Gamma irradiation (1.0 kGy) of intact, newly harvested, mature muskmelon fruit (Cucumis melo L. var. reticulatus Naud.) appears to have an immediate deleterious effect, but also a long-term beneficial effect, on the integrity and function of the plasma membrane (PM) of hypodermal mesocarp tissue. The initial consequences of gamma irradiation included an increase in the free sterol:phospholipid ratio, resulting at least in part from deglycosylation of steryl glycosides, a decrease in the spinasterol:7-stigmastenol ratio in each of the PM steryl lipids (free sterols, steryl glycosides, and acylated steryl glycosides), and a decrease in H+-ATPase activity. Irradiation did not increase protein loss, suggesting that the decrease in H+-ATPase activity resulted from either direct inactivation of the enzyme or altered PM ordering caused by the steryl lipid modifications. The long-term beneficial effects of irradiation, observed following 10 days of commercial storage, included greater retention of total PM protein, a diminished decline in total PM phospholipids (PL) and in the PL:protein ratio, and maintenance of greater overall H+-ATPase activity (activity was the same as in controls on a per mg protein basis, but there was > 30% more protein in the PM of stored irradiated fruit). These results indicate that 1 kGy gamma irradiation administered prior to storage slowes the progression of two key parameters of senescence, PM protein loss and PL catabolism.


Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a progressive, life‐shortening disease currently treated symptomatically. Among the consequences of daily treatments and long‐term progression of the disease is significant discomfort and pain. This study measured pain systematically in adolescents with CF using a pain diary, and evaluated its associations with treatment adherence, psychological symptoms, and health‐related quality of life (HRQOL).


The design idea and development trend of long-campaign blast furnace are discussed. The copper stave is the best cooling element for bosh, belly and down shaft of the blast furnace. The campaign of hearth wall and online monitoring of BF hearth are the keys for long-campaign of modern furnace.


The advent of synchrotron radiation (SR) sources and high energy lasers (HEL) in recent years has brought about the need for optical materials that can withstand the harsh operating conditions in such devices. SR mirrors must be ultra-high vacuum compatible, must withstand intense x-ray irradiation without surface damage, must maintain surface figure under thermal loading and must be capable of being polished to an extremely smooth surface finish. Chemical vapor deposited (CVD) silicon carbide in combination with sintered substrate material meets these requirements and offers additional benefits as well. It is an extremely hard material and offers the possibility of being cleaned and recoated many times without degradation of the surface finish, thereby prolonging the lifetime of expensive optical components. It is an extremely strong material and offers the possibility of weight reduction over conventional mirror materials.


Objective To explore the significance of IgM antibodies to Treponema pallidum (Tp IgM) in diagnosing neurosyphilis.Methods Using antibody capture ELISA technology,we detected Tp IgM in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples of 21 patients with neurosyphilis,28 patients with syphilis and 28 patients with neurological disorders.28 cases of syphilis whose TPPA in CSF was negative and 28 cases of neurological disorders whose serum RPR and TPPA was negative were used as two control groups.Results While negative results were recorded in the two control groups,the positive rate of Tp IgM in CSF was 71.4% in neurosyphilis group.The difference was of high statistical value ( u=5.37, P 0.01).The positive rates of Tp IgM and VDRL/RPR in CSF of the neurosyphilis group were 71.4% and 33.3% respectively.The difference was of statistical value (χ 2=4.90, P 0.05).Conclusion Detection of Tp IgM in CSF is helpful in diagnosing neurosyphilis. Tp IgM in CSF may be positive in patients with asymptomatic neurosyphilis.


Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) programs include an array of services meant to address individuals' needs throughout their life course. Access to these services is essential for sustainable development. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3/Target 3.7 calls for, "universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programs" by 2030. Yet maintaining and increasing access have been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on service provision, health care financing and planning. Efforts to achieve universal access to SRHR are aligned with parallel efforts to achieve another SDG target: universal health coverage (UHC) by 2030. Charting a path toward UHC requires an understanding of current coverage and costs, a strategy that sets targets for 2030, and a process for priority setting and progressive realisation given budget constraints. While establishing expectations for patientlevel service delivery and its costs, it is also important to understand how service delivery is dependent on health programs and the health system more broadly. Health systems encompass health conditionspecific programs and the cross-cutting systems and support structures required for patient-level service delivery (see Figure 1). Health systems include all the public and private institutions and resources mandated to "improve, maintain, or restore health" within a given geographic and political location. In contrast, health programs have been defined as the narrower "set of interventions that contribute to the prevention and control of a common health outcome – for example, HIV or non-communicable diseases (NCDs)." This includes the structures and activities directed towards enhancing program quality, such as training, supervision visits, and monitoring and evaluation. Country data on programs and system costs as a proportion of overall health care investment needs is difficult to find in the published literature. However, some international costing activities have shown that health programs and system costs may represent the majority of needed incremental investments. A 2017 analysis using the OneHealth Tool (OHT) to estimate the costs of achieving the health-related SDGs in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) found that 75% of needed investments would be for programs and system elements, the largest being the health workforce and infrastructure. For SRHR, in 2019, programs and system costs were estimated to comprise 62% of the total projected costs of meeting all needs for modern contraception and 65% of total costs for meeting need for pregnancy-related and newborn care in all LMICs. COMMENTARY


ABSTRACT The Center for Undergraduate Research (CURS) at Augusta University supports faculty-led undergraduate research. In collaboration with a student organization, the Program Coordinator of CURS contacted the Augusta University Libraries to investigate how to start an undergraduate research journal and identify a hosting venue. Two librarians provided guidance on the creation of a new Open Access journal using resources already provided by the university. This article discusses establishing the journal's identity, developing policies and processes, hosting and publishing the journal, as well as challenges faced throughout the process.


Motivated by several examples arising in linear systems theory, the problem considered here is the inverse eigenvalue problem for an arbitrary square matrix and for arbitrary additive perturbations belonging to a matrix Lie algebra. For an algebraically closed field with characteristic zero, the main theorem gives necessary and sufficient conditions for the positive solution of the corresponding additive inverse eigenvalue problem. There are, of course, several antecedents of this result in the literature involving special coordinate systems and special representations of particular matrix Lie algebras, most notable among these being the result due to S. Friedland on the inverse eigenvalue problem for diagonal perturbations.


The main cause of death from tetanus is usually respiratory infection but with anoxic episodes, exhaustion, and toxaemia as important contributory causes. This is because the tetanus toxin acts on the medullary nuclei, particularly on the nucleus of the vagus, so that the actions of the larynx and pharynx become disorganized. There is thus difficulty in swallowing, and spill-over from the pharynx into the tracheo-bronchial tree, with resulting respiratory infection. The best safeguard against this is early tracheotomy, and I believe this should be done in all cases of severe tetanus, not only because it lessens the likelihood of infection, but also because it prevents that constant irritation from bronchial secretions which accounts for much of the spasm. If we adhere to the principles of early tracheotomy, assisted respiration, continuously controlled relaxation, and the restriction of central depressants-coupled, of course, with adequate doses of antitoxin-we may be able to save cases which would formerly have been regarded as hopeless. One patient was recently treated on these lines and she recovered.' Her illness was less severe than those described by Dr. McIntyre; but the methods used might bring some hope where previously there was none, and this letter is a plea for them to be tried.-I am, etc., Bristol. RONALD WOOLMER.


Through test the root pulling resistance,the canopy cover degrees and the suitability in the dryland ecological region,drought resistance identification of potato variety of the Jinshu 15 and Tongshu 20,was carried out.The results indicated that Tongshu 20 and Jinshu 15 potato showed strong root pulling resistance,large canopy cover,high yield,strong adaptability,and they are good drought resistant variety,which can be popularized in one-season planting region and dryland ecological region in China.


You've gone through the extra training. You've talked to specialists and even spent some time in their practices observing and learning. You've put the time in, and now you're ready to add a new specialty service to your list of offerings.


In this note, we describe some desingularizations of some subvarieties of the cartesian powers of a semisimple Lie algebra of finite dimension.


The use of some forms of data in factor analysis for purposes of numerical induction has recently been questioned (Sackett 1969). The nature of "qualitative" and "quantitative" data and the assumptions of the factor analysis model are discussed in this paper. Results of a plasmode—a worked example with relatively well understood data—confirm the robustness of factor analysis under varying degrees of violation of the model More and more examples of the usefulness of factor analysis as a general numerical method of induction are accumulating.


The electro-oxidation of water-immiscible liquid aliphatic
acids (RCO2H) leading to decarboxylation to afford a hydrocarbon
(R–R) may be achieved using an emulsion formed via
insonation so that the organic phase continuously extracts the products; in
complete contrast to conventional monophasic electrolyses, the type and
yield of products obtained from this biphasic Kolbe electrolysis are
independent of the electrode material used.


The present invention discloses a water hydraulic proportional water assisted injection molding system. It is in turn connected to the water outlet of the hydraulic pump motor drive pressure control valve, and a nozzle valve, the pressure control may also be implemented between the turbocharger boost valve and the valve, between the pressure control valve and the water pump It may also be connected to save energy accumulator, a pressure sensor feedback pressure controller to form a closed loop pressure control, the injection pressure controller receives the command signal given by the computer controlling the pressure control valve, thereby controlling the injection pressure, and temperature sensor feedback temperature control tank injecting water temperature to a controller, closed loop adjustment control of the heater temperature, the temperature of the water hydraulic proportional generated by the system, by controlled pressure water injection nozzle into the mold cavity plastic melt, by water assisted injection of hollow plastic articles forming. The invention is used in plastic water assisted injection molding, water assisted injection molding technology the key core equipment, is the basis for high quality water assisted injection molding production.


Now the gene therapy against myocardol injury involving cardiopulmonary bypass is still under the stage of animal study. This paper philosophically discusses its progression and advantages as well as the problems about its security, limitation and ethics,and then the paper imagines its future based on the improvement of gene therapy in other realms.


Process for making a carminic acid lake comprising (i) treating an aqueous solution comprising (a) 0.5 to 15% (g / l) of carminic acid and (b) 0.75 to 15% (g / l) of insect proteins Dactylopius coccus costa where substantially all insect proteins Dactylopius coccus costa have a molecular weight (MW) below 10.000 Da, and wherein the aqueous solution is substantially free of insect proteins Dactylopius coccus costa with a molecular weight (MW) above 6.000 Da; with a compound of aluminum and calcium; and (ii) adjusting the conditions to get suitable to produce a carminic acid aluminum calcium, wherein the lake comprises (a) from 40 to 80% of carminic acid (dry weight) and (b) 10 to conditions 30% insect proteins Dactylopius coccus costa (dry weight), where substantially all insect proteins Dactylopius coccus costa have a molecular weight (MW) below 10.000 Da and wherein the lake is substantially free of insect proteins Dactylopius coccus costa with a molecular weight (MW) above 6.000 Da; and where in the aqueous solution of step (i) the ratio carminic acid / insect proteins Dactylopius coccus costa (g / l) is less than 1.


Inactivity has been the main cause of obesity which has affected many people worldwide. Studies show that fitness is an important goal for a healthy lifestyle and has been used as a measurement for health-related quality of life. A fitness trainer can motivate and teach users to do fitness activities. However, to use a human fitness trainer may involve high cost and is not suitable for a certain school setting. A personalized virtual fitness trainer has the potential to replace a human trainer whenever possible. It can help physical education teachers in schools to motivate students to exercise. This study discussed the design and development of an AI-based application coined as an Intelligent Virtual Fitness Trainer (IVFIT) as an attempt to provide a personalized physical learning experience for school students. This app is developed to (1) demonstrate five workout activities for 30 minutes; (2) teach the user three types of dances for 22 minutes, and (3) demonstrate five basic self-defense moves. These training scenarios were administered to a physical education class consisting of 23 students in which the recommendation of the fitness trainer is done using a calculation of artificial intelligence algorithms. The percentage of prediction error was calculated after each activity to measure the effectiveness of the app in giving recommendations. Subsequently, a teacher observation test was conducted to determine students' perceptions of the effectiveness of the proposed VFT application. Overall, students found the VFT application to be effective in stimulating higher levels of involvement in physical activity without teacher supervision. It can be concluded from the study that a personalized virtual trainer can assist in assigning a suitable virtual trainer for specific users and can be used for physical education activities.


The authors provide definitions and describe teaching methods and strategies related to a renewed understanding and development of the concept of "conscious use of self" a term defining the social worker as the "instrument" purposely used to promote change with client systems. The article clarifies how conscious use of self affects the development of an effective helping relationship, the medium through which change occurs in social work practice. Emphasis is placed on integrating cultural competence within students' understanding of conscious use of self as well as applying the concept at both micro- and macrolevels of intervention.


Quaker missionary efforts with the Japanese began in 1885, when Philadelphia Y early Meeting (Orthodox) sent Joseph and Sarah Ann Cosand to Tokyo to initiate a mission there. About the early stages of this mission, there is a fair amount of literature, much of it by contemporary Quakers who were intimately involved in this mission work.1 It is clear that influential Japanese, including Inazo Nitobe, soon to be a prominent educator and diplomat, were very active in helping to spark the interest of American Friends for such a mission.2 Despite the well-known involvement of Nitobe and other Japanese in the beginning of this enterprise, however, most literature on Japanese missions follows the model of Christianity radiating out from the Anglo-American Christian Quaker homeland. One implicit theme running through much of this literature (and indeed literature on nineteenth-century missions as a whole) is a lack of reciprocity, built upon an inherently inegalitarian understanding that Christian Americans were rescuing darker-skinned peoples unacquainted with the more sublime forms of religious truth.3 There is, however, an alternative model for the understanding of Quaker missions, one of a reciprocal flow of missionaries and ideas across oceans, developed ably in Frederick Tolles' Quakers and the Atlantic Culture in a discussion of the relationships between seventeenthand eighteenth-century English and American Friends. "The principal cement of the Atlantic Quaker community was the traveling ministry. . . . The Quaker ministers, constantly circulating through the vast Atlantic world, were not only messengers of the gospel of the Inward Light; they were cultural 'carriers' who helped to hold the larger Atlantic Community together." T olles defined the Quakers' Atlantic Community as "a community held together by the intangible yet powerful bonds of love, fellowship, and a common faith."4 If his analysis is in any way transferable to the vaster and far more culturally diverse Pacific region (in other words, if we can meaningfully talk about "Quakers and Pacific Culture"), then we ought to be able to discern a similar reciprocity among the circulation of Quaker ministers in the twentieth century in that part of the world. This essay will examine the lives of Bunji and Toshi Kida and other Quaker ministers who came from Japan in the early twentieth century, in


The Nancy Drew adventure series, a classic girls' favorite for over 50 years, offers less sex role stereotyping and sexist cultural indoctrination than the majority of reading textbooks now used in the elementary school classroom. Textbooks were excluded from the Title IX regulations of the 1972 Education Amendments, and a review of studies conducted since 1969 of elementary school readers reveals the continuation of a strong male sex bias in textbooks. The Nancy Drew series, On the other hand, presents a different . perspective. The heroine is a paradox, appearing strong, resourceful, independent, and bold, while at the same time using traditional feminine wiles, relying on her instincts a.4.d charm. Although further study of the adventure series identifies a reduction over the years in the quality of characterization, description, and plot structure, as well as in vocabulary level, the female image in Nancy Drew is preferable to the stereotype found in most classroom reading texts. (AEA) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************


This project intends to explore the development of a web application that allows users to create slideshow presentations from a web browser and present them using a virtual remote control, which can be accessed from a mobile device through a web browser. The main benefit this project offers is providing users the possibility to access their slideshows at any moment and present them in a simple manner by using the gadgets and technology they already have. In order to build this web application, the following technologies were used: MongoDB as the documental database, Express as the web framework, AngularJS as the presentation framework and Node.js as the JavaScript runtime. Socket.io is the library that enables communication between the remote control and the slideshow presentation. Socket.io allows web clients to emit and react to real-time events. By using this library, the application is able to change the slide being presented according to the instructions provided by the remote control.


Laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT) printing is a technique with a great future as an alternative to the inkjet printing since it is not limited by the viscosity and size of the printing particles as inkjet. Even so, the use of expensive pulsed lasers could hamper its development. The use of continuous lasers can be an alternative since they are used industrially, and their cost is lower. In this work, different continuous LIFT printing conditions are studied by changing the thickness of the donor layer, the scanning speed and the laser power. A minimum of 0.5 Ω/sq is obtained and optimal printing conditions are determined for the 3 studied parameters.


The mycelial growth of some mushrooms was inhibited by benomyl treatment. The of benomyl to that of Pleurotus spp., Agaricus bisporus and Flammulina velutipes was 25ppm, 50ppm and 200ppm, respectively, which indicates the former was the most sensitive to the fungicide. The mycelial growth of mushrooms growing on artificial media amended by benomyl was increased when they were cultured successively 5 times and 10 times on the media. The increasing rate of that of each mushroom was the highest at the concentration of of benomyl. The mycelial growth of P. ostreatus was increased progressively as the number of successive culturing increased, while that of P. florida and A. bisporus was increased until they were cultured successively up to 5 times and 7 times, respectively, but they were decreased after that. Mutant sectors of mycelia were induced by successive treatment of benomyl. Mutant sectors of P. ostreatus appeared earlier than those of P. florida and all of them were induced earlier on the media of low contration of benomyl than on that of high concentration. The mycelia of mutant sectors induced by benomyl treatment grow faster than those of mother colony treated with benomyl successively, but there was no difference in resistance against the fungicide between them. The increase of mycelial growth of the mushrooms culturing successively on media containing benomyl indicated that they might obtain the resistance against benomyl.


Tropical geometry is a field of mathematics that emerged around the year 2000, and provides a polyhedral version of algebraic geometry. One of its main motivations is to study algebraic varieties via associated polyhedral complexes, known as tropicalizations. Tropicalizations are often simpler objects which retain a lot of relevant information about algebraic varieties. The foundational ideas of tropical geometry can already be found in the pioneering texts of R. Bieri and J. Groves and also in the O. Viro's patchworking technique. However, it was only at the end of the 90's that the theory began to consolidate itself. Recent years have seen a tremendous development in tropical geometry that both established the field as an area of its own right and unveiled its deep connections to numerous branches of pure and applied mathematics. One can cite for example applications of tropical geometry to real and complex enumerative geometry ([Mik05], [BrMi07], [IKS13], [ABLdM11], [MMS18] [NPS18]), mirror symmetry ([KoSo06], [GrSi06], [GrSi14], [Yue16]), integrable systems ([Soi10], [InIw12]), Hodge theory ([Kon10], [AHK18], [IKMZ19]), analytic geometry in the sense of Berkovich ([KoSo06], [Gub07], [ABBR15], [NPS18]), construction of real algebraic varieties ([Vir01], [Shu12], [BrLdM12], [BLdMR13], [ABLdM14]), singularity theory ([AIL10], [Shu12], [MMS18]), algorithmic geometry ([DSS05], [JSY07]), biomathematics ([PaSt05]), and economics ([BaKl14], [Jos17]). For an introduction to tropical geometry, we suggest [BIMS15] or [MaSt15].


Abstract Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of audiovisual (AV) aid in assessing the parental attitude for their child's oral health. Materials and methods A study (cross-sectional) was conducted in 50 parents of the children between age group of 0 and 14 years. A PowerPoint presentation was given to parents in two batches, and its effectiveness was assessed by comparing results of questionnaire before and after presentation. Data were collected through a questionnaire. Statistical analysis All data were compiled using MS Office Excel Sheet, and analysis was performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software for descriptive analysis, and the level of statistical significance used in this study was chosen at p value < 0.005. Results The results proved that selected sample had lack of knowledge regarding primary teeth and its importance, oral health care of the child from birth, ideal time of first dental visit, and preventive treatments before awareness program. But there was significant difference in attitude of parents regarding their child's oral health care after presentation. Conclusion Within the limitation of the study, the high prevalence dental caries in children showed that change of parental behavior and attitude is much more important rather than focusing on increasing knowledge only. Hence, AV aids can be effective tools for increasing awareness. How to cite this article Kajal A, Tandon S, Rai TS, et al. Efficacy of Audiovisual Aid in Assessing Parental Attitude toward their Child's Oral Health. Int J Clin Pediatr Dent 2020;13(5):437–441.


According to the ageing character of Polypropylene itself and other influencing factors that may be effect on the anti-ageing performance of polypropylene and PP fabric bag,in this paper we expound how the common antioxidants and light stabilizers protect the resins at first,then we represent the way our products JC-1225 and JC-790B to settle the problem.Our test data proved that the domestic anti-aging recipe JC-1225 and JC-790B used for PP fabric have better anti-UV performance than other products,which can easily meet the requirements we expect of both UV test and reality use.


In this paper, a novel theory of realizing the series capacitor with broadside coupled suspended substrate stripline (BCSSS) is proposed. The proposed theory is relatively simple because the method of odd mode analysis is only applied: However, this theory supplies reliable result by considering the line effective width and end effect caused by the fringing field. The simulation results are presented to compare and analyze the characteristics of the ideal lumped capacitor and the coupled line capacitor. Also, the capacitive gap coupled line band-pass filter based on the proposed theory are designed and fabricated. The results prove successfully the validity of the proposed theory.


This paper investigates the service and selling effort decisions of a product in a two-echelon supply chain with one manufacturer and one retailer. Assuming that the market demand is dependent on the retail price, service level provided by the manufacturer and selling effort chosen by the retailer, three different kinds of game structures are considered, i.e., Manufacturer-Stackelberg, RetailerStackelberg and Vertical-Nash, and their optimal solutions are also derived. Finally, the results of the proposed models are analyzed via a numerical example. It is shown that the manufacturer and the retailer make the largest profits in the Vertical-Nash and Retailer-Stackelberg games, respectively, and the customer obtains the highest service level in the Retailer-Stackelberg game. competition model with two manufacturers and a common retailer in a liner demand function, where the customers were sensitive to both selling price and service level of the manufacturers. Wu [6] focused on a price and service decisions model with two manufacturers and a retailer, where the manufacturers produced the new and remanufactured products. Han et al. [7] studied a price and service competition problem with one manufacturer and two retailers where the manufacturer acted as the Stackelberg leader and two retailers were the follower, and made their optimal retail prices independently. In a dual-channel supply chain, Yan and Pei [8] analyzed the pricing and retail service decisions with a liner demand function. Dan et al. [9] also studied the optimal prices and retail services decisions in a centralized and a decentralized dual channel supply chain. In addition, Wang and Zhao [10] studied the price and service decisions in a dual supply chain where the manufacturer offered direct channel service and retail service. Xu et al. [11] examined the selling price and service strategies in a dual-channel market when the manufacturer and the retailer had fairness concerns. Some researches also studied the price and service decisions in a fuzzy environment, where the demand was a fuzzy liner function of selling price and service level. For instance, Zhao et al. [12] analyzed prices and services competition problems with two competing manufacturers and one retailer in fuzzy environments. Zhao and Wang [13] studied the pricing and retail service decisions between one manufacturer and two retailers with fuzzy demands. Samadi et al. [14] proposed a fuzzy inventory model with shortages, where the demand was a function of price, service expenditure and marketing expenditure. Koide and Sandoh [15] took the reference price effects of consumers into account and discussed a clearance pricing optimization in two periods. Sang [16] studied a revenue sharing contract with fuzzy demand in a three-echelon supply chain. Yang et al. [17] developed a fuzzy three-echelon inventory model with defective products and rework under credit period.


In this paper, we study the problem of information preservation when decomposing a single Bayesian network into a set of smaller Bayesian networks. We present a method that losslessly decomposes a Bayesian network so that no conditional independency information is lost and no extraneous conditional independency information is introduced during the decomposition.


Temperature dependence of crystal structures is examined with X-ray diffraction at normal pressure or elevated pressures for solution-grown nylons with octamethylene moiety between amino or carboxy groups (nylons 82, 410, 610, 810). Although octamethylene moiety between amino groups has the potential to cause the phase transition, the low melting point veils the transition appearance. Considering this comprehensively with previous results, it is concluded for all even–even nylons, that the phase transition in the two-dimensional methylene layer system can be experimentally observed only in nylon 6Y (Y≤8) crystals at normal and/or high pressures, where the hexamethylene moiety between amino groups plays an intrinsic role. The so-called `Brill transition' widely reported for melt-crystallized nylons is not a phase transition but an abrupt thermal expansion.


When operating push-pull trains or trains with double or multiple heading, traction and control data need to be exchanged between the leading vehicle and the trailing vehicle(s). To that end, as long ago as the mid-1970s, staff at the then BBC in Mannheim (today, Bombardier Transportation) developed the original ZWS system, which in terms of its functional principle is still identical and fully compatible today, as well as the ZDS and ZMS systems based on it. These systems, which have long since become standard on Deutsche Bahn. are now becoming increasingly popular with other operators at home and abroad. They are serial two-wire transmission systems for communication with two and up to four stations on the train control level. Standard transmission medium are wires 10 and 11 on the UIC remote control and data cable as per UIC leaflet 558.


Abstract Sound wave propagation in rarefied flows of molecular gases confined in micro-channels is investigated numerically. We first validate the employed kinetic model against the experimental results and then systematically study the gas damping and surface force on the transducer as well as the resonance/anti-resonance in confined space. To quantify the impact of the finite relaxation rates of the translational and internal energies on wave propagation, we examine the roles of bulk viscosity and thermal conductivity in depth over a wide range of rarefactions and oscillation frequencies. It is found that the bulk viscosity only exerts influence on the pressure amplitude and its resonance frequency in the slip regime in high oscillations. In addition, the internal degree of freedom is frozen when the bulk viscosity of a molecular gas is large, resulting in the pressure amplitude of sound waves in the molecular gas being the same as in a monatomic gas. Meanwhile, the thermal conductivity has a limited influence on the pressure amplitude in all the simulated flows. In the case of the thermoacoustic wave, we prove that the Onsager–Casimir reciprocal relation also holds for molecular gases, i.e. the pressure deviation induced by the temperature variation is equal to the heat flux induced by the plate oscillation. Our findings enable an enhanced understanding of sound wave propagation in molecular gases, which may facilitate the design of nano-/micro-scale devices.


This paper presents the design and implementation of a new FPGA-based development system that was created with the goal of providing as much inter-FPGA bandwidth, host-to-FPGA bandwidth, memory capacity and memory bandwidth as feasible. The system meets these goals by providing 4 Altera Stratix FPGAs, 8GB of external memory, and a 64bit/66MHz PCI bus host-to-FPGA link.


[structure in text] Addition of "zirconocene" to 1-alkynylphosphonates gives three-membered zirconacylces that can be hydrolyzed to cis-vinylphosphonates or further reacted with alkynes/hydrolysis to give substituted (Z,E)- and (E,E)-1,3-butadienylphosphonates.


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The chemical investigation on endophytic fungus Annulohypoxylon cf. stygium in leaves of Anoectochilus roxburghii (Wall.) Lindl. has been performed. Sixteen compounds were isolated and their structures were identified as (−)‐notoamide A, (−)‐notoamide B, (+)‐versicolamide B, notoamide C, notoamide D, stephacidin A, sterigmatocystin, dihydrosterigmatocystin, secosterigmatocystin, versiconol, averufanin, kipukasin D, kipukasin E, diorcinal, palmarumycin CP2 and (−)‐(3R)‐mellein methyl ether, respectively, by spectroscopic analysis and comparison with literature data. All the compounds were isolated from Annulohypoxylon genus for the first time. Sterigmatocystin and palmarumycin CP2 showed selective cytotoxic activities against HepG2, HeLa, MCF‐7 and HT‐29.


The study shows that Trypsin is more efficient than Papain, Protamex, Neutrase and Alcalase2.4 L. Trypsin can make a increase of DH after hydrolyzing fermented liquid of soybean meal. According to the result of single-factor and orthogonal experiments, the optimum conditions for hydrolyzing fermented liquid of soybean meal by Trypsin is temperature: 60 ℃, pH8.5, substrate concentration: 13%(w/w), ratio of enzyme to substrate: 600 U/g (soybean dregs). The reaction time is 1 h according to the molecular weight distribution of hydrolysate analyzed by means of GFC. Under this condition the DH of the hydrolysates reach 33.5%. And 77.8% of them have the molecular weight range from 538~2659 u.


Recently, BMI screening in public schools has stirred sharp controversy with the emergence of letters sent home to parents indicating their child's BMI percentile and weight category. In Massachusetts, these letters have been deemed, "fat letters," and have appeared on late night comedy shows, newspapers, and televised news reports. Not only has screening come under harsh criticism, but the increasing prevalence of obesity in our nation's children has been challenged based on misinformed assumptions that BMI is an inaccurate measure of a child's body fat. Massachusetts representatives have submitted House Bill H.2024, which would ban that state's department of public health from collecting any data on height, weight, or calculating BMI in public school children.

Currently, 21 states have enacted policies or made recommendations regarding the collection of height and weight data or assessment of body composition in public schools (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia). In Massachusetts, BMI screening has been mandated in all public school districts since 2009, with the measurement of height and weight performed by school nurses and the child's BMI then calculated. A subsequent confidential letter (Supplemental Information) is mailed directly to parents indicating their child's weight status and encouraging discussion with his or her health care provider. Arkansas was the first state to pass such a law requiring BMI measurement in its public school …

Address correspondence to Michael Flaherty, DO, Department of Pediatrics, Baystate Medical Center, 759 Chestnut St, Springfield, MA 01199. E-mail: michael.flaherty{at}baystatehealth.org


Immediate past PATY winner, Erin Pavy shares what if feels like from the 'other side of the table' as a national judge of the GuildSuper Pharmacy Assistant of the Year Award.


Objective To investigate the impact of insulin resistance on the prostate growth rate in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia(BPH).Methods There were 139 BPH patients included in this preliminary study.The blood pressure,body weight and height were measured.Biochemical analyses including serum glucose,insulin,triglycerides,high-density lipoprotein cholesterol(HDL-C) and prostate-specific antigen(PSA) were performed.The prostate volume was measured by transrectal ultrasound and then annual prostatic growth rate was calculated.The patients were divided into two groups according to whether they were diagnosised to have insulin resistance.They were also divided into different groups in terms of metabolic syndrome and hyperinsulinemia,respectively.The data were analyzed by t test and analysis of variance.Results BPH patients with insulin resistance had significantly higher serum glucose,inlulin and annual prostate growth rate compared with those without insulin resistance.The median annual prostate growth rate was 0.29mL/year(P0.05).However,age,body mass index,systolic pressure,diastolic pressure,triglyceride,HDL-C,prostate volume and PSA levels had no significant difference between these two groups.Moreover,those with a higher serum insunlin level(serum insunlin 4.22mmol/L) had a higher prostate growth rate.In contrast,there was no significant difference in prostate growth rate between the patients with or without metabolic syndrome.Conclusions The present study demonstrates a further increase of prostate volume in BPH patients with insulin resistance.Thus,insulin resistance may contribute to development of BPH.It seems that BPH could be prevented by change of life style and medication for insulin resistance.Future studies are needed to confirm our results and to explain underlying mechanisms.


This chapter deals with the struggle waged between kampong dwellers and municipal administrators over urban space. The issue raised is to what extent kampong dwellers accepted the administrators' definition of kampongs as unsanitary and disorderly places and welcomed kampong improvement. Colonial administrative concern about the living conditions in kampongs was mostly genuine, but paternalistic and based on imported European notions of order and cleanliness. Kampong improvement did elicit mixed feelings among the target groups and caused as many problems as it solved. The application of overly strict building regulations hampered the self-help construction of affordable houses. Buildings that transgressed the building line were demolished. Increased rents after upgrading streets and drains drove out the lowest income persons. Keywords: colonial Indonesia; dwellers; Kampong; municipal administrators


Biometrics-based authentication exhibits unique advantages in preventing stolen, lost, or forgotten identification, and therefore is being increasingly used on handheld and mobile devices for access control and electronic transactions. Aimed at developing a new method to deal with the practical issue of uncontrolled noise conditions in mobile computing, this paper applies the principle of Design of Experiment for systematic performance evaluation of biometric techniques, and proposes an authentication system capable of dynamically selecting combinations of normalization and fusion methods for optimal performance in different working environments. Experiment results are also included in the paper with analysis and discussions.


Abstract. In this paper, synchronization of a fractional-order complex system is studied. Based on the stability theory of fractional-order systems, the scheme of synchronization for the fractional-order complex system is proposed. the synchronization for the system is realized by designing appropriate controllers. Numerical simulations are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.


In this paper we obtain a theorem on the degree of approximation of functions belonging to a certain weighted class, using any Hausdorff method with mass function possessing a derivative. This result is a substantial generalization of the theorem of Lal [2].


This paper means an analysis of the characteristics of Heathcliff, the protagonist of Emile Bronte's Wuthering Heights with special focus on those that go well matched with the concept of a Byronic hero despite the fact that the traditional heroic virtues are all absent in him. The fact that he is neither good nor bad utterly and that his passions prove him both superior and inferior to common man making him equally pitiable and despicable have made this exploration quite interesting and challenging.


In teaching practice of higher vocational education, "Group Cooperative Learning" pattern has various problems. "Group Cooperative Learning" pattern through "pass on experience" is proposed, in order to get rid of inefficient and onesided operation and further develop teaching reform. The feasibility of "pass on experience" is analyzed and inspected through experiments. The result indicates the pattern promotes students' learning effects and has worked in cultivation of teamwork and communication with people. The effects are better with increasing practice. Therefore, the pattern has big


The decline of the central government brought about the rise of local powers such as Xiang Clique,Huai Clique,and Beiyang Clique during the later Qing Dynasty.The central government lost its political authority,ruling ability,and financial power.The military power and the diplomatic power of the central government were transferred into the local government.The evolution of the relationship between the central and local government during the later Qing Dynasty proved that balance and coordination are the best choices of dealing with the relationship between the central and local government.


Electronic excitation in a semiconductor induced by the collision of energetic atoms with the solid surface is investigated theoretically. The modeling has been performed for a one‐dimensional independent‐electron system where the solid is described by a chain of 10–20 atoms. The time evolution of the nuclei (i.e., colliding atom and chain atoms) has been described by classical mechanics while quantum mechanical description has been used for the electronic dynamics. The two systems (i.e., the atoms and the electron) were coupled to each other and the equations of motion were solved self‐consistently. Energy dissipation from the chain to the rest of the solid was included via the GLE approach. This study establishes the relationship between the probability of electron–hole formation and various parameters of the system such as collider translational energy, magnitude of the band gap, and existence of impurities in the solid. In addition, two excitation mechanisms were examined, electronic excitation due to...


Introduction D issolution results for some phannaceutic-al dosage fonns may be affected by dissolved air in the djssolution medium. This effect can be elimi nated by effective deaeratioll of the dissolution mediu m. Parameters chosen to judge the effectiveness of deaeration have typica ll y been dissolved oxygen content and results from ca~brator tablets. A dis· solution calibratio n method known to be sensitive to deaeration , the NCDA #2 tablet method, (5) was chosen to determi ne efficacy of deaeration. The USP ca librator tablet method was not chosen because of known insensitivity to deaeration using prednisone tablets at 50 rpm with Apparatus 2(6). Other parameters involved in the selection of a deaeration method arc case of use and expense. For the eva luation of the different deaeration techniques, the USP method was chosen as the benchmark (2). The effec tiveness of the dearation techniques was eva luated by measuring the amount of dissolved oxygen in the deaerated disso lution media and eva luating the results from the dissolu tion of the NCDA #2 test performance tablets. Experimental I. A YSr model 5004 Dissolved Oxygen Meter was used to measure the (~Ived oxy· gen content of the deaerated disso lution media. The instrument was calibrated daily according to the manuFacrurer's directions. 2. The method and specifi·


We study the effect of hyperthermia (2-hr exposure at 42ўЄ¬і) and exogenous gibberellic acid (GA) (1⋅10-5 ¬®) on the amylolysis rate in 1and 4-day wheat seedlings. The response to GA depends on the seedling age, so that an increase in the amylolitic process in grains was observed only for 1-day seedlings. The effect of GA on thermal exposure is observed only for 4-day growing wheat seedling. Hyperthermia does not affect the amylolysis rate in grains of both ages. Vegetative parts of 4-days seedlings are more sensitive to GA and hyperthermia in comparison with grains.


A catalogue of dark nebulae and globules was compiled from a study of the ESO-B and SRC-J sky atlas for galactic longitudes 230 deg 1 360 deg. This catalogue closes the great southern gap open since the work of Lynds (1962). Listed were 489 dark nebulae and 311 globules. The catalogue contains positions, sizes, opacities, and the van den Bergh classification on the filamentary morphology of dark clouds. Statistics are presented concerning the northern and southern distributions and sizes of the nebulae.


Microbes, specifically microbes found in mixed populations in guts, soil, feces, and other tissues, have been the object of much research for commensal relationships for decades. Many of these microbes are ubiquitous across many species or biomes but are present very in low quantities due to the inherent challenges of microorganism survival in environmental conditions. While, in some cases, only present in low quantity, soil microorganisms are a critical component of our ecosystem. Soil microbiome studies aim to characterize the microbial repertoire and to correlate the microbial population with soil and ecological functions. Given the time involved and complexity of culture‐based enrichments, along with the inability to grow some species in culture, many modern studies involve direct cell lysis and DNA recovery from soil followed by PCR or genetic sequencing for target enrichment, detection, and analysis. In order to evaluate the organisms, present in such low quantities, methods must be developed to lyse all organisms present in soil of various sizes and toughness'. In this study we evaluate the lysis and recovery of a microbiological standard using commercially available kits and genetic sequencing to show an ideal bead milling matrix for microbiota in soil.


Fractional anisotropy (FA), a very widely used measure of fiber integrity based on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), is a problematic concept as it is influenced by several quantities including the number of dominant fiber directions within each voxel, each fiber's anisotropy, and partial volume effects from neighboring gray matter. High-angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) can resolve more complex diffusion geometries than standard DTI, including fibers crossing or mixing. The tensor distribution function (TDF) can be used to reconstruct multiple underlying fibers per voxel, representing the diffusion profile as a probabilistic mixture of tensors. Here we found that DTI-derived mean diffusivity (MD) correlates well with actual individual fiber MD, but DTI-derived FA correlates poorly with actual individual fiber anisotropy, and may be sub-optimal when used to detect disease processes that affect myelination. Analysis of the TDFs revealed that almost 40% of voxels in the white matter had more than one dominant fiber present. To more accurately assess fiber integrity in these cases, we here propose the differential diffusivity (DD), which measures the average anisotropy based on all dominant directions in each voxel.


We have previously reported on analyses of the floral fragrances of a number of species of orchids (Hills el al. 1968, 1972; Murrell et al. 1981; Williams et al. 1981). In this paper we report the results of our analyses of the floral fragrances of seven species in six genera of neotropical orchids. All of the species reported here are pollinated by male euglossine bees, or are confidently expected to be pollinated by male euglossine bees. There are several published observations of pollinators of several species in the genera we studied (see Williams 1982 for a list of euglossine-pollinated orchids and their pollinators, and Table 1 in this paper). The identifications of the floral fragrance components reported here are based on a comparison of relative retention times, co-injection of known with unknown compounds, and field bioassays. Additional techniques were previously described (Williams 1981). We have shown that this is a good method of verifying the identity of orchid floral fragrance compounds, especially of those orchids that are pollinated by male euglossine bees (Hills et al. 1972; Williams and Dodson 1972; Dodson et al. 1968; Dodson 1970, 1975). We hope to confirm these identifications by using combined capillary gas chromatography /mass spectrometry in the near future as these species come into flower in our greenhouse.


Eczema herpeticum, a form of Kaposi's varicelliform eruption (KVE), is a known complication of atopic dermatitis. 1,2 It is usually a primary herpes simplex infection of the skin. Because of aberrant immunologic mechanisms and chronic skin changes, this infection may become disseminated and involve a large portion of skin and can be fatal. 3 In many normal adults, herpes labialis is a recurrent problem that is rarely serious. When a patient with recurrent herpes simplex has a child with atopic dermatitis, appropriate isolation measures during an attack are necessary to prevent the development of disseminated cutaneous herpes infection. Although viral shedding can occur during asymptomatic intervals, isolation is of more importance during an attack because of greater numbers of virions. 4 I describe a family in which a father's mild herpes labialis resulted in a minor epidemic, including a life-threatening episode of eczema herpeticum in an infant with atopic dermatitis.


Education is the process of changing attitudes and behavior of a person or group of people in an effort to mature human beings through teaching and training efforts. Learning mathematics at this time due to covid-19, learning is very inefficient and cannot meet face-to-face between teachers, students and friends. Therefore, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, students are asked to study at home using e-learning that utilizes social media. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach with the research subject of the principal, the head of the curriculum, class teachers and fourth grade students. Data collection methods used are observation, interviews and documentation. The data analysis used is the Miles and Huberman model with data reduction techniques, data presentation and conclusion drawing. The results of the research regarding the implementation of e-learning mathematics for class IV MI-Azhar students are the implementation of learning that is carried out without direct face-to-face between teachers and students as well as accessing the internet network and using social media to exchange information and interactions. Among them is by using the WhatsApp application, Google Meet and YouTube.


BACKGROUND: Palatal rugae have unique properties in each individual, which can be applied in the studies on dental forensics. OBJECTIVE: To measure the parameters of palatal rugae in Uygur populations, so as to provide a new idea for its recognition of dental forensics. METHODS: Palate rugae models from 268 Uygur adults aged 19‐25 years were collected. The palatal rugae pattern code units (PRPCU) were obtained according to the morphological parameters of palatal rugae such as shape, length and position distribution, and then the PRPCU was converted into a two‐dimensional code using online barcode generator to analyze the specificity of palate rugae. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The palate rugae in 268 palatal rugae models were different, and the most commonly seen shape was straight (2.76±1.69), followed by curve (1.74±1.35), wavy (1.06±0.90) and circular (0.09±0.351). The most common length classification was the primary rugae (6.17±1.75), followed by secondary rugae (0.70±0.97), and fragmentary rugae (0.33±0.682). The distribution of palatal rugae shape and length was significantly different among Uygur individuals (P < 0.001). Only the straight shape showed significant difference between male and female in Uygur populations (P < 0.05). That is to say, different individuals possess different palate rugae, so a digital record of palatal rugae can be used for personal identification.


DOI: 10.2174/1573399812666160629094031 Abstract: Introduction: Beta-cell replacement by human islets or whole pancreas offers a life-saving therapeutic remedy for patients suffering from type 1 diabetes, providing considerable advantages with respect to diminishing total daily insulin dose and lowering frequencies of debilitating hypoglycemic reactions as well as preventing chronic microand macrovascular complications. Although remarkable progress has been made in this area, several hurdles remain, hampering its wide-spread applicability. Such hurdles include a limiting supply of islets, the necessity of several donors to achieve enough islet mass for insulin independence, and graft failure because of metabolic pressure, continued autoimmunity, alloimmunity, high concentrations of immunosuppressive drugs as well as oxidative stress caused by hypoxia or inflammation. On the other hand, the islet transplant procedure provides the possibility to undertake multiple practical and beneficial manipulations of the beta cells before engraftment with the intention to reach improved graft survival results.


In this article we first point out that the different conceptualisations of Fair Trade, which are sometimes analytically contradictory, actually form a coordinated set. Understanding the Fair Trade project is impossible without taking these interlinked conceptualisations into consideration. Second, this set basically forms a mechanism of structural, institutional and moral reforms that guide actions. In this way Fair Trade sets out to produce less injustice than is usually the case with the structures and institutions that govern conventional trade. Nevertheless, it does not try to define what a just society is or even to perfectly define 'fair trade'. This implies the adoption of a comparative justice angle. It is precisely by linking comparative individual situations with the structures that produce these situations that relative justice can find its strength and purpose.


With the development of interventional radiology and radiosurgery, the number of open surgery cases has decreased. Young neurosurgeons need to gain experience with fewer cases, so effective off-the-job training is important. We created a practice model for setting up the head fixation and retractor systems and for microscopic training. In addition, as the equipment can be placed in the medical office, easy access for practice anytime is possible. Our training method includes fixing the skull model to the Mayfield frame for each approach, setting the Budde halo ring, setting up the retractor, using the scissors, performing the blading technique, performing deep anastomosis, and so on. With continuous practice in an environment simulating various surgical fields, young neurosurgeons can eventually perform anterior circulation clipping and superficial temporal artery-to-middle cerebral artery bypass for arteriosclerotic disease and moyamoya disease. We believe that our training method is useful especially for young neurosurgeons aiming to establish steady skills for performing microsurgical techniques.


We present cross sections for the excitation of the two lowest (b3Σu+ and a3Σg+) triplet states of molecular hydrogen by electron impact for incident electron energies ≤ 20 eV. The cross sections are calculated using the distorted-wave approximation with the inelastic transition density obtained in the random-phase approximation. An efficient expansion technique using Gaussian basis functions allows us to avoid numerical integrations and to treat accurately the noncentral nature of the scattering process with full allowance for electron exchange. The sum of the two triplet cross sections is found to be in good agreement with the experimental cross section for dissociation of H2 into 2H.

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Erratum: T. N. Rescigno, C. W. McCurdy, V. McKoy, and C. F. Bender, Erratum: Low-energy electron-impact excitation of the hydrogen molecule, Phys. Rev. A 15, 2569 (1977).


Rooting of terminal cuttings of cinn amon ( Cinnamomum verum ) with indole butyric acid 2000 ppm was standardi zed. Nine elite lines of cinn amon, superior in their yield and quantity were studied for variability in their rooting capacity. Cinnamon line SL-5 was the best with high rooting percentage and good development of primary and secondary roots.


This paper investigates the actual use of the comma in texts of Swiss middle-school students with Italian as their first language. Based on recent punctuation studies about the Italian language, we first distinguish between a syntactic and a textual use of the comma. The analysis of 60 student papers then reveals that the learner's main punctuation problems are not due to syntactic reasons but to textual reasons: the students struggle with organizing and hierarchizing their thoughts within the text.


Early death after cancer surgery is higher in low- and middle-income settings, yet the impact of hospital characteristics on early postoperative outcomes following cancer surgery worldwide are unknown.

 A mixed-methods analysis was performed using data from the GlobalSurg 3 study, a multicentre, international prospective cohort study of patients who underwent surgery for breast, gastric or colorectal cancer. The primary outcomes were 30-day mortality and major complication rates. Hierarchical clustering identified distinct hospital characteristics to create a facility capacity framework. Adjusted outcomes were determined after accounting for patient characteristics and country-income group.

 Hospital-level data were available for 9685 patients across 238 hospitals. The facility capacity framework consisted of seven distinct hospital resources and processes: presence of CT scan, postoperative recovery area, critical care facilities, opioid analgesia availability, oncologist, pathology and radiotherapy services. While complication rates were similar across hospitals with varying facility capacities, hospitals with five or less capacities (116 hospitals, 2251 patients) had increased mortality (aOR 1.67, 95% CI 1.13-2.48; P = 0.010). After adjustment for case-mix and country income group, patients undergoing surgery for gastric and colorectal cancer in hospitals with reduced capacities had higher mortality (6.2 vs. 4.0%; P < 0.001), predominantly explained by limited capacity to rescue following the development of major complications (61.3 vs. 72.1%; P < 0.001).

 Hospitals with certain system capacities achieve better outcomes following cancer surgery, independent of country-income group. For cancers amenable to surgical treatment, national cancer care plans should include both surgical capacity building and concurrent hospital facility development to maximise reductions in cancer-associated mortality.


Land banking is a well established land management tool that has been used to tackle a variety of issues, most typically, land fragmentation. In 2007, an innovative approach to land banking was released in Galicia, northern Spain. Drawing from a monitoring project conducted on this initiative, this paper offers a description of the characteristics of the Galician Land Bank by grounding it in its specific social milieu. Articulating policy with context allows us to analyze how land banking simultaneously answers and is being challenged by its social conditions. Results reveal how land banking the Galician way is, to some degree, a creative answer to its contextual circumstances but that further steps might be taken to reinforce this dialogue. These include envisioning agriculture as a more integrated and multipurpose activity together with the need to incorporate more participatory approaches to mobilize stakeholders.


The Shodhana Chikitsa, otherwise popularly known as Panchakarma Chikitsa, has gained much momentum in the past decades. Unfortunately, in spite of its evident therapeutic benefits the changes they stimulate when administered into the human body to bring about the disease cure is hitherto unexplored by biomedical principles. Deeper analysis of the therapeutic action guides to a hypothesis relating to Stress coping mechanism of the body's physiology. Probably, it may be said, these therapies exhibit their action by stimulating a kind of eustress into the body physiology driving into force the body's controlling and working systems to work in favour of re-establishing the lost homeostasis, i.e, the state of health. The article specifically highlights Snehapaana in the light of metabolic eustress, Swedana as thermal eustress and other purification processes (Vamana, Virechana and Vasti) as eustress by fluid imbalance. Whenever Sodhana Chikitsa produces Atiyoga, the condition can be termed as medically alarming type of stress and can't be considered as therapeutics.


Processed food industry is very successful industry with in word and it is growing day by day. Even though it is observed that there is a high consumption of processed food items, there are evidences that methods of food processing can harm the notoriousness of food. s will be damaged the nutritious value of the fresh foods. Therefore, this study is conducted to identify the health oriented attitudes of consumers in making purchasing decision in processed food industry. The population in concern is the people in western province out of which 150 responders were selected. The mean median, mode, correlation such as descriptive statistical methods were used in analyzing the gathered data using SPSS as the analytical tool. Results confirm that health consciousness, health information orientations, health oriented beliefs and orientations toward healthy activities have an effect on the purchasing decision of processed foods industry in Sri Lanka.


Jayeshbhai Jordaar directed by Thakkar (2022) is a worthy intervention around a nebulous but significant concern of female feticide and female infanticide in India. It becomes important as it highlights the nuances of intersectionality within what can be called a global narrative on women's issues. The exclusivity of sex-selective feticide and infanticide in India makes it evident to introduce separate critical mediations for each narrative. The overturning of the landmark judgment of the 1973 Roe vs Wade case by the US Supreme Court in June 2022 has once again ignited the abortion debate and the question around reproductive rights visa-vis women's rights globally. According to The Week (2022), 24 countries globally reject abortion even if it involves a risk to a woman's life or health. Like several women's issues, even abortion has a customized narrative available. While in most parts of the world, the issue of abortion revolves around reproductive justice and the exercising of a woman's bodily agency. In the context of India, the situation became complicated with the emergence of sex-selective abortion (or the practice of terminating a pregnancy based upon the predicted sex of the infant). Before 1971, abortion was illegal in India but with the introduction of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act 1971 and the MTP Amendment Act 2021, women found a newer space to negotiate within the discourse of pregnancy and childbirth. But this space got compromised with the introduction of sex determination of the fetus and selective abortion which compelled the government to introduce the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act 1994, and its amendment in 2003 (where the ultrasound technology was brought into consideration) to reduce coerced abortions and eventually eliminate the chances of arriving at a skewed gender ratio in the future. Jayeshbhai Jordaar exploits the lacuna and impotence of this legal scope in India as sex-selective abortion still happens. Jayeshbhai Jordaar is set in the fictional land of Pravingadh (Gujarat, India) which can be interpreted as a symptomatic reflection of most of the semi-urban Indian cities. The film focuses on the struggles of Jayesh Patel (played by Ranveer Singh) and his wife Mudra Patel (played by Shalini Pandey) against the age-old tradition of son


TDV10 upright type vacuum circuit breaker is mainly used for electric locomotive running in the process of main circuit disconnection and connection, and also applied in the overload protection and short circuit protection.And TDV10 type operating mechanism is pneumatic, pneumatic structure because of its complex structure, cylinder work noise, air leakage risk, now a electromagnetic operating mechanism is designed to replace the pneumatic institution.TDV10 type circuit breaker through analysis the principle and performance parameters of the comparison, put forward the feasibility in theory, and gives the basic design of the electromagnetic mechanism and external circuit.Using Ansoft software design agency for static and dynamic simulation analysis of magnetic field. Through the analysis and comparison of the curve of each parameter, verify the feasibility of the design.


Insolvency is taught at TPS Advanced Finance, and is also relevant to TPE case studies, where a company is, or may become insolvent. Read our back to basics on corporate insolvency for a great summary on types of voluntary liquidation and more.


This article is procuring a dialogue between comparative method in general and Regional Studies, to elaborate a broader perspective on Comparative Regional Studies. In consequence, its focus is not on regionalization as a pure and simple political-administrative zoning, or on the relative homogenization of space induced through globalizing processes, but it refers basically to the forms and types of activities that are performed by social agents, involving contributions from different comparative approaches developed by political scientists, sociologists, historians and geographers. In this context, a comparative analysis on the regional character of space is proposed by Rogerio Haesbaert (2010), which discusses the specific character of the combination of distinct events that promote spatial differentiation through criteria of cohesion/articulation or discontinuity.


In this study, we show that colour centres can be produced by irradiating calcium oxide with soft X-rays from a synchrotron radiation source. Using the X-ray excited optical luminescence (XEOL) technique, two colour centres, F-centre, and F+-centre can be identified. These colour centres emit photons at characteristic wavelengths. In addition, by performing time-resolved XEOL (TRXEOL), we are able to reveal timing and decay characteristics of the colour centres. We also present X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectra collected across oxygen K-edge, calcium L3,2-edge, and calcium K-edge. Experimental results are compared with density functional theory (DFT) calculations.Key words: calcium oxide, colour centre, synchrotron, X-ray excited optical luminescence, X-ray absorption near-edge structure.


The Bologna Metro Line 1 is 7 km long with 12 stations that crosses the entire city. The chapter discusses how the system adopted is a light rail tramway that operates with 34-m long, single-unit vehicles. The line is designed to be completely underground and its construction involves the use of all the available tunneling technologies: cut and cover; tunnel boring machines (TBM) and New Austrian tunneling method (NATM). The portion of the vertical alignment in the city center is very deep. In the planned network, the metro line represents one of the most complex works because of its length, depth, alignment, and difficulties in constructing the civil works. The main constraints are the presence of the old-built city center with historical monuments and the possibility of the archeological findings, entailing the metro line to be completely underground.


In this paper, Zn1−xMgxS thin films were co-sputtered on glass substrates using ZnS and MgS binary target materials under various applied RF power. The compositional ratio of Zn1−xMgxS films was varied by changing the RF power at an elevated temperature of 200 °C. The structural and optical properties were studied in detail. The structural analysis shows that the co-sputtered Zn1−xMgxS thin films have a cubic phase with preferred orientation along the (111) plane. The lattice constant and ionicity suggest the presence of a zincblende structure in Zn1−xMgxS thin films. Zn1−xMgxS thin films have transmittance over 76%. The extrapolation of optical characteristics indicates that direct bandgaps, ranging from 4.39 to 3.25 eV, have been achieved for the grown Zn1−xMgxS films, which are desirable for buffer or window layers of thin film photovoltaics.


We aimed to investigate the effects of epoxygenases on electrical field stimulation (EFS)‐mediated nitric oxide (NO)‐dependent and NO‐independent nonadrenergic noncholinergic (NANC) relaxations in isolated rabbit corpus cavernosum. The tissues of 20 male adult albino rabbits (2.5–3 kg) were suspended in organ baths containing aerated Krebs solution, and isometric contractions were recorded. EFS‐mediated NANC relaxations were obtained on phenylephrin (3 × 10−5 M)‐contracted tissues in the presence of guanethidine (10−6 M) and atropine (10−6 M). Miconazole (10−9–10−4 M), 17‐octadecynoic acid (ODYA) (10−10–10−5 M), 14,15‐epoxyeicosatrienoic acid (EET) (10−11–10−8 M), 11,12‐EET (10−12–3 × 10−8 M) and 20‐hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (HETE) (10−11–3 × 10−8 M) were added cumulatively (n = 5–7 for each set of experiments). For NO‐independent relaxations, Nω‐nitro‐l‐arginine methyl ester (l‐NAME) (10−4 M) was added before a group of experiments. Depending on the concentration, miconazole, 17‐ODYA, 14,15‐EET, 11,12‐EET, and 20‐HETE significantly enhanced both NO‐dependent and NO‐independent EFS‐mediated relaxations (p < 0.05). Epoxygenases showed similar effect on NO‐dependent and NO‐independent relaxant responses except 20‐HETE which caused significantly more enhanced relaxation on NO‐dependent responses (p < 0.05). No drug caused a significant relaxation response on tissues contracted with phenylephrine. Epoxygenases contribute to EFS‐mediated NO‐dependent and NO‐independent NANC relaxations by presynaptic mechanisms, offering a new treatment alternative for erectile dysfunction which needs to be explored in further in vivo, molecular and clinical studies.


Motivation: Agency theory examines relations between entities as contract relations, like land owner and tenant. Polish farmland market and its 'rules of the game' are still changing after political transformation. Decisions and actions presented by both parts of the lease contract seems to be easier to understand, explain and predict with the research instrumentality of new institutional economy, especially agency theory. Agency relationship is the issue studied by the economists many times, but there is a need to complete it with examples, researches and practical implications. Aim: the determination of the significance of the lease in Polish agriculture with the use of agency theory. Results: Use of the analytical apparatus of agency theory allowed for the indication of critical elements in the lessee/ lessor relation. One of the most important elements of contract specification is the remuneration transferred as part of the relation. Payments in the market of leasing deriving from the Agricultural Property Agency are regulated by the institution of the lease fee. On the other hand, in the case of leases between neighbours, there are both financial instruments (e.g. settlement of tax, resignation from land subsidies for the benefit of the land owner, rent) and non-financial ones (e.g. equivalent in agricultural products, services performed with mechanical equipment, household care). The results of the study have shown that financial forms are the most popular form of payment; most indications referred to resignation from land subsidies (59.6%).


The effect of high tensile strain and low dimensionality on the magnetic and electronic properties of CaMnO$_3$ ultrathin films, epitaxially grown on SrTiO$_3$ substrates, are experimentally studied and theoretically analyzed. By means of ab initio calculations, we find that, both, the high strain produced by the substrate and the presence of the free surface contribute to the stabilization of an in-plane ferromagnetic coupling, giving rise to a non-zero net magnetic moment in the ultrathin films. Coupled with this change in the magnetic order we find an insulator-metal transition triggered by the quantum confinement and the tensile epitaxial strain. Accordingly, our magnetic measurements in 3nm ultrathin films show a ferromagnetic hysteresis loop, absent in the bulk compound due to its G-type antiferromagnetic structure.


When programming,the cutter is regarded as a ideal penetrating point,its movement is also regarded as the trace of program movement.But in fact,there is an offset between actual cutting point and ideal penetrating point.So it causes over cutting or lacking of cutting.This paper is mainly on how to remove inaccuracy by compensating the corner radius.


Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the rate of delivery within the jurisdiction of local governments in Korea.Methods: Information regarding the population, number of women of childbearing age, and number of births was extracted from the Korean Statistics Information Service, National Health Insurance Service, and health map of the National Medical Center. We defined the rate of delivery within the jurisdiction of the local government as the ratio of the number of deliveries delivered by maternity facilities in the region to the total number of deliveries of pregnant women living in the region.Results: The average nationwide delivery rate in the jurisdiction of local governments was 48.0%. The Si area was the highest at 54.9%, and the Gun area was the lowest at 22.1%. Compared to 2014, the national average delivery rate in the jurisdiction decreased by 4.3%; however, the gun area increased by 4.9%. The geographic maternity service area was 122 in 2014; however, this number decreased to 104 in 2020.Conclusion: The national average rate of delivery in the jurisdiction of local governments was 48.0%, and the rate decreased between 2014 and 2020.


The PHEV(Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) can be seen as a new kind of power load,but huge amounts of PHEV may cause such problems as power loss and voltage drop.Two main charging modes of the PHEV,uncoordinated mode and coordinated mode,are discussed in the paper and a quadratic programming strategy is presented based on minimizing power loss to achieve the optimization charging of PHEV.Finally,an IEEE 14-node example is given to verify the feasibility and practicality of the method proposed.


Objective To investigate the change of plasma adiponectin and hemorrheology influence on macroangiopathy in type 2 diabetes mellitus.Method 100 cases of type 2 diabetes including 50 with macroangiopathy,50 without macroangiopathy and 50 healthy objects were observed palsma adidonech.Hemorrheology and fasting serum glucose,insulin were determined.The both type adiponectin sensitivity index(IAI) were calculated in all objects.Results The results showed that the viscosity in 2 diabetes groups were significantly higher than that of healthy objects and the insulin sensitivity index were significantly lower than that of healthy objects(P0.01).Multiple stepwise regression analysis showed that type 2 diabetes patients with macroangiopathy was correlated positively with the duration of diabetes,the value of blood sugar and the viscosity and correlated negatively with insulin sensitivity index.Conclusion These results suggest that type 2 diabetes with macroangiopathy has persistent elevated levels of blood sugar and viscosity.Hypoadiponectinemia may play an important role in the development of T2DM and T2DM with macroangiopathy.


The mechanisms involved in cold‐induced vasodilatation are unclear. Here, we have investigated an involvement of the cold‐sensitive channel TRPA1, known to be expressed in a subset of sensory neurons. Using laser Doppler flowmetry, peripheral blood flow was measured following cold exposure in the plantar skin in the anaesthetised mice before (5 min:baseline) and after local cold exposure of the hindpaw (30 min). This response consisted of a decrease in blood flow, followed by an increase in WT mice. This response was substantially reduced in TRPA1 KO as compared to WT mice (245.1 ± 39.6 vs 86.1 ± 11.0, 103 flux units, measured as area under the response curve, n=6, p<0.01) and antagonised by the TRPA1 antagonist HC030031 (100mg/kg, i.p., n=5). The cold‐induced response was also shown to be significantly reduced in WT mice pre‐treated with the calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP) receptor antagonist, CGRP8–37 and the neurokinin‐1 receptor antagonist SR140333, suggesting a prominent role of neuropeptides in this response. These results suggest the major involvement of TRPA1 containing sensory nerves in local cold‐induced vascular responses.


A new topology of bipolar low noise amplifier (LNA) for RF applications, named base coupled differential (BCD), is presented. The proposed approach is compared by simulation against most classical topologies. The BCD configuration has the key advantage to join an integrated matching on a single‐ended input with a differential output. This is done by using down‐bond wiring, so that no integrated inductors are needed. The main advantages of this new topology are a drastic area reduction and an increased linearity range (or a reduced biasing current with the same linearity) together with a noise figure (NF) and voltage supply reduction. Particularly, the BCD LNA presented in this paper has been designed for 2.44GHz frequency operation. It is characterized by a NF of 1.93dB, a voltage gain (Av) of 19.5dB, an input impedance of 50Ωa third Input‐referred Intercept Point (IIP3) of ‐7.25dBm and a dissipated power (PD) equal to 19mW. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Fabrication of defect free co-sintered electrolytes with thickness between 12 μm and 40μm has been demonstrated on planar and tubular cells produced via a spray coating process. Leak testing using a helium leak method showed low diffusional leak rates for cells using optimized spray parameters. The electrolytes were characterized using scanning electron microscopy to qualitatively assess pin holes. Average open circuit voltages (OCVs) of 1080 mV were obtained on tubular cells with spray-coated electrolytes using 3% humidified hydrogen as the fuel. This paper presents spray coating as a viable, cost effective method for electrolyte application in co-fired, anode supported SOFCs.Copyright © 2008 by ASME and CoorsTek


book's more general appeal, diacriticals have been omitted.) Hindu art fills a gap, drawing together Hinduism and art in a way no other text does. Blurton's first-hand experience of rural and urban India allows him to speak more as a participant in this vibrant culture than as a distant observer. The book was published in part to celebrate the opening of the renovated Indian gallery. It also informs an exhibition of ' Hindu art ' arranged by Blurton at the British Museum, 5 November 1993-10 April 1994.


On 16 May 2008, the Ministry of the Interior appointed Pentti Arajärvi as rapporteur for the project on employment obstacles and low-wage traps faced by immigrants. The reason for setting up the project was the unemployment rate for foreign nationals, which is approximately three times as high as the average for the majority population in Finland. Immigrants often have inadequate basic skills which prevent them from finding employment; they have limited language skills; and in many cases the competence acquired abroad is not recognised in the host country. The proposals in the report aim at strengthening immigrants' commitment to society and employment. The proposals also examine immigrants' means of support from the perspective of inactivity traps. An overall aim is to combine the employment process into one package containing the provision of basic information on Finnish society and culture, courses in Finnish or Swedish, competence needed in working life, and employment. The report focuses on certain aspects that employers should consider when hiring immigrants. Account is also taken of the immigrant's family and immigrant communities. According to the proposals, the aim is to widen the scope of application of integration plans and to make an integration plan every immigrant's right. The aim is also to provide immigrants with better access to advice and guidance, to secure sufficient resources for the authorities, to clarify the responsibilities resting with different authorities, to make certain measures binding on the authorities, and to establish a monitoring system and create indicators for development. The priorities of the development proposals are to provide immigrants with training and language teaching in Finnish or Swedish needed in working life, to help them achieve professional competence and to strengthen evaluation. The priorities also include expediting and improving the drawing up and effectiveness of integration plans. It is recommended that employers hiring immigrants ensure that immigrants are provided with an adequate level of guidance on the practices of working life. It is also recommended that supervisors, shop stewards and work communities be trained to meet other cultures and that staff training be utilised to integrate immigrants. It is proposed that the status of immigrant children be promoted by improving their skills in Finnish or Swedish. The aim is also to develop their native language skills, ensure their access to education and improve the knowledge of teachers and personnel responsible for pupil care and welfare. It is proposed that immigrants' organisational activities be supported. This can be achieved by promoting peer support, by encouraging immigrants to participate in common organisational activities, in particular in activities of employee organisations, and by providing them with opportunities to participate in social activities.


Abstract The solutions of the reaction-diffusion system are given by method of collocation based on the exponential B-splines. Thus the reaction-diffusion systemturns into an iterative banded algebraic matrix equation. Solution of the matrix equation is carried out byway of Thomas algorithm. The present methods test on both linear and nonlinear problems. The results are documented to compare with some earlier studies by use of L∞ and relative error norm for problems respectively.


The deadly force needed to murder a woman is far greater than the deadly force needed to murder a preborn baby, for the force needed to murder a preborn baby is merely thesize of a pill - or a matchstick. We call the person who uses deadly force on a woman a murderer. Yet we call the people who use deadly force on preborn babies Planned Parenthood, abortionists, and even nurses. These people and these organizations seek out women and adolescent girls to hit on - to prey on - and never look back once they have struck.


[Rh(C 14 H 13 FeO 2 )(C 8 H 12 )], M r =480.2, triclinic, P1, a=11.658 (1), b=13.001 (1), c=15.251 (2) A, α=70.621 (8), β=68.538 (8), γ=66.049 (7) o , V=1919.8 (3) A 3 , Z=4, D m =1.63, D x =1.66 g cm -3 , λ(Mo Kα)=0.71073 A, μ=16.15 cm -1 , T=295 K, F(000)=976, final R=0.0419 for 8290 observed reflections. Two crystallographically independent molecules A and B are present in the unit cell. Both molecules have an approximately square-planar configuration about the Rh atom, but only the cyclopentadienyl (Cp) rings of B approach an eclipsed conformation


Identification of humans is usually performed by various scientific means, but comparisons of fingerprints, DNA profiles, and dental characteristics are the only accepted stand-alone forms of identification. Comparative dental identification is useful in the case of a heavily decomposed body because the fingerprint no longer exists and DNA profiling takes time. In comparative dental identification, collection of antemortem dental data is crucial because the identification cannot be performed with postmortem data alone. In most cases of identification of a decomposed or skeletonized body, the possible candidate for identification cannot be determined and collection of antemortem data is impossible. If there are no antemortem records, information that is helpful in identification is provided by forensic odontological and anthropological examinations. The postmortem examination process of estimating biological profiles such as age, sex, and stature is called postmortem profiling. With the postmortem profiling process, the search range of missing persons can be narrowed to determine a possible candidate for identification and collect antemortem data. With advances in technologies for analyzing DNA profiles,


The authors of the article outline that in modern linguistics, the role of human character in language and speech is studied, new concepts such as the conceptual picture of the world, language portrait, speech portrait, the ratio of language and speech, etc. are defined. The relevance of the article is presented in the linguistic description of the speeches by politicians of the Republican party in connection with the increased international interest in political life. The language features of speeches by American politicians are reviewed. The goal-directed factor of the research is to determine the lexical features of political speeches that characterize representatives of the Republican party as well-known political figures. Methods. Accordingly, the description of the lexicon of politicians, which acts as a lexical analysis in this work, is the main method of research, which is inextricably linked with semantic analysis. The language base for the research is Englishlanguage publications, such as The Guardian, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. The results of the study are associated with the identification of words used in political speeches that show the attitude of Republicans to the needs and values of American society, special abbreviations, expressions related to political, military, and social spheres of activity. It is concluded that the lexical and semantic characteristics influence the formation of ideas about the communicative and personal qualities of politicians. Голованова И.С.a, Болотова Е.В.b Стерлитамакский филиал ФГБОУ ВО «Башкирский государственный университет», Стерлитамак, Российская Федерация. a ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2617-6816, e-mail: email@example.com b ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5092-8558, e-mail: email@example.com Для цитирования: Голованова И.С. Лексические средства языковой личности (на материале выступлений американских политиков) / И.С. Голованова, Е.В. Болотова // Развитие образования. – 2020. – No 3 (9). – С. 89-92. DOI:10.31483/r-75555. Irina S. Golovanovaa, Elena V. Bolotovab Sterlitamak Branch of FSBEI of HE "Bashkir State University", Sterlitamak, Russian Federation. a ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2617-6816, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com b ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5092-8558, e-mail: email@example.com


The systems consisting of two electrodes immersed in electrolyte, which generates the electric current under the influence of light, have received the name of photoelectrochemical cells. The possibility for creation of a photoelectrochemical cell with sea water, acting as the electrolyte, is experimentally shown. Titanium (Ti) was used as the anode with super-thin dielectric film grown on it. The least active metals - copper (Cu), platinum (Pt) and gold (Au) - are investigated as the cathode. At the expense of a potential difference between the electrodes executed from two metals different in activity (for example, Ti - Pt), the anion -chlorine ions forms a negative charge on the interface between the dielectric film and the electrolyte. Photoionization of chlorine ions on the surface of the dielectric film, which covers the anode (Ti), and quantum-mechanic tunneling of photoelectrons through this film cause an electric current in the external circuit of the cell. An electrochemical process on the cathode goes with producing of molecular hydrogen (H2)


In this study, Q3D and Simplorer software were adopted to design a single-phase power stack with equal output current on three paralleled IGBT modules in high power application, therefore, the derating of total current will be reduced, which can improve the current utilization and power density of power stack. The performance of the designed stack was verified using a double-pulse test (DPT). The circuit used in the DPT regarded the power stack output current as static current, which is a critical index to evaluate current sharing. The static current sharing among the IGBT modules was mainly dependent on the stray inductance of the DC busbar, IGBT modules, and phase output bar (POB), which is used to connect the IGBT modules to load, in the power stack. Cosimulation was performed with Simplorer and Q3D to determine the stray inductance of the IGBT modules, DC busbar and POB, and a constant-current-slope method was used to verify the inductance. Subsequently, design the shapes of the DC busbar and POB for attaining maximum ratio of imbalanced current (MRIC) of the three IGBT modules is within 3% under 200% (2400A) rated current. The cosimulation results indicated that the MRIC of the current paths in power stack were 0.8%. Finally, three IGBT modules and a gate driver were used to construct power stack with 1000V DC link. The experimental results obtained by DPT indicated that the MRIC was 0.9% under 200% rated current, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed stray inductance design method.


Biocompatibility is crucial for implants. In recent years, numerous researches were conducted aiming to modify titanium alloys, which are the most extensively used materials in orthopedic fields. The application of zirconia in the biomedical field has recently been explored. In this study, the biological ZrO2 coating was synthesized on titaniumalloy (Ti6Al4V) substrates by a duplex-treatment technique combining magnetron sputtering with micro-arc oxidation (MAO) in order to further improve the corrosion resistance and biocompatibility of Ti6Al4V alloys. The microstructures and phase constituents of the coatings were characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM) equipped with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), the surface wettability was evaluated by contact angle measurements. The results show that ZrO2 coatings are porous with pore sizes less than 2μm and consist predominantly of the tetragonal ZrO2 (t-ZrO2) and cubic ZrO2(c-ZrO2) phase. Electrochemical tests indicate that the corrosion rate of Ti6Al4V substrates is appreciably reduced after surface treatment in the phosphate buffer saline (PBS). In addition, significantly improved cell adhesion and growth were observed from the ZrO2/Zr surface. Therefore, the hybrid approach of magnetron sputtering and MAO provides a surface modification for Ti6Al4V to achieve acceptable corrosion resistance and biocompatibility.


The validity of self-reported information about familial Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), important for epidemiologic research and clinical practice, is undetermined. We attempted to validate 55 familial lymphomas previously reported by 48 subjects in a population-based case – control study of HL in women. Of 44 diagnoses (80%) reported by 40 (83%) recontacted subjects, we obtained medical documentation for 36 (82%). Twenty-nine (81%) were validated as lymphoma, with accuracy better for first-degree relatives and subjects with larger nuclear families and other family illness. Fourteen reports of familial HL were validated as lymphoma for 13 (93%) and as HL for nine (64%). Fifteen reports of familial NHL were validated as lymphoma for 10 (67%) and as NHL for 10 (67%). Thus, familial HL reported by HL patients and controls is highly likely to be lymphoma even in extended family members but less likely to be HL per se. Validity may vary with the subject's family size and medical history.


Let A be an abelian group, B a subgroup of A and let M be an A-module. We show that if A/B is finite, l-torsion and M is a Z[1/l]-module, then the natural maps H_n(A, M_B)--> H_n(A,M_A), H^n(A, M^A)--> H^n(A,M^B) are isomorphism. We use these isomorphisms to study the homology and cohomology of special linear groups.


The present invention is a road energy harvesting device, comprising a pressure member, the support member, the pulley, traction rope, the main support frame, a housing, a hydraulic cylinder, a return spring, the support frame, bearing frame, hydraulic accumulator, a hydraulic motor, a generator , the tank; the main support frame disposed within the housing; pressure member and the support member respectively located spaced inside the body of the support frame; support is T-shaped configuration, the middle groove, the pulley mounting groove, the pressure the upper body and the middle part T-shaped, the lower part of a recess, a pulley mounting groove; support frame with guide pulleys, a hydraulic cylinder fixed to the support frame, hydraulic cylinder and the pressure frame connector; bearing bracket has a guide wheel; a return spring sleeve in the piston rod; traction rope is fixed to the upper end of the support frame body, the other end by pulleys, guide pulleys, guide wheels fixed to the support frame; a hydraulic cylinder, a hydraulic accumulator, a hydraulic motor, in turn connected to a generator, the hydraulic motor and the tank a hydraulic cylinder connected. The apparatus is not susceptible to leakage of hydraulic oil.


Abstract : Dynamic derivatives are introduced by their mathematical definition derived from the general expansion of aerodynamic functions with respect to the relevant independent fluid motion variables. The common classification of dynamic derivatives is evaluated in accordance with the definition used in flight mechanical applications. This is shown with examples of nonstationary motion types creating dynamic derivative effects. This paper shows some basic aspects of a semiempirical method for calculating dynamic derivatives of missile configurations or military aircraft. Results of Dornier's DYNAM computer program 'DYNAM', are presented in comparison with experimental results of different test rigs. This program is based on the 'USAF Stability and Control Datcom' and is updated by semiempirical methods. With assumptions of attached-flow conditions, at small and moderate angles-of-attack the results are for subsonic speeds derived from potential theory and for supersonic speeds from linearized theory. There are also nonstationary panel methods which are useful for determination of dynamic derivativa of harmonic oscillating wings or wing-rudder systems.