This study examined the relationship between hedonic factors and casino game choice. The hedonic factors examined were emotion, sensation seeking and impulsivity, absorbing ex periences, and analytical characteristics. The constructs were measured using the Mehra bian and Russell Pleasure, Arousal, and Dominance Scale; the Zuckerman Sensation Seek ing and Impulsivity Scale; the Swanson Absorbing Experience Scale; and an analytical scale developed by the researchers. The data were factor analyzed and the resulting four- factor model was used in subsequent logistic regression to identify a game choice model for mechanical game players and table game players. Table game players are more deeply in volved and tend to be more aware of the intricacies of the games than mechanical game players. Table game players are not as impulsive and tend to be more controlled than me chanical game players.


Objective To report the first case of cervical l ymphadenitis caused by Candida albicans in China.Methods A series of clinical,histopatholog ic.and mycologic studies were carried out in an 8year-old-boy with cervical lymphadenitis,who had no definite underlying disease.Candida albicans was isolated fromthe patient.The lymph node was investigated by me ans of culture,pathological and tra nsmission electron microscopic examination and cellular immunology detected by flow cytometer.Results There were several enlarged,warm,a nd fluctuant cervical lymph nodes which varied fr om 1cm×1cm to 4cm×4cm in size.One swo llen node was excised,and Candida albicans was found in the culture.The histopathologic changes of the cervical lym ph node were compatible with chronic granulomatous disease.PAS and methenamine silver(PAM)stain of a touch preparation of the bi opsy specimen revealed budding spores an d pseudohyphae.Lymphopenia with a p roportionate decrease of T-helper a nd T-suppressor cells was shown with flowcytometry.The patient received a combination therapy of surgery,flu conazole,thymosin and so on.After one month,t he patient's condition was improved.Many small lymph nodes disappeared,large lymph nodes became smaller.Tw o months later,only one large lymph n ode could be touched.Conclusion It is the first case of cervical lymphad enitis caused by Candida reported in China.Combination therapy of surgery,fluconazole and thymosin is effective.


Reference arXiv:1904.03196 recently introduced an algorithm (QPS) for simulating parton showers with intermediate flavor states using polynomial resources on a digital quantum computer. We make use of a new quantum hardware capability called dynamical quantum computing to improve the scaling of this algorithm to significantly improve the method precision. In particular, we modify the quantum parton shower circuit to incorporate mid-circuit qubit measurements, resets, and quantum operations conditioned on classical information. This reduces the computational depth from $\mathcal{O}(N^5\log_2(N)^2)$ to $\mathcal{O}(N^3\log_2(N)^2)$ and the qubit requirements are reduced from $\mathcal{O}(N\log_2(N))$ to $\mathcal{O}(N)$. Using"matrix product state"statevector simulators, we demonstrate that the improved algorithm yields expected results for 2, 3, 4, and 5-steps of the algorithm. We compare absolute costs with the original QPS algorithm, and show that dynamical quantum computing can significantly reduce costs in the class of digital quantum algorithms representing quantum walks (which includes the QPS).


This paper argues that a purely probabilistic version of bidirectional Optimality-Theoretic syntax and semantics (Blutner 2000; Zeevat 2000) can make some significant contributions to the computational processing of natural language. The ideas outlined in this paper apply to interpretation as well as generation, but particular attention will be given to the question how bidirectionality can be put to use in Natural Language Generation. The paper sketches a number of different possible approaches, but one of them will be described in more detail, at the heart of which lies an empirically oriented notion of vicious ambiguity.


Abstract This study included 146 primary gastric diffuse large B-cell lymphoma patients. Next-generation RNA sequencing and fluorescent in situ hybridization were performed on tumors from 27 and 38 patients, respectively. Five-year and 10-year overall survival (OS) rates were 77% and 57%, respectively. Lugano and TNM clinical stage were independent survival factors. Tier I mutation was found in 21 patients. The genetic subtypes were A53 (n = 3), MCD (n = 5), BN2 (n = 5), N1 (n = 5), EZB (n = 1), and NOS (n = 8). OS was significantly shorter in high-risk genetic subtypes (A53, MCD, and N1) than low-risk subtypes (BN2, EZB, and NOS). Frequencies of high-risk genetic subtypes were higher in patients with Lugano stage II/IV and TNM clinical stage III + IV than in those with Lugano stage I and TNM clinical stage I + II. Although genetic testing was performed in only a small number of cases, the results suggested that high-risk genetic subtypes were associated with advanced clinical stages and shorter survival.


Abstract Interest in soft x-ray spectroscopy of solids has seen a sharp revival in the past ten years, and the many advances during that time have been both experimental and theoretical. Following the initial impetus given to the subject in the period from about 1936 to the late 1940's, chiefly by the experimental work of Farineau,1 Skinner,2 and Cauchois,3 coupled with the theoretical groundwork of Mott and Jones,4 the field remained almost static for nearly a decade. Then two largely complementary review articles, by D. H. Tomboulian5 in 1957 and L. G. Parratt6 in 1959, respectively, probably brought the renewal of interest observed in the 1960's and certainly formed a springboard for the steady development of experimental and theoretical techniques that has since occurred. Most of the material in those two surveys remains today as an important framework around which the subject has grown.


A number of systems extend the traditional web and Web 2.0 technologies by providing some form of integration with semantic web data [1,2,3]. These approaches build on tested content management systems (CMSs) for facilitating users in the semantic web. However, instead of directly managing existing linked data, these systems provide a mapping between their own data model to linked datasets using an RDF or OWL vocabulary. This sort of integration can be seen as a read or write only approach, where linked data is either imported into or exported from the system. The next step in this evolution of CMSs is a full integration with linked data: allowing ontology instances, already published as linked data, to be directly managed using widely used web content management platforms. The motivation is to keep data (i.e., linked data repositories) loosely-coupled to the tool used to maintain them (i.e., the CMS). In this poster we extend [3], a query builder for SPARQL, with an update mechanism to allow users to directly manage their linked data from within the CMS. To make the system sustainable and extensible in future, we choose to use Drupal as the default CMS and develop a module to handle query/update against a triple store. Our system, which we call a Linked Data Content Management System (Linked Data CMS) [4], performs similar operations to those of a traditional CMS but whereas a traditional CMS uses a data model of content types stored in some relational database back end, a Linked Data CMS performs CRUD (create, read, update and delete) operations on linked data held in a triple store. Moreover, we show how the system can assist users in producing and consuming linked data in the cultural heritage domain and introduce 2 case studies used for system evaluation.


Aimed at the scaling and emulsion of the ASP system,the binary system was composed with surfactant and polymer,the interfacial tension,emulsion phenomenon,salt-resistant properties,rheology effect and increasing oil of the binary system are evaluated through the laboratory testing analysis.Results show that binary system is more adaptable to the oil and water of Daqing Oil Field,its interfacial tension can reach the 10-3 mN/m.60 days later,the emulsion layer did not change significantly.Scanning electron microscope revealed the emulsion droplet radius of the main distribution for 7~12 μm,accounting for 61.8%.Binary system is more salt-resistant when NaCl quality scores from 1 g/L to 8 g/L,interfacial tension always maintained 10-3 mN/m order of magnitude.At the same time,binary composite has better performance and increasing oil flow effect than the water flooding enhanced oil recovery by 20%.


There exist several methods dealing with the reconstruction of rooted phylogenetic networks explaining different evolutionary histories given by rooted binary phylogenetic trees. In practice, however, due to insufficient information of the underlying data, phylogenetic trees are in general not completely resolved and, thus, those methods can often not be applied to biological data. In this work, we make a first important step to approach this goal by presenting the first algorithm --- called allMulMAAFs --- that enables the computation of all relevant nonbinary maximum acyclic agreement forests for two rooted (nonbinary) phylogenetic trees on the same set of taxa. Notice that our algorithm is part of the freely available software Hybroscale computing minimum hybridization networks for a set of rooted (nonbinary) phylogenetic trees on an overlapping set of taxa.


Human space exploration has not ventured beyond low earth orbit and the moon. It is understood that a suite of manufacturing capabilities will be needed on long duration, long endurance missions to reduce logistics and enhance crew safety, enabling rapid response to unforseen situations. The International Space Station provides a unique opportunity for NASA and commercial partners to test out the manufacturing technologies needed on missions humanity will undertake in the post-ISS era. The in-space manufacturing (ISM) project at NASA and numerous commercial companies funded under this program are working to develop the manufacturing systems, skill sets, materials and techniques needed to support these future exploration missions. This paper provides an overview of technologies developed or in development under the helm of the ISM project that stand to change historical paradigms for human spaceflight and approaches to mission planning. Categories and activities on the ISM roadmap are also discussed. In the near term, these activities lead to the development of a multimaterial fabrication laboratory for the International Space Station, a unit capable of processing multiple materials and performing part inspection. In the long term, they represent a key foundational step on the path to reducing dependence on earth and making humanity a space-faring species..


In [6] Mora described an algorithm which, if it terminates, returns a noncommutative Grobner basis. Here we follow that paper to prove the correctness of the algorithm as implemented by Die Gijsbers and the author in GAP, cf. [1]. The algorithm is the core algorithm of the GAP package GBNP for computing with non-commutative polynomials. Earlier versions of this section were written with the help of Die Gijsbers.


Effectiveness of High Intensity Radial Shock Wave Therapy in The Treatment of Chronic Plantar Fasciitis Demoulin C*1,2, Vanderthommen M.1,2, Fromm A.2, Laurent JM.1, Donneau AF.3, Bornheim S.1,2, Crielaard JM.1,2, Kaux JF1,2 1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Liege University Hospital Center, Liege, Belgium. 2Department of Sport and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium 3Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, University of Liege, Belgium *Corresponding author: Dr. Demoulin Christophe, Universitry of Liege, ISEPK, Bat B21, Sart -Tilman, 4000 Liege, Belgium, Tel: +3243663895; Email: email@example.com Received: 08-14-2015 Accepted: 09-10-2015 Published: 09-24-2015 Copyright: © 2015 Demoulin Research Article


Humans learn in an incremental manner. Due to this reason, humans continuously refine their knowledge of the environment with the experience gained. Many strides have been made in the machine learning area to exploit the power of incremental learning. Incremental learning, in contrast to onetime learning is far more useful and effective when data is not completely available at once. Here, we investigate an unsupervised incremental learning algorithm known as Incremental Knowledge Acquisition and Self Learning (IKASL) algorithm. IKASL algorithm is able to capture knowledge in an incremental manner, without disrupting past knowledge. Furthermore, IKASL algorithm encodes acquired knowledge in such a way that it can be used to acquire new knowledge more efficiently. This paper discusses several limitations of original IKASL algorithm and proposes several extensions to the original algorithm which enhances its performance. These modifications include influencing spread factor, implementing fuzzy integral based generalizing technique, etc. Furthermore, the paper report observations of several experiments conducted with several datasets to assess the necessity and value of incremental learning in the real world. These experiments are carefully designed to reflect interesting characteristics of the IKASL algorithm.


Objective:To explore new modes of stomatology technology teaching and cultivate high-quality skilled professionals to meet the needs of modern denture production industries.Methods: We rely on School-enterprises education, competency-based education , employment-oriented education and dual education , train students in vocational capacity; we adopt synthesis training model "doing, learning and teaching unity, professional teaching and real job unity, internship and employmentunity",we nurture talent by "trinity". Results: The tripartite participation achieve win-win situation by "Dual-educating people, the trinity" training model,① School: the quality of teaching ,the reputation of society, the quality of employment, and the quality of teaching can be improved,at the same time lower the cost of teaching. ②Students: general vocational ability can be improved,passing rate of practice skills tests can achieve 100 percent , passing rate of vocational qualification examination can reach 90%, psychological quality and employability and competitiveness can be enhanced, the 2008 session of graduate employment rate is as high as 93%. ③ Enterprises: staff quality can be improved, the stability of workforce can be enhanced, production costs can be reduced.Conclusion: "Dual-educating people, the trinity" model suit the higher vocational education construction and development of stomatology technology schools, businesses and students tripartite participation achieve win-win situation. It is worthy of promotion.


Root cluster section culture, showing high efficient Protocorm-like body (PLB) formation capacity, were established in Doritaenopsis hybrids. Three types of root were obtained from excised shoots in 1/2MS medium containing different concentrations of NAA; \circled1normal roots, \circled2multiple roots and \circled3abnormal root clusters. Those were placed on 1/2MS medium supplemented with 0.5 mg/L thidiazuron for PLB regeneration. PLB regeneration rate was greater in root cluster section cultures (77.8%) compare to normal root tip cultures(30%). Number of PLBs regenerated from root cluster sections were counted over 11 per explant (5.3 per normal root tip).High frequency of PLB regeneration was achieved in root cluster section culture. This result can be used as an efficient method for clonal proliferation of Doritaenopsis hybrids.


Pangasinan is one of the largest provinces in Region I and in the country. It is located in northwestern Luzon, bounded in the north by La Union province, in the east by Nueva Ecija province, in the south by Tarlac province, and in the west by Zambales province. Pangasinan covers a total land area of 536,818 ha with four cities, 44 municipalities and 1,364 barangays. Its 285.66 km coastline extends from San Fabian in the east to Infanta in the west, and is the longest in the region covering 2 cities, 12 municipalities and 123 coastal barangays. Most of the cities and municipalities lie along the historic Lingayen Gulf and Dasol Bay along the West Philippine Sea with an area of approximately 428,400 ha. !e Gulf, along with 9,000 ha of communal bodies of water, is a major "shing ground of the coastal communities. Pangasinan is the third most populous province in the country and in Region I with a population of 2,906,085 people as of 2013. About 29% of the population resides in the coastal areas comprising around 135,000 families who are highly dependent on "shing as their main source of livelihood and income.


In a study of 1000 cases, Weisel and Tella reported 19 reactions, 12 minor, 7 severe with the topical use of tetracaine.s In contrast to Titche's 0.5% solution, they utilized a 2% solution but claimed that the total dose was held below 30 to 40 mg. (The accepted clinical limit today is similar.) Himalsteirrt quotes Ireland's statistics showing tetracaine reactions occur twice as often as cocaine reactions. Adriani and Campbells ( in 1956, incidentally) noted ten fatalities following the topical application of tetracaine for endoscopy in a 15year period at Charity Hospital. They felt conclusively that the hospital records indicated an obvious overdosage in each case. But even more perturbing is the lack of prodrome with tetracaine. "The major distinction between reactions due to tetracaine and those of other topical anesthetics has been the absence of convulsions and the abrupt onset of syncope. The interval between the onset of symptoms and the moment of fatal termination was brief. The train of events occurred so quickly, and in such rapid succession, that there was little time for evaluation of symptoms, differential diagnosis, and antidotal therapy.t'b This statement implies that at least with other topical anesthetics the physician has a chance to step in.


Students who are the first in their family to go to university (first-generation students [FGS]) are still underrepresented at universities. One of the considered reasons for this is their lack of social support. Our study followed a group of German students at two time points: after their first educational choice and at the end of their first semester. According to social cognitive career theory, we tested for the effect of self-efficacy beliefs on intention to drop out, mediated by confidence in vocational choice. Following a social network perspective, we analyzed the moderating effect of support network size and support network quality. The findings reveal a complete mediation and add to the empirical evidence on social cognitive career theory. They demonstrate the special importance of social support for FGS. High-quality support networks help FGS struggling with confidence in their vocational choice to follow their university goals instead of dropping out but have no effect for other students.


This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions of a diffusive SIR system with nonlocal delay. We obtain the existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions, which formulate the propagation of disease without outbreak threshold. Moreover, it is proved that at any fixed moment, the faster the disease spreads, the more the infected individuals, and the larger the recovery/remove ratio is, the less the infected individuals.


In this study, the effects of the solvent used to prepare Co–B alloy on its catalytic properties were investigated. The solvent effects on the morphology, composition, and specific surface area of the alloy particles were also examined. The morphology of the alloy particles was found to be dependent on the solvent. The particles were granular in water, methanol, and acetone, although the particle diameters differed, whereas they were nanoflake-like in acetonitrile. Acetonitrile produced the largest surface area of the alloy particles, but the lowest catalytic activity for the hydrolysis of NaBH4 owing to the ready oxidation of the particles in air. The Co–B in acetone exhibited the highest catalytic activity, represented by a hydrogen generation rate of 5733 mL·min−1·g−1 during the hydrolysis of 1.5 wt % NaBH4 at 298 K. This hydrogen generation rate is more than twice that produced by the Co–B in water.


Ru-Sn/Al2O3 catalysts with different Sn loadings were prepared by the coimpregnation method. Several characterization techniques such as TPR, pyridine TPD and catalytic tests for dehydrogenation and hydrogenolysis were used to evaluate and compare such catalysts. TPR results indicate that Sn is deposited both onto the support and as species strongly interacting with Ru. Such non selective deposition modifies the acid and metallic functions of the catalysts. Both total acidity and acid strength distribution are affected: total acidity decreases and new sites of lower acid strength are created. Both dehydrogenating and hydrogenolytic activities are strongly diminished by the addition of Sn. Results of catalytic tests for methyl oleate hydrogenation indicate that methyl stearate is the main product, with only minute amounts of oleyl alcohol produced, and that the addition of Sn diminishes the hydrogenation activity.


This article discusses the prospects of Ireland emerging from crisis renewed and reformed as a second republic. Evidence from opinion polls and surveys confirms Irish citizens value key republican principles of equality, rights and fair distribution; however, trust in politics, government and non-government organisations is low and the 2016 general election confirmed the absence of leadership to create political momentum around such values. The answer to the question of what is needed to generate a new politics or a high energy democracy lies in understanding how the crisis has impacted on values and attitudes towards key leadership institutions and how it has changed Irish political and civil society. Examining the relationship and linkages between the two allows some assessment of Irish political and civil society's capacity for a values-led discourse that could promote a transformative-type change. We identify the absence of effective framing, a necessary prerequisite for effective linkage and mobilisation. What is required for new politics is an Irish triple movement which incorporates gender and social reproduction, as well as environmental and traditional distributional concerns about income equality and public services. Such framing offers potential to mobilise across a wide range of actors and create a livelier battleground in which the interests of a much wider section of the population can find expression, create new alliances, reshape power relations and, over time, create a second republic.


Three detachment mechanisms proposed in the literature (via resistivity, via electron inertia, and via induced magnetic field) are analyzed with an axisymmetric model of the expansion of a small-beta, weakly collisional, near-sonic plasma in a diverging magnetic nozzle. The model assumes cold, partially magnetized ions and hot, isothermal, fully magnetized electrons. Different conditions of the plasma beam at the nozzle throat are considered. A central feature is that a positive thrust gain in the nozzle of a plasma thruster is intimately related to the azimuthal current in the plasma being diamagnetic. Then, and contrary to existing expectations, the three aforementioned detachment mechanisms are divergent, that is, the plasma beam diverges outwards of the guide nozzle, further hindering its axial expansion and the thrust efficiency. The rate of divergent detachment is quantified for the small-parameter range of the three mechanisms. Alternative mechanisms for a convergent detachment of the plasma beam are suggested.


The normal college military education is the base of national defence and a new content of college educational reformation.In this paper the author analyses the status quo in the development of college military pedagogy and expoundes its necessity.At the same time the author puts forward appropriate countermeasures which play a proper role in talent training.


To explore the physical characteristics of planosol,the highland planosol in east of Heilongjiang province was taken as texted soil,anti-shear strength and brittleness of planosol were determined and analyzed.The results showed that the cohesion of albic soil layer was the biggest in planosol,followed by the deposition layer soil and topsoil.Soil adhesion of deposition layer soil was the biggest in planosol,followed by the albic soil layer and topsoil.The external friction angle of soil was increasing fro topsoil to deposition layer.The cohesion and friction angle of soil were reduced when soil moisture increased,soil adhesion opposite.Topsoil was most easily broken in planosol,deposition layer soil hard to be broken.When water content of topsoil and the deposition layer soil was lower than soil plastic limit stage,the energy consumption of crushing soil increased with soil water content increasing,and it formed the peak stage when it was up to the soil plastic limit.The energy consumption of crushing soil decreased with soil water content increasing,it formed different sized clod when the soil was destroyed,large clod ratio increased with soil water content,topsoil was easily broken into smaller blocks and soil crumbs,deposition layer soil was not easily broken.


Objective:To study the expression of multidrug resistance-related protein 3(MRP3) and its correlation with prognosis in gallbladder cancer.Methods:Immunohistochemical SP method was used to detect the expression of MRP3 in 50 cases of gallbladder cancer.Results:The main location of MRP3 was in the nuclear,and the strong positive expression rate was 72%.The expression of MRP3 was closely correlated with metastasis,Nevin stage,and differentiation(P 0.05).The overall survival(OS) of all patients was 16.42 moths,while the OS in strong(13.25 months) and weak(22.64 months) positive group was significantly different(P 0.05).Univariate analysis revealed that overall survival of patients was inversely associated with its staining,metastasis,Nevin stage,and differentiation(P 0.05).Multivariate analysis showed that MRP3 staining and metastasis were independent prognostic markers for overall survival of gallbladder cancer(P 0.05).Conclusion:MRP3 may play important role in gallbladder cancer oncogenesis.The high expression of MRP3 is related to the differentiation and metastasis of gallbladder cancer,and prognosis.


A wideband beamsplitter on ZnSe substrate was designed with reflectance to transmittance ratio of 50/50.The working spectrum is from 3 μm to 13 μm.The electron beam physical vapor deposition(EBPVD)method was used to fabricate the beamsplitter.Two types of infrared coating materials zinc selennide(ZnSe)and germanium(Ge)are used in this process.Spectrum GX infrared Fourior Transform spectrometer was used to measure the transmittance of the beamsplitter.The test result indicates that its average transmittance is about 50%.The beamsplitter has the wideband neutral beamsplitte character and the test result fits the design well.Measurement of stability and firmness indicates the coatings had good performance and the beamsplitter can be used in some rigour environment.


The purpose of this study was to clarify the efflux transport system of choline from brain to blood across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in rats using the brain efflux index (BEI) method. Choline was micro-injected into parietal cortex area 2 (Par2) of the rat brain, and was eliminated from the brain with elimination halflife of 45 min. The BBB efflux clearance of choline was about 124 mL/min/g brain, which was determined from combination of an elimination rate constant and the distribution volume in the brain (8.05 mL/g brain). The efflux of choline was inhibited by unlabeled choline in a dose-dependent manner and was significantly inhibited by cationic substrates, such as hemicholinium-3 and tetraethylammonium (TEA). These results suggest that the BBB may act as an efflux pump for choline to reduce the excessive choline concentration in the brain interstitial fluid.


This paper considers a two-level supply chain which consists of a single-vendor and a single-buyer. The vendor produces a single product in lot and transfers the whole lot to the buyer in a combination of equal and unequal sized batches. All unequal sized batches are in a geometric progression with a fixed common ratio. Consumer's demand is sensitive to the retail price and greening improvement level of the product. At the buyer, planned shortages are allowed and are completely backlogged. Assuming that the buyer has higher decision power than the vendor, we develop non-coordinated decentralised model and coordinated model with cost sharing contract, and the integrated centralised model. The numerical results show that the cost sharing contract gives an impressive improvement in the profits of both the vendor and the buyer over their profits in the non-coordinated system. A sensitivity analysis is performed to explore how the changes in the key model-parameters effect the optimal profits of the vendor and the buyer and the whole supply chain.


The first replacement for lost blood was in the 16th and 17th century, when animal blood was directly transfused from an animal to a human. The results were, predictably, devastating. Nevertheless, it took a papal decree to put a stop to this xenograft practice. By 1818, the British obstetrician, Blundell, not only experimented with autotransfusion for acute blood loss, but also transfused homologous blood as well [1]. Not until an understanding of blood typing, in the early 1900s, and the establishment of blood banks, in the late 1930s, that blood transfusions became widely used for injured patients.


Given the current demographic trends and future growth projections, as much as 60% of the global population may suffer water scarcity by the year 2025 [9]. In addition to water scarcity, water quality deterioration is expected to intensify in resourcepoor countries in dry areas, due to human activity and climate change. It is projected that water scarce countries will have to increasingly rely on alternative water resources such as wastewater to narrow the gap between water demand and supply for agriculture [16,18,19]. There are large gaps between developing and developed countries as well as lowand high-income countries for managing wastewater generated within their boundaries. High-income countries on average treat 70% of the generated wastewater, followed by upper-middle-income countries (38%), lower-middleincome countries (28%), and low-income countries, where only 8% of the wastewater generated is treated [31]. Wastewater treatment and use and/or disposal in the arid and semi-arid regions of developed countries, such as western North America, Australia, and southern Europe, are motivated by stringent effluent discharge regulations and public preferences regarding environmental quality [13]. Treated wastewater is primarily for irrigation, given the increasing competition for water between agriculture and other sectors [31,34]. In developing countries, wastewater treatment is limited, as investments in treatment facilities have not kept pace with persistent increases in population and the consequent increases in wastewater Manzoor Qadir United Nation University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)


Regarding 'Suggestions on Reinforcing the Training work of Educational Talents of Higher Vocation and Higher Education of Profession'issued by Ministry of Education as guiding ideology,referring to the experiences of some countries and areas in which education is highly developed and combining the present conditions and characteristics of the hither vocational education in Guangxi,this article puts foward the views on how to build the teaching staff with quality of the double-function teachers in higher vocational school,which is characteristic of Guangxi.


Fibroadenomas are the most common breast tumor in adolescents and young women.They comprise  20% of benign breast masses and 12% of all breast masses in postmenopausal women. Smooth muscle metaplasia and adipose differentiation are uncommon forms of stromal differentiation encountered in a minority of fibroadenomas. Liposarcoma can arise from pre-existing benign lesions like phylloides tumour or from lipoid tissue in the breast. In this article we present a case of 38 year-old female who presented with a right breast mass which was clinically diagnosed as a case of fibroadenoma, but histologically showed a low grade well-circumscribed liposarcoma discovered in a pericanalicular type of fibroadenoma with stromal adipose differentiation. According to our knowledge, this the first case of a well-circumscribed liposarcoma arises in fibroadenoma of the breast. Virtual Slides: www.diagnosticpathology.eu/vs/2016_2_100/


A model is proposed which describes the electrostriction temporal shift of laser pulses in their high-frequency train propagating in an optical fibre. The validity of the model is confirmed by good agreement of its predictions with the results of studies of relative temporal shifts in the high-frequency train of optical solitons known from the literature. The model predicts the possibility of a substantial reduction of temporal shifts in the data pulse train in fibreoptic links composed of fibres with different signs of dispersion. For comparatively low pulse repetition rates (less than 500 MHz), the oscillating dependence of the relative temporal shift of pulses on the data transmission rate is found.


Although appendicularians are relevant primary consumers and are part of every zooplankton community, there is a lack of information on the species present in different ocean regions. Thus, regional identification guides are useful to develop datasets with high taxonomic resolution. Appendicularian species were identified in 33 epipelagic samples of zooplankton collected in several locations of Costarican waters. Eighteen appendicularian species were identified, of which 15 were found in the Pacific and only three in the Caribbean. Seven species are new records for Costa Rican Pacific waters (Appendicularia sicula, Fritillaria charybdae, F. cf. pacifica, F. tenella, F. pellucida f. omani, Oikoipleura fusiformis f. cornutogastra and Pelagopleura verticalis). Data for each species distribution in Costa Rica is presented together with a key for the identification of appendicularian species recorded in the Inter-American seas and the Eastern Tropical Pacific.


When antimony pentafluoride is refluxed with sulphur trioxide, a new compound with the composition SDF5•SO3 is formed together with sulphuryl fluoride, disulphuryl fluoride, and small amounts of the higher polysulphuryl fluorides. This compound is a colorless, very viscous liquid. From the chemical analysis, the F19 N.M.R. spectrum, and the Raman and infrared spectra of the liquid it was concluded that the compound is antimony tetrafluoride monofluorosulphate SbF4(SO3F) and that it is highly polymerized in the liquid state by fluorosulphate bridges that can have either a cis or a trans orientation with respect to each other; the former occurring to a greater extent than the latter.


The alleged failure of the capital market to service small firms has featured prominently for at least 60 years within debates over Britain's economic difficulties. In addition to extensive discussion by academics, financial journalists and other commentators, the neglect of small firms' financial needs has come under repeated official examination, including by the Macmillan (1931), Radcliffe (1959), Bolton (1971) and Wilson (1979) committees. The 'gap' in the provision of finance affecting small firms, famously identified by the Macmillan Committee, consequently appears to be an enduring feature of the British financial system. With regard to loan finance, it has been argued that this gap arose from the highly cartelised structure of British banking, which has allowed banks to ration loans to small firms far beyond the level justified by problems of asymmetric information.


Large-molecule polyhydroxy organic acids such as tartaric acid and citric acid were found to significantly promote the cooperative formation of mesoporous silica SBA-15 with homogeneous well-defined hexagonal mesostructure under much weaker acidities without addition of volatile inorganic acids; therefore a novel environmental benign route for SBA-15 synthesis was developed, It is suggested that the polar groups of polyhydroxy acid molecules can greatly strengthen the assembly interactions between the silica species and the triblock copolymer by providing hydrogen bonding. More interestingly, by controlling the strength of hydrogen-bonding interaction that is dependent on the concentration of carboxylic acids, the particle size of the product can be tailored. The silica with small particle size synthesized with a small amount of polyhydroxy acids was favorable support of palladium catalyst for the complete oxidation of volatile organic compounds in atmosphere, probably due to the facilitated diffusion of reactant molecules.


To restrain the total deterioration of the roads is important to develop procedures to support quality control, with respect to maintenance and rehabilitation of the pavement. Such procedures are performed empirically and incorrectly, leading to an increase in the deterioration rate and, consequently, an increase in costs for users and public management. The aim of this research is to validate in the office a visual scale composed of photographs representing each classification interval adopted to verify pavements condition. Basic information about the evaluation process was showed to both rating panels selected. The visual scale used as reference in this study was also presented to only one of the panels. Both panels rated photographs of various surface conditions of urban roads, classifying them by assigning grades from 0 (zero) to 10 (ten). It was concluded that it is possible to use a visual scale for classification urban pavements due its influence on reducing dispersion in the judgment of the raters.


Femtosecond (fs)-laser micromachining is an effective material processing method because of its ultrashort pulse width and extremely high peak intensity. Fs-laser micromachining technology has been widely used to process photonic integrated devices. Lithium niobate (LN) crystal is a common material in integrated and guided-wave optics because of its excellent electro-optic, nonlinear optical, and piezoelectric properties. This review describes fs-laser processing of LN crystal, mainly focusing on the physical principle of fs-laser processing and the recent advances of LN-based photonic devices. Fs-laser technology makes LN crystal a promising platform in the field of micro-nano photonics.


The crew will work 7 a.m. to approximately 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday to replace old, obsolete water lines. The City will be installing a new water main line and meter boxes at each residence. This project is being done to improve water service in the area and will take approximately four weeks to complete. For the safety of the public and City employees, sections of each street will be completely closed throughout the project while the crew is digging, and access will be restricted. However, every effort will be made to provide local access to property when possible. Parking will also be restricted in the construction zone, and residents are asked to park all vehicles away from the area during the day. At the close of each day, access will be restored to all properties. The work will also cause short-term disruptions to water service. Individuals in and around the construction zone are encouraged to keep a supply of drinking water available.


In this paper, by using the general finite element analysis software ANSYS, a solid model of tubesheet, with tube-channel, part of shell and tubes, which is used in 600 MW station boiler high pressure water heater, was established. Then, the temperature field of the model was analyzed. And the temperature distribution of the tubesheet was abtained as follows: In the perforated region, the temperature distribution from the tube-side and along most of the tubesheet thickness is close to the temperature of the tube-side fluid flowing through the tubes, and only in a thin area from the shell-side, the temperature is close to the temperature of the shell-side fluid near the tubesheet.


Data mining has a significant impact on the business world to analyze the available data, which helps the organization support decision-making. On the other hand, schools, universities, and colleges adapt educational data mining and artificial intelligence to analyze the available data to improve educational policy. In this study, four classifiers-Decision Tree, K-Nearest Neighbor, Logistic Regression, and Naive Bayes-were used as part of a classification process. This study will be helpful to the university that offers an Information Technology Education (ITE) program for student admission based on the information technology selected predictors in this study. There were 8 predictors selected based on the correlation coefficient evaluation. The strongest predictor was the mathematical skill which gained 0.767. dditionally, the accuracy, precision, recall, and f1 score of each classifier's performance have all been examined. However, K-Nearest Neighbor perceived the highest accuracy with 93.18%, precision gained 97.98%, the recall had 88.13% and the F1 score percentage had 92.76%.


Background: Obesity represents the main cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. At the emergency room, the obese patient acquires significance due to the possibility of having different clinical presentation,


Elephants become collateral damage in the fight against crop-using boars Crop use by wild boars is an increasing threat to livelihoods of small-scale farmers in Kerala, India. A government order exists that permits the killing of wild boars under stringent clauses, but many farmers view it as insufficient to address the problem, as it involves a complex and prolonged process. In the absence of easy legal measures to ward off wild boars, farmers look for alternatives that are often illegal, such as cable wires, neem cakes, barbed wires, bamboo fencings, fish nets and firecrackers. Such was the case involving the death of a pregnant wild elephant in Palakkad district in May , which was widely reported and commented on in news and social media. Evidence suggests the elephant had consumed a coconut stuffed with a crude bomb to target wild boars. Wildlife experts say selective culling of boars could be a possible solution, but also call for reducing human disturbances in the buffer zones of forests and protected areas. Source: Mongabay () india.mongabay. com///elephants-become-collateraldamage-in-the-fight-against-crop-raidingboars


Background: Rice is one of the major staple crops of human population. Worldwide escalating human populace exerts pressure to increase rice production. To fulfill the demand, the injudicious application of chemical fertilizers is posing grave threat to the environment together with the entire living population. A suitable replacement of these harmful fertilizers is needed in modern agriculture to keep the biodiversity undisturbed. The main objective of the study is to screen and explore indigenous plant growth promoting fungi which can replace the conventional fertilizers.
Methods: Rhizospheric soil of different rice cultivating fields were collected in the year 2018. Different in vitro assays of the fungal isolates obtained from the soil were performed to check their plant growth promotion capabilities.
Result: 20 different indigenous fungal isolates were studied to evaluate their ability as PGPF for organic cultivation of Tulaipanji, an endemic aromatic rice variety cultivated in Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal, India. Trichoderma harzianum TaK12 and Trichoderma aureoviride TaN16 were found to enhance maximum shoot and root length of rice plant. These two isolates also showed efficacy in phosphate solubilization. Trichoderma aureoviride TaN16 together with Penicillium citrinum PcK10 and Aspergillus niger AnK1 produced high amount of IAA. The results obtained from the study clearly indicate that these plant growth promoting fungi (PGPF) possess the ability to boost up plant growth.


Opinions on whether Britain will be ready to enter the EU in 2019 differ. Simeon Djankov introduces the Brexit Readiness Score: updated quarterly, the index would track the negotiations' progress in ten components, each scored on a scale from 0 (no progress) to 10 (full readiness). Based on the data available so far, he estimates the UK's current readiness to be at 9 out of 100


This LibGuide provides essential resources in English as a Second Language (R. J. Daley College/AVI) Provides learning tools related to learning and instruction of ESL.


A power supply system of an airport runway/taxiway closure identification lamp apparatus comprises a storage battery set, a generator or a solar panel, a charging device, an electric power monitoring device, and an embedded controller, wherein the storage battery set supplies power to each electrical part of the identification lamp apparatus; the charging device is connected with the generator, commercial power, or the solar panel to charge the storage battery set; the electric power monitoring device is used for monitoring the usage state of the storage battery set; and the embedded controller is capable of transmitting the work state of the identification lamp apparatus to a remote wireless terminal and responding to an instruction transmitted from the remote wireless terminal, and the embedded controller is also capable of automatically adjusting the five-grade brightness of an identification lamp or closing the identification lamp, thereby preventing the identification lamp from having a dazzling effect on pilots. The power supply system of the utility model is capable of enabling the identification lamp apparatus to realize the infinite continuous work. A primary power supply and a standby power supply can be switched automatically. Besides, the work state of the identification lamp apparatus can be uploaded to the remote wireless terminal for facilitating the maintenance of the identification lamp apparatus.


Reaction of naphthalene-1.8-bis(dichlorophosphine) with sodium selenide and selenium gives naphthalene-1,8-diyl)-1,3,2,4-diselenoxodiphosphetane 2,4-diselenide (27), a molecule with its four-membered PSePSe ring spanned by a naphthalene-1,8-diyl backbone. 27 was fully characterised, including by X-ray diffraction. Unusually, the reaction yielded not only 27, but also a polymeric or oligomeric material that was selenium deficient, containing significant amount of species with phosphorus atoms not fully oxidised to P(V). Reactions of the selenium deficient material with simple alcohols afforded two 1,2-diphosphaacenaphthenes, which were structurally characterised.


A paper from Cornell University (Losey et al., 1999) was the first to report toxicity of Bt corn pollen to monarch butterflies. Although there was wide discussion in the scientific community that the study was preliminary and flawed in terms of how well it represented real-world issues (Berringer, 1999; Hodgson, 1999; Rice 1999; Shelton and Rousch, 1999), it received wide distribution in the popular press and used as an argument against further development and release of transgenic crops.


In countries with large scale private and public funded pension arrangements, for example, the United States, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, one of the key decisions is how the contributions into the fund should be invested to best effect. The investment decision typically results in some form of risk sharing between members and sponsor in terms of (1) the level of contributions required to pay for all promised benefits, (2) the volatility of contributions required, and (3) the uncertainty of the level of benefits actually deliverable should the scheme be wound up or have to be wound up. Some of the risks associated with the pension benefits have a clear link with the economy and hence with other instruments traded in the financial markets. Others, such as demographic risks and the uncertainty as to how members or the sponsor will exercise their options, which are often far from being economically optimal, are less related to the assets held in the fund.

This article describes broadly what assets are available to the institutional investor, how an investor might go about deciding on an asset allocation, and explore what the possible consequences of an asset allocation might be.

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Abstract Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-induced vascular permeability (VP) is a hallmark of tumor growth and metastasis. Previous studies have shown a requirement for Src kinase in VEGF-mediated VP and signaling in blood vessels. In this study, we have examined the effect of Src-mediated reduced VP on tumor growth and metastasis. The growth and spontaneous metastasis of VEGF-expressing tumor cells were determined in Src-knockout (src -/- ) or control mice (src +/+ or src +/- ). In comparison to control mice, src-null mice had a significant reduction in tumor-induced VP as well as a subsequent reduction in spontaneous metastasis. In contrast, primary tumor weight and vascular density was unchanged between src-null and control mice. Consistent with a role for Src in the extravasation of tumor cells from the circulation, direct intravenous injection of lung carcinoma cells resulted in a greater than two-fold reduction in lung tumor burden in src-null mice compared to control mice. The comparison of the results from the experimental metastasis and the spontaneous metastasis models suggests that there are defects in VP in the primary site of Src-deficient mice and that there may be an essential role for Src and Src-mediated VP in tumor metastasis to the lung. From bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org by guest on June 2, 2013. For personal use only.


Cytochrome b (cyt b) gene complete sequences (1143bp) of Takydromus sylvaticus were sequenced. In order to clarify the phylogenetic position of the Takydromus sylvaticus, we investigated the phylogeny of 15 Takydromus spp. distributed in East-Asia by Maximum Parsimony (MP), Bayesian Inference (BI), and Maximum Likelihood (ML) methods using DNA fragments of cyt b genes. The results supported that the Platyplacopus merged into Takydromus and negated the validity of Platyplacopus. Furthermore, the prediction of tertiary structures of cyt b exhibited the CD loop region contain two short helices forming a hairpin arrangement, namely cd1 and cd2. Thermostability analysis shows that the CD-loop region is unstable thermodynamically and may provide mobility to amino acids located at the heme, and might provide high flexibility to the top of ISP (iron-sulfur protein) and the cavity region of Qo binding site. It suggested that the two short helices of CD loop region of cyt b was a dominating portion for ISP binding site.


In recent years, the study of molecules with chirality has been increasing. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is the simplest molecule that presents this property. H2O2 has a great importance in several fields of science, such as Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Previous studies show that this molecule has two chiral conformations (cis and trans conformations) each of which is the mirror image of the other. Although these chiral conformations may appear identical they are not because they may have chemical properties completely different. Information about how H2O2 (and complexes involving H2O2) changes from a chiral conformation to another becomes very important, because it could serve as a model to investigate the mechanism of control of chiral systems more complex that have industrial or pharmaceutical applicability. Based on this fact, the present study proposes to investigate the thermal chiral rate (TCR) as a function of temperature between chiral conformations of the H2O2 isolated and in the presence of noble gases Ng (Ng = He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe and Rn). For this purpose, a combination of the Transition State Theory (with and without tunneling effects), second-order Møller-Plesset (MP2) electronic structure method and the aug-cc-pVTZ base set functions (for peroxide of hydrogen and complexes with He, Ne, Ar and Kr) and aug-cc-pVTZ-PP (for the complexes with Xe and Rn) is used. The obtained results show that the TCR from trans to cis chiral conformation of the isolated H2O2 is lower (at low temperatures) than the H2O2-Ar, H2O2-Kr, H2O2-Xe and H2O2-Rn TCR. In the case of the transition from cis to trans conformation the TCR of all H2O2-Ng complexes are smaller than that TCR of the isolated H2O2 molecule. Another remarkable point is the fact that the TCR from cis to trans conformation is greater than that TCR from trans to cis conformation for both the isolated hydrogen peroxide molecule and for all H2O2-Ng complexes. These observations suggest that the barrier that significantly separates the trans and cis chiral conformation of H2O2 and H2O2-Ng complexes is the trans-barrier, since this is much smaller than the cis-barrier. The obtained results showed that a small increase in the height of the trans-barrier, which occurs when the noble gases form complexes with the hydrogen peroxide, is responsible for a significant decrease in the TCR from cis to trans.


The authors use the maximum commuting Hamiltonian associated with the qubit-version of a molecular Hamiltonian to construct an interpolated Hamiltonian from the former to the latter.


Traffic prediction and analysis is an essential task towards intelligent mobility, particularly for path planning and navigation. When the traffic flow starts after the COVID-19 pandemic is subsided, the mobility patterns changes and may become unpredictable or challenging. This problem may be crucial, particularly if many people hurry to single occupancy transport mode. Notably, the rapid development in machine learning with new methods and the emergence of new data sources make it possible to evaluate and predict traffic conditions in smart cities more quickly and precisely. The proposed work is modeled in two-fold manner to investigate the impact of COVID shift in regular urban traffic movements given the particular period of the pre, during, and post lockdown phases. Firstly, the investigation is carried out for time series analysis considering the three phases of lockdown. Secondly, the real-time spatial information is analyzed for different time zones in a day. Notably, this requires a detailed analysis of the heterogeneous and complex input traffic data. Machine learning and advanced deep learning methodologies such as regression models, RNN, variants of LSTM, and GRU is used for analysis in this proposed traffic modeling. Significantly, the least error scores with Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) loss of 1.82 is observed for the RNN and GRU models, and 0.058 with the Gradient Boosting regression analysis, respectively.


Reading is a skill that must be possessed by students. Ideally, every student has adequate reading skills according to their level of education. This is because in daily activities at school, all learning activities cannot be separated from reading skills. However, in reality, many students do not have adequate reading skills, both reading comprehension and creative reading. The learning model cannot be separated from the success of a lesson. The aims of this study were (1) to determine the condition of the reading comprehension learning model in SMP Negeri 1 Purbalingga; (2) to know how the profile of the Quantum Reading model is; (3) to determine the effectiveness of the Quantum Reading Oriented Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) learning model in learning reading comprehension. The research method used is the development method with the stages of preliminary studies, literature studies, and field surveys; limited model development phase and expanded trial; the model validation stage is in the form of an experiment. The research results obtained are (1) the conditions for using learning models in reading comprehension at SMP Negeri 1 Purbalingga before the research was carried out using quantum reading, only using the direct method and assignments; (2) Quantum Reading learning is considered effective in improving students' reading comprehension skills at SMP Negeri 1 Purbalingga (3) with Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) orientation, students understand reading better, as a basis for carrying out the teaching and learning process in any subject.


The present study aimed to evaluate the three salting processes: dry, mixed and wet as tilapia fillets (Oreochromis niloticus). For this, physical analyzes of water retention capacity (CRA), weight loss by cooking (PPC), shear force (FC) and color (CIE System L * a * b *) were carried out, chemical pH analyzes, TBARS, N-BVT and TMA and microbiological analyzes for the detection of Salmonella spp., Total coliforms, mesophilic, psychrotrophic and halophilic bacteria. The salting process improved the physical characteristics of the fillets, with emphasis on dry salting, which presented higher CRA and lower PPC. Better CF results were found in wet salting followed by dry and mixed salting. Regarding color, there was no significant difference between treatments when compared to control. In the microbiological analyzes, the samples presented results consistent with the established by the current legislation. TBARS values increased in the three different salting processes over the storage days with higher rates in the treatment of wet salting. The values of pH, NBVT and TMA were maintained according to what is allowed by Brazilian legislation with higher values found in the control sample. The dry, mixed and wet salting processes provided improvements in the physical characteristics of the treated fillets and among these, the dry salting proved to be more efficient.


Generally, in aquatic ecosystems temperature is a master environmental factor that influences all the physiological aspects including growth and metabolic activities in all aquatic organisms. Temperature changes in coastal and marine ecosystems influence the metabolism of aquatic organisms' metabolism and alter ecological processes such as productivity and species interactions (Bhaud et al., 1995). Temperature can drastically alter the living organism in dual opposing ways. Rise in temperature accelerates the chemical and enzymatic reactions in the cell causing rapid growth of the organisms. After the optimum temperature, growth is retarded and most of the energy is used for metabolic activities (Buckle et al, 1995). Growth can be viewed as the effect of enviroimiental factors on the relation between food consumption, metabolism and activities of an organism (Warren, 1971). Fish and crustaceans are poikilothermic animals and do not regulate their body temperature, which has a direct influence on their growth and metabolic processes (Brett, 1979). Metabolism and other energetic processes increase when the external water temperature is warm, and they decrease when it is cold. The relation of oxygen consumption to the activity of animals has been studied extensively (Spoor, 1946; Wohlschlag, 1957; Brett, 1964 and 1965; Smit, 1965; Beamish, 1970), and these results are useful to determine the metabolic level on the assumption that energy is derived exclusively from


The technique (VaR) is a statistical measure of the risk. It is associated with financial risks related to the high volatility in prices, interest rates, or exchange rates. It is used massively by entities because of the necessity to measure risk in constantly traded portfolios.


On 6 April 2009, an earthquake of Mw 6:13 (Herrmann et al., 2011) occurred in central Italy, close to the town of L'Aquila. Although the earthquake is considered to be a moderate-size event, it caused extensive damage to the surround- ing area. The earthquake is identified with significant directivity effects: high- amplitude, short-duration motions are observed at the stations that are oriented along the rupture direction, whereas low-amplitude, long-duration motions are observed at the stations oriented in the direction opposite to the rupture. The complex nature of the earthquake combined with its damage potential brings the need for studies that assess the seismological characteristics of the 2009 L'Aquila mainshock. In this study, we present the strong-ground-motion simulation of this particular earthquake using a stochastic finite-fault model with a dynamic corner frequency ap- proach. For modeling the resulting ground motions, we choose two finite-fault source models that take into account the source complexity of the L'Aquila mainshock. In order to test the sensitivity of ground-motion parameters to the seismic wave attenua- tion parameters, we use two different attenuation models obtained in the study region using weak-motion and strong-motion databases. Comparisons are made between the attenuation of synthetics and ground-motion prediction equations (GMPEs). Synthetic ground motions are further compared with the observed ones in terms of Fourier amplitude and response spectra at 21 strong-ground-motion stations that recorded the mainshock within an epicentral distance of 100 km. The spatial distribution of shaking intensity obtained from the "Did You Feel It?" project and site survey results are compared with the spatial distributions of simulated peak ground-motion intensity parameters. Our results show that despite the limitations of the method in simulating the directivity effects, the stochastic finite-fault model seems an effective and fast tool to simulate the high-frequency portion of ground motions.


Malnutrition is a widespread public health problem in developing countries. It is estimated that it affects approximately half of the children under the age of five years to some degree [1]. Nutritionists have become increasingly aware that the condition is multifaceted and is not just a problem of food shortage. In fact, social and economic variables are the most significant predictors of nutritional status [2-4]. The consensus, therefore, is that malnutrition is a poverty problem and that any long-lasting solutions will have to include changes in the social and economic structure of developing countries. In other words, nutrition interventions should be aimed at improving the standard of living of households at risk of malnutrition. Land ownership is linked with wealth. Since the most widespread cause of rural poverty appears to be the unequal distribution of land, there is a general tendency for nutrition planners to recommend redistribution of land (land reform) as a means of alleviating malnutrition. In light of this emphasis on land reform, it is critical to determine whether sufficient evidence exists to justify such a strategy. That is, are land ownership and amount of land critical determinants of nutritional status in developing countries, and, if so, do the types of crops cultivated influence malnutrition?


Oxide growth on cleaved (011) cross sections of GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures exposed to air was investigated using atomic force microscopy. Measurements of the height profile at constant force provide information on the oxide growth rate as a function of time and Al‐mole fraction. We observe an initial field‐aided oxidation mode that follows the Cabrera–Mott model for metal oxidation. After a critical time, oxidation proceeds more slowly, probably assisted by a thermal diffusion process. We used the dependence of oxide thickness on alloy composition for imaging the Al content in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures deposited on nonplanar substrates, with a lateral resolution of ≊1 nm.


This paper applies the distributions of Myrhaug and Rue (1993a, 1998) and Myrhaug and Slaattelid (1999) to rolling of smaller vessels in beam seas in a simplified manner. The emphasis here is on how the statistical properties of successive wave periods can be used to identify dangerous (synchronous) wave situations at sea and for comparison of ships with different damping and roll periods.


Based on the simulations of the topographic parameters(mean orientation,slope,and terrain screenangle)in a hilly land,discussion is made term by term of the technique for modelling of all components isdone in the surface radiation balance over a rugged terrain,thus presenting a computer model for each com-ponent.In terms of experimental data,the components is calculated for the mesh grids of 100m×100 meach over 3.0×3.5 km~2 in the Zhaogongling,southern Dabie Mountains and a map is prepared showingthe distribution of these components for January and July.Results show that the hilly-land surface radiationfield matches the terrain element field quite well,which reveals the determining function of the latter,withorientational effect dominant in winter and terrain screen effect most significant in summer.The simulationtechnique presented is in principle applicable to the calculation for a radiation field in any kind of topogra-phy,thus providing a means for further exploration of hilly-land climate resource.


Summary

A number of cases of strabismus have been presented. These cases had originally consulted oculists, who had failed to relieve the condition. The patients then consulted optometrists. The treatment techniques prescribed by these optometrists corrected the neuro-muscular defect and returned the eyes to as near normal binocular vision as was possible.

A review of these cases indicates that the treatment of stralismus is a difficult matter, requiring special training and skill usually not found among those oculists who have received their training in ocular work at a several months' short course dealing with eye, ear, nose and throat work.

These cases also indicate that strabismus can he successfully corrected by means of optometric procedures and orthoptic treatment techniques. They also indicate that many oculists fail to attempt these special therapies either because of a lack of knowledge as to their application or to an inability to properly diagnose the cases which can be benefited by means of these techniques.

The cases also indicate that many oculists ignore the treatment possibilities of strabismus in order that surgical interference may be suggested. In one sense, this is perhaps natural as most physicians enjoy surgery. In this type of case, however, it is to be regretted that this is so, inasmuch as many of these case of strabismus can be corrected without resorting to the inconvenience and expense of having the patient operated upon. Furthermore, the treatment of concomitant strabismus is, in the writer's judgment, more apt to prove successful than the surgical interference. For this reason, he advises surgery only as a last resort for these strabismic cases.

Orthoptic treatment and correction of strabismus is a work closely allied with ocular examinations and refractions. The cases reviewed in this report indicate that optometrists, with their fine background of training received in their colleges and university courses, are well able, because of this training, to successfully prescribe the necessary orthoptic techniques which will relieve the condition and correct the strabismus.


In 2 premature infants with brief survival, the major pathological feature of Citrobacter meningitis consisted of vasculitis and infarction with necrosis and liquefaction of large portions of the white matter of the hemispheres. Areas of decreased density demonstrated on computed tomographic head scan represented infarction with necrosis, liquefaction, and cavitation and not a classic abscess. This finding has clinical significance, because surgical drainage of liquefied infarcts is rarely indicated and could further damage the relatively preserved cortex.


Objective To evaluate healthcare-associated infection(HAI) in HIV/AIDS death cases and risk factors for death in a hospital in Guangdong area.Methods A retrospective case control study on 345 HIV/AIDS death cases in a hospital from January 2001 to December 2011was conducted.Results Of 345 HIV/AIDS death cases,47 developed 52 times of HAI,HAI infection rate was 13.62%,case infection rate was 15.07%;15(31.91%) cases of HAI were directly related to death.HAI usually occurred in lower respiratory tract(18 episodes,34.62%),gastrointestinal tract(13 episodes,25.00%),and skin and soft tissue(11 episodes,21.15%).Pathogens of HAI included bacteria(12 isolates,25.53%),virus(10,21.28%),fungus(6,12.77%)and others(19,40.43%).Independent risk factors for HAI were length of hospital stay 30 days,invasive operation,opportunistic infection of at least two sites,combination use of antimicrobial agents,and CD4+T lymphocyte 200/μl.Conclusion HAI is one of the important causes of death in hospitalized HIV/AIDS patients.Early diagnosis and treatment for the opportunistic infection,shortening of hospital stay,control of invasive operations,rational administration of antimicrobial agents are the key measures to prevent and control HAI in HIV/AIDS patients.


Resumen en: Analyzing the current social order marked by exclusion and segmentation, it is observed that the idea of an abstract citizen without sexual difference ...


This paper analyzes DES(data encryption standard) algorithm deeply,according to the characteristics of hardware design methods based on FPGA,an improved DES algorithm is adapted.The algorithm uses three lines to generate sub-keys and increase the speed of sub-key generation significantly.Also it utilizes the state machine approach to control the window time of sub-key generation in order to avoid clock delay,and S-box can be dynamically refreshed and come to the situation which is too strong to achieve the "one time padding" cipher system.Finally,the algorithm on FPGA is realized through hardware description language,and Xilinx Virtex-II Pro platform for the simulation results show that the algorithm implemented in hardware is correct,and hardware resource consumption is reduced.In addition,the processing speed of system is greatly enhanced.So DES encryption algorithm based on FPGA is fit for real-time strong scenarios.


This study was designed to investigate the relative effects of observing video, point-light, and stick-figure model demonstrations on the development of internal motor representation of a highly complex sport skill. Forty one novice female and male students were randomly assigned to video, point-light, stick-figure and no-demonstration control groups. Internal motor representation was evaluated by a computer - based test using the error detection paradigm. Participants had to view ten digital photos representing different phases of a Baseball pitching and were instructed to identify by mouse-clicking various movement errors. The test was respectively performed after 5 familiarization trials (pre-test), 3 acquisition blocks of 10 trials (post-test) and one week without practice (retention test). Participants observed related model demonstrations prior to each acquisition block. Results showed that demonstration groups improved their scores in either post-test or retention test; however these improvements were not statistically significant. Moreover, there was no significant difference between groups either in post-test or retention test. The findings are discussed in terms of difficulty of errors, insufficient amount of physical or observational practice, and small sample size.


In Switzerland, due to the growth and ageing of population, primary health care needs are increasing, especially for the management of chronic diseases and multimorbidity. Physicians are keen to improve the quality of care for their patients, and several inspiring initiatives have been conducted to monitor or improve the quality and safety of primary care in Switzerland. However, most of these initiatives were local and not funded on a sustained basis. Currently, there is no comprehensive approach of quality improvement (QI) in primary care and the culture of QI remains relatively weak, especially regarding monitoring and external accountability. There has never been a national QI program in primary care. Further, there is no national monitoring of quality and safety in primary care, including to track low value care and linked avoidable healthcare costs. We therefore recommend building a national strategy aiming to (1) set up a monitoring system for the quality and safety of primary care, (2) strengthen a culture of QI in primary care, (3) improve the quality of primary care through evidence-based and monitored interventions, (4) reduce low value care, and (5) support experiments to test QI initiatives. This strategy should be defined with citizens, patients, primary care physicians, allied health care providers (e.g., pharmacists), experts in health monitoring, health insurers, and health authorities, under the aegis of medico-scientific institutions with expertise in primary care as well as healthcare research and monitoring. Such a strategy would be key toward the provision of safe, high value, patient-centered, sustainable, and data-informed care.


Using distilled water and/or aqueous cationic polyacrylamide solutions, the mechanism of displacement washing of unbleached kraft pulp was investigated. The step change technique has been employed in the investigation of black liquor displacement. To characterize such a phenomenon, the washing curves, as well as the wash yield at the wash liquor ratio equal to unity were determined. The results obtained for pure wash water were compared with those for polyacrylamide solutions. Laboratory results have indicated that improved displacement washing may be achieved by the addition of high molecular weight cationic polyacrylamides to the wash water.


Today, dry process and color printers are more and more common in medical applications. The main applications for these printers are in ultrasound, nuclear medicine, medical imaging workstations and endoscopy. Each of these disciplines has its specific application requirements. Image quality and other considerations with regard to medical applications are discussed. Although the emphasis in medical imaging lies within grayscale imaging, the increased use of techniques such as doppler imaging, power doppler in ultrasound and image processing with workstations, intensify the need for high quality color output on hardcopy. For the radiology department, hardcopy must be of diagnostic quality and suitable for light box viewing. The different criteria to meet these requirements such as resolution, noise, density and physical properties are discussed. Also a short description of the implementation in the Agfa DRYSTAR 2000TM printer and its consumables will be explained. The achieved quality level will be supported by measurements. Starting from specific image processing for grayscale imaging (such as Look Up Tables) and specific imaging processing for color imaging, a new dedicated image processing method for medical dry hard copy will be presented. Both optimal grayscale imaging and color imaging combined are needed in ultrasound. In relation to this item, some non resolved issues will be explained. As a conclusion, a brief presentation of a hospital application test, validating the system for diagnostic purposes is given.


Hungarian produced CR-39 detectors irradiated with protons of energy 3-18 MeV and with 14.7 MeV neutrons through a thick PE radiator were etched at 22°C and 70°C in NaOH solution. The increase in diameter of tracks as a function of proton energy was measured. Different delays were found in the starting time of the etched track developing for different energies. A comparison was made between the results obtained for 22°C and 70°C. The sensitivity function was determined for both temperatures.


The present study was carried out to predict the presence of bioactive molecules like, Anthraquinone Alkaloids, Bioflavonoid and steroids etc, which are very helpful in health industry sector in plant parts of our interest using HPTLC. HPTLC is suitable for qualitative, quantitative and micro preparative chromatography. This technique was deployed for identification of bioactive molecules from plant parts collected from different areas of Shivalik Hill in the area of Saharanpur Dist. These test confirm that selected plant have very important chemical compound which has great importance in Pharma industry.


Marissa Weiss, this year's AGU Mass Media Fellow, feels so strongly about communicating science that she and a fellow graduate student started a course on the subject. Three years ago, she and the other student in the biogeochemistry and environmental biocomplexity program at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., developed—with the aid of mentors—a semester-long science communication class.

The course has since become a regular offering at Cornell, where Weiss defended her dissertation in ecology this past August. A soil ecologist, Weiss showed in her thesis research that nitrogen pollution can cause slowing of soil decomposition because of a declining abundance of microbes that break the soil down.


The present invention relates to a phosphor that can be excited by UV3 purple or blue light LED, its production and the light emitting devices. General formula of the phosphor is LnaMb(O,F)12:(R3+, M'2+)x, wherein, Ln is at least one metal element selected from a group consisting of Sc, Y, La, Pr, Nd, Gd, Ho, Yb and Sm, 2.6<= a<=3.4; M is at least one element selected from a group consisting of B, Al and Ga, 4.5<=b<=5.5; R is at least one metal element selected from a group consisting of Ce and Tb; M' is at least one metal element selected from a group consisting of Ca, Sr, Ba, Mn and Zn, 0.001<=x<=0.4. Production method of the phosphor is: raw materials are weighed according to general formula. Further, flux is added. The raw materials are mixed, grinded sequentially and then baked at high temperature in reducing atmosphere. After post-treatment, the phosphor of the present invention is obtained. The phosphor possess broad emitting range, high efficiency, better uniformity and stability. The production method is simple, no pollution and lower cost. A light emitting device can be obtained by incorporating this phosphor into a UV, purple or blue light emitting device. ® KIPO & WIPO 2009


The CASTLE aircraft simulation environment has been in development and use by the United States Navy for over fifteen years. Over the lifetime of CASTLE, the profile of the typical simulation user has changed, and the environment is always evolving to serve the next generation of users. The expectations and requirements of the next-generation simulation user are examined and discussed in detail, with their application to CASTLE indicated. The development of "Citadel" (version 6.0 of CASTLE) in response to these requirements is described. The decisions made and procedures followed in transforming a venerable, well-respected simulation tool into a modern desktop application with greatly improved user acceptance are reviewed and discussed.


The Supreme Court of Japan was established on May 3, 1947 when the Japanese Constitution took effect. The Supreme Court started operation from August 4. Sixty years have passed since its establishment. During this sixty years history, the Supreme Court has developed a very conservative constitutional jurisprudence. Yet, there once was a time when the Supreme Court showed movement towards a much more liberal position, although such movement was short lived and the Supreme Court went back to its conservative posture. What is the reason for this change? What are the backgrounds for the conservative constitutional jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Japan? This paper attempts to outline the historical change of the Supreme Court of Japan.


The production of pro-inflammatory cytokine,such as interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor,is critical in the response to infection.However,overproduction of the cytokines might be harmful.It was suggested that n-3 fatty acid suppressed inflammation and improved the course of infection through the decreasing of the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines.


Chronic hepatitis B(CHB) with the cosmopolitism, refractory, progressive, infectious characteristics, serious harm to human health, which greatly influences people's daily life and work. In recent years, TCM in the treatment of CHB plays a huge role, the TCM for CHB awareness was introduced in this paper.


Recently, there has been a concerted effort to develop methods for direct measurement of soil stiffness, modulus, or both. A new field test device called the soil stiffness gauge (SSG), which is currently marketed as GeoGauge, shows potential to assess near-surface stiffness. A comparison is presented of moduli obtained from the SSG with moduli obtained from other tests on granular soils. The maximum singleamplitude dynamic force produced during the SSG measurement is determined to be 17.3 N. On this basis, an estimate of the shear strain amplitude produced from the SSG is made by finite element analysis. A plot of shear modulus versus shear strain amplitude on a medium sand obtained from different laboratory tests, including the SSG, is presented. The comparison of the SSG modulus with the moduli from other laboratory tests indicates that the SSG outputs a dynamic modulus corresponding to a strain amplitude approximately 20 times higher than the expected range and with a magnitude lower than it should be on the basis of the induced strain. Nevertheless, the SSG modulus is still higher than that from the resilient modulus test typically used for pavement design.


ABSTRACT Venture debt (VD) has emerged as a preferred funding option for start-ups that do not tick the boxes for traditional debt. Though VD emerged in the USA in the 1970s, academic interest on the topic is recent, primarily in the 2010s decade. VD is a recent phenomenon in India, but has the potential to be a growth catalyst for the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem. This article reviews the extant academic literature on VD to provide a clear description of the scope, features, economics and practice of VD that can be a reference point for future academic work and practitioner reference. It also provides the first-ever description and analysis of the Indian VD landscape thus, comparing the Indian VD market with those in developed economies. Descriptive and comparative statistics from deal data and themes and insights from media articles are triangulated with existing literature to conclude that VD is evolving in India on established lines but with differences that account for India's unique cultural, economic and political characteristics. Venture lenders exhibit boldness and experimentation by leveraging the lessons available to a later-mover. There is immense scope for growth of VD in the Indian economy. Policy interventions being made and required to iron out challenges and support and enable such growth are discussed.


Intent based network management reduces the complexity of network programming from a growing set of deeply technical APIs to context-free high-level objectives that the network should autonomously achieve and keep. The practical implementation of an intent based network requires substantial automation technology embedded in the network. Automation should cover the entire lifecycle of intents, from their ingestion to fulfillment and assurance. This article investigates the feasibility of automatically assembling interworking implementation units into intent specific automation pipelines, where units are reusable self-learning closed loop micro-services with selfdeclared capabilities. Each closed loop may gain knowledge and respond to dynamically changing network conditions, thereby enabling network autonomy in reaching the declared intent objectives. The human-network intent interface for expressing intents is proposed to be based on the aggregation of the deployed network and service automation capabilities, rather than a formalism decoupled from the actual network implementation. This principle removes the ambiguity and compatibility gap between human intent definition and machine intent fulfillment, while retaining the flexibility and extendibility of the intents offered by any specific system via onboarding additional micro-services with novel capabilities. The concepts discussed by the article fit into the architecture and closed loop work items already defined by ETSI ZSM and provides considerations towards new areas such as intent driven autonomous networks and enablers for automation. Journal of ICT Standardization, Vol. 9 2, 159–200. River Publishers doi: 10.13052/jicts2245-800X.926 This is an Open Access publication. © 2021 the Author(s). All rights reserved.


The Health Effects of Cardiac Fluoroscopy and Modern Radiotherapy (photon and proton) in Pediatrics (HARMONIC) is a five-year project funded by the European Commission that aimed to improve the understanding of the long-term ionizing radiation (IR) risks for pediatric patients. In this paper, we provide a detailed overview of the rationale, design, and methods for the biological aspect of the project with objectives to provide a mechanistic understanding of the molecular pathways involved in the IR response and to identify potential predictive biomarkers of individual response involved in long-term health risks. Biological samples will be collected at three time points: before the first exposure, at the end of the exposure, and one year after the exposure. The average whole-body dose, the dose to the target organ, and the dose to some important out-of-field organs will be estimated. State-of-the-art analytical methods will be used to assess the levels of a set of known biomarkers and also explore high-resolution approaches of proteomics and miRNA transcriptomes to provide an integrated assessment. By using bioinformatics and systems biology, biological pathways and novel pathways involved in the response to IR exposure will be deciphered.


3D realistic terrain generation is a hot topic in computer graphics field.Real-time Optimal Adaptive Meshes(ROAM) algorithm based on level of detail technique is introduced to render terrain dynamically.Visibility culling technology of projection based on bounding box of the terrain block is used.A algorithm that combines nested bounding sphere method with screen space error method is introduced to optimize the error criterion to improve the speed of terrain rendering.Implementation method of the level of detail model in terrain rendering process is given.Experimental results show that the method reduces expenses and improves real-time rendering speed under the premise of guaranteeing that it is in a certain terrain rendering effect.


1. The sensibility of a joint is primarily a periarticular sensibility, due to the abundance of nerve endings in the joint capsules and periarticular ligaments.

2. In sprains, pain is due primarily to trauma of the periarticular innervation. Reflex muscular rigidity, involving the injured joint, also has its origin in the traumatized nerves of the joint capsule and ligaments.

3. Periarticular injections of novocain have a definite therapeutic value in the treatment of sprains. The pain and reflex muscular rigidity abolished, almost normal function is possible. In some instances the improvement is more or less permanent; in other cases several injections are necessary.


The pressure control function of Pressurizer in the PWR nuclear power plant is one of the safety functions of the nuclear power plant. The traditional pressure control adopts the PID control method and manually adjusts the three parameters (Kp, Ki and Kd) to minimize the difference between the actual pressure value and the set value, thereby achieving the purpose of setting the three parameters (Kp, Ki and Kd) and determining the control model. The method of manually adjusting the three parameters (Kp, Ki and Kd) has low work efficiency, and generally requires several attempts to find parameters that meet the expectations, and depends on the work skills of the personnel.
 In this study, Genetic Agorithm was used to convert the three parameters (Kp, Ki and Kd) into the three gene coding sequences, and the three parameters (Kp, Ki and Kd) were quickly determined through individual operation operators (selection, crossover and mutation). The research shows that the efficiency of parameter adjustment by genetic algorithm is much higher than that of manual parameter adjustment, and the optimization result is better, the control system optimized by the genetic algorithm can reach the steady state faster, has less overshoot and shorter rise time. This achievement can be considered for subsequent application in the nuclear power plants affiliated to CGNPC.


Head and neck oncology MDT meetings are held in our region to establish a correct diagnosis and an appropriate treatment plan for each reviewed patient. The quality of these MDT meetings was assessed based on the following factors: How often can a diagnosis, a TNM-classification and a treatment plan be successfully established from the workup presented at the patient's first MDT meeting? And what are the reasons for failure? Further, how often are the TNM-classification altered at treatment start? All patients (n=329) presented at MDT meetings during one year were included prospectively and data were collected in a protocol. As telemedicine recently was introduced to reduce travel, any eventual impact on quality on decisions with regard to telemedicine were also studied. A diagnosis and a treatment plan could be established for 236 (73%) of 324 patients at the first MDT meeting. TNM classification was revised in four patients (1.4%) before treatment. In conclusion, the validity of decisions made at the MDT meeting is satisfactory, but improvements regarding the quality of workups are possible. The mode of presentation of patients at the MDT meeting was not decisive for the quality of decisions regarding diagnosis and treatment plans.


A dynamic heterogeneous and multihop (DHMH) wireless health monitoring system (WHMS) as a three-tier semi-self-organizing health monitoring network was presented. From bottom to top, the first tire of the network is the mobile data acquisition layer (DAL), the second tire of the network is the data transporting layer (DTL), and the third tire of the network is the data collection layer (DCL). A RF power control based topology management mechanism is proposed to balance the network load and to improve the network throughput. A lightweight hierarchical routing protocol (LHRP) was designed to reduce the transmission delay and improve the network throughput. For the mobile DAL nodes, the seamless mobile access mechanism (SMAM) was designed to ensure the low packet loss ratio. To evaluate the network performance, the end-to-end delay, the averaged reception ratio, and the network throughput of the DHMH were tested and the results proved that the network performance of the DHMH was improved.


Prosodic typology II gathers a set of papers detailing the intonational phonologies of 14 different languages from across the globe.* As the name suggests, it is the successor to the firstProsodic typology volume (Jun 2005b); the introductory chapter by Sun-Ah Jun describes it as an extension of the original collection. There is a great deal of continuity between this volume and the first Prosodic typology collection. Like its predecessor, Prosodic typology II is mostly composed of targeted chapters on the intonational phonology of individual languages. These chapters contain a wealth of description and analysis, and in many cases are authored by recognised experts on the languages in question. Along with extensive coverage of phrasal prosody, the chapters delve into word-level phonology, discourse pragmatics and, to a lesser extent, morphosyntax. Prosodic typology II differs from the first volume in placing greater emphasis on underdocumented intonational systems, though various better-studied languages such as Catalan and Basque are represented here as well. These descriptive chapters are supplemented with an introduction and two overview chapters written by the editor of the volume, SunAh Jun (one of these overviews, a chapter on the methodology of intonational research, is co-authored with Janet Fletcher). This collection also shares a clear theoretical perspective with the first Prosodic typology volume. All of the papers in Prosodic typology II adopt the autosegmental-metrical framework: surface intonational contours are decomposed into abstract, categorical pitch targets that are associated with abstract prosodic domains (as head tones or edge tones); these targets and domains are integrated compositionally to yield the continuous pitch events of surface phonetics (further details of the framework can be found in Pierrehumbert 1980, Pierrehumbert & Beckman 1988, Shattuck-Hufnagel & Turk 1996, Gussenhoven 2004, Ladd 2008a and elsewhere). The chapters uniformly employ a ToBI-style notational system (see Silverman et al. 1992, Beckman & Hirschberg 1994, Pitrelli et al. 1994 and Beckman et al. 2005), with some small points of variation: for example, edge-marking tones at the level of the Accentual Phrase are indicated by 'Ta', 'T%' or 'T', depending on the chapter. Two papers in the volume present full ToBI systems, complete with break indices (Pilar Prieto on Catalan and Sameer ud Dowla Khan


The article describes the requirements for the design , hats in order to improve the shape and design and technological resolve. The spectrum of quality indicators and peer review of results according to the results of which types of anthropometric study of the shape of a human head have been carried out. The types of three-dimensional shape of the head, and offered ways of improving the quality of hats.


ABSTACT Despite the growing importance of the concept human security, security studies in Africa remain largely focused on the threat of direct violence and the role of state actors. This article broadens the security agenda by focusing on food security and discusses how women in rural Rwanda experience and view food security. In making individual women the referent of security, the article exposes the gap between national level reforms, which aim to and have been deemed successful to combat poverty and increase food production, and the experiences of women who report a decline in food availability and increased problems in accessing food in the wake of reforms and who often struggle against hunger in a disadvantaged position within their households and local power structures. Building on 51 interviews with women in western Rwanda conducted in 2013 and 2014, the article illustrates how the human security perspective with a sensitivity to gender relations and positions is important for gaining a fuller picture of the security of individuals.


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A striking coincidence of revolution periods of S-stars orbiting a supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way and oscillation periods of such solar and terrestrial observables as the sunspot number, the geomagnetic field Y-component and the global temperature is established on basis of the corresponding experimental data. Rejecting randomness of this discovered coincidence, we put forward a hypothesis that modulation of dark matter flows in the Milky Way by the S-stars is responsible for such a frequency transfer from the Galactic Center to the Solar System.