The research aims to determine the discipline of students through scouting. This type of research is quantitative research with a correlational approach. The population used in this study were 81 Scouting students. Sampling using a saturated sampling technique. The instruments used in this study were scouting questionnaires. Data were analyzed using statistical analysis techniques, namely using the correlation test, significance test and test coefficient of determination. Based on the results of data processing it can be seen that student discipline is in a fairly good category with a percentage of 66.67% and scouting is in a fairly good category with a percentage of 66.67%. Based on the results of testing the hypothesis it is known that the discipline of students through scouting is 0.398. Based on the results of significant tests obtained t-test value of 3.853. Then based on the test results of the determinant coefficient there is the influence of the contribution among variables at 15.8%. This means that there is a scouting contribution of 15.8% towards student discipline, while 84.2% is influenced by other factors not examined in this study.


Injectable decellularized matrix hydrogels derived from either myocardium or small intestinal submucosa (pDMYO-gel, pDSIS-gel) have been successfully used for myocardial injury repair. However, the relationship between tissue-specific biological functions and protein composition in these two materials is not clear yet. In this study, the protein composition, mechanical properties, and morphology of these two hydrogels and their effects on the behavior of neonatal rat cardiomyocytes (NRCMs) and human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), are investigated. The results show that pDMYO-gel is more conducive to growth, adhesion, spreading, and maintenance of normal NRCM beating, due to its higher proportion of extracellular matrix (ECM) glycoproteins (49.55%) and some unique functional proteins such as annexin-6 (ANXA6), agrin (AGRN), cathepsin D (CTSD) and galectin-1 (LGALS1), whereas pDSIS-gel is more conducive to the proliferation of HUVECs. Animal study shows that pDMYO-gel has a better effect on improving cardiac function, inhibiting myocardial fibrosis and maintaining ventricular wall thickness in acute myocardial infarction models in vivo. Therefore, it is proposed that injectable pDMYO-gel hydrogel may be more suitable for functional recovery of myocardial injuries.


This study investigated one particular way that contextual materials can affect the processing of ambiguous product information in print ads. It was proposed that prior exposure to contextual factors can prime certain product attributes and subsequently increase the likelihood that consumers interpret product information in terms of these activated attributes, thereby affecting the evaluation of the adverised brand. Two experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis, and the results demonstrated that specific attributes relevant to evaluating the advertised brand varied in their acessibility as a function of the context and that these variations influenced brand attitudes. Copyright 1990 by the University of Chicago.


Collon MacCullough,a famous Australian authoress,who created another great work Song of Troy in 1998 after The Thorn Birds.If The Thorn Birds is a plaintive miserable love melody,Song of Troy is a solemn,stirring,and heartening heroic symphony.The author makes a new interpretation of the old mythology with modern military ideas,and she describes the war motive,war rules,war tactics and heroic characters with more rations and aesthetic skills.Then the Troy fight is full of modern military colors.The essay makes an interpretation of this novel from three aspects of military ideas.


Air conditioning and ventilation systems have become an integral part of our daily life. Their goal is to provide normal living conditions in residential and industrial buildings, industrial, transportation and individual destiny. The main tasks of air conditioning systems: ensure compliance with sanitary norms life support including a comprehensive process control of pressure, temperature, humidity and air cleanliness in the room. Maintenance parameters is achieved by ventilation air that passes pretreatment (heating, cooling, humidifying, dehumidifying). In this article the basic simple machining moist air such as: heating and cooling devices in the surface, steam humidification, water treatment. The study of these processes gives a first insight into the moist air conditioning and a chance to move to the calculations for the given parameters of the microclimate.


We show that the theta representations on certain covers of general linear groups support certain types of unique functionals. The proof involves two types of Fourier coefficients. The first are semi-Whittaker coefficients, which generalize coefficients introduced by Bump and Ginzburg for the double cover. The covers for which these coefficients vanish identically (resp. do not vanish for some choice of data) are determined in full. The second are the Fourier coefficients associated with general unipotent orbits. In particular, we determine the unipotent orbit attached, in the sense of Ginzburg, to the theta representations.


A cathode sputtering target comprising: - between 30 and 40 atomic% of a metal, - between 2 and 10 atomic% of nitrogen, - between 35 and 50 atomic% of oxygen, - the complement to 100% consisting of at minus one element selected from the group consisting of phosphorus (P), boron (B), silicon (Si), germanium (Ge), gallium (Ga), sulfur (S) and aluminum (Al) A method of making a thin layer from the target and an electrochemical device comprising the thin layer.


This study examines how spatial characteristics of the public libraries affect user's satisfaction through the survey. A principal component analysis is used to reduce many overlapping perceptional variables to latent factors that are used in subsequent models of ANOVA (analysis of variance). Four perceptional attributes that affect user's satisfaction are identified: amenity, spatial configuration of resting place, recognition of the building, and recognition of the interior space. The results of this study show that favorable perceptions of spatial configuration of library's resting place are independently associated with higher satisfaction. Other factors correlated with higher user's satisfaction are psychological accessibility to the building, easiness of entrance and core finding, simple circulation, and connectivity between indoor and outdoor spaces of the library. Findings suggest that designers should consider practical use of library space by the provision of good accessibility, connectivity between spaces, and well-organized resting places.


[Objective]To identify the influences of two delivery ways,bronchial arterial infusion and intravenously guttae,of paclitaxel liposome on the chemotherapy for advanced non small cell lung carcinoma.[Methods]Total 32 patients with advanced non small cell lung carcinoma were treated with paclitaxel liposome and nedaplatin through bronchial arterial infusion or peripheral vein instillation respectively.The ratios of treatment response and adverse reaction were compared.[Results]Compared with intravenously guttae groups,the overall remission rate on solid tumor increased obviously and incidence rate of bone marrow depression,neurotoxicity,arthralgia and myalgia decreased significantly.So the patients were more easily to tolerate.[Conclusion]For the patients with advanced non small cell lung carcinoma,the chemotherapy with paclitaxel liposome through bronchial arterial infusion would decrease drug toxic reactions and elevate clinic curative effects obviously.


The housing (2), at least one of the modules (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e, 7f, 7g, 7h, 7i), non-comprising the galvanic communication link 9, and at least one module, the converter (8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, 8e, 8f, 8g, 8h, and associated with 8i), the converter (8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, 8e, 8f, 8g, 8h, 8i) is with respect to said link (9) it is suitable for communication, and the converter (8a, 8b, 8c, 8d, 8e, 8f, 8g, 8h, 8i) is adapted to adjust the input to the module, transmitted via the communication link 9 signals that can be handled internally by the module, a distributed control system is characterized in that the range of the communication link (9) is substantially limited by the size of the housing (2).


As a part of serial work about the application of a tetra-needle-shaped whisker (T-ZnOw) with a spatial structure in polymer composites, this work is focused on the effect of T-ZnOw dimension on the properties of polymer composites. Two kinds of T-ZnOw whiskers with different dimensions (big and small one) are introduced into PA6 composites. Our results show that for the big whisker and the small whisker both, the addition of T-ZnOw induces the mechanical property improvement of T-ZnOwT-ZnOw/PA6 composites. Especially, the reinforcement effect of small whisker is more apparent than the bigger one. The toughening mechanism of T-ZnOw is comparatively studied through the analyzing of impact-fractured surface morphologies and the single-edge-single-notched 3-point-bend test. Finally, the effect of T-ZnOw on thermal properties of the composite is also investigated, and the results show that small whisker reinforced composites exhibit much higher heat deflection temperatures compared with the big whisker reinforced composites possibly due to the greater volume effect.


Grapevine rootstock cultivars were cultured on more than one artificial medium. Meloidogyne javanica was inoculated on the roots of different cultivars on seven media and penetration and development were recorded. Plate cultures of roots allowed microscopic examination of nematode development. Nematode reproduction occurred on susceptible rootstocks only, suggesting similar results for field and in vitro screening. However, root and nematode development was low and inconsistent, indicating problems which will have to be resolved before general application of the technique.


In this paper we present several systems developed to participate in the 4th Computational Linguistics Scientific Document Summarization Shared challenge which addresses the problem of summarizing a scientific paper using information from its citation network (i.e., the papers that cite the given paper). Given a cluster of scientific documents where one is a reference paper (RP) and the remaining documents are papers citing the reference, two tasks are proposed: (i) to identify which sentences in the reference paper are being cited and why they are cited, and (ii) to produce a citation-based summary of the reference paper using the information in the cluster. Our systems are based on both supervised (LSTM and convolutional neural networks) and unsupervised techniques using word embedding representations and features computed from the linguistic and semantic analysis of the documents.


Objective To survey the knowledge,behavior and vital signs of the patients with hypertension in Fenghuang community and evaluate the intervention effect of health education and health promotion on the patients.Methods A total of 227 patients with hypertension randomly selected were interviewed by questionnaire survey and physical examination.SPSS was used to analyze the data input by Epidata software.Results The mean systolic blood pressure significantly decreased in the patients with hypertension after intervention,especially in the female and in the age group of 55-64.The population whose body mass index(BMI)was in normal range increased,while the numbers of overweight and obesity individuals decreased.The awareness rate of hypertension-related risk factors increased.The proportion of non-smokers and non-drinkers reached 80.7% and 8.7%,respectively.The amount of salt intake descended,the treatment rate reached 95.8%.Conclusion It is effective to perform health education in community for hypertension control and prevention.


Thin polycrystalline Pr0.6Sr0.4MnO3 films were grown on the Y stabilized zirconium oxide substrates by magnetron sputtering using RF power and off-axis sputtering scheme with double cathodes. Only one polycrystalline phase with structural parameters consistent with that for the corresponding bulk sample was revealed in the films. Electric resistivity dependence on temperature demonstrates the shape characteristic for the substances with the Mott transition. The difference between magnetization temperature curves measured in the zero field cooling and field cooling modes was revealed. Magnetization field dependences were presented by the hysteresis loops changing their form with temperature.


The galaxies of the Local Group that are currently forming stars can serve as our laboratories for understanding star formation and the evolution of massive stars. In this talk I will summarize what I think we've learned about these topics over the past few decades of research, and briefly mention what I think needs to happen next.


Objective To study the effect of oxytocin on glucose and lipid metabolism in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Methods Preadipocytes from 3T3-L1 cell line were cultured in vitro and induced to differentiate to adipocytes. Mature adipocytes were treated with oxytocin. Glucose consumption, triglyceride, free fat acid, and glycerol levels were determined. The m RNA expression of differentiation marker genes such as GLUT-1, GLUT-4, ATGT, and HSL were evaluated by RT-PCR method. Results The glucose consumption in the oxytocin(20, 50, and 100 μg/m L) groups were increased with dose-dependent relationship compared with control group. Triglyceride in the oxytocin group was lower than that in control group, while glycerol and free fatty acid decreased. There was significant increase of expression levels of lipid metabolism related gene HSL and sugar metabolism related gene GLUT-4 m RNA in the oxytocin(50 μg/m L) group compared with control group. Conclusion Treatment of oxytocin may reduce 3T3-L1 cell lipid synthesis, increase lipid decomposition, and obviously improve lipid accumulation.


By using different ratios of phenalkamine/epoxy (EP) and benzoxazine/epoxy (EB), copolymer networks have been prepared sequentially by partially curing at low temperature followed by a final cure at high temperature. A single exothermic peak was observed in the differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) for the high-temperature curing. Dynamic mechanical thermal analysis showed a single tan δ peak, indicating no phase separation. The copolymer networks showed Tg values lower than the parent EB polymer network. Incorporation of EP in small percentage in the copolymer networks has improved the storage modulus and crosslink densities and the maximum value was observed for a sample containing 80% EB with respect to EP content. The thermal stability of the copolymer networks is better than that of the individual networks. The char yield value at 600°C increased with increasing EB percentage in the networks. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 100: 3956–3965, 2006


The static bending-torsion problem of functionally graded cantilever beams is studied using a refined 1D/3D beam theory (Refined beam theory RBT and Refined beam theory with distortion modes RBT*) built on the 3D Saint-Venant (SV) solution. In these theories, the displacement models include Poisson's effects, out-of-plane deformations and distortions. For a given section, the sectional displacement modes are derived from the computation of the particular 3D Saint-Venant's solution. These modes, which reflect the mechanical behavior of the cross-section, lead to a beam theory that actually corresponds to the cross-section type in terms of shape and material. In addition, the models take into account edge effects to predict a 3D solution in a larger internal region to better describe the overall behavior of FGM beams. The models examined are implemented on the CSB (Cross-Section and Beam Analysis) tool. It is based on the RBT/SV (Refined Beam Theory based on the 3D SV's solution) theory of FGM beams. The mechanical and physical characteristics of the FGM beams vary continuously, according to a power-law distribution, through the thickness of the beams. The numerical and 3D results obtained with homogeneous and FGM beams are systematically compared with other models in the literature and those provided by the full Saint-Venant beam theory (SVBT) calculations.


Exurban development is a prevalent cause of habitat loss and alteration throughout the globe and is a common land-use pattern in areas of high natural amenity value. We investigated the response of bird communities to exurban development in two contrasting North American regions, the Adirondack Park (New York) in the eastern US, and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (Montana) in the Rocky Mountain West. We combined social and ecological data collection methods to compare the effects of exurban development on avian communities between the two landscapes, and, in exurban residential areas within them, to compare the relative roles of habitat structure, resource provisioning, and human disturbance in influencing avian habitat use. Contrasting with an earlier pilot study, we found differential effects of exurban development in the two regions, with birds generally more responsive in the Adirondack Park. Characteristics of habitat context and structure had larger influences on bird habitat use than human-associated resource provisioning or disturbance in both landscapes. The smaller magnitude and high variability in the responses of birds to landowner stewardship and/or disturbance suggest that broader geographical factors are highly important and that careful siting of developments on the landscape may be more successful at protecting wildlife communities than attempts to influence the behaviors of their inhabitants once built.


Flexible piles with pile caps of different masses and instrumented with 20 strain gauges on the length of the pile, displacement, acceleration and force sensor which were impacted at variable levels of force with the help of a new ball gun designed for this purpose. The equation of the movement of a comparable beam to the pile under dynamic loading has been established and the various terms of this equation was evaluated using the experimental results. It is shown that the value of internal damping of pile compared to other terms in the equation is negligible. The term of inertia was divided into two parts, one related to the mass of the pile and the other related to the mass of the associated soil. The contribution of each term to the equation in different instant of vibration was shown. The distribution of displacements and the reactions of the soil at various depths and various steps of time were evaluated starting from the profiles of the bending moments by a double integration and a double derivation respectively. The dynamic P-y curves or loops were built starting from these results. A static test on the same pile under same soil condition was undertaken and static P-y curves were established. The procedure of experimental tests and P-y curves preparation procedures are explained and a comparison between static and dynamic P-y curves is also discussed.


In the search for ways to reduce the cost of packaging a medical device, a complete analysis of its packaging system is recommended, which includes its secondary and tertiary packaging as well as the manufacturing process. Several options are identified here to help in this cost saving objective.


Several outbreaks of listeriosis have been associated with contamination of wieners and other ready-to-eat meat products. In this study, we addressed the question of whether emulsification in, or growth on, wieners triggers a response in the listerial cells that makes them more virulent or protects them against the harsh environment of the gastrointestinal tract in mice. Our results indicate that Listeria monocytogenes Scott A grows poorly, if at all, in one brand of commercially prepared wieners inoculated with 5 3 103 to 5 3 106 CFU per package and incubated at 158C. Neither L. monocytogenes Scott A emulsified in a slurry of homogenized wieners nor recovered from wiener package fluid after a 7-day incubation at 158C were more virulent when inoculated into the stomachs of A/J mice than L. monocytogenes Scott A grown in brain heart infusion broth. These findings suggest that the ability of L. monocytogenes Scott A to cause systemic infection following introduction into the gastrointestinal tract was not improved by incubation with wieners or suspension in a meat matrix. Listeria monocytogenes is a ubiquitous gram-positive bacterium that is frequently present on food of plant and animal origin (12, 16). Furthermore, it can establish itself within certain niches in the environment of a food processing plant, despite appropriate sanitation efforts (26). Although the number of cases of listeriosis are much lower than those of other foodborne bacterial pathogens, such as Campylobacter or Salmonella, it ranks higher in mortality, causing up to an estimated 500 deaths in the United States each year (3). The threat posed by L. monocytogenes is amplified by its ability to grow over a broad temperature range, including the ability to multiply at refrigeration temperatures (12). As a result, contamination of a food product with even small numbers of L. monocytogenes conceivably can result in a significant inoculum if the food is properly stored at refrigeration temperatures for extended periods of time. It is the combination of its propensity to cause severe infections and its ability to multiply at refrigeration temperatures that makes L. monocytogenes a food safety threat, particularly in ready-to-eat (RTE) foods (12, 22, 25). As a result, the United States has very stringent regulations regarding the presence of detectable L. monocytogenes in * Author for correspondence. Tel and Fax: 608-262-8102; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. † Mention of trade names or commercial products in this publication is solely for the purpose of providing specific information and does not imply recommendation or endorsement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. RTE food products. This ''zero tolerance'' policy for L. monocytogenes in RTE foods and attendant sampling regimens for the bacterium in RTE foods has led to numerous and costly product recalls (3–6, 10, 25). Several large outbreaks of listeriosis have been associated with serotype 4b strains of L. monocytogenes (12). Several of these outbreaks were associated with contamination of a RTE meat product. In 1998, an outbreak involving wieners from a processing plant in Michigan caused 101 cases of listeriosis and 20 deaths (4). Two independent outbreaks associated with sliced turkey meat occurred in 2002 (1, 5, 6). In the first, 16 of 44 attendees at a catered party developed acute febrile gastroenteritis following ingestion of contaminated deli meat (10). In the second outbreak, there were 46 culture-confirmed cases, 7 deaths, and 3 stillbirths or abortions (1). One of the unanswered questions related to these outbreaks and others is whether the environmental signals encountered by L. monocytogenes while growing on a food affect its expression of virulence determinants (5, 6, 13, 17, 20, 24). If this occurs, it might allow L. monocytogenes to survive better within the harsh environment of the gastrointestinal tract or adhere to and translocate across the intestinal epithelium, from which it can disseminate to internal organs in which it multiplies and causes systemic disease. An alternative question is whether being enmeshed in the matrix of a food product protects the listeriae from the harsh acidic conditions they encounter as they pass through the gastrointesD ow naded rom hp://m eridianenpress.com /jfp/article-pdf/68/3284/0362-028x-68_3_597.pdf by gest on 14 M ay 2020 J. Food Prot., Vol. 68, No. 3 598 FAITH ET AL. tinal tract (21), thus increasing the probability that listeriae can translocate across the intestinal epithelium. To address these questions, we used a model of gastrointestinal listeriosis in genetically susceptible A/J mice (9). In this study we sought to determine whether growth of L. monocytogenes on a RTE meat product (i.e., wieners) or suspension in emulsified wiener would increase the severity of infection in this mouse model of gastrointestinal listeriosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Preparation of L. monocytogenes. An aliquot of log phase cells of L. monocytogenes Scott A (serotype 4b; originally obtained from the culture collection of the Food Research Institute, University of Wisconsin–Madison) that was stored at 2708C was thawed, inoculated into brain heart infusion (BHI) broth (Difco, Becton Dickinson, Sparks, Md.), and incubated overnight with shaking at 378C as described previously (9). Following this, the bacteria were harvested by centrifugation (1,000 3 g for 20 min), resuspended in the same volume of BHI containing 20% glycerol, and stored at 2708C as 1-ml aliquots. Before each experiment, an aliquot was thawed, inoculated into 50 ml of BHI broth, and incubated overnight at 378C with shaking at 150 rpm. The optical density of the bacterial suspension was read with a spectrophotometer (Smart Spec 3000, Bio-Rad, Hercules, Calif.), and the number of L. monocytogenes (CFU) was extrapolated from a standard growth curve. To prepare the inoculum for mice, appropriate dilutions were made in sterile phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) to achieve the desired bacterial concentration. The number (CFU) in the inoculum was verified by plating on blood agar (Trypticase soy agar with 5% bovine blood; BBL, Becton Dickinson, Franklin Lakes, N.J.) and counting colonies after 24 h of incubation at 378C. Inoculation of L. monocytogenes into wiener packages. Commercial packages of wieners were purchased and kept at 48C until used in an experiment and were not held beyond the use-by date. The ingredients for the mixed-meat product were listed as ''mechanically separated chicken, meat ingredients (pork, beef) water, corn syrup, salt. Contains 2% or less of flavorings, dextrose, sugar, potassium lactate, paprika, sodium phosphates, sodium erythrobate, sodium nitrite; may contain sodium ascorbate.'' For each experiment, two wieners were aseptically removed from the original packaging and placed in a sterile bag of the same characteristics. Four milliliters of the desired numbers of stationary-phase L. monocytogenes Scott A (suspended in PBS) was added to the bags, which were then vacuum sealed and incubated at 158C for up to 7 days. To estimate the number of viable L. monocytogenes, samples (0.5 ml) of fluid from each of three bags were aseptically removed at daily intervals, diluted in saline, and plated on blood agar. The plates were incubated at 378C, the colonies counted, and the numbers (CFU per milliliter) estimated for each package. Inoculation of mice. Female inbred A/J mice were obtained (Harlan Sprague-Dawley, Indianapolis, Ind.) at 5 to 6 weeks of age and housed under microisolator caps at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine animal care facility. Mice were acclimated for 1 to 2 weeks in this facility before being used in an experiment. Mice received food and water ad libitum until 5 h before an intragastric (i.g.) inoculation experiment, at which time food was removed from the cage. This was done to prevent mechanical blockage of the delivery of the listerial inoculum into the stomachs of mice that were engorged with mouse chow, preventing aspiration of the inoculum into the lungs. Mice were anesthetized by intraperitoneal injection of sodium pentobarbital (0.75 to 1 mg/25 g mouse). Once mild sedation occurred, the listerial inoculum was introduced (in a total volume of 0.2 ml) via a 1.5in., 24-gauge stainless steel feeding needle attached to a 1-ml syringe. Six mice per experimental group were used for each experiment. For experiments in which mice were inoculated with L. monocytogenes Scott A incubated in wiener packages, the inoculated packages were prepared as described previously. On the day before the scheduled inoculation of mice, fluid was aseptically removed (0.5 ml) from each of two bags, diluted in PBS, and plated separately onto blood agar to determine viable L. monocytogenes (CFU). The next day, the package fluid was appropriately diluted in PBS to obtain the desired number of L. monocytogenes cells for inoculation of mice. Control mice received the same number of L. monocytogenes Scott A cells grown in 4 ml of BHI broth, incubated for approximately 4 days at 158C. Numbers of viable listerial cells in the inocula were confirmed by plating on blood agar. For experiments in which mice were inoculated with L. monocytogenes Scott A suspended in a slurry of homogenized wiener, Scott A was grown overnight in BHI broth, and the numbers of viable cells were estimated by optical density. The stationary phase listerial cells were washed and resuspended in PBS to the desired concentration. A portion of a wiener was homogenized in a blender with PBS at a ratio of approximately one part wiener to four parts PBS. The meat solids were allowed to settle to the bottom of the tube (e.g., ''slurry''); the upper fluid phase of the wiener homogenate was designated as the supernatant. The supernatant was removed and placed in a separate sterile tube. The desired concentration of L. monocytogenes were then added to the slurry or supernatant and used to in


Due to limited land area in Singapore, it has been necessary to develop innovative solutions for creating additional space. A proposal from Nanyang Technological University suggested using underwater space by building offshore concrete structures that are based in the seabed and extend above sea level. Sections below sea level can be used for industrial purposes, while upper levels would serve as additional land area. This proposal requires concrete of the highest possible durability and longest service life. Testing began in 2011, and it was necessary to develop a concrete mixture with a high resistance to chloride ingress. Concrete mixtures were designed and tested, and the requirements for a mixture with the necessary characteristics were identified.


For customer collaborative product innovation (CCPI), lead users are powerful enablers of product innovation. Identifying lead users is vital to successfully carrying out CCPI. In this paper, in order to overcome the shortcomings of traditional evaluation methods, a novel intelligent method is proposed to identify lead users efficiently based on the cost-sensitive learning and support vector machine theory. To this end, the characteristics of lead users in CCPI are first analyzed and concluded in-depth. On its basis, considering the sample misidentification cost and identification accuracy rate, an improved cost-sensitive learning support vector machine (ICS-SVM) method for lead user identification in CCPI is further proposed. A real case is provided to illustrate the effectiveness and advantages of the ICS-SVM method on lead user identification in CCPI. The case results show that the ICS-SVM method can effectively identify lead users in CCPI. This work contributes to user innovation literature by proposing a new way of identifying highly valuable lead users and offers a decision support for the efficient user management in CCPI.


In our previous paper, we reported that various types of carrageenan, dextran sulfate and fucoidan, which are sulfated homopolysaccharides with high molecular weights, were human T cell mitogens and murine polyclonal B cell activators (PBAs) and that heparin, a sulfated heteropolysaccharide, was a very weak human mitogen and mouse PBA.


Management of freshwater fisheries in northern Australia faces challenges that combine Aboriginal and recreational harvests, intermittent river flows and remote, expansive management jurisdictions. Using relationships between fishing pressure (vis-à-vis 'accessibility') and the abundance of fish species targeted by Aboriginal and recreational fishers (derived from the Fitzroy River, Western Australia), the potential fishing pressure in subcatchments across the entire Kimberley region was assessed. In addition to the Fitzroy and Ord River, known to experience substantial fishing pressure, this assessment identified that subcatchments in the Lennard and King Edward river basins were also likely to experience relatively high fishing activity. Management of freshwater fisheries in the Kimberley region prioritises aquatic assets at most risk from the potential impact of all aquatic resource use and employs barramundi (Lates calcarifer) and silver cobbler (Neoarius midgleyi) as indicator species to track changes in their condition. Extending the existing monitoring of these indicator species (currently undertaken in the Ord and Fitzroy rivers) to include popular fishing areas in subcatchments of the Lennard and King Edward river basins will provide a better understanding of the current fishing pressure and its impact on the fisheries resource in the Kimberley region, as well as confirmation of the proposed method's predictive capability for this region. The ability to predict those areas that may experience increased fishing pressure in the future, offers an opportunity for the early monitoring and detection of any changes in the fisheries resource.


The Population Council recently reworded the package labeling for the copper T380A IUD as follows: pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is related to a woman's sexual behavior and not to the device itself. Formerly contraindicated, histories of PID or ectopic pregnancy are now merely precautions. The labeling now warns that the Copper T is contraindicated in the presence of PID or in women with a history of PID since the last pregnancy. If a woman has been free of infection, there is no need not to give her an IUD. The former contraindication about ectopic pregnancy has been deleted, while contraindications in the section of the label on conditions associated with increased susceptibility to infections with microorganisms now include only leukemia and AIDS. IV drug use and conditions requiring chronic corticosteroid therapy have been dropped from the section, along with diabetes. Finally, the former contraindication of genital actinomycosis has been changed to address symptomatic genital actinomycosis with organism confirmed by culture. This latter change is due to the high number of false-positives seen with Pap smears alone. These changes are logical given recent research findings about IUDs. A brief overview is given of recent findings about IUDs with regard to pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, and diabetes.


In this paper, the MPSTD algorithm is applied to model longitudinal slot in the broad face of rectangular waveguide. Firstly, an approach of dividing the total-field and the scattered-field is proposed based on the characteristic variables of Maxwell's equations. And the updating equations of the field on the interface between the scattered-field domain and the total-field domain have been derived. Secondly, the setting of excitation source is proposed by the idea of domain partition, which makes the domains of incident-field, scattered-field and total-field contacted availably. So it is convenient to introduce the incident-field and calculate the scattered-field. The resonant length and impedance characteristics of longitudinal slot are analyzed by MPSTD. The numerical results indicate that the MPSTD algorithm is accurate and efficient to analyze the longitudinal slot in the broad face of rectangular waveguide.


Objectives: Tyre pressure monitoring systems are automotive electronic systems used to monitor the automobile tyre pressure. The existing systems use pressure sensors or wheel speed sensors. They depend on batteries and radio transmitters which would add up to cost and complexity. Methods/Analysis: This paper proposes a new machine learning approach to monitor the tyre pressure. Vertical vibrations are extracted from a wheel hub of a moving vehicle using an accelerometer and are classified using machine learning techniques. The statistical features are extracted from the vibration signal and the features are classified using K Star algorithm. Findings: A reasonably high classification accuracy of 89.16% was obtained. Application/Improvements: The proposed model can be used for monitoring the automobile tyre pressure successfully.


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This study aims to examine the activity of the antioxidant activity of ethanol extract of lontar fruit peel (Borassus flabellifer l.) and ginger bud (Etlingera elatior (Jack.) R.M. SM) by using the ferric reducing antioxidant power method. Extraction was carried out by maceration method using 70% ethanol. The extracts were analyzed quantitatively with the addition of FRAP reagents measured by UV-Vis spectrophotometer analyzed at a wavelength of 752.29 nm in the ginger bud fruit peel and 727.05 nm for palm fruit skin using a quartetine as a comparison. Based on data analysis, the average value of the three antioxidant activity of the replication was 2.482 mg QE / g Extract on the skin of ginger bud fruit and 99.846 mgQE / g extract for lontar fruit skin. The conclusion shows that both the ginger bud fruit skin and lontar fruit skin have antioxidant activity.


Reaction of santonin (1) with phosphorus(V) chloride affords 3-chloroeudesma-1,3,5,7(11)-tetraen-12,6-olactone (2) and 1α,2β,3-trichloroeudesma-3,5,7(11)-trien-12,6-olactone (4). In (4), the 2β-chlorine is easily replaced by other groups with retention of configuration. Under more forcing conditions, 14-substituted 3-chloroeudesma-1,3,5,7(11)-tetraen-12,6-olactone derivatives (12) are obtained. The trichloro-triene (4) loses hydrogen chloride when treated with strong base to give 1,3-dichloroeudesma-1,3,5,7(11)-tetraen-12,6-olactone (6), and loses chlorine when treated with iodide in dimethylformamide to give (2). Hydrogenation of either (2) or (4) affords 3-chloroeudesma-3,5,7,(11)-trien-12,6-olactone (5).


Two studies have shown that increasing the consultation of the word "suicide" in the Google search engine was associated with a subsequent increase in the prevalence of suicide attempts. The purpose of this paper was to analyse the trends in Google searches on suicide, depression and bipolar disorder. Methods. Based on previous studies, the frequency of the search words "how to suicide" and "commit suicide" were analysed for suicide, as well as "antidepressant" and "depression" for depressive disorders. Results and conclusions. Together, these analyses suggest that the search for the words "how to suicide" or "commit suicide" on the Google search engine may be a good indicator for suicide prevention policies. However, the tool is not developed enough to date to be used as a real time dynamic indicator of suicide epidemics. The frequency of the search for the word "suicide" was associated with those for "depression" but not for "bipolar disorder", but searches for psychiatric conditions seem to be influenced by media events more than by real events in the general population.


The long-term, high precision photometry delivered by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) enables us to gain new insight into known and hitherto well-studied stars. In this paper, we present the result of our TESS study of the photospheric activity of the rapid rotator AB Doradus. Due to its favorable position near the southern ecliptic pole, the TESS satellite recorded almost 600 rotations of AB Doradus with high cadence, allowing us to study starspots and flares on this ultra-active star. The observed peak-to-peak variation of the rotational modulations reaches almost 11%, and we find that the starspots on AB Doradus show highly preferred longitudinal positions. Using spot modeling, we measured the positions of the active regions on AB Doradus and we find that preferred spot configurations should include large regions extending from low to high stellar latitudes. We interpret the apparent movement of spots as the result of both differential rotation and spot evolution and argue that the typical spot lifetimes should range between 10 and 20 days. We further find a connection between the flare occurrence on AB Doradus and the visibility of the active regions on its surface, and we finally recalculated the star's rotation period using different methods and we compared it with previous determinations.


[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHAT A DIFFERENCE six months make. Early in 2011, an overwhelming majority of American policymakers, opinion makers, and the public were strongly opposed to more military entanglements overseas, particularly a third war in a Muslim country. And there was a strong sense that given our overstretched position due to the war in Afghanistan, continued exposure in Iraq, and--above all--severe economic challenges at home, the time had come to reduce U.S. commitments overseas. In June 2011, when announcing the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, President Obama put it as follows: "America, it is time to focus on nationbuilding here at home." Regarding involvement in Libya, then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated in March 2011: "My view would be, if there is going to be that kind of assistance [providing arms] to the opposition, there are plenty of sources for it other than the United States." Admiral Mike Mullen raised questions about a Libyan involvement, stating in a March 2011 Senate hearing that a no-fly zone would be "an extraordinarily complex operation to set up." Six months later, in September 2011, as the military campaign in Libya was winding down, it was widely hailed as a great success. As Helene Cooper and Steven Lee Myers wrote in The New York Times, while "it would be premature to call the war in Libya a complete success for United States interests ... the arrival of victorious rebels on the shores of Tripoli last week gave President Obama's senior advisers a chance to claim a key victory." NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated in early September, "We can already draw the first lessons from the operation, and most of them are positive." In a meeting on 20 September with Libya's new interim leader, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, President Obama said, "Today, the Libyan people are writing a new chapter in the life of their nation. After four decades of darkness, they can walk the streets, free from a tyrant." Moreover, Libya was held up as a model for more such interventions. Cooper and Myers wrote, "The conflict may, in some important ways, become a model for how the United States wields force in other countries where its interests are threatened." Philip Gordon, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, opined that the Libyan operation was "in many ways a model on how the United States can lead the way that allows allies to support." Leon Panetta, current Secretary of Defense, said that the campaign was "a good indication of the kind of partnership and alliances that we need to have for the future if we are going to deal with the threats that we confront in today's world." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As international attention turned to the massacres in Syria, world leaders and observers discussed applying the "Libyan model." French President Nicolas Sarkozy pointedly said on his visit to post-Gaddafi Libya, "I hope that one day young Syrians can be given the opportunity that young Libyans are now being given." Syrian activists called for the creation of a no-fly zone over Syria, similar to that imposed over Libya. (1) An August New York Times article noted, "The very fact that the administration has joined with the same allies that it banded with on Libya to call for Mr. Assad to go and to impose penalties on his regime could take the United States one step closer to applying the Libya model toward Syria." No doubt, as time passes, the assessment of the Libya campaign will be recast--and more than once. Nevertheless, one can already draw several rather important lessons from the campaign. Lesson 1. Boots off the Ground The Libya campaign showed that a strategy previously advocated for other countries, particularly Afghanistan, could work effectively. The strategy, advocated by Vice President Joe Biden and John Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, entails using airpower, drones, Special Forces, the CIA, and, crucially, working with native forces rather than committing American and allied conventional ground forces. …


This paper analyses the urban political regime that has emerged in post-Soviet St. Petersburg. There is a wide spread belief arising from sociological research into urban policies that when the administrations of big cities require rapid financial capital increase to replenish their budgets there is high probability thata symbiosis will appear combining the institutional benefits of the local authorities with the investment opportunities of businesses. Such coalitional regimescan be termed "growth machines" and are aimed at the maximization the participants' profits through the efficient transformation of the urban space. This is additionally backed by a rhetoric of "progressive development". In fact, the actualinterests and demands of urbanites are often ignored by these "growth machines". Based on qualitative research of city-planning conflicts between local communities, construction companies and the city authorities in St. Petersbur gover the period 2005-2012, this paper discusses the national, local and situational specifics of the formation and performance of "growth machines". It also reveals that, irrespective of how "real" the informal arrangements between authorities and businesses are, the major actors in these conflicts often resort to the discursive construction of negative images of "growth machines" in an attempt to discredit the opponents.


Aim: to evaluate the short- and long-term outcomes of laparoscopic and open operations in the treatment of hepatic echinococcosis.Materials and methods. The results of laparoscopic and open echinococcectomies performed from 2013 to 2020 were retrospectively studied. Laparoscopic operations were considered the method of choice. Open operations were performed in cases with contraindications to the laparoscopic approach.Results. In total, 57 patients were operated: 47 laparoscopically (including robotic approach in 4 cases), 9 patients underwent open surgery. Radical procedures prevailed among laparoscopic cystectomies: 46 (98%). In the groups of laparoscopic/open cystectomies, partial pericystectomy was performed in 1/3 of patients, subtotal – in 24/4, total – in 13/0, and liver resection – in 9/2 patients, respectively. Laparoscopic procedures were performed mainly for types 1 and 3 of cysts, open procedures – for type 2 (WHO), recurrent and extrahepatic abdominal cysts were indication for open surgery. The frequency of severe complications did not differ between the groups. In the laparoscopic group, 1 (2%) patient died. After laparoscopic cystectomies, the mean (median) hospital stay (8 vs 10 days) and duration of abdominal drainage (10 vs 12 days) were significantly shorter. Relapse occurred only after conservative cystectomies, in one patient in each group.Conclusion. Laparoscopic radical surgery for liver hydatid cysts may be the method of choice if performed in a specialized HPB center. Patient selection criteria should be based on the center's experience in laparoscopic liver surgery.


Introduction: Infant Mortality (MI) is seen as the probability of death for children before the first year of life. The Infant Mortality Rate (IMT) can be measured in two ways: as a coefficient (number of deaths in children under one-year-old / live births) or as an index (number of deaths in children under one-year-old / deaths totals). It can be highlighted as factors associated with IM the socioeconomic and biological aspects, the constitution and family planning, the work process of the institutions, the conduct of professionals and the factors related to the resolution of health services. Such fact and the knowledge of its causes in Brazil and in the State of Goiás is relevant to Public Health, as it guides the making of strategic and effective decisions. Objective: To analyze the Infant Mortality Rate (IMT) in the State of Goiás from the perspective of its macroregions and health regions, from 2000 to 2019. Method: This is an ecological, descriptive and analytical study, with a quantitative approach, having as a temporary cut the aforementioned period. The data were extracted using the Sistema de Informações de Mortalidade (SIM), in partnership with the Centro de Informações e Decisões Estratégicas (Conecta SUS). Posteriori, they were synthesized and organized in a scale of proportion and relative frequency in TabWin; mean, mode and standard deviation, using SPSS version 2.0 for Windows. Results: The IMT Brazilian Journal of health Review Braz. J. Hea. Rev, Curitiba, v. 3, n. 6, p.16725-16737. nov./dez. 2020. ISSN 2595-6825 16728 showed a slight decrease over the years and the average remained similar in all macro-regions. The one-way ANOVA test showed no statistically significant difference (p = 0.06) and Tukey's post-hoc test also did not show any difference between the macro-regions (p = 0.07). With regard to the health regions, it was possible to observe an important variation, mainly between the North, South and Northeast regions. Both the one-way ANOVA test and the Tukey post-hoc test revealed a statistically significant difference between the health regions (p = 0.024), especially between São Patrício I and Serra da Mesa (p = 0.023). Conclusion: Studies like this are of fundamental importance for decision making in the health management segments, at the municipal and state level. It is hoped that the results presented here will serve to highlight correct answers and possible edges to be trimmed, in order to promote quality health for the population and, thus, to reduce infant mortality in the state more and more.


RK. cil looil allcry). Si Johns: Nulriliun Kcsciuvh l\luc:ilion l\niiKlation. l')S7:.n,l S7, 6 MiskelK I d . Burr M I . Vaughan-Williams H ei al. Infant feeding and allergy Arch Dis Child I9SS; 63:3SS 9.V 7 Haltcwig G. Kjellman B. Sigurs N, Bjorksten B. Kjellman N-IM. The died of maternal avoidance ofeggs. cow's milk and fisli during ladation upon allergic manifestations in infants, Chn E\p Allergy i9S9: 19:27 32, S Magnusson CGM. Cord serum IgE m relation lo family history and as predictor of atopic disease in early infancy. Allergy 19SS; 43:241 51. 9 Zdger RS. Heller S. Mellon M ei aL Effect of combined maternal and infant food-allergen avoidance on development of atopy in early infancy: a randomized sludy, J Allergy Ciin Immunol I9H9; 84:72-89. 10 Canlani A. Management of infants with cow's milk allergy. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 1991; 13:195-8. 11 Arshad SH, Matthews S, Ganl C. Hide DW. EfTect of allergen avoidance on development of allergic disorders in infancy. Lancet 1992; 339:1493-7. 12 Canlani A, Businco L. Prevention of alopic disease in al risk newborns. Allergie Immunol 1991; 23:387-90. 13 Kajosaari M. Saarinen UM. Prophylaxis of atopic disease by six months total solid food elimination. Acta Paediatr Scand 1983; 72:411-14. 14 Fergusson DM, Horwood J. Shannon FT. Early solid feeding and recurrent childhood eczema: a 10-year longitudinal Sludy. Pediatrics 1990; 86:541-6, 15 Cantani A. Long-term morbidity of infantile eczema. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sd 1990; 12:367-9.


We review the arguments supporting the claim that the observation of PeV ({ital E}{approx gt}10{sup 15} eV) {gamma}-rays from cosmic sources at the flux-levels recently reported, guarantees the detection of neutrinos by detectors with an effective area of order 1 km{sup 2}. We emphasize the unique opportunities of neutrino astronomy as well as its multi-disciplinary facets touching astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, and particle physcis. At present we do not know of any cost-effective method to commission neutrino telescopes with {ital O}(1km{sup 2}) effective area. We draw attention to the possibility of instrument Antarctic ice as a deep underground telescope detecting Cherenkov, radio of acoustic radiation from neutrino-induced electromagnetic showers.


for sex (xalxc and xb,/xc) and hence wild-type and red would appear in equal numbers despite sex-linkage. Greenshields (1939) has considered Dozorceva's data and has arrived at the conclusion' "that it is impossible to derive an\y of the three categories of results if the genetics of sexuality and eyecolor in Pteromiuwhs pupairnt proceed according to the theory of P. WV. Whiting.'" This conclusion is based upon a inisunderstanding of my theory. According to Greenshields, half of the eggs are uiifertilizedl by sperni from a given male and are, hence, mnale-producing; ofthe other half some are -unfertilized and hence also mnale-producingy. If this were true males would always exceed females, but this is contrary to fact not only for Pteromalus but for Habrobracon as well where females either equal males or exceed them. The misunderstanding probably traces back to my use of the terms selective fertilization, selective syngainy and differential maturation. These terms were used to indicate a selective process occurring within the egg after the sperm had entered and tending to increase the number of females. According, to Greenshielcls' understanding, sperm would apparently be excluded from half of the eggs, thus tending to increase the number of ales. The hypothesis of differential maturation, devised to explain high female-ratio in outerosses, has now been given up in favor of the theory of multiple alleles. P. W. WHITING


This note reports an incidental observation of an Eastern Grass Owl Tyto longimembris which was disturbed from its roosting site in wetland vegetation associated with a natural mound spring in south-western Queensland. There are only two published records of the Grass Owl using this rare habitat type, although there are records from similar habitats associated with artificial bore drains. The potential importance of mound-spring habitats for Grass Owls is explored, and some of the threats facing these sites are described.


Taking account of the Meissner effect (B = 0 for the superconducting state), the vector potential A is defined not by B = rot A but by H = rot A to calculate the linear magnetic field response of a bulk superconductor. The magnetic interaction in the Bohm-Pines theory is consistently introduced into the Hamiltonian of the system. On the basis of both the usual linear response theory and the BCS-Bogolyubov theory, the static magnetic susceptibility χ = −1/4π, i.e. perfect diamagnetism, is obtained for the bulk superconductor at zero temperature.

Unter Beachtung des Meissner-Effekts (B = 0 im supraleitenden Zustand) wird das Vektorpotential A nicht durch B = rot A, sondern durch H = rot A definiert, um den linearen Magnetfeldresponse eines Volumensupraleiters zu berechnen. Die magnetische Wechselwirkung in der Bohm-Pines-Theorie wird in konsistenter Weise in den Hamilton-Operator des Systems eingefuhrt. Auf der Grundlage sowohl der linearen Responsetheorie als auch der BCS-Bogloyubov-Theorie wird die statische magnetische Suszeptibilitat χ = −1/4π, d.h. idealer Diamagnetismus, fur einen Volumensupraleiter bei T = 0 K gefunden.


We read with great interest the article published in a recent issue of Arthritis Care & Research by Lubrano et al on rheumatologist assessment of nail disease activity in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients (1). The authors concluded that the Nail Psoriasis Severity Index (NAPSI) may be an unreliable instrument when used by untrained rheumatologists. Lubrano et al noted that their results differ from those obtained in a study by Chandran et al where rheumatologists and dermatologists with an interest in PsA examined patients after undergoing an educational session. In that study, excellent agreement and reliability were observed (2). Several factors may have contributed to these different results. Importantly, Lubrano et al used the NAPSI, which was developed by dermatology experts and was intended to be performed live by such experts on actual patients (3). In their study, videos were used, and this may have affected the results. Also, although the NAPSI has been used in several studies, it has not been subject to validation. Therefore, we developed a modified version of the NAPSI (mNAPSI) that could be used by those with less expertise in the area and uses photographs rather than live examination. We have validated the modified instrument to assess psoriatic nail involvement in patients with PsA (4). In the study by Chandran et al, the mNAPSI was used (2). Lubrano et al also chose the single most affected nail from only 3 patients. The small numbers and lack of diversity of disease severity may have contributed to the low intraclass correlation coefficients. Finally, it is worth noting that the mNAPSI has also been shown to have good correlation with both physician's and patient's global assessment of psoriatic nail activity (Spearman's 0.93, P 0.01 and 0.55, P 0.01, respectively) (5). Therefore, it may be better for rheumatologists to use the mNAPSI to evaluate the nails of their PsA patients, but if they do not feel comfortable doing so, asking the patients to rate the severity specifically of their nail involvement on a visual analog scale may provide a reasonable approximation. Dr. Kavanaugh has received consultant fees, speaking fees, and/or honoraria (less than $10,000 each) and research grants from Abbott, Amgen, Janssen, and UCB.


Objective
To evaluate clinical value of interventional radiology in difficult extraction of stuck tunnel hemodialysis catheter (TCC).

Methods
Maintenance hemodialysis patients who required removal of stuck TCC in our hospital from June 2015 to June 2017 were enrolled. Medical history and preoperative examinations were carefully evaluated. Patients were pulled rotationally the catheter under the fluoroscopy guidance and exchanged the TCC. The information and procedure-related complication were recorded. Balloon dilation or snare technique would be used when failed to remove the stuck catheter.

Results
A total of 22 patients were enrolled, with an average age of (67.2±18.5) years, a median dialysis time of 54(18, 106) months, and catheter indwelling time of 37(14, 82) months. All patients were successfully removed the stuck catheter, among which 18 cases (81.8%) had fibrin sheath and 13 cases with sheath calcification. TCC mainly stuck in the junction of internal jugular vein and innominate vein, middle and lower innominate vein and middle part of superior vena cava. No procedure-related major complication occurred. Sixteen cases (72.7%) complained of transient substernal extraction pain and 1 case occurred groin hematoma during operation.

Conclusions
Catheter incarceration problem should be alert to the hemodialysis patients with catheter indwelling time of more than 2-3 years. The minimally invasive interventional techniques including rotationally pull-out under fluoroscopy guidance and balloon angioplasty are safe and effective in removal of the stuck TCC.

Key words:
Renal dialysis; Vascular access devices; Radiology, interventional; Stuck catheter


[Objective]To understand the state of body development among the primary and secondary school students,grasp its patterns,thus correct the problems in physical and health education to those students.[Methods]Examinations were performed on height,weight,chest measurement and lung capacity among 28 628 students from 11 primary or secondary schools within the urban area from October to December in 2010,and a comprehensive analysis was made on the results.[Results]Among these 28 628 students,14.69% of them had inferior heights.This rate was 16.44% for primary students and 14.22% for secondary students(P0.01).And it was 15.30% for boys and 13.96% for girls(P0.01).3.13% of the students had inferior weights.This rate was 2.91% for primary students and 3.40% for secondary students(P0.05).And it was 3.27% for boys and 2.95% for girls(P0.05).2.53% of the students had inferior chest measurements.This rate was 1.44% for primary students and 3.95% for secondary students(P0.01).And it was 2.68% for boys and 2.36% for girls(P0.05).3.13% of the students had inferior lung capacities.This rate was 2.26% for primary students and 4.26% for secondary students(P0.01).And it was 4.30% for boys and 1.73% for girls(P0.01).Among our objects,3.27% had malnutrition and 26.60% had overweight or obesity.The rate of malnutrition for primary students was 2.55% and that for secondary students was 4.20%(P0.01).The rates for boys and girls were 3.65% and 2.81%(P0.01).The rate of overweight or obesity was 27.68% for primary students,25.21% for secondary students(P0.01),29.24% for boys and 23.43% for girls(P0.01).[Conclusion]Primary and secondary school students in Zhucheng have good developments on height,weight,chest measurement and lung capacity in 2010.Secondary students have more problems than primary students,and girls more than boys.


The convergence of sensing, wireless telecommunications, and multi-media platforms have provided new opportunities for the development of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). These systems can provide real-time information to travelers and transportation agencies. As well as increase the overall efficiency and improve the management of the transportation network. While ITS applications, including those derived from connected vehicle technology, can enhance mobility, increase safety, and improve the environmental performance of the transportation system, they also raise legal and ethical questions about privacy, anonymity, and other concerns related to use of ITS data. As a prerequisite to deployment of ITS technologies, issues regarding the collection, management, and use of data must be addressed to the satisfaction of all parties, including government agencies, businesses, and private citizens. This paper summarizes the legal environment surrounding ITS, as well as controls used by agencies and industry to ensure ethical practices relating to ITS. Next, it describes specific ITS applications and discusses several issues relating to government involvement with ITS applications and data. Finally, the paper outlines specific recommendations for ITS planners and developers. These recommendations address determining system attributes and requirements while considering ethical implications and tradeoffs; resolving acceptance, adoption, and equity issues; and designing a system for the ethical governance and management of ITS and the information they create.


Surveillance cameras can be deployed in various environments where lighting conditions are constantly changing. However, due to the limited dynamic range of current image sensors, the captured images are only low dynamic range images that usually suffer from over-exposure and under-exposure situations where important details are lost. Therefore, it is critical to recover the lost details of such images in order to improve visual experience for observers and performance for possible computer vision processing. In this paper, we propose a reformulated Laplacian pyramid and a convolutional neural network (CNN) model to enhance and recover the lost detail of a degraded image. The reformulated Laplacian first decomposes the image into two sub-images that contain global and local image features, respectively. The global features and local features are processed by the proposed CNN model to manipulate the global luminance terrain and enhance local details. The final image is obtained by reconstructing the CNN generated local and global features. Various experiments have been conducted. The results demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.


Lars Bergstrom's The Alternatives and Consequences of Actions (Stockholm: 1966) is an outstanding contribution to utilitarian ethics, which definitely sets a standard of comparison for future work in the area. In the first part of his book Bergstrom deals with the following problem that seems to have been almost altogether neglected by moral philosophers: (i) how are we to understand and explicate the notion of the alternatives to an action that admittedly plays a crucial r6le in act-utilitarianism? Another problem appears to be intimately bound up with (i), viz. (ii) how is act-utilitarianism related to deontic logic? It would seem that, since act-utilitarianism provides necessary and sufficient conditions for the obligatoriness, rightness and wrongness of actions, one is entitled to expect it to validate certain principles of deontic logic "automatically", so to speak. If this were not so, it would seem that act-utilitarianism could be ruled out on purely logical grounds, provided, of course, that deontic logic is concerned with obligatoriness, etc. in a sense with which act-utilitarianism, too, is concerned, and provided also that deontic logic is a sufficiently well-established discipline (which certainly may be doubted). Now, Bergstrbm does not explicitly claim to be dealing with this problem (ii),' but its presence and relevance can be felt throughout his interesting discussion of alternatives (problem (i)). The main intent of the present paper is to give a treatment of problems (i) and (ii) in the light of Bergstrbm's work. As far as


Abstract. The church of San Carlo dei Barnabiti houses one of the most important examples of Baroque illusionistic painting in Florence. Given the level of deterioration of the vault, the preliminary investigations required a 3D survey of the current geometry to detect the mainly damaged areas. A point cloud obtained by laser scanning is employed to investigate the deformations and the state of conservation of the vault. The acquired data also revealed some unknown aspects concerning the construction of the structure and its pictorial decoration useful to design the restoration project.


I routinely ask my new patients how they want me to address them and vice versa .[1][1] I have not kept records so my data are approximate.

Nearly all my patients want me to call them by their first name. About a third to a half say they wish to call me by my first name, although not all


Tests in Print IV (TIP IV) is a two-volume, comprehensive master index of all commercially published separate test titles, still in print and available for purchase and use, that have been listed in all issues of the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY). There are over 3,000 test entries, which is about a 12.5% increase on the entries in the previous edition (TIP II). The two volumes provide the test titles; acronyms; purposes; the population group for which each test is intended; author(s); publication dates; publishers; details of forms, parts, and levels; and price information. Also listed are the important references from the English language measurement literature referring to test construction, validity, and uses of particular tests. The introduction in the first volume provides a historical and conceptual rationale for TIP IV, shows the numbers of tests by major classification, and gives an ordered list of tests with the largest number of references since the publication of the 11th MMY. There are six indexes available: Index of Titles, Index of Acronyms, Classified Subject Index, Publishers Directory and Index, Index of Names, and Score Index. Although TIP IV is an American publication, the material it contains is of interest to educators, psychologists, and researchers throughout the Englishspeaking world; this review gives an opportunity to reflect on its value to audiences both in the United States and in other countries. Educational and psychological testing is widespread. Where substantial proportions of national populations are proficient in the English language, TIP IV serves as a de facto listing of established tests available in the English language. TIP IV caters in the main to an English-speaking American audience. Of the over 3,000 test entries, the vast majority are for tests originating in the United States and published by American publishers. (Tests in other languages such as Afrikaans, French, German, Latin, Spanish, and Portuguese are listed only if they are also published in the English language.) Publishers from the United States form the major portion of the Publishers Directory and Index included in TIP IV; Canada and the United Kingdom each have about 20 publisher entries, Australia has about 10, India has 3, and the remaining countries (Denmark,


With the growing American population and its changing demographics, hospital workers are increasingly encountering patients of different faiths. As a member of the patient treatment team, hospital chaplains and pastoral care workers are expected to make their contributions toward patient management. This book is written for chaplains and pastoral care workers who have started to include in their services Muslim patients and their families. The basic premise of the book is that these workers should approach the patient from their own particular faith. The chapters are organized thematically, allowing practitioners to link Islamic concepts with Christian pastoral theological writings on the one hand, and with issues that emerge in interfaith pastoral dialogues on the other. The author, Neville A. Kirkwood, earned his doctorate from San Francisco Theological Seminary in California and has written several books on pastoral care and multiculturalism (Kirkwood, 2005a, 2005b, 2005c, 2005d, 2005e). He served in important ministerial and administrative capacities on international cross-cultural missions for a number of years, including President of the Australian College of Chaplains. The book contents include a foreword, preface, and introduction, followed by three sections, containing 13 chapters. There are appendices, notes, glossary, bibliography, and an index. The author had the original draft reviewed by members of the Islamic Council of New South Wales (NSW, Australia) and by many of his Christian friends in Australia and abroad, seeking endorsement from both communities. The foreword is written by the Chairman of the Islamic Council of NSW Australia and by the Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese in Brisbane, Australia. This book is dedicated ''to the promotion of peace and harmony among peoples in the very intolerant world of the 21st century'' (p. xii). The first section, called ''The Muslim Mind,'' addresses why it is important to know about Muslims, followed by the Islamic creed and concepts of fear and hope in Islam, determinism and free will, the Satan, angels and the Jinn, death and the grave, the hour of doom, the day of resurrection, women and children, as well as afterlife. Also included here are the concepts of Muslim prayers and a chapter on Sunnis and Shia. These issues, the author believes, are likely to surface in the minds of the patients within the hospital context, and should therefore be known by pastoral workers. Attempting to find reasons for the West's negative attitude towards Muslims, Kirkwood points out that the colonial and imperialist mentality of the Westerners is responsible for their arrogance towards inhabitants of the Middle East and Asia whom the evangelical Christians viewed as heathens or pagans—a type of thinking still prevalent in parts of the Christian world. On his long mission to India, he recalls unfavorable images of


To address the growing health challenges faced by college students, campus recreation departments have evolved from a primary university intramural sport setting to organizations that have an increased emphasis on student recruitment, retention, and overall wellness. Among the strategies used to attract and engage students in campus recreation programs and services, health coaching shows some promise as a potentially effective intervention strategy. This study examined the efficacy of a university campus recreation health coaching program. Students from Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) disciplines (n = 34) were provided with individual, group, and virtual support to assist in developing effective strategies for academic success. Fitbit data measuring participants' sleep and physical activity were collected along with self-reported measures of stress and perceived happiness and focus group qualitative data focused on participants' perceptions of the program. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the program to adapt, findings suggest that health coaching may be an effective intervention strategy to help university students cope with the heightened anxiety and stress levels associated with campus life.


Over the last 30 years, America has witnessed its urban areas transform through the application of neoliberal political economy, going from a state of industrial decay to one of modernized, technologically-advanced, highly skilled service occupations. At the same time, many of this process's socio-economic benefits have largely been concentrated along ethnic lines and rarely bestowed upon original residents, allowing some to rightfully label the movement as gentrification. Thus, we pose the following question: what makes urban electorates consistently vote for administrations that implement economic policies directly antagonistic to their best interests? The answer, we argue, is found in an extension of William K. Black's concept of control fraud, which we label as a 'political economic control fraud'. In doing so, we show how this allows top governing authorities to implement a neoliberal platform of unsustainable policies that, at least initially, causes the economy to grow rapidly, allows them to leverage this and improve their political capital, and enables them to seek higher office and/or private occupations while simultaneously abrogating them of any responsibility associated with the transformation's eventual collapse. Finally, we show that neoliberal political economic governance must necessarily be rooted in fraud since it creates and intensifies a divergence of economic class interests. To overcome this and promote such a platform, politicians appeal to the symbolism Americans attach to freedom and democracy because if the consequences of this ideology were genuinely sold to the electorate their political careers would be short lived. [Article copies available for a fee from The Transformative Studies Institute. E-mail address: firstname.lastname@example.com Website: http://www.transformativestudies.org ©2017 by The Transformative Studies Institute. All rights reserved.]


anti-(Z)-Bis(fenchylidene) (3) has been prepared. The crystal struc- ture of (3) displays an alkene torsion angle of 17.0 o and deforma- tions of the carbon-carbon bond lengths and angles around the alkene center. The chemical behavior of syn-(E)-bis(fenchylidene) (2) and (3) was found by the steric strain


Vitamin C and iron powder removal of chlorite by chemical reduction methods were studied. Experimental results showed that under the mass ratio of vitamin C and Cl O2-6.24, p H 5.5, adsorption time about 30 minutes, the removal rate can be up to 100%. And using 2.0 g iron powder for 900 ml chlorite water samples with concentrations of 3.37~27 mg/L and p H6.0, the adsorption rate of chlorite can be up to 96.3%, with effluent concentration of chlorite up to 0.337 mg/L, which can meet the standard of GB 5749-2006 of Sanitary Standard for Drinking Water.


Bel Canto Singing Technique. This article attempting to understand the subjectivity of a woman singer in musicperformance. The poststructuralist feminist perspective is used to focus on the historical and cultural backgroundof the woman's experiences. Based on the perspective, the research questions refer to: 1) the application of womansinger's knowledge and cultural perception in songs reproduction so that she can (re)construct her subjectivity; and2) the intention of woman singer to use Western classical music or seriosa in music performance. The life historymethod is used to understand all the subjective experiences of woman singer based on her perspective. The fi ndingsof this research are: 1) subjectivity (re)construction of a woman singer is depend on her knowledge and culturalperception so that her subjectivity is differ from others; and 2) the difference that a woman singer do in musicperformance is related to her intention, i.e. to struggle a music genre that she loves since in the early of her life.


Networked control system is a closed loop system in which information or data travel through the communication network. The presence of communication network will increase time delay and information losses. Due to these losses and delay the performance of the system decreases. This paper represents an analysis to find the stability of the networked control system with the varying time hindrances present in the network. In this research, it has been assumed that the delay in time is less than the sampling period. The stability conditions for NCS have been procured with the use of the Lyapunov function approach and has been described in terms of LMI(Linear Matrix Inequality).This examination confirm the adequate state of stability through MATLAB simulation and the numerical case demonstrates the outcome.


The lack of culturally appropriate services contributes to the low participation rate of Indigenous people in disability services. Understanding how disability is conceptualised is essential to developing culturally appropriate disability services. This study aimed to critically compare the conceptualisation of disability between Indigenous people and NSW government and non-government disability service agencies. Indigenous and policy sources were obtained from purposive and snowball sampling. The Indigenous conceptualisation of disability was understood through representations by Indigenous spokespeople in journal and newspaper articles and audiovisual materials. The disability service agency conceptualisation of disability was represented through the annual reports and programme guidelines of the NSW government agency and seven non-government disability agencies. The occupational justice framework guided critical analysis at the cultural interface. Four themes were identified: power and self-determination, eligibility, otherness, and identity and labels. Data showed disability agencies promote self-determination for Indigenous people and conceptualise disability as impairments affecting functioning, when assessing service access eligibility. Most Indigenous people do not self-identify as disabled and are categorised as culturally different within policies. Indigenous people experience marginalisation due to their cultural identity. Indigenous people are required to conform to the conceptualisation of disability proffered by agencies to access services. To develop culturally appropriate services, agencies must collaborate with Indigenous communities.


hylothorax refers to the presence of chyle in the pleural cavity as a result of thoracic duct disruption. It is either spontaneous or traumatic. Typically, it appears as a milky, opalescent odorless fluid, rich in triglycerides. Herein, 2 cases of spontaneous idiopathic chylothorax are reported, with a brief review of the literature. A 37-year-old Saudi man, who was admitted for investigation of a left basal opacity that was detected during medical fitness screening. He reported nocturnal episodes of dry cough and dyspnea with spontaneous resolution, however, he denied any medical treatment. On examination vital signs were within normal limits. There were old cautery scars over the right upper quadrant of the abdomen. Chest examination demonstrated signs of a left-sided pleural effusion. Chest radiography showed a left basal homogenous opacity suggestive of pleural effusion and right upper lobe linear shadow suggestive of azygus fissures (Figure 1). Blood investigations including complete blood count (CBC), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), liver and renal function tests were all within normal limits. Thoracentesis yielded 800 ml of a pinkish milky fluid, its analysis confirmed the presence of chyle with high triglycerides and low cholesterol level (Table 1). Cytology of pleural fluid revealed lymphocyte predominance, negative for malignant cells. Mantoux test was carried out and direct smear and culture for acid fast bacilli were negative. C Clinical Note


Objective: Accuracy of diagnosis is a fundamental thing in terms of plan of treatment. Nowadays, symptoms from lower urinary tract can be diagnosed accurately with videourodynamic study (VUDS). Videourodynamic combines a fluoroscopic voiding cystourethrogram with multichannel urodynamics, allowing anatomic and functional assessment of the bladder and outlet. Material & Methods: This research is a descriptive retrospective. Data was taken from the patients who underwent VUDS at Department of Urology Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital from 2012 to 2014. Patient's  characteristics were gender, age, chief complaint, working diagnosis pre investigation, and diagnosis after VUDS was performed. Then, data was analyzed in a descriptive fashion and presented using tables and narative form. Results: There were 8 male patients (67%) and 4 female (33%) who underwent VUDS. Most of the patients were children (75%). Five patients (42%) complained about incontinence with or without other LUTS, only 1 patient (8%) had LUTS and disuria. Overall, working diagnosis pre investigation was neurogenic bladder with various causes. We found a variable diagnoses after VUDS. At filling phase, we found 7 patients (58%) with small bladder capacity, 5 patients (42%) with low bladder compliance then followed respectively by overflow incontinence (33%), detrusor overactivity (17%) and urethral sphincter incompetence (8%). At voiding phase, the most common abnormality detected were detrusor underactivity (42%), followed by infravesical obstruction (8%). VUR was found both at filling phase (42%) and voiding phase (33%). Conclusion: VUDS could be the first choice of modality for diagnosing dysfunction of lower and upper urinary tract especially in neurogenic cases.


The most remarkable publication in Australian fiction for the year was Expressway, a collection of short stories 'hosted' by critic Helen Daniel. Twenty-nine writers answered Daniel's invitation to respond to Jeffrey Smart's painting, Cahill Expressway, which depicts a lone figure amid the concrete 'landscape' of the expressway. Contributors include many names familiar to readers of this Bibliography: Grenville, Hall, Hanrahan, Hasluck, Hospital, Jolley, Malouf, Wilding ... The volume has attracted wide praise for its imaginative conception and for bringing together so many fine writers. As Don Anderson said in Australian Book Review, it is an undeniable tribute to the energy and variety of Australian writing now'. Some pieces focus on the location, either past or present; others seek to identify the figure; others meditate


Oryzomys couesi, known as rice rat, has an ample distribution in Mexico, however, the information about this rodent is rather limited. In this study we analyzed the genetic diversity and differentiation of O. couesi populations in Southern Mexico (Yucatan, Campeche, Quintana Roo and Chiapas states) with microsatellite loci and cytochrome b sequences. We also evaluated the genetic variability, divergence and phylogeographic structuring of a subgroup of samples (Campeche, Chiapas and Cozumel). High genetic diversity was found, in terms of polymorphism (100%), number of alleles (11.2), haplotypic diversity (0.939) and observed (0.578) and expected (0.779) heterozygosity levels. Populations showed high genetic flow, with low genetic differentiation values, with exception of the population of Quintana Roo, which was significantly differentiated from Chiapas and Yucatan. Differentiation results were the same when, instead of using political divisions, populations were grouped based on vegetation type and geographic location of samples. Phylogeographically, results evidenced that the population from Cozumel originated by migration from the Yucatan peninsula, through several continent-island colonization events. Despite the fact that O. couesi in the study region has high genetic diversity levels, they are not as high as values found in other murid rodents. The moderate, but significant differentiation found between populations, particularly for Quintana Roo and Chiapas, is an indicative of the progressive isolation that populations are being subject to; likewise, population densities of the species have diminished significantly, altogether giving an exceptional conservation value to O. couesi, at least in Southern Mexico.


We have fabricated high-critical-temperature Josephson junctions using a focused ion beam (FIB) milling to define the gap, in a-axis oriented YBa2Cu3O7 (YBCO) films. A good quality normal metal/YBCO interface is obtained by in situ Au deposition. The effect of FIB milling has been studied with different milling conditions and the resulting devices exhibit different I–V characteristics, i.e., flux flow or superconductor/normal/superconductor Josephson junction behavior. The junctions exhibit Shapiro steps in their I–V characteristics under microwave irradiation. The critical current and normal resistance product (IcRn) of the order of 1 mV has been obtained. We also show that there is a voltage modulation in the superconducting quantum interference devices as a function of an applied magnetic flux up to 80 K.


The stereochemistry of N-acyl/N-sulfonyl 5H-dibenzo[b,d]azepin-7(6H)-ones (I, II) was examined in detail by freezing the conformation with a methyl group at the C-4 of dibenzoazepine. Because the two axes (axis 1, axis 2) move together concertedly, I and II exist only as a pair of enantiomers [(a1R, a2R) and (a1S, a2S)], which was confirmed by X-ray analysis of IIBc. It was elucidated that the amide derivatives I exist in equilibrium with the E/Z-amide (100:2–100:34), which means that the exocyclic bond (axis 3) is not in concert with the endocyclic axes (axis 1, axis 2). For the preparation of 5H-dibenzo[b,d]azepin-7(6H)-one, the intramolecular Friedel–Crafts acylation of N-(1,1′)-biphenyl-2-yl-glycine derivatives was revisited. It was revealed that the electron-withdrawing property of the amino-protective group was a key to the success of seven-membered cyclization.


As the proxy for expected return, the implied cost of capital (ICC) is subject to a mispricing-driven measurement error because the price of a stock used to compute ICC can deviate from its intrinsic value. For undervalued stocks, the mispricing-driven measurement error is positive and increases with the degree of undervaluation while for overvalued stocks, the mispricing-driven measurement error is negative and decreases with the degree of overvaluation. Therefore, ceteris paribus, lower ICC is equivalent to higher (lower) fundamental valuation efficiency (FVE) for undervalued (overvalued) stocks. Furthermore, our evidence, based on 11 constructs, shows that the estimated relation of an FVE-associated construct with ICC is a potentially biased estimate of its relation with expected return because its estimated relation with ICC also captures its relation with the mispricing-driven measurement error, the sign of which switches between undervalued and overvalued stocks. Existing methods do not seem able to address the bias.


It was studied the effect of sulfur content in diesel fuel on diesel smoke emission. 62 pieces of diesel vehicle were tested by filter paper smoke measurement method under free acceleration mode, compared the difference of exhaust smoke using two diffrence types of fuel, high sulfur diesel and low sulfur diesel.And it is found the lower the sulfur content,the lower the exhst smoke. And it was studied the effect of exhaust purification device on sulfuric acid salt contained in diesel exhaust particulate by engine test. And it is concluded Pd/γ-Al_2O_3 catalyst increase the content of sulfuric acid salt in exhaust particulates.


The article deals with the political action of afrodescendants in Mexico and the ethnicization process related to the identification of cultural and phenotypical features considered as "specific" ones. Ethnic and racial categories are constructed by academic, governmental and legal local agents as a way to confer a specific status to Afro-Mexicans. In Mexico, the political mobilization of civil and community organizations aims at promoting the constitutional recognition of "black populations", as well as the associated rights and public policies. The analysis of the emergence of the "Afro" issue in academic studies and in governmental institutional practices put the emphasis on the protagonists of this political process and on the "categories of difference" that are at the center of the debate.


Ranging from locations like Portland, to Honolulu, and from Miami to Bellingham, Wash., this country's hundreds of newspaper internships for journalism students are becoming more and more coveted experiences, with increasing competition for such opportunities mentioned frequently by news executives responding to continuing studies of the phenomenon. Problems explored, and therefore reflected in the research literature, include the following: the reaction of participants in a pioneer program, special seminars for interns of the previous summer, impressions upon professional journalists in the field, full-time internships lastingan entire semester, special problems in an urban area, the benefit of contracts, problems inherent in such contracts, selective admission to programs, guidelines for operation, the attitudes of school administrators, the requiring of internship for graduation, and the attitudes of former interns toward the media of mass communication. Internship has many advantages, participants tend to agree. The exchange of information facilitated is of mutual benefit to both Journalism schools and newspapers. Through requirements of internship programs — through the interns. themselves —journalism professors are betterable to monitor conditions and developments in the "real" world, and newspaper executives are able to comprehend the realities of education for journalism. In the past few years, several attempts have been made to obtain more detailed information about internships around the country, and perhaps organize the available information into a description of existing programs and exploration of their problems that can serve as a body of knowledge most helpful to both professors of journalism and newspaper executives engaged in organizing or conducting internships and increasing their quality. Just exactly what are the demonstrable benefits of journalism internships, however? Can those presumed


The generation and bulk transmission of electricity in England and Wales is the responsibility of the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB). Transmission is accomplished using a supergrid network operating at 400 and 275 kV and consisting of overhead lines, cables, switchgear and transformers.


tion about each subject population and gave rise to the academic discipline of statistica : literally the science of the state 1. The earliest efforts of nation-wide data gathering grew out of the eminently practical needs for information about military and economic potentials : the census was an essential tool in the establishment of national policies. Equally pragmatic considerations prompted the development of other bodies of statistics : registrations of marriages and births, divorce, disease, crime, mortality. All these statistics underwent a great deal of change during the first century of regular official bookkeeping : changes in data-gathering procedures, in definitions and classifications, in modes of presentation and publication. But there was an unmistakable trend toward


Abstract This study was conducted to extend the understanding and knowledge by examining the effect of climactericsymptoms and the cognitive function on QoL(Quality of life) of middle aged women. This study was conducted fromMarch 2nd to March 10th, 2014. The data was collected by self-report questionnaires from 204 middle aged women.There was a significantly positive correlation between the climacteric symptoms and cognitive function.A significantlynegative correlation was observed between the climacteric symptoms and QoL. The climacteric symptoms were a direct predictor and an indirect predicator of QoL mediated by the cognitive function. The study suggests that nursingintervention is needed to manage the climacteric symptoms and cognitive function for improving the QoL of middle aged women. Key Words : Climacteric Symptoms, Cognitive Function, Middle-aged Women, Quality of Life * Corresponding Author : Kyung-Hae Kim(Kimcheon Science College)Tel: +82-54-420-9214, email: firstname.lastname@example.com Received June 3, 2014 Revised (1st June 17, 2014, 2nd June 24, 2014, 3rd June 26, 2014) Accepted July 10, 2014


It is well known that the positive- and negative-frequency components of a real sinusoid spectrally interact with each other; thus, introducing bias in frequency estimation based on the periodogram maximization. We propose to filter out the negative-frequency component. To that end, a coarse frequency estimation is obtained using the windowing approach, known to reduce the estimation bias, and then used to filter out the negative-frequency component via modulation and discrete Fourier transform bin excision approach. Fine estimation is performed using accurate frequency estimators, developed for complex sinusoids, on the filtered signal. The proposed method is characterized by the O(N log2 N) complexity in terms of additions/multiplications and the O(N) complexity in terms of sine/cosine operations and comparisons. Moreover, it achieves the Cramer-Rao lower bound and is not sensitive to sinusoid frequency and initial phase, thus, outperforming the state-of-the-art methods.


Six peanut varieties with special testa color were arranged in pairs of 10 cross combinations, and 3 agronomic characters and 7 yield characters were tested for their heterosis.The results showed that the main stem height had the most powerful heterosis among tested agronomic characters.Among yield characters,the syntheitc characters\_\_pod yield per plant and seed yield per plant had better heterosis,each has 8 combinations showed over\|parent heterosis with ranges of 7\^1%~73\^4% and 12\^1%~71\^5%,respectively.The heterosis among combinations also has significant difference.In all characters except the No.of filled pods per plant,the tested white variety has more powerful heterosis than red variety when they were used as female parent.


The increase of clean energy requirement is still enhanced in order to reduce the effect of the global warming therefore, the augmentation of solar energy applications like the solar collectors is attended. The presentstudy of the Flat Plate Solar Collector (FPSC) is performed during the three days' time (2,3 and 4 of June). Where, the testing time is specified from 09:00Am up to 03:00Pm in order to give more obvious data. Moreover, the energy and exergy analysis equations are utilized to study the 1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics and to provide more appropriate results about the performance of the FPSC. The conducted results show an enhancement in the FPSC efficiency with respect to the increase of the solar irradiance where the last one was explained through one-day time. Furthermore, the FBSC exergy and energy efficiencies conduct the same behaviors during the daytime due to the effect of the solar radiation. In addition, the useful exergy and the exergy efficiency are raised with the progression of time until it reaches approximately midday and then dropped down because of the solar radiation reduction.


The present work arises from the need to solve the problems that exist in the Department of
Public Procurement of the District of Health 13D03 Jipijapa- Puerto Lopez for not having the
appropriate Administrative-Financial Control, controls that involve risks and have an impact on
the economic development of the population under study. Conducting management control is
of vital importance as it establishes measures to correct the activities, so that plans are
successfully achieved and this rather exists to verify the achievement of the objectives. The
objective of the proposed project is to evaluate the Administrative-Financial controls in the
Department of Public Procurement, with the present work will improve the service, and this way
it will be possible to give better and in this way the suppliers, users have a good vision of the
entity. The results in this research give as an alternative solution to this problem, to propose a
proposal for the entity under study.


Quantitative multilevel association rules mining is a central field to realize motivating associations among data components with multiple levels abstractions. The problem of expanding procedures to handle quantitative data has been attracting the attention of many researchers. The algorithms regularly discretize the attribute fields into sharp intervals, and then implement uncomplicated algorithms established for Boolean attributes. Fuzzy association rules mining approaches are intended to defeat such shortcomings based on the fuzzy set theory. Furthermore, most of the current algorithms in the direction of this topic are based on very tiring search methods to govern the ideal support and confidence thresholds that agonize from risky computational cost in searching association rules. To accelerate quantitative multilevel association rules searching and escape the extreme computation, in this paper, we propose a new genetic-based method with significant innovation to determine threshold values for frequent item sets. In this approach, a sophisticated coding method is settled, and the qualified confidence is employed as the fitness function. With the genetic algorithm, a comprehensive search can be achieved and system automation is applied, because our model does not need the user-specified threshold of minimum support. Experiment results indicate that the recommended algorithm can powerfully generate non-redundant fuzzy multilevel association rules.