length associated with 5.81 higher odds of IPF ([95% CI: 3.56-9.50], P=2.19×10−12. Despite being an age-related lung disease with overlapping risk, there was no evidence that telomere length caused COPD (OR 1.07, [95% CI 0.90-1.27], P = 0.46).Cellular senescence is hypothesised as a major driving force in both IPF and COPD; telomere shortening may be a contributory factor in IPF, suggesting divergent mechanisms in COPD. This enables greater focus in telomere-related diagnostics, treatments and the search for a cure in IPF. Therapies manifesting improvements in telomere length, including safe telomere activation therapy, may warrant investigation.


This PhD has focused on an anti-viral protein known as Interferon-Lambda. This protein is important for fighting viruses at mucosal sites of the body such as in the lung and gastrointestinal tract and we have discovered that it is also important for the development of immune cells and generation of normal immune responses to infections. Surprisingly, we have discovered that Interferon-Lambda plays a key role in preventing obesity and maintaining normal blood insulin levels. We hope that by understanding the effects of Interferon-Lambda, we can safely design drugs that mimic or target Interferon-Lambda in a variety of different diseases.


We generalize the construction of Doppler-tolerant Golay complementary waveforms by Pezeshki-Calderbank-Moran-Howard to complementary code sets having more than two codes. This is accomplished by exploiting number-theoretic results involving the sum-of-digits function, equal sums of like powers, and a generalization to more than two symbols of the classical two-symbol Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence.


Forensic practitioners come-across extreme forms of human behaviour and their repercussions. The good and the bad are defined within the expected moral values of a given society. The authors analyzed the perceptions of a selected group of the society regarding the moral values and the direction of the society as far as such values are considered. 90% of the participants agreed that the present society is morally and ethically deteriorating while 05% disagreed. The remaining 05% claimed it to be the same for the past 25 years. Fifteen reasons brought up by the general public during a pilot study as the causes for social deterioration were included in the questionnaire. Dishonesty, substance abuse, alcoholism, change of attitudes, inappropriate television programmes, distancing from the religion, lack of role models and continuous life-struggle were suggested as the most influential causes for this downfall. Ten remedies suggested during the pilot study were also incorporated into the questionnaire. Prompt action to control alcohol and narcotics, inculcating self-responsibility, cultural acclimatization of children at home during early years, re-organizing TV programmes, control of mass-media and electronic social media were agreed by the majority of participants. Further analysis was based on chi-squared test for comparison of different groups. Fisher's exact test did not signify the gender and educational status in providing appropriate answers. Over 45-year age group showed a significant difference in providing valuable answers in order to identify the reasons for corruption. (X2(1) = 7.10; p=0.008). Academics should pay attention to identify and rectify the causes for social deterioration.
Key words: Social values, cultural deterioration, Mass media (control of), substance abuse


Expandable by thin length, and optionally deflectable medical device includes a braided assembly having a double layered coating. Braided assembly includes a plurality of braided members interwoven to provide a gap between the braided member, the braided member includes a conductive element, and a soft non-conductive polymer coating to insulate the conductive elements, the thermoplastic adhesive and a coating. Braided assembly is formed between an inner polymeric layer and the outer polymer layer. One or more braided member may be coupled to energy delivery device, and by producing the wholly or partially substantially flat member, to improve the so-called pushability and torque transmission characteristics, and the ring electrodes, larger relative to a sensor, or improved can be provided one or more join.


Gilissen et alii present an application of the Theory of Change to the subject of implementing Advance Care Planning (ACP) in nursing homes. They report their findings from a mixed methods approach, comprising a contextual analysis, a systematic review published elsewhere, and, mainly, an analysis of two subsequent workshops that gathered a number of experts and stakeholders, supported by reflections from the core research team.


The working principle and system composition of the reading system is introduced for a kind of laser sight' error.The system uses the weighted gray barycentric method or circle fitting method to extract the center position of beam spot. The software realization method is mainly introduced in the paper. Experiment results show that the systemic error of the device is not greater than 0.1mm.This method has high engineering application value.


Abstract Existential constructions in a corpus of spontaneous English from Bequia (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) are used to explore a linguistic problem (Is variation in verb form in existential constructions best viewed as grammatical or lexical?) and a sociolinguistic problem (What aspects of variation change over a lifetime?). We compare "urban sojourners" (Bequians who have been away) with their home village norms. We observe differences in the frequency of the type of existential preferred in different villages and by the urban sojourners. We also observe differences in whether or not the main verb agrees in number with a postposed plural subject. Building on William Labov's early discussions of constraints on variation imposed by the "sociolinguistic monitor," we suggest that variation in individual speakers supports the notion that variables that are fundamentally grammatical are less likely to mark social factors than lexical variables are. (Bequia, Caribbean English, existentials, subject-verb agreement)*


The present invention provides a method of increasing the thermal hysteresis activity of the composition comprising AFP and water, to the water, any one or more materials selected from the AFP and following additive group A which comprises mixing the bets relates to a method for increasing the thermal hysteresis activity. The present invention can provide a method for further increasing the thermal hysteresis activity possessed by the AFP. Additive group A; organic acids, organic acid salts, inorganic salts, amino acids, amino acid salts, ammonium salts, sugars, sugar alcohols, urea, guanidine hydrochloride, spermidine, spermine, and N, N- dimethylformamide


Abstract The liganded derivatives of hemoglobins G Georgia (α295Leu (G2) β2) and Rampa (α295Ser (G2) β2) were found by sedimentation velocity, viscosity, and diffusion measurements to be extensively dissociated into dimers in 0.1 m NaCl at pH 7.2 to 7.4 and 25°. The deoxygenated derivatives of both hemoglobin variants are tetramers under the same conditions. The deoxyhemoglobins also retain a predominantly tetrameric structure in NaCl solutions of increasing concentration up to 2 m, and in dilute alkaline buffers, at least to pH 9.8. In addition, association-dissociation in oxy- or cyanferrihemoglobin Rampa is both pH- and temperature-dependent. The liganded Rampa molecule is primarily a tetramer at 4° in the pH range 6 to 7, whereas liganded hemoglobin G Georgia shows only slightly increased tetramer formation under identical conditions. Both hemoglobin G Georgia and hemoglobin Rampa have decreased heme-heme interactions and increased oxygen affinities.


There are a lot of different levels of semantic field in vocabulary,the words in the same semantic field form various of sub-system terms,words and expressions have horizontal linkages in the sense of presence,so interpretations of these words in dictionary should be identical,the definition of the content and the language of interpretation should take care of each other.To take care of of punctuation is also necessary,but punctuation can't take care of each other at the interpretations of words in the same semantic field in Contemporary Chinese Dictionary(5th edition),it can be divided into four styles.


Significance We generated high-resolution multiorgan expression data showing that nearly half of all genes in the mouse genome oscillate with circadian rhythm somewhere in the body. Such widespread transcriptional oscillations have not been previously reported in mammals. Applying pathway analysis, we observed new clock-mediated spatiotemporal relationships. Moreover, we found a majority of best-selling drugs in the United States target circadian gene products. Many of these drugs have relatively short half-lives, and our data predict which may benefit from timed dosing. To characterize the role of the circadian clock in mouse physiology and behavior, we used RNA-seq and DNA arrays to quantify the transcriptomes of 12 mouse organs over time. We found 43% of all protein coding genes showed circadian rhythms in transcription somewhere in the body, largely in an organ-specific manner. In most organs, we noticed the expression of many oscillating genes peaked during transcriptional "rush hours" preceding dawn and dusk. Looking at the genomic landscape of rhythmic genes, we saw that they clustered together, were longer, and had more spliceforms than nonoscillating genes. Systems-level analysis revealed intricate rhythmic orchestration of gene pathways throughout the body. We also found oscillations in the expression of more than 1,000 known and novel noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). Supporting their potential role in mediating clock function, ncRNAs conserved between mouse and human showed rhythmic expression in similar proportions as protein coding genes. Importantly, we also found that the majority of best-selling drugs and World Health Organization essential medicines directly target the products of rhythmic genes. Many of these drugs have short half-lives and may benefit from timed dosage. In sum, this study highlights critical, systemic, and surprising roles of the mammalian circadian clock and provides a blueprint for advancement in chronotherapy.


This research develops an automatic questionnaire survey model. In the proposed model, the questions in the questionnaires can be converted into structured components and the component characteristics can be obtained from the collective online message. By using the Artificial Neural Network method, the relationship model between the collective message and questionnaire questions can be derived and the derived model can be used to acquire the answers to the questions from the message highly related to the questions. By utilizing the proposed methodology, researchers can efficiently realize the results about their questionnaire derived from the online population.


MNEs have been involved in Thai manufacturing since the early 1960s but despite this significant involvement their role in the industrialization process remains a controversial issue. This book has three main foci: • to evaluate the impact of MNE involvement in Thai manufacturing • to gain insight into the principal mechanisms by which MNEs contribute to the industrialization process and obstacles that prevent them from functioning more effectively • to recommend policies for maximising the benefits from MNE involvement.


. We construct a Sierpinski carpet like fractal, on which a diffusion with sub-Gaussian heat kernel estimate does not exist, in contrast to previous researches on the existence of such diffusions, on the generalized Sierpinski carpets and recently introduced unconstrained Sierpinski carpets.


Objective: In order to promote the nursing management quality,achieves "take the patient as the center",transforms my courtyard to nurse the superintendent the idea,innovated a set to work the new mentality,pulled closer protects the trouble the distance,thus achieved nursing managed and nurses the service level the high level,the high standard,has created the good economic efficiency and the social efficiency for the hospital.Method: Through the foundation high-quality service demonstration ward,the comprehensive implementation "the sea pushes the type service",the utilization "listens attentively to the skill",the realization "ten frist" the action.Results: The superintendent sets up "the medical quality first,nursing serves first,patient benefit first" the idea,gets up the result in the entire courtyard each nursing unit which fans out from point to area,the standard nurse has served effectively the behavior,causes nurse`s service consciousness distinct enhancement.


We present calculations of the longitudinal and transverse response functions for (e,e') inclusive reactions on $^{12}\mathrm{C}$. The calculations are made in the impulse approximation and use the medium-modified electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon which we calculated recently. Most of our calculations were made using a Fermi-gas model, however, we also present results for calculations which make use of wave functions of a finite-nucleus model. (In the latter case we include the medium-modified form factors in a local-density approximation.) One finds a very good fit to the longitudinal response using the medium-modified form factors. The fit to the transverse response is less satisfactory and indicates the presence of a significant amplitude in the response which is not described by the quasielastic nucleon-knockout mechanism. The fit of the longitudinal response achieved here suggests that the nucleon form factor is modified in the medium. These calculations support similar conclusions we have drawn from our study of the longitudinal response functions of $^{56}\mathrm{Fe}$ and $^{40}\mathrm{Ca}$.


This article represents a study of the scientific literature data about Hirschsprung disease, which describes the etiology, pathogenesis, classification, development of the methods of medico-surgical conduct at different stages of medical care of these groups of patients – from the time of the first research to the present. The objective of this article is to remark the achievements in pediatric surgery, namely in solving the adjacent issues caused by Hirschsprung disease and elucidating existing controversies and gaps.


This paper analyzes the situation that arose from the draft campaign in the United States between  1917 and 1918 among the Mexican community in that country, mainly in Texas. it shows that this campaign prompted an exceptional variation in the behaviour  of Mexican migration  during  the period  of the Mexican Revolution, since a considerable number of migrants left the United States for fear of being recruited. Moreover, this essay offers a balance of the number of Mexican and US citizens (of Mexican descent) who joined the US Army. It shows that the draft among both groups was less alarming than some rumors  and sensationalist  news of the time made it sound. Equally important is the examination of the reasons why the US authorities were cautious when recruiting Mexicans massively: the international context, the anglosaxon perception of Mexicans and, mainly, the increasing demand of labor. Overall, this work reviews a relevant passage in the history  of Mexican migration  to the US and of the Mexican community already living in that country, in other  words  the "outside  Mexico", whose relevance was beginning to be recognized  by the revolutionary governments. Also acknowledged  was the fact that Mexico –the country, the nation, its culture and inhabitants–  went beyond its territorial frontiers.


The exploratory case study, with a positive deviance approach, was used to address the problem that online small business leaders lack effective leadership skills and actions. Generally, online small business leaders face challenges separate and unique from traditional ground business leaders and different than big ecommerce business leaders who are turning ground businesses to online global businesses. Specifically, online small business leaders lack effective leadership skills and actions to address the unique challenges of online small businesses, resulting in a 90% first-year failure rate. Ten online small business leaders answered interview questions to explore best practices and processes. Data analysis revealed six themes of online small business leadership qualities but not particular leadership qualities practiced by online small business leaders. The major six qualities of the online small business leaders in this study consisted of having passion and intrinsic motivation for their work, having a heightened awareness of time and time management, maintaining old fashioned face-to-face interactions, historically having someone of positive influence in their lives, being adaptable to change, and having high problem-solving and decision-making skills. Based on these new findings, more exploration of how these online small business leadership qualities could contribute to higher success rates is recommended.


The active fraction (AF) from P. corylifolia seeds was cytotoxic to murine ascitic tumour cells, transformed human lymphocytes and KB cells in culture. AF significantly increased the life span ofEAC ascitic tumour bearing mice and showed lesser activity against solid tumour as compared to ascitic tumour.